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Originally posted by jhe888:
The groundwork for which was laid by Roosevelt. FDR is the most damaging President by a mile.

This, all day, on the worst Presidents. FDR(post stock market crash), LBJ(racial unrest) and BHO(housing bubble) all took advantage of national crises to create massive government expansion, catapult us more deeply into socialism and make us think of the Federal government as our nanny.

For his part, FDR, along with Hoover, took what was probably a deep recession and turned it into a decade plus long depression with awful economic policy. And he caused a nation to worship him as some great daddy that would solve all their woes. So I agree, he started the ball rolling and, like other totalitarians in other nations, used a crisis to seize and expand his power.



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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Yikes.

I never knew this.

Jennings eats them alive over there. I am shocked they keep putting him on the air.


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Not the one I wanted for Christmas.

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Originally posted by PASig:
https://x.com/thebabylonbee/st...537772356595897?s=46

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He’s looked better.

Yes, all the praise for Carter is, in my opinion, bullshit.

Forget about his ineptitude as POTUS; the guy treated people like shit. The stories from his Secret Service detail are quite telling. As soon as the cameras disappeared, Jimmuh was his asshole self.

As I've mentioned here before, Carter is the only President I've met:

https://sigforum.com/eve/forum...210042384#9210042384

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Dante's Down the Hatch restaurant on Peachtree Street in Buckhead in the early 1990s (used to be an exclusive part of Atlanta, until overrun by savages and now Atlanta has a mayor who won't do anything to stop the crime and violence.) I was on a date, must have been a Friday or Saturday night. I walked up the steps to the front door of the restaurant, and there stood James Earl Carter, with a Secret Service man in a trench coat eyeballing me. They had had a birthday party for Amy (so this would have been October 19 or thereabouts). Amy and Roslyn had just left and ol' Jimmuh was waiting for the War Wagon to pull up for him. I recognized him instantly. I smiled and said "Mister President." He barely smiled. I don't recall he said much of anything at all. Perhaps he muttered 'hello'. I guess, with the incredibly inept way he ran this country when he was in office, Carter thought that about half the population wanted to give him an earful. I'm serious- he seemed really wary.

Looking at the calendar just now, it must have been 1991. That year, October 19 was a Saturday.

I met Billy Carter in 1980 at the Georgia Peanut Festival when I was in 9th grade.

I liked him much more than his brother.

Is the asshole still dead?

Maybe I'll pop a Billy Beer and pour in on the ground for the homies.

My favorite Jimmy Carter story, from Michael Azerrad's book Our Band Could Be Your Life, pulled out of the chapter on the 1980s/90s band The Butthole Surfers. Back in the 80s, indie bands played club shows and the pay was not that great, so the bands had a network of houses/apartments of fans/friends to sleep on the floors for free. And the band was notorious for their fondness of psychedelic drugs and weed, and their wild and bizarre shows and behavior, in particular their lead singer Gibby Haynes.

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After an Atlanta show that August, they stayed at the home of a friend whose younger sibling knew Amy Carter, daughter of ex-President Jimmy Carter. Amy happened to be at the house that night, but avoided the unsavory activities in the living room and stayed in her friend's bedroom, waiting for her parents, who were due to pick her up at 4:00AM. Naturally, the Buttholes were excited to witness the arrival of the former president. At about 3:30, Amy came out and deposited her suitcase in the living room, briefly introduced herself, smiled, and retreated back into the bedroom.

Haynes then took the opportunity to touch his penis to the suitcase.

At 3:45 the house was quickly surrounded by Secret Service cars, almost as if a raid were about to occur. Naturally the Buttholes, high as kites, got a bit nervous. But then at 4AM sharp, a black limousine pulled up, and Amy emerged from the bedroom and went out the door carrying her desecrated suitcase. He parents lingered in the carport area as some excited and very stoned Butthole Surfers peeked out from the curtains, trying not to scream in disbelief.

And then it happened: former United States president James Earl Carter picked up the suitcase to which Butthole Surfer singer Gibson Jerome Haynes had applied his genitals. The president then put the suitcase in the trunk, got in the car, and they sped off into the humid Georgia night.

LMAO!


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Originally posted by 911Boss:
Don’t know how to embed the tweet, Bill giving Kamalamadingdong the once over at Jimmy’s shindig

That is AWESOME!!!!!


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So when they put ole peanuts in the ground do we consider him buried or planted?

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Originally posted by hooch:
So when they put ole peanuts in the ground do we consider him buried or planted?

Better be buried, I don't him sprouting!

I began service in the US Military under Jimmy Carter. I was very happy to cast my first Presidential vote for Reagan. Carter is the 3rd worst we have ever had. He did better things for Habitat for Humanity. Damn shame we had to suffer his presidency. He sucked.

