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Dec. 31, 2024 - Lionel Nation
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RIP Jimmy Carter: Automourning the Second Worst President in Modern History Exploited by His Family

RIP Jimmy Carter: Automourning the Second Worst President in Modern History Exploited by His Family

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Jimmy Carter was the second worst president, I think, in modern history.
Next to George, next to Biden.
The penultimate worst in modern history.
I mean, you can argue about Franklin Pierce and...
Andrew Johnson, and I'll let others talk about that, but Jimmy Carter was the worst.
Jimmy Carter died in 100.
And Jimmy Carter was the oldest living president.
I think George Herbert Walker Bush was 94. And nobody will know anything about Jimmy Carter.
Review him.
The history, the perspective, so do not get into any attempt of discussing the reality, the perspective, the importance of Jimmy Carter, because people will not listen.
They will not review.
They have no recollection, sort of.
I graduated from high school in 76, the bisexual year, we always joke, the bicentennial.
Everything was a bicentennial year.
And he was, when he ran for president, and it was really when I was really paying attention, maybe before that, Gerald Ford, post-Watergate, it was wonderful, and I loved it.
And Jimmy Carter is the...
The beneficiary of this concept called auto-mourn.
Let me see if I can explain it to you.
This is a concept that I've auto-mourned and auto-loot were two concepts that I had brought to the public side.
Let me see if I can put this into words because people now all of a sudden will love Jimmy Carter because he's dead.
Auto-mourn refers to the performative Collective performance choreographed grieving that emerges after some celebrity's death,
often marked by individuals who previously had little to no connection with or interest in the deceased, suddenly showcasing this profound, just this inexhaustible Sense of grief.
No words.
No words.
R.I.P.
Boom.
This behavior is commonly observed on social media, of course, where users share old photos, posts, or memories, or maybe participants in a seemingly choreographed outpouring of grief.
It underscores a tendency in the digital age.
This is from my private channel.
It underscores a tendency in the digital age to engage in public, mourning, lugubrious, funereal, you know, this idealized kind of virtue signaling as highlights, again, of the performative.
Choreographed and often superficial nature of this grief culture we live in.
It's all nonsense.
It's overdone.
It's artificial.
And the more people talk about how great he is, the less they knew.
As a person, I don't know how he was as a person.
I'm sure he was a great guy, I guess.
But as a president, he was awful.
And people do not know why he is awful.
They do not understand.
As you know, there is a, it is so complex, and I ask people this, and it's very difficult, I say, if you're going to get your, how do I say this?
If you're going to review history, review history the way you would review, let's say, The history of Tunisia, you know, Habib Bourguiba was reading, one of my favorites of history.
You know how you read it and you're kind of detached from it.
So, remember, I'm warning you right now, this is not for 90% of the audience.
This really has little to do with Jimmy Carter per se, as much as it does the, I guess, this weird kind of a pretend, Funereal, hyper, hyper-lugubrious sense of loss over the second worst president in American history.
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Now, a couple of things.
Let me explain this, as you know.
I'm putting a link here.
There is a great piece from the National Review.
Now, what's the National Review?
Paleo-conservative, Bill Buckley, Pat Buchanan, classic.
Most people, if you were to ask them today, because let's face it, most people, as you know, live in a kind of a strange...
I don't know what it is.
Put it this way, I hate to keep bringing it up, but to most people, they're...
This sense of politics now has to do with the Bannon-Lumer H-1B idiocy.
This ridiculous, low-hanging fruit, just waste of time discussion.
For reasons I don't understand.
Brad Rung said, yes, Linda Lavin, R.I.P.
Alice.
Not only that, Brad, she was a great Broadway actress.
We saw her, I think it was Sisters Rosenzweig.
She was really good.
She, Tyne Daly, she was from that group.
Alice was later on, but she was really good.
Apparently very, very sick at the end of her life and hit it for years.
So anyway, so Jimmy Carter, this is so important.
And remember, Most people don't want to talk about this because we live in a kind of a fast, fast, fast, fast, fast, fast, fast, quick, move.
This is too much.
So I'm assuming, and I think there are people out there who really want to do a little kind of a deep dive, maybe a shallow dive, but kind of into this.
But this goes to show you the first issue is auto-mourne, how people after the fact will love to...
