Jimmy Carter's tool belt

[babylonsister]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/1/4/2294987/-Cartoon-Jimmy-Carter-s-tool-belt


Cartoon: Jimmy Carter's tool belt
Saturday, January 04, 2025 at 6:54:07p EST
Pedro Molina

[Hugin]

1. It should be in the Smithsonian, if it isn't already.

I just realized this is my only post about Jimmy Carter.

Some things just hurt too much.

[Orrex]

2. The past 50 years have given us so many "what could have been" moments.

Where would the world be now if Carter had won in 1980?

[BonnieJW]

5. What would have happened if Al Gore won

[Kid Berwyn]

6. Or the GOP dealing with the Ayatollah.

Media covered up 1980 Iran hostage deal, the ‘October surprise,’ author tells Club

by Vincent Morris
National Press Club, October 24, 2024

Excerpt…

Unger, whose book “Den of Spies: Reagan, Carter, and the Secret History of the Treason that Stole the White House,” published Oct. 1, says that the issues around the case are larger than questions about our national security apparatus and the role of international politics in a domestic election; it’s about the media.

“One of the great disgraces of our national media in covering this up,” said (author Craig) Unger, who has worked as deputy editor of the New York Observer and editor-in-chief of Boston Magazine. “It was a great scandal and they twisted it and turned it on its ass.”

Although some of the history is still contested, the facts are not. President Jimmy Carter was unable to get American hostages released from Iran. In November 1980, he lost the election to Reagan. In January 1981, just minutes after Reagan was sworn in, the hostages were released.

In his remarks, Unger described how he first came upon the story many years later and turned it into a 10,000 word explosive piece for Esquire magazine. Not long after the piece hit, Unger says he was hired by Newsweek magazine and turned loose to do more investigative work; but “that’s when things went south,” he says.

Unger claims that soon after settling in at Newsweek, his stories about this topic were spiked by editors there. Worse, they printed stories that essentially washed over the explosive charges about the hostage deal, he said.

Unger reserved his most intense criticism for the Washington Post, which owned Newsweek at the time and, he says, had an outsize role in quietly killing the story. He’s also equally critical of Congressional Democrats, who he claims never pursued the dramatic charges as earnestly as they should have.

Continues…

Source: https://www.press.org/newsroom/media-covered-1980-iran-hostage-deal-october-surprise-author-tells-club

[bdamomma]

15. If those

two men have won, climate change would have been dealt with. So sad we are at this uncertain time.

[coffeebeforepants]

18. He did win.

The Supreme Court place W. in the Oval Office. Gore did admittedly give up too soon.

[Bengus81]

20. The Goverment books were balanced AND running a surplus and on track to zero out the debt

in the next 10 years the way I remember it. That would have been in 2010. Bush Jr. BLEW all that Clinton surplus on another tinkle down tax cut.

Now look at what we've got and how bad this will become with another round of huge tax cuts for those who didn't need the last TWO.

[bluboid]

3. very sweet.

He walked the talk.

[malaise]

4. Lovely

Thanks 😀

[usaf-vet]

7. Anyone figure out what these two items are. The ring in the left pouch and the cross hatched item behind the pencil & ..

.... Presidential Pen?

[calimary]

8. My guess:

The ring on the left looks like a magnifying glass - hard to see but it looks like there’s a dark blue handle underneath. The cross-hatched item on the right looks like a microphone.

[usaf-vet]

9. To good possible ones.

[Kid Berwyn]

10. The Mechanical Pencil

A very brave officer of the United States Navy, Lt. James Earle Carter, Jr., personally led the effort to contain a runaway nuclear reactor in meltdown.



Jimmy Carter and Fukushima

Apr 2nd 2011, 11:42 by K.N.C. | TOKYO
The Economist

EXCERPT...

The fear and danger is beyond comprehension for most people, and in particular the political leaders who must order men in to danger. But interestingly, it is not unfamiliar to former American president Jimmy Carter. Nearly half a century ago, as a young naval officer, he led a 23-man team to dismantle a reactor that, like Fukushima, had partially melted down.

The reactor in Chalk River, Canada, about 180 kilometres (110 miles) from Ottawa, was used to enrich plutonium for America's atomic bombs. On December 12th 1952 it exploded, flooding the reactor building’s basement with millions of litres of radioactive water. Lieutenant Carter, a nuclear specialist on the Seawolf submarine programme, and his men were among the few people with the security clearance to enter a reactor. From Schenectady, New York, they rode the train up and got straight to work.

"The radiation intensity meant that each person could spend only about ninety seconds at the hot core location," wrote Mr Carter in "Why Not the Best?", an autobiography published in 1975 when he was campaigning for the presidency.

The team built an exact replica of the reactor on a nearby tennis court, and had cameras monitor the actual damage in the reactor's core. "When it was our time to work, a team of three of us practised several times on the mock-up, to be sure we had the correct tools and knew exactly how to use them. Finally, outfitted with white protective clothes, we descended into the reactor and worked frantically for our allotted time," he wrote. "Each time our men managed to remove a bolt or fitting from the core, the equivalent piece was removed on the mock-up."

CONTINUED...

http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2011/04/japans_nuclear_clean-up

[FirstLight]

19. Wow... I had no idea

But then again, he lived such a long and amazing life. But I had no idea that that was his training in the Navy I wish I knew more about him but I was only 6 years old when he was president I guess I'll have to do some history research...
I feel bad that I haven't participated more in honoring him here and elsewhere, been so caught up in our own lives and trying to just struggle to survive 😕

[LetMyPeopleVote]

11. Great cartoon

President Carter will be missed

[AverageOldGuy]

12. Read more here

Google an old Baptist preacher named Clarence Jordan and Koinonia Farm.

Pay attention to Jordan's connection with Millard and Linda Fuller.

Jordan's cousin, Hamilton Jordan, was Carter's chief of staff.

If you are so inclined, read some of Jordan's "Cotton Patch Gospels." Will tell you a lot about Jimmy Carter.

[Magoo48]

13. There isn't a MAGAt in DC who could heft it, let alone strap it on.

[PeaceWave]

14. Dear God, can you imagine what's in Trump's "tool belt?"

[soldierant]

16. He doesn't have ome/ He has pockets -

more pockets that you wold think possible in a suit, ans all are stuffed with money.

[CentralMass]

17. According to Stormy, not much.