Jimmy Carter is 100

Next time find out what a Congress that your party controlled and which has already thoroughly investigated the matter has determined.

And if you choose to post a belief or declaration to the contrary, then don’t expect it to go unchallenged.

That’s not even reasonable.

You may believe what you want to believe. I have no control over that. I don’t have a party, genius.

Now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to go watch the debate and vow my absolute trust in all forms of government, because they’re all so trustworthy.

Likewise continue to believe anything you want that’s contrary to what a congress controlled by your party has found.

Similarly….

I can’t stop Trumpists from believing the 2020 election was stolen, RFK fans from believing that vaccines cause autism, 9/11 truthers from believing that planted bombs and not hijacked planes brought down the WTC, evangelical Protestants and radical Catholics from believing in young earth creationism, or Holocaust deniers from claiming that the Holocaust didn’t happen.

People will continue to believe whatever nonsense they wish.

But such beliefs will NOT go unchallenged when posted.

And when such beliefs are posted…I WILL challenge them.

It’s unreasonable to expect otherwise.

Yes, you have never been one for reason.

Not one of those people heard it from the horses mouth. Sorry you don’t have the. high level access I seem to have. I have no agenda but the truth that I heard from a lifelong hard right Republican Neo-Con who knows where the bodies are buried… It’s as simple as that.

But enjoy your descent into conspiracies about non-conspiracies.

You’re the one who has declared a belief in a conspiracy theory, not I.

And one that Congress has already debunked, no less.

No matter who you may know, I am pretty certain that they don’t know more than Congress.

It is what it is.

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No, liar, I haven’t.

My story is separate from what anyone else has posted. It just happens to be on the same subject.

It’s cute that you’re so certain and trusting in Congress.

Adorable.

And that’s a tap out. Have the last inconsequential word if you must, counsellor.

Happy birthday Jimmy Carter! Great guy. Just retired from teaching Sunday School classes last year I think. Always volunteered at habitat for humanity until recently.

May God bless him with many more years. An inspiration for us.

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Looking at the thread count some Coogfans will think we really had a lot to say about Carter’s birthday.

Hey man.

You and he are the ones that tried to advance a conspiracy theory that two Houses of a Congress that your party controlled has already investigated and said was bunk.

Sorry if that took us so far off topic, but I wasn’t the one who brought it up.

You can thank yourselves.

As for Carter, making it to age 100 is remarkable.

No one in my family ever has, and the few that made it to their 90s all had bad dementia.

But you need to realize how some of us feel concerning Carter and his legacy, and it’s not good for a variety of very valid reasons.

As I said, if someone on this board likewise said “Happy Birthday Trump,” I’d likewise probably think about his legacy, and, given that I don’t view it in a positive way, probably give his legacy some harsh criticism as well.

And I doubt I’d be the only one.

Great human being, terrible president.

I was, i stood in the gas lines and saw our military embarrassed by the Iranian fiasco. Not to mention the 18% interest that i had to pay for my first car loan.

I voted for Carter in '76 but not '80. He was a terrible president, but has been a terrific humanitarian, starting Habitat for Humanity.

I’ll congratulate him on reaching 100, especially since the news has been reporting him near death for the last 20 years.

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I remember the Carter years, too. And your remarks are illustrative of some of the misconceptions/distortions that persist to this day about Carter and Reagan.

The FACT is that those high inflation rates (best remembered by those gas lines/prices) in the 70’s were created by the loose monetary policies of NIXON’S chosen Fed Chair (Arthur Burns). It was Carter who fired Burns and brought in Paul (“The Inflation Hawk”) Volker specifically to tackle the inflation problem. Carter empowered Volker to do whatever it took, without regard to the political fallout, in order to tackle inflation.

Volker quickly hiked up interest rates to (almost) 18%, which precipitated the Recession…but also began the steady decline of inflation that Reagan inherited (and, of course, took full credit for).

Carter did the right thing, and it pretty much cost him the 1980 election.

Economists understand this and give consider Carter to be one of the more underrated Presidents in the modern era.

Here’s another little-known fact: Carter was a bigger DEREGULATOR than Reagan. I

It was Carter who deregulated

In all, Carter (not Reagan) deregulated 7 or 8 major industries in this country during his one term in office.

Despite his rhetoric and bluster, the FACT is that Ronald Reagan only deregulated 2 major industries during his 8 years in office:

It’s a shame that so many Americans have been gas-lit about the FACTS of our country’s political/social history.

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Gaslighting is a lot of what you are doing. Nixon/Ford’s price controls were a disaster (who mentioned them recently). The disaster of Volker’s over correction lead to the resesion that started in 1980, Carter’s last year in office. Carter’s foreign policy inability speaks for itself. He was not a good president in many areas; but was a good man and humanitarian.