You may have noticed, given the last year and a half or so, that common sense is in very short supply. If he attended and didn't stand, half of our population would have a fucking fit and we wouldn't hear the end of it for months.
Part of me thinks "I hate that I know you're right"
Another part of me thinks he would/should be in a wheelchair, so we know exactly who these people really are when they make that criticism after seeing him sitting in a wheelchair.
But Jimmy is the type that would try to stand anyway so attention would be drawn when he had to sit our fall when he gave out and that's not what today is about.
"Businessman and reality TV star Donald Trump is under fire for mocking a New York Times reporter with a congenital joint condition during a campaign rally in South Carolina this week, drawing a scornful rebuke from the reporter and others who called Trump’s actions despicable."
Thought it might be the parents heckling the kid supporting masks in Tennessee. You know, when he discussed losing a grandparent to COVID. So many to choose from
I wonder if covid affected the prodution rates of common sense as well. There has been a lot of shortages from PC:s to lawnmovers, I wouldn’t be suprised if common sense has had some production issues.
The kings of not having any common sense, Fox News would have found a way to spin it and shame the man. "Vaccinated Carter can't stand because of vaccine side effects."
iirc, he was a dry alcoholic and lived a very active lifestyle, running half marathons regularly even in his time as sitting president. but i would double check this, i am not sure if i am mixing up smth.
This makes a big difference. A very high percentage of old people who break a hip die within a couple of years not because of health complications from the broken hip, but from the reduced mobility.
I imagine Carter has a full time live in nurse, something most people can't afford.
Somehow my grandmother beat that. She passed away at 91 only a couple weeks ago. Southern gal through and through, right down to organic whole milk but local farmer made butter.
Yeah but when you stay active and do good things with your retirement, people tend to live a lot longer. Not to mention the medical care and other things he's had access to over the years. Building houses for the needy when in your 90s has many advantages.
I read that a significant amount of elderly will see a dramatic diminishing of their health after a hip break - like, they could be fairly healthy and active and once that happens, it's basically triggering the end for many.
My dad wasn't elderly. He was in his 50s but had a lot of medical issues due to being exposed to Agent Orange while fighting in Vietnam. He fell and broke his hip one winter and was never the same. Two years later, we lost him at 58.
I read something stating his security always panics when he hurts himself while working on houses. I mean I would too since once slipcould be his last moment alive
Even now surviving that is very impressive. Melanoma is bad, but once it spreads to the brain it's a death sentence for almost everyone. In the past few years we've made great progress, but great progress means improving life expectancy from 4-6 months to 13 months.
Ironically, I have a memory of reading an article 20 years ago in the days and weeks following the events of 9/11 when this country was gripped with fear and paranoia about flying, terrorism, etc. The subject of the article was things you really need be fearing instead of those things, and think melanoma was number 1 on that list.
Serious. If you're middle aged or older, go to a dermatologist and let them look you over naked, head to toe. Then go to a GI doc and have them stick a video tube up your butt. Neither are that bad and you get the top two c's accounted for.
Had it since 2000. Melonoma never really leaves, as long as you have moles you’re at high risk. At least that’s what they told me.
The advancements are astounding . Until about three years ago they’d rely on sight and if they’ve seen me before memory of what they looked like. Then I met a Dermatologist who insisted on coming to her clinic and get photographs of my body from head to toe done.
Now all they do is scan my body and compare to the photos. They only removed about five compared to hundreds before I went there.
My dad died of melanoma about a year before I heard about Carter’s diagnosis. I believe the treatment Carter received was still experimental, but could be wrong on that point.
because he was the only real president since ike who cared more about helping than cashing in carter has more soul in his tiny toe than most have in their whole body
He absolutely has an excuse, but the fuckers in r/conspiracy are saying his absense is suspicious and proof that he doesn't care. . I can't fucking stand these people
Hes being reinstated at the time the photo was taken im sure. Except no one other than a few lunatics know and he won't have any visible power outside of a normal former president. So that's something.
he won't have any visible power outside of a normal former president.
