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Jimmy Carter, former US president, turns 100
(www.bbc.com)
I gasped before reading the title till the end
A rollercoaster of emotions within the span of a sentence.
You had me in the first half dot jpg
Any and every headline that begins with "Jimmy Carter, former US President" makes my stomach drop a bit. For like a decade now.
Seriously, with all the other bad celebrity news lately, I expected the worst.
Yup, my heart skipped a little beat before I got to the end.
I had read the headline before this post and still gasped.
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he made it!!
Hopefully he makes it a couple more months! so he can vote for Kamala! (maybe even attend her inauguration? Maybe Bernie can get the school teacher lady to make him a pair of those cozy mittens....)
Early voting in Georgia is October 15. I assume he is going to vote as early as he can.
does it count if you die before the actual election?
In any case, I got my ballot last Saturday here. (in MN. I'm signed up for it to be automatic... which is super easy to do. Just go through the online registration at the MN secretary of state page, and make sure to tick the box for 'automatically send ballots for mail in voting' or whatever.)
Everyone- Check your voting status here,. remember, Trump loses if we vote. Maybe we can convince Kamal to paint the White house Tiedye or something.
does it count if you die before the actual election?
I believe it does, yes. Once the ballot is cast, it's counted.
You could potentially die in a car crash after leaving the polling place on election day.
well, still don't want him to die.... but...uh.... up to him, I suppose. After the fifteenth...
You never know. He could vote again in four years.
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Don't you put that bad juju on Jimmy Carter
No juju. I don't think Jimmy is going to be voting at the polling place. Especially when he doesn't have to.
Varies by state. Georgia is one of several states without a clear rule. At any rate, it seems to be constrained by practicality. If they already opened the envelope to count it, it’s hard to undo it.
Spoiler
Yay! I though he was going down when he was hospitalized last.
Also fuck og headline writer makin me worry til the end they knew
No no no no noooo noooo no oh ohh ohh ohhhh YES!
They knew they were fucking with us with that title and they did it anyway
Eyyyy lets go Jimmy!!
I was about to be real sad seeing his picture and reading the first 5 words of the headline, but the last two really made my day. I feel like no one makes it past like 3 weeks in hospice care, but he's still going
Actually there's a recent John Oliver about hospice where they reveal that it's often a very scummy business that sometimes "cares" for people for years who didn't even need it at all. Tangentially related, but you made me think of it :)
I work in healthcare, you'd be surprised how many people start to drastically improve with good hospice care. It's more common than you'd expect
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I said yes quite vocally when I read this. I’m not even American, but that’s how desperate I am for some good news.
Fuck’s sake, country and world; get your shit together.
You heard it here first, folks! The secret to longevity is: peanuts.
(Happy birthday, Mr. Carter!)
I really fucking wish that news articles would stop wording shit like this. Reading the title I initially thought he died.
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He was the best president we have had since I was alive. He has integrity. He sold his family farm to avoid conflict of interest when running for office. He built houses for decades after leaving office for the needy.
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So he is technically elligible for a second term....
I really wish they would stop dressing him up and dragging him out to events. Let the man rest.
That’s an old pic. He’s been in hospice for the past 19 months & is just watching a broadcast of the celebrations. But yeah, he deserves the peace
I hope he gets the opportunity to stand at trump's grave.
He should get to be first in line to piss on it
But he wouldn't because he has class, honor, integrity, and a sense of decorum. All things of which Trump is devoid.
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He was the last president who addressed Americans like adults without the need for rhetoric.
Wild ride to the last two words of the title. It could have gone either way.
Happy birthday!
Every single time I'm scrolling and Carter's face pops up at the bottom of my screen I think "Oh, he's reached the end of his long, full life," and them nope he's fine and older than most people will ever get. Go Jimmy!
Congrats to Jimmy! I wonder if he lived stress free, if so, how?
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