Jimmy Carter Was Not a Good Man Who Made for a Bad President. In Fact, He Was a Very Bad Man, Too.

David Strom reveals something I didn't know. Iran took hostages to pressure the US into delivering over the deposed Shah of Iran, who'd fled the country as crazed jihadists sought to execute him.

I thought, wrongly, that Carter was some kind of friend to the Shah.

In fact, Carter aided the Ayatollah Khomeini in deposing him.

Carter, whose guiding principle was promoting human rights around the world, abandoned the Shah of Iran and basically cut a deal with Ayatollah Khomeini, paving the way for the zealous tyrant to ascend to power.

The BBC:

In a first-person message, Khomeini told the White House not to panic at the prospect of losing a strategic ally of 37 years and assured them that he, too, would be a friend.
"You will see we are not in any particular animosity with the Americans," said Khomeini, pledging his Islamic Republic will be "a humanitarian one, which will benefit the cause of peace and tranquillity for all mankind".
Khomeini's message is part of a trove of newly declassified US government documents - diplomatic cables, policy memos, meeting records - that tell the largely unknown story of America's secret engagement with Khomeini, an enigmatic cleric who would soon inspire Islamic fundamentalism and anti-Americanism worldwide.
This story is a detailed account of how Khomeini brokered his return to Iran using a tone of deference and amenability towards the US that has never before been revealed.
The ayatollah's message was, in fact, the culmination of two weeks of direct talks between his de facto chief of staff and a representative of the US government in France - a quiet process that helped pave the way for Khomeini's safe return to Iran and rapid rise to power - and decades of high-stakes tension between Iran and America.
In the official Iranian narrative of the revolution, Khomeini bravely defied the United States and defeated "the Great Satan" in its desperate efforts to keep the Shah in power.
But the documents reveal that Khomeini was far more engaged with the US than either government has ever admitted. Far from defying America, the ayatollah courted the Carter administration, sending quiet signals that he wanted a dialogue and then portraying a potential Islamic Republic as amenable to US interests.
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To this day, former Carter administration officials maintain that Washington - despite being sharply divided over the course of action - stood firm behind the Shah and his government.
But the documents show more nuanced US behaviour behind the scenes. Only two days after the Shah departed Tehran, the US told a Khomeini envoy that they were - in principle - open to the idea of changing the Iranian constitution, effectively abolishing the monarchy. And they gave the ayatollah a key piece of information - Iranian military leaders were flexible about their political future.

I always thought that Carter was a victim of the Iranian revolution. Nope, he did his bit to foment it. It's not just that he was feckless in allowing Iranian jihadis to hold American hostage for (IIRC) 444 days; he in fact was part of the cause of that captivity.

Cynical Publius
@CynicalPublius
I promised to myself that I would not comment further on Jimmy Carter's death, but it bothers me to see so many otherwise sensible conservatives spouting the "Bad President, good man" line that the Democrat/Media Complex has been spinning for 40+ years. Thus, I feel the need to drop some truth bombs, propriety at time of death notwithstanding.
Yes, he hammered a few nails on some houses for poor people. But that alone does not make one a "good man," when the rest of the track record is so awful.
After Carter lost in spectacular fashion in 1980, he did not do what every other President before him did and retire to a quiet, private life. He could have farmed peanuts in Plains with Rosalynn. Instead, he bitterly engaged in active and public efforts to undermine the policies of the elected Republicans who came after him. He INVENTED the jealous, manipulative ex-President model that Obama put on steroids in 2016.
Jimmy Carter flew around the world for decades, un-asked by America, on self-appointed missions of national importance, almost always involving gleefully interacting with raging antisemitic terrorist and/or Communist leaders, always working against the official policies of the ACTUALLY ELECTED Presidents. Carter's hatred of Israel bordered on pathological, and reeked of a sort of cloaked antisemitism that has become quite fashionable today. Somehow Jimmy Carter convinced himself that he was such an important and historic figure that he stood outside and above the U.S. systems of election and governance, even though no one other than the Yassar Arafats and Hugo Chavezs of the world asked him to do so.
Jimmy Carter was a bitter, angry narcissist who cloaked his lifelong, seething rage at the indignity of being body-slammed by Ronald Reagan (someone he considered lesser than himself in every regard) with that genteel "Southern gentleman" accent, vague scripture references and the occasional hammered nail. He purposely and vengefully wreaked havoc on America's official foreign policy for decades and he INVENTED the concept of a meddling ex-President poisoning American political discourse. (In that regard, Obama has been Carter v.2.0--we have Carter to thank for that.)
Literally every aspect of the man's self-serving public life was harmful to America, he knew that, and he did it all anyway because narcissists always operate like that--they cannot help it, and they can never admit fault. Carter's "good man" image was a carefully constructed and nurtured illusion, one that he gladly worked with the corrupt media to maintain.
So please consider these factors before pronouncing "Bad President, good man." Sometimes truth needs to be said even when some find that truth untimely.

Doctor_Zero
@Doctor_Zer0
I'm old enough to remember Carter's gas lines, malaise, turn your thermostat down in winter, and the endless national humiliation of the Iran hostage crisis, so you'll pardon me if I'm not interested in reading any encomiums to his unappreciated greatness.
Carter was the avatar of the illogical and infuriating political myth that demands left-wingers be given endless credit for good intentions, even when their policies are horrifying disasters foisted upon us with fraudulent rhetoric.
The presidency of the United States is not some kindergarten assignment where everyone who plays gets a participation trophy and a smiley face sticker. Carter was an unholy disaster, and he stubbornly executed his stupid policies over the loud objections of better men and women.
He doesn't get a pass because he devoted himself to charitable work after he was thankfully bounced out of the White House by a vastly superior president. Carter's post-presidency included a great deal of vicious and destructive meddling in American diplomacy in the Middle East.
And even if Carter had kept quiet for the past half-century and just focused on building homes for the poor, the damage his administration did to the United States for generations to come was incalculable. Our children still suffer from what he did to education, for example.
Carter's failed presidency should have been studied in detail to avoid similar catastrophes in the future, including WHY he made some of his awful decisions - but those tales of venal backroom deals and political payoffs to special interests would clash with his St. Jimmy image.
The presidency of the United States is a job for serious people that should carry the highest levels of accountability. Jimmy Carter was never really held accountable for the damage he inflicted on this country, and that set a very unfortunate precedent. /end

The key to understanding Jimmy Carter is that he thought America was arrogant and dangerous. He lacked Obama's messianic hubris, so he thought his job was to humble Americans - teaching them to be satisfied with less - and restrain U.S. foreign policy influence. https://t.co/muGK4ss0RN
— Doctor_Zero (@Doctor_Zer0) December 31, 2024

Unrelated: Corrupt criminal Merchan has ignored Trump's motion to dismiss or delay his sentencing and says he'll sentence Trump on January 10th.

We'll see.

Posted by: Ace at 05:30 PM

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1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 03, 2025 05:32 PM (Rcnd3)

2 First?!?

Posted by: Grayman27 at January 03, 2025 05:32 PM (pgwxJ)

3 Drat.

Posted by: Grayman27 at January 03, 2025 05:33 PM (pgwxJ)

4 jimmy carter was a failure as a man and as a president. He was weak and let everyone walk over him and our country.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 03, 2025 05:33 PM (Rcnd3)

5 I'm glad this sacred cow is being slaughtered. Wreck all of these bullshit narratives.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at January 03, 2025 05:35 PM (BAKHM)

6 Is there anybody who's seen the travesties of the NY court cases who actually believes justice was served? I mean, even on the Left, they have to believe they were using political means to punish Orange Man Bad...

Then again, tranny surgeries for children, DEI initiatives...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 03, 2025 05:35 PM (ynpvh)

7 4 jimmy carter was a failure as a man and as a president. He was weak and let everyone walk over him and our country.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 03, 2025 05:33 PM (Rcnd3)

He's now a better man than Biden.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 03, 2025 05:35 PM (ynpvh)

8 Once Trump is "sentenced" he can appeal.....This travesty should be overturned

Posted by: It's me donna at January 03, 2025 05:35 PM (VE6XX)

9 Carter never met a third world dictator he didn't like, seeing them as counterweights to US influence. He loved being first in line to "certify" their manifestly corrupt election results.

Also, he was intimidated by rabbits.

Posted by: Grayman27 at January 03, 2025 05:35 PM (pgwxJ)

10 5 I'm glad this sacred cow is being slaughtered. Wreck all of these bullshit narratives.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at January 03, 2025 05:35 PM (BAKHM)

I won't be happy until the BBQ grill is up and running with ribs and burgers, and there's a nice pair of leather boots...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 03, 2025 05:36 PM (ynpvh)

11 9 Carter never met a third world dictator he didn't like, seeing them as counterweights to US influence. He loved being first in line to "certify" their manifestly corrupt election results.

Also, he was intimidated by rabbits.

Posted by: Grayman27 at January 03, 2025 05:35 PM (pgwxJ)

Vorpal bunnies, like the Rabbit of Caerbannog.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 03, 2025 05:37 PM (ynpvh)

12 Jimmy the peanut farmer was the original terrorist fren

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 03, 2025 05:37 PM (U81Si)

13 He was the worst good bad man.

Posted by: Plainoldtoast at January 03, 2025 05:38 PM (urpds)

14 12 Jimmy the peanut farmer was the original terrorist fren

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 03, 2025 05:37 PM (U81Si)

He sold the Panama Canal for peanuts...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 03, 2025 05:38 PM (ynpvh)

15 Bit early for veering off topic but I feel this is important. Lots of talk about the various rape scandals in the UK, and the role of various agencies and individuals in covering for it.

What has NOT gotten widespread mention is how many local government and law enforcement officials/officers looked the other way because they were allowed to rape the girls as payment. This is not just a case of political correctness run amok, these people are foul.

Also worth noting this is invariably what happens when you allow a government to disarm you.