I'm not saying you're saying this about Linda Lavin, but there are people who will jump in.
And I guarantee you there are people I know looking for pictures that maybe they had a selfie with Linda Lavin so they can say, see, I'm somebody.
I'm somebody.
Because that's what a lot of people are.
They live in this world of this kind of a social media, whatever.
In any event.
So Jimmy Carter was the worst.
I'm doing a lot of prefatory stuff, but you've got to explain it to people if you really want to grasp it.
I really like the take on national review sometimes.
It's a kind of a...
It's again, it's to Republican and conservatism what chicken a la king was to fine dining.
Remember when we were kids?
Chop Suey, Egg Foo Young, Chicken a la King, these kind of Morton frozen basic, you know, pot pies.
That was basic food.
National Review is basic conservatism.
Basic.
But there's this wonderful piece, a fellow named Philip Klein, who was just wonderful in today's edition.
And I'm going to put a link to it there.
So I'm going to be referring this back and forth because the scholarship is terrific.
But it starts off with the premise that there's this popular narrative surrounding Jimmy Carter.
And people, remember, will repeat the narrative.
They will.
And a lot of times they don't even know what they're talking about.
Just like I played for you last night some classic prototypical conspiratorium ideas from people who don't know what they're talking about.
You know, your friend of mine, Tucker Carlson, getting spiritual where he has no idea, where he gets lost in the woods, but he wants somehow to connect with the spiritual God and goodness and whatever.
And I love people who all of a sudden, we're Christian.
Okay, fine.
You've got to understand the shtick.
So the narrative that people are going to be saying without thinking is that Jimmy Carter...
Is that he was just a victim of just some unlucky timing.
Poor guy, a good man, who, you know, caught up in a different world.
He really, really was a much, much better ex-president.
You know, Habitat for Humanity, right?
That picture of Jimma and Rosalyn or Rosalyn, they would change their pronunciation.
Just like Naomi, Naomi.
Lara, Laura.
Why we change to Peking, Beijing?
Remember Jimmy Carter with his hammer?
If I had a hammer, right?
That's Jimmy Carter.
A beautiful man.
A man who's completely distant.
A beautiful man who just...
He was one of the worst presidents ever.
His legacy was one of...
Remember this?
During economic misery.
The first time I remember ever we had...
Who remembers the gas rationing?
We had to go odd and even.
This is before vanity plates.
Odd and even, you know, numbers.
It was horrible.
It was miserable.
We were in embarrassment.
He left the country in its weakest position of the post-World War II era.
Again, I refer to you to this great piece.
After he was booted out of August, I mean drubbed, routed by Reagan, in a landslide, The quote, he was called the citizen of the world.
And by the way, the picture of him, look at this picture of him.
This is when his family dragged him out, that mouth and this frozen rictus, his mouth agape like Angelo Bruno.
They even used him.
They couldn't have just left him alone.
But no, he had to come out for this.
Horrible, democratic, because they have no soul.
They have no morals, these people.
They are beyond reproach.
They are the worst human beings ever.
Ever.
They're horrible.
They bring him out.
They drag him out.
Oh my God, it was horrible.
And there he was.
And when the Democrats themselves are trying to tell you, We don't have problems with voting.
We don't let people who are unable to vote, vote.
Oh, no.
We don't do that.
No way.
Sparky says, remember the 1970s, military service wasn't necessarily seen as a plus for politicians.
Back then, it was barely known.
Carter went to Annapolis, where McGovern was a bomber pilot.
You're right.
And they always called him this.
He was a nuclear.
He was like the Hyman Rickover.
Sam Whiskey says, they say Tip O 'Neill and Ted Kennedy ruined Carter.
No.
No.
Again, I don't know who they are.
Too simple.
Too simplistic.
No, no, no.
When I think Carter president, I think malaise are worse.
Big Nebrzynski.
Sparky, you are 100% correct.
And wait till we get to Israel.
You're going, you in particular, are going to be frothing.
And what I have to say.
You're going to be...
Start, put it this way, take your anxiolytic now.
Because that was...
You think this is good now?
No, no, no.
It all comes back.
It all comes back.
So, this citizen of the world was the worst.
He was meddling in U.S. foreign policy because he thought he was going to win.
He wanted two terms.
And he was an obsessed president with, his domestic stuff was nothing, but he wanted, he was kind of like a Nixon.
