Jimmy Carter passes away at 100
Jimmy Carter. (Diana Walker/Getty Images)
The Carter Center announced that Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States, passed away at the age of 100. James Earl Carter Jr. was born in 1924 into a farmer’s family. He attended the U.S. Naval Academy and then served onboard a submarine after World War II. After serving in the Navy, Carter returned and took the lead with his family farm.
From Fox News:
Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States and a former peanut farmer whose vision of a “competent and compassionate” government propelled him into the White House, died on Sunday, the Carter Center confirmed. He was 100.
The news was first reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Sunday, shortly before The Carter Center, the late president’s non-profit organization, made an announcement on X.
“Our founder, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, passed away this afternoon in Plains, Georgia,” the organization’s post read.
Carter’s death follows the passing of his wife Rosalynn on Nov. 19, 2023. She died at the age of 96 with her family by her side at the Carter home in Plains, just days after she had been admitted to hospice care.
The late former president himself had entered hospice care in February 2023. Carter survived for years after he had a “small mass” removed from his liver in early August 2015 and later that month announced he had liver cancer that had spread throughout his body.
The Carter family had a history of cancer and the former president lost his father, brother, and two sisters to pancreatic cancer. His mother had breast cancer, which later spread to her pancreas.
Jason Carter, Carter’s grandson, had announced in May that he believed the former president was “coming to the end” of his life’s journey. But the former president hung on much longer.
The soft-spoken leader with a signature Georgia drawl saw his single term in the Oval Office clouded by an economic downturn at home and a hostage crisis abroad.
Additional Reading:
Margolis, A. (2024, December 29). Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States, dead at 100. Fox News. Link.
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Yay. Peanuts 🥜. Whoop.
TYFYS.
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RIP Jimmy. My you be judged more fairly in the afterlife than you were on earth.
If he is, it’s not gonna go well for him..
Why? He was a stellar turd down here, and towards republicans and conservatives a very hateful dude, especially in later life. I also noticed right after he got in the white house, all the cheese in the C rations disappeared and that shitty peanut butter started showing up.
President Carter was that kind of man that worried more about what foreigners thought of him than what Americans thought.
I have nothing for him. He can burn in hell.
Mercy for America’s enemies, not Americans.
As a person, He was a good guy. I met him several times thru out the years. As a politician? He met the same resistance from the Deep State at the time as Trump met, in that it was not supposed to be “his time”. Murdering Teddy was supposed to be up. Trying to appease both sides didn’t work out very well for him, did it. RIP, Jimmy.
Ted, 15 years sober this past August…
It’s been said that Ted *HICCUP!* Kennedy wasn’t cremated because it would have taken at least three days for them to do so!
Possibly an alcohol-fueled conflagration.
Your service to the human race will be remembered.
A testament and example without parallel.
May you rest well, Sir.
RIP Navy Vet, thats all I gotta say.
At least he lived long enough to know he wasn’t the worst US President.
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
We ain’t his Highest Judge, and this is the Greatest thing.
Heartfelt, post hard swallow “Amen”.
By.
📢 “OK, CUT!!! Folks, That’s a wrap. Great job everyone. We’ve got it in the can. Everyone, if you want, grab something off the craft services table.
Hey Babe, you wanna hit The Chateau and grab a bite? OK great, let’s get outta here.
Hey, Yo Phil, make sure someone gets the lights on the way out. Thanks.
CIAO!! ” 🎬😘
Is Carter’s baby, the abomination known as the Dept of ‘Education’, on the chopping block by Trump?
Also.
By all accounts a good man who was totally out of his depth as President. He and I both entered active duty the same day…after four years of him I waited until after the election to re-up to be sure someone else was going to be in the oval office. I think it is safe to say he did more good in any four years after he left office than he did while he was in.
From Steve Hayward who was also quoting, “His personal White House secretary, Susan Clough, recalled that Carter rarely said hello to her as he walked by her desk. Not a “Happy Thanksgiving,” or a “Merry Christmas.” Nothing, she says.” Habitat was his only redeeming quality.
He helped avert a nuclear disaster…..
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fox5atlanta.com/news/jimmy-carter-nuclear-meltdown-clean-up-canada-navy-history.amp
Mike
USAF Retired
That’s “nucular disaster.”
Dat’s a good one.
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Was 55 miles from TMI (thankfully not directly downwind).
My wife and 3 yr old lived right across the river just outside of Goldsboro. Harold Denton from the AEC was in charge.
We all lived there together. LI should proofread.
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Not your fault, probably due to that crappy software that you downloaded from a proud but humble woman owned business that used to reside on Wilson Lane in Bethesda Maryland.
If I can’t bring myself to care about this does that make me a bad person?
I’ll be very interested to see what his send off is like.
He meant well and wasn’t an an intentionally destructive Leftist asshole.
Ummm, yes, yes it does make you a bad person. Don’t get butt hurt either there secrit squirrel. You asked a rhetorical question and you got an answer. Never speak ill of the dead. Thought your granny might have taught you that.
No, really, it does not. Carter got shitcanned from the Navy, making him a failure at that, did one term as president and got shitcanned at that, and was a vindictive little pussbucket in later years. Dude was a dumbass, spending all his time building houses for welfare cases.
Classy as always.
The facts are the facts. If they are not to your liking I really don’t care. You be a cheerleader for that dead simp if you want to.
Was he shitcanned by the navy? I thought he resigned his commission to run the family farm after his old man died.
Something like that.
But look who you are dealing with….
If you have a point to make, make it.
I thought it was pretty clear.
No, it just seemed like you were being a smartass.
That is the popular cover story. He ran afoul of Hyman Rickover for doing something stupid on a sub (Carter was a bubblehead) and Rickover ensured Carter was gone soon thereafter.
