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Donna in MO's avatar

Funny a friend sent me a post from X this morning, and while there, saw that President Carter was trending. I thought, oh no...but instead, it's because he will be 100 on October 1st and said he wants to live long enough to vote for Kamala.

I was in older elementary/jr high during the Carter years and it was a rough time economically for our family. There was a sense that we were on the downhill trajectory in the US and the hostage situation was humiliating. So we've been down before and came back fighting. Only hope history can repeat itself.

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Susan Seas's avatar

Someone needs to explain to Carter that he will still be voting for Kamala even when he is dead, so go in peace.

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New Scott's avatar

This wins today

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Cheryl Caraglior's avatar

🤣 Nice one.

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Peter GL's avatar

at least for this year's election he may have already voted by mail. Besides, in the new US dead people can vote, so long as they vote democrat

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Tio Nico's avatar

well, that worked great for JFK. Seems about six thousand dead Chicagoans voted for him......

Of course, LBJ got in the last and final shot some time later.

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Robert's avatar

Ouch

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Tio Nico's avatar

I was alive, watched all his and more, and old enough to be aware of the history being written.

Looking back I have to count those as "the good ol' days". Sigh....

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Robert's avatar

Yes. I was old enough to be in shock that November day in Dallas Our internal fall has accelerated since.

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TiredCitizen's avatar

Yep. The Deep State went in overdrive then and since 11/22/1963.

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BBS's avatar

On a serious note, are the Republicans doing anything about forcing individual states to clean up their voter registration lists--removing dead people ? I think Ohio is, but is anyone else?

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Susan Seas's avatar

No because they are just the other wing of the same bird. They sound good but actions speak louder and there really isn’t any action! I want Dems and Reps gone!

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TiredCitizen's avatar

Sadly it isn't going to happen

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Erin Fight's avatar

Exactly

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Michael Framson's avatar

No, if Oregon removed its dead voters, it would become a red state.

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Tio Nico's avatar

There hs been some serious workalong these lines. Trouble is, in the dirty states, even when the evidence is presented (two hundred fifty voters registered at the same address in North Portland, a site visit reveals the "residence" is the remains of a fifties vintage double wide mobile home with one end and about half of the adjacent side GONE, part of the roof collapsed, no electricity or water service. Not what quaoifies as a "residence", and certainly not for 250 "voters".) those who have the "authority" to deal with such things are too busy making things "equitable", and "including" as many as they can(concentrating on voter rolls....) and being very "diverse" in what counts for what where and why.

So yes and no, accurately answer your question.

I also know that Project Veritas documented some REALLY skanky goings on in Minnesota amongst the M people.... folks should have gone to jail but won't.

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Donna in MO's avatar

Supposedly MO is. Jay Ashcoft, our SOS, is running for governor so he is going full on election integrity moves NOW, although he was lame in 2020. Suppose he thinks we've forgotten. I haven't.

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TiredCitizen's avatar

That's the thing. Many republicans too are involved in the plot to destroy the US from within. People still proclaim "the democrats did this and that!" Folks, we don't have two political parties. It is all theater.

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phlyme's avatar

😂😂

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Fred Richmond's avatar

So very true. Also, Roslyn and Billy.

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Concerned mom's avatar

GOOD thing I had already put my coffee cup down before I read this!!!

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Penny North's avatar

😂

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MarianneB's avatar

Touché.

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Bonz's avatar

Bingo

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Sue Kelley's avatar

Hahahaha 😂

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Well met!

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Vida Galore's avatar

Hahahahaha!

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Fager 132's avatar

Lol. Good one.

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Tio Nico's avatar

BOOM!!!!

a tenring shot

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Margaret Allison's avatar

😂😂😂made me laugh y’all! Jimmy Carter? That was a bad time! And I was through high school and college. Working as Real Nurse!! 🤭that was funny and if I had coffee I would have made it rock a little!!

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Valerie's avatar

I was in elementary school when Carter was President, but I distinctly remember the gas lines. We waited a couple of hours each time to fill up.

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Jamison's avatar

And, we had specific days that we could get gas.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Odd/even gas days. Lines for miles.

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

All created intentionally

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S.P.H.'s avatar

Perhaps the first pandemic Alan? To see how far the American people could be pushed?