They were from a time where he wanted to change the world, the machinations of the world.
Some people consider him to be treasonous.
And, here we go, he is perceived, remember, he is perceived.
Whether it's true or not, he is perceived by the prototypical, archetypical, archetypal right as having this obsessive hatred of Israel.
And this pompous, deluded belief that only he can forge peace in the Middle East.
That he befriended terrorists from North Korea to...
He hated America.
And he could not stand.
He could not stand American Jews.
This is the perspective.
In fact, he had the lowest Jewish vote, I think, since 1920.
We'll get to this in a moment.
But I mean, it was.
It was serious.
And I, at the time, was too young to really grasp what was happening.
So, here's the story.
There's this former governor, this peanut farmer of Georgia, who had absolutely no charisma.
Nothing.
No national game recognition.
No, nothing.
And he began campaigning, and he ended up in the White House.
Many people say he's a fluke.
Many other people believe this was a part of a backroom Back office, kind of deep state, shadow government configuration after they basically...
By the way, Gerald Ford was not the sweet guy everybody say he was.
His complicity in the Warren Commission will never truly be known.
Nixon, it's funny, history is like this.
Some people go up and they go down, you know, their cachet, their equity.
Nixon has gone up through the roof in my book for a nullity, an absolute nullity.
The only administration where the president and the vice president, neither of them were elected, in any event.
He came across as this honest Christian man, a moderate, this humble, evangelical Christian.
Outsider, outlier, this bulwark, this antidote, this answer to the corruption of the Washington era.
He carried his own luggage.
Remember when they were walking down the street?
I think Rosalind, Rosalind, whatever her name is, she would, you know, she cut her own hair and made her own clothes.
Oh, that's nonsense.
Anyway.
Once, in office, President Carter spent his one and only term showing the American people, as was presented, that he was frankly just not up for the job.
They might have loved him.
Remember, the old joke or the story was that when the deal was made from the deep state, they said, we're going to give you, kind of a Kafkaesque thing, we're going to give you the job, but your job is you're going to promote Paul Volcker?
and and um And Brzezinski, we'll get to this in a moment.
When he took, listen to this, this is going back to the National Review article.
When he took the presidential oath in January of 77, the employment rate was a high 7.5%.
When he left office in January of 1981, it was just as high.
Meanwhile, inflation, which was already at 5.7% in 1976, the year he was elected, went up in his final years to a staggering 13.5% in 1980, the year he was shown the door and booted up.
They say that's also part, that was by design, that was the Volcker thing, that was the Fed, that was the, we'll talk about that later.
That's kind of interesting.
The only year in post-World War II period in which inflation was higher was 1947, when the economy was booming and unemployment was minuscule.
As National Review, and I love this, puts it this way, to maintain the buying power, That $100 had on the month that Carter was sworn into office.
You'd need $150 by the time he left Washington, White House, four years later.
Under Carter, gas prices doubled and the supply became so scarce that Americans, remember this, had to go through long lines to fill up their tanks.
This guy was the worst!
Terrible!
Now, remember, The rule is, in this world of auto-mourning, you can never say anything about the dead.
Nonsense!
I'll say it then, I'll say it now.
Sparky says, had two track teammates who missed the 1980 Olympics because of Carter boycotting.
Absolutely.
He was horrible.
Fred Pound says, citizen of the world, beautiful, 180 degrees from what you won as a leader of your nation.
Now, you missed that point, I think.
I think.
Is 75 people giving a eulogy?
Is 75 people giving a eulogy auto-mourning?
Well, you can...
Even Trump's doing this, kind of this, you know, stuff.
Because he was 100 years old, okay.
He wasn't a bad guy.
He never had affairs.
Remember the Playboy magazine article?
I lust in my heart.
Remember that one?
That's as close to it.
I mean, it was a good guy.
How about Amy?
Then there was Chip.
I think Chip Carter.
And then Bob Dylan really liked him.
I mean, the guy is not a serial killer.
Well, anyway, we'll talk about that.
Sparky says, Yankees still didn't quite trust a southerner as president yet.
Wilson was an anomaly because of the Bull Moose thing.
Carter benefited from Watergate.
Absolutely, but it was a time.
Sparky, it was the zeitgeist.
It was this groovy time.
