re: Y'all remember when Jimmy Carter went into Hospice care?

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You are suffering from recency bias

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So what's your ailment? The Dunning-Kruger effect?

Jimmy's son James is a customer of ours. I asked him a couple of months ago how Jimmy was doing. He said Jimmy just wanted someone to push him around the property outside all the time. I wouldn't be half surprised if Rosalynn went before Jimmy.

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Gerald Ford

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The economy was suffering from inflation under Ford (his campaign slogan was W.I.N., Whip Inflation Now), it's easier to beat an incumbent when the economy is down. But people forget that because it doesn't fit the narrative of Carter being the worst president.

Everyone ITT are selling G.W. Bush short. His failures are epