Jimmy Carter, 39th US president and noted humanitarian, has died
 

Former President Jimmy Carter, honored more widely for his humanitarian work around the globe after his presidency than for his White House tenure during a tumultuous time, has died. He was 100.

"Our founder, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, passed away this afternoon in Plains, Georgia," the Carter Center confirmed on Sunday.

In November 2023, the Nobel Peace Prize-winner's wife of 77 years, Rosalynn, also passed away in the modest house they built together in 1961, when he had taken over his father's peanut warehouse business and was only beginning to consider a political career.

In February 2023, he had announced he was ending medical intervention and moving to hospice care.

Jason Carter had visited his grandparents at the time of the announcement and said "They are at peace and – as always – their home is full of love," he posted on twitter

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...y/11342151002/

RIP to a good man.

At least he got to fulfill his last wish by voting for Kamala.

Heard he was a decent bloke. RIP.

I’ll say one thing about him, he sure did ****ing love peanuts.

Trump is consolidating power and eliminating threats.

Secret Service members said he was different behind the scenes.

RIP.

Meaning he was an asshole?

Never liked him as POTUS, but he seemed like an honestly decent man. RIP

Rip

RIP

RIP

Or maybe he was a lizard alien?

Yes.

Then again, he did Habitat for Humanity.

He lived 44 years after he left office. Outlived Reagan and Bush Sr. I don't think that Trump and Biden will be living that long after their terms. Lol.

one less grifter

Different in what way? Like shapeshifting into a lizard different?

Enjoy your thread bans.

It wouldn't surprise me to learn he could be brutal behind the scenes sometimes, you can probably say that about every president ever

But I'll just never believe he was ****ing up on purpose, and thats good enough to earn him some grace... Jimmy meant well

Jimmy's wife was objectively the most beautiful first lady of them all.

2nd worst president, great humanitarian. RIP

RIP

Trivia: There were only two Presidents in US history who didn't have a mistress on the side, Jimmy Carter and Harry Truman.

Goomara

You really are just a complete POS, aren't you?

Carter is the only president I've ever seen in person. Saw him getting out of a limo and walk into the building I worked at while I was out having a smoke. I waived at him and he waived back.

I was not fond of his presidency, but he was a good man. RIP

RIP to a God fearing man and humanitarian. I saw him in passing as well. I waved at him. He was nice enough to wave back. I was also in the same place, at the same time, as Nixon and Truman. Nixon couldn't see me so I didn't wave at him. Truman was unable to see me or wave at me as he was in a casket.

Damn so he took office before the earth existed???

My dad still has a six-pack of Billy beer. He tried to sell it on the internet once and only had one response. It was someone wanting to sell him their sixer.


RIP President Carter.

I just checked with a friend of my who is a beer snob and belongs to several beer snob clubs. Because it was mass produced, he tells me that an unopened can of Billy Beer ranges from $10 to $50.

A rare politician who cared more about people than power and wealth. And actually believed truth telling mattered. RIP.

RIP Pres. Carter.

Met him on a couple of occasions at the Carter Center. He was down to earth, earnest, and seemed to be a genuinely nice man.

By all accounts, he was a good human being but also an awful POTUS. At the very least he won't go down in history as the worst President of modern times in this country.

RIP Mr. President

If you guys both look kind of like Jimmy Carter, I wonder if you waved at each other.

100 years is a long life, still sorry to hear he passed. RIP.

I think I was taller than Carter when I was 10. :D

Scooby do can doo-doo but Jimmy Carter is smarter

When I remember Jimmy Carter I think of long gasoline lines at fuel stations, failed hostage rescue, 16% to 18% interest rates, generic foods in grocery stores and a nation with zero confidence.

Seemed like a likable guy in later years

RIP

Carter was 5'10" which is slightly taller than I am. Sorry to quash your hypothesis, Mr. Rain Man.

Nice man, horrible President.

I changed my stance a bit on Carter and Reagan when I read the Ben Barnes statement that he and John Connolly went to Iran and offered a deal if Iran wouldn't release the hostages until after the election, promising that the Republicans would give them a better deal.

Think about that. We had Americans being held illegally as prisoners by a foreign country, their lives under constant threat, and American politicians lobbied for them to be imprisoned longer in order to win an election. Carter was working for the good of the American people, and Barnes and Connolly (not sure if Reagan knew) were trying to get Americans' illegal foreign imprisonment to last longer.

Ben Barnes and John Connolly deserve to be lined up against a wall and shot. They are the most despicable villains in American history.

If you haven't read it, here's a random article, but there are a bunch out there: https://www.texasstandard.org/storie...ober-surprise/

I've always had a good impression of Reagan, but if he knew about this, he moves to the very bottom of my list of presidents.

Edit: I probably should put this in the DC version, so we can delete if needed.

My Dad was involved in politics back when Jimmy Carter was running and I have a picture of them together.

RIP Mr. Carter

He didnt have the most successful presidency but he was highly successful in caring for his fellow man. Building houses with his own hands so poor people can have a roof over their heads into his 90's.... that's a successful life post his presidency.

Nixon told the Vietnamese to not make a deal until after the election. They will get a better deal. Johnson fed the American public a lie in the Gulf of Tonkin to escalate the war. Presidents do some dirty shit on us. At least Carter didn't lie to us to get a policy they wanted to happen. Pretty low bar but the reality of the presidency.

He was an amazing humanitarian.

OG corrupt pile of shit.

:doh!:

Jackie and Melania blow her away jeez get an eye exam.

I would say sad news, but 100 years is an amazingly long journey in this world. He lead a life of service and was a true humanitarian. That was a life well-lived. RIP, Sir.