Remember when the Allman Brothers, the Allman Brothers were just loving, digging on him.
Remember that?
And Willie Nelson came and they were smoking weed in the White House and it was kind of a different time.
Was it Hotting Carter?
One of the funniest lines ever was somebody was referred to as joke writer for Hotting Carter.
Remember that?
Then there was Hamilton Jordan who was supposedly doing the blow.
It was around that cocaine was starting to come in.
Remember the Studio 54 thing?
I think that was...
Was that Roy Cohn?
I'm not sure.
But...
On the international stage, Carter showed nothing but weakness.
And America's enemies knew it, rather than recognize it.
And remember, this was pre-Putin.
This was the Soviet Union.
This was the Soviet threat.
This was a world that was dominated by Brzezinski and others and the Soviets and Afghanistan.
He preached this peaceful coexistence nonsense.
And then the USSR steamrolled into Afghanistan.
And then under his watch, remember this one, radical Islamists.
Now again, we know better now.
There are reasons for this.
Nothing is ever as they are portrayed in the headlines.
The last 444 days of presidency was Iran.
That created a nightline.
It changed everything.
We were spies.
Nobody ever said this.
I mean, it sounded like, oh, there were these people.
It was tragic.
It was a spy center.
And remember, remember, this is important.
Brzezinski says, we're going to later on, Afghanistan is going to be their Vietnam.
Because Brzezinski, Meeger's father, was this kind of a Polish prince wannabe who had a big chip on his shoulder.
I don't know if he had Harvard tenure.
I don't know what.
This guy was evil.
Couldn't stand Joe.
Remember when he insulted Joe Scarborough?
His future son-in-law said, you just don't have the intelligence to understand what's going on now.
Then there was the Malay speech, as Sparky talked about.
It's telling, I would have read that, the defining speech, not that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Compared to the forthright, the powerful, optimistic speeches of President Trump.
Listen to this.
He spoke as a leader.
And I love the way they wrote this in the National Review.
He says, not as a leader, but as an essayist writing on the crisis of confidence.
This is what he said.
Or imagine this.
This is honest to God.
This is his idea of a good thing.
For the first time in the history of our country, compare this to Reagan.
For the first time in the history of our country, a majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the...
Past five years.
As he built this history, this legacy of horror, of scarcity, criticizing us for consuming too much, for wanting plenty.
Too many of us now, quote, too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption.
Remember how he said, turn the thermostat down.
This was the message.
And Reagan is thinking to himself, am I seeing this?
Am I?
Can he really be as bad as he is?
Yes!
Is he really that bad?
Yes!
He was horrible!
But yet today he's a brilliant man and we love him.
Ronald Reagan came in with this message of strength and optimism.
And he turned 1980 into a rout, a drubbing, a massacre.
Carter lost electoral votes 489 to 49, but he was trounced by 10 points in the popular vote.
Even though, remember John Anderson?
He drew 7%.
The Independent, remember that one?
By the way, there were two country singers.
One was The Whisperer.
One was Black Sheep of the Family.
So Jimmy Carter, he carried his own luggage.
He presented himself as humble.
I'm a peanut farmer.
I got Billy.
Remember Billy Beer?
The drunk.
He would sit in his garage.
You were picking peanuts.
I got my Ruth Carter stapled in his sister.
Remember Miss Lillian?
Remember her?
Somebody said if she jumped into a vat of oil of Olay, she'd disappear.
This is terrible.
They asked Billy Carter one time, in fact, Billy, I think, got into some pharma problems.
He was doing some kind of work for Libya, I think it was.
Anyway, they asked Billy Carter, do you think you're, how do I say this, do you think you're, they say you're crazy.
What do you have to say about this?
He says, I'm crazy.
He says, I got a sister who's an evangelical preacher.
I got a mother who rides a Harley and a brother who thinks he's going to be president.
And I'm crazy?
Great line.
Billy was a little shingat himself, but that's the way that goes.
Now, the worst, the worst thing, listen to this.
Now, remember this at the time.
Imagine this.
It's hard to remember this.
Post-presidency, say we're talking about George W. Bush, he doesn't get involved in anything.
Now, Barack Obama, sort of, but a But ex-presidents really don't actively get involved like Jimmy Carter did.
The first Iraq War and North Korea.
There was this book.
