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

[DenverChief]

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/

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by cdcox

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.

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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[seamonster]

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.

[Pennywise]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

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.

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

[Pablo]

RIP

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

[WilliamTheIrish]

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.

[Demonpenz]

Braves baseball staring Jeff Blauser

[Deberg_1990]

Oh damn. Truth bomb. A little harsh

"He [Jimmy Carter] was a terrible President, that's why he lost in a landslide."

"If it's possible, I think he was an even worse ex-president."

"Obama didn't even have him speak at his convention."

Scott Jennings is speaking the unadulterated truth about Jimmy Carter on CNN… pic.twitter.com/gWYu7FN0DV

— Nick Adams (@NickAdamsinUSA) December 31, 2024

[Rainbarrel]

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

[WilliamTheIrish]

Nick Adams …

[DenverChief]

I had no idea. Sound absolutely awful

Jimmy Carter wanted to see Guinea worm disease eliminated. He came very close.


Former President Jimmy Carter hoped to outlive the Guinea worm — and he came achingly close to achieving that goal.

Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, and his nonprofit, the Carter Center, led a decades-long campaign against the disease, marshalling funding, tracking cases, helping to quell outbreaks and organizing support among world leaders and health agencies.

Guinea worm infections are caused by a parasitic worm whose larvae can contaminate water. When people consume the tainted water, the larvae mature inside the body, growing to about 3 feet long. The worms then burrow out of people’s bodies, blistering the skin as they exit in an agonizingly painful process that can take weeks.

In 1986, five years after Carter’s presidency ended, 3.5 million cases of the disease were recorded globally. As of early December, preliminary data indicates that just 11 cases have been recorded this year, and in just two countries — Chad and South Sudan, according to Adam Weiss, the director of the Carter Center’s Guinea Worm Eradication Program.


In 1986, an estimated 3.5 million human cases were documented worldwide; in recent years there have been fewer than 20 per year.


“We continue to see a tightening of how widely distributed the disease is from more than 20 countries in the 1980s to just a few so far this year,” Weiss said. “A lot of good progress is being shown.”

In 1986, the World Health Assembly called for eradication of Guinea worm disease. The Carter Center, a nonprofit created by the former president, stepped in to lead the effort, partnering with health departments in partner countries, the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Carter visited a village in Ghana in 1988 that was suffering from Guinea worm infections, and he often spoke about an image that haunted him from that visit — of a Guinea worm emerging from a woman’s swollen breast.

“It left such a deep imprint on him, not because he saw despair. He felt the despair, but what he saw was there’s an opportunity,” Weiss said. “It was something he couldn’t turn his back on.”

Carter remained focused on the project until his death, telling reporters in 2015 that he wanted “the last Guinea worm to die before I do,” according to The Associated Press. He received updates on Guinea worm even after he entered hospice care, the AP reported.

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

[splatbass]

Originally Posted by 4th and Long

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.

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.