If they don't get him in the dirt soon, they'll have to do a drain and fill on the formaldehyde.

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He did better things for Habitat for Humanity...

I used to admire him for that. But the more I learn now about his "photo op" ruse to appear as the "everyday man", the more I am skeptical of his time at Habitat. Having done volunteer work at Habitat, I know that people can come in and work a full day, or just a couple of hours, since their time is donated. I can see now that Carter could have easily shown up, had a hammer and a couple of nails put in his hands, gotten his pictures and left.

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Outgoing President Joe Biden urged incoming President Donald Trump to learn “decency” from permanently outgoing former president President Jimmy Carter. Biden once set his sights high by trying to compare himself to FDR and JFK, now has to settle for being the second Carter.

On his way out the door, the media continues to insist that Biden is a good man. And that Carter, despite presiding over one of the worst administrations in history, was a good man.

Biden and Carter had many things in common, record unpopularity, crooked brothers, and empowering Islamic terrorists, but decency was never one of them.

Joe Biden was not a good man. Neither was Jimmy Carter.

Carter ran for office promising an administration “that’s turned away from scandal and corruption and official cynicism and is once again as decent and competent as our people.” That was a lie.

That “new morality” turned out to be a corrupt triangle between Billy Carter, Jimmy’s version of ‘Hunter’, a drunk who peddled foreign influence and mismanaged the family business, only to be bailed out by the National Bank of Georgia, whose president Bert Lance, was a Carter appointee, adviser and head of the Office of Management and the Budget.

Lance was forced to resign and was indicted on charges of bank fraud in a trial that required testimony from Carter’s mother and involved accusations of improper loans to family members.

Peanuts from the Carter warehouse were being used as collateral for loans from the bank complete with forged documents allowing the family business to sell the ‘collateral’ and a special counsel was appointed to investigate whether the dirty money found its way into the Carter campaign funds. The media argued that the actions of his brother and OMB director had nothing to do with Jimmy Carter. Even when Carter expressed his support and pride for Lance.

When Billy Carter shilled for Libya, the media also claimed it had nothing to do with his brother. And then Jimmy left office and began shilling for so many dictators that the full list would run for pages. Over the course of his long retirement, Jimmy Carter not only met with Gaddafi, who had paid his brother $220,000, but with Zimbabwe’s Mugabe, Kim Il Sung of North Korea, Venezuela’s Maduro and Hugo Chavez, Syria’s Assad and Fidel Castro in Cuba.

And Carter not only met with them, he loved them and covered up for them. He claimed that he “never doubted Hugo Chávez’s commitment to improving the lives of millions of his fellow countrymen” and on Castro’s death remembered “fondly our visits with him in Cuba and his love of his country.” The more people Jimmy’s tyrants killed, the harder he hugged them.

Jimmy Carter loved terrorists and so he not only embraced Arafat, but also Hamas.

In April 2008, Jimmy Carter met with Hamas and claimed that the Islamic terrorists wanted to live in peace with Israel. The next month, as a peaceful gesture Hamas fired a rocket at an Israeli shopping mall, wounding 90 including a mother and her 3-year-old daughter.

But the more tyrants and terrorists Jimmy Carter met with, the more he built up his reputation as a good man just trying to fix the world. But Carter wasn’t fixing the world by empowering some of the worst mass murderers in the world, he was continuing to break it and make it worse.

Carter met with mass murderers responsible for starving half a million people to death and then with terrorists aspiring to take over countries like Israel not because he wanted to stop the violence, but because he wanted to dial it up further by providing them with legitimacy.

Jimmy’s ‘Carter Center’ claimed to monitor foreign elections while sanctioning corrupt leftist takeovers like the one in Venezuela which led to protests, starvation and mass migration to America. His activities on behalf of enemies like Saddam Hussein and North Korea went well beyond lobbying or even violations of the Logan Act and into a territory of outright treason.

That included contacting world leaders and urging them to oppose the United States and making announcements in America’s name at meetings with foreign leaders. A normal D.C. lobbyist would have gone to prison for half the things that Carter did. And no one except a former president wearing the media mantle of sainthood could have gotten away with it.

Why did Carter go to such trouble for Saddam Hussein and North Korea? Why did he go on a fundraising mission for the Islamic terrorists of the PLO? While Carter claimed to be a peacenik, tens of millions of dollars were pouring into the Carter Center including from foreign governments. Long before the Clinton Foundation, Jimmy Carter had built a massive foreign influence machine under the guise of a humanitarian operation that “came to him in a dream.”

Even Habitat for Humanity, a key element in the rebranding of Carter as a humanitarian, couldn’t escape the sleaze when he led efforts to cover up sexual harassment at the organization.

It wasn’t the first time that Carter let out the lust in his heart and protected sexual abusers.

