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.
I really wish they would stop dressing him up and dragging him out to events. Let the man rest.
He was the last president who addressed Americans like adults without the need for rhetoric.
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!
Wild ride to the last two words of the title. It could have gone either way.
Didn’t they put him in hospice care over a year ago? Dude refuses to die. 100 down, 100 to go!
Carter 2032!
Now you’re thinking like a red blooded American!
Yes give the man his second term, can’t wait for Carter to tell that young whippersnapper trump “be silent and mind your manners!”
Iirc he said the last thing he wants to do is vote for Kamala
What did she do to the poor man?
Idk but I’d like her to do it to me 🥴
I was sure he would go soon after his wife, as is the case with couples married that long. But he just won’t quit
Jimmy n Carter 100 years!
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
Spoiler
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
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
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 gasped before reading the title till the end
Any and every headline that begins with “Jimmy Carter, former US President” makes my stomach drop a bit. For like a decade now.
Yup, my heart skipped a little beat before I got to the end.
A rollercoaster of emotions within the span of a sentence.
You had me in the first half dot jpg
I had read the headline before this post and still gasped.
Seriously, with all the other bad celebrity news lately, I expected the worst.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We’re trying…
probably be his finish line
I’d be happy with that.
You heard it here first, folks! The secret to longevity is: peanuts.
(Happy birthday, Mr. Carter!)
Peanuts are extremely healthy, good omegas, LDL lowering properties, protein. Maybe Jimmy ol boy is onto something.
Maybe it’s no peanuts? He sold the farm, after all…
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!
I am glad my first thought about this headline was wrong.
What a stand up guy, wow
