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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.

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[-] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 188 points 2 months ago

I gasped before reading the title till the end

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago

A rollercoaster of emotions within the span of a sentence.

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

You had me in the first half dot jpg

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 13 points 2 months ago

Any and every headline that begins with "Jimmy Carter, former US President" makes my stomach drop a bit. For like a decade now.

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 9 points 2 months ago

Seriously, with all the other bad celebrity news lately, I expected the worst.

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 months ago

Yup, my heart skipped a little beat before I got to the end.

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

I had read the headline before this post and still gasped.

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[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 100 points 2 months ago
[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 67 points 2 months ago

Hopefully he makes it a couple more months! so he can vote for Kamala! (maybe even attend her inauguration? Maybe Bernie can get the school teacher lady to make him a pair of those cozy mittens....)

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago

Early voting in Georgia is October 15. I assume he is going to vote as early as he can.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

does it count if you die before the actual election?

In any case, I got my ballot last Saturday here. (in MN. I'm signed up for it to be automatic... which is super easy to do. Just go through the online registration at the MN secretary of state page, and make sure to tick the box for 'automatically send ballots for mail in voting' or whatever.)

Everyone- Check your voting status here,. remember, Trump loses if we vote. Maybe we can convince Kamal to paint the White house Tiedye or something.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

does it count if you die before the actual election?

I believe it does, yes. Once the ballot is cast, it's counted.

You could potentially die in a car crash after leaving the polling place on election day.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

well, still don't want him to die.... but...uh.... up to him, I suppose. After the fifteenth...

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

You never know. He could vote again in four years.

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[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

Don't you put that bad juju on Jimmy Carter

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[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 5 points 2 months ago

https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/elections-verify/what-happens-if-someone-votes-early-but-dies-before-election-day/536-072041c7-5bb0-4e54-8418-5e98802c4dc1

Varies by state. Georgia is one of several states without a clear rule. At any rate, it seems to be constrained by practicality. If they already opened the envelope to count it, it’s hard to undo it.

[-] Hubi@feddit.org 58 points 2 months ago
[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 49 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Chekhovs_Gun@lemmy.world 48 points 2 months ago

No no no no noooo noooo no oh ohh ohh ohhhh YES!

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

They knew they were fucking with us with that title and they did it anyway

[-] rem26_art@fedia.io 35 points 2 months ago

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

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

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 :)

[-] Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] 1luv8008135@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You heard it here first, folks! The secret to longevity is: peanuts.

(Happy birthday, Mr. Carter!)

[-] Tja@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

Maybe it's no peanuts? He sold the farm, after all...

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[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

I really fucking wish that news articles would stop wording shit like this. Reading the title I initially thought he died.

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[-] DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 months ago

So he is technically elligible for a second term....

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

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.

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[-] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 2 months ago

Fucking hell i thougjt this was different news

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[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

I really wish they would stop dressing him up and dragging him out to events. Let the man rest.

[-] distantsounds@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago

I hope he gets the opportunity to stand at trump's grave.

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

He should get to be first in line to piss on it

[-] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

But he wouldn't because he has class, honor, integrity, and a sense of decorum. All things of which Trump is devoid.

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[-] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

He was the last president who addressed Americans like adults without the need for rhetoric.

[-] barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Wild ride to the last two words of the title. It could have gone either way.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Happy birthday!

[-] sploosh@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

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!

[-] vinayagg@api.clubsall.com 3 points 2 months ago

Congrats to Jimmy! I wonder if he lived stress free, if so, how?

[-] xc2215x@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Credit to Jimmy Carter for that.

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