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Temp: No Politics Jimmy Carter at a military flyover for his 100th birthday

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u/demotivater 4d ago

I sincerely hope he enjoyed that. As someone who has gone through this with a parent, it's incredibly difficult and I really hope he enjoyed the day.

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u/Jamesm203 4d ago

I mean this in the most respectful way humanly possible, I’m not entirely sure he is/was even conscious during any of that. It’s heartbreaking to see him like this, life is cruel.

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u/Nixter295 4d ago

I have a mother who has worked with the sickly elderly, basically the place they just wait to die.

And she says even though they look like they are barely alive they still understand much about what is happening around them.

She told me their boss was very strict about workers being nice, knocking before going into a room, and saying hello to the patient even though many can’t even answer, because even if they only understand a little bit, that might be the only thing they look forward to.

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u/Cpkrupa 4d ago

The boss is a great person.

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u/HappyMonchichi 4d ago

I just spent a month in a hospital like that, all the workers are trained to be cordial and polite and treat all the patients like royalty with great respect and kindness. It felt really nice to be there except for the fact I was sick and trapped in the hospital.

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u/TrueHippie 4d ago

Need more people in the industry like your boss. there is wayyyyyyy to much elderly abuse going on right under everyone’s noses

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u/can1g0somewh3r3 4d ago

That’s so important. I’m a nurse and I always explain what time doing and talk to my patients kindly, even if they are minimally responsive and don’t seem like they know what’s going on.

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u/FuzziestSloth 4d ago

Legit, all if this little sub-thread just made me get a little misty-eyed. Thank you so much for caring for our most vulnerable and giving me my necessary daily reminder that there are still good people in the world.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Trip990 4d ago

I know he's 100 but it's difficult to see him so frail.

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u/ForWhomTheBoneBones 4d ago

If I get to 100, I would want someone to please close my mouth for me so I’m not just cryptkeepering it all the time.

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u/Infamous-Fee7713 4d ago

This is not an age thing but a matter of transitioning out. I've seen it with young people too.

Some folks have a mighty strong heart and hang on far longer than anyone could predict. The important thing is to keep swabbing their mouth with moist sponges as needed. If you've had anyone in hospice you know all this.

This man has a good heart and apparently a strong heart too.

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u/cartwheels4voodoo 4d ago

The way he looks right now reminds me of how my Mom looked when she was a day from dying. I don't know if Jimmy is going to make it to election day. But the dying often seem to choose their time to go, so I'm not ruling him out.

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u/YobaiYamete 4d ago

Yep, my great grandpa decided his time to die and called up all the kids and said "Come see me, I don't want to live anymore" so they all visited and then he died that night

He was pretty much fine (for being 101) but just chose to die and passed within 24 hours

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u/Hardcorish 4d ago

It's fascinating to continually hear stories like that. There's countless anecdotes of people on the horizon of death but they manage to stay alive long enough to see their loved ones. Some even tell them it's ok to 'let go', and moments later they pass peacefully.

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u/onlyonematt 4d ago

Adding my own anecdote to say this was also true for my mom. She was transferred to a hospice and I visited her the next day and mentioned I had all her affairs in order, loved her, that she didn’t have to hold on any longer, and that my brother would be visiting her the next day (as we would alternate days). She ended up passing away hours after he visited her.

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u/FuzziestSloth 4d ago

My grandmother is one of the most stubborn women to have ever drawn breath.

She had a massive heart attack and was taken to the hospital where she was put on a ventilator and was unconscious. The doctors told us she was unlikely to make it through the night and if she did, wouldn't probably make it to the weekend. The catholic priest went into her room to give her her last rites, that's how dire it was looking.

All of this was told to me when I was told to come to the hospital, essentially in order to say my goodbyes. The first thing I said to my parents upon arriving to the hospital was to ask, "Has anyone asked her?" They looked at me confused, so I elaborated, "Has anyone asked her if she's ready to go, yet? Because if not, that woman isn't going anywhere."

That was about 7 years ago. The woman is still alive to this day, living her best life on her own. My parents thought I was just trying to cheer them up a little, but I was being completely serious. That woman won't die until she decides that she's done living. I'm still convinced she's going to outlive me.

