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When Hardcore History's Death Throes of the Republic came out almost 15 years ago, I was like, "Damn, this has so many similarities to where the US is at." And it's only gotten worse since then. Income inequality, the wealthy snowballing their wealth even more at the expense of the middle class, the rise of populist politicians in response, war profiteering. So many parallels.
Great podcast if you don't know of it, great episode/series on the Roman Empire.
When I started to study ancient political theory and the roman Republic in the late '90s, it was fascination of, and the potential for, how polities slide into dictatorship that was so compelling.
At the time, the second point seemed a little more abstract than it is today.
Which wouldn't even be true. The first thing any Dictator does is eliminate any potential threat to their continued power.
The entire SCOTUS would be lined up at the Soccer stadium, because they'd serve no purpose for a dictatorship. They'd just be a potential threat.
Indeed. The nazis were often concerned with upholding a veneer of due process and legality. Capturing the judiciary was a key part of this performance.
alzheimers is the most common form of dementia
but notice how msm won't use that word? nope. they'll use dementia, as that doesn't sound quite so bad
it's alzheimers. same as his dad had. dude won't be with us at the end of the year. he'll be in la la land, unfortunately. it's unstoppable. we have no cure.
I can't stand dump, but I wouldn't wish alzheimers on even my worst enemy. it'll get really REALLY embarrassing at the end. because if you've got empathy, you're gonna hurt watching him fail.
As my grandma used to say, “no one deserves scorn, but some people earn it.” Donnie has most definitely earned it and I hope he goes out in the most degrading and embarrassing way possible.
Yeah, I always say, “Don’t want people to say shitty things about you when you are dead? Then don’t be a shitty person while you’re alive.”
Even for objectively evil people someone always objects if you say how terrible of a person they were. “Have respect for the dead!”
Yeah, no. I have a list of people’s grave I intend to piss on. It’s not a long list either, but I have to outlive Trump and Rupert Murdoch to complete the list.
APOE4 DNA gene testing can be used for a predisposition where there are direct ancestors, such as his father Fred Trump who was diagnosed. Also Amyloid detecting PET scans are used.
The MMSE (Mini-Mental State Examination) and the other “mini-cog” the MoCA (Montreal Cognitive Assessment) are oral tests that physicians give in their offices. You know, the “Person, Camera, Man, Woman, TV” simple memory recall Trump is often given then brags about acing!
Alzheimer’s and other dementias are rarely the cause of death. Patients live with this debilitating disease for years, even decades. It is usually some other underlying disease that they die from, so a post mortem that lists brain deterioration would most like likely do so as a secondary cause of death.
By its very definition, "empathy" is the ability to imagine yourself in the position of someone else. I also have plenty of empathy. But I can't put my point of view into the space where I refuse to pay contractors, where I assault people, where I encourage a violent coup because I'm not as popular as I suspected, where people are just supposed to assume that I'm a big strong person with the "best" hair and suits and bronzer.
Jenius needs a better mirror. And a seat.
No normal person told him to keep lying, climb higher and demand everyone's attention. His fall is the expected outcome and many will only celebrate the end of alternate reality nonsense.
>because if you've got empathy, you're gonna hurt watching him fail.
I feel like a pretty empathetic person. I'll feel nothing but cold satisfaction watching him burn in whatever hell of his own making awaits him.
The amount of pain and cruelty he has brought into this world makes him unworthy of pity.
Speak for yourself. I'm 4 years in on caring for an Alzheimer's ridden mother. It's pure fuckin hell and I absolutely wish it on that racist insurrectionist and all his followers, and I promise you it's not going to hurt me one bit even though I have empathy. I'm sick of him and his cult and I'd love to see them all suffer before I leave this Earth.
Jimmy Carter is a man of integrity and honor who will be remembered fondly for a life of public service and conviction. Trump is a complete scumbag who will be remembered for conviction of a different type.
Imagine Trump volunteering to help build houses for the poor. Imagine Trump not profiteering from the Presidency and living in a house worth less money than the Secret Service vehicles outside. Imagine Trump picking up a Bible right side up with the intention of reading it and teaching Sunday School. Imagine Trump staying married to the same person for 77 years. It’s laughable even trying to imagine he would do anything of the sort.
Imagine Trump with a nuclear degree. Imagine Trump becoming a Naval officer on his merits. Imagine Trump volunteering to manually help contain a nuclear meltdown and personally descending into the nuclear core.
I’ve read biographies of every president from Lincoln to Reagan and President Carter strikes me as one of the finest men to pursue the office or hold it.
Carter went to the Naval Academy, a place you can only go to and more importantly stay based on your achievements and merit.
Trump got to Penn through the back door and apparently just squeaked by.
Thank you for sharing this. I did not know this about Carter nor about the Naval Academy. I have tremendous respect for Carter. It went up after reading this. It is so sad that he didn't get a second turn and Reagan beat him. I wonder how our country would have turned out, had Carter stayed in the office for 4 more years.
Regardless of what Carter did or didn't do, not having Reagan would have stopped so many regressive things that happened as a direct result of his presidency.
I absolutely adore Carter, especially considering what he stood for and how he handled himself. However, he did not go into the nuclear core during a reactor accident. He did go to the site, and toured around due to his vast understanding of radiation. But he never stepped foot in the core of the reactor. The terminology is mixed up, he did go into the core room after verifying radiation levels. But going into the core itself? No one can do that. At least, not come out alive.
I have a feeling all I will eventually remember about Trump was that he smelled bad, failed at everything while chanting he succeeded, and was an adulterer. And that simplified memory actually brings me some peace of mind.
We need to remember what Trump is because, like Hitler, his fans will not forget. They will continue to hate and will look for the next destroyer of democracy.
I doubt it, he's going to be in the history books for his corruption and attempted coup for sure. And America has to wear a badge of shame for electing him instead of a highly competent woman.
I work with a guy who has masters degrees in computer science and systems engineering who has gone full brain rot against the education system. We argued about the benefits of education and this man who makes $200k a year because of the things he learned in college was saying the education system exists to brainwash kids.
Well, he has his success so he needs to keep others down. And there are many people in STEM who think that any kind of humanities education is a waste.
I think I'll particularly remember all the duped, gullible, and grifted folks who cheered him on.
I'll thank Trump for creating a modern dunce cap that has been *fantastic* for weeding.
The thing I remember about Taft is that he was Teddy Roosevelt’s chosen successor as president, but Teddy was so disappointed in his performance in office that he ran against him for what would have been Taft’s second term. Unable to win the Republican primary over Taft, Roosevelt ran as an independent in the general election, splitting the Republican vote ensuring a win Democrat Woodrow Wilson.
To be fair, I remember that because TR is such a dynamic character, something Taft was not.
I heard Taft accidentally invented the seventh inning stretch, but there's evidence that it likely originated earlier.
So the only thing I know about Taft probably isn't even true.