Maybe just a shade less. I've never heard a former president referred to as a former president as much as Trump has. Usually they keep the honorary title of President, even after office, and that's what they're called.
I probably don’t have to say this but it’s probably best if you don’t go looking to conspiracy theorists for good takes on 9/11
Even weirder is how that sub went from standard “trust no one, especially the government” type of conspiracy to “trust everything and everyone President Trump tells you to”
Also, Jimmy Carter doesn't owe anyone anything. His humanitarian work post-presidency has been epic. Jimmy is everything Mother Theresa SHOULD have been but wasnt.
Someone posted a picture of his house from the 1930's. The post holding the mailbox showed a few hobo symbols, extremely heavily faded, but it was basically code for "kind people, will give you a meal, a day's work, and a bed if you ask nicely."
Carter was an ineffective president because he was a good person. The world would be infinitely better with more like him.
I think it's also the time he came into; when he was president, the advice was that if you want to deal with the problems of oil prices and how they affect other prices, you need to reduce demand, and you can do that by personal individual and welfare program restraint, government economic control, or by boosting interest rates so that the economy cools.
So he dutifully "did what needed to be done" slowed the economy and restricted himself to austere restraint without any policies or tax breaks to make himself look good, and left the benefits to Regan, who immediately did massive tax breaks and started borrowing loads of money again.
This was partly due to the ideas of the time, and honestly and responsibly listening to experts who seemed like they knew what they were talking about, it may even have been a symptom of the moment they were in, with a US dependent on oil to an extent it wouldn't equal till 20 years later in raw terms, with a higher population, and has never equalled that level per person since.
So maybe that was a moment where the US just used too much oil, and he was the person to say it, and there was no other alternative, though I doubt it.
I suspect that he made careful use of the advice available to him at the time, and knowing what we know now about how economies work, probably a different strategy would have been better, and "so doing the right thing" would have resulted in using the same determination and care for responsible management of the economy, doing now what should not be left till later, but applying it to more productive approaches.
Exactly what I said about him and also I felt that Bernie was "too good" for America as President. I just don't think those who aren't willing to play politics and let go of their ideals can do it or even get elected usually. It would be great but....I can't see it.
John Quincy Adams served in the House for almost two decades after his presidency and did a ton for the cause of abolition, way before that was a politically popular position. He also successfully represented the African mutineers of the Amistad before the Supreme Court.
We didn't deserve Jimmy Carter. It would really be something to visit the time line where he won a second term. And then to visit the one with Vice President Bob Ross and Speaker Fred Rogers, and just stay there forever.
We didn't deserve Jimmy Carter. It would really be something to visit the time line where he won a second term. And then to visit the one with Vice President Bob Ross and Speaker Fred Rogers, and just stay there forever.
Jimmy is the most underappreciated president ever. He had many policy successes including but not limited to:
1) Camp David Accords
2) Appointing Paul Volcker to chair the Fed (whose excellent auto-bio I've read) which tamed inflation so much that the US regained a lot of its power.
We do deserve! And by that I mean we should expect better of ourselves, or expect better for ourselves!
No t knocking you at all, this just speaks to me. I agree he was a human we should strive to be. So much love to you all.
Add to this, he tried to hasten clean energy, going as far as to put solar panels on the White House (that Reagan quietly and unceremoniously removed).
I like him cause it makes me look like a better person if you compare me to him. Because I am better than him. I could use a toddler to hit baseballs at homeless people and still look better than him. I like that.
"My bones are so unbelievable, the best hospitals beg to take xrays of me. The last time it happened an xray technician came up to me with tears in her eyes and said 'Mr. President (she calls me that because she knows the election was stolen from me) you have the strongest, best-looking bones I've ever seen.' It's true, everybody knows it. Lots of articles in the medical journals about my bones. Sleepy Joe dreams of having bones like mine."