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u/galesmagicunderpants 4d ago

This made me giggle in public this morning. Cheers to your grandma!

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u/MoiraBrownsMoleRats 4d ago

He said he wants to live long enough to vote for Harris. Simply having a purpose seems to be enough to keep people going a little longer. I wouldn’t be shocked if Carter casts his vote and is gone before December.

Regardless, he’s lived an incredible life and is one of the few genuinely good human beings to hold the presidency. I hope history remembers him fondly.

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u/Due_Solution_4156 4d ago

Yep. My dad died in this exact mouth position. I did close his eyes after he died bc that part was a no go for me. We ain’t dying with our mouth AND eyes wide open.

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u/pittbrewing 4d ago

Thanks for the laugh. RIP to your dad

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u/59flowerpots 4d ago

I’d rather someone gently smother me with a pillow for fucks sake. If I can’t close my mouth, that isn’t a life I want to keep living.

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u/jonsnow312 4d ago

But what if like, everything else worked fine

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u/IveChosenANameAgain 4d ago

When I see a gentleman that can't close their mouth, my first thought is always "I bet everything else works fine".

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u/Demonokuma 4d ago

"Oh yeah he definitely gets hard still"

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u/GrandmaPoses 4d ago

Maybe his mouth is open because on your 100th birthday you have a mindblowing 24-hour orgasm.

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u/South_Bit1764 4d ago

Well that escalated quickly.

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u/Laundry_Hamper 4d ago

what if someone offered to squeeze some banoffee ice cream topping into your mouth directly

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u/CommonSenseWomper 4d ago

He wants to stay alive to see the first female US president, he wants his vote to count towards something so consequential

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u/krazybones 4d ago

Cryptkeepering it 😂🤣

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u/doom_one 4d ago

What’s wild to me is how 100 looks on some people, and then there’s a 93 year old William Shatner who looks 70.

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u/Laiko_Kairen 4d ago

My grandpa passed at 98.

He was very active into his mid 90s. Once his lung collapsed and he needed a permanent oxygen tank which limited his mobility, he started atrophying quite quickly

At that age, once you sit down into a wheelchair, you rarely stand back up

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u/hamburgersocks 4d ago

I mean, it seems like just last week we were seeing pictures of Carter building houses. Then he falls one time, his wife dies, and now this.

Age catches up fast.

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u/SunkenSaltySiren 4d ago

I know it seems sad, but damn, this is the way to go. Building houses one week, then quick decline. No years long lingering pain filled degeneration. Not so fast that you can't say goodbye, but long enough that you and loved ones can kinda make peace with it. He was an amazing man, with a boundless amazing heart. It's a wonder that he was our president.

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u/Regular_Novel9721 4d ago

He has said he wants to live long enough to vote. I bet he dies shortly after.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Trip990 4d ago

He deserves a peaceful passing after voting.

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u/QuimmFistington 4d ago

Fuck dude, I've been wondering what's kept him going since his wife died, and a milestone like turning 100 send like something he wouldn't really care about. He wants to perform his civic duty one last time.

Jimmy Carter is the best human being to be president of our lifetime, possibly of all time

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u/tamaralfreeman 4d ago

I’ve always thought this, this is a humanitarian, a good good man. Bless him. President Carter could care less about fan fair at 100. This man just wants to serve in anyway. Let’s help him vote so he can join his beloved wife.

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u/TheBeardedHen 4d ago

Agreed. What an incredible human being.

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u/notsowitte 4d ago

Mail in ballot.

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u/DrT33th 4d ago

He’s just saving his energy to stride into that booth like a badass.

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u/VermicelliEastern303 4d ago

if he voted absentee already but died before the election would it count? i am kidding, but i wonder how often this happens with much less renowned people

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u/writingthefuture 4d ago

It depends on the state. Some explicitly allow it to count, some explicitly don't, some don't have any ruling regarding whether it counts or not (so I guess it counts?)

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u/whatnameisnttaken098 4d ago

Shit my grandpa just passed last week, and his final days basically looked like Jimmy in that clip.

