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

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An exemplar of a man, won't describe my personal affinity for him here but I'm afraid we will never see his like again. His work outside of office is what most will remember him by and I suspect that suits him just fine. RIP you old peanut farmer :obama:
 
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It's a damn shame Reagan essentially ruined this country in the 80s and we have been on a accelerating downturn since. Literally nothing gets done because of the change in how politics is done since Reagan. Reagan reached out and glorified the racist whites like @the cac mamba , never be another Jimmy
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Elaborate on this.
 
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You're a good man with a good heart. And it's hard for a good man to be king. - King T'Chaka

Anyway, flags are gonna be at half mast for the inauguration because it'll still be within the 30 day period to do so. Thank you and vaya con Dios, Jimmy.
 
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He was a good man who cared about poor and working class folks, advocated for civil rights for african americans, tried to work for peace in war torn countries and helped raise funds to provide care to the sick and shelter to the homeless, a far cry in character from the charlatan trump. God bless jimmy carter
 
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Critics who saw Carter as a weak leader complained about events small and large. They mocked him for an incident in early 1979 when a rabbit swam toward the president’s canoe while he was fishing near his home in Plains. The president used a paddle to splash at the rabbit, which swam away, but critics called the president’s response timid.
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Sounds like something they'd do to Obama, criticizing somebody over nothing :smh:

But his administration was troubled with foreign-policy quagmires. Most notably, after Carter allowed the dethroned shah of Iran to come to the U.S. for medical treatment in 1979, a group of Iranian students invaded the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking 66 diplomats, military personnel and workers hostage.
Despite diplomatic efforts, the Iranians held 52 of the hostages throughout the rest of Carter’s presidency, releasing them only after Ronald Reagan, a Republican, had been sworn in as president. A rescue attempt by U.S. armed forces failed after some of the helicopters sent into Iran had mechanical problems. After the mission was aborted, a helicopter preparing to leave a staging area in Iran crashed into a transport plane, killing eight U.S. servicemen.
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History doesn't repeat but, it rhymes. The bolded sounds like Netanyahu and Putin with Biden & Trump.

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter threw their energy into fighting diseases that had been all but forgotten in the developed world—trachoma, river blindness, Guinea worm and others—traveling to cities and remote villages to promote Carter Center programs. The center treated millions of people and brought better surveillance and healthcare systems to poor countries. When it began the effort to eradicate Guinea worm in 1986, there were 3.5 million cases of the disease. In 2023, there were 14 human cases, near 2022’s record low of 13 human cases. The disease is now close to becoming the second human disease to be eradicated, after smallpox, according to the Carter Center website.
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Good man :obama:
 
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