Jimmy Carter, former US president, turns 100
Jimmy Carter, former US president, turns 100
There was a flyover of jets in his hometown, and 100 people became US citizens at a naturalisation ceremony in his honour.
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 gasped before reading the title till the end
A rollercoaster of emotions within the span of a sentence.
You had me in the first half dot jpg
Any and every headline that begins with "Jimmy Carter, former US President" makes my stomach drop a bit. For like a decade now.
Seriously, with all the other bad celebrity news lately, I expected the worst.
Yup, my heart skipped a little beat before I got to the end.
I had read the headline before this post and still gasped.
Spoiler
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
No no no no noooo noooo no oh ohh ohh ohhhh YES!
They knew they were fucking with us with that title and they did it anyway
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
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 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
oh really? I didn't know that
Especially if said hospice care is fraudulent!
(Not the majority of hospice, but it happens. Last Week Tonight did a piece on it.)
I really fucking wish that news articles would stop wording shit like this. Reading the title I initially thought he died.
it makes me wish i instead spoke one of those pama-nyungan languages where dead people have different grammar rules
You heard it here first, folks! The secret to longevity is: peanuts.
(Happy birthday, Mr. Carter!)
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 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...
Speak for yourself!
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.
So he is technically elligible for a second term....
Fucking hell i thougjt this was different news
Whoever wrote that headline knew precisely what they were doing and went ahead with it anyway because they are an asshole.
100 year old president: Jimmy Carter
There I fixed it, exact same news, no fuck yous.
I really wish they would stop dressing him up and dragging him out to events. Let the man rest.
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
He was the last president who addressed Americans like adults without the need for rhetoric.
Wild ride to the last two words of the title. It could have gone either way.
Happy birthday!
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!
Congrats to Jimmy! I wonder if he lived stress free, if so, how?
This belongs in c/maybemaybemaybe
I am glad my first thought about this headline was wrong.