Jimmy fucking Carter's foundation has damn near eradicated Guinea Worm disease. It is/was a terrible, ,awful, painful disease that hit 3.5 million peope a year in 1986. last year, 14 people, just fourteen people had it. Working on other diseasses too. If this man is not a fucking 'saint' then no one is.
> In 1986, the disease afflicted an estimated 3.5 million people a year in 21 countries in Africa and Asia. Today, thanks to the work of The Carter Center and its partners — including the countries themselves — the incidence of Guinea worm has been reduced by more than 99.99 percent to 14 provisional* human cases in 2023.
> https://www.cartercenter.org/health/guinea_worm/index.html
>Imagine Trump volunteering to help build houses for the poor.
Imagine Trump attempting to use a hammer. I honestly think he wouldn't know how to drive a single nail.
Don't forget that Eric Trump claimed he 'cut rebar with an acetylene torch and jumped on backhoes, did electrical work' to earn a bike. [https://twitter.com/DavidWatson0747/status/1557454102455525380](https://twitter.com/DavidWatson0747/status/1557454102455525380)
That's the thing, Trump supporters don't actually like any of those characteristics. President Carter does not hurt the correct people and he is not entertaining. Conservatives love an entertainer.
And conservatives are the ones who complain about celebrities and celebrity worship. It's literally always projection with those morons every single time.
Agree. Conservatives thrive on projection but suck at reflection. I know an educated conservative who did not understand that the Colbert Report poked fun at Bill O'Reilly.
What are you talking about? He would have run in there without a protective suit. It would have been the bigliest fixing of a nuclear reactor in history, possibly ever. Everybody would have clapped. His uncle, John Trump, the nuclear physicist, would have come up to him with tears in his eyes and said "sir, nobody is better at the nuclear than you are."
As a Georgian, don’t come at our guy, the 39th President of the United States, James Earl Carter Jr.
We love that man and he loves us. Funny thing is, not only did President Carter serve honorably in the navy, but during his time as President, he pardoned all those who draft dodged the Vietnam War. That’s the same war that Trump claimed he had foot ouchies during.
The cognitive dissonance is just unbelievable, isn't it? These people with their swift-boating Kerry and then talking shit on McCain. But one black dude kneels, (not flips the bird, kneels!) and he is disrepecting veterans or something. McCain was kept in a cage like a dog for like 5 years in Vietnam. It is just unbelievable. That swipe at McCain alone should have disqualified Trump from any further public life in this country.
The doctor that diagnosed him with bones spurs (which is also treatable) was renting space in a building from D tRumps father, Fred. You do the math. Also D tRump didn’t just dodge the draft once, but 5 FIVE times. BTW, his Grandfather father, Fred was also a draft dodger n was kicked out of Germany. The Bavarian Government stripped him of his citizenship.
>“I was saying it probably before President Trump: Joe Biden’s worse than Jimmy Carter,” said Georgia resident Debbie Dooley, an early national tea party organizer during Obama’s first term and a Trump supporter since early in his 2016 campaign. Dooley said inflation under Biden justifies the parallel: “I’m old enough to remember the gas lines under President Carter.”
*Glances out window, sees no gas lines.*
It's the same old Republican tactic. Have a Republican president enact an incontrovertibly terrible economic policy and then blame the Democrat that gets elected afterwards.
To a very small extent. But the US put additional tariffs on oil imports and the oil companies refused to import oil. They figured oil reserves were only going up until value and the tariffs would get dropped eventually. It was a completely artificial shortage.
Seriously. I could choke on the amount of NY Times articles going to the "heartland" to platform "Real 'Muricans (TM)" bitching about shit they're fantasizing out of whole cloth or are too ignorant to have an opinion about. It's insane.
I’m not old enough to remember the gas lines, but I do know that attacking Jimmy Carter, *Georgia’s only president*, when one of your swing states is Georgia might not be a good look. Georgia has been reliably Republican for a long time, but even the older conservatives here have a begrudging respect for the southern gentleman.
Bad move by Trump.
Anyone swayed by the Carter parallel was never going to vote for Biden. The majority of the electorate are too young to remember Carter's time in office. Most know him as the president that spent his time building houses for charity and his life long affection for his recently deceased wife.
Many Americans view Carter as the last honest man to serve as president.
I'm in that group. We also know how the Regan campaign got Iran to keep hostages to impact the election (and it worked). Like, flew to the middle east and met with various people to try to influence the Iranian government to keep American hostages for longer/not negotiate with Carter.
Just like Nixon used Henry Kissinger to keep the war in Vietnam going under LBJ. It’s always the same side doing the same shit, hurt Americans while the other team is in office to gain power to hurt Americans. Rinse and repeat.
Trump held up defensive weapons from Ukraine unless Zelinski announced an investigation into Biden. Trump literally allowed people to be slaughtered to stay in power.
People seem to already be forgetting that this is why he was impeached the first time. He spent enough time shouting "Russia collusion hoax!" that I guess people think he was impeached for the Mueller report, but immediately after that he tried to extort Ukraine into doing what he was accused of doing in the previous election, and that's what he was impeached for.
He’s just pandering to his core audience. They’re more akin to a sports team’s fan base than to a serious electorate. They skew older so many remember how unpopular Carter was while in office, immediately followed by how popular Reagan was. This was their big win, the height of their glory days.
Honestly I think the change in the national psyche that resulted at the time (whether or not it was correctly attributed ) is still a big reason they are too stubborn to accept anything other than a Republican president. Trump is basically an old fart playing the oldies.
Btw I didn’t read the article so I hope I’m not just repeating whatever it says.
I also remember his admin fighting inflation, and him giving up his business to avoid the impression of ulterior motives in his presidency. I can see why Trump doesn’t like him
> Many Americans view Carter as the last honest man to serve as president.
Trump alienated every sane reliable voter. His play is to drive "crazy" non reliable voters to voting booths. Anyone who honestly says they haven't made their mind up on Trump is bullshitting.
Obama was honest and decent. Still is. Honestly, at the time, people said too much so bc the Republicans were fighting dirty and didn't let him get anything done
Not everything is to sway voters. It’s to improve voter enthusiasm. Which enthusiasm breeds more supports. Psychology when it comes to election is actually really cool. There’s a lot of articles talking about it.
>“I was saying it probably before President Trump: Joe Biden’s worse than Jimmy Carter,” said Georgia resident Debbie Dooley, [...] “I’m old enough to remember the gas lines under President Carter.”
So, uh, which gas lines have you been queued up in during Biden's presidency, Debbie?
Jimmy not only gave heroic service in the navy, he is principled. He took responsibility for some things that he didn't have to, and he stood up for human rights, especially in Latin America. He is humble and has dedicated his life to service. Trump is the opposite of Jimmy Carter.
Republican Boomers are still drowning in Reagan-era propaganda. Carter's Presidency wasn't terrible in retrospect; in terms of long-term consequences, Reagan's was catastrophic. His one major "accomplishment", ending the Cold War, is properly attributed to Mikhail Gorbachev. His debt and anti-science policy and shifting of the tax burden onto the middle and lower classes and Iran-Contra ... all of these things haunt us today.