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u/GM_Nate 4d ago

my granddad is 99 and still walking on his own. then again, my granddad never had cancer.

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u/Significant_Lab_5286 4d ago

When the spirit is stronger than the flesh.

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u/Theefreeballer 4d ago edited 4d ago

I actually wouldn’t say that . I read something he said about 6 months ago and the man is ready to go. I’m paraphrasing but he basically said “ all of my friends have died , I’ve been here long enough and I’m curious to see what happens next “.

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u/Infamous-Fee7713 4d ago

I think he would love to be reunited with his late wife.

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u/chefontheloose 4d ago

They honeymooned at Chimney Rock, I morbidly wonder if they have spared him the news.

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u/Randy_____Marsh 4d ago edited 4d ago

what news?

edit: ohhhh…. :(

edit edit: Hurricane took it out

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u/BorgerFrog 4d ago

What's the news?

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u/Socratesticles 4d ago

Chimney rock is one of the North Carolina towns that has been quite literally washed off the map from the recent flooding

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u/jmemail 4d ago edited 4d ago

I sold my farm there in rutherfordton about 15 mi away last year. I had a land development company I developed most of what you see there on the main street in chimney Rock

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u/thisaccountgotporn 4d ago

What feelings are you having seeing it's state?

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u/savvyblackbird 4d ago

My husband and I honeymooned in Asheville and went to Chimney Rock too. It’s heartbreaking. I hope he doesn’t know.

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u/Mammoth-Accountant22 4d ago

well this is fucking heartbreaking

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u/SuccessWise9593 4d ago

His grandson said that he was excited to be turning 100 and voting for Harris.

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u/fellowbabygoat 4d ago

Is he able to early vote? Holding out another month might not work out.

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u/bobtheframer 4d ago

Does an early vote from someone who passes away before election day count?

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u/Raps4Reddit 4d ago

Jimmy Carter arrives in Heaven to find he is the only one there. "Damn", he thinks, "Guess I should have done some bad stuff.

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u/luxii4 4d ago

“Wait a few months, Mr. Rogers is almost done in purgatory.”

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u/teflonbob 4d ago

‘Wait a few hours. Mr Rogers will return soon from his daily purgatory trip where he goes and helps anyone he finds there find their way to their final destination.’ FTFY. Mr Rogers ain’t going to be stuck in the bullshit that is purgatory. That man is rescuing people and dragging them to where they should be. yes I know what purgatory is and it’s bullshit such a place exists or is hinted at existing. Mr Rogers wouldn’t end up there.

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u/Easy-Concentrate2636 4d ago

Mr. Rogers is definitely a resident of one of the top tiers of Paradise.

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u/falcrist2 4d ago

Mr Rogers will return soon from his daily purgatory trip where he goes and helps anyone he finds there find their way to their final destination.

I'm atheist, but this almost makes me want to believe.

I've always loved the Hitchens insult "It's a pity there isn't a hell for him to go to.", but in this case it's a pity there's no heaven for people like Mr. Rogers to go to.

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u/JefferyTheQuaxly 4d ago

His grandson has officially said that his “last wish” is to see Kamala Harris win the 2024 election, no clue if that’s factual or not just what he told reporters.

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u/HeavenHellorHoboken 4d ago

He wants to make it long enough to vote for Kamala.

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u/stopes 4d ago

Early voting has started already in some places as well as absentee

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u/UNCwesRPh 4d ago

Yeah, but you have to live until Election Day.

The director of elections in our county had to invalidate her own mother’s early voting ballot in 2020 due to her passing before Election Day. Broke her heart, but I’m so glad she had the integrity required for that position. My county is red as red can be…..and I love tossing that fact out when they talk about rigged and stolen elections.

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u/frenchdresses 4d ago

How do they know the person died? Is screening SS numbers for dead people standard when counting the votes? Is that why you can't start counting until election day?

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u/fishsticks40 4d ago

Ordinary people, it would not be an issue. Sure some slip through but it's a tiny number. 

Jimmy Carter they would notice.

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u/MacduffFifesNo1Thane 4d ago

The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised.

