RIP Jimmy Carter, Oct 1, 1924 - Dec 29, 2024

• He pardoned all Vietnam War draft dodgers on his second day in office
• He created a national energy policy that included conservation, price control, and new technology
• He pushed through the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal Treaties, and the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks - and you may never have heard of any of those things, but trust me, each one of them was a huge fucking deal
• Even though he was staunchly Christian his whole life, he left his Southern Baptist Church when they decided to no longer allow women to be pastors
• And then fought tirelessly against the suppression of reports on sex offenders in the church
• He established the U.S. Department of Energy and the Department of Education
• He established the Carter Center to promote and expand human rights and he was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002
• He traveled all over the world to conduct peace negotiations, monitor elections, and further the eradication of infectious diseases
• He helped found Habitat for Humanity and continued to do hands-on work building houses for people into his fucking late 90s
• He may very well be the only president, or even the only politician, who never cheated on his wife even once
• He said he'd rather be dead than see a second Trump presidency and he fucking meant it

Books that Jimmy Carter wrote in his post-presidential years include:

He was a true good one, the likes of which we will never have again (and it makes it even worse that he was replaced by Ronald Reagan, source of so much that is wrong in modern America). Rest in peace, sir.