Tom Clancy has a scene in one of his novel where an SSBN commander blows his chances of making admiral by being a dumbass.
Carter is, I think, the last good ex-president we’ll ever see. Clinton really changed the game for former presidents. They would retire to relative obscurity and not interfere in politics. You did your 4/8 years and then went home and found something else to do. In Carter’s case, it was helping his fellow man. He was, objectively, a terrible president, but was also, objectively, a good person. Which is why I’ll find a can of Billy Beer to raise in his honor tonight.
Bush Jr. might be the closest we’ll ever get again, since he has spent his retirement painting and generally making friends. He’s dipped his toe into the current state of politics though, which I think should really be verboten for an ex-prez.
Clinton, with his Global Initiative and his wife’s attempt at world domination while being one of the most evil people imaginable. Obama’s now come out of retirement to install Joe the Puppet and then try to get Kamala the Clueless. We’ll hear more from him. Trump will not be able to give up any spotlight, so I expect his post-presidency years we’ll still see him constantly. Anyone that comes into this new clown show of a country will be more of the same. Be president, then cash in on the millions of dollars that flow from that.
I return therefore to Carter being the last of a long history of good ex-presidents. Get out of office, and go away. Godspeed President Carter, go be with Rosalyn again.
100% agreement. Well, 99%. I ain’t opening my can of Billy Beer in his honor. That swill might be worth something one day.
Good riddance.
Second worst president ever.
Biden
Obama
Clinton
Carter
Not in that particular order, but maybe?
And he’s worse than Clinton and Obama?
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Yeah, I would debate that at best, He’s third at worst he’s fourth…. in the modern era.
Fifth – I’d put Wilson below him, too.
Post WW2 potus’, yeah LBJ is on the list. Overall, maybe the most damaging long-lasting policies of them all.
You older guys would definitely be familiar with that, but yeah, I historically have to agree. I forgot about that only because I wasn’t alive enough to know other than secondary historical comments about LBJ and what he did for the minority populations that made them generationally dependent.
I had to Google it the great society programs yeah that’s it welfare etc. etc.
IMHO LBJ did more to send the USA down the pipes than any other POTUS with his “War on Poverty” which has enslaved multiple generations to handouts.
How many Americans did Carter get killed with his bullshit raid on Iran? My special forces buddy told me a story his friend told him about this jibbering idiot. He was the military briefing officer, telling Jackoff Jimmah about the impending invasion of Afghanistan in detail. He said Carter sat there slack jawed, and when the briefing was over, he said “I don’t believe thet, they wouldn’t do thet, the Russians are nice people.” Three days later the Sovs went in.
He was told be every senior officer of the raid into Iran, not to make it an all service publicity stunt, but he would not listen, and was responsible for all the bodies at Desert 1 due to his ignorance.
My Uncle Bob was a career Navy helo pilot, He’d just retired when the whole Desert One mess happened. He recited a list of possible pilots on that mission, he was only off by one. When the names were released, his only response was “That sonofabitch never could fly at night”.
I knew some of the Marines in the Helo squadron that they were contributing. The guys told me they were told to pick the oldest and most expendable birds, because none of them would be coming back.
“I don’t believe thet, they wouldn’t do thet, the Russians are nice people.” Three days later the Sovs went in.
ALMOST reminds me of Biden’s full awareness and knowledge that the Ruskies were about to invade Ukraine — but shrugging it off anyway.
Not the same thing, I know but…
Happily, not the worst POTUS, thanks to later Democrat efforts.
Billy Beer, from his bro, was a blast though.
When the Russians invaded Afghanistan after telling ol’ Jimmah they wouldn’t, Jimmah was heard to say; “I can’t believe they LIED to me!”
That is indicative of his presidency.
lol, stolen
Ah yes, the wonderful Carter years. Those in which our military didn’t have the resources needed to train. Those in which the President, a former naval officer, was surprised when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. My opinion of him has only grown, worse.
Don’t tell that to Green Thumb he is a member of the fan club.
I don’t think I’ve seen anyone really bring this up, but, for what it’s worth, Carter was very probably the last leader of any country in the world, and one of the last politicians of any kind, who had served in the military in any capacity during World War II.
Graduated from Annapolis in 1946. His WW II service would’ve been as a midshipman.
George HW Bush served in the Pacific during WWII.
Mike
USAF Retired
Yes, he was a Naval Aviator who got shot down and was rescued by a US Submarine.
Even most diehard Republicans believe that Jimmy Carter was a good, moral man.
I have nothing good to say about the man who gifted away the Panama Canal, so I’ll shut up.
Is liver cancer related to drinking beer?
Since we are discussing the missteps, mistakes and failures of his presidency, I’d like to add my thoughts.
When the Vietnam draft ended in the early 70’s, everyone said there would never be another draft because it was too unpopular.
In the summer of 1980, I had to go the post office for Carter’s reinstated draft registration. The next week I went to the county courthouse to register to vote. I voted against Carter that November because I didn’t want to be part of his conscript cannon fodder army and his quagmire war(s).
Fuck you I’m not sorry.
I giggled
I believe there’s a song titled In Hell I’ll Be in Good Company.
I giggled too, and I’m not ashamed
WAS Jimmy Carter a good POTUS? Let’s ask the surviving Family Members of those lost in the failed rescue mission along with those held hostage over 400 days. I remember watching the news footage of Ronald Reagan leaving his inauguration with someone telling him “They’re free Mr. president, they’re free!” referring to the Americans held hostage.
They were released very quickly when the new sheriff arrived.
Personally, I like President Trump’s statement about President Carter.
Never met the man personally. Admired the way that he stood up for his brother.
Like most human beings, he was a mixed bag of admirable and despicable.
Nonetheless, may God grant his family peace and comfort in their loss.