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u/zneave 4d ago

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal… Even in death I serve the Omnissiah.

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u/iStayedAtaHolidayInn 4d ago

Damn the poor guy doesn’t look like he would survive a haircut

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u/Sonichan 4d ago

I really should not have laughed as hard as I did at this comment but holy shit

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u/qdogg111 4d ago

I dont think he'd survive the same laugh that this comment gave me lol

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u/geekg 4d ago

I needed this laugh

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u/twelvesixteenineteen 4d ago

My grandfather died of Parkinson’s. He was 89 and looked like that. He was an athlete in his days. His mind was all there. I asked him if he’d rather lose his mind or his body, he chuckled, “my mind for sure.”

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u/Kwerby 4d ago

Same. Lost grandpa to Parkinson’s last year in March, 83. Same decrepit, mouth hanging open look and he had dementia. It’s so brutal to see a smart man you look up to become like that.

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u/Eclectophile 4d ago

He's a quiet hero. Habitat for Humanity owes so much of their success to the Carters. They've been fostering, supporting, guiding and working within Habit for Humanity since the early 80s. President Carter himself built homes with his own hands. Not once, as a ceremony, but as a worker.

I think he "retired" from physically building homes like 20 years ago. In other words, he was swinging a hammer through his 70s.

Please give me the grace to age like Jimmy Carter. I hope he gets to vote. I've heard he's energized about it.

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u/ElasticLama 4d ago

Imagine living in a house a former president built with his own hands?

I’m not American but I always found the Carters just total class acts

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u/UpgradedUsername 4d ago

He was still building houses in his 90s after surviving brain cancer. Granted, not with the same energy as in his 70s—but still a remarkable accomplishment. https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/12/politics/jimmy-carter-habitat-for-humanity-nashville/index.html

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u/Rialas_HalfToast 4d ago

He was still at it last year.

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u/mwinni 4d ago

HE’S 100. How the fuck is he supposed to look!

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u/DayTrippin2112 4d ago

My husband is heartbroken over Frank. That man can sit for hours watching the Pickers.

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u/Realtrain 4d ago

Those two were awesome together. One of the rare reality shows at the time where you could tell they were real buddies - basically never any manufactured drama.

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u/sender2bender 4d ago

Unfortunately they had a falling out a few years back and didn't talk for a couple years

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u/ItsStaaaaaaaaang 4d ago

Oh shit. Didn't know. That's sad. I enjoyed their show back in the day.

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u/Loaki9 4d ago

She also didnt serve as president. I hear there’s a bit of stress involved in that job.

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u/CapTexAmerica 4d ago

Only for those who actually try to do the job.

And that man tried.

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u/TXSTBobCat1234 4d ago

Also was in the military and worked as a farmer.

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u/karma_cucks__ban_me 4d ago

He was an officer on a submarine.... one of the most stressful and demanding jobs in the military.

You do not get a day off when you're out to sea and you do not get to even get to see the sun if you're on a submarine. I did 5 years submarine service in the Navy and it has fucked up the rest of my life.

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u/mamamedic 4d ago

My great-aunt Gert died at 106, and was sharp as a tack until just a couple months before passing. She'd signed herself into an assisted living home in her late 90's, because her arthritis made it sometimes difficult to walk, but she was happy, mostly healthy, and had a wicked sense of humor!

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u/clarksworth 4d ago

That’s great, good for her.

I don’t know how to make that not sound sarcastic, but I really do mean it. It’s very heartwarming.

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u/_yourupperlip_ 4d ago

Women tend to rock out longer than men

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u/blyzo 4d ago

I mean based on how others looked ending their terms I'd say being President for 4 years probably adds at least another 10-15 years to your age.

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u/sfchillin 4d ago

He doesn’t look a day under 120

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u/Makeshiftprodigy 4d ago

I agree, in other news check out a women that just turned 110 in Chicago. Will blow your mind how some can look.

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u/Exemus 4d ago

He looks the way I'll look when I'm 100...dead.

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u/bucknut68 4d ago

Give that man a Billy beer. He deserves it.

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u/PapaGolfWhiskey 4d ago

You trying to kill him by giving him that crap?