You know this guy, Douglas Brinkley?
He wrote this 1998, this sycophantic, boot-licking, lick-spittle...
Oh, this billet due to Jimmy Carter.
It's called the Unfinished Presidency.
And he gave this account.
This is positive of Jimmy Carter's behavior in the run-up to the 90-91 Persian conflict.
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Okay, let's go back to something.
This was the Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait.
Now, before we begin, you know and I know that the official story has nothing to do with the actual story.
The official story, why Saddam actually went into Kuwait, has nothing to do in any way with the reality that is being portrayed by most people.
Remember it was April Glasby?
You know that story.
Of course you do.
This notion, this crazy idea that he just said, it's kind of like Putin going in one day, I'm going to expand to reinstitute the Soviet Union.
Come on, why do you talk about it?
Fred Pound says, I stand by it.
Fair, but America's interest first.
I stand by it.
Fair, but America's interest first.
Again, I think I know what that means, but thank you.
I think.
I think I know what that means.
I think.
Not sure.
Can't verify this.
I think I understand.
So thank you.
Okay.
So, Jimmy Carter was very upset about the idea of Saddam Hussein.
So, He went nuts to try to thwart and get in the way and interrupt George Herbert Walker Bush.
And what he did was, he started off within the realm of kind of acceptable opposition for a former president.
He wrote op-eds, he hosted conferences, he gave speeches, all urging peace talks as this alternative to Repelling, you know, Saddam with the use of military force.
Again, remember, I have the link to this great piece, great tutorial from National Review.
I love this.
It's a great place to start.
Well, that didn't work.
What he did was he took it to the next level.
Jimmy wrote a letter to the leaders of every country on the UN Security Council, as well as a dozen others.
Other world leaders.
And according to this, Douglas Brinkley, he said, quote, he was making a direct appeal to hold good-faith negotiations with Saddam Hussein before entering upon a war.
Jimmy Carter, this is from the book, implied that mature nations should not act like lemmings blindly following George Bush's inflammatory, lying-in-the-sand rhetoric.
Can you believe this?
From a former president.
What are you doing?
You know, in retrospect, the whole thing was, we can argue what, but this is Jimmy Carter because he lost and he never got over it.
He never got over it.
And if it wasn't, that wasn't enough.
On January the 10th, 1991, five days before a deadline, That had been set for Saddam to withdraw.
Jimmy wrote to key Arab leaders and he urged them to abandon their support for the U.S., undermining, and I quote, months of careful diplomacy by the Bush administration.
Jimmy Carter advised him, quote, you may have to forego approval from the White House.
But you will find the French, Soviets, and others fully supportive.
What are you doing?
Whether you like him or not, this isn't what a former president does.
You know, it's one thing for him to express opposition to a policy.
Okay.
To disagree with the sitting president, that's okay.
But to actively work behind the scenes and in front of the scenes to get foreign leaders to withdraw support of the U.S. Days before American troops were going to be in battle in the crossfire, this guy was taking actions that were, many people suggest, were closer to some kind of treason than any kind of legitimate pursuit of peace.
This is the Jimmy Carter.
This is the Jimmy Carter.
Now, let me just go on.
We can do this again.
We can do more of this.
This is...
Something which is curious.
Look at this.
Carter had personal courage.
He was lowered into a Canadian nuclear reactor in 1952 by a rope tied around his waist with a wrench in hand to prevent a meltdown.
Not exactly.
Osha still lived to be 100.
That's very good.
I'm sure he was a great guy and a great person and a great person.
Wonderful.
How about Korea?
In 1994, there was a standoff.
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There was a standoff between the U.S. and its allies and North Korea over the nuclear program.
So, the U.S. was floating the idea of sanctions at the U.N. Now, over the years, Jemma...
He had received multiple invitations to visit North Korea from Kim Il-sung.
And he was eager to fly over and defuse and help the situation with the ultimate goal of convening kind of a North-South peace summit or whatever it is.
So Bill Clinton begrudgingly said, okay, alright, I'll let you meet with Kim Jong-un.
He told Jimma, he made it clear, now listen, you're not going as an envoy.
You're not going as anything other than this.
You're merely gathering information in a North Korean perspective, and you're going to report back to us, but you are not, not going to be acting.
As the spokesperson for the United States or whatever.
