Rush WAS a POS most of his life.
Jimmy Carter passes
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I heard once that Rush was often on Epstein's "good friends" list. But his good friends were most often other men and boys.
Jesus. Jimmy Carter graduated from the US Naval Academy with high honors and served for over 7 years, a lot of it on submarines.
I regret skimming through this thread. I should have known some would try to derail it with hate and vitriol.
Unfortunate, but not surprising.
I believe he was facetiously referring to Trump.
Yeah, in the end the USSR fell because Gorbachev, while a true believer in communism, was not bloodthirsty enough to keep it going.
If you have a Lenin or Stalin at the helm in the 80s-90s it keeps on trucking as miserably as North Korea.
Anyone who becomes president of the USA is an extremely talented leader. He was the worst president of the last half century though.
A more ruthless guy might have bought the USSR a few more years, but imo not that much. the support structure was near collapse as it was.
No - they just have to be likeable, or a reaction to who came before.
It's highly unlikeable Carter becomes president without Watergate.
Look at North Korea.
A Stalinist regime can keep on going as long as it has a Stalinist at the helm.
Not that there's anything good about that, it's just facts.
That's why sanctions weren't ever going to topple Saddam Hussein.
What works in a small country is a lot harder to do in something like the USSR.
Yet it 'worked' for decades.
The difference was the man on top thought you could still run communism under less than a bloodthirsty, totalitarian regime. He was a 'true believer' in communism.
He was wrong.
You're not going to convince anyone knowledgeable about the horrors in Russia over the last century that the '80's were somehow less tolerable to the people living there than the 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, etc.
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the 80s in Russia were a lot more tolerable than the 20-50s
Sure, but by the 80s the infrastructure was crumbling.
Empires built on terror and conquest always fall in the end - a lesson that history feels compelled to teach us over and over again. It will happen in China and North Korea someday as well.
RIP in pieces. He’s lucky he doesn’t have to live in another Trump term though.
The 'infrastructure' was always terrible, Bernie Sanders 1988 extollations notwithstanding.
My point isn't that they are eternal, it's that as long as the people at the top are willing to perpetrate a Tiananmen Square style massacre, and the people know it, it will persist.
'Crumbling infrastructure' didn't depose Saddam Hussein, and never would have.
1976 Electoral College Map. Note that Vermont, Illinois and California, heck the entire west coast went Republican.
He was 30+ years ahead of the solar revolution, too. People laughed that he had them installed at the WH. God forbid an engineer be cutting edge and we use free solar power.
Let’s not get carried away here. I would imagine Heaven has some sort of dress code.
History says all such regimes fall in time.
By the 1980s, there was almost no one left from the generation that learned the lessons of terror and tyranny from Stalin; and the succeeding generations saw the ability to hold together all the groups that were held together by force to decline rapidly - the inability to subdue Afghanistan proved this to all.
Maybe Saddam would have been able to maintain his control until his death, and maybe not. When we finally kicked in the gates in the mid-2000s, it didn't take much.
China bought time after Tiananmen and witnessing the fall of the USSR by instituting some changes that at least partly covered over the cracks that decades of communist control had created. Unwittingly perhaps, Xi has undone many of those changes in his desire to maintain his rule.
Since you mentioned the Braves, a little known fact that I just learned - Carter began the tradition of inviting championship teams to the White House in 1980 when he invited the Pittsburgh Steelers and Pirates.
That’s a pretty amazing graphic. And while many of the Bsky comments blame the change on the rise of evangelical racists in the south, that doesn’t exactly explain the changes to ca, wa, or, il, vt nj, ct and the like. And ny…41 ev’s!
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Actually, among my very favorite Carter things was when he held the “jazz bbq” at the White House and Dixie Gillespie asked him to sing along on “salt peanuts”.
A lot more states were swing states back then. It's probably when democracy in this country was working best because general elections all over the country were contested.
Our biggest problem is fewer and fewer swing states and fewer and fewer swing voters.
He was a great man and a decent president who caught an awful hand. He was married to Rosalynn a decade longer than I’ve been alive end I just turned 67. That’s mind-bottling.
