Aine, Verified WitchJul 12, 2023
Kevin Russell

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

#canpoli
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
Feb 20, 2023 at 5:57pmWeb
Show threadKris SamselFeb 20, 2023
@kevinrns And if the GOP didn’t bribe the Iranian hostage takers? Carter would have won. 444 days…for BONZO. Consumer Protection killer! Reagan destroyed the blue collar and “no to drugs” families. Good job GOP! 🔥
Show threadKevin RussellFeb 20, 2023

@humansriseup

No its true, like putin put trump into office, the ayatollas of Iran provded the bump Reagan needed.

Show threadKris SamselFeb 20, 2023
@kevinrns Ask the hostages. Link here: https://www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov/research/hostages_and_casualties
The Hostages and the Casualties - Research - The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum

Show threadKris SamselFeb 20, 2023
@kevinrns I loved the rabbit running on water, as he spots a UFO! The guy was very likable. And a member of the Trilateral Commission. Secret societies are repugnant. 🚫🤡
Show threadPhogna BolognaFeb 21, 2023
@kevinrns My first response was very twitter-esque. Let me try again. If you read anything much about Carter, from his 1975 book to his Wikipedia entry you will find this story. It is widely available *to be known* if one is interested in the former president.
Show threadPēteris KrišjānisFeb 21, 2023
@bransonturner @kevinrns I literarily discovered this yesterday, and I am news nut.
Show threadGingerSnappedFeb 21, 2023
@kevinrns I read about this a few years ago. Sadly, never once learned about it in school.
Show threadKevin RussellFeb 21, 2023

@GingerSnapped

Well, in Florida you wouldn't, it's a "Don't Say Selfless Courage" State

Show threadTraceyFeb 21, 2023
@kevinrns I never heard about this.
Show threadGordon J HoltslanderFeb 21, 2023
@kevinrns A well written history of nuclear accidents https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Atomic-Accidents/James-Mahaffey/9781605986807
Atomic Accidents

From the moment radiation was discovered in the late nineteenth century, nuclear science has had a rich history of innovative scientific exploratio...

Show threadNelson SVG JamesFeb 21, 2023
@kevinrns
Show threadKevin RussellFeb 21, 2023
@NelsonSVGJames
Present.
Show threadBathsheba BlueFeb 21, 2023

@kevinrns

Talk about being “cancelled” - the GOP has hoodwinked the country into believing his career and presidency was disastrous and not worthy of mentioning.

Meanwhile Reagan is revered and often mentioned positively by the MSM. (The guy who struck a deal w the ayatollah to keep the hostages until after the election).

Show threadDr. ObliviousFeb 21, 2023
@inklings @kevinrns Thanks for reminding people about the hostage thing. Reagan was as big of a sleaze bag as Trump. The only thing that prevented Reagan from being remembered as the dumber version of Nixon was a PR campaign.
Show threadBathsheba BlueFeb 21, 2023

@DaveRussell @kevinrns

Yep. The effectiveness of GOP propaganda — and MSM complicity in spreading it — explains a lot about how we arrived in MAGA-land.

Show threadKevin RussellFeb 21, 2023

@inklings @DaveRussell

Well, complicity in this case means the billionaire's attempt to remove democracy, slow enough to prevent resistance, is reflected in the papers they own.

Show threadDavid HarlanFeb 21, 2023

@DaveRussell @inklings @kevinrns

That, and he was a professional actor. He wasn't a very good actor, but he was a better actor than most politicians. He knew how to stand in front of a camera and turn on the charm. I mean hell, he did it for cigarettes.

Show threadBathsheba BlueFeb 21, 2023

@DavidMHarlan @DaveRussell @kevinrns

That’s why Ed Meese recruited him for the GOP. He could read a prepared script.

Show threadDavid HarlanFeb 21, 2023
@inklings @DaveRussell @kevinrns and him a former union president and everything🙄
Show threadKevin RussellFeb 21, 2023

@DavidMHarlan @inklings @DaveRussell

Unions are unions of members. No one new comes in because a union is formed. Workplace filled with Reagans? They deserve a good wage and a good work life balance.