So anyway, so without telling Bill Clinton, he flew to North Korea with a CNN film crew.
Listen to this.
And he proceeded to basically negotiate what amounted to the, I guess, the framework or the specifics of an agreement.
He then informed Bill Clinton after the fact with no warning.
And he also said he was about to go on CNN to announce the deal.
Bill Clinton went berserk.
And according to Douglas Brinkley, one cabinet member referred to Carter as, quote, a treasonous prick, quote, unquote.
And to make matters worse, because Jimmy's not enough with it, Jimma, he accepted a dinner invitation from Kim, at which point, Jimma, Clinton claimed on camera that the U.S. had stopped pursuing sanctions at the U.N., which was not true!
And once Carter went on television to announce this, Clinton felt kind of like boxed in, and he was forced to accept the deal, which is another story.
I mean, this, this, this absolutely...
Now, here's where it gets really interesting.
And this is where it's very interesting for you today.
Jimmy Carter thought, I can take care of Palestine.
I can do it.
I can do it.
He met with Arafat.
Now remember, there was a 2007 book called Palestine, Peace, Not Apartheid.
This is the one that just...
This was...
The final straw.
This was it.
He absolutely, positively did it.
Jimmy Carter in 1980 received a lower share of the Jewish vote than any Democratic candidate since 1920.
He never forgot this.
And he also said, and this is really good stuff, this is really interesting.
He also said, He noticed that there was a...
Fritz Mondale was 100%.
They didn't really call it AIPAC, but the Israeli lobby or whatever.
The American Jews.
They came after him.
Right, wrong, or indifferent.
But everything you're hearing right now is nothing new.
And he basically blamed it all on them.
It was because of them.
And he got really...
Again, remember...
Balance this.
People might say, well, of course, he's absolutely right.
But I'm telling you, this guy had an absolute...
I hate to use the expression, but in American colloquialism, a hard-on for Israel.
I mean, he did not let up.
Because remember, the psychology.
He felt like his second term was robbed.
He didn't know what he was...
All these terrible things happened to him.
And there were other people moving in.
Drew says, they didn't teach any of this in school.
I never knew this about the Carter.
Treasonous?
Wow.
Well, that's what other people said.
That's kind of a tough word.
This is fantastic.
It gets even better.
When it comes to Israel, when it comes to this is the most Fascinating.
The most fascinating.
This is Byzantine.
Labyrinthine.
It's a Gordian knot.
Whatever you want to call it.
And he always said, he just...
Remember, this is the mentality.
I wasn't...
He blamed either the Jewish or the Israeli contingent.
He went nuts over this stuff.
Now, the bottom line is something like this.
There was a fellow who was a guy who will never, ever, ever, if I had to write a book or I had to focus on something, the guy that I would love to introduce America to is Scoop Jackson.
Scoop Jackson is the Democratic...
Scoop Jackson was the...
What was his first name?
He was in newspapers, whatever it was.
Henry M. Scoop Jackson was a senator from Washington.
And he was Mr. Neocon.
Oh my God!
He was it.
This was, how do we say this?
This was a time that most people don't even know about.
This was a time when post-Cold War, post- You know, Rousseff, but he was the...
Leo Strauss couldn't have written it perfect, more perfect.
These were Democrats.
When Democrats, remember, they all served in the war.
It was a different mentality.
Today, the Democratic Party doesn't even exist.
It doesn't even have a...
A Democratic Party is a doorstop.
Its goal is to...
Just to open the door, to stop the door from closing.
Anything can replace it, but that's what it does.
It's like a paperweight.
Its job is just to stop papers from flying off.
It doesn't do anything.
There is no Democratic Party.
There is none.
Jimmy Carter wouldn't even recognize it.
These were people who were so active.
Remember, they were from World War II or that particular mindset.
But Scoop Jackson was the absolute neocon's neocon.
He was as good as they got.
And if you thought this was some world of lefty and right, you're out of your mind.
Sparky says, Carter considered Camp David as his signature accomplishment.
Well, a lot of good that did.
Because one of the things, unfortunately, and by the way, Panama Canal, the disaster, Remember, trying to rescue the hostages.
I mean, it was a disaster.
He created Ronald Reagan.
He created Donald Trump.
And I'm not going to go into the Israel thing, because frankly, most people have just this...