Posted by: heya at January 03, 2025 05:39 PM (zhjZ3)

16 Carter was a f*cking disaster and an embarrassment as a man and a president. I was 10 years old when he got elected and even I remember the sh*tty economy, gas lines, energy crisis, ad nauseum. What a turd.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at January 03, 2025 05:39 PM (k9OZB)

17 Cynical Publius (quote above) is one of the great posters on X, definitely worth following. Retired US Army Colonel, lots of battle experience, lots of very good serious thinking there.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 03, 2025 05:39 PM (wyMQY)

18 16 Carter was a f*cking disaster and an embarrassment as a man and a president. I was 10 years old when he got elected and even I remember the sh*tty economy, gas lines, energy crisis, ad nauseum. What a turd.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at January 03, 2025 05:39 PM (k9OZB)

Interest rates were the bomb! I seem to remember 25% at some point...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 03, 2025 05:40 PM (ynpvh)

19 Vorpal bunnies, like the Rabbit of Caerbannog.

Was going to look up the spelling (?!?) and got distracted. A tip of the hat to you, sir!

Posted by: Grayman27 at January 03, 2025 05:40 PM (pgwxJ)

20 Devious, two-faced, passive-aggressive

Posted by: L - Hook him, book him, cook him. Now! at January 03, 2025 05:40 PM (NFX2v)

21 19 Vorpal bunnies, like the Rabbit of Caerbannog.

Was going to look up the spelling (?!?) and got distracted. A tip of the hat to you, sir!

Posted by: Grayman27 at January 03, 2025 05:40 PM (pgwxJ)

Heh, I cheated and looked it up. Copy/Paste are my friends...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 03, 2025 05:40 PM (ynpvh)

22 When do we get to see Merchan investigated? Perp walked? Jailed?

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 03, 2025 05:41 PM (7Pnfz)

23 I always thought that Carter was a victim of the Iranian revolution. Nope, he did his bit to foment it. It's not just that he was feckless in allowing Iranian jihadis to hold American hostage for (IIRC) 444 days; he in fact was part of the cause of that captivity.

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Curious how he was so ineffective in committing good deeds yet enormously effective in skullduggery. It's not an accident, he was malignant.

Posted by: Decaf at January 03, 2025 05:41 PM (unUNN)

24 (posted on old thread..)

Carter's NSA was Zbigniew Brzezinski. Wonder what role he played in the Iran fiasco.

Posted by: runner at January 03, 2025 05:42 PM (g47mK)

25
He isn't buried, yet??
The fuck they waiting for?

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 03, 2025 05:42 PM (JraRV)

26 22 When do we get to see Merchan investigated? Perp walked? Jailed?

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 03, 2025 05:41 PM (7Pnfz)

Gallows...?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 03, 2025 05:42 PM (ynpvh)

27 Americans were so happy to see the end of the Carter years. It wasn't quite as intense as wanting Biden to be gone, as Carter didn't have dementia and seemed to be in charge. We just don't like to see our country humiliated

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 03, 2025 05:42 PM (NQtI0)

28 25
He isn't buried, yet??
The fuck they waiting for?

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 03, 2025 05:42 PM (JraRV)

To marinate a bit longer?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 03, 2025 05:42 PM (ynpvh)

29 I would laugh at this if I weren't in AGONY IN THIS FIRE.

Posted by: Jimmy Carter: History's Greatest Monster at January 03, 2025 05:42 PM (aD39U)

30 16 Carter was a f*cking disaster and an embarrassment as a man and a president. I was 10 years old when he got elected and even I remember the sh*tty economy, gas lines, energy crisis, ad nauseum. What a turd.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at January 03, 2025 05:39 PM (k9OZB)

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Don't forget the cardigans. And his stupid brother.
He can shuffle off to the ash heap of history.

Posted by: Scarymary at January 03, 2025 05:42 PM (a8Yoi)

31 Merchan perhaps hoping some loon with a gun will be around...

Posted by: steevy at January 03, 2025 05:43 PM (KQk9m)

32 12th of Never is that date.

Posted by: L - Hook him, book him, cook him. Now! at January 03, 2025 05:43 PM (NFX2v)

33 Carter was a f*cking disaster and an embarrassment as a man and a president. I was 10 years old when he got elected and even I remember the sh*tty economy, gas lines, energy crisis, ad nauseum. What a turd.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at January 03, 2025 05:39 PM (k9OZB)

Interest rates were the bomb! I seem to remember 25% at some point...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 03, 2025 05:40 PM

My mother and step dad bought a house back then at 19% interest and they got a very good deal from the bank because they both had nearly perfect credit ratings.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 03, 2025 05:43 PM (Rcnd3)

34 Is Merchant a cartel puppet ?

Posted by: runner at January 03, 2025 05:43 PM (g47mK)

35 Let's not forget Carter locked up the TAPS for years for environmentalists, thereby fucking up the economy in Alaska. And don't get me started on ANILCA.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 03, 2025 05:43 PM (7Pnfz)

36 I wonder if it was Carter who was the origin of the saying about US, an awful friend and an ineffective enemy.

Posted by: Decaf at January 03, 2025 05:43 PM (unUNN)

37 Because it sure seems that way.

Posted by: runner at January 03, 2025 05:43 PM (g47mK)

38 I have heard repeatedly over the years that the Shah was bad and imprisoned political opponents and oppressed a lot of Iranian groups. But the Ayatollah is much worse they kill torture and oppress people too just different groups of people. They also hate America and have taken terrorism to new heights across the globe.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 03, 2025 05:43 PM (xxf6X)

39 Carter "certified" the Venezuelan elections, cementing Chavez' dictatorship.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 03, 2025 05:43 PM (D7oie)

40 34 Is Merchant a cartel puppet ?

Posted by: runner at January 03, 2025 05:43 PM (g47mK)

If the Dems are a cartel, then yes. Maybe also for other cartels, but I dunno; are there some cases that play this out?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 03, 2025 05:44 PM (ynpvh)

41 16 Carter was a f*cking disaster and an embarrassment as a man and a president. I was 10 years old when he got elected and even I remember the sh*tty economy, gas lines, energy crisis, ad nauseum. What a turd.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at January 03, 2025 05:39 PM
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And don't forget Billy Beer.

I got to cast my first ballot for Ronnie Raygun. There was NO question.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at January 03, 2025 05:44 PM (kpS4V)

42 Yup. Carter was a shitbag. And he helped take Iran from a secular-ish, progressive (in a good way) modernized country back to a repressive Muslim shithole theocracy. He was complicit in setting women's rights there back by a couple hundred years. That he's some kind of Democrat hero is revolting.

Posted by: Fuck that Jew-hating Ayatollah-fellating guy at January 03, 2025 05:44 PM (ybSPO)

43 I'm old enough to have voted for Carter in 1976, which I did not. I also did not vote for him in 1980. My parents were always politically astute and they told their children what was going on around the world, so I knew quite a bit about the Iran coup. Carter's "hostage rescue mission" to was a massive clusterfuck that was doomed to fail and probably planned that way. I loathed him and his bitch wife.

Posted by: huerfano at January 03, 2025 05:44 PM (DKIGo)

44 The Sentencing is stupid, but not a completely bad thing. It allows Trump to pursue an appeal, which postponing it all for 4 years would have blocked. Of course it should have been dismissed, but I think an Appeals Court should knock it down pretty easiy, since Merchan just ignored all of the evidentiary problems.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 03, 2025 05:44 PM (wyMQY)

45 Carter's NSA was Zbigniew Brzezinski. Wonder what role he played in the Iran fiasco.
Posted by: runner at January 03, 2025 05:42 PM (g47mK)

All of it.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 03, 2025 05:44 PM (7Pnfz)

46 It's amazing how Jimmy gets no stigma from having been a segregationist Georgia politician.

George Wallace wept.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2025 05:44 PM (aD39U)

47 Shorter: Jimmy Carter was a slime.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 03, 2025 05:45 PM (lmDzU)

48 38 I have heard repeatedly over the years that the Shah was bad and imprisoned political opponents and oppressed a lot of Iranian groups. But the Ayatollah is much worse they kill torture and oppress people too just different groups of people. They also hate America and have taken terrorism to new heights across the globe.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 03, 2025 05:43 PM (xxf6X)

Bashar Assad or ISIS in Syria? Which is/will be worse?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 03, 2025 05:45 PM (ynpvh)

49
Today, I watched the Twilight Zone episode "The Hunt."

Remember that one?
It's about the old country geezer who likes to go racoon hunting at night with his best friend.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 03, 2025 05:45 PM (JraRV)

50 Just look at photos on Tehran while the Shah was in power. Attractive women in Western clothes and compare it to post revolution

Posted by: steevy at January 03, 2025 05:45 PM (KQk9m)

51 I have heard repeatedly over the years that the Shah was bad and imprisoned political opponents and oppressed a lot of Iranian groups.

==

Ayatollah was considered a "political opponents"...things don't have the same meaning over there.

Posted by: runner at January 03, 2025 05:45 PM (g47mK)

52
And don't forget Jimmuh's "Common man of the people" schtick. He wanted to be phographed carrying his own bags on Air Force One and stuff like that.

The bags were just props, nothing in them.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 03, 2025 05:45 PM (w6EFb)

53 Carter, whose guiding principle was promoting human rights around the world, abandoned the Shah of Iran and basically cut a deal with Ayatollah Khomeini, paving the way for the zealous tyrant to ascend to power.
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Before I had tenure I was talking with a senior colleague - who would have considerable say in my tenure decision - who allowed as Jimmy Carter was the best President in American history.

I scoured his face for a clue. Was he kidding? If he were kidding, and I didn't laugh, he'd think I had no sense of humor.

OTOH, if he weren't kidding, and I laughed, he'd be pissed.

I played it safe and just kept a neutral expression.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 03, 2025 05:46 PM (YqDXo)

54 Dan Aykroyd's impersonation of Carter was hilarious, though. So, at least that was one good thing from the Carter years.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 03, 2025 05:46 PM (XMwZJ)

55 Also, he was intimidated by rabbits.
Posted by: Grayman27

Did you misspell intimate?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 03, 2025 05:46 PM (lmDzU)

56 27 Americans were so happy to see the end of the Carter years. It wasn't quite as intense as wanting Biden to be gone, as Carter didn't have dementia and seemed to be in charge. We just don't like to see our country humiliated
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 03, 2025 05:42 PM (NQtI0)

In fact the joy the country is feeling at Trump's win reminds me a lot of 1980, and the joy at Reagan's win and Carter's downfall.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 03, 2025 05:46 PM (wyMQY)

57
I mention "The Hunt" because it deals with Heaven and Hell.

And answers the question: Do dogs go to Heaven?