Show threadDavid HarlanFeb 21, 2023

@kevinrns @inklings @DaveRussell

"No one new comes in because a union is formed."

Sorry, but that's just plain wrong, and typical anti-union rhetoric.

Show threadKevin RussellFeb 21, 2023

@DavidMHarlan @inklings @DaveRussell

lol ha ha ha

when "you and yer mates" form a union, the union is "you and yer mates."
Thats the point, pretty shimple

If new folks are hired (not by you silly, by yer boss) you get a new mate, and a new union member.

If you want to hire as well, thats called a coop, lots of them around too.

There are other kinds of coops too.

How bad is my writing anyway?

Show threadKevin RussellJul 11, 2023

@DavidMHarlan @inklings @DaveRussell

No idea what your misconception is, when you form a union, it is a union of those the boss has hired. Same folks before the election, during the election, after the election.

The boss may hire others, the union doesn't get a say. More members for the union. All union members are hired by the boss.

Where is your mistake?

Show threadKevin RussellFeb 21, 2023

@inklings @DavidMHarlan @DaveRussell

Snare drum finish.

Show threadSpaceHistory, etcFeb 21, 2023
@inklings @kevinrns - For those saying Carter’s bad rep. as president was because of the Republicans; my freshman year in college (1978), I got a ticket to a DNC event where Carter was the speaker. He was introduced in a ballroom with 2,000 *Democrats* and no one applauded. Ted Kennedy probably got the idea to run against Carter that day. Carter was seen as petty, naive, and a meddler. Like Ted Cruz today, no one liked him on either side of the aisle. A great ex-President, though.
Show threadKevin RussellFeb 21, 2023

@rlpaulprodn @inklings

? Have a day

Show threadBathsheba BlueFeb 21, 2023

@rlpaulprodn @kevinrns

Thanks for the bullshit anecdote.

Kennedy made a bad decision, behaved badly, and ended up not only hurting Carter but the whole party. His petty, personal animosity against Carter from beginning was well known.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/01/21/camelots-end-kennedy-vs-carter-democratic-convention-1980-224030

The Humiliating Handshake and the Near-Fistfight that Broke the Democratic Party

In 1980, the Democratic National Convention became a heated battle between Kennedy and Carter. The fight for the soul of the party didn’t end there.

POLITICO Magazine
Show threadcaseyjonesedFeb 21, 2023
@inklings @rlpaulprodn @kevinrns Exactly.
Show threadAviva GaryFeb 21, 2023
@inklings @kevinrns Well one guy was serving the whole and the other served this wealthy masters... so who are the wealthy people who own things like papers, media corps etc going to paint in a positive light? 🤑
Show threadKat PhoenixFeb 21, 2023
@kevinrns
Okay this is getting out of hand...
I mean does he have a "S"ecret suit underneath his overalls? Jeez, he's awesome.
Show threadKevin RussellFeb 21, 2023

@KatPhoenix

Right?

With as hostile a press as could be imagined.

Show threadCheriFeb 21, 2023
@kevinrns
Thank you for sharing this. I had never heard
Show threadHeidiidyFeb 21, 2023
@kevinrns I have never heard this story before. Thanks for sharing it.
Show threadFrank CoteFeb 21, 2023
@kevinrns I can't believe I never heard this story before.
Show threadStephFeb 21, 2023
@kevinrns hey @seunte this is one for you I think
Show threadGrandpa DonFeb 22, 2023

@kevinrns

We knew it back whe he was POTUS

Show threadAbort The CourtFeb 22, 2023
@kevinrns
Show threadPeter ButlerFeb 23, 2023
@kevinrns Same reason most Americans think he was a peanut farmer when he was actually a nuclear scientist. (I’ll leave it to you to deduce.)
Show threadKevin RussellFeb 23, 2023

@peterbutler

Jimmy sold his peanut farm as he became President, because even the appearance of favor, or self-service, would impugn the Presidency. An honest man, to whom service was the point.

Show thread[empty]Feb 26, 2023
@kevinrns I didn't know this either
Show threadDebbie WadeMar 21, 2023
@kevinrns I had no idea!
Show threadKevin RussellMar 21, 2023

@DSWadeLPC

Right?