It's so...
It's so beautiful, the working parts of it.
I implore you to really get involved in it.
But, because it's nothing that we can really understand.
And when you do so, do it in a way where you're not seething.
When I hear people say, nothing but the Zionists, I go, okay, alright.
I can't do this.
I can't do this.
Anybody who loses their mind, same thing with the left and the left.
I don't think about the left.
I don't get upset about this.
It's a game to me.
It's all a game.
You know it's a game.
I know it's a game.
The whole thing is cosmically, cosmic lunacy.
I understand this.
But the thing I want to tell you, most importantly, I think, is that what they did to Jimma, they took him and they dragged him out!
He's like this.
Remember Angelo Bruno?
Remember Angelo Bruno?
The famous picture.
I think John Stamford was Well, this is when the Philly worked.
It was 1980.
He was just 70 years old.
My God.
Yeah, just about 70 years old, right?
69 years old, actually.
And they found him.
There he was.
The gentleman, whatever.
He ran Philly and they got him.
Well, that was Jimmy in this horrible that his family thought so little of him.
Thought so little of him to let him be in the position.
But this is the part that, no, the Democrats are being accused of letting anybody vote.
This man is in this paralytic rictus.
You see him or this maw.
What are you doing?
Why?
They don't even understand that part.
We have had economic issues before Carter, but it seemed like he wanted to make malaise the new normal.
He also remembered how he worked with Volcker.
It was horrible.
It was horrible.
To say we've had economic issues, yeah, there was the Depression, yeah, yeah.
But this was different.
Remember also, perception becomes a little bit more of reality.
You will never see the likes of this again.
You will never...
It was the last corn pony.
So what happened?
Gemma was blue jeans and peanuts and sitting...
Remember that picture where they were at a gas station and they were...
Here comes Ronald Reagan.
He didn't have blue jeans.
He had riding breeches.
And he was a gentleman horseman with Nancy.
And they also excluded the Hotsi Totsi Bushes who were from this pedigree.
Reagan didn't buy that.
Reagan was the greatest acting professor of my lifetime.
He was the greatest.
From the Lenny Skutnik speech to whatever it was, he gave people, and this is what Trump did perfectly, he said specifically, he is using the desire and the need of America to believe in themselves.
To believe.
That's why the left never, ever, ever had a message.
They just had this group of people that were the doorstop.
Remember, it just shoves under the door.
Anything could be a doorstop.
Anything.
But you know that kind of brown thing with the ridges you stick it under?
That's what the Democratic Party is.
It stops something from closing.
And we had such incredible stories.
He also remembered Didn't he grant amnesty to the, which is okay, to the Vietnam veterans who were AWOL?
I could spend the rest of the week talking about how it changed American attitudes and how there are quizlings, there are people within Jimma was actually working against Bill Clinton.
Jimma thought, I'm smarter than you.
Even Nixon.
Nixon, who was a foreign relations genius, never interfered like this guy.
Sparky says, Reagan carried himself well, very presidential.
You can say that again.
And you can say whether he's...
You know, Reagan, we're going to find out, is much smarter than people thought.
But he understood, I think, the idea of what the image was, what people wanted.
What people wanted.
And if there's one thing I could maybe pass on, I guess, to you, I love the politics.
I've got a number of these.
We're seeing right now this...
The quizlings within the Democratic Party, or the Republican Party, of Elon and others, we have this new group of people.
The closest we ever had to abandon, like, is maybe somebody like William F. Buckley, you know, who National Review or something, but we never had these loud-mouthed people.
So I did a piece on that.
Also, Biden, in his delusional regret that he could have elevated.
It's incredible.
I did one on Victoria Newland.
See, these are issues that people do not understand.
These are issues I do not understand.
We're also going to see the end of DEI.
Did you see this great, great, great piece?
There was another issue.
There was this Kokishi.
This is the world's first AI robot at a brothel.
The issues that we're going to be having right now, believe me when I tell you this, are going to blow your mind.
Not literally.
Figuratively.
I was active duty.
We hated Carter, the gipper.
Oh, absolutely.
Hated Carter.
Loved the gipper.
Incredible.
Yes.
Now, today, how we work this, I have no idea.
I want people to understand this.
It's a different world right now.
But you can't appreciate where we are now.
Unless and until you know where we were just before.
