Jimmy Carter: Grandson says former president is ‘coming to the end’

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I will be very sad when he goes. Regardless of his success or lack thereof during his presidency, I don't know that a better person in general has been president. The man devoted his post-presidency to building houses for the poor (with his own two hands) and eradicating guinea worm... and never showed up to say something on the endless news cycle unless he had a specific point to make.

Still the only nuclear physicist peanut farmer to win the Nobel Prize for international peace and human rights. Incredible man.

Wait he was a nuclear physicist? TIL

Yup. He earned his degree while working as a nuclear submarine technician for the Navy.

Nuclear engineer. He had a degree from the Naval academy and was a nuclear technician in the Navy.

The most Presidential of all our former Presidents. I will shed tears at his passing.

I remember when Carter was president. I always respected him. In the early 2000s i remember getting so much shit for defending him. I'm proud to be an American when I think of him and his legacy. He is a good man and I hope that he will be remembered in a positive way. He was truly wronged by the Republicans and the Iran Contra shit will forever be a shadow over the good that Carter tried to create in the middle East.

I imagine if the dirty tricks Reagan pulled or like if Gore wasn't cheated or even Hillary got 4 years, the world would be a much better place than it is.

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We didn’t deserve Carter. And we showed it.

300,000 people in East Timor certainly didn't deserve Carter supplying Indonesia with the tools to carry out genocide.

We get it. It's been addressed. You don't have to reply to everyone about it.

It's very easy to forget why Carter was largely considered a middling President in his time.

Between his fumbling of the Iran Hostage Crisis, his public sector strike breaking, and his Volcker Shock Economics, he set the stage for Reaganism and the end of Progressive Era politics.

But then he did Habitat for Humanity which was nice. And he talked a good game on climate change. And he called Israel Apartheid as he saw it decades before any other mainstream politician.

to be fair, the republicans conspired with the iranians in secret to hold the hostages until after the election in exchange for money which the us used to buy arms for terrorists in central america.

The Ayatollah buying scud missiles from Donald Trump Rumsfeld and Oliver North was crazy, when you consider how much the GOP say they hate Iran and love Reagan.

But Tip O'Neal and Ted Kennedy and a young Senator from Delaware whose name I can't recall brushed it all under the table. The sentence for these henous crimes landed on North's shoulders and totaled

a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines, and 1,200 hours of community service

But even that was too much.

with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, North appealed his conviction to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. On July 20, 1990, the D.C. Circuit vacated North's convictions on the ground that witnesses in his trial might have been impermissibly affected by his immunized congressional testimony.

The Aristocrats!

That's gotta be a bit of a smudge on the ACLU

They've got a very checkered past. Very much a "rights are for whites" organization in a lot of cases.

Backing Klan and Nazi parades while dropping off the map in the face of the Stonewall Marches, the anti-war movements, and BLM.

They've been near useless when it comes to abortion rights, police brutality, and refugee rights, as far as I've seen.

Sorry bud, it’s hard to understand what you’re saying with Jinping’s cock all up in your mouth like that

Neither of us live in China, and they had nothing to do with the atrocities the US facilitated under Carter (which admittedly, is less than any other recent president), why are you bringing them up?

He did good things after the presidency, but acknowledging that Israel is an apartheid state fails to make up for excluding Palestine from the Camp David accords.

Because that’s where your half-baked talking points are coming from, comrade.

Is it really inconceivable that someone could organically not like genocide?

Any American who acknowledges that every president for the last century has done things we hanged Nazis for at Nuremberg must have been tricked by outside forces?

No, that part’s not inconceivable. The inconceivable part is that you claim to not like it while also defending the undisputed kings of it. Mao makes Hitler look like a fucking amateur lol

He was President when I was born, and it will be sad to see such a genuinely decent person depart this Earth. He did so much for so many.

He was a truly great person. He didn't do so well at politics, but that's because he was such a good person.

You've given it your all. More than most can say. And, you've done it while taking it on the chin the whole time from lesser people and politicians. You are/were a great man!

Incredibly sad. A great President and human being.

I find it sad that president from the late 70s showed more care for his constituency and broader world during the cold war than what our current president seems to be actively avoiding during a self funded genocide.

... And that the current president is BY FAR the better of the two potential options offered; and that people still say "I don't care if the absolutely terrible guy gets in as long as I show my displeasure for the incumbent by not voting. That'll stick it to everyone."

It is really shocking how much this election resembles 1980 tbh.

One of the consequences of the Cold War was a sense of domestic nationalism that fell apart when the USSR did. No point in working together without a singular globe spanning enemy to work against.

Ironic that Ayn Rand's anti-communist philosophical selfishness came out of Soviet Russia in the 40s, and that's what will likely bring the American Experiment to an end.

Just let him go in peace. Stop following him around with a camera.

He is truly a wonderful and selfless person. I can think of way worse people much easier than I can think of truly great people. He's up there with Fred Rogers in my book. Jimmy, thank you for you service, bless you and your family. I hope there is no pain. 🫂💐

I'm surprised he didn't go when his wife did, as usually happens with older couples

Well he is nearly 100 right? Obviously he's coming to the end

about fucking time.

Like the guy and all but jesus christ is he old as fuck.

What benefit are we getting with him dying? Like why do you sound like he deserves it?

about fucking time.

unfortunately that's the problem i think. I did word it pretty shitty though, i just didn't care to reword it lmao.

It bothers me that the one example of a politican that everybody seems to love is jimmy carter. Incredible guy, but it's fucking depressing to think that there isn't anybody else like him at the moment. I'm sure there will be in the future, but this dude really seems to be one in a million right now.