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Jimmy Carter Says He’s Hanging On to Vote for Kamala Harris

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Jimmy Carter Says He’s Hanging On to Vote for Kamala Harris

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Go Jimmy, Go. 💙

How can one person be this good of a citizen!!?
- Georgia boys are either sweetheart saints or hateful monsters, not a lot in between. Source: am Georgia boy
  
  You fucking monster!!!
- He was actually a pretty good president too. Unfortunately the seeds of the cancer that is the current Republican party has been sown by the Nixon administration before he was elected and had begun to bear fruit when Reagan ran against him.
  
  I like to say he was the best man ever to be President and that he had great policies, but that he was not an effective President.
  He was too honest to play the game.
  
  Oh I fully agree, being a good president can only make you a better citizen.
  
  Yeah, the Republican party had a strong progressive wing before Nixon. Lincoln, Teddy, and Eisenhower were all progressives by modern standards.

Now that is an endorsement

orange man really got elderly people staying alive out of SPITE just to vote against him LMAO
- Never underestimate spite when it comes to living long lives.

“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
- He also planted seeds in the ME that has allowed the US to always have an unstable relationship in the region
  
  Ronald Reagan prolonged the Iran hostage crisis and then resolved it by selling weapons to Iran - which was illegal. Its a great tragedy that Ronald Reagan wasn't prosecuted for treason.
  
  The creation of Israel, and the US aided Iranian coup of 1953 both happened a couple decades before Carter.
  Those seeds were planted and had been growing for a while.
  
  Tell me you know nothing about history in one sentance challenge: Success
  
  E D G Y

You’re my boy, BLUE!
- All we gotta do is keep Jimmy away from the KY jelly wrestling pit with naked college girls and we're set
  
  He’s doomed
  
  I'm sorry, there's a what? I'm trying to book a flight now...
  
  Good fucking luck...
  
  Just until after the election

I assume he's still registered in GA? We really need that vote.
- Dude built half the state with his bare hands. He absolutely should get to vote there.
- There's a reasonable chance he's been purged from the rolls.

If this man doesn't make it to 100 all is wrong in the world
- Agreed. I’m still pretty bummed out that Betty White died 17 days shy of her 100th birthday. Hang in there Jimmy, we all need this!
  
  Pretty sure she did it as a joke on purpose. You know there was a massive party planned and she was like "good luck suckers, I'm out!"

Hey, Donny. Even though I'm yearning to join my wife, I'm in constant pain, and I'm past ready to die, I'm hanging on for 3 more months just to give you the middle finger.
- Jimmy Carter would never give Trump the middle finger. He's too classy.
  He's the sort of man who stands for something he believes in and leaves it at that. He was the Fred Rogers of politicians.
- I can feel your loss. Losing your soulmate is devastating. My best advice I can give you is to seek help and talk, either a professional or a friend. Suicide should never be a solution and I‘m sure that your wife wouldn‘t want you to leave this earth when we don‘t know whats on the other side.
  Edit: Also, we need you to kick Donnys or MAGAa ass again in four years
  Edit2: Nvm, I misunderstoof the comment
  
  I believe they are referencing that Jimmy Carter's wife died last year.

Just a great person all around.
- He should run again in 2028
  
  I think he's waiting for 2028... which would really be pushing it for Jimmy, since a fascist dictatorship that no longer holds elections might be in charge.
  If that's the case, I wish him the best of luck in 2032.

Hold on and make it to see her inaugurated and that way you'll have lived longer than Kissinger, Carter.
I know you can do it!

Man... If he dies immediately after voting...
- That'd be metal af

I've always said Jimmy would be prefarable to the current roaster of politicians, and I'm going to say it again.
- It fucking sucks that both Carter and Bernie are so old and so ahead of their time. Give them 40 year old bodies and they'd be the future we need.
  
  Give them perpetually 40 year old bodies and let them rule as two God-Emperors in repeating eight years cycles for each.

Damn it - he should run for president.
- Literal ghoul
  
  You're no buttercup yourself, smoothskin

THIS is how ex-presidents influence elections!

I’d love to see the people that downvoted this show some bravery and explain what about it is unworthy of just ignoring and moving on.

o7

this would be such a good ending for carters run, hopefully he can kick around long enough to make it a reality.
Now, who do we nominate to be the next carter, we need another one....
- We have to go back to 1955, Marty!
  
  unfortunately it's looking like that's the only option.

He should throw his hand in the ring. He’ll outlive all of us 😄

God bless this man.

The man beat cancer, can't believe he can't stick around until October 14th when early voting begins.
- Serious question: would the vote not be tossed if he died before the actual election day?
  
  Looks like Georgia is one of 28 states that don't really have an opinion on that. 9 states say count it, 12 say don't count it, 1 says only count it if active military.
  But "As a practical matter, it is hard to retrieve ballots from people who have died between casting their votes and Election Day. Once the absentee ballot has been verified and removed from the envelope for counting, the ballot cannot be retraced to the voter.
  Catching a ballot, then, is only possible when it is still in its return envelope, and only in cases where election officials have received notice of the death."
  https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/counting-absentee-ballots-after-a-voter-dies

This makes me happy. Hopefully it'll encourage more people to help with his charity work too.

Jimmy Carter lives long enough to vote.
Dies.
The next day:
Fox News "Kamala Harris killed Jimmy Carter!"

Here’s hoping you get to keep that wish, sir.

We all are.

My dog! 👊

Meanwhile, Trump is holding on for his next diaper change.

The best.

First we had dead people voting, and now we have FUTURE dead people voting? S M H!
- Fox headline: "Zombie Votes Tainting Election! Are the Desperate Dems digging up votes?"

The absolute madman

The same also follows for many boomer Trumpers

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  possibly something to report to the dev of that app then, it looks fine for me on Jerboa (image below)
  
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