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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwF2hZPM29o Good Evening. This a special night for me. Exactly three years ago, on July 15, 1976, I accepted the nomination of my party to run for President of the United States. I promised you a President who is not isolated from the people, who feels your pain, and who shares your dreams, and who draws his strength and his wisdom from you. During the past three years I’ve spoken to you on many occasions about national concerns, the energy crisis, reorganizing the government, our nation’s economy, and issues of war and especially peace. But over those years the subjects of the speeches, the talks, and the press conferences have become increasingly narrow, focused more and more on what the isolated world of Washington thinks is important. Gradually, you’ve heard more and more about what the government thinks or what the government should be doing and less and less about our nation’s hopes, our dreams, and our vision of the future. Ten days ago, I had planned to speak to you again about a very important subject -- energy. For the fifth time I would have described the urgency of the problem and laid out a series of legislative recommendations to the Congress. But as I was preparing to speak, I began to ask myself the same question that I now know has been troubling many of you: Why have we not been able to get together as a nation to resolve our serious energy problem? It’s clear that the true problems of our nation are much deeper -- deeper than gasoline lines or energy shortages, deeper even than inflation or recession. And I realize more than ever that as President I need your help. So, I decided to reach out and to listen to the voices of America… … …I know, of course, being President, that government actions and legislation can be very important. That’s why I’ve worked hard to put my campaign promises into law, and I have to admit, with just mixed success. But after listening to the American people, I have been reminded again that all the legislation in the world can’t fix what’s wrong with America. So, I want to speak to you first tonight about a subject even more serious than energy or inflation. I want to talk to you right now about a fundamental threat to American democracy. I do not mean our political and civil liberties. They will endure. And I do not refer to the outward strength of America, a nation that is at peace tonight everywhere in the world, with unmatched economic power and military might. The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation. The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and the political fabric of America. The confidence that we have always had as a people is not simply some romantic dream or a proverb in a dusty book that we read just on the Fourth of July. It is the idea which founded our nation and has guided our development as a people. Confidence in the future has supported everything else -- public institutions and private enterprise, our own families, and the very Constitution of the United States. Confidence has defined our course and has served as a link between generations. We’ve always believed in something called progress. We’ve always had a faith that the days of our children would be better than our own. Our people are losing that faith, not only in government itself but in the ability as citizens to serve as the ultimate rulers and shapers of our democracy. As a people we know our past and we are proud of it. Our progress has been part of the living history of America, even the world. We always believed that we were part of a great movement of humanity itself called democracy, involved in the search for freedom; and that belief has always strengthened us in our purpose. But just as we are losing our confidence in the future, we are also beginning to close the door on our past. In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we’ve discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning. We’ve learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose. The symptoms of this crisis of the American spirit are all around us. 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. Two-thirds of our people do not even vote. The productivity of American workers is actually dropping, and the willingness of Americans to save for the future has fallen below that of all other people in the Western world… … …Often you see paralysis and stagnation and drift. You don’t like it, and neither do I. What can we do? First of all, we must face the truth, and then we can change our course. We simply must have faith in each other, faith in our ability to govern ourselves, and faith in the future of this nation. Restoring that faith and that confidence to America is now the most important task we face. It is a true challenge of this generation of Americans… … …We know the strength of America. We are strong. We can regain our unity. We can regain our confidence. We are the heirs of generations who survived threats much more powerful and awesome than those that challenge us now. Our fathers and mothers were strong men and women who shaped a new society during the Great Depression, who fought world wars and who carved out a new charter of peace for the world. We ourselves are the same Americans who just ten years ago put a man on the moon. We are the generation that dedicated our society to the pursuit of human rights and equality. And we are the generation that will win the war on the energy problem and in that process, rebuild the unity and confidence of America. We are at a turning point in our history. There are two paths to choose. One is a path I’ve warned about tonight, the path