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

I, too, was in grade school during those years. I remember my mama picking us up from school and saying that we needed to stop for gas. Big groans! The silver lining was, it was the only time I could read in the car and not get carsick! 😁 I read a lot of books sitting in those gas lines.

Mrs. "the Knife"

P.S. Now that I am thinking about it, I wonder why she didn't go sit in the gas lines after dropping us off in the morning? She probably had big, important grown-up stuff to do. Or maybe, she thought it would teach us patience? 😂🤣

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cltwilson1's avatar

She was afraid the line would take so long that she would miss picking you up.

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TiredCitizen's avatar

You read books in your childhood?! The shock and horror of that. Just joking. I'm still a reader. When we had testing at the end of 7th grade to see where you placed in subjects like English class, I graded at 12th grade, 7 months. We were taught to spell by phonetics. My sister who is 6 years younger was taught memorizing spelling words. Girl can't spell for nothing. Not much of a reader either.

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

Yes! My folks got rid of the t.v. when I was 2 years old, so my siblings and I grew up without a t.v. We were taught to read using the phonics system and all read voraciously, so much so that we were testing at the college level by the time 5th grade rolled around. On one of my report cards in 5th grade, my teacher wrote, "She is a pleasure to have in class, but she races through her school work so that she can pull out her books and read!"

Mrs. "the Knife"

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Porge's avatar

I was working as a petroleum dispensing engineer at that time, came to work at 5am every morning only to see the same idiot first in line to top off his tank.....his car never took any more than gallon of gas. We finally put in place a minimum purchase of three gallons. Problem solved!

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Peace's avatar

So, how does one make sure a car will take more than three gallons before they start filling? Or, were they charged for three gallons even if they only got one gallon?

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Porge's avatar

We told them before we pumped the gas that they would be charged for 3 gal . We had to eliminate the morons that were just topping off their tanks and creating lines around the block. It was a crazy time and dangerous too! We had to walk down the line of cars and stop people from getting in line because we sold our allocation for the day. One guy pulled a pistol on me because I wouldn't let him in line. Needless to say....I let him in line.....crazy shit....for a few gallons of gas...ya think!!!

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Peace's avatar

Porge - That does sound crazy! Any idea how much the gas cost at that time?

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Porge's avatar

Peace, I just looked up price for gas in 1974.....it was average. 53 cents....lol!

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TiredCitizen's avatar

I remember the price of .46 as a child. Would have been about the same time.

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Peace's avatar

Isn't that nuts?

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Porge's avatar

The good old days! I could go cruising all night for 5 bucks!🤣🤣

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Bryan Dair's avatar

You could have bought dinner for 5 bucks then.

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Porge's avatar

85 cents for a Big Mac in 1974! So 5 Big Macs and small coke 🤔 🤣🤣

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Porge's avatar

Gosh Peace, I honestly don't remember, but I'm pretty sure it was under a dollar.

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Robert's avatar

I distinctly remember him claiming to be Christian. Has there ever been a more anti- Christian group holding the highest offices in the land?

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wilson's avatar

Carter has learned nothing. He used Christianity and now he supports depravity, decadence, debasement and degradation. Kind of like the D.O.E. which carter started. Just another nail in the destruction of America.

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Dan (100% All in MAGA)'s avatar

They've been using created crises after crises to implement their plots to steal our power and wealth for.... ever.

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Robert's avatar

Chaos and disorder from within are Marxist tactics.

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Robert's avatar

Wow, I'd forgotten. DOEducation is certainly a betrayal of our future. Without American History , Civics, Western Civilization...our children have no sound understanding of the genius and values of the Founders of our Constitutional Republic and have no rebuttals to the deviant ideologies they encounter in college and/or the workplace. Insidious tactics against our children.

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wilson's avatar

to paraphrase, "give me your children and I don't care about you" lenin or stalin or some other communist garbage. They captured the schools. Just like they've captured virtually everything else.

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Vida Galore's avatar

When the US tried communism and had Soviet Union lines. Good times!

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Peter GL's avatar

coming to a blue state near you!

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Deb's avatar

I remember being in gas lines and also being able to buy gas on certain days off the week... Even or odd, based on the license plate number. It was awful!!!!!

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taxpayer's avatar

My recollection is that the worst gasoline shortages were 1973-4, well before Carter took office in 1977.