Biden’s mass commutations for murderers and rapists shocked a nation, but before him Carter had pardoned Peter Yarrow, of the group, Peter, Paul & Mary, for sexual misconduct with a 14-year-old girl.

Jimmy Carter had covered for tyrants and terrorists who had murdered entire populations. Compared to that, what was the worth of the life and innocence of a single teenage girl?

The worst thing about Carter was the way he had of converting his crimes into virtues. Unrepentant until the day of his long-delayed death, Carter and his defenders always claimed that everything he did only came about because he was too trusting and forgiving.

Any other man with that the same political and family corruption, the cronies and associates who ripped off businesses and the country, the parade of terrorists and dictators, would have been denounced, but Jimmy Carter beatifically smiled, acting as if his ties to sinners made him that much more of a saint, and that embracing evil was evidence of his moral superiority.

The worse Jimmy’s monsters were, the more he acted like he was saving their souls.

Joe Biden could only dream of wearing that same fake religiosity that Jimmy wore through the White House and to Havana, Pyongyang and Caracas, or of a post-presidency redeeming himself by courting the world’s monsters. Biden may have been the second coming of Carter, but the stars aligned so that the first coming concluded weeks before the second coming was done.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/j...as-never-a-good-man/

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Originally posted by downtownv:
.... Carter had pardoned Peter Yarrow, of the group, Peter, Paul & Mary, for sexual misconduct with a 14-year-old girl...

I didn't know that. What could possibly make a man want to pardon someone who molested a 14 year-old girl? That isn't Christian, or Godly, forgiveness. Actions still have consequences, one can forgive, but that doesn't preclude having to accept legal justice.


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More blood on Carter’s hands, by acts of omission. If he was such a “peace-minded person”, why did he ignore this?

The Sino-Vietnamese War was a brief conflict that occurred in early 1979 between China and Vietnam. China launched an offensive ostensibly in response to Vietnam's invasion and occupation of Cambodia in 1978, which ended the rule of the Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge. The conflict lasted for about a month, with China withdrawing its troops in March 1979.

In February 1979, Chinese forces launched a surprise invasion of northern Vietnam and quickly captured several cities near the border. On 6 March of that year, China declared that its punitive mission had been accomplished. Chinese troops then withdrew from Vietnam. However, Vietnam continued to occupy Cambodia until 1989, suggesting that China failed to achieve its stated aim of dissuading Vietnam from involvement in Cambodia. However, China's operation at least successfully forced Vietnam to withdraw some units, namely the 2nd Corps, from the invasion forces of Cambodia to reinforce the defense of Hanoi. The conflict had a lasting impact on the relationship between China and Vietnam, and diplomatic relations between the two countries were not fully restored until 1991. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Sino-Vietnamese border was finalized. Although unable to deter Vietnam from ousting Pol Pot from Cambodia, China demonstrated that the Soviet Union, its Cold War communist adversary, was unable to protect its Vietnamese ally.

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Beginning in fall 1978 and continuing through early 1979, Deng Xiaoping made a series of international trips, one goal of which was to gauge world opinion on the issues between China and Vietnam. On 29 January 1979, Deng Xiaoping visited the United States for the first time and told U.S. President Jimmy Carter: "The child is getting naughty, it is time he got spanked". Deng sought an endorsement from the United States in order to deter the Soviet Union from intervening when China launched a punitive attack against Vietnam.  He informed Carter that China could not accept Vietnam's "wild ambitions" and was prepared to teach it a lesson.  According to United States National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter reserved judgment, an action which Chinese diplomats interpreted as tacit approval.

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Chinese casualties:
The number of casualties during the war is disputed. Shortly after China had announced the withdrawal of its troops from Vietnam, the state-run Vietnam News Agency claimed that the PLA had suffered over 44,000 casualties, a figure which Western analysts at the time considered to be greatly inflated. Other Vietnamese sources claimed the PLA had suffered 62,500 total casualties, including 550 military vehicles and 115 artillery pieces destroyed. Leaks from Chinese military sources indicate that China suffered 6,954 dead.

Deputy chief of the General Staff Wu Xiuquan revealed in a meeting with a French military delegation that Vietnam suffered 50,000 casualties, whereas China had suffered 20,000 casualties. Regardless of the accuracy of the Vietnamese casualties, it can be concluded that the Chinese losses were severe, according to Daniel Tretiak.

Vietnamese casualties:
Like their Chinese counterparts, the Vietnamese government has never officially announced any information on its actual military casualties. China estimated that Vietnam lost 57,000 soldiers and 70,000 militia members during the war. The Vietnamese state newspaper Nhân Dân claimed that Vietnam suffered more than 10,000 civilian deaths during the Chinese invasion and earlier on 17 May 1979, reported statistics on heavy losses of industry and agricultural properties.

Vietnam continued to occupy Cambodia until 1989.

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