Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter passes away at age 100

[Dave24]

RIP to President Carter

 

[Big Boss]

RIP

 

[Cave Savage]

RIP! He had the GOAT post presidency

I honestly thought he was gonna pass away when Trump won. I felt really bad that he had to spend his final days knowing that the US elected Trump again.

 

[HipHopStan]

I was looking at the 1980 election the other day. Reagan narrowly won a lot of those southern states. Carter was beloved in the South but couldn’t get the extra couple thousand votes here and there as Reagan was underestimated.

My dad was saying he remembered coming to America in 1978 when Carter was president. Then the big change with Reagan bringing the glitz and rich people to Washington, DC in the 80s.

Reagan only won Tennessee by half a point in 1980. Hard to believe a time when TN used to be considered a battleground state.

 

[Dave24]

His presidency was the precursor to the neoliberal era all of us have lived through. He signed a law deregulating multiple industrial sectors. He started with the airlines which had the effect of permanently reducing wages and many would argue the quality of our travel today.

He also deregulated finance, intensifying what Nixon did.

He was a conservative Democrat. He used monetary policy as a means of fighting inflation by reducing wages and increasing unemployment which has been the tool used by successive presidents since. Ironically until Joe Biden. And Biden was one of the first Senators to endorse Carter in 1976.

His presidency had a couple bright spots. No new wars. He did help Egypt sign a peace treaty with Israel which returned the Sinai back to Cairo. Sadat obviously was killed for it.

Carter is more beloved because of his post-presidency. Humanitarian work, democracy initiatives, helping with peace through the Carter Center. And he was still building houses through Habitat for Humanity until a few years ago.

Any good books on Jimmy Carter's Presidency that you would recommend?

 

[Cave Savage]

I was looking at the 1980 election the other day. Reagan narrowly won a lot of those southern states. Carter was beloved in the South but couldn’t get the extra couple thousand votes here and there as Reagan was underestimated.

My dad was saying he remembered coming to America in 1978 when Carter was president. Then the big change with Reagan bringing the glitz and rich people to Washington, DC in the 80s.

And that was a pretty much permanent realignment of the South.

Clinton won a lot of the Southern states, but Perot likely took a lot of votes from Bush + Dole.

 

[Cave Savage]

His presidency was the precursor to the neoliberal era all of us have lived through. He signed a law deregulating multiple industrial sectors. He started with the airlines which had the effect of permanently reducing wages and many would argue the quality of our travel today.

He also deregulated finance, intensifying what Nixon did.

He was a conservative Democrat. He used monetary policy as a means of fighting inflation by reducing wages and increasing unemployment which has been the tool used by successive presidents since. Ironically until Joe Biden. And Biden was one of the first Senators to endorse Carter in 1976.

His presidency had a couple bright spots. No new wars. He did help Egypt sign a peace treaty with Israel which returned the Sinai back to Cairo. Sadat obviously was killed for it.

Carter is more beloved because of his post-presidency. Humanitarian work, democracy initiatives, helping with peace through the Carter Center. And he was still building houses through Habitat for Humanity until a few years ago.

Flying was a luxury before airlines were deregulated.

Only a tiny percentage of Americans were even able to travel internationally back then.

 

[CHICAGO]

damn less than 30 minutes ago. family rushed to tell the media

HES A FORMER PRESIDENT BREAUGH.

THAT TYPE OF shyt GETS ANNOUNCED IMMEDIATELY.



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[Kingshango]

He said “Yeah I’ve seen enough, y’all got it.”

 

[King Static X]

RIP

 

[TEH]

RIP

One of the few non evil Presidents.

 

[HipHopStan]

He said “Yeah I’ve seen enough, y’all got it.”

He said a few months ago, he wanted to stay around to vote for Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.



I hope people in the hospice home just lied to him and told him she won just so he could pass away happy.

 

[FAH1223]

 

[Seoul Gleou]

RIP

 

[MenacingMonk]

The one man who kept Death waiting and made it to 100. He had a good run.