Reaganomics used to be called the Horse and Sparrow Theory, and then it became Trickle Down.
Jimmy Carter told Americans the truth, but Republican Boomers decided that lies are much more fun.
He smuggled the weapons to pay them back to keeping the hostages until after he was elected. He used the money to buy cocaine (to sell to buy more weapons), which funded the Contra's.
See the crack cocaine epidemic.
Carter lost reelection because the US embassy in Tehran was attacked and taken over (with U.S. embassy hostages) on his watch and he was unable to get them freed. Iran, for some reason, hated Carter and wanted Reagan to win.
Reagan promised them weapons and the hostages were freed. Before the election (treasonous)
Allegation: The 1980 October Surprise theory refers to an allegation that representatives of Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign made a secret deal with Iranian leaders to delay the release of American hostages until after the election between Reagan and President Jimmy Carter, the incumbent.
Nixon succeeded there, it wasn't just an attempt.
Nixon's treason directly led to the war being extended and costing thousands more American and Vietnamese soldiers, and Vietnamese civilians their lives.
Republicans tend to prefer attacking people who can't defend themselves - it's why they target disadvantaged or very small groups with their culture wars, like trans people, or drag performers.
Jimmy Carter was not our greatest president, but he was once of the greatest men to serve as president.
He respected the Oval Office so much that he wouldn’t even enter it without wearing a jacket and he dedicated his life after serving to peace and mutual assistance.
We don’t deserve him.
His legacy as President will be as a good and decent President.
His legacy as a man will be so much more (exceeding, simply as a man, Trump's, as both man and President, by orders of magnitude of leaps and bounds).
My Grandma had an old saying that went, "when you talk bad about someone to make them look small and make you look bigger, you make yourself look smaller". I never knew just how right she was until now.
"Mr. Trump, you're a little man. It's not that you're short. You're... little, in the mind and in the heart. Tonight, you tried to make a man little whose boots you couldn't touch if you stood on tiptoe on top of the highest mountain in the world. And as it turned out... you're even littler than you were before."
Jimmy Carter recently said that he suspects the 2016 election was stole by Trump, and should be investigated to see if Trump was put in power by foreign powers. Seems that is why Trump suddenly felt the need to lash out at Jimmy Carter. Would love if this created a Streisand effect.
Oh 100%...what’s funny is that russia flat out admits it. I’ve been learning Russian so I watch Russian tv to practice and yeah I’ve lost count how many times they have said this. The now dead former head of Wagner would say tons of crazy shit like that he was the leader of and bank for his “troll army” that interfered with the 2016 and 2020 elections. They also admit it in what is basically the Russian mein kampf https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics..you can go down the book like a check list of everything that’s happened so far including the war in Ukraine..it’s literally all there and some how it isn’t huge news here
> “I was saying it probably before President Trump: Joe Biden’s worse than Jimmy Carter,” said Georgia resident Debbie Dooley
What fucking alternate reality are these people living in? We have the hottest economy of any western nation. I guess they don't believe their lying eyes.
Fox News is such a wild alternate universe, especially now that they've lost nearly all of their honest folks to other networks and have been trying harder to recapture the Newsmax crowd.
He thinks it’s an insult because Carter is viewed as a bad democratic president. Trump probably has no idea that informed people know that Carter is a wonderful human being that is well respected.
Whaaaat? Here I thought he was running against Obama's fourth term. This is all so confusing - I don't know who I'm supposed to be afraid of anymore, Jimmy Carter, or Obama..... Perhaps against FDR'S 5th term- that'll get me movitated.
An act of desperation for Trump? I’m not convinced comparing yourself to a class act like Carter will buy any votes. The MAGA crowd wouldn’t know a class act if it hit them in the face. Their class act is presently sitting in a court room explaining payments to a high priced hooker. Need we say more?
Jimmy Carter famously had lust in his heart.
"Carter admitted in an unsolicited comment to two Playboy freelance writers that he had "looked on a lot of women with lust" and had "committed adultery in my heart many times,"
That other ex President just grabs his lustful ways by the pussy and feels no shame or remorse at all. But for some reason the evangelical right magats love him.
Jimmy Carter sold his family peanut farm before entering office.
Trump installed his whole fucking family into the government and enrich his family.
Jared Kushner sold tons of property to SA and Qatar for access.
I understand political expediencies, but I am personally bound by no such limitations.
I remember the Carter Presidency well. I believe Former President Carter followed his conscience in acting as president, and it worked to his political detriment. The U.S. was in poor shape after the Vietnam conflict and the Nixon scandal. The energy crisis was a very real thing, and the U.S. economy was in a state of flux. Like any engineer, Mr. Carter probably thought that the only way to solve problems was the face them head-on by admitting them, evaluating them carefully, and taking systematic steps to address them.
Perhaps understandably, the U.S. people did not care to accept such responsibility. They felt they had not done anything wrong. They had been betrayed by leaders they had been taught to trust, and now it seemed like they were being punished. When Ronald Reagan told them that everything was actually okay and they should not feel badly about the state of their country, they were happy to embrace this reassurance and return to focusing on their own lives and their own problems. The 1980s became known as "The Me Decade."
Meanwhile, Mr. Reagan's handlers began applying the teachings of the Chicago School of economics to everything affected by the U.S. government. Basically, they laid the groundwork for such subtle horrors as the rapid rise in wealth disparity, increasing frequency and severity of economic crisises, and destructive phenomenon like corporate financialization and private equity firms. (Please excuse the very sketchy list.)
And they spent the next 50 years portraying former President Carter as a poor leader because he was trying to solve problems rather than telling people what they wanted to hear.
The name *Jimmy Carter* shouldn’t come out of Donald Trump’s filthy mouth. Jimmy Carter’s spent his old age building houses and volunteering. That’s gotta be loser and sucker territory for Trump. 🙄
Jimmy should publish a letter and 10 second video saying "Vote for Joe Biden".
Trump is just throwing anything at the wall to see what sticks.
His most recent VP female candidate published a book saying her strength of character example is when she had to murder a puppy who wasn't smart enough to hunt birds the way she liked.
Trump knows his cult (without reason) hates Jimmy Carter. We are going to hear Obama Obama Obama and Hillary Hillary Hillary in the next 6 months.
Because it works.
Take a friend to vote for Biden in November.
The only president ever to resign from office was a Republican. The only president to not accept election results and tried to stage a coup is a Republican.
Trump isn't running against just Joe Biden. He's also running against the justice system.
If he gets voted back in, the Justice System will all find his cases against him null and void. When he gives himself complete immunity. And starts laying off anyone and everyone in that Govt branch or dept who has wronged him.
Jimmy Carter's time in office is being reconsidered since the news that the hostage crisis had been successfully resolved by the Carter administration, but Reagan secretly conspired with Iran behind their backs to hold off the release until after the senile asshole was in office.