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 03, 2025 05:46 PM (JraRV)

58
Jimmy Carter flew around the world for decades, un-asked by America, on self-appointed missions of national importance, almost always involving gleefully interacting with raging antisemitic terrorist and/or Communist leaders, always working against the official policies of the ACTUALLY ELECTED Presidents.

Including Donk Presidents. He illegally injected himself into the nuclear negotiations between the US and N Korea in the 90s. He massively pissed off Clinton for negotiating a shitty nuclear "agreement" and then handing it off to Bubba, threatening to sabotage anything that the Clinton Admin came up with.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 03, 2025 05:46 PM (y9nCu)

59 It's about the old country geezer who likes to go racoon hunting at night with his best friend.
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 03, 2025 05:45 PM (JraRV)

Dogs don't like Sulphur.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2025 05:46 PM (aD39U)

60 44 The Sentencing is stupid, but not a completely bad thing. It allows Trump to pursue an appeal, which postponing it all for 4 years would have blocked. Of course it should have been dismissed, but I think an Appeals Court should knock it down pretty easiy, since Merchan just ignored all of the evidentiary problems.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 03, 2025 05:44 PM (wyMQY)

Imagine the law as a spherical cow. Now milk that cow for all it's worth...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 03, 2025 05:46 PM (ynpvh)

61 The Shah was no saint, but he was westernized and actually Persian, which the Ayatollah and his minions are not. I should think Persians would be pretty much done with this crap, but Obama and his awful folks have supported that asshole and are complicit.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 03, 2025 05:46 PM (7Pnfz)

62 Whence came Jimmy's genteel antisemitism?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at January 03, 2025 05:47 PM (kpS4V)

63 Re Carter -- it is worse than you think.

I do not see this reported lately, but there were a few insiders who spoke up -- Carter did not "bang some nails for the poor," but in fact he was a prickly PR happy asshole who would show up for lots of press images but did no actual work. The thought he was the reincarnation of a famous carpenter from history -- yes he was that blasphemous and venal.

The whole HFH thing was a scam.

I also remember reading how the terms given to people were borderline usurious. This is all from memory, but it fits with who he was so I believe it.

Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at January 03, 2025 05:47 PM (pU9bi)

64 I first started to become politically "aware" during the Carter Administration.

My kids have been listening with rapt attention as I've been tearing apart the eulogies and telling them what REALLY happened.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 03, 2025 05:47 PM (LxER7)

65 Carter was a bad Man and a worse President

Posted by: It's me donna at January 03, 2025 05:47 PM (VE6XX)

66 50 Just look at photos on Tehran while the Shah was in power. Attractive women in Western clothes and compare it to post revolution

Posted by: steevy at January 03, 2025 05:45 PM (KQk9m)

Western Clothes >>> hijabs >>> niquabs ≈ trash bags

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 03, 2025 05:47 PM (ynpvh)

67
You know that silly Logan Act nonsense the lefties screamed about Trump?

Well, for Jimmuh's meddling and messing up sitting presidents, of his own party, including BUbba, that might actually be real Logan Act violation.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 03, 2025 05:47 PM (w6EFb)

68 Including Donk Presidents. He illegally injected himself into the nuclear negotiations between the US and N Korea in the 90s. He massively pissed off Clinton for negotiating a shitty nuclear "agreement" and then handing it off to Bubba, threatening to sabotage anything that the Clinton Admin came up with.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 03, 2025 05:46 PM (y9nCu)

That was treason. Just like horseface Kerry. Treason.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 03, 2025 05:47 PM (7Pnfz)

69 52
And don't forget Jimmuh's "Common man of the people" schtick. He wanted to be phographed carrying his own bags on Air Force One and stuff like that.

The bags were just props, nothing in them.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 03, 2025 05:45 PM (w6EFb)

So like his policies?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 03, 2025 05:48 PM (ynpvh)

70 John Thune allows Adam Schiff on powerful Senate committees:

I just received my Senate committee assignments: Judiciary, Agriculture, Small Business, and Environment & Public Works.

These assignments will allow me to help build a stronger economy, support our agriculture industry and small businesses, and protect our democracy and planet.

— Adam Schiff (@SenAdamSchiff) January 2, 2025

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 03, 2025 05:48 PM (+oR7L)

71 Yup. Carter was a shitbag. And he helped take Iran from a secular-ish, progressive (in a good way) modernized country back to a repressive Muslim shithole theocracy. He was complicit in setting women's rights there back by a couple hundred years. That he's some kind of Democrat hero is revolting.
_________________

Consider that Harvey Milk is also a Democrat hero.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 03, 2025 05:48 PM (YqDXo)

72 Whence came Jimmy's genteel antisemitism?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at January 03, 2025 05:47 PM (kpS4V)

His mother was an out and proud Jew hater.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2025 05:48 PM (aD39U)

73
So that buck-toothed, treasonous, cocksucker is the Apollo Root Cuase (TM) of the current 50+ years of sand maggot violence?

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 03, 2025 05:49 PM (MsrgL)

74 55 Also, he was intimidated by rabbits.
Posted by: Grayman27

Did you misspell intimate?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 03, 2025 05:46 PM (lmDzU)

If that's the word, it would seem the rabbits were the ones getting it on with him...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 03, 2025 05:49 PM (ynpvh)

75 62 Whence came Jimmy's genteel antisemitism?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at January 03, 2025 05:47 PM (kpS4V)

Same place Biden's comes from, out his ass.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 03, 2025 05:49 PM (7Pnfz)

76 His mother was an out and proud Jew hater.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2025 05:48 PM (aD39U)

really ? peanut , peanut tree ?

Posted by: runner at January 03, 2025 05:50 PM (g47mK)

77 The Carter presidency was more or less a template for Obama to follow internationally. Be kind to your enemies and piss on your allies.

We were fortunate enough that Carter did not get a second term and a lot of Obama's damage would have be alleviated if he had lost reelection in 2012. Mitt, though, was no Ronald Reagan and probably would have made GHWB look good.

Posted by: whig at January 03, 2025 05:50 PM (ctrM5)

78 Someone on this very blog commented that Carter actually was GREAT at installing windows. And was often really doing that work at the HFH sites.

So which one of you is telling the truth?

Posted by: Brunnhilde at January 03, 2025 05:50 PM (3AwA+)

79
Raccoons are bastards. Tricky little shits.

If that Twilight Zone episode is to be believed, a raccoon will lead it's predator into water.

A 'coon hunting dog is so dog-gone determined to chase that raccoon and never stop that he'll stay under water looking until he drowns.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 03, 2025 05:50 PM (JraRV)

80 The initial reporting on the Shah was that Carter was abandoning him, and thus inviting the revolution. This was when he was sick and could not find refuge, and when the revolution happened.

Everyone at the time understood that the revolution could not have happened without US gov. approval.

It was only later when they made an ass out of him and spent their time chanting "death to america" that the press claimed Carter was betrayed and was a victim.

Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at January 03, 2025 05:50 PM (pU9bi)

81 73
So that buck-toothed, treasonous, cocksucker is the Apollo Root Cuase (TM) of the current 50+ years of sand maggot violence?
Posted by: BifBewalski at January 03, 2025 05:49 PM (MsrgL)

Oh, yes.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 03, 2025 05:51 PM (7Pnfz)

82 Corrupt criminal Merchan has ignored Trump's motion to dismiss or delay his sentencing and says he'll sentence Trump on January 10th.

Sure do hope Trump's DoJ crawls up that slimy piece of shit's daughter's ass with a RICO investigation then follows the money back daddy dearest.

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 03, 2025 05:51 PM (MsrgL)

83 76 His mother was an out and proud Jew hater.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2025 05:48 PM (aD39U)

really ? peanut , peanut tree ?

Posted by: runner at January 03, 2025 05:50 PM (g47mK)

so, nuts then...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 03, 2025 05:51 PM (ynpvh)

84 Carter referred To Khomeini as "a man of God" and undermined the Shah. Nixon said "you don't grease the skids for your friends". Nixon called him out, deservedly so.

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at January 03, 2025 05:51 PM (2NXcZ)

85 Worst Ally since 1917? The US of A.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 03, 2025 05:52 PM (u82oZ)

86 70 John Thune allows Adam Schiff on powerful Senate committees:

I just received my Senate committee assignments: Judiciary, Agriculture, Small Business, and Environment & Public Works.

These assignments will allow me to help build a stronger economy, support our agriculture industry and small businesses, and protect our democracy and planet.

— Adam Schiff (@SenAdamSchiff) January 2, 2025
Posted by: Frank Barone
======
Schumer picked Schiff. The majority and minority leaders only pick committee members for their respective party.

House and Senate are different with the Speaker having via House rules (until recently unused until Pelosi then McCarthy) power to fire someone from a committee regardless of party.

Posted by: whig at January 03, 2025 05:52 PM (ctrM5)

87
And don't forget Jimmuh's "Common man of the people" schtick.

Y'know, I've always thought that "Common man of the people" and "Annapolis Graduate" don't belong in the same paragraph.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 03, 2025 05:52 PM (y9nCu)

88 78 Someone on this very blog commented that Carter actually was GREAT at installing windows. And was often really doing that work at the HFH sites.

So which one of you is telling the truth?

Posted by: Brunnhilde at January 03, 2025 05:50 PM (3AwA+)

Windows was not around when he was President...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 03, 2025 05:52 PM (ynpvh)

89 Interest rates were the bomb! I seem to remember 25% at some point...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 03, 2025 05:40 PM
________________

In fairness, that was down to Paul Volcker, who raised interest rates (much to Carter's displeasure) to wring out inflationary expectations, which in turn paved the way to the Reagan boom economy.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 03, 2025 05:52 PM (YqDXo)

90
Jimmy Carter is the reason why we the middle east is so screwed up in our lifetime. He pressured the Shah of Iran to leave, and trusted the Mullahs to govern in a fair way. Carter is one of the biggest antisemite US presidents in the modern era.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 03, 2025 05:52 PM (+oR7L)

91 My mother, God rest her soul, thought Carter was such a nice man because of his smile and he and Roselynn just seemed so nice together. That was as far as her thought process went on the subject. I suspect that was how he got into office because of women like my mom and Democrats in general. The best that I can say is we didn't have to endure eight years of him and we got Reagan.

