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The Carter era is over not just because its eponymous figure kicked the last of a long line of buckets to reunite with the Ayatollah Khomeini and Fidel Castro on the world’s worst reunion tour in the world’s worst place, but because the era itself best epitomized by his legacy has come to an end.
Jimmuh Carter waited until nearly the end of the administration of the man who accomplished what most thought was impossible, be an even worse regarded president than Carter. But Joe Biden did it. And along with his career, Biden also unwound Carter’s, his foreign policy, his clueless cheerleading in the face of economic misery, and his tiresome communications style.
It’s all too easy to view the Clinton, Obama, and Biden administrations as extensions of ‘Carterism’, pandering to Iran and other foes, perpetuating failed economic policies, and nudging the country further leftward. Reagan and Trump both served as rebukes of not just these elements of Carterism, but the larger diminution of expectations. America was no longer a great power and should stop acting like one or expecting any more out of life than Europe was getting.
We were just another country in a world of them and what we needed to do was to learn to be humble, get along better with the rest of the world, turn down the heat, and learn to like it.
Clinton and Obama, arguably the best salesmen for Carterism, were bookended by the very worst, Carter himself and Joe Biden. Biden’s defeat was Carter’s political death. The mortal death followed soon after.
The Peter Sellers movie “Being There” best captured the dreary, hopeless mood of the Presidency and the country during the Carter Presidency. A classic movie that came out at that time (1979).
That was when we had the gas lines, for those who were driving at that time. I was just remembering those gas lines a couple days ago.
Just added it to my list – thanks for the recommendation!
“I like to watch.”
I too remember the gas lines, and the siphoning. The young and brash were not going to wait on gas lines. Siphoning gas from cars ruled the dead of night. A Road Warrior environment in its infancy.
I also remember the national pessimism, the malaise. Carter’s facial expression: one of sadness and defeat.
Then Reagan began his run. Almost simultaneously, the USA hockey team took the gold. Carter lost his bid for reelection when the final buzzer sounded. There was joy in America again.
We’re supposed to not speak ill of the dead. But Carter left my country wounded and worse off then it was before. He no doubt wrecked the lives of many people. Good riddance.
The gas thefts made buying gas cap locks necessary to go along with the steering wheel locks in high auto theft areas. Then auto makers made doors without the button locks which had been visible from the outside and accessible to burglar tools.
I was just a kid back then but I remember those gas lines. I got stuck with my mother and father a couple times in the car and the waits were interminable. The lines went around the block in Riverside California.
And the hostages in Iran who didn’t get released until Reagan’s inauguration.
You’d never think there could be a worse President than Carter but then Obangi and Bidumb came along.
“Only the good die young.” Carter sure proved that. 100 years old. Nobody deserves to live that long except me.
I gave you thumbs up for you chutzpah –
And your hos. We wouldn’t want you to be lonely in that brothel.
My apartment is not a brothel. I don’t pay any of them, although some do ask for money. Not for the sex but just because they don’t have jobs and I guess they don’t have welfare either. After they get tired out I just show them the door.
I detest Clinton as much as anyone, But there was a great advance in government policy forced on him by Newt Gingrich in 1996. It was the TANF act. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. or Workfare. It replaced and reduced welfare and AFDC spending by 50%. Dollar bill declared “the era of big government is over.” There was even talk of a balanced budget by 2003. The obama ruined it in 2012 by executive order, so it could be fixed by Trump easily.
Clinton wanted an energy tax on all forms of energy with a different formula for the tax on each. Gingrich stopped that, which saved Clinton from economic failure that would have ended the longest period of growth in US history which ran through the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years. Clinton would otherwise have lost in 1996 to a warm body (that excludes Biden).
Don’t forget how much he hated Jews and Israel.
who votes that down? As it was a fact. Maybe just a slip of the thumb vote…..
Leftist/Democrat/Jew-hating trolls who frequent this site.
They vote down every comment I make. Mincing little bitches.
That is true as shown by his bias at the Camp David Accords, resentment that Sadat and Begin won the Nobel Peace Prize and he did not (then), anti-Israel books, and statements for the rest of his life.
President Jimmy Carter who never took a bum dollar passed on in his journey through his eternal life. President Carter was the longest living POTUS thus far. YHVH BLESS YOU PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER – And thank you for your services to humanity!
This is a big deal for politicians.