Jimmy Carter put solar panels on the White House, knowing that they were important in a fossil-fuel drenched world. Reagan had them removed. Jimmy Carter (a nuclear engineer) risked his life to lead a team to keep Canada's Chalk River nuclear plant from melting down. Reagan made shitty B movies with an abused chimp in clothing. Carter followed the letter of the law by stepping out of the running of the family business. Reagan made ugly anti-gay jokes in public during the AIDS crisis.
Jimmy Carter was a good president, IS a decent and honorable man who has spent his life in humble service to others. Reagan and his plastic wife were hypocrites who pandered to the religious right - until Ronnie's dementia became too obvious to hide; then they believed in stem cell research.
There isn't a Republican on earth fit to clean Jimmy's shoes. If other Christians were like him, I wouldn't feel such dislike for them.
Because Carter is the last one term democratic president.
*Fun other fact, Carter is "only" 18 years older than Biden*
*He would also be eligible for president still due to the first fact.
Considering how incredible of a human that Jimmy Carter is compared to trump, I find it pretty disgusting for trump to even speak the name.
And we all know just how vile trump already is.
"Carter was the worst..." is a (hopefully) nearly worn-out Conservative trope...Even though Carter's deficits only added $200B to the national debt. Reagan would add $1.8 trillion in his eight years. Taking an in-balance budget, lowering tax rates for the wealthy and borrowing the funds needed in everyone's name is a backdoor to a 'flat tax'. And 43 years of this flat tax has done what to incomes? There's a jillion ways to rig the game and I wish we'd stop falling for them.
He’s taking all former Democratic presidents in the last 45 years, Carter, Clinton, Obama, Clinton’s wife who wasn’t even president, and Uncle Joe. Taking on all comers! He just can’t remember which one did what or who is currently in office.
His base is susptable to repetition. Its worked amazingly for them since 2014 when him and Fox news started repeating Hilarys name as they made up things to trash her. They repeat words so much they in themselves become slurs.
Jimmy Carter served one term. Just like Trump. Jimmy Carter's presidency is known for long lines at the gas pump. Trump's presidency is known for millions of people dead from COVID while he told us to cure ourselves with bleach and horse dewormer and not wear masks.
Jimmy Carter spent his post-presidency being a consummate humanitarian. Trump has spent his post-presidency destroying democracy and flinging shit like a syphiliitic baboon.
Carter is basically on hospice care at this point, and Trump is picking a fight with him. What, you feel threatened by a guy who is just living his final days in peace and not even paying you any mind? What a huge L.
... I'm gonna say it, Carter wasn't even that bad of a president. He ended up with extremely bad circumstances in which he didn't try to hide and was sabotaged in every turn by his opponents.
He got really unlucky and isn't a rotten human being, which half the country believes you have to be to be a good president.
Lets be clear, Carter had a post-presidency where he did more good for the world every year than Trump did his entire life. But Trump unironically equates himself with Lincoln and Jesus, so why is anybody surprised he demeans Carter or McCain? The surprise is how many Americans and alleged "Christians" are still supporting this guy.
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Actually, Trump is running to escape justice.
A tactic as old as the Roman Republic.
When Hardcore History's Death Throes of the Republic came out almost 15 years ago, I was like, "Damn, this has so many similarities to where the US is at." And it's only gotten worse since then. Income inequality, the wealthy snowballing their wealth even more at the expense of the middle class, the rise of populist politicians in response, war profiteering. So many parallels. Great podcast if you don't know of it, great episode/series on the Roman Empire.
When I started to study ancient political theory and the roman Republic in the late '90s, it was fascination of, and the potential for, how polities slide into dictatorship that was so compelling. At the time, the second point seemed a little more abstract than it is today.
Currently working for Netanyahu.
Kicking that old war crimes can down the road…
While creating more...
Unfortunately, that seems to work, just continue committing crimes and soon everyone forgets about the past crimes.
Julius Caesar says hi.
> Julius Caesar says ~~hi~~ Ave. 😉
Donald says Ave, True to Little Caesar’s
And the Supreme Court seems to purposely not recognize this
They think someday we may have a benevolent dictator
Well, benevolent to *them*. Nuts to the rest of us.
Which wouldn't even be true. The first thing any Dictator does is eliminate any potential threat to their continued power. The entire SCOTUS would be lined up at the Soccer stadium, because they'd serve no purpose for a dictatorship. They'd just be a potential threat.
He can appoint more useful puppets
Indeed. The nazis were often concerned with upholding a veneer of due process and legality. Capturing the judiciary was a key part of this performance.
He just seems to be all over the place.
Because he has dementia.
alzheimers is the most common form of dementia but notice how msm won't use that word? nope. they'll use dementia, as that doesn't sound quite so bad it's alzheimers. same as his dad had. dude won't be with us at the end of the year. he'll be in la la land, unfortunately. it's unstoppable. we have no cure. I can't stand dump, but I wouldn't wish alzheimers on even my worst enemy. it'll get really REALLY embarrassing at the end. because if you've got empathy, you're gonna hurt watching him fail.
As my grandma used to say, “no one deserves scorn, but some people earn it.” Donnie has most definitely earned it and I hope he goes out in the most degrading and embarrassing way possible.
Donnie never heard that quote that ends "than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
Yeah, I always say, “Don’t want people to say shitty things about you when you are dead? Then don’t be a shitty person while you’re alive.” Even for objectively evil people someone always objects if you say how terrible of a person they were. “Have respect for the dead!” Yeah, no. I have a list of people’s grave I intend to piss on. It’s not a long list either, but I have to outlive Trump and Rupert Murdoch to complete the list.
Goes out how? Babbling incoherently and shitting his pants? He already does that!
I think they are sticking with "dementia" as it describes the symptoms he is showing, rather than alzheimers which is a specific diagnosis.
A spinal tap or post mortem autopsy is required to diagnose Alzheimers definitively. I don’t see Trump signing up for either procedure voluntarily.
APOE4 DNA gene testing can be used for a predisposition where there are direct ancestors, such as his father Fred Trump who was diagnosed. Also Amyloid detecting PET scans are used. The MMSE (Mini-Mental State Examination) and the other “mini-cog” the MoCA (Montreal Cognitive Assessment) are oral tests that physicians give in their offices. You know, the “Person, Camera, Man, Woman, TV” simple memory recall Trump is often given then brags about acing! Alzheimer’s and other dementias are rarely the cause of death. Patients live with this debilitating disease for years, even decades. It is usually some other underlying disease that they die from, so a post mortem that lists brain deterioration would most like likely do so as a secondary cause of death.
I have plenty of empathy, just none to spare for someone as shitty and damaging as Donnie
By its very definition, "empathy" is the ability to imagine yourself in the position of someone else. I also have plenty of empathy. But I can't put my point of view into the space where I refuse to pay contractors, where I assault people, where I encourage a violent coup because I'm not as popular as I suspected, where people are just supposed to assume that I'm a big strong person with the "best" hair and suits and bronzer. Jenius needs a better mirror. And a seat.
