Jimmy Carter celebrates his 100th birthday on Tuesday, making him the first US president to reach the milestone.
Carter, a Democrat who served in the White House from 1977 to 1981, has spent the past 19 months in hospice care in his home state of Georgia.
But the former peanut farmer, who first entered politics in the 1960s as a state senator, is “emotionally engaged and still having experiences and laughing, loving,” his grandson, Jason, said in September.
And the centenarian still has political ambitions: “I’m only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris” in November’s election, the humanitarian and Nobel Prize recipient said, according to his grandson.
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I gasped before reading the title till the end
A rollercoaster of emotions within the span of a sentence.
You had me in the first half dot jpg
Any and every headline that begins with “Jimmy Carter, former US President” makes my stomach drop a bit. For like a decade now.
Seriously, with all the other bad celebrity news lately, I expected the worst.
I had read the headline before this post and still gasped.
Yup, my heart skipped a little beat before I got to the end.
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Yay! I though he was going down when he was hospitalized last.
Also fuck og headline writer makin me worry til the end they knew
No no no no noooo noooo no oh ohh ohh ohhhh YES!
They knew they were fucking with us with that title and they did it anyway
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Carter 2032!
Now you’re thinking like a red blooded American!
Yes give the man his second term, can’t wait for Carter to tell that young whippersnapper trump “be silent and mind your manners!”
I was sure he would go soon after his wife, as is the case with couples married that long. But he just won’t quit
Jimmy n Carter 100 years!
Eyyyy lets go Jimmy!!
I was about to be real sad seeing his picture and reading the first 5 words of the headline, but the last two really made my day. I feel like no one makes it past like 3 weeks in hospice care, but he’s still going
Actually there’s a recent John Oliver about hospice where they reveal that it’s often a very scummy business that sometimes “cares” for people for years who didn’t even need it at all. Tangentially related, but you made me think of it :)
I said yes quite vocally when I read this. I’m not even American, but that’s how desperate I am for some good news.
Fuck’s sake, country and world; get your shit together.
We’re trying…
Speak for yourself!
You heard it here first, folks! The secret to longevity is: peanuts.
(Happy birthday, Mr. Carter!)
Maybe it’s no peanuts? He sold the farm, after all…
Could be. Maybe he said he never wanted to see another peanut as long as he lived and an old witch lady granted him that wish… but peanuts are all around him as memorabilia!
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I really fucking wish that news articles would stop wording shit like this. Reading the title I initially thought he died.
He was the best president we have had since I was alive. He has integrity. He sold his family farm to avoid conflict of interest when running for office. He built houses for decades after leaving office for the needy.
I didn’t know he quit politics for the needy.
That was just a bad ordering of words in that sentence. He failed to get re-elected and then a few years later he and his wife started building houses for the needy.
I did mangle that bit. Its how it was ordered in my head and well english has no real reliable structure anyway.
“After leaving office he spent decades building houses for the needy.”
Totally reliable. You didn’t have to make an excuse for a poorly executed rush job after admitting the mangle.
So he is technically elligible for a second term…
I really wish they would stop dressing him up and dragging him out to events. Let the man rest.
That’s an old pic. He’s been in hospice for the past 19 months & is just watching a broadcast of the celebrations. But yeah, he deserves the peace
I hope he gets the opportunity to stand at trump’s grave.
He should get to be first in line to piss on it
But he wouldn’t because he has class, honor, integrity, and a sense of decorum. All things of which Trump is devoid.
That’s exactly why it would be great for him to do. Just a family friendly activity that everybody can get behind.
Wild ride to the last two words of the title. It could have gone either way.
He was the last president who addressed Americans like adults without the need for rhetoric.