When I got to the point of the Ottawa reactor story where the young lieutenant "had his men lower him into the reactor" - I pictured our former President with soft wrinkles hammering another nail into a new home for some family, and was considerably choked up.

When you add the Republican conspiracy with terrorists in Ayatolla's Iran to prevent Carter's re-election, kidnapped Americans, this story has not yet been told.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a43368900/reagan-iran-hostages/

#Carter #Jimmy #Potus #hero

The Thing We All Knew Finally Proved True: Reagan-Iran Edition

The New York Times recently confirmed a long-whispered rumor that the 1980 Reagan campaign back-channeled the Iranian government to delay the release of hostages as part of its effort to defeat President Jimmy Carter.

Esquire
Show threadVirtue signal 💉💉💉🇺🇸 🇺🇦Mar 28, 2023

@kevinrns

There is irony in that.

Show threadKevin RussellMar 28, 2023

@tasket

How so (I'll bite).

Show threadVirtue signal 💉💉💉🇺🇸 🇺🇦Mar 28, 2023

@kevinrns His presidency was largely defined by US reaction to the energy crisis, but his most famous project after leaving office showed him building suburban sprawl for poor people, apparently worsening energy- and car-dependency.

I don't really understand it. One of the reasons he lost in 1980 is his TV speech where he likened Americans to spoiled, wasteful children (and I'm not necessarily disagreeing with his sentiment).

Show threadKevin RussellMar 28, 2023

@tasket

No, nonsense and bile.

Show threadzombie rotten mcdonaldApr 8, 2023
@kevinrns There is a display and the story is told in the Carter Presidential Library. Carter, of course, does not brag about it.
Show threadKevin RussellApr 8, 2023

@zombierottenmcdonald

It should be, should have been, widely widely known, like a national teaching story on the character of a nation, through the character of an honored representative, a model. Much to be proud of in the man, bringing honor to a nation.

Show threadJohnW ⚓ 📸 ✊🏿Apr 9, 2023
@kevinrns

Excerpted:
"He talks about [it] today. He had radioactive urine for many weeks afterwards. They were tested continuously," he said. "He was told it was likely that he would never have children."

Carter has four children.

"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few"
Show threadKevin RussellApr 9, 2023

@johnew

Yes, Carter would have made a great Starfleet Officer too.

Show threadLeslieMaggieMay 20, 2023
@kevinrns
I’m Canadian and had never heard this. I’ve admired President Carter for ages and will feel sad when this brave, kind, and gentle spirit departs. I thought I couldn’t admire him more.
Show threadCanadian CroneMay 20, 2023
@kevinrns When heroism was a thing. Can anyone imagine #PPForPM crawling into something to save his “beloved” country? Or #DoFo risking his life and girth in any way for his fellow human beings? So-called leaders of today embody cunning and manipulative tactics to gain followers to enrich themselves. They could care less about the people. It’s power and wealth they’re after. #EndOf
Show threadKevin RussellMay 20, 2023

@CanadianCrone

Well said.

Show threadKevin RussellMay 20, 2023

@CanadianCrone

When the principles are right you dont have to remind them to live their principles.

#JimmyCarter
#HatTipped
#Headbowed

Show threadMemphisDaPlaya 🎲🎲May 20, 2023

@kevinrns

He's a lot better man than Teddy Kennedy who helped foil his second term and make it easier for Reagan to beat him.

Teddy swam away from an Oldsmobile, leaving a woman to drown. Not exactly a hero....

Show threadKevin RussellMay 20, 2023

@GoatRoper

Republicans arranged with Iranian crazies holding hundreds of Americans hostages in Iran to not release them until Carter lost the election. The Iranian Ayatollahs agreed.

Disagreeing politically is democracy, not an attack. Primaries build democracy.

And the crash was a VW.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/03/lawmaker-admits-1980-gop-plot-to-prolong-iran-hostage-crisis.html

Show threadJohan DiederikMay 29, 2023
@kevinrns This is completely new to me. Thank you!
Show threadKevin RussellMay 29, 2023
@JohanDiederik
Show threadJohan DiederikMay 29, 2023
@kevinrns Wow!!!