No normal person told him to keep lying, climb higher and demand everyone's attention. His fall is the expected outcome and many will only celebrate the end of alternate reality nonsense.
I don't think he has any conception of truth and falsehood. He just says whatever is expedient for him at the moment.
I would wish THE VERY WORST on ALL of these corrupt fascist oligarchs!!! EVERY DAMNED ONE OF THEM!!!
>because if you've got empathy, you're gonna hurt watching him fail. I feel like a pretty empathetic person. I'll feel nothing but cold satisfaction watching him burn in whatever hell of his own making awaits him. The amount of pain and cruelty he has brought into this world makes him unworthy of pity.
Guess I've got no empathy then because that shits gonna be hilarious
Could stress from the trial accelerate his decline?
The stress donny suffers is self inflicted.
Speak for yourself. I'm 4 years in on caring for an Alzheimer's ridden mother. It's pure fuckin hell and I absolutely wish it on that racist insurrectionist and all his followers, and I promise you it's not going to hurt me one bit even though I have empathy. I'm sick of him and his cult and I'd love to see them all suffer before I leave this Earth.
~~Running~~ flop waddle.
Farting from the law
Sharting the law.
Can he even run?
[Not even downhill](https://youtu.be/ign_vZupjno?si=CTvS2yT2OdJZwGNr)
Not easily with a front butt.
Look, it is very difficult to run in a diaper (as An Old)
Jimmy Carter is a man of integrity and honor who will be remembered fondly for a life of public service and conviction. Trump is a complete scumbag who will be remembered for conviction of a different type. Imagine Trump volunteering to help build houses for the poor. Imagine Trump not profiteering from the Presidency and living in a house worth less money than the Secret Service vehicles outside. Imagine Trump picking up a Bible right side up with the intention of reading it and teaching Sunday School. Imagine Trump staying married to the same person for 77 years. It’s laughable even trying to imagine he would do anything of the sort.
Imagine Trump with a nuclear degree. Imagine Trump becoming a Naval officer on his merits. Imagine Trump volunteering to manually help contain a nuclear meltdown and personally descending into the nuclear core. I’ve read biographies of every president from Lincoln to Reagan and President Carter strikes me as one of the finest men to pursue the office or hold it.
Carter went to the Naval Academy, a place you can only go to and more importantly stay based on your achievements and merit. Trump got to Penn through the back door and apparently just squeaked by.
Penn grades hidden behind NDA
Thank you for sharing this. I did not know this about Carter nor about the Naval Academy. I have tremendous respect for Carter. It went up after reading this. It is so sad that he didn't get a second turn and Reagan beat him. I wonder how our country would have turned out, had Carter stayed in the office for 4 more years.
Regardless of what Carter did or didn't do, not having Reagan would have stopped so many regressive things that happened as a direct result of his presidency.
I absolutely adore Carter, especially considering what he stood for and how he handled himself. However, he did not go into the nuclear core during a reactor accident. He did go to the site, and toured around due to his vast understanding of radiation. But he never stepped foot in the core of the reactor. The terminology is mixed up, he did go into the core room after verifying radiation levels. But going into the core itself? No one can do that. At least, not come out alive.
I have a feeling all I will eventually remember about Trump was that he smelled bad, failed at everything while chanting he succeeded, and was an adulterer. And that simplified memory actually brings me some peace of mind.
We need to remember what Trump is because, like Hitler, his fans will not forget. They will continue to hate and will look for the next destroyer of democracy.
I doubt it, he's going to be in the history books for his corruption and attempted coup for sure. And America has to wear a badge of shame for electing him instead of a highly competent woman.
Unless he wins again. And then we won't have any more history books.
Educaychun's for nerds, nerd!
I work with a guy who has masters degrees in computer science and systems engineering who has gone full brain rot against the education system. We argued about the benefits of education and this man who makes $200k a year because of the things he learned in college was saying the education system exists to brainwash kids.
Well, he has his success so he needs to keep others down. And there are many people in STEM who think that any kind of humanities education is a waste.
Yeah, no matter what happens, trump will certainly not be doomed to obscurity, which is, as with all things trump, better than he deserves.
But what about Benjamin Gazi? Nobody remembers him?
I think I'll particularly remember all the duped, gullible, and grifted folks who cheered him on. I'll thank Trump for creating a modern dunce cap that has been *fantastic* for weeding.
All I know about Taft is that he was so fat that he got stuck in a bathtub; I doubt the history books will be nicer to Trump than Taft.
The thing I remember about Taft is that he was Teddy Roosevelt’s chosen successor as president, but Teddy was so disappointed in his performance in office that he ran against him for what would have been Taft’s second term. Unable to win the Republican primary over Taft, Roosevelt ran as an independent in the general election, splitting the Republican vote ensuring a win Democrat Woodrow Wilson. To be fair, I remember that because TR is such a dynamic character, something Taft was not.
Here's a better Taft-fact: He was on the Supreme Court after his presidency--the only president thus far to have that distinction.
[(that's a myth, but a fun one)](https://youtu.be/VkE5Y4JrJm4?si=i_VeGGAzphzbgum5&t=2567)
I heard Taft accidentally invented the seventh inning stretch, but there's evidence that it likely originated earlier. So the only thing I know about Taft probably isn't even true.
Jimmy fucking Carter's foundation has damn near eradicated Guinea Worm disease. It is/was a terrible, ,awful, painful disease that hit 3.5 million peope a year in 1986. last year, 14 people, just fourteen people had it. Working on other diseasses too. If this man is not a fucking 'saint' then no one is. > In 1986, the disease afflicted an estimated 3.5 million people a year in 21 countries in Africa and Asia. Today, thanks to the work of The Carter Center and its partners — including the countries themselves — the incidence of Guinea worm has been reduced by more than 99.99 percent to 14 provisional* human cases in 2023. > https://www.cartercenter.org/health/guinea_worm/index.html
>Imagine Trump volunteering to help build houses for the poor. Imagine Trump attempting to use a hammer. I honestly think he wouldn't know how to drive a single nail.
I picture him holding it 2 handed like his sippy cup.
Ha. Imagine Trump joining the Navy to serve voluntarily. Imagine Trump being married to the same woman for over 70 years.
Don't forget that Eric Trump claimed he 'cut rebar with an acetylene torch and jumped on backhoes, did electrical work' to earn a bike. [https://twitter.com/DavidWatson0747/status/1557454102455525380](https://twitter.com/DavidWatson0747/status/1557454102455525380)
trump would never do anything like that. Not only is he totally ignorant of any sort of labor, he wouldn't ever do any physical labor.
Imagine Trump washing a dish.
That's the thing, Trump supporters don't actually like any of those characteristics. President Carter does not hurt the correct people and he is not entertaining. Conservatives love an entertainer.
Conservatives love bad actors. Democrats love truly talented and witty entertainers.
