Following a somewhat amazing 22-month stay in hospice care, former President of the United States Jimmy Carter died Sunday evening at the ripe old age of 100 years.
22 days in hospice, 22 days to inauguration... and the 444 days our hostages were held by Iran until another inauguration on 1/20/1981.
Have we learned anything yet from what's happened since? Carter's administration was terrible from more than one viable viewpoint. Somehow we managed to stem the downward slide more than once since then, but with Clinton, Obama then Biden's terms we've been moved further down the slippery slope. Our country's suffered greatly under their administrations and the bills for the damage they've done will affect generations to come.
Jimmy Carter destabilized Iran and helped overthrow the Shah, resulting in the Islamic Revolution and the loss of one of the most important allies of the US in the Middle East. He also stupidly canceled our participation in the 1980 Olympics because Russia invaded Afghanistan, ruining the hopes and dreams of athletes who trained years for nothing. A lot of people on social media are saying he was a bad president but a good man; to each his own.
Carter was beholden to the same institutions that Obama and Biden embraced with similar results for the USA.
Early on he was indoctrinated by one or more of the neo-con/intelligence community groups. Unfortunately, I'm terrible with such details. I think the tri-lateral commission was involved and while that name still causes me to immediately think "conspiracy theorist", the latter term is not so terrible these days.
There was at least one excellent article about this on Rod Adam's atomicinsights blog.
Did a little digging at atomicinsights. Still haven't found the article I'm looking for, but I found this bit, which I thought was interesting.
This was Carter's Keystone XL Pipeline moment. By executive order he shut down the Allied Chemical’s Barnwell, South Carolina reprocessing facility, in which hundreds of millions of dollars of private investment had already been spent. Rescinding the executive order by Reagan did nothing. No one was ever going to risk investing private money in reprocessing again, when the money can be flushed down the toilet at the whim of a president.
22 days in hospice, 22 days to inauguration... and the 444 days our hostages were held by Iran until another inauguration on 1/20/1981.
Have we learned anything yet from what's happened since? Carter's administration was terrible from more than one viable viewpoint. Somehow we managed to stem the downward slide more than once since then, but with Clinton, Obama then Biden's terms we've been moved further down the slippery slope. Our country's suffered greatly under their administrations and the bills for the damage they've done will affect generations to come.
a bad parade of leadership but you are so right in pinning Obama, the self idolizing impotency, and brain dead Biden as worst and worstest.
Jimmy Carter destabilized Iran and helped overthrow the Shah, resulting in the Islamic Revolution and the loss of one of the most important allies of the US in the Middle East. He also stupidly canceled our participation in the 1980 Olympics because Russia invaded Afghanistan, ruining the hopes and dreams of athletes who trained years for nothing. A lot of people on social media are saying he was a bad president but a good man; to each his own.
De mortuis nil nisi bonum. About all you can say.
Thank you! And Amen!
Carter was beholden to the same institutions that Obama and Biden embraced with similar results for the USA.
Early on he was indoctrinated by one or more of the neo-con/intelligence community groups. Unfortunately, I'm terrible with such details. I think the tri-lateral commission was involved and while that name still causes me to immediately think "conspiracy theorist", the latter term is not so terrible these days.
There was at least one excellent article about this on Rod Adam's atomicinsights blog.
Did a little digging at atomicinsights. Still haven't found the article I'm looking for, but I found this bit, which I thought was interesting.
This was Carter's Keystone XL Pipeline moment. By executive order he shut down the Allied Chemical’s Barnwell, South Carolina reprocessing facility, in which hundreds of millions of dollars of private investment had already been spent. Rescinding the executive order by Reagan did nothing. No one was ever going to risk investing private money in reprocessing again, when the money can be flushed down the toilet at the whim of a president.
https://atomicinsights.com/plutonium-fuel-cycle-under-attack/?highlight=carter
Turns out, Ford issued a temporary halt, and Carter made it permanent. Rather like Obama first halting XL and then Biden finishing it off later.
Finally found at least a passing comment about what I was thinking of. One of the comments (Dec. 8, 5:40 AM) by Rod Adams after this article:
https://atomicinsights.com/smoking-gun-research-continuing-earnest/?highlight=carter
And how Carter was not, never was, didn't hardly get close to being a "nuclear engineer":
https://atomicinsights.com/resume-inflation-can-skew-discussion-and-lead-to-bad-decisions/?highlight=carter