Saudi money and “loans” delivered in Georgia from a later prosecuted European bank could be called bum dollars.
carrying his own luggage, flying on regular airline as POTUS – Carter was a nut in this case – People thought and hoped Jimmy Carter’s aw shucks is what this nation needed. We were disappointed, I voted for Carter. I didn’t have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of – sorry Cleves, I just got a window – I was a lost lamb – President by succession Gerald Ford was a buffoon to me then – I knew a lot of buffoons then – I was a buffoon.
There was gasoline rationing – if you had an even or off ending number on your license plate was your day to get gas.
Carter was feckless on the world stage except for the Abraham Accords –
President Jimmy Carter was not a treasonous crook and liar – that would come decades later with the coup d’etat of the 2020 election and installing the stooge puppet whore Joe BiteMe ,
Carter could rest after being replaced by Clinton(Bill) Obama and Biden as the #1 Worst President America ever had since he failed the UN/CFR/Soros Globalists
Carter, that wonderfully upright paragon of morality, can rejoin his buddy Arafat down below.
Arafat preferred boys.
There was a good line recently. Arafat’s wife was married to him for 30 years, but she said it “felt like 50”.
I remember her from TV. Very pretty and obviously a fake wife. Afafag was gay. “Not that there’s anything wrong with that.”
Just admit it it
Jimmuh was a true Christian, bless his humble Christian heart.
As a follower of that self sacrificing, altruistic, renouncing, ascetic, he set about giving away all of Americas, riches, pride, comfort, property, wealth, power, and prosperity, so all Americans would live in poverty and humiliation just like Jesus did and Jesus demanded.
“As Jesus was starting out on his way to Jerusalem, a man came running up to him, knelt down, and asked, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”…
“There is still one thing you haven’t done,” he told him. “Go and sell all your possessions and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”
At this the man’s face fell, and he went away sad, for he had many possessions.
Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the Kingdom of God!” – The Gospel of Mark
Well it didn’t work did it. We voted him out after one term and we got Reagan. And we just did the same to Biden and we will have Trump in 22 days. As always you will be too stupid to appreciate it.
While everyone is blabbering about what a good man Carter was, no one is talking about his Jew/Israel hatred (like yours), his obsession with Iran, the Hostage crisis, carternomics style inflation, the gas crisis and gas lines, the weak military he created
So what do you do? Offer up a tortured interpretation of what Jesus told a questioner by flipping the statement on it’s head, pretending that the wealth of Americans was Carter’s to give away, all in yet another lame attempt to bash Christianity through a guy who was a hypocrite.
And of course the THX Drinking game is in full effect with your lame Jesus insult and altruism.
Kilt Lifters for all except you, dumb-ass. Sucks to be you.
Altruism is the morality of death, it is the exact opposite of a virtue.
Jimmy Carter did indeed implement altruism, it is the exact opposite of a virtue, it is completely incompatible with capitalism.
To defeat socialism, one must first defeat the morality of altruism.
Yes, Jimmy Carter really did embody altruism, altruism being the morality of death.
Sadly, Conservatives pretend altruism is a virtue.
The election of Ronald Reagan ushered in a whole new era of peace, prosperity, and strength. We all did well, improved our lives in the 80s. It was a time of improvement for the nation.
ugh Daniel not enough on jimmuh and what an anti-semitic slug he was. cartuh was not a nice man, Anyone who gravitated to arafat as much as he did… ..and he genuinely did become a left wing despiser of America.
And Rabid Bunny Wabbits that attack Boats
That is now Tim Walz’s job.
Then there was the aborted operation Eagle Claw, where the American helicopter crashed in the desert sands of Iran, killing 8 American servicemen. That was an indication of how the Democrats had messed up the Armed Forces.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Claw
A private citizen in Israel heard the radio transmissions of the American helicopters. He understood what was happening and scrambled the signals to prevent the Khomeini Monster regime from discovering the Americans were there.
Yes, and nothing was ever done about that. Jimmuh just shrrugged and tried to ignore it.
What a piece of shit.
After McGovern, a squishy soft Leftist, the Democrats supressed their Id and chose a “moderate Democrat” whose incompetence caused a criminal-in-all-but-name to challenge him for the nomination four years later. After being completely trounced, and by an aging former movie star, an embittered JC was pulled ever leftward to be a pillar of the Left, always retaining that ever-helpful “moderate Democrat”, milquetoast manner. He never adapted the crazed yelling and bluster of the monstrous last president he “voted” for. Nobody will ever do as badly as Biden.
You should label sarcasm in such postings if such were your intent. (Sarc) or (Sarcasm” would work for most of us.