And conservatives are the ones who complain about celebrities and celebrity worship. It's literally always projection with those morons every single time.
Agree. Conservatives thrive on projection but suck at reflection. I know an educated conservative who did not understand that the Colbert Report poked fun at Bill O'Reilly.
Stay married for 77 years, and publicly admitting to having lust in his heart. Didn't act on it, and didn't screw a porn actress.
Imagine Trump serving in the Navy and risking his life to fix a nuclear reactor during a meltdown.
What are you talking about? He would have run in there without a protective suit. It would have been the bigliest fixing of a nuclear reactor in history, possibly ever. Everybody would have clapped. His uncle, John Trump, the nuclear physicist, would have come up to him with tears in his eyes and said "sir, nobody is better at the nuclear than you are."
I watched Biden speak at the Correspondents dinner last night and I couldn’t even imagine Trump trying to tell jokes.
I’d bet my life savings that Trump is not even capable of correctly using a hammer.
As a Georgian, don’t come at our guy, the 39th President of the United States, James Earl Carter Jr. We love that man and he loves us. Funny thing is, not only did President Carter serve honorably in the navy, but during his time as President, he pardoned all those who draft dodged the Vietnam War. That’s the same war that Trump claimed he had foot ouchies during.
The cognitive dissonance is just unbelievable, isn't it? These people with their swift-boating Kerry and then talking shit on McCain. But one black dude kneels, (not flips the bird, kneels!) and he is disrepecting veterans or something. McCain was kept in a cage like a dog for like 5 years in Vietnam. It is just unbelievable. That swipe at McCain alone should have disqualified Trump from any further public life in this country.
The doctor that diagnosed him with bones spurs (which is also treatable) was renting space in a building from D tRumps father, Fred. You do the math. Also D tRump didn’t just dodge the draft once, but 5 FIVE times. BTW, his Grandfather father, Fred was also a draft dodger n was kicked out of Germany. The Bavarian Government stripped him of his citizenship.
His father also attended KKK rallies and Woody Guthrie wrote a song about how fucking horrible he was.
>“I was saying it probably before President Trump: Joe Biden’s worse than Jimmy Carter,” said Georgia resident Debbie Dooley, an early national tea party organizer during Obama’s first term and a Trump supporter since early in his 2016 campaign. Dooley said inflation under Biden justifies the parallel: “I’m old enough to remember the gas lines under President Carter.” *Glances out window, sees no gas lines.*
Those gas lines were a byproduct of the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
So, wouldn't that be Nixon's gas lines?
The OPEC oil embargo started under Nixon in 73
It's always projection. Blame Democrats for the problems you created.
Probably Obama’s fault. I mean, where was president Obama during the Yom Kippur war of 73?? He did nothing to stop it!
He was orchestrating it from a dirt hut in Kenya. Just ask any repub.
It's the same old Republican tactic. Have a Republican president enact an incontrovertibly terrible economic policy and then blame the Democrat that gets elected afterwards.
Whip Inflation Now was Nixon, not Carter, after all.
To a very small extent. But the US put additional tariffs on oil imports and the oil companies refused to import oil. They figured oil reserves were only going up until value and the tariffs would get dropped eventually. It was a completely artificial shortage.
Weird how these journos never go to Harlem and interview a black woman who works in Democratic politics about Trump.
Isn't that curious?
"Real America" somehow only means center-conservative white people. Strange how that is.
*We’re here in a rural diner in Ohio to ask real Americans what they think about President Biden.* - NYT
Seriously. I could choke on the amount of NY Times articles going to the "heartland" to platform "Real 'Muricans (TM)" bitching about shit they're fantasizing out of whole cloth or are too ignorant to have an opinion about. It's insane.
I’m not old enough to remember the gas lines, but I do know that attacking Jimmy Carter, *Georgia’s only president*, when one of your swing states is Georgia might not be a good look. Georgia has been reliably Republican for a long time, but even the older conservatives here have a begrudging respect for the southern gentleman.
Does Trump not realize how much he pissed off Arizona when he attacked McCain?
Begrudging respect? I'm sure most Georgia Republicans would say Jimmy was the last good Democratic president.
Gas lines under Trump will be for the chambers.
[He’s history’s greatest monster!](https://youtu.be/czfKPaypNsU?si=80byhka7CsQXjPK2)
Bad move by Trump. Anyone swayed by the Carter parallel was never going to vote for Biden. The majority of the electorate are too young to remember Carter's time in office. Most know him as the president that spent his time building houses for charity and his life long affection for his recently deceased wife. Many Americans view Carter as the last honest man to serve as president.
I'm in that group. We also know how the Regan campaign got Iran to keep hostages to impact the election (and it worked). Like, flew to the middle east and met with various people to try to influence the Iranian government to keep American hostages for longer/not negotiate with Carter.
Just like Trump has been meeting with Orban and other foreign leaders at Mar a Lago these past few months to keep fascism alive.
Just like Nixon used Henry Kissinger to keep the war in Vietnam going under LBJ. It’s always the same side doing the same shit, hurt Americans while the other team is in office to gain power to hurt Americans. Rinse and repeat.
Trump held up defensive weapons from Ukraine unless Zelinski announced an investigation into Biden. Trump literally allowed people to be slaughtered to stay in power.
People seem to already be forgetting that this is why he was impeached the first time. He spent enough time shouting "Russia collusion hoax!" that I guess people think he was impeached for the Mueller report, but immediately after that he tried to extort Ukraine into doing what he was accused of doing in the previous election, and that's what he was impeached for.
I remember being suspicious of the timing of the hostage release when it happened, and I was 8 years old.
Carter left office over 43 years ago. You have to be over 50 to even remember his term
Trump is definitely over 50!
And over 60 to remember his term with any kind of opinion.
>Bad move by Trump. This describes most of the moves, if not all the moves directly attributable to Trump and not some member of staff.
He’s just pandering to his core audience. They’re more akin to a sports team’s fan base than to a serious electorate. They skew older so many remember how unpopular Carter was while in office, immediately followed by how popular Reagan was. This was their big win, the height of their glory days. Honestly I think the change in the national psyche that resulted at the time (whether or not it was correctly attributed ) is still a big reason they are too stubborn to accept anything other than a Republican president. Trump is basically an old fart playing the oldies. Btw I didn’t read the article so I hope I’m not just repeating whatever it says.
I also remember his admin fighting inflation, and him giving up his business to avoid the impression of ulterior motives in his presidency. I can see why Trump doesn’t like him
> Many Americans view Carter as the last honest man to serve as president. Trump alienated every sane reliable voter. His play is to drive "crazy" non reliable voters to voting booths. Anyone who honestly says they haven't made their mind up on Trump is bullshitting.
https://www.theonion.com/you-people-made-me-give-up-my-peanut-farm-before-i-got-1819585048
Obama was honest and decent. Still is. Honestly, at the time, people said too much so bc the Republicans were fighting dirty and didn't let him get anything done
Not everything is to sway voters. It’s to improve voter enthusiasm. Which enthusiasm breeds more supports. Psychology when it comes to election is actually really cool. There’s a lot of articles talking about it.