The brother couldn't make beer and Jimmy couldn't POTUS. Billy was a turd human and Jimmy was the complete opposite.

"he's history's greatest monster!"

rip

He legalized home brewing which turned in to the craft beer business that exist today. So I’ll give him a pass.

He's a 1947 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. That's amazing in itself.

If Carter was 5'10" then I'm Andre the ****ing Giant. The main thing I took away from seeing him in person nearly 30 years ago was how tiny he was. Like elf tiny.

And yes, I know if you google his height it says he was 5'10", but I've seen the man and I'm telling you he wasn't. Not even close.

I remember he came to our church in Eastern Iowa when he was in the Democratic primary, think it was 1975, I was 9. My Dad voted dem for that one year because Carter was a good man of God. He deeply regretted that vote for years and Reagan success helped that bad taste he had for voting for Carter. That being said, he was a man of God at least.

Politics aside, Carter was a good man who we should all look up to

Nah.

If Carter had any ability, he would have gotten them out.

He was the Matt Cassel of presidents.

the footage they keep showing of him in the wheelchair makes him appears as if he had died months ago.

I remember watching the debate with Ford when Ford said that Poland wasn't under Soviet domination. I had to have been 9 years old but remember vividly thinking Ford was delusional and Carter would win. I also remember walking to school and seeing Carter signs everywhere in yards. He was the only Democrat I remembered seeing that kind of support where I lived so he clearly had the ability to connect with all people.

I remember reading a story about how the bureaucrats had to convince him that the president needed many of the trappings of the office like a limo. He wanted to drive around DC in a pick-up truck and wear flannel and they had to persuade him that people want to see their president look like a president.

He was obviously a good man that wasn't well suited for the presidency. Probably because he was a good man.

RIP.

I forgot about that. Yeah, all the big breweries were against it, for "safety reasons".

God bless

Presidents get blamed for a lot of things they have zero control over. Gas lines? OPEC controlled world oil supplies in the 1970s. The gas lines were worse in 1973 than they were in 1979, but maybe you're not old enough to remember those. In my entire life I have never waited in a gas line of more than 4 cars.

Mortgage interest rates were far higher in the early 1980s than in the late 1970s. But presidents don't control interest rates. That is the fed.

Presidents don't control details of military operations. They give a green light or red light. If you know any of the details about Operation Eagle Claw, it was just cursed by bad luck.

Jimmy Carter had a failed presidency largely for reasons beyond his control.

Raiding pensions didn't happen on his watch

I was working off shore on the oil rigs in the gulf of Mexico during that era. We went into the port of Galveston for some R&R. Waited 3-4 hours to get some gas.

If you have ever been to Galveston bay there are two huge refinery's. On each side of the bay. At least there were in 1979. One of them had like 20 tankers parked waiting for their turn to unload their oil. The other side has no tankers waiting to unload. We asked a couple of locals about it, their consensus was it was deliberate so they could raise prices and get some more free money from the government to drill.

I came to the conclusion they may have been right, OPEC started it for sure but our own oil companies worked for what was in their best interest over the people. Capitalism, yay!

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Interesting to see how the media shaped this guy's persona. Carter was something like a scientific populist. He was an expert with numbers and used statistical analysis to create these talking points. He'd have a good ole boy segregationist racist script (accused Democrats of liking MLK Jr) to a self righteous anti-racisst script where he condemned the segregationists that he used for votes. Played both sides like a professional but once he got into the white house (miraculously) he got humbled. Was in way over his head and was forced into multiple crises and got taken advantage of. Had to spend the rest of his life using his nice-guy script when in reality Carter was a hardass submariner. Not a bad guy but he's a case study in populist politics.

Haha. The hunter Biden laptop says hi. So do the 51 Intel spies that lied at the request of Blinken.

RIP

Maybe he's up in Heaven getting his knob gobbled by that absolute whore Nancy Reagan.

I think his presidency is best described as super conservative and ineffectual. The country was only a couple of years out of Vietnam and 18 months post watergate. The American electorate were pretty demanding of some honesty from the top and Carter was that at least. He was certainly an intelligent person, but couldn’t build a coalition within Congress. Tip O’Neill was the speaker of the house and he made things difficult for the administration.

The economy was in a recession or near recession, the landscape of the Middle East was becoming radicalized as the Shah was deposed and the Islamic crazies in Iran were taking over. OPEC demanded a greater share of the oil pie and when they didn’t get it, shut down production.
The Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1980. At the time that was seen as the Russians taking over the world and that was perceived as American Foreign Policy weakness. But the Russians became stuck in that hellhole for a decade.

His administration was environmentally conscious, expanding the national park service. No soldiers died in foreign wars under his administration and that was a big deal after being in constant conflicts for decades. He brought Begin and Arafat together to try to seek some sort of peace, but that failed. He deregulated several industries: railroads, trucking, airlines. Signed a capital gains tax cut and was a hard line anti abortion man. So in reality, Jimmy Carter was a conservative, who implemented a lot of conservative ideas.

Lot of other reasons why his administration was a failure but the above is probably enough.

When he left office he was humble and continued being the man from Plains, GA. A great human who lived a long, wonderful life.

Braves baseball staring Jeff Blauser

Oh damn. Truth bomb. A little harsh


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He got out before 2025 when the world goes to hell according to the famous ancient seers

Nick Adams … LMAO

I had no idea. Sound absolutely awful

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna185782

I may have been there too when you saw Nixon. After Truman died there was a ceremony for VIPs at the Truman library. My mom took us kids down and we were in the grass area lining the drive to the library along with a lot of other people. We saw Nixon go by in his limo, then Johnson (who died less than a month later). I was 11, but remember it well.

RIP Jimmy Carter.