History, you know, passes prologue.
I mean, this doesn't get any more obvious than this.
I want to bring something to your attention again, which is critical.
I'm going to say it.
Right now, as we speak, my friends, I don't know what we're doing.
Today is the penultimate day of the year.
As we look into, and we have these wonderful thoughts.
By the way, February 22nd at the cutting room.
Please be there.
But as we look to the future and look to see what is happening, we have to ask ourselves this important question.
This is very, very critical.
What is it?
What is it do you think they are planning?
If you think that the Democratic left is just going to sit back and do nothing, you are so delusional.
It's not even remotely funny.
It's the scariest stuff I've ever seen.
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Now let me show you this story.
You're going to love this.
This is how bad, this is how bad people are.
This is such garbage.
This is the Daily Mail.
And it says...
Where is this?
Oh, they had this idea that they're getting so thrilled that the Dems are...
What was it?
Huh?
You pointed out about Jimmy Carter.
They said that the Democrats are laughing because this is going to be a one-month mournfest for Jimmy Carter.
Are you kidding?
This is the Daily Mail.
They have to keep throwing stuff up.
And they're kind of pretty good at this.
How about this one?
CBS journalist launches blistering attack on colleagues over Biden health cover-up as liberal media finally acknowledge failings.
Nobody cares about this.
Nobody cares about this.
It's so done, it's not even remotely funny, ladies and gentlemen.
It doesn't even matter.
I don't want to say in conclusion, but I will say in conclusion.
All right?
Jimmy Carter lived a good life.
I don't think he was a bad person.
I don't think he was an actual traitor to this country.
I don't think any of that.
He might have been horrible.
He might have been terrible.
Because we use these words all the time.
Treason is treason.
Not at all.
Not at all.
But I got to tell you something.
And this is important for people to grasp.
This mentality.
The country that we are right now is like nothing he would ever even remotely recognize.
We are so monumentally different.
Different in ways that people cannot even understand.
And there's one thing that we, how do we say this, have to understand.
He never understood politics.
He thought ideology alone would somehow work.
He thought ideology alone.
They never had social media.
Social media.
Do you know what the number one goal of social media is?
What the goal of media is?
The goal is to make you think that it and we run the country.
That we, our opinions matter.
That people listen to what we say.
That Steve Bannon or Tucker or anybody you want, that these voices speak for...
And it's important.
And it's critical.
It's important.
Pilgrim says, I monitor the enemy.
Robert Reich, delusion adult.
Robert Reich is not the enemy.
He's the opposition.
Robert Reich is not the enemy.
Enemies are kind of a weird thing.
He's just the opposition.
You have to have somebody pushing against you.
And you have to understand that the thing they want, Pilgrim, is for you to acknowledge them and to make them think that they're more powerful than they are.
They're not.
But right now, what will hurt us It's the dissension from these outliers.
And I'm going to say it again.
From the Bannons and others.
Work quietly.
Work behind the scene.
Address President Trump.
Address Elon and say, listen, I want to work with you on this, but we're very concerned about H-1B.
Fine.
But for you to go out and attack Elon, who is attacking Trump, because you're jealous, because you're a big mouth, Because everything you've ever done is from this overarching, this insanity, this crazy...
No.
Because you're fueling the left.
And listen to me, they're not going away.
If you think they're leaving with their tail between their legs, they are regrouping.
They are so ready, it's not even funny.
They have...
We made the decision a long time ago that Biden's not the guy, that he's done, he's finished, he's whatever it is.
You know it and I know it.
2028 is the issue.
I don't want to jump too too far ahead, but nobody's thinking.
And whenever I talk about people like Gavin Newsom, immediately our side will go, oh, come on.
California's terrible.
They don't understand because they don't understand.
They still don't understand.
Sparky says Carter's parents were hardcore partiers, but he was a Squaresville teetotaler.
That's good.
I appreciate that.
Be very, very careful.
Uh...
Be very, very careful of predicting the doom a little too early.
That's all I am saying, dear friend.
Be very, very careful.
All right, dear friends.
Thank you for this.
You have been wonderful, immensely great, and terrific.
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I want to thank our good friends.
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Thank you immensely for this.
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Yes, and Brad Rung, and Sam Whiskey.
Thank you.
All right, dear friends, we will see you.
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