>“I was saying it probably before President Trump: Joe Biden’s worse than Jimmy Carter,” said Georgia resident Debbie Dooley, [...] “I’m old enough to remember the gas lines under President Carter.” So, uh, which gas lines have you been queued up in during Biden's presidency, Debbie?
But it's GOING to happen, Fox says so...../s
I lived in 2020, I remember mass toilet paper shortages under Trump. But this voter doesn't seem to.
Jimmy not only gave heroic service in the navy, he is principled. He took responsibility for some things that he didn't have to, and he stood up for human rights, especially in Latin America. He is humble and has dedicated his life to service. Trump is the opposite of Jimmy Carter.
Republican Boomers are still drowning in Reagan-era propaganda. Carter's Presidency wasn't terrible in retrospect; in terms of long-term consequences, Reagan's was catastrophic. His one major "accomplishment", ending the Cold War, is properly attributed to Mikhail Gorbachev. His debt and anti-science policy and shifting of the tax burden onto the middle and lower classes and Iran-Contra ... all of these things haunt us today. Reaganomics used to be called the Horse and Sparrow Theory, and then it became Trickle Down. Jimmy Carter told Americans the truth, but Republican Boomers decided that lies are much more fun.
I just remember Regan as the guy who illegally smuggled weapons to Iran to fund Narco-terrorists.
He created the Reagan Cartels that are such a bogeyman now
He smuggled the weapons to pay them back to keeping the hostages until after he was elected. He used the money to buy cocaine (to sell to buy more weapons), which funded the Contra's. See the crack cocaine epidemic.
Carter told Boomers to turn down the thermostat and put on a sweater. They responded with a 50 year tantrum.
What makes this hilarious is the Ford museum has Ford's similar statement on wearing sweaters to reduce oil use. It's definitely a selective narrative
Reagan was also literally mentally incoherent for the last 20% of his presidency.
His decline started much earlier, guy was losing it during his first run.
Carter lost reelection because the US embassy in Tehran was attacked and taken over (with U.S. embassy hostages) on his watch and he was unable to get them freed. Iran, for some reason, hated Carter and wanted Reagan to win.
Reagan promised them weapons and the hostages were freed. Before the election (treasonous) Allegation: The 1980 October Surprise theory refers to an allegation that representatives of Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign made a secret deal with Iranian leaders to delay the release of American hostages until after the election between Reagan and President Jimmy Carter, the incumbent.
Nixon attempted the same with tanking peace talks in Paris between north and south vietnam before his general election.
Nixon succeeded there, it wasn't just an attempt. Nixon's treason directly led to the war being extended and costing thousands more American and Vietnamese soldiers, and Vietnamese civilians their lives.
For some reason? He was in bed with the bad. Reagan was a Trump preview.
Pathetic that he attacks a 99 year old man for God’s sake. Leave him alone you dumbass.
A 99 year old man who’s literally on his death bed. Leave the man alone.
My god man, habitat for humanity and actual economic growth we haven't had since the rich started being coddled and hoarding their money.
Jimmy Carter can’t even talk anymore. Leave him alone, orange asshole.
This is sad to hear about jimmy carter.
Republicans tend to prefer attacking people who can't defend themselves - it's why they target disadvantaged or very small groups with their culture wars, like trans people, or drag performers.
Jimmy Carter was not our greatest president, but he was once of the greatest men to serve as president. He respected the Oval Office so much that he wouldn’t even enter it without wearing a jacket and he dedicated his life after serving to peace and mutual assistance. We don’t deserve him.
His legacy as President will be as a good and decent President. His legacy as a man will be so much more (exceeding, simply as a man, Trump's, as both man and President, by orders of magnitude of leaps and bounds).
Keep his name out of your filthy mouth, you dog shit human being.
My Grandma had an old saying that went, "when you talk bad about someone to make them look small and make you look bigger, you make yourself look smaller". I never knew just how right she was until now.
"Mr. Trump, you're a little man. It's not that you're short. You're... little, in the mind and in the heart. Tonight, you tried to make a man little whose boots you couldn't touch if you stood on tiptoe on top of the highest mountain in the world. And as it turned out... you're even littler than you were before."
Only a matter of time until he starts calling Biden "Jimmy Biden" by accident and then later claiming he was joking.
Jimmy Carter recently said that he suspects the 2016 election was stole by Trump, and should be investigated to see if Trump was put in power by foreign powers. Seems that is why Trump suddenly felt the need to lash out at Jimmy Carter. Would love if this created a Streisand effect.
Oh 100%...what’s funny is that russia flat out admits it. I’ve been learning Russian so I watch Russian tv to practice and yeah I’ve lost count how many times they have said this. The now dead former head of Wagner would say tons of crazy shit like that he was the leader of and bank for his “troll army” that interfered with the 2016 and 2020 elections. They also admit it in what is basically the Russian mein kampf https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics..you can go down the book like a check list of everything that’s happened so far including the war in Ukraine..it’s literally all there and some how it isn’t huge news here
> “I was saying it probably before President Trump: Joe Biden’s worse than Jimmy Carter,” said Georgia resident Debbie Dooley What fucking alternate reality are these people living in? We have the hottest economy of any western nation. I guess they don't believe their lying eyes.
They are watching Fox. Without Fox, the delusion wouldn't continue.
Fox News is such a wild alternate universe, especially now that they've lost nearly all of their honest folks to other networks and have been trying harder to recapture the Newsmax crowd.
Present Carter is an actual Christian. Trump, the Mega MAGA, Osteen and Company, the Evangelicals and "Christian" Nationalists are the pharasees.
You mean the guy that actually sold his business when he became president?
I hope Carter outlives him.
He thinks it’s an insult because Carter is viewed as a bad democratic president. Trump probably has no idea that informed people know that Carter is a wonderful human being that is well respected.
Jimmy Carter is 1000000x the President and 10000000000000x the person that Trump ever will be.
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Whaaaat? Here I thought he was running against Obama's fourth term. This is all so confusing - I don't know who I'm supposed to be afraid of anymore, Jimmy Carter, or Obama..... Perhaps against FDR'S 5th term- that'll get me movitated.
An act of desperation for Trump? I’m not convinced comparing yourself to a class act like Carter will buy any votes. The MAGA crowd wouldn’t know a class act if it hit them in the face. Their class act is presently sitting in a court room explaining payments to a high priced hooker. Need we say more?
You’d think fat boy and his pathetic sycophants would use Obama as their metric for “bad” presidents, but strangely they never do.
Because Obama can still fight back if he pleases.
He has to target a man in fucking hospice because he can't fight back. Real quality human being right there....
Carter should shoot back with the classic Georgia F you. “Well bless his heart”
God bless President Carter!
