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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Go Jimmy, Go. 💙

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How can one person be this good of a citizen!!?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

He was actually a pretty good president too. Unfortunately the seeds of the cancer that is the current Republican party has been sown by the Nixon administration before he was elected and had begun to bear fruit when Reagan ran against him.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I like to say he was the best man ever to be President and that he had great policies, but that he was not an effective President.

He was too honest to play the game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

What does that say about our society? Can you imagine taking the same attitude as a scientist? Nothing would ever work because it relies on foundational truth and integrity. The reason lying in politics is acceptable is because the citizenry is allowing it through the ballot box. These idiots can't do science or politics but they have the same voting rights as everyone else.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Lying works because our schools don't teach critical thinking anymore. They are so obsessed with rote, bullshit memorization that there isn't any room or time left for critical thinking

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, the Republican party had a strong progressive wing before Nixon. Lincoln, Teddy, and Eisenhower were all progressives by modern standards.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Georgia boys are either sweetheart saints or hateful monsters, not a lot in between. Source: am Georgia boy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's what all the monsters say

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You know what? I know the struggle. I'm a country ass Texas boy who just wants equality for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

You’re as rare a breed as myself sir, if we ever find a Mississippi equivalent we’ll really be in business! Egalitarianism is worth fighting for

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

orange man really got elderly people staying alive out of SPITE just to vote against him LMAO

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Never underestimate spite when it comes to living long lives.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Now that is an endorsement

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (10 children)

“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Hold on and make it to see her inaugurated and that way you'll have lived longer than Kissinger, Carter.

I know you can do it!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Take that, time! Haha!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

this would be such a good ending for carters run, hopefully he can kick around long enough to make it a reality.

Now, who do we nominate to be the next carter, we need another one....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We have to go back to 1955, Marty!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

unfortunately it's looking like that's the only option.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just a great person all around.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He should run again in 2028

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

All we gotta do is keep Jimmy away from the KY jelly wrestling pit with naked college girls and we're set

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm sorry, there's a what? I'm trying to book a flight now...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I assume he's still registered in GA? We really need that vote.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You broke the mark-up for me. It was fine before. Using Thunder on mobile

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Just the links at the bottom? I'll report it to Rookie, but they might have fixed it already... another user below shows Thunder working for them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Use a better app or open a bug report for your favorite.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Man... If he dies immediately after voting...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That'd be metal af

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've always said Jimmy would be prefarable to the current roaster of politicians, and I'm going to say it again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It fucking sucks that both Carter and Bernie are so old and so ahead of their time. Give them 40 year old bodies and they'd be the future we need.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Hey, Donny. Even though I'm yearning to join my wife, I'm in constant pain, and I'm past ready to die, I'm hanging on for 3 more months just to give you the middle finger.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

THIS is how ex-presidents influence elections!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The man beat cancer, can't believe he can't stick around until October 14th when early voting begins.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Serious question: would the vote not be tossed if he died before the actual election day?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Looks like Georgia is one of 28 states that don't really have an opinion on that. 9 states say count it, 12 say don't count it, 1 says only count it if active military.

But "As a practical matter, it is hard to retrieve ballots from people who have died between casting their votes and Election Day. Once the absentee ballot has been verified and removed from the envelope for counting, the ballot cannot be retraced to the voter.

Catching a ballot, then, is only possible when it is still in its return envelope, and only in cases where election officials have received notice of the death."

https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/counting-absentee-ballots-after-a-voter-dies

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