Posted by: Cheri at January 03, 2025 05:52 PM (oiNtH)

92 I thought, wrongly, that Carter was some kind of friend to the Shah.

It's an excusable mistake for someone almost 29.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2025 05:53 PM (aD39U)

93 A 'coon hunting dog is so dog-gone determined to chase that raccoon and never stop that he'll stay under water looking until he drowns.
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 03, 2025 05:50 PM (JraRV)

It's worse than that. The coon will get on the dog's back and drown him. (We had an orphaned coon cub when I was a boy and I've seen this behavior, albeit on dry land.)

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 03, 2025 05:53 PM (LxER7)

94 89 Interest rates were the bomb! I seem to remember 25% at some point...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 03, 2025 05:40 PM
________________

In fairness, that was down to Paul Volcker, who raised interest rates (much to Carter's displeasure) to wring out inflationary expectations, which in turn paved the way to the Reagan boom economy.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 03, 2025 05:52 PM (YqDXo)

I do remember stagflation...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 03, 2025 05:53 PM (ynpvh)

95
I became politically aware (well, aware of what was going on in the world) during the Carter years. I don't remember the '76 election too much (I would've been 9 years old), but I remember the '80 one well.

A lot of people were fooled by Jimmuh's "Good Christrian" schtick, to my father's disgust. But most of them, the ones with sense, realized their error soon thereafter.

But there were some idiots. I remember this elderly woman asking my father, "Did you hear the awful things that 'Riggins man' said about President Carter?"

She was elderly, a notch above Daddy on the totem pole, so he could say anything, but the look on his face.

Anyway, when that awful Riggins man won in 1980, I remember my father slept well that night. Had a smile on his face for days.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 03, 2025 05:53 PM (w6EFb)

96 House and Senate are different with the Speaker having via House rules (until recently unused until Pelosi then McCarthy) power to fire someone from a committee regardless of party.

Posted by: whig at January 03, 2025 05:52 PM

I thought the majority Senate leader could overrule minority assignments.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 03, 2025 05:53 PM (+oR7L)

97
So which one of you is telling the truth?
Posted by: Brunnhilde

Well, I said I was working off memory.
I tend to think he may have impressed some people with his work early on, but overall it was a fraud.
Certainly he was not doing it for others, but in fact to elevate his own image. If he was doing it for others he would not have had so much PR.

Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at January 03, 2025 05:54 PM (pU9bi)

98 I also remember that Carter claimed to be a nuclear scientist, but pronounced it "nucular." Not as smart as a redneck, and not as attractive, either.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 03, 2025 05:54 PM (7Pnfz)

99 Elderly Congress people keep falling down!

Republican congresswoman, 81, falls down marble stairs at the Capitol

North Carolina Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx slipped just after votes on Friday

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Ungawa! at January 03, 2025 05:54 PM (/7KEl)

100 Schiff for brains isn't qualified to "build a better economy" since everything "Progressivism" advocates for destroys the economy.

Posted by: Crusader at January 03, 2025 05:54 PM (TN0g+)

101 North Carolina Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx slipped just after votes on Friday

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Ungawa! at January 03, 2025 05:54 PM (/7KEl)

At least she waited till after

Posted by: It's me donna at January 03, 2025 05:55 PM (VE6XX)

102 Carter is one of the biggest antisemite US presidents in the modern era.
Posted by: Frank Barone

Hey, what am I? Chopped liver?

Posted by: Baracky Obamy at January 03, 2025 05:55 PM (oiNtH)

103 99 Elderly Congress people keep falling down!

Republican congresswoman, 81, falls down marble stairs at the Capitol

North Carolina Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx slipped just after votes on Friday

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Ungawa! at January 03, 2025 05:54 PM (/7KEl)

Seems like the capitol steps need more lube...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 03, 2025 05:55 PM (ynpvh)

104 Carter was also slimy during the Rushdie fracas. That's my guiding-star on "are you a human being".

Posted by: gKWVE at January 03, 2025 05:55 PM (gKWVE)

105 102 Carter is one of the biggest antisemite US presidents in the modern era.
Posted by: Frank Barone

Hey, what am I? Chopped liver?

Posted by: Baracky Obamy at January 03, 2025 05:55 PM (oiNtH)

Roasted dog.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 03, 2025 05:56 PM (ynpvh)

106 Carter contributed greatly to the mess in the ME. But let's be honest, the powers that be could have fixed the damn thing in the last 50 years. How many times did the US betray, stop Israel from bombing Iran's nukkelar facilities? Or destroying the PLO and its leaders and the rest of those fkrs?

Posted by: runner at January 03, 2025 05:56 PM (g47mK)

107
It's worse than that. The coon will get on the dog's back and drown him. (We had an orphaned coon cub when I was a boy and I've seen this behavior, albeit on dry land.)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher

Ah, so that's what the old timer meant when he said, "and he'll keep him down there, too," worried when his faithful companion jumped into the water.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 03, 2025 05:56 PM (JraRV)

108 Carter and the left hated the Shah because he killed communists.

No he wasn't Washington, but the Shah was a better man then any other leader that could have come to power.

After the jihadis came to power they kept Americans as hostages and hung people in the Iranian style for wanting the rights Americans take for granted. And the Iranian style is to strangle the victim to death...slowly and as painfully as possible

Posted by: 18-1 at January 03, 2025 05:57 PM (t0Rmr)

109 I liked the movie "Argo." It didn't flinch in showing that the White House -- in its inimitably inept style under Carter --pulled the rug on the op when the six American Embassy staffers in hiding were most vulnerable to discovery by the IR fanatics. And the only reason they didn't end up hanging from a crane was the CIA field guy defied orders and forced DC's hand. Nonetheless, the film ends with a voiceover of Jimmah praising the op that we just saw him try to sabotage, trying to splash some credit onto himself. Such a schmuck.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 03, 2025 05:57 PM (wzAuc)

110 Let us not forget, and be eternally grateful for, the fact that Jimmy never got to make a Supreme Court appointment during his term.

Posted by: Please listen carefully as our menu options have changed at January 03, 2025 05:57 PM (kvDvI)

111 Jimmuh unleashed his AG in pushing the Plyler decision that ended up becoming the law that opened up schools and hospital emergency rooms to illegals. SC endorsed it 5-4 in 1982.

I was a house framing carpenter when all of that work went to illegals within 3 years so I went to college as the economy recovered from Carter's inflation.

Posted by: DanMan at January 03, 2025 05:58 PM (8uzBS)

112 ME could have been fixed, but the West got along with the terrorist mofos just fine.

Posted by: runner at January 03, 2025 05:58 PM (g47mK)

113
Yeah, Carter and the rotten State Dept RUINED Iran.
Or helped a lot, at least.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 03, 2025 05:58 PM (JraRV)

114 112 ME could have been fixed, but the West got along with the terrorist mofos just fine.

Posted by: runner at January 03, 2025 05:58 PM (g47mK)

Remember, the Gov't isn't there to fix problems; that puts them out of work...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 03, 2025 05:58 PM (ynpvh)

115 We were hands off Iran while Reagan was President because we didn't want them to side with the Soviets during the Cold War.

GHWB could have fucked them up after The Fall.

Ditto Cuba.

The Bush Clan has always been a cancer on the US.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2025 05:59 PM (aD39U)

116 Speaking of Jimmuh, did I see something this week to the effect that the Bad Orange Man wants to take back the Canal?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 03, 2025 05:59 PM (LxER7)

117 Way ahead of the curve on this one. He was President before I was born, but I had figured out that he was a was a straight up evil sack of assholes when I was eleven years old and he pulled his sick little stunt in North Korea. After that, all became clear, and I understood all the stuff my old man said about his treacherous old self.

And, of course, as time went on, I came to know about his vicious hatred of Jews, which he did not bother concealing anymore after his Presidency.

He has no more moral standing than those French ass spelunkers who gave that dog monkeypox. I, too, am beyond tired of hearing about how nice the old fart was. He wasn't nice. He was an ambulatory turd.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 03, 2025 05:59 PM (BI5O2)

118 He won't need two sweaters in hell

Posted by: malaise forever at January 03, 2025 05:59 PM (E5B2M)

119 116 Speaking of Jimmuh, did I see something this week to the effect that the Bad Orange Man wants to take back the Canal?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 03, 2025 05:59 PM (LxER7)

A man, a plan...

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 03, 2025 06:00 PM (7Pnfz)

120 Raccoons are bastards. Tricky little shits.

If that Twilight Zone episode is to be believed, a raccoon will lead it's predator into water.

A 'coon hunting dog is so dog-gone determined to chase that raccoon and never stop that he'll stay under water looking until he drowns.
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 03, 2025 05:50 PM (JraRV)

_____________________________

I used to sit on my porch and watch a raccoon, matter of factly, remove the lids from my garbage cans, and throw garbage out of it until he found something tasty. It happened four times. The fifth time he met up with about 12 active mouse traps. I never saw him again.

The mouse traps didn't stop the weasels, however. They just got angry.

Posted by: Orson at January 03, 2025 06:00 PM (dIske)

121 Carter is one of the biggest antisemite US presidents in the modern era.
Posted by: Frank Barone

Hey, what am I? Chopped liver?
Posted by: Baracky Obamy
__________

I bet Wilson was up there too. I got nothing to base that on, but seems right.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 03, 2025 06:00 PM (Dm8we)

122 Carter contributed greatly to the mess in the ME.
________________

Britain and France are the main architects of the mess in the ME. Carter just sang some do-wops compared to them.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 03, 2025 06:00 PM (YqDXo)

123 119 116 Speaking of Jimmuh, did I see something this week to the effect that the Bad Orange Man wants to take back the Canal?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 03, 2025 05:59 PM (LxER7)

A man, a plan...

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 03, 2025 06:00 PM (7Pnfz)

some anal?

