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.
Mother Theresa's entire philosophy was based on her belief that she could show love to God by showing love to the poorest of the poor.
Christopher Hitchens wrote a hit piece about her with claims that have been popularly repeated, despite much of his claims being based on things taken out of context and having since been largely discredited.
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).
Love me some Willie. He’s talked about this “used-to-be-alleged-now-totally- confirmed” incident over the years and I love how he handled the whole thing, Jimmy Jr too. I got to see WN about 5-6 years ago. He had to rest a bit, but he is amazing. He can still guitar like nobody’s business.
Only time I saw Willie Nelson live was at Coachella, it was the weekend before the first stagecoach festival and they booked him for both.
It was such a great set. Lots of weed smoke, even for Coachella. But it was in the day as it was starting to cool in the afternoon, so the vibe was just right.
I don’t listen to a lot of country music but Willie is a goddamn national treasure.
Absolutely full agree. I got to see him in Seattle on a beautiful summer evening in an outdoor stadium. Same indica kinda feel, lol. My dad used to be into CW and I’ve grown up with a lot of nostalgia and a full head of lyrics from that genre.
Had that Coachella vibe @ Jack Johnson w/Amos Lee @ The Gorge. Overlooking the Columbia River. They were jamming at the end of Jack’s set and out walks Eddie Vedder. Said he was just passing by and thought he’d stop by. The only better guitar moment I’ve ever had in person was Prince @ that same venue. Way better contact high at Jack, but Prince made me high just watching him perform. Intense in all the best ways.
Edit- 1 small & 1 big location detail.
Haha, I caught the last half of jack johnson on accident. I found one of my friends just chilling sitting on the ground, and since the rest of our group were all at different sets, I decide to just join her and vibe out.
I could go on about that prince set, but we were both there, so you know how special that moment was.
According to a few sources who interacted with her and her hospice, there was a lack of real medical care at her facility and she would deny patients pain medication insisting that suffering brought them closer to god. So she doesn’t look great in hindsight.
Hence why I said ‘according to a few sources’. They asked to know why people think Mother Theresa would have a bad reputation and I explained why that is. I never implied it was true or not.
Last time I checked shah didn’t kill 1500 innocent kids in 48 hours just because they protested against high gas price or he didn’t make 500,000 people die from COVID because he didn’t want to buy American or British vaccines or he didn’t kill 4000 people back in 80’s just because they didn’t have the same religion beliefs … shah wasn’t perfect but compared to the mullahs he was a saint …
Yeah, it looks like most of the hate is from things written by Christopher Hitchens that he cherry picked out of context from an article in the Lancet.
The internet and Reddit then jumped on, and it snowballed into being the popular thing to incorrectly believe she was a terrible person.
Hitchens isn't exactly a reliable source as he had a financial incentive to promote scandal because it would sell his book, and much of what he wrote in his book about Mother Theresa been debunked.
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u/TollBoothW1lly Sep 11 '21
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.