As the 39th U.S. President’s 100th birthday appraoches, Jimmy Carter told his family from hospice care that his ultimate goal is to vote for Kamala Harris before he passes.
    • cmbabul@lemmy.world
      82·
      3 months ago

      Georgia boys are either sweetheart saints or hateful monsters, not a lot in between. Source: am Georgia boy

    • buddascrayon@lemmy.world
      54·
      3 months ago

      He was actually a pretty good president too. Unfortunately the seeds of the cancer that is the current Republican party has been sown by the Nixon administration before he was elected and had begun to bear fruit when Reagan ran against him.

      • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
        26·
        3 months ago

        I like to say he was the best man ever to be President and that he had great policies, but that he was not an effective President.

        He was too honest to play the game.

        • BilboBargains@lemmy.world
          10·
          3 months ago

          What does that say about our society? Can you imagine taking the same attitude as a scientist? Nothing would ever work because it relies on foundational truth and integrity. The reason lying in politics is acceptable is because the citizenry is allowing it through the ballot box. These idiots can’t do science or politics but they have the same voting rights as everyone else.

          • Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de
            2·
            2 months ago

            Lying works because our schools don’t teach critical thinking anymore. They are so obsessed with rote, bullshit memorization that there isn’t any room or time left for critical thinking

      • Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        2 months ago

        Yeah, the Republican party had a strong progressive wing before Nixon. Lincoln, Teddy, and Eisenhower were all progressives by modern standards.

  • Bappity@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1341·
    3 months ago

    orange man really got elderly people staying alive out of SPITE just to vote against him LMAO

  • DxK@lemmy.worldOP
    116·
    3 months ago

    “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”

    • anticolonialist@lemmy.worldEnglish
      346·
      3 months ago

      He also planted seeds in the ME that has allowed the US to always have an unstable relationship in the region

      • Fedizen@lemmy.world
        26·
        3 months ago

        Ronald Reagan prolonged the Iran hostage crisis and then resolved it by selling weapons to Iran - which was illegal. Its a great tragedy that Ronald Reagan wasn’t prosecuted for treason.

          • rottingleaf@lemmy.world
            42·
            3 months ago

            That’s incorrect. Mojaheds were a group of Muslim-Socialist democratic parties. The only thing in common between them is using weapons.

            Unless you call everybody US armed Mojaheds.

      • bitwaba@lemmy.world
        211·
        3 months ago

        The creation of Israel, and the US aided Iranian coup of 1953 both happened a couple decades before Carter.

        Those seeds were planted and had been growing for a while.

    • DxK@lemmy.worldOP
      72·
      3 months ago

      Agreed. I’m still pretty bummed out that Betty White died 17 days shy of her 100th birthday. Hang in there Jimmy, we all need this!

      • holycrapwtfatheism@kbin.earth
        65·
        3 months ago

        Pretty sure she did it as a joke on purpose. You know there was a massive party planned and she was like “good luck suckers, I’m out!”

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    3 months ago

    Hey, Donny. Even though I’m yearning to join my wife, I’m in constant pain, and I’m past ready to die, I’m hanging on for 3 more months just to give you the middle finger.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
      10·
      3 months ago

      Jimmy Carter would never give Trump the middle finger. He’s too classy.

      He’s the sort of man who stands for something he believes in and leaves it at that. He was the Fred Rogers of politicians.

    • Spezi@feddit.orgEnglish
      114·
      3 months ago

      I can feel your loss. Losing your soulmate is devastating. My best advice I can give you is to seek help and talk, either a professional or a friend. Suicide should never be a solution and I‘m sure that your wife wouldn‘t want you to leave this earth when we don‘t know whats on the other side.

      Edit: Also, we need you to kick Donnys or MAGAa ass again in four years

      Edit2: Nvm, I misunderstoof the comment

  • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
    38·
    3 months ago

    Hold on and make it to see her inaugurated and that way you’ll have lived longer than Kissinger, Carter.

    I know you can do it!

  • halvar
    27·
    3 months ago

    I’ve always said Jimmy would be prefarable to the current roaster of politicians, and I’m going to say it again.

    • madcaesar@lemmy.world
      18·
      3 months ago

      It fucking sucks that both Carter and Bernie are so old and so ahead of their time. Give them 40 year old bodies and they’d be the future we need.

      • halvar
        9·
        3 months ago

        Give them perpetually 40 year old bodies and let them rule as two God-Emperors in repeating eight years cycles for each.