• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, that’s true. I also remember a time when the CIA was doing their dirty work down in South America while Jimmy Carter was in office. Dude isn’t as great as everybody thinks he is

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      1 year ago

      Dude sold his company before becoming president. More ethics to this one than you’ve given credit.

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      1 year ago

      Jimmy Carter may have not have been a great president and the US government may have sone some shitty things while he was in charge, but he is probably the most upstanding American president of the last half century. Pretty much everyone after (with maaaybe the exception of Obama) has been of lesser character.

      Which, now that I’ve written it out, sounds really sad. The best the country could do was Jimmy Carter, who … wasn’t great.

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        1 year ago

        Dude, Obama ordered more drone strikes than any president before him. Just because he was a good speaker and charismatic doesn’t make him a good person.

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          How many drone strikes did Truman order? How about Garfield? Maybe a metric of “Everyone who came before” isn’t very good for technological advancements like that.

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          1 year ago

          Note the maybe, but whatever. Tell you what. Name one post-carter president who was better than Carter. Dude doesn’t have to be good, just better than Carter.

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      I’d love to know which president had the CIA stop everything they were doing.

      What was his name… I can’t think of it…

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      I’m an idiot, so I don’t know if this is a sensible take. However, coming from a place of political strategy, I’m not sure a lot of presidents can out-maneuver military much. Presidents have term limits and military personnel don’t. Both for understandable reasons to be clear. However, it sets up a dynamic where one knows the ins and outs like the back of their hand and the other is like a substitute teacher with a class full of CIA operatives.