Posted by: Trans Sec Petey at January 03, 2025 06:01 PM (ynpvh)

124 He was an ambulatory turd.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 03, 2025 05:59 PM (BI5O2)

AoSHQ Style Guide has a new entry.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 03, 2025 06:01 PM (7Pnfz)

125
Funny one I remember, and I think this was in the '90s My father had a thing about properly using a hammer, especially carpenter hammers driving nails.

Politicians doing photo ops will notoriously make a mess of swinging a hammer properly. You do it with the wrist to get the most nail-banging impulse with the least effort. You get 'er done doing it correctly. Otherwise, you just wear yourself out and don't get much done.

He did say that Jimmuh knew a bit about how to swing a hammer watching some video clip. He wasn't the best, wasn't some master carpenter hammer wielder, but he didn't make the mess that most politicians will.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 03, 2025 06:01 PM (w6EFb)

126 121 Carter is one of the biggest antisemite US presidents in the modern era.
Posted by: Frank Barone

Hey, what am I? Chopped liver?
Posted by: Baracky Obamy
__________

I bet Wilson was up there too. I got nothing to base that on, but seems right.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 03, 2025 06:00 PM (Dm8we)

Something about Wilson having a party for the KKK, making it a really WHITE house...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 03, 2025 06:02 PM (ynpvh)

127 some anal?
Posted by: Trans Sec Petey at January 03, 2025 06:01 PM (ynpvh)

What is with all these assholes around here?

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 03, 2025 06:02 PM (7Pnfz)

128 My mother, God rest her soul, thought Carter was such a nice man because of his smile and he and Roselynn just seemed so nice together

You know who else had a nice smile? Yep. Ted Buddy, too.

Posted by: Lucifer is reputedly one good-looking dude at January 03, 2025 06:02 PM (ybSPO)

129
For starters, for some reason, raccoons have hands. WTF they need hands, for?

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 03, 2025 06:02 PM (JraRV)

130 I bet Wilson was up there too. I got nothing to base that on, but seems right.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
_____

Ok, I take that back. He appointed Brandeis to the SC.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 03, 2025 06:02 PM (Dm8we)

131 I used to sit on my porch and watch a raccoon, matter of factly, remove the lids from my garbage cans, and throw garbage out of it until he found something tasty. It happened four times. The fifth time he met up with about 12 active mouse traps. I never saw him again.

The mouse traps didn't stop the weasels, however. They just got angry.
Posted by: Orson at January 03, 2025 06:00 PM (dIske)

I stretch a bungee cord across the top of mine to keep 'em out. One evening, one of the ends came loose and thwacked me dead-center in the forehead. Still have the mark.

I thought I heard chuckling in the undergrowth.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 03, 2025 06:02 PM (LxER7)

132 Ted BUNDY. Fuck you, autocucumber.

Posted by: Lucifer is reputedly one good-looking dude at January 03, 2025 06:02 PM (ybSPO)

133 And what's more is, I just really hate people like Carter in general. If you want to be one of the biggest dickheads in the world, that's bad enough without faking the aw-shucks down home persona and bolting on a shit eating grin while you walk around screwing everyone from behind.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 03, 2025 06:03 PM (BI5O2)

134 Even VOX says Wilson was a major racist, even in his own time...

https://tinyurl.com/kewx79w2

(warning, goes to VOX)

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 03, 2025 06:03 PM (ynpvh)

135 I stretch a bungee cord across the top of mine to keep 'em out. One evening, one of the ends came loose and thwacked me dead-center in the forehead. Still have the mark.

I thought I heard chuckling in the undergrowth.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 03, 2025 06:02 PM (LxER7)

I can just see that happening. I needed a good chuckle today.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 03, 2025 06:03 PM (7Pnfz)

136 The mouse traps didn't stop the weasels, however. They just got angry.
Posted by: Orson

------
weasels ripped my flesh

Posted by: Frank Zappa at January 03, 2025 06:04 PM (pU9bi)

137 And what's more is, I just really hate people like Carter in general. If you want to be one of the biggest dickheads in the world, that's bad enough without faking the aw-shucks down home persona and bolting on a shit eating grin while you walk around screwing everyone from behind.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 03, 2025 06:03 PM (BI5O2)

And lacking the goddamn common courtesy to provide a reach around.

Posted by: Twinkle-toed commie cocksucker! at January 03, 2025 06:04 PM (ybSPO)

138 Something about Wilson having a party for the KKK, making it a really WHITE house...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 03, 2025 06:02 PM (ynpvh)
_______________

He screened "Birth of a Nation" in the White House too, and IIRC praised it.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 03, 2025 06:04 PM (YqDXo)

139 127 some anal?
Posted by: Trans Sec Petey at January 03, 2025 06:01 PM (ynpvh)

What is with all these assholes around here?

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 03, 2025 06:02 PM (7Pnfz)

Monkey Pox Vectors?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 03, 2025 06:04 PM (ynpvh)

140 I could set a 16d nail and drive it to the head in one swing of my 22oz Estwing hammer...back in the day.

Posted by: DanMan at January 03, 2025 06:05 PM (8uzBS)

141 Ice weasels? They mostly come at night, mostly.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2025 06:05 PM (aD39U)

142 Jimmy Carter was asshoe. Good riddance to human garbage.

Posted by: Fuck him and happy he's dead. at January 03, 2025 06:05 PM (R/m4+)

143
What eats raccoons?

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 03, 2025 06:05 PM (JraRV)

144 129
For starters, for some reason, raccoons have hands. WTF they need hands, for?
Posted by: Soothsayer

So they can dip their food in water before eating

Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at January 03, 2025 06:05 PM (pU9bi)

145 And what's more is, I just really hate people like Carter in general. If you want to be one of the biggest dickheads in the world, that's bad enough without faking the aw-shucks down home persona and bolting on a shit eating grin while you walk around screwing everyone from behind.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 03, 2025 06:03 PM (BI5O2)
______________

I hated when he did his Stevie Wonder impression, grinning stupidly and moving his head from side to side.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 03, 2025 06:05 PM (YqDXo)

146 I can just see that happening. I needed a good chuckle today.
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 03, 2025 06:03 PM (7Pnfz)

----
*Bows*

My work is done here. Time to go see about some dinner....

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 03, 2025 06:06 PM (LxER7)

147 What eats raccoons?
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 03, 2025 06:05 PM (JraRV)

The people in the neighborhood behind me.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2025 06:06 PM (aD39U)

148 Carter's Habitat for Humanity built a home across the street from mine that lowered my property value.

Subpar construction and donated materials that are often factory defects. Then it gets given to a family of dead beats who have trashed the house and the yard. They spend more time trying to not have a job and stay on unemployment/welfare....

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 03, 2025 06:06 PM (xxf6X)

149 143
What eats raccoons?

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 03, 2025 06:05 PM (JraRV)

Remove their scent glands and humans do...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 03, 2025 06:06 PM (ynpvh)

150 Carter never embraced the concept of protecting the American Superpower status. He was a dithering ideologue.

Posted by: scampydog at January 03, 2025 06:07 PM (2bFN5)

151
King of the Hill has a great episode about a raccoon.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 03, 2025 06:07 PM (JraRV)

152 143
What eats raccoons?

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 03, 2025 06:05 PM (JraRV)

Coyotes. My dog when he was younger.

Posted by: Scarymary at January 03, 2025 06:07 PM (a8Yoi)

153 144 129
For starters, for some reason, raccoons have hands. WTF they need hands, for?
Posted by: Soothsayer

So they can dip their food in water before eating

Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at January 03, 2025 06:05 PM (pU9bi)

And humor..
https://youtu.be/rfbb4yRBH64

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 03, 2025 06:07 PM (ynpvh)

154
Consider that Harvey Milk is also a Democrat hero.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 03, 2025 05:48 PM (YqDXo)

Harvey Milk was a fucking asshole. Ask Oliver Sipple, gay, and a Marine combat vet. Sipple and Milk were friends and Sipple was active in gay rights groups although closeted to his family and employer. Sipple was in the crowd when Sara Jane Moore tried to assassinate Gerald Ford in '75 and probably saved Ford's life when he tackled her and grabbed the gun. Milk didn't think twice about outing Sipple to columnist Herb Caen because he wanted a gay hero, and remarked that "It's too good an opportunity. For once we can show that gays do heroic things, not just all that caca about molesting children and hanging out in bathrooms."

The aftermath probably had a lot to do with Sipple's alcoholism and early death at 47.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 03, 2025 06:08 PM (y9nCu)

155 Carter was a piece of crap, his 'good old boy' image was just that, an image he played for the cameras.

The man 'extended his condolences' to the family of freaking Hugo Chavez, explicitly stating he 'never doubted Hugo Chávez's commitment to improving the lives of millions of his fellow countrymen'.

Carter was a complete piece of shit that served as the mouthpiece for a veritable who's who of oppressive murderous dictators.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at January 03, 2025 06:08 PM (setIA)

156 What is with all these assholes around here?
Posted by: tcn in AK

Yo!

Posted by: the gunnery station at January 03, 2025 06:08 PM (gKWVE)

157 41 16 Carter was a f*cking disaster and an embarrassment as a man and a president. I was 10 years old when he got elected and even I remember the sh*tty economy, gas lines, energy crisis, ad nauseum. What a turd.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at January 03, 2025 05:39 PM
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And don't forget Billy Beer.

I got to cast my first ballot for Ronnie Raygun. There was NO question.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at January 03, 2025 05:44 PM (kpS4V)

I cast my first ballot for Ronnie in 1980. Having a late November birthday, I was three weeks too young to NOT vote for Carter in 1976. My older sister did vote for him because 'he had a nice smile'. That was when I started to think maybe giving women the vote was a bad idea*.....

*Subsequent events have only reinforced that opinion...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 03, 2025 06:08 PM (QGaXH)

158 My company is big on asking for volunteers for Habitat for Huge Manatees.

I can't wait for them to make it mandatory.

Posted by: Joe Schlabotnik at January 03, 2025 06:08 PM (Ad8y9)

159
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't that fat drunk Edward Ted Kennedy run against carter for the D nom in 1980?