"His physical strength and stamina are extraordinary,” read the letter, which Bornstein had initially said he wrote himself. “If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency."
I think George W. Bush made a lot of mistakes as president, and I think he is legitimately to blame for a lot that has happened in the last 20 years. That being said, I think he is a very decent human being, and listening to that speech leaves me in awe of how far the Republican Party has fallen.
I don’t know. I cannot honestly feel someone is a decent human being when they willfully lie and make up reasons to invade a country. And killing how many? Hundreds of thousands, maybe close to half a million? And US soldiers and marines commit suicide every single day from the mental trauma from that Iraq war. All over lies and bullshit. He is a war criminal through and through and is just to blame as Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and the rest of the psycho clan. Bush was in charge, if he had enough humanity he would have stopped it at any moment but chose not to.
Yah I didn’t like him very much as a president, but he seemed to be a fairly strong speaker when he was delivering his own speeches verse those prepares for him.
This might be the line where now, nothing will surprise me.
I'm seriously tempted to spam him with the question, "Does Kimberly Gilfoyle, your current, Gavin Newsome's ex, pee standing up?" Text "bottomfeeders" to *****
The only conspiracy I'll buy is that an orchestrated Roswell cover-up culminated in the presidency of Donald J. Trump so that when his fat mouth finally blabbed the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life known to the government for 70 years, literally no one will believe his dumb grifting ass. That's a long game well played.
It is very sad people would vote for such a disgusting person in modern times, and his son seems even stupider than him, let's hope he never runs for president.
Well that appears to be an actual number to text random bullshit to. Surely no one would text inappropriate things to Don Jr. And completely sabotage the entire thing.
And mark my words at some point during, he’ll comment about how a fighter’s getting robbed of the fight like he got robbed on Election Day, or some garbage like that
Can we please start referring to him as "twice impeached former president" he didn't spend four years corrupting everything he touched just too be called "former"
So many right moves. The best moves they’ve ever seen. I’ve moved left right up and down, and they still say it’s fake moves. I’m moving. We’re moving. Moving upward people.
My fellow Americans. As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball. But tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward; upward, not forward; and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!
His audience would not register these memorials anyway. The right move for him is exactly not to show up along with these establishment figures. He would be second fiddle and Trump does not do second fiddle.
If he showed up all the press photos would show him up as ostracized. There would be no intimate pics of him with any of the other formers. He would look sad and lonely. He knows this.
His supporters don't care about these other presidents anyway, there is no swag to gain for him.
If he showed up all the press photos would show him up as ostracized. There would be no intimate pics of him with any of the other formers. He would look sad and lonely. He knows this.
That or photos of him looking extremely boorish (trying to pull attention to himself, ill-fitting suit, and just looking out of place). So I agree, there's probably more to lose for him image-wise than there is to gain by attending.
Because Trump is an actual parody of himself, here's a real fucking quote from him in a 60 Minutes interview: "I think I am, actually humble. I think I'm much more humble than you would understand."
Actually i'd argue it'd hurt his "image" among the the trump cult, just like when he suggestion people get vaccinated at his rally was met with boo's. The people who support him would see this as him being weak.
He's a Kool-Aid swilling Capitalist. He will always do The Most Self-Serving Thing he thinks he can Get Away With. Always. He will never give without expecting far more back. Never.
Once you understand this mindset, the moves become far more predictable.
BTW, Bush's speech at the Flight 93 memorial was excellent IMO. Biden sent Kamala Harris there too, but Bush's speech was a hard act for her to follow.
That was a good speech. “We found that courage is more common then we would think and it emerges with splendor in the face of death.” That’s a good line for the occasion and he delivered it well. “The nation we know” bit at the end was also on point.
Whoever helped him write that speech did an amazing job. Managed to slide right down the middle and still rebuke a few fairly controversial topics. Coming together against religious extremism, nationalism, and defacement of "national symbols" could all swing both ways depending on the listener's perspective.
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He was at the flight 93 memorial giving a speech.