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u/james_randolph 4d ago

His first birthday without Rosalynn by his side since the 40s…1940s…I know he misses her dearly, they were a solid tight couple.

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u/gigglegenius 4d ago

May he live to vote in the upcoming election!

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u/st_rdt 4d ago edited 4d ago

He told his grandson that he plans to do so and I sincerely hope the Universe grants his wish.

Happy 100 Mr President.

Hats off to one of the most gentlemanly and consequential Presidents that few Americans give him credit for.

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u/Ashbringer 4d ago

thats what my great grandma did for obama and died a few months after at 109...

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u/ItsStaaaaaaaaang 4d ago

and died a few months after

Thanks Obama! /s

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u/totalfarkuser 4d ago

Obama killed their great granny!

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u/idropepics 4d ago

Nobody talks about this because Obama used his one free secret murder to kill that guy's nana.

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u/st_rdt 4d ago

Your great grandma is a legend !

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u/DayTrippin2112 4d ago

You heard it here from Jimmy!

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u/Church_of_Cheri 4d ago

Early voting in Georgia starts on the 15th, but he’ll probably vote absentee which go out next week… I checked, in GA if you send in your absentee ballot and then die before Election Day your vote still counts. He just needs about 2 more weeks of will left.

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u/falcrist2 4d ago

He just needs about 2 more weeks of will left.

He lived to 100 to match Kissinger... restoring balance to the force.

He's done enough. Voting would just be icing on the cake.

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u/khaotickk 4d ago

I bet he's trying to hold on for November.

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u/101ina45 4d ago

He said as much

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u/cplchanb 4d ago

It honestly looks like they're pushing a corpse around.... he doesn't look like he's moving much at all

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u/Ok-Jellyfish-7081 4d ago

The big man has been in hospice for like 19 months now, I'm shocked he's healthy enough to be wheeled around tbh.

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u/Cumohgc 4d ago

Ex-hospice nurse wife watched this video and gives him less than a week.

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u/Mean-Green-Machine 4d ago

Hopefully I don't eat my words, but they've been saying this about him since before his wife died

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u/chrispg26 4d ago

Exactly. He looked like this at his wife's funeral. I think he'll make it.

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u/CrayonData 4d ago

I want him to see the election results before he goes.

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u/SundyMundy14 4d ago

From what I remember reading he was devastated by his wife's death last year. People often go downhill even faster after losing a loved one. I was expecting him to go within months of her death.

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u/StarChow 4d ago

Broken heart syndrome. It's really sad.

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u/Equal-Temporary-1326 4d ago

I'm honestly surprised he's still alive nearly one year after Mrs. Carter's death. The human spirit to live is strong.

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u/JustAFuckUp_ 4d ago

He looks like he's at the end of the line. it's coming soon no doubt. That's how they look when it's coming. Death.

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u/ABEGIOSTZ 4d ago

Why does this sound like something a silent hill character would say

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u/BarfingOnMyFace 4d ago

That’s 100% pure unadulterated Mr Rogers

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u/colicab 4d ago

We knew what you meant.

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u/vonhulio 4d ago

Weekend at Jimmy's lol

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u/Jinga1 4d ago

I know his last wish was to vote in the Presidential elections before he dies. I hope he gets to do that.

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u/mimzynull 4d ago

I speak from personal experience, my mother died young at 55 (f**k cancer) she was so worried about my sister and I that she rallied through hospice to make it to her birthday to make sure she could leave us her pension. (you had to be 55 to recieve it). She died on her 55th birthday as a gift to us. I think the spirit is strong if you are trying to reach that last thing. I think President Carter is living to show his service and support to our democracy.

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u/Some-Air1274 4d ago

❤️🙏

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u/Interesting-Goose82 4d ago edited 4d ago

How does it work if he legally votes early, but then dies before 11/5? For normal people nobody would even know you died, and it would probably go through. But with a public figure that everyone in theory knew he voted early, but then died before election day. Does thst vote count, or is it removed?