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Fla Mom's avatar

I think you're right. This story says that Nixon imposed price controls because of the spike in prices from the decreased production coordinated by OPEC. But then:

"By the Iranian oil crisis in 1979, the controls had grown unsustainable as oil prices escalated in global markets. With lines forming once again and fistfights breaking out at the pump, President Carter quickly waived most of the controls on oil and gas prices to make more fuel available. The resulting sharp price increases ushered in a new nightmare: double-digit inflation, as businesses quickly passed on their higher fuel costs and workers’ unions demanded cost- of-living increases to keep pace with higher prices. The surge in inflation put the Federal Reserve in crisis mode. It ordered its largest-ever increase in interest rates in October 1979, plunging the economy into a deep recession."

Good times, good times.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/may/15/20060515-122820-6110r/

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Nikki (Gayle) Nicholson's avatar

gas was 25c a gall when I graduated here in Fl in 73. I was stationed in Germany when Carter won the election.

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Elaine Russky's avatar

I've bought gas for 9 cents a gallon. There were price wars among gas stations. I remember riding around in my best friend's dad's T-Bird, and scraping for coins on the floor so we could buy gas because it got around 9 mpg. It wasn't unusual to buy a dollar's worth.

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Kim's avatar

Same!

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NAB's avatar

Yep. We drank powdered milk and also ate this meat-ish product called "soybean burger mix." Did anyone else eat this? I don't think I minded it so much, but it was a luxury to have 100% beef hamburger when I was a kid.

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

We mixed powdered milk and whole milk to make it stretch when I was a kid. I recently did the math with current prices and powdered milk works out to a similar price per gallon as fresh. Same with SPAM which comes out around $5/lb. which is more than many pork cuts. Sometimes we only THINK we are being frugal!

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Patricia Woodard's avatar

Ridiculous. Nice guy but TERRIBLE President. I assume he still has Secret Service protection, too.

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Margaret Allison's avatar

Good question! I never understood why people didn’t “filler up”! 🙄

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

I remember the Carter misery years.

Purchased a home using my VA benefits and the interest rate was 12%.

New car loans were 16%.

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CStone's avatar

We didn’t have VA benefits. Purchased a home in South Florida in ‘81. The interest rate was 21%. He was the worst president ever until Obama/biden.

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JW's avatar

I suffered through that same 21% rate. Refinancing could not have come soon enough.

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Dawn B's avatar

You'd think people wouldn't vote dem just for that reason.

You still in SO FLO? I am working on cashing out of here. As much as I love the place I was raised, it isn't that place anymore.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

Economically horrible. But at least we felt confident we could wait it out and the next election would fix it. It did. And everyone still knew what a woman was.

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Elaine Russky's avatar

As pointed out in one of Tucker's interviews, Democrats don't know who a woman is and say gender is fluid, but we're supposed to vote for Commiela for her huge accomplishment of being a woman.

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Donna in MO's avatar

Yes our interest rate when we bought out house in 1990 was 11 3/4%, interest rates were high for a LONG time.

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Betsy Frost's avatar

Ours was close to 14% in 1986 and only that, lower than fixed rate, because we picked a 5 year ARM.

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Tio Nico's avatar

I bought my first property in northern California in 1972. Interest for the new loan was 2.2%, and I was able to assume an earlier loan (about half the total) at 1.7%. The rental incom from the tiny shack outback covered the entire mortgage on the big house and store building. Those were the days... wish I'd never sold that place. I'm told by some who now know the area it would probably fetch close to seven figures. My price to buy was about $12K. Would have been the est retirement plan ever.

Of course, to have kept it I would almost certainly have continued to live in that forsaken corrupt insane state. No price or profit could induce me to go back. The Gabbling Nuisance is only a small part of why.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

SELLER-FINANCED loans back in 80' or pay high teens for for interests.

Miserable times, but we found our way around it by bypassing the system.

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Not Me's avatar

I had a 13% mortgage interest rate.

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Not Me's avatar

…BUT I purchased a CD that paid 15% interest. Best I can get me is 5%

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The Great Santini's avatar

Bought a car with a loan. Actually made money on it. But trying to find a job was really hard. Miserable but amazing time. It led to President Reagan the 1980’s, victory in the Cold War. Let’s hope we can do it again.