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 03, 2025 06:09 PM (JraRV)

160 Brezinski's son is Biden's ambassador to Poland. His daughter is Morning Jerkoff's slut.

Carter and Brezinki's biggest fuckup was supporting the mujahideen in Afghanistan against the Soviets. We are still living with the results of the disastrous Carter foreign policy.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 03, 2025 06:09 PM (LkLld)

161 Carter's Habitat for Humanity built a home across the street from mine that lowered my property value.

The Man
The Policy
The Legend

Posted by: DanMan at January 03, 2025 06:09 PM (8uzBS)

162 I am hopeless. I just ordered an overpriced, doubtless beat to hell, T65 parts kit from El Salvador.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2025 06:09 PM (aD39U)

163 147 What eats raccoons?
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 03, 2025 06:05 PM (JraRV)

The people in the neighborhood behind me.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2025 06:06 PM (aD39U)
_____________________________

Coyotes mostly. Although I don't think they can solo it. Owls, bobcats, and believe it or not, foxes will take them on. Oh, and people if they get uppity.

Posted by: Orson at January 03, 2025 06:09 PM (dIske)

164 Ewww.. Merchan order... Trump can appear 'electronically'?

OK then... do a Campaign type even in front of a bunch of people, and put Merchan up on the Jumbotron with Trump answering.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 03, 2025 06:09 PM (QAkQ3)

165 158 My company is big on asking for volunteers for Habitat for Huge Manatees.

I can't wait for them to make it mandatory.

Posted by: Joe Schlabotnik at January 03, 2025 06:08 PM (Ad8y9)

Just tell them you already gave to the United Way.

Posted by: Scarymary at January 03, 2025 06:10 PM (a8Yoi)

166 158 My company is big on asking for volunteers for Habitat for Huge Manatees.

I can't wait for them to make it mandatory.

Posted by: Joe Schlabotnik at January 03, 2025 06:08 PM (Ad8y9)

Habitat for Huge Mammaries?...
https://youtu.be/SwX6ER5jqp0

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 03, 2025 06:10 PM (ynpvh)

167 140 I could set a 16d nail and drive it to the head in one swing of my 22oz Estwing hammer...back in the day.
Posted by: DanMan at January 03, 2025 06:05 PM (8uzBS)

DH used to do that. Then he found out about arthritis and joint pain. Now he uses a Passlode.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 03, 2025 06:11 PM (7Pnfz)

168 Merchan wrote in his decision that he is not likely to "impose any sentence of incarceration," but rather a sentence of an "unconditional discharge," which means there would be no punishment imposed.

apologies if this has already been covered

Posted by: Don Black at January 03, 2025 06:12 PM (/7KEl)

169 for some reason, raccoons have hands. WTF they need hands, for?

Jazz hands, duh.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with interpretive dance and festive little caps at January 03, 2025 06:12 PM (5oeQn)

170 you are correct soothsayer

Posted by: DanMan at January 03, 2025 06:12 PM (8uzBS)

171 National File @NationalFile

Mike Johnson's First Act as U.S. House Speaker in the 119th Congress:

Adopt Nancy Pelosi's House Rule for Motion to Vacate

And Speaker Johnson took Nancy's rule and made it worse!

Thomas Jefferson's Rule: ONE member to file.

Nancy Pelosi's Rule: FIVE members to file.

Mike Johnson's Rule: NINE (9) members to file!

Josiah @RealJCochran

So the first thing he did was protect himself from being removed. Yeah…this is fine.

https://bit.ly/3PoznUC

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 03, 2025 06:12 PM (P5BPp)

172
You'd think raccoons & skunks would be enemies in the urban turf? Battle for the barrels, and all.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 03, 2025 06:13 PM (JraRV)

173 unconditional discharge

Used to date her.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with interpretive dance and festive little caps at January 03, 2025 06:13 PM (5oeQn)

174 What eats raccoons?
Posted by: Soothsayer

Anything bigger than the raccoon in front of it. Cougers will. Bobcats that are the same size or slightly smaller will as they generally have a barren den of fucks to give. Badgers.

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 03, 2025 06:14 PM (MsrgL)

175 Once Trump is sentenced by Merchan, Trump will be "officially" a convicted felon.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 03, 2025 06:14 PM (NpAcC)

176 Just tell them you already gave to the United Way.
Posted by: Scarymary

The Human Fund.

Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at January 03, 2025 06:14 PM (pU9bi)

177 For all the bad things he did, he still moves up to 3rd from worse

Posted by: Skip at January 03, 2025 06:15 PM (fwDg9)

178 The Human Fund.

Money for Humans

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2025 06:15 PM (aD39U)

179 OT

I went to the meat store today- dropped about $45 on meat. A chuck roast, some ground pork, and a slab of top round to slice up thin for stir fry or maybe fajitas.

Posted by: Don Black at January 03, 2025 06:15 PM (/7KEl)

180
Yeah, with a razor-thin majority, Johnson probably felt he needed to add a few members to that rule.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 03, 2025 06:15 PM (JraRV)

181 Ace, one small quibble. To us the jihadist seemed crazed, or at least they did in that time period, but now we know that that is just how they are. They are not crazed, they are jihadists.

"...who'd fled the country as crazed jihadists sought to execute him."

Posted by: haffhowershower at January 03, 2025 06:15 PM (NMT5x)

182 Carter and Brezinki's biggest fuckup was supporting the mujahideen in Afghanistan against the Soviets. We are still living with the results of the disastrous Carter foreign policy.
Posted by: JackStraw
----------
Yes. Brzezinski played a very heavy role in that fiasco.

Posted by: scampydog at January 03, 2025 06:15 PM (2bFN5)

183 I got to cast my first ballot for Ronnie Raygun. There was NO question.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at January 03, 2025 05:44 PM (kpS4V)

I was such a dipshit. I cast my first for Barry Commoner.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 03, 2025 06:16 PM (OX9vb)

184 word on Merchan - he will sentence Trump to "unconditional discharge". Basically, sentence him to...nothing. Which begs the question - what was the fucking point? Hope is Trump will drop the whole thing.

If I were trump, fuck them, war. I'd appeal. Get this stupid shit fully reversed. Drag them through the mud for a change. Once successfully appealed, then file ethics charges against Merchan and Bragg. Oh, and publicize EVERY communication Biden's justice department had with them.

What they did here is EVIL.

Posted by: El Mariachi at January 03, 2025 06:16 PM (nLFEI)

185 176 Just tell them you already gave to the United Way.
Posted by: Scarymary

The Human Fund.

Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at January 03, 2025 06:14 PM (pU9bi)

BIL (non-black) told me of his stint in the Army and how they wanted them to "donate" to some cause...he chose the United Negro College Fund. When asked by his Sargeant why he chose that one, his reply: "Because a mind is a terrible thing to waste." Sargeant was not amused...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 03, 2025 06:16 PM (ynpvh)

186 Carter sucked, but his little pills were OK.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 03, 2025 06:16 PM (Cus5s)

187 Had a buddy that worked with Carter on some of the international election integrity projects.

After Chavez obviously cheated in one of his elections, Carter and his crew were sent to Venezuela for the next election.

My buddy said the military intercepted all of the ballot boxes across the country. They were delivered to the election monitors the next day with the seals broken.

Carter then went ahead and "certified" the election, because he couldn't PROVE any wrong-doing.

The man was an evil idiot.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 03, 2025 06:18 PM (HlyYF)

188 Then he found out about arthritis and joint pain. Now he uses a Passlode.

when things got sporty we'd shot at each other with our nail guns...sometimes on scaffolds even

Posted by: DanMan at January 03, 2025 06:18 PM (8uzBS)

189
Daddy actually preferred lighter hammers. His favorite was a 13 oz. He could drive a 16d pretty hard with that. He'd use a 16 oz sometimes, but he thought you had better control with the lighter one.

Found memories of him teaching me to swing a hammer as a little boy. "Son! Let the hammer do the work!"

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 03, 2025 06:18 PM (w6EFb)

190 Carter sucked, but his little pills were OK.
Posted by: illiniwek at January 03, 2025 06:16 PM (Cus5s)

He was no Doans.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2025 06:18 PM (aD39U)

191 Merchant is Columbian. President of Columbia is leftist and anti-Trump. Also antisemite. you do the math.

Posted by: runner at January 03, 2025 06:18 PM (g47mK)

192 186 Carter sucked, but his little pills were OK.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 03, 2025 06:16 PM (Cus5s)

https://youtu.be/lvl_lfNyHuM

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 03, 2025 06:18 PM (ynpvh)

193
I don't understand what people on "our side" supposedly have to gain by continuing to shit on Johnson. A lot of these Twitter Fuckfaces have nothing to contribute but stupid "Hot Takes" to rouse the rabble every day.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 03, 2025 06:18 PM (JraRV)

194 181 Ace, one small quibble. To us the jihadist seemed crazed, or at least they did in that time period, but now we know that that is just how they are. They are not crazed, they are jihadists.

"...who'd fled the country as crazed jihadists sought to execute him."

Posted by: haffhowershower at January 03, 2025 06:15 PM (NMT5x)

----

Yeah, but that is kinda like saying hot water heater.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 03, 2025 06:18 PM (xxf6X)

195 I went to the meat store today- dropped about $45 on meat. A chuck roast, some ground pork, and a slab of top round to slice up thin for stir fry or maybe fajitas.
Posted by: Don Black at January 03, 2025 06:15 PM (/7KEl)

Holy crap. I could drop $80 on one good piece of beef. Prices are a bit higher in the Upper One.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 03, 2025 06:18 PM (7Pnfz)

196 Carter's Habitat for Humanity built a home across the street from mine that lowered my property value.
......

Tell them to waterproof the cardboard.

Posted by: wth at January 03, 2025 06:19 PM (v0R5T)

197 It was Richard Nixon who was actually friends with the Shah. He had him as a guest at the White House, and had Milt Jackson and the Modern Jazz Quartet as the entertainment.

Nixon had a series of jazz concerts at the residence, and though nobody will want to say so, was probably the 'coolest' president. He was a fair-to-middling piano player in his own right, and sat in with a few of them. I'd like to say that I saw him open for Earl Hines at Blues Alley in Georgetown -- but I did see Earl Hines at Blues Alley in Georgetown.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 03, 2025 06:19 PM (zdLoL)

198 I don't believe he even congratulate Trump on his win. Who is pulling Merchant's strings, really ??

Posted by: runner at January 03, 2025 06:19 PM (g47mK)

199 177 For all the bad things he did, he still moves up to 3rd from worse
Posted by: Skip at January

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I disagree.

