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== Jimmy Carter, RIP ==

== Jimmy Carter, RIP ==

According to Dan Rather, [https://steady.substack.com/p/jimmy-carter-1924-2024 Jimmy Carter was "a man of honesty.]" A major theme of the Carter presidency was to claim that we would run out of oil and everything else in ten years time. That this claim proved to be untrue didn't slow it down. Instead, it morphed into the global warming hoax.

According to Dan Rather, [https://steady.substack.com/p/jimmy-carter-1924-2024 Jimmy Carter was "a man of honesty]." A major theme of the Carter presidency was to claim that we would run out of oil and everything else in ten years time. Okay, everyone makes mistakes. But Carter and his backers don't see this one as a mistake at all. Instead, they proudly claim credit as prophets of "climate change." Promoting inefficient technology was the point all along. Which apocalypse we were trying to head off was just an afterthought.

As an ex-president, Carter was somehow even more destructive than he had been as president. His response to his defeat in the 1980 election was to claim that Ronald Reagan won by conspiring to delay the release of hostages held in Iran. "It’s almost nauseating to think that this could be true," Carter said, as if this was theory that somebody else was responsible for. The ludicrous "October surprise" theory, as it was called, obsessed the American political class for a decade. See "[https://anncoulter.com/2020/11/18/gee-why-cant-trump-accept-defeat-like-the-democrats/ Gee, Why Can’t Trump Accept Defeat Like the Democrats?]"

As an ex-president, Carter was somehow even more destructive than he had been as president. His response to his defeat in the 1980 election was to claim that Ronald Reagan won by conspiring to delay the release of hostages held in Iran. "It’s almost nauseating to think that this could be true," Carter said, as if this was a theory that somebody else was responsible for. The ludicrous "October surprise" theory, as it was called, obsessed the American political class for a decade. See "[https://anncoulter.com/2020/11/18/gee-why-cant-trump-accept-defeat-like-the-democrats/ Gee, Why Can’t Trump Accept Defeat Like the Democrats?]"

'''Update'''. I didn't even get to Carter's inflation and Middle East policies. Here is [https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/12/jimmy-carter-was-a-terrible-president-and-an-even-worse-former-president/ NR]: "to maintain the buying power that $100 had on the month Carter was sworn into office, you’d need $150 by the time he left the White House just four years later" and "His obsessive hatred of Israel, and pompous belief that only he could forge Middle East peace, led him to befriend terrorists and lash out at American Jews who criticized him." [[User:PeterKa|PeterKa]] ([[User talk:PeterKa|talk]]) 01:20, December 30, 2024 (EST)

'''Update'''. I didn't even get to Carter's inflation and Middle East policies. Here is [https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/12/jimmy-carter-was-a-terrible-president-and-an-even-worse-former-president/ NR]: "to maintain the buying power that $100 had on the month Carter was sworn into office, you’d need $150 by the time he left the White House just four years later" and "His obsessive hatred of Israel, and pompous belief that only he could forge Middle East peace, led him to befriend terrorists and lash out at American Jews who criticized him." [[User:PeterKa|PeterKa]] ([[User talk:PeterKa|talk]]) 01:20, December 30, 2024 (EST)