And the world is a little bit worse off without him. I’m glad he doesn’t have to watch the fresh hell that is going to come of this country, must have been difficult enough to watch Trump’s win.
Well. At least he didn’t have to live to see fascism take over.
He was too good for us. Rest well, good sir.
Bye Jimmy. Thank you for helping to eradicate the Guinea worm. That alone makes you one of the greatest men to walk the earth.
I wanna say a bunch of sappy shit but nothing sounds right. God I wish there were more good people in positions of power. Thanks for all you did President Carter.
If inclined to donate: Habitat for Humanity
There’s also the Carter Center, which does some work that seems increasingly important what with the attacks against free elections lately across the world.
He spoke to the American public like they were intelligent caring individuals. And they despised him for it. Immediately, overwhelmingly electing a huckster charlatan that told them they were all wonderful and perfect little children. Many of whom still worship that man to this day. With Trump being his second coming.
We truly never deserved jimmy. But we still desperately need someone like him to this day.
The media had a big hand in Reagan being elected over Carter. Every newscast every night had a clock on the number of days the US hostages were held by the Iranians. This was a constant reminder on what was perceived as Carter’s failure. So much so, that Reagan sent George Scholtz, to Iran to make a deal for them to keep the hostages until after the election. Which was the begining of Iran-Contra. Anyway, that was the real reason.
Well let’s just overlook all that because
Yep. Perception shapes reality for most unfortunately. For all his actual failings however. He was ridiculously better than everyone after him.
I can count how many I respect in the U.S. on one hand. It’s… Something I try not to think about these days.
Everything is in decline, the ignorant just don’t know it yet… And there’s no way out for those of us stuck in this system. The wealthy can buy their bunkers, but the rest of us will live it.
Elon, Jeff, Trump… They are making a world they will never have to live in.
I had the opportunity to meet him briefly when he was building houses for habitat. He was the real deal, he was hanging door doors and working hard and genuinely wanted to help people. I joked to his secret service dudes that they must’ve been pretty happy not to have drawn the short straw and been working for 45 And they guffawed and nodded, in a very professional way of course.
Those secret service guys (I assume not Jimmy’s) flat out deleted a bunch of pretty important evidence around J6. I think Commander Biden knew the score.
I think that Carter probably regretted in retrospect that he did not sharply criticize Ford for pardoning Nixon at the time and did not campaign at all for a criminal conviction. You can hardly blame him for that, because he was somewhat of a political outsider with ambition at the time. Nevertheless, his silence ultimately helped his successor, Reagan, to set the course for the current situation: The USA, the most militarily powerful nation in the world, in the hands of criminal brutes who cannot be prosecuted by legal means - an economic power ruled solely by greed. Nevertheless, I think Carter was the last US president who deserved that title. Whoever came after him no longer represented the interests of the American people. I’m saying this as a European that has witnessed the US do nothing else but straight up villain politics for the last 15 years - probably way longer but that was before my time.
The last thing he witnessed was the US transforming into the next reich
Probably saw that, …said “Fuck it. I’m out!”
If we all had an ounce of what that Man was in us, the world would simply be a better place. He talked it. He walked it. He made a real difference before, during, and after his presidency.
Rest well, Mr. Carter!
Fuck ‘em, and this piece of shit nation he presided over.
Goodbye to bad rubbish,
He won’t wanna see this next bit.
Someone who wanted to not appear that he had a conflict of interest with his businesses…he sold his peanut farm. Boy… If only that amount of transparency was the norm with who will be running the country in a few weeks 🙄
Whaddya mean, the first time he paraded around boxes of blank paper to completely prove he had fully divested.
There are really good reasons to keep secret the totally real documents you’re openly describing & talking about (lol)
To be fair we don’t know if they were blank or official presidential documents like:
Well kinda, he put the business into a trust. Still it was the right thing to do yo eliminate conflict of interest.
You mean Elon, right? /s but not really
A life well lived. RIP Jimmy.
words from the Library of Congress “a naval officer, president, and global citizen and advocate for human dignity, racial and gender equality, and democratic values”
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2024/12/jimmy-carter-nations-39th-president-passes-away-at-100/
He’s with his wife.
Happy for him. Sad for us.