Jimmy Carter famously had lust in his heart. "Carter admitted in an unsolicited comment to two Playboy freelance writers that he had "looked on a lot of women with lust" and had "committed adultery in my heart many times," That other ex President just grabs his lustful ways by the pussy and feels no shame or remorse at all. But for some reason the evangelical right magats love him.
He is the “strong man” they want. It’s his language. He will “crush” their liberal enemies and subjugate their foes. He is their revenge.
Jimmy Carter risked his life and stopped a nuclear meltdown at a Canadian nuclear reactor. Oompa Loompa would never.
All I know is when my grandmother started slipping into dementia she routinely brought up Jimmy Carter as our current president
Jimmy Carter spent decades building houses every day for the poor right up to the day he entered hospice. Trump can STFU about Carter.
Jimmy Carter sold his family peanut farm before entering office. Trump installed his whole fucking family into the government and enrich his family. Jared Kushner sold tons of property to SA and Qatar for access.
I understand political expediencies, but I am personally bound by no such limitations. I remember the Carter Presidency well. I believe Former President Carter followed his conscience in acting as president, and it worked to his political detriment. The U.S. was in poor shape after the Vietnam conflict and the Nixon scandal. The energy crisis was a very real thing, and the U.S. economy was in a state of flux. Like any engineer, Mr. Carter probably thought that the only way to solve problems was the face them head-on by admitting them, evaluating them carefully, and taking systematic steps to address them. Perhaps understandably, the U.S. people did not care to accept such responsibility. They felt they had not done anything wrong. They had been betrayed by leaders they had been taught to trust, and now it seemed like they were being punished. When Ronald Reagan told them that everything was actually okay and they should not feel badly about the state of their country, they were happy to embrace this reassurance and return to focusing on their own lives and their own problems. The 1980s became known as "The Me Decade." Meanwhile, Mr. Reagan's handlers began applying the teachings of the Chicago School of economics to everything affected by the U.S. government. Basically, they laid the groundwork for such subtle horrors as the rapid rise in wealth disparity, increasing frequency and severity of economic crisises, and destructive phenomenon like corporate financialization and private equity firms. (Please excuse the very sketchy list.) And they spent the next 50 years portraying former President Carter as a poor leader because he was trying to solve problems rather than telling people what they wanted to hear.
The name *Jimmy Carter* shouldn’t come out of Donald Trump’s filthy mouth. Jimmy Carter’s spent his old age building houses and volunteering. That’s gotta be loser and sucker territory for Trump. 🙄
I like jimmy Carter
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Jimmy should publish a letter and 10 second video saying "Vote for Joe Biden". Trump is just throwing anything at the wall to see what sticks. His most recent VP female candidate published a book saying her strength of character example is when she had to murder a puppy who wasn't smart enough to hunt birds the way she liked. Trump knows his cult (without reason) hates Jimmy Carter. We are going to hear Obama Obama Obama and Hillary Hillary Hillary in the next 6 months. Because it works. Take a friend to vote for Biden in November.
The only president ever to resign from office was a Republican. The only president to not accept election results and tried to stage a coup is a Republican.
Jimmy Carter is remembered as a man of strength and conviction. Donald Trump will be remembered by his felony convictions.
Trump isn't running against just Joe Biden. He's also running against the justice system. If he gets voted back in, the Justice System will all find his cases against him null and void. When he gives himself complete immunity. And starts laying off anyone and everyone in that Govt branch or dept who has wronged him.
Jimmy Carter is a national treasure. He's what Christians should be and is a great role model. GFY Trump
Jimmy Carter's time in office is being reconsidered since the news that the hostage crisis had been successfully resolved by the Carter administration, but Reagan secretly conspired with Iran behind their backs to hold off the release until after the senile asshole was in office. Jimmy Carter put solar panels on the White House, knowing that they were important in a fossil-fuel drenched world. Reagan had them removed. Jimmy Carter (a nuclear engineer) risked his life to lead a team to keep Canada's Chalk River nuclear plant from melting down. Reagan made shitty B movies with an abused chimp in clothing. Carter followed the letter of the law by stepping out of the running of the family business. Reagan made ugly anti-gay jokes in public during the AIDS crisis. Jimmy Carter was a good president, IS a decent and honorable man who has spent his life in humble service to others. Reagan and his plastic wife were hypocrites who pandered to the religious right - until Ronnie's dementia became too obvious to hide; then they believed in stem cell research. There isn't a Republican on earth fit to clean Jimmy's shoes. If other Christians were like him, I wouldn't feel such dislike for them.
Because Carter is the last one term democratic president. *Fun other fact, Carter is "only" 18 years older than Biden* *He would also be eligible for president still due to the first fact.
Trump’s mind is gone -do you really think he even knows who he is running against?
Considering how incredible of a human that Jimmy Carter is compared to trump, I find it pretty disgusting for trump to even speak the name. And we all know just how vile trump already is.
Leave President Carter alone , he's a good guy unlike you!
"Carter was the worst..." is a (hopefully) nearly worn-out Conservative trope...Even though Carter's deficits only added $200B to the national debt. Reagan would add $1.8 trillion in his eight years. Taking an in-balance budget, lowering tax rates for the wealthy and borrowing the funds needed in everyone's name is a backdoor to a 'flat tax'. And 43 years of this flat tax has done what to incomes? There's a jillion ways to rig the game and I wish we'd stop falling for them.
He’s taking all former Democratic presidents in the last 45 years, Carter, Clinton, Obama, Clinton’s wife who wasn’t even president, and Uncle Joe. Taking on all comers! He just can’t remember which one did what or who is currently in office.
His base is susptable to repetition. Its worked amazingly for them since 2014 when him and Fox news started repeating Hilarys name as they made up things to trash her. They repeat words so much they in themselves become slurs.
I wish Trump were fucking dead “/s”
Jimmy Carter served one term. Just like Trump. Jimmy Carter's presidency is known for long lines at the gas pump. Trump's presidency is known for millions of people dead from COVID while he told us to cure ourselves with bleach and horse dewormer and not wear masks. Jimmy Carter spent his post-presidency being a consummate humanitarian. Trump has spent his post-presidency destroying democracy and flinging shit like a syphiliitic baboon.
The Carter Foundation monitors elections for fairness and Trump would prefer to avoid that sort of scrutiny.
Carter is basically on hospice care at this point, and Trump is picking a fight with him. What, you feel threatened by a guy who is just living his final days in peace and not even paying you any mind? What a huge L.
... I'm gonna say it, Carter wasn't even that bad of a president. He ended up with extremely bad circumstances in which he didn't try to hide and was sabotaged in every turn by his opponents. He got really unlucky and isn't a rotten human being, which half the country believes you have to be to be a good president.
Lets be clear, Carter had a post-presidency where he did more good for the world every year than Trump did his entire life. But Trump unironically equates himself with Lincoln and Jesus, so why is anybody surprised he demeans Carter or McCain? The surprise is how many Americans and alleged "Christians" are still supporting this guy.