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TiredCitizen's avatar

Not going to happen

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cltwilson1's avatar

I was a teenager during the Carter years and I put all my money in a six month CD at 16%. I was able to buy my first car once I cashed it in.

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Jamison's avatar

My great aunt loved it, because she said they made “a killing” on their CDs. I think CDs were paying around 15-17%. Oh, she loved Joe Biden, too.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

I remember the folks making bank on their CDs.

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Joni's avatar

Yep!! My husband’s grandparents made a killing with those rates!

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Elaine Russky's avatar

Some S&Ls, which eventually folded, were paying 21-22 percent. The more risk, the higher the interest rate.

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Oregon Kathy's avatar

Yes, if you were old enough to already be established, then the high interest rates were a bonanza.

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Debra Nolasco's avatar

I wonder if your great aunt realized that in 1983, Joe Biden voted to tax Social Security. Then, in 1993, he voted to raise the tax on Social Security from 50% to 85%. This is according to a tweet by. Rep. Thomas Massie.

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Joseph Kaplan's avatar

I lived in Philadelphia and we well remember his phony oil shortage. In those days Philly was a major oil port on the Delaware River. At the time he was crying there was no oil we would drive across the bridge from Philly to NJ and see the oil tankers lined up all the way down the river to the Chesapeake bay as far you could see. Unable to dock and unload because of Carter’s phony war on oil.

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rolandttg's avatar

He was just a pawn. You can't think of oil without thinking of Rockefeller.

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SusanMc's avatar

Same one who gave us pharmaceuticals. Had to use that petro for something besides gasoline for vehicles.

Beginning of the monster Big Pharma.

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

Yes the constant flame from refinery near airport. Loved near then, still do.

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AL's avatar

And on and on it goes- people at the top, sitting at the switch and pulling the strings to literally control our lives.

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Tio Nico's avatar

sort of like the ake-believe debacle in California's conainer ports a couple years back. all of them directly falling from new laws the eedjits in that forsaken state had voted for as ballot initiatives.... that hardly anyone bothered to READ, let aline ponder the consequences thereof.

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SusanMc's avatar

Such I’d

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SusanMc's avatar

Trying to space & touched wrong spot😳

Same eedgits keep voting for nonsense bc of that “D” - amazing to see some figure it out & try their best to warn their friends!

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Carter was delusional as he sat in his sweater in the oval office trying to guilt trip us into turning down our thermostats while regular folk couldn't buy or sell without SELLER-FINANCED loans.

The Left has always been out of touch with reality. And always will because their entire world view is based on "feelings", not facts.

But never forget how proud our country became once again in the 80's under Reagans leadership.

Thats exactly when proto-TDS began. They claimed Reagan, just as Trump, was the antichrist and was going to blow up the world. All fiction and feelings removed from facts and reality.

We still have a chance. Let's never give up.

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Peter GL's avatar

yep, Reagan and Trump would "destroy" the world, yet neither had any real wars started, unlike the peace-loving demoncrats!

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The Great Santini's avatar

I remember.

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Tio Nico's avatar

as if "the antichrist" was ever an individual that could DO anything. Silly people. go and read Jphn's three references to that term.

It simply describes anyone who is agains Christ as opposed to for, and thus serving, Him. That whole business is more of the rotten fruit of Cyrus Scofield.

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NofloChick's avatar

Do they really think that because Carter wants to vote for Harris that’s going to impress us? There’s a lot of us out there who remember what a rotten president he was. So not surprising he would vote for the evil cackle queen.

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Alison Smith's avatar

I was in junior high school during the Carter years and our school had to close because of the energy crisis and we were busses to a 100 year old building that still had a coal fueled boiler. This was also during the big blizzards in the Midwest. It WAS a very bleak time. He needs to pass away already.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

That evil troll warmonger Kissinger finally died at 100.

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My Favorite Things's avatar

Donna in MO,

Our society is much more depraved now than it was in the 70’s when Carter was president. Yes, some things improved and others devolved. We are still in a downward trajectory. I think we can fix some of the problems currently facing us. However, that depends much upon how our current elections play out. Trump was the first to support trans men competing against women in the Miss Universe pageant. Hopefully, he will keep his campaign promises to women now. Kamala will do her best to destroy whatever is left of traditional American values if she wins through a fraudulent election.

