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[-] Guamer@hexbear.net 64 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Since Ronny and Poppy are already (thankfully) long ded, that leaves Bill as the new "oldest" prez at 78

(The actual oldest is Biden who's 82 and will be nearly 30 years older than Clinton was when the latter left office)

[-] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 67 points 1 year ago

Biden is older than Clinton agony-shivering

[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

And ol Billy Boy had a scare this week too. He'll probably live to see 100 sadly.

[-] josie@vegantheoryclub.org 58 points 1 year ago

Of course he waits until a day after I finish making my 2025 prediction bingo card. Prick.

[-] Sted@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago

Dang I was hoping for Carter/Biden 2028.

[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

doesn't say you have to be alive to run in the constitution

[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

do the dead stop being citizens?

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[-] miz@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago

did they get his semen in time?

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago

The hospice killed him because he was costing too much.

[-] Maturin@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

The opposite is actually true.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

So what shitty things did he do? All I know about him is the habitat for humanity shit and the peanut farming.

[-] crime@hexbear.net 82 points 1 year ago

first one that comes to mind is Operation Cyclone - he armed the reactionary mujahideen in afghanistan to impede the USSR's support of the nascent Democratic Republic of Afghanistan ussr-cry

[-] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Blowback season 4 mindset right here

order-of-lenin

[-] Rom@hexbear.net 69 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He armed Indonesia during their genocide against East Timor.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170226181104/https://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/reports/indoarms.html

Unfortunately, despite its professions of support for human rights in Indonesia, the Carter Administration picked up where Kissinger and Ford had left off. As Noam Chomsky writes in the preface to Matthew Jardine's 1995 book, East Timor: Genocide in Paradise, "In 1977, Indonesia found itself short of weapons, an indication of the scale of its attack. The Carter administration accelerated the arms flow."[7] U.S. arms sales hit $112 million in 1978, and averaged nearly $60 million per year for the four years of the Carter administration -- this was more than twice the level of weaponry supplied to the Suharto regime by the Ford Administration.

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[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

Reagan and the wave of conservative world leaders in the 80s made it the new status quo, but Jimmy Carter is often credited as the first neoliberal president and the starting point of neoliberalism in the US.

[-] Fishroot@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

Fudge the iran hostage crisis, operation cyclone, partake in east timor genocide.

He walked so reagan can run

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

How did he f-up the Iranian hostage crisis again?

[-] Azarova@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

iirc, he tried to rescue them by sending in special forces, only for them to crash a helicopter into a C-130 after landing Iran, and then they had to abort

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

only for them to crash a helicopter into a C-130

Tf did they use for a helicopter? doggirl-lol

Sounds like the predecessor of an osprey...

[-] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

It was actually this mission that led the army to want an aircraft with the endurance of an airplane and the vtol capabilities of a helicopter, which in turn started development of the osprey

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

They didn’t read the true anon rules smh

[-] FunkYankkkees@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Tf did they use for a helicopter?

These

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[-] Fishroot@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

They flew 2 helicopters across the whole country wish casting that it wouldn’t get shot down.

He also didn’t manage to offer a good deal to the Iranians, instead Reagan managed to make a secret deal that makes Reagan look like the one who actually solve the crisis once he got into office

[-] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

The father of neoliberalism in the US lol. Many people think it’s Reagan, but Carter laid the groundwork for everything that happened afterwards.

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[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago
[-] Pavlichenko_Fan_Club@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago
[-] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

I just can't believe he was younger than biden

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

I never get tired of reminding people that Biden's so old he was literally born when the battle of Stalingrad was raging.

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

How many crabs do we need for this one?

[-] Grandpa_garbagio@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

gunned down in the FUCKIN streets. just a fuckin kid, whole life ahead of him

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Liberals, man. Liberals...

Jimmy Carter exiting with grace at the last chance to have a state funeral with dignity.

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I muted "Carter" at Bluesky but there's a sea of this shit.

Upon a former President's death, the flag should be flown at half-mast for 30 days. I'm going to bet even-money that Trump refuses to honor this after his inauguration.

[-] mar_k@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

great now i have to see libs mourning

[-] AntifaSuperWombat@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Lmao I found out on hacker news (I need to log off). L + bozo.

damn the good die so young bye

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[-] HelluvaBottomCarter@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

More like Jimmy Sharter

You couldn't build as many homes as you destroyed.

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

I'll always remember The Simpsons calling him history's greatest monster and the Judge Dredd story The Cursed Earth where his head is on Mt. Rushmore.

rip-bozo

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Year of 4 dead presidents take my energy

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 10 points 1 year ago
[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago
[-] 9to5@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Death to the Empire and its masters

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