Kevin RussellJun 16, 2023

President Carter, now in his last days, home to be with his family as he passes, once personally saved Ottawa from a Nuclear Disaster, at risk, and cost, to his life, suffering from radiation poisoning all his life.

Canada had a Nuclear Accident in the 50s, asked the US for help, Lieutenant Jimmy Carter lead a team out of NY.

The future President Carter, had his team lower him into the reactor.

I had no idea

I have no idea why this isn't widely known.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/chalk-river-nuclear-accident-1.6293574

How a future U.S. president helped avert nuclear disaster near Canada's capital | CBC News

In 1952, an experimental nuclear reactor in Chalk River, Ont., about 180 kilometres northwest of Ottawa, partially melted down, becoming the world's first nuclear reactor incident. Disaster was averted, in part, with help from future U.S. president Jimmy Carter.

CBC
Show threadEd SandersJun 16, 2023
@kevinrns So many of today’s pols will never be 1/5 of the man Carter is.
Show threadKevin Russell

@EdSanders

Jimmy Carter was sabotaged, and all his work erased. Jimmy covered the White House in solar panels and reduced rhe highway speed to 55 to save the use of oil. A proto-Biden.

Jun 16, 2023 at 10:55pmWeb
Show threadRuth O’DayJun 16, 2023
@kevinrns @EdSanders
Nixon reduced the speed limit to 55.
Show threadEd SandersJun 17, 2023

@RuthODay @kevinrns Carter didn’t do that, but he did so much more including the 1980 Olympic Boyctt and spearheading environmental cleanup.

To be fair, he definitely didn’t take on racism as a candidate for office, a triangulation that stands as a real blot on his record. At the same time, he definitely did use the power he had after winning office to create laws and regulations that were among the most anti-racist conceivable.

Edit: I stand corrected. Thanks @kevinrns .

Show threadKevin RussellJun 17, 2023

@EdSanders @RuthODay

Yes, yes he did.

"President Carter Wanted Us To Prevent Climate Change"

https://slate.com/technology/2019/09/jimmy-carter-climate-change-malaise-speech-1980-backlash.html

The President Who Wanted Us to Stop Climate Change

The public was with him when he gave the “Malaise” speech in 1980.

Slate
Show threadSteve's PlaceJun 17, 2023
@kevinrns @EdSanders @RuthODay But oil barons made deals instead. Some guaranteed the election of the man who sent us into a downward spiral, Ronald Reagan, the cheesy actor who represented dirty money in the White House and who ended his reign of deceit being unable to even represent himself. He was used and tossed. Oil barons bought our country as angry white racists cheered and cheered. Carter was mugged by the 1% to bring us hell on earth for a fast buck.
Show threadKevin RussellJun 17, 2023

@stevesplace @EdSanders @RuthODay

Yes indeed.

Show threadGrandpa DonJun 17, 2023

@stevesplace @kevinrns @EdSanders @RuthODay

Well put. I have sometimes felt like a voice in the wilderness over the decades as republicans and complicit media praised their Saint Ronnie while mocking and denigrating arguably the best POTUS in history. Now they have turned against RR in favor of inarguably the worst, and JRB is working toward that "best" title but RRs legacy threatens to just put it all in the dust heap.

Show threadRichie EnamellerJun 17, 2023
@kevinrns @EdSanders @RuthODay yes, I agree: Fuck Reagan.
Show threadRaymond Scott PertJun 17, 2023

@kevinrns @EdSanders @RuthODay

Jimmy Carter wanted us to stop climate change.

>This address, which became known as the “Malaise” speech, was cited by 1980s champions of hyperconsumption as a key reason for Carter’s political demise. But it was well-received at the time—Carter’s approval ratings went up by 12 percentage points, with 61 percent of the public saying the speech inspired confidence.
https://slate.com/technology/2019/09/jimmy-carter-climate-change-malaise-speech-1980-backlash.html
#jimmycarter #climatecrisis

The President Who Wanted Us to Stop Climate Change

The public was with him when he gave the “Malaise” speech in 1980.

Slate
Show threadannie grayJun 17, 2023
@kevinrns @EdSanders @RuthODay Then along came Reagan, who ripped the solar panels off the WH to send a big wet smooch to fossil fuel businesses.
Show threadauthor_is_ShrikeTron🔠💉x5Jun 17, 2023
@snooze_cat @kevinrns @EdSanders @RuthODay Then surprisingly, Bush and later Obama put newer panels back in again:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/obama-is-actually-the-third-president-to-install-solar-panels-at-the-white-house-111247/
Obama Is Actually the Third President to Install Solar Panels at the White House

Jimmy Carter's 1979 solar panels were stripped down by Ronald Reagan, while no one noticed when the Bush administration installed panels to heat the pool

Smithsonian Magazine
Show threadGrandpa DonJun 17, 2023
@EdSanders
You also omitted the Camp David accords.
Show threadEd SandersJun 17, 2023

@dbc3 oh, there’s plenty of things I left out, not the least of which was changing the ridiculous laws that prevented home brewing. Everyone who enjoys a good beer today owes that to Carter.

The microbrewery revolution would never have gotten off the ground without him.

Show threadBretCahillJun 17, 2023

@EdSanders @RuthODay @kevinrns

There is one and only one way to protect minority rights that can be taken seriously: campaign on tax hikes on the rich [majority rule on the economy] get elected then appoint RBGs to the bench.

Main shill media get paid by the rich to weaken majority rule on the economy [to get those precious tax cuts] so M$M try to dupe Democrats into believing that campaigning on majority rule on the economy isn't necessary to protect minority rights.

Biden knows better.

Show threadBretCahillJun 17, 2023

@EdSanders @RuthODay @kevinrns

https://mastodon.online/@BretCahill/110525999115284595

BretCahill (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Damage control by the AP was so fast and so inept it confirmed the postcard.

Mastodon
Show threadKevin RussellJun 17, 2023
@RuthODay @EdSanders
Show threadRamJun 17, 2023
@kevinrns
@EdSanders
proto-Biden? that's selling him a bit short. Biden is... fine
Show threadKevin RussellJun 17, 2023

@fringd @EdSanders

Taxed the untaxed, untaxed for several Presidents, he used the almost billion dollars of, sorry I mean almost trillion dollars of fairness, on climate, in the largest climate action in history, while lowering home energy costs, is fine.

Having the highest employment in history is fine. Creating 330,000 MORE jobs, growth, during the same months tech bros are rando firing 300,000, is fine.

Oh and he beat Trump, which is fine.