....just an interesting question, not looking to stir up a debate

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u/psychohistorian8 4d ago

if you vote early then you have voted

no different than voting on election day then getting hit by a car exiting the parking lot

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u/blaaaaaaaam 4d ago

More states explicitly prohibit the counting of a deceased early vote than explicitly allow it. Georgia does count them.

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u/69GbE 4d ago

For machines, they wouldn't be able to undo his vote once it was cast for anonymity reasons.

For mail, Georgia doesn't seem to prohibit the counting of a vote if they died before election day.

I'm not in Georgia, but in Texas (for mail ballots), but if a voter has a "deceased status" on their registration we check the mailing date vs notice date and if it was mailed before then we take it if everything else like their ID and signature matches.

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u/fuck-thishit-oclock 4d ago

Thought this was a joke because I just saw a video of Jimmy greeting everyone on a plane. I guess that was an old video.

My republican dad mocked JC for being a peanut farmer and liberal. My dad was a pastor for 10 years, alcoholic stoner type "christian." Anyways...

Happy birthday Jimmy. We'll leave you alone now.

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u/DoneinInk 4d ago

It’s almost like no one noticed Jesus Christ when he was president.

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u/The_Wkwied 4d ago

The initials were right in front of us, too.

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u/HarpersGhost 4d ago

That video is from 2017.

So while he doesn't look good now, he was good well into his 90s. He's had a good long life.

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u/andythefifth 4d ago

Same, I’m frustrated i fell for that video.

This is way different.

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u/Temporary_Tune5430 4d ago

fuck man, this is sad :(

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u/Khan-Khrome 4d ago

Honestly he's gone downhill fast, you can see interviews with him as little as five years back and he still was sharp and physically together at 95, it's rough that his last couple of years have been so hard on him.

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u/BearOdd4213 4d ago

He broke his hip in a fall at 94-95 too. Up until then he was mobile for his age

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u/Lazy_Weight69 4d ago

He deserved a 100 plane flyover!!!

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u/2squishmaster 4d ago

Making it to 100 isn't sad!

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u/slick_pick 4d ago

Yea this wasn’t as heart warming as I thought it’d be…

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u/Claeyt 4d ago edited 4d ago

He has his kids, grand kids, great grand kids and at least one, great great grand kid sitting with him on a beautiful october day. He was married for almost 80 years. He supposedly is with it and still recognizes his family and nursing staff that have been with him for over a decade. He has lived like few others and seen amazing things. He's fought in massive wars and made peace for millions. If any man reaches heaven, it will be him, and his wife and beloved peanut farm will be waiting there for him.

We should all be so lucky as that man sitting there at peace in the sun.

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u/RimTimTagiLin 4d ago

So beautifully stated. Thank you 🩷

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u/Nickyjha 4d ago

When the Carter Center was founded, there were approximately 3.5 million cases of guinea worm disease per year. So far in 2024, there have been 4 cases reported.

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u/DoJu318 4d ago

He's been in hospice care forever, I'm surprised he still alive.

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u/artsatisfied229 4d ago

Thank you for your lifetime of service to our country, Jimmy Carter.

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u/uncontrollablepoop 4d ago

It pains me to see him like this. I'm glad he made it to 100 but I don't want him to suffer just so that he can vote in November. Why didn't he vote early? Was it a symbolic gesture?

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u/VoluptuousGinger 4d ago

Early voting doesn't begin until the 15th here in GA.

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u/uncontrollablepoop 4d ago

I see. Thank you.

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u/iheartheocean 4d ago

i voted for jimmy carter when we had a mock election in my second grade class. he won in a landslide that day.

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u/SxeySteve 4d ago

Two national treasures

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u/Electrical-Scar7139 4d ago

The oldest former president and the last Highwayman!

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u/Gunner5091 4d ago

People ridiculed him during his presidency and Iran held up the hostages until Regan was sworn in. Even then he flew to meet the hostages and took the lumps. He spent the rest of his life to help the poor and humanitarian efforts. How does the US go from him to Trump? I don’t know much about his presidency but I admire the man on what he did after his presidency.

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u/Avilola 4d ago

It’s very important to remember that Trump lost the popular vote by 3m in 2016. Most people didn’t want him as president, he just benefitted from what some would consider a design flaw in our political system.