Sadly, we will never see a country again with traditional American values being the mainstay. I think we’ve lost something (traditional family and societal values ) and we will never get it completely back. Do you think shows like Leave it to Beaver, Father Knows Best, My Three Sons etc would ever be top tier shows if they came out today? How many women will happily be stay at home moms?

Can we get schools back to where teaching children subjects like math, science and reading are more important than promoting an agenda? Children aren’t even taught or required to say the Pledge of Allegiance or sing the Star Spangled Banner anymore. They’re not taught to value America and her accomplishments.

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Fla Mom's avatar

Sarahanne, your last point, about education, simply makes the argument for school choice instead of government-run education. Government schools are the experiment, historically speaking, and they have failed miserably.

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Tio Nico's avatar

Can we get schools back to where teaching children subjects like math, science and reading are more important than promoting an agenda?

yes we can. Don't send them to the gummit propaganda and mind-bending machines. Teach them yourself. Since YOU are aware and inteligent enough tto know there is a problem, you are alraedy light years ahead of da gummit sisstum. Reject it, and teach them yourself. You have already proven your results will be far superior to the present gummit methods.

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Inverted Pyramid's avatar

Carter voting for Kamala is strange; Carter never got along with the Clinton family. Carter sees that the Clinton Foundation grew to one of the world’s biggest Foundations in a matter of a couple of handful years by providing access to the American political graft process. Carter won’t vote for Kamala... RFK, jr is more up his alley.

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Peter GL's avatar

well he is an apparatchik, of course he will vote for Kakala. RFK jr is persona-non-grata for the demoncraps, despite him being more aligned with Carter. But once a dumbocrap, always a dumbocrap

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cltwilson1's avatar

I wonder who is writing his X posts? 🤔

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Elaine Russky's avatar

The big money for the Clintons has been in selling minors.

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LMWC's avatar

From what I saw of Carter at his wife, Rosalyn’s funeral, he’s not cognitive enough o know who’s running, let alone claim he wants to vote for Kamala.

I was a newly minted married lady during his tenure. I truly liked him for his farming background, and his unabashed Christianity, at a time when we were considered a Christian Nation, but didn’t talk about it. He had a very southern family, slightly off beat, in a time when DC was a club of east coast elites and west coast mafia. He appealed to the common people and his seeming sweetness and charming wife and family took a man no one heard of over the top. Much like DJT with a different set of backers, he got the common guy. I voted for him and that was the first and last Dem I ever voted for.

Was it all a front to take America down a now familiar road, or was Carter allowed to win, only to be pushed aside once in office. He was an outsider, who knew governorship and business, but nothing of the snakepit of DC. Perhaps, I am wrong, but he was caught off guard by what happened to him behind the walls of the White House, and the betrayal in the halls of Congress. He stayed a good soldier, but hated the Clintons and Obama’s.

Was he the worst president? Not by a long shot, but he did not have the hutzpah to battle down those in Washington.

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Dan (100% All in MAGA)'s avatar

I will say one good thing about Carter, after his presidency, he was part of the Carter-Baker commission which very clearly laid out how vote fraud occurs... and is occurring today. Its "funny" the democrats and RINOs have "memory holed" it.

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Carrie's avatar

Carter just wants a deeper field of worse presidents, so he is not so close to the bottom

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Lolol. True!

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KatLee's avatar

Gas rationing, odd-even days. I lived in Missouri then.

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Fla Mom's avatar

Didn't we have 'the misery index' during the Carter years? And I remember his 'malaise' speech. Nothing hopeful or optimistic about his entire presidency. No wonder Reagan could win on "It's morning in America" and "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?"

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Patty's avatar

Ahh, the Misery Index was a thing during the Carter Admin. Nice man, incompetent president.

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Patrice's avatar

Carter is only hoping that with the installation of Kamala as President, he will drop to the status of third-worse-president. He'd live to see his reputation rise like a shining star.

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Starsky's avatar

I remember the gas lines, and I remember my dad getting furloughed from his job. Not laid off, but furloughed, which meant he could be recalled at any minute, which meant no one else would hire him. I remember the entire household being on edge due to my father’s moods, which very nearly turned into divorce. I was a kid and it was a very trying time.

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