that leads to fragmentation and self-interest. Down that road lies a mistaken idea of freedom, the right to grasp for ourselves some advantage over others. That path would be one of constant conflict between narrow interests ending in chaos and immobility. It is a certain route to failure. All the traditions of our past, all the lessons of our heritage, all the promises of our future point to another path -- the path of common purpose and the restoration of American values. That path leads to true freedom for our nation and ourselves. We can take the first steps down that path… … …I do not promise you that this struggle for freedom will be easy. I do not promise a quick way out of our nation’s problems, when the truth is that the only way out is an all-out effort. What I do promise you is that I will lead our fight, and I will enforce fairness in our struggle, and I will ensure honesty. And above all, I will act… … …Little by little we can and we must rebuild our confidence. We can spend until we empty our treasuries, and we may summon all the wonders of science. But we can succeed only if we tap our greatest resources -- America’s people, America’s values, and America’s confidence. I have seen the strength of America in the inexhaustible resources of our people. In the days to come, let us renew that strength in the struggle for an energy-secure nation. In closing, let me say this: I will do my best, but I will not do it alone. Let your voice be heard. Whenever you have a chance, say something good about our country. With God’s help and for the sake of our nation, it is time for us to join hands in America. Let us commit ourselves together to a rebirth of the American spirit. Working together with our common faith we cannot fail. Thank you and good night.
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jimmy dumbass
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May 20, 2023 03:57
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SHut up Jimmy
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May 20, 2023 04:20
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go gently caress yourself, moron
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May 20, 2023 04:48
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I'm extremely confident that Carter was one of history's greatest villains.
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May 20, 2023 05:09
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May 20, 2023 05:14
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I think Carter was the least awful president of my lifetime and if you think I'm damning him with faint praise, you're goddamn right I am
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May 20, 2023 05:14
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Peanut President posted:go gently caress yourself, moron
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May 20, 2023 05:15
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is this bitch dead yet
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May 20, 2023 05:24
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Dude really hates East Timor
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May 20, 2023 06:05
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Filthy Hans posted:I think Carter was the least awful president of my lifetime and if you think I'm damning him with faint praise, you're goddamn right I am He's the person most responsible for Afghanistan being the way it is today and began America's descent into neoliberalism so to me he's one of the worst.
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May 20, 2023 08:45
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Weka posted:He's the person most responsible for Afghanistan being the way it is today and began America's descent into neoliberalism so to me he's one of the worst. Who is better? They are all awful OP.
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May 20, 2023 12:05
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Filthy Hans posted:I think Carter was the least awful president of my lifetime and if you think I'm damning him with faint praise, you're goddamn right I am that's not what I think. I think you're old as poo poo!
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May 20, 2023 12:11
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forkboy84 posted:Who is better? They are all awful OP. Donald J Trump. Biden probably. I'm not a good enough American politics knower to know if Carter or Reagan did more to advance neoliberalism. Clinton only lightly (for America) bombed Serbia and didn't completely destroy it's social fabric and neoliberalism was already a fair accompli.
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May 20, 2023 12:21
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Filthy Hans posted:I think Carter was the least awful president of my lifetime and if you think I'm damning him with faint praise, you're goddamn right I am you're old
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Weka posted:Donald J Trump. Biden isn’t even out of office and has been one of the more disastrous presidencies of the post-war period, and don’t forget Clinton deregulated derivatives Ford is still probably better than Carter as he didn’t really do much and Nixon never was going to jail Ardennes has issued a correction as of 14:26 on May 20, 2023 |
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May 20, 2023 13:44
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is he still alive
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May 20, 2023 14:10
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Thought the op was permabanned guy. Apologies.
