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They have declared today to be a national day of mourning for Jimmy Carter.
Fuck that!
To mourn, you have to miss the deceased.
I've been wanting this "person" to stop sucking my oxygen for decades.
Jimmah is the first president I had grievances with, and he was out of office before I even got to vote!
I learned about the depth of his failures later.
Then I learned that many of the failures weren't fails, but deliberate.
So I will heartily cheer his demise and my flag will remain at full mast.
Yeah, right with you. I lived during the Carter Administration. It sucked... testicles. Bigly.
ReplyDeleteStill not the worst president ever, even if you ignore the human turnip that's going away in a week and a few. But darned close.
Very embarrassing as a president. Lack of class, which is surprising coming from a naval officer of his level, except that Rickover kind of encouraged ass-hattery amongst his officers. Though you think Annapolis would have pounded some sense into his thick head. But, no. Makes me think that the rot in the service academies was bad much earlier than I thought.
What I'll leave on his gravesite won't pass for flowers.
ReplyDeleteWhile undeniably the worst president in US history in 1981, he moved up a notch with each Democommunist successor, which leaves him as only fourth-worst US President of all time, to the present, and no worse than third-worst if we note the asterisk next to Biden's name signifying that while he served, he was never actually elected to that office.
I disagree. Woodrow Wilson and FDR were both worse than Carter, so was LBJ. So Carter is #7 for 'worst president.'
DeleteMore corrosive to the republic in the long-term, perhaps.
DeleteBut not worse in performing the actual duties of the office.
Wilson's war ultimately created the basis for the Great Depression, which FDR needlessly prolonged with socialism-lite, but AFAIK, neither of them had double digit unemployment, double-digit interest rates, and double-digit inflation, simultaneously, and in such a short period of time in office.
Only Jimmah Peanut hit that trifecta.
He also managed to be more incompetent in four years than FDR managed in 15.
That's another milestone that hasn't been surpassed, though Not-elected-president Mr. Fraudulent has come amazingly close, and even exceeded in certain key metrics.
Like Wilson though, it's hard to hold someone responsible when they're certifiably mentally incompetent to discharge their duties. Or even tie their own shoes. And I'll bet both of them know/knew how thoroughly incapacitated they were.
Jimmah had no such excuse, and never figured out his own shortcomings despite nearly 100 years to appreciate how feeble and overmatched by the job he always was.
As Churchill said about Clement Atlee's modesty, "He has much to be modest about."
Buchanan is generally judged as the worst, but he wasn't a bad Sec of State. Name anything where Idiot was good. I think he gets the crown.
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