from the local public radio station…
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James Earl Carter, the first president i had the honor to vote for (his second try and for which he wasn’t reelected and we got reagan instead -sigh-). All his life, i believe, he tried really hard to serve the public. How many presidents can that be said of?
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https://qvoicenews.com/2023/02/19/jimmy-carter-has-been-longtime-lgbtq-ally/
Bit of a superhero too. Saved a city from nuclear destruction.
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At least he will get a real funeral. Who knows what Trump would have done.
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Whatever happened to the New South of which Jimmy Carter was an emissary? It seems like the Old South has taken over the country.
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So many feels. Your gif is well chosen.
Something from Robert Reich, who wrote today (I get his newsletter):
Friends,
I apologize for invading your inbox again today, but I wanted to say something about former President Jimmy Carter, who died today at the age of 100.
Carter wrote the following on June 16, 1977 and placed it in Voyager 1, which is the most distant human-made object from Earth:
This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America. We are a community of 240 million human being among the more than 4 billion who inhabit the planet Earth. We human beings are still divided into nation states, but these states are rapidly becoming a single global civilization.
We cast this message into the cosmos. It is likely to survive a billion years into our future, when our civilization is profoundly altered and the surface of the Earth may be vastly changed. Of the 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, some – perhaps many – may have inhabited planet and spacefaring civilizations. If one such civilization intercepts Voyager and can understand these recorded contents, here is our message:
“This is a present from a small distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours. We hope someday, having solved the problem we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination, and our good will in a vast and awesome universe.”
— Jimmy Carter, President of the United States of America, the White House, June 16, 1977
I’m struck today by this message’s optimism — the idea that we on Earth are becoming a single global civilization which might survive another billion years and someday join a community of galactic civilizations.
It all sounds charmingly naive now, when the world is wracked by war, famine, and the ravages of climate change, and when Donald Trump is getting ready to isolate America from the rest of the world.
Yet Jimmy Carter was an optimist about human nature. The word “civilization” appears five times in his short message. Carter believed passionately in the capacity of human beings to create civil societies that would contain the beasts in all of us. Civilization would prevail over brutality. Humanity over inhumanity.
Carter was a religious man who lived by this simple civil religion. He not only saw the good in others but he practiced the good. He was far from the best president America has had but he was one of the best and most decent people ever to serve as president.
He never wavered in his optimism. He spread it throughout his life. He spread it to the farthest reaches of the cosmos.
May he rest in peace in that cosmos.
source:
Fair sailing to you, Brother Jimmy.
Fair sailing and godspeed.
Thanks for the light you brought us.
May we be equal to the tasks that are before us, for those of us who still think living in a democracy is worth the work.
You will be missed.
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“… won the Nobel peace prize in 2002…”
Any bets on Trump seeing this as another opportunity to gripe over not receiving the Nobel Prize?
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Jimmy was an Allman Brothers fan.
Of course he was.
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You see it all the time, in mostly blue cities that get ignored because the narrative of ignorant white southern racists is pretty much the only narrative that many people want to believe about the south (including many southerners). Ignoring the very long and radical history of southern resistance to oppression of all kinds is a kind of historical erasure that most people have not a lick of interest in knowing about, because (and this is especially true of people in solidly blue states outside of the south) it gets them off the hook on addressing the deep problems the entire country has with reactionary conservativism and racism. 
Can we not. Let’s not sully our thoughts of President carter with that jackass.
There’s a documentary about it…
They played an important role in getting Carter to the presidency.
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I highly recommend that documentary. It’s really good.
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I have not gotten around to watching it, but maybe we will do so this week…
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Guess who.
I just heard of the news about the passing of President Jimmy Carter. Those of us who have been fortunate to have served as President understand this is a very exclusive club, and only we can relate to the enormous responsibility of leading the Greatest Nation in History.
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What a complete POS it is.
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Is that all he (supposedly) wrote?
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Can we stop talking about him? Let’s keep the focus on Jimmy Carter. At least for today.
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Von Clownstick needs to keep is goddam mouth shut about Jimmy Carter. But he won’t.
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