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Jimmy Carter passes

I'm not sure it would become their Afganistan. It's very difficult for a guerilla insurgency to be successful in population dense areas.

But they would have to pay a significant price in lost trade if they did. That trade has funded everything from their major infrastructure projects to the expansion of their navy.
Urban warfare can be extremely costly as well.
 
Our desire for cheap goods and our insatiable need to spend money has enabled China to keep its system in place, provide jobs for millions and millions of its citizens and allow them to develop a taste themselves for material things.
Xi is floating by on a system of repression that continues as long as China can continue sending things to Dollar Tree and WalMart - but he’s doing it with an aging labor force and a stagnant population not replacing itself.
 
Xi is floating by on a system of repression that continues as long as China can continue sending things to Dollar Tree and WalMart - but he’s doing it with an aging labor force and a stagnant population not replacing itself.
Xi's ties to Iowa go back 40 years when he was an ambassador...

 
From his best bio (The Outlier) to thd Fresh Air retrospective and the American Experience documentary, my conclusion is that he was underrated as a President, and overrated as a politician.

Yes, he was a major underdog who won the Presidency, but Gerald Ford had Nixon’s legacy and bumbling persona while Ted Kennedy’s personal demons did him in, presenting Carter a gift. Carter was America’s reactionary vote against the grift and dishonesty of Nixon. Perfect timing for a fighter of grift like he was (see his takedown of rural Georgia political bosses). He also made horrible political calculations because of his humanity: after the high of his popularity in ‘78 and the Camp David Accords, he went on foreign relations quests around the globe while the inflation and oil embargo crushed Americans here. He abandoned his strongest allies in cutting poverty programs first in his austerity budget. And he accepted the Shah in America to get treatment for cancer when it inflamed the Iranian Revolutionaries. Their waiting until after the election and inauguration ceremony of Reagan was their middle finger (though now we know Reagan and his people actively lobbied for Americans to be held there, and we know all about his “arms for hostages” position).

But he got a lot of consequential legislation passed. The budget deficit was down and employment was up by the end of his presidency. He increased government efficiency by deregulating cargo on trucking and flights. Yet he did increase social services, expanded national parklands, and signed significant environmental regulations into law.
Thanks.
 
FIFY. You're welcome.
Yeah, you really fixed it for me. Here's how bad Carter was, lol. Why don't you fix this. Trump is and will be 10 times the president Carter was. Carter was an absolute joke of a president just like your attempt to FIFY.

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Wow, you sound very upset. Make sure you take your meds. When people think of Carter they think of honor, character, a man of the people, outstanding citizen, best post presidency ever. When people think of Bonespurs they think of lies, cheating on his wife, porn prostitutes, crapping his pants, bumbling every speech, and dementia.oh yeah... and more lies.
 
Yeah, you really fixed it for me. Here's how bad Carter was, lol. Why don't you fix this. Trump is and will be 10 times the president Carter was. Carter was an absolute joke of a president just like your attempt to FIFY.

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Nixon had a larger margin of victory, which means he must have been an amazing President. 😆
 
Yeah, you really fixed it for me. Here's how bad Carter was, lol. Why don't you fix this. Trump is and will be 10 times the president Carter was. Carter was an absolute joke of a president just like your attempt to FIFY.

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Oh yeah, and don't forget, people will forever remember Trump as the president who was a confirmed sexual abuser. So sad.
 
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Yeah, you really fixed it for me. Here's how bad Carter was, lol. Why don't you fix this. Trump is and will be 10 times the president Carter was. Carter was an absolute joke of a president just like your attempt to FIFY.

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Man I'm getting really bad at this. Don't forget, people will also remember Bonespurs as the 34 time convicted financial felon with a half a billion $$ dollars in fines. History is going to love that.
 
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Wow, you sound very upset. Make sure you take your meds. When people think of Carter they think of honor, character, a man of the people, outstanding citizen, best post presidency ever. When people think of Bonespurs they think of lies, cheating on his wife, porn prostitutes, crapping his pants, bumbling every speech, and dementia.oh yeah... and more lies.
Yep, that's what they thought this last election and that's exactly how they voted. That's why Trump lost the popular vote and lost the electoral college in a landslide.... You're so right.

People think of Carter as the worst president, maybe this past century. End of discussion. And yes, you're getting bad at this. Getting worse as you keep opening your mouth.
 
Yeah, you really fixed it for me. Here's how bad Carter was, lol. Why don't you fix this. Trump is and will be 10 times the president Carter was. Carter was an absolute joke of a president just like your attempt to FIFY.

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Oh yeah, one more thing I forgot to mention. Probably because there are so many. History will remember Bonespurs as the president that paid $130,000 to two different pornstars to keep their affairs with him quiet. History loves that kind of stuff.
 
Oh yeah, one more thing I forgot to mention. Probably because there are so many. History will remember Bonespurs as the president that paid $130,000 to two different pornstars to keep their affairs with him quiet. History loves that kind of stuff.
History sure liked Trump this last election though, didn't history?
 
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History sure liked Trump this last election though, didn't history?
History liking for the last election? What does a stupid statement like that even mean? Are you getting all upset and having a stroke? I can almost see the spittle on your phone. Oh yeah, one more thing I forgot. History will not love Bonespurs for being the president that disgraced our dead battlefield soldiers by calling them "losers and suckers". History probably won't like that so much. So sad.
 
Reagan was an amazing president. Arguably the best we've had for a long time.
False. Reagan was a great messenger, salesman, and actor of the part of a President. His Middle East and South America policies were a disaster. HE gave HUGE concessions to Iran for the hostages (even conspiring to keep them hostage until after the inauguration). He was a warhawk and a spent like a drunken sailor on the military industrial complex. His trickle down economics were a disaster that turned into an ugly recession for George HW Bush the next term. His drug policy decimated our inner cities. He was good on immigration and trade by today's GOP standards, but he was the most overrated POTUS of the 20th century, AINEC.
 
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History liking for the last election? What does a stupid statement like that even mean? Are you getting all upset and having a stroke? I can almost see the spittle on your phone. Oh yeah, one more thing I forgot. History will not love Bonespurs for being the president that disgraced our dead battlefield soldiers by calling them "losers and suckers". History probably won't like that so much. So sad.
History was all taken into consideration during this last election, and the American people voted, and they overwhelmingly elected Donald Trump via the Electoral College which is how presidential elections have been conducted since 1787. There's your history lesson for the day.
 
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History was all taken into consideration during this last election, and the American people voted, and they overwhelmingly elected Donald Trump via the Electoral College which is how presidential elections have been conducted since 1787. There's your history lesson for the day.
you have an odd definition of overwhelming.
 
History was all taken into consideration during this last election, and the American people voted, and they overwhelmingly elected Donald Trump via the Electoral College which is how presidential elections have been conducted since 1787. There's your history lesson for the day.
Thanks Capt Obvious, I guess nobody knew that. Now do the results of his sexual abuse trial, judgment and appeal. That ought to be good.
 
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Yeah, you really fixed it for me. Here's how bad Carter was, lol. Why don't you fix this. Trump is and will be 10 times the president Carter was. Carter was an absolute joke of a president just like your attempt to FIFY.

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All Reagan had to do to get that wide of a victory is commit treason.
 
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Apparently his mom didn't tell him about the whole "if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all"

Even Trump managed better, and I'm stunned by that.
Dan Scavino had a nice, appropriate post. There was a second one later that Trump clearly wrote out himself that was mostly about him.
 
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