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May 20, 2023 14:31
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Quotey posted:Thought the op was permabanned guy. Apologies. no its a different permabanned guy, back under a very similar name
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May 20, 2023 14:35
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What we need more than anything are people who are confident in America, Confidence Men, if you will. *Ronald Reagan becomes president*
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May 20, 2023 14:36
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F Stop Fitzgerald posted:is this bitch dead yet
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May 20, 2023 15:11
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Milo and POTUS posted:that's not what I think. Milo and POOPASS War and Pieces posted:you're old Wart on Penis
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May 20, 2023 21:52
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Weka posted:I'm extremely confident that Carter was one of history's greatest villains. https://youtu.be/czfKPaypNsU
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May 21, 2023 06:08
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that's interesting
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May 21, 2023 06:15
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Jimmy Farter
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May 21, 2023 07:37
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psycho fundie bitch
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May 21, 2023 07:49
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they briefed jimmy carter about alien life and it shattered his worldview so he cried
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May 21, 2023 08:37
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Tighclops posted:they briefed jimmy carter about alien life and it shattered his worldview so he cried only because in the briefing jimmy learned that the aliens had legalized abortion
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May 21, 2023 11:01
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lumpentroll posted:is he still alive
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May 21, 2023 11:47
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Dr. Jerrold Coe posted:that's interesting she lov d clowns
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May 21, 2023 13:12
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thats why she married one hahahaha
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May 21, 2023 13:55
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Badactura posted:Jimmy Farter
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May 21, 2023 14:01
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based on my extensive 15 minutes of googling, jimmy carter sure does sound like he sucks poo poo and that his crisis of confidence was "no one needs to know we torture people, or utterly hosed up in vietnam, or that we intentionally manipulate huge swathes of the american public and its leadership to the whims of the CIA, and anyone saying otherwise needs to be dealt with." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aemyhNJUAzQ that's frank snepp, the ex-cia-torturer in vietnam who somehow hasn't been suicided yet, openly describing exactly how the pride and ignorance of the press is manipulated by the cia into manipulating the public, up to and including congress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Snepp quote:Snepp wrote a memoir, Decent Interval, about the evacuation of US personnel from Saigon. It was published in 1977 without prior approval from the CIA Publications Review Board. Prior to publication, and while still employed at the CIA, Snepp attempted to tell the inspector general about the problems surrounding the evacuation, but was told that it "could not deal with anything so controversial". it's surreal to live in a hypernormalized state where things like snepp's interview or atwater's interview or snowden's leaks or the crazyhorse video or the myriad other "yes, really, this is exactly how we conspired and continue to manipulate people at scale in the service of immiserating/torturing/murdering unimaginable numbers of people" things are freely available to read, yet simultaneously their existence and relative availability do apparently nothing to affect the efficacy or ongoing impact of said manipulations maybe I'll get some taco bell
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May 21, 2023 23:25
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Anybody bring up Carter instituting American Fighting Man's Day to stan for Mỹ Lai massacre perpetrator William Calley? Always a classic.
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May 21, 2023 23:29
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Horseshoe theory posted:Anybody bring up Carter instituting American Fighting Man's Day to stan for Mỹ Lai massacre perpetrator William Calley? Always a classic. :Nixonishly: jesus christ
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May 21, 2023 23:40
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Scooby Doo can doo-doo, but Jimmy Carter is smarter
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May 21, 2023 23:41
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Forrest gump: Jim-may
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May 21, 2023 23:54
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A Russian troll farm posted:Scooby Doo can doo-doo, but Jimmy Carter is smarter extremely questionable
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Milo and POTUS posted:Forrest gump: Jim-may *Forrest Gump meeting President Jimmy Carter* FG: Well hello sir, it shore is a honor to meet you JC: It's my honor to present you with the Presidential Medal of Fitness that you earned in high school but were never issued, a great wrong that is finally rectified FG: Thank you thank you thank you; I'm your biggest fan I named my boy Jimmy after you JC: Oh, you have a son, I'd like to meet him too FG: I've got him right here sir, in my bag, let me pull him out so you can introduce yourselves JC: You've got your son in a bag? FG: Hyuck hyuck no sir, Jimmy is my pet rabbit JC: *dies*
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