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u/Gunner5091 4d ago

Fair enough Trump doesn’t have the popular votes but what about McConnell, Graham etc continue to give what Trump wants even though they know he is bad for the country.

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u/pedanticlawyer 4d ago

Goddamn Jimmy, it’s ok to go. You’ve given us plenty.

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u/Neely67 4d ago

Trump was the only living president not to wish Jimmy Carter a happy 100th.

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u/LeeOCD 4d ago

Stands to reason. Jimmy Carter painfully reminds Trump of who he is not. So yeah, there would be resentment.

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u/Straight-Treacle-630 4d ago

Seriously? I’m not actually surprised. Disgusted, but not surprised.

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u/imtnbikewv 4d ago

I’m pretty sure he’s just tired from building another house this morning.

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u/bangermadness 4d ago

Now that dude has lived a full life of service.

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u/deadringer70 4d ago

This is both heartbreaking and happy. A great American, true Christian and an example of a life helping others we should all strive for 🥹

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u/TraditionalAnxiety 4d ago

“A true Christian” as a devout atheist, I would heartily agree. And wish people would take note and follow.

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u/Remarkable_Subject84 4d ago

Jesus chriat he's bones and a hat. Leave him alone

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u/moogiemomm 4d ago

We live here in Canada and we love Jimmy Carter. He is an extraordinary human being.

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u/Lagneaux 4d ago

That's one of the last good politicians right there. Salutes to you, president Carter.

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u/rosinall 4d ago

What can you say about a man whose low point in life was being President of the United States?

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u/Sinister_Bug 4d ago

The last good king of Westeros

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u/Walleyevision 4d ago

The man is a National Treasure at this point, but I’m also a big believer in respecting the dignity of our elderly, especially once they reach this point. Let him enjoy his fly-over moment, to whatever capacity he can, but let him do it in privacy with his family and friends there only….no photos/cameras. This genuinely bothers me to show him like this.

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u/Low_Minimum2351 4d ago

The best former President

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u/ShoccoreeShake 4d ago

Honestly this man is the archetype of what a Christian, and human should be. Just a good human who took his oath to serve the people seriously. I hope he knows his life of service is appreciated and that he will be remembered lovingly.

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u/Psy-Cun0 4d ago

Men when they see and hear a cool plane flying overhead

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u/OkAlternative2713 4d ago

Hopefully he can let go now. Thank you Jimmy for showing decency and kindness.

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u/Putrid_Beat_17 4d ago

A good and kind dude. I have a couple of historical figures that I look up to, top of them being John Brown and Jimmy Carter.

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u/adamcmorrison 4d ago

Well he doesn’t look too great.

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u/wessel0204_ 4d ago

Well, he isn't that young anymore

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u/CaraCicartix 4d ago

I'm sorry if this seems insensitive but is he aware of his surroundings? He seems to have his eyes closed the entire time.

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u/wojtekpolska 4d ago

his family claimed that on his birthday he said that he hopes to live long enough to vote in the next election.

also i found a longer video (3min) of this event from the post, and he seems to be looking at the planes so i think he's aware (tho he isnt rly moving much), tho yeah he doesnt look great he probably isn't gonna be around for much longer sadly

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u/Throwaway831228 4d ago

To add to that, you can be fully aware to all surroundings, but struggle to show it. This counts for multiple conditions. I see a very strong man right there.

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u/thekau 4d ago edited 4d ago

It's possible he was conserving energy by taking naps throughout the event. Since he's on hospice, I'm sure he spends a lot of time in bed, so he's probably deconditioned, and being up for long periods of time is exhausting for him.

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u/Head-like-a-carp 4d ago

I'm happy he gets to see all this outpouring of goodwill for him. I also hope he lives long enough to see Harris defeat Trump. Much more than that seems cruel in a way

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u/thrown2themoon 4d ago

Former street Paramedic here. We called that "O mouth." Its often happens a short time before death.

"Q mouth" is death with the tongue hanging out.

Medical people have a gallows sense of humor. It helps keep us sane. 🤷‍♂️

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u/rdogg_82 4d ago

Weekend at Jimmy's.

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