Bad as he was, he was one of the best Democrat Presidents ever.
Clinton, Truman, and Cleveland rank as better since the Civil War.

Or are you going to argue that Johnson, Wilson, FDR, Johnson, Obama, and Biden were better? (I ignore JFK)

At the very least the public figured out how bad Carter was and he only got one term. Do I have to list the damage those other guys did?

And, he deregulated brewing, so there is that.

Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at January 03, 2025 06:19 PM (pU9bi)

200
THis damned RA is my excuse now. Swinging a hammer can do a number on my wrists.

Hand wrenches can as well, and I've learned my limits. Exceed them, and I'll pay for it for two days with swollen, painful joints in my wrist and hands.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 03, 2025 06:19 PM (w6EFb)

201 Carter's story isn't all bad but, a lot of it is. His clear hate of Jews was not great, it made all Georgia look bad.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 03, 2025 06:20 PM (RsS92)

202 188 Then he found out about arthritis and joint pain. Now he uses a Passlode.

when things got sporty we'd shot at each other with our nail guns...sometimes on scaffolds even

Posted by: DanMan at January 03, 2025 06:18 PM (8uzBS)

At my first workplace, we bought long plastic tubes and made blow guns. Worked damn well; timed the modified pen used as the dart going at 100mph from exhalation to thump into a wall...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 03, 2025 06:20 PM (ynpvh)

203 Carter sought approval and got it when elected. He thought Americans made a horrible mistake in 1980 and from there he could not accept that "mere mortal men" acceptance of building houses was good enough for him.

He was shunned, rightly so by the Establishment, after 1980 and sought not only acceptance on the world stage, but approval. It was always about Jimmie and he missed the vast perks of the Presidency, some got the crumbs of perks as an ex-president.

Obama didn't even have him speak at the convention.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 03, 2025 06:20 PM (FxH7T)

204 DH used to do that. Then he found out about arthritis and joint pain. Now he uses a Passlode.
Posted by: tcn in AK
===

Life.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 03, 2025 06:20 PM (5KR1B)

205 Petro (Columbian president sometime after Trump win, when he realized that there is not way not to acknowledge it) : "Petro did finally acknowledge Trump’s victory in a social media post on Elon Musk’s “X” in which he states: “The American people have spoken and they are respected. Congratulations to Trump on his victory. The North/South dialogue is still in force and the reality of climate collapse will make it revolve around its solution.” Petro then goes on to affirm that “the only way to seal the borders is with the prosperity of the peoples of the south and the end of the blockades.” Petro’s reference to “blockades” shows his ideological affinity to Cuba and rejection of sanctions on Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro. “The progressive possibility in the US could not applaud the genocide in Gaza,” he concludes. "

Posted by: runner at January 03, 2025 06:20 PM (g47mK)

206 Ace posted on this earlier today, but I was just reading up on it - Musk really is trying to collapse the British labour government! It’s an incredibly ballsy thing to try, and he just might pull it off.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 03, 2025 06:20 PM (7MHHr)

207 I saw a photo of Nixon shaking hands with Elvis. Elvis was just starting to gain weight and looked like he was high as f@@@.
I wonder if Nixon could tell. (Probably.)

Posted by: gKWVE at January 03, 2025 06:20 PM (gKWVE)

208 200
THis damned RA is my excuse now. Swinging a hammer can do a number on my wrists.

Hand wrenches can as well, and I've learned my limits. Exceed them, and I'll pay for it for two days with swollen, painful joints in my wrist and hands.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 03, 2025 06:19 PM (w6EFb)

Passlode and RoboGrips for the win, baby.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 03, 2025 06:21 PM (7Pnfz)

209 Holy shit. The Human Fund actually exists:

https://tinyurl.com/mum7hhnb

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 03, 2025 06:22 PM (Dm8we)

210 For all the bad things he did, he still moves up to 3rd from worse

yep...Woodrow 4th off the mat for sure

Posted by: DanMan at January 03, 2025 06:22 PM (8uzBS)

211 This clown is siding with terrorists and agains the US. And has found a friend in judge Juan Merchant.

Posted by: runner at January 03, 2025 06:22 PM (g47mK)

212 So the first thing he did was protect himself from being removed. Yeah…this is fine.

https://bit.ly/3PoznUC
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
-----

Do you remember the problems we had getting anyone but McCarthy to be speaker?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 03, 2025 06:23 PM (5KR1B)

213 I am hopeless. I just ordered an overpriced, doubtless beat to hell, T65 parts kit from El Salvador.
-------

It's all them extra cogs.

Posted by: M21 Rock Crusher at January 03, 2025 06:23 PM (XeU6L)

214 Do I have to list the damage those other guys did?
.......
To add:
Johnson - ended reconstruction and enabled Jim Crow
Wilson - 17th amendment ended the Republic. Created "our democracy"
FDR - created the blob. enabled the commie march through institutions.
Johnson - created the welfare state. Great migration that ruined our cities.

O, and B you all already know.

Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at January 03, 2025 06:24 PM (pU9bi)

215 I still rank Carter second worst president of my lifetime, Wilson was worse, but Biden is by far the worst. He's not just a perverted corrupt vegetable but his entire administration was built around attacking Americans, pushing disgusting perversion and corruption, and destruction of the country.

But Carter was awful, just incompetent at the job.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 03, 2025 06:24 PM (RsS92)

216 Damn.

Just got done dealing with the foot of snow that fell today.

Forecast was for 1/2 an inch.

Nailed it.

Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2025 06:24 PM (UE/EX)

217 Carlene Carter was a hottie back in the day

Posted by: Don Black at January 03, 2025 06:24 PM (/7KEl)

218 I just ordered an overpriced, doubtless beat to hell, T65 parts kit from El Salvador.

I hope you didn't accidentally buy one of those prisoners.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 03, 2025 06:24 PM (gKWVE)

219 If you get off your asses, you can see the Moon and Venus in a conjunction in the SW sky. Almost looks like the Star and Crescent, which must make this an omen for the allah snackbar crowd.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 03, 2025 06:25 PM (YIxO9)

220 I hope you didn't accidentally buy one of those prisoners.
Posted by: gKWVE at January 03, 2025 06:24 PM (gKWVE)

My own Renfield.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2025 06:25 PM (aD39U)

221 "THis damned RA is my excuse now. Swinging a hammer can do a number on my wrists." Posted by: publius

Those hammers with "shock absorbing" handles help, but nail guns are the answer, imo.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 03, 2025 06:25 PM (Cus5s)

222 Money For People

Posted by: Don Black at January 03, 2025 06:26 PM (/7KEl)

223 Carlene Carter was a hottie back in the day

Amy was a little kid but she always seemed homely to me. Not as bad as Chelsea Clinton but still. Jimmy was always goofy looking to me anyway.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 03, 2025 06:26 PM (RsS92)

224 IIRC, Amy was an expert on nuclear weapons.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2025 06:27 PM (aD39U)

225 Another point in Carter's favor.

One reason he was hated by the press is that he understood the country was going through "austerity" and felt that DC had to do the same.

The press actually got indignant and angry at him because at WH meetings where they used to have 5 star meals, he had the nerve to cut the budget and hand out sandwiches. They hated him for that.

Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at January 03, 2025 06:27 PM (pU9bi)

226 Robert W Malone, MD @RWMaloneMD

What the hell is going on at Fort Bragg, and what did Lloyd Austin know about this and when did he know it?

Austin’s military career included many command assignments at Bragg, and he visited the base many times while serving as Sec Defense. This included signing off on the current Army PsyOps policy.

See this thread-

Bad Kitty Unleashed @pepesgrandma

There were 109 deaths at Fort Bragg (Fort Liberty) in 2020-2021. Suicides, drugs killed Fort Bragg soldiers at higher rate than combat and training deaths.

Now in the Biden administration days, the deaths are mostly reported on individually. Fort Bragg is home of Seal Team Six and the Psychological Operation Groups.

https://bit.ly/4a2nfCa

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 03, 2025 06:27 PM (P5BPp)

227 >> you can see the Moon and Venus in a conjunction in the SW sky.

Saturn is right close by as well. Moon in between.

The Moon will occult Mars on the 13th. The Wolf Moon will devour Mars. Also, Moon will be in front of the Pleiades on the 10th, I think.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 03, 2025 06:28 PM (w6EFb)

228 "Just got done dealing with the foot of snow that fell today. Forecast was for 1/2 an inch. Nailed it." Posted by: garrett

WC IL forecast is for 9" Sunday, and temps in teens for highs for a week. Tractor issues might make me just drive over it with 4wd truck, and no cab on tractors anyways. ... Stocked up and ready though ... wood to burn if electric goes out. Preppers R Us.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 03, 2025 06:29 PM (Cus5s)

229 The press actually got indignant and angry at him because at WH meetings where they used to have 5 star meals, he had the nerve to cut the budget and hand out sandwiches. They hated him for that.

Yeah he had his bright points, mostly that he would take the burden onto himself. The sweater, for example was a bad PR move, but he really wore the dang thing because he turned the thermostat down.

The thing is, that's fine leadership for a household, its not leadership for a country.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 03, 2025 06:30 PM (RsS92)

230 Oh, yes, Lloyd Fucking Austin, who shut down the military for a day to root out "extremism." How'd that work out for you, Skippy?

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 03, 2025 06:30 PM (7Pnfz)

231 Merchant is Columbian. President of Columbia is leftist and anti-Trump. Also antisemite. you do the math.
Posted by: runner at January 03, 2025 06:18 PM (g47mK)

Merchan's family left Colombia when he was about 5, and his father was an officer in the Colombian army, hard to pin anything on him. I would claim that the "best and the brightest" in Bogota reliably make me think there is something in the water there to make them all suicidally leftist, but that may not have much influence over Merchan that some stupid opinion on what being "Colombian" is all about.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 03, 2025 06:30 PM (D7oie)

232 Carlene Carter no relation to the Georgia Carters

she is June Carter's daughter, Johnny Cash's stepdaughter

https://youtu.be/lG7zuVes2U4?si=RnQd5APqafCzINSm

I was just foolin ' about

Posted by: Don Black at January 03, 2025 06:30 PM (/7KEl)

233 Publius, my kid is pretty nifty with the telescope. The first time I saw Saturn it blew my mind. Unfortunately, the rings are going to be head on and invisible for the next few months.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 03, 2025 06:31 PM (YIxO9)

234
What, exactly, is a 5-star meal?

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 03, 2025 06:31 PM (JraRV)

235 Jimmy was reacting to The Imperial Presidency of Nixon.

Nixon liked the pomp and finery of the office.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2025 06:31 PM (aD39U)

236 you can see the Moon and Venus in a conjunction in the SW sky

Yeah it looks like a Middle Eastern flag, the star up near the moon. Its very exotic looking to me.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 03, 2025 06:31 PM (RsS92)

237 Put on a sweater
Gas line
Even Odd

Fuck you Carter to death.

I have hated you around 45 years and still think there is more.
Not as much as McCain.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 03, 2025 06:31 PM (gbOdA)

238
Did you mean five course meal?

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 03, 2025 06:31 PM (JraRV)

239 Carter also destroyed public education by starting the Fed Education Department, although it officially started right after Reagan got into office.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 03, 2025 06:31 PM (QAkQ3)

240
Al Capone ran soup kitchens for the poor. That makes him a good man.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 03, 2025 06:31 PM (dxSpM)

241 I thought the majority Senate leader could overrule minority assignments.
Posted by: Frank Barone
=====
Nope. House Speaker can kick people off a committee regardless of party (although that violated the House rules circa 2021 under Pelosi for the Jan 6 Cmte. by giving Pelosi the power to select the GOP members for it--Kinzinger and Cheney).

I am assuming the ability to kick one off a committee still exists in the new rules package for the 2025-7 House. Haven't read the current package.

Posted by: whig at January 03, 2025 06:32 PM (ctrM5)

242 nood TRANNY

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 03, 2025 06:32 PM (ynpvh)

243 219 If you get off your asses, you can see the Moon and Venus in a conjunction in the SW sky. Almost looks like the Star and Crescent, which must make this an omen for the allah snackbar crowd.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 03, 2025 06:25 PM (YIxO9)

I will probably wait until it gets dark.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 03, 2025 06:32 PM (7Pnfz)

244 The thing is, that's fine leadership for a household, its not leadership for a country.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

---
Yes, this is exactly right.
The public did not want our President to be poor and cold.
At the same time, DC was resented for their extravagance and cutting the catered events for media assholes was a good move.

Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at January 03, 2025 06:32 PM (pU9bi)

245 IIRC, Amy was an expert on nuclear weapons.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2025 06:27 PM (aD39U)

she was protesting with Abby Hoffman for a bit, until they all got arrested. Then Hoffman committed suicide. I wondered about that.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 03, 2025 06:32 PM (D7oie)

246 Johnson - created the welfare state. Great migration that ruined our cities.
=====
Roger Stone said he was an accomplice to the taking of JFK's life and was a seriel killer within the state of Texas as well.

Posted by: Crusader at January 03, 2025 06:32 PM (TN0g+)

247 What, exactly, is a 5-star meal?

Lobster, foi gras, wagyu beef, Cabernet Sauvignon, that kind of thing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 03, 2025 06:33 PM (RsS92)

248 The wth Fund

Posted by: wth at January 03, 2025 06:33 PM (v0R5T)

249 246 Johnson - created the welfare state. Great migration that ruined our cities.
=====
Roger Stone said he was an accomplice to the taking of JFK's life and was a seriel killer within the state of Texas as well.
Posted by: Crusader at January 03, 2025 06:32 PM (TN0g+)

Johnson also saved the Fed Res Bank... Kennedy had signed an Executive order to bring creation of the dollar back under Government control.... Johnson rescinded it post haste after Kennedy was killed.

/puts on tinfoil hat...

Follow.. the money....

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 03, 2025 06:36 PM (QAkQ3)

250 136:
That reminds me of a joke that few of my friends have 'gotten', but you certainly will:

Q. If Frank Zappa had recorded an album about filial ingratitude, what would he have called it?

A. 'Dweezils Ripped My Flesh'.

Posted by: Dr. Weevil at January 03, 2025 06:37 PM (43XUo)

251 Working up from the bottom
Sundowner
Obama
Carter
FDR

Posted by: Skip at January 03, 2025 06:39 PM (fwDg9)

252 Johnson - ended reconstruction and enabled Jim Crow
Wilson - 17th amendment ended the Republic. Created "our democracy"
FDR - created the blob. enabled the commie march through institutions.
Johnson - created the welfare state. Great migration that ruined our cities.

O, and B you all already know.
Posted by: Gentlemen
====Um no,
US Grant and the incoming Rutherford B. Hayes administration ended Reconstruction more or less.

Jim Crow grew gradually in the South but had a major upsurge in the 1890's due to the risk of a fusion ticket of poor whites and poor blacks which occurred in a few Southern elections. That is where the right to vote was seriously circumvented.

The Civil Rights Act of 1876 and the 14th Amendment evisceration came from Scotus in the Civil Rights Cases (1883), Slaughterhouse Cases (1873), and Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Wilson can be blamed for much but had nothing to do with the 17th being ratified as it passed Congress during Taft's term and achieved ratification in April 1913 by states. Wilson was in office for only about a month when that happened.

Pretty accurate on FDR and LBJ but the Great Migration occurred earlier than LBJ.

Posted by: whig at January 03, 2025 06:39 PM (ctrM5)

253 . Fort Bragg is home of Seal Team Six and the Psychological Operation Groups.

https://bit.ly/4a2nfCa
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
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Said the other day, military is short on psych and light on roids.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 03, 2025 06:45 PM (5KR1B)

254 Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 03, 2025 05:43 PM (xxf6X)

Bashar Assad or ISIS in Syria? Which is/will be worse?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia

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That part of the world produces such shyte leaders. [Looks at West, reddens]
But seriously, we're not medieval like the secularists and fanatics alike over there.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at January 03, 2025 06:49 PM (KJWbh)

255
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't that fat drunk Edward Ted Kennedy run against carter for the D nom in 1980?
Posted by: Soothsayer

And Archie Bunker stumped for Teddy.

https://youtu.be/TRHG2hhKsJw

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 03, 2025 07:00 PM (63Dwl)

256 Wilson can be blamed for much but had nothing to do with the 17th being ratified as it passed Congress during Taft's term and achieved ratification in April 1913 by states. Wilson was in office for only about a month when that happened.

Pretty accurate on FDR and LBJ but the Great Migration occurred earlier than LBJ.
Posted by: whig at January 03, 2025 06:39 PM (ctrM5)

Wilson blocked blacks from having government jobs almost entirely. And he wasn't even a Southern Democrat, but from the North.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 03, 2025 07:21 PM (n7h9X)

257 IIRC, Amy was an expert on nuclear weapons.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2025 06:27 PM (aD39U)

Yeah Carter invented that trope where an adult lies about speaking to their kid on serious subjects, although he didn't invent the mutual weeping part.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 03, 2025 07:26 PM (n7h9X)

258 Carter is one of the biggest antisemite US presidents in the modern era.
Posted by: Frank Barone

Hey, what am I? Chopped liver?
Posted by: Baracky Obamy at January 03, 2025 05:55 PM (oiNtH)

Obama was more notable for hating England.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 03, 2025 07:32 PM (n7h9X)

259 My mother, God rest her soul, thought Carter was such a nice man because of his smile and he and Roselynn just seemed so nice together. That was as far as her thought process went on the subject. I suspect that was how he got into office because of women like my mom and Democrats in general. The best that I can say is we didn't have to endure eight years of him and we got Reagan.
Posted by: Cheri at January 03, 2025 05:52 PM (oiNtH)

Word was if Jimmy left the office to talk to Roslyn on foreign affairs the aides knew he'd come back all ready to bomb everything and they'd have to talk him down.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 03, 2025 07:35 PM (n7h9X)

260 I had never heard this about Jimmy Carter, but I’m not surprised. Typical shit bag democrat, ushers in a violent theocratic leader while stabbing a staunch ally in the back doing it, only to be betrayed himself. My father never forgot Jimmy Carter’s remark about Reza Shah seeking asylum in the US while dying from cancer: “Fuck the Shah! I’m not going to welcome him here when he has other places to go.’-Jimmy Carter
50 years of death, mayhem, destruction and headaches with Iran, all over Carter trying to futilely win an election he couldn’t win.
Peace loving peanut farmer my ass, Fuck You Jimmy Carter, rest in piss cocksucker.

Posted by: Fuck Jimmy Carter, signed Pre-1979 Iranian at January 03, 2025 07:50 PM (q2utD)

261 Jimmy Carter’s legacy in Zimbabwe:

Life expectancy in 1980 (the last year of minority rule: 58.67 years (World Bank)

Life expectancy in 2000 after 20 years of rule by Marxist Robert Mugabe who was supported by Carter: 34 years for women; 37 for men. It was the lowest in the world.

Posted by: Rosco at January 03, 2025 08:21 PM (6Tvtm)

262 I was on his USSS detail decades ago, spent a lot of time with the man. I could tell some stories. I also have a cool Pic of us atop Kilimanjaro in 1988, but the public really doesn't have a clue of how petty the man was.

Posted by: Jeff E at January 03, 2025 08:51 PM (hHQo5)

263 test

Posted by: no one at January 04, 2025 12:44 AM (dSco/)

264 About 20 years ago I had a passing conversation about Carter with a spook from India. Their view was that Carter viewed Khomeini as a 'Man of God' and therefore a reliable partner. There is a whole category of classified documents that don't get declassified until the 'death of the principals'. The second half of Carters presidency should make interesting reading.

Posted by: harrywr2 at January 04, 2025 09:42 AM (AP9Sj)

265 Carter is burning in hell. He has the blood of millions on his hands. Hope he enjoys the 9th ring.

Posted by: TJ Jackson at January 04, 2025 12:42 PM (bXvrr)

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