Jimmy Carter celebrates his 100th birthday on Tuesday, making him the first US president to reach the milestone.

Carter, a Democrat who served in the White House from 1977 to 1981, has spent the past 19 months in hospice care in his home state of Georgia.

But the former peanut farmer, who first entered politics in the 1960s as a state senator, is “emotionally engaged and still having experiences and laughing, loving,” his grandson, Jason, said in September.

And the centenarian still has political ambitions: “I’m only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris” in November’s election, the humanitarian and Nobel Prize recipient said, according to his grandson.

  • vinayagg
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    37 days ago

    Congrats to Jimmy! I wonder if he lived stress free, if so, how?

    • @aeronmelon
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      387 days ago

      A rollercoaster of emotions within the span of a sentence.

      • @danc4498
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        67 days ago

        You had me in the first half dot jpg

    • Miles O'Brien
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      137 days ago

      Any and every headline that begins with “Jimmy Carter, former US President” makes my stomach drop a bit. For like a decade now.

    • Chozo
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      97 days ago

      Seriously, with all the other bad celebrity news lately, I expected the worst.

    • SeaJ
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      67 days ago

      I had read the headline before this post and still gasped.

    • FuglyDuck
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      677 days ago

      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…)

      • Flying Squid
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        317 days ago

        Early voting in Georgia is October 15. I assume he is going to vote as early as he can.

        • FuglyDuck
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          117 days ago

          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.

  • the post of tom joad
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    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

  • @Chekhovs_Gun
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    No no no no noooo noooo no oh ohh ohh ohhhh YES!

    • @Wogi
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      They knew they were fucking with us with that title and they did it anyway

  • @[email protected]
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    457 days ago

    Didn’t they put him in hospice care over a year ago? Dude refuses to die. 100 down, 100 to go!

  • rem26_art
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    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

    • @TrickDacy
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      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 :)

    • -☆-
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      37 days ago

      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

  • Flying Squid
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    You heard it here first, folks! The secret to longevity is: peanuts.

    (Happy birthday, Mr. Carter!)

      • Flying Squid
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        27 days ago

        Could be. Maybe he said he never wanted to see another peanut as long as he lived and an old witch lady granted him that wish… but peanuts are all around him as memorabilia!

    • @[email protected]
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      47 days ago

      Peanuts are extremely healthy, good omegas, LDL lowering properties, protein. Maybe Jimmy ol boy is onto something.

  • @1luv8008135
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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.

  • @Olgratin_Magmatoe
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    267 days ago

    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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      27 days ago

      it makes me wish i instead spoke one of those pama-nyungan languages where dead people have different grammar rules

  • @MehBlah
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    237 days ago

    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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        That was just a bad ordering of words in that sentence. He failed to get re-elected and then a few years later he and his wife started building houses for the needy.

        • @MehBlah
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          06 days ago

          I did mangle that bit. Its how it was ordered in my head and well english has no real reliable structure anyway.

          • @[email protected]
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            02 days ago

            “After leaving office he spent decades building houses for the needy.”

            Totally reliable. You didn’t have to make an excuse for a poorly executed rush job after admitting the mangle.

    • @Ensign_Crab
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      26 days ago

      Whoever wrote that headline knew precisely what they were doing and went ahead with it anyway because they are an asshole.

      • @Wogi
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        26 days ago

        100 year old president: Jimmy Carter

        There I fixed it, exact same news, no fuck yous.

  • @reddig33
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    I really wish they would stop dressing him up and dragging him out to events. Let the man rest.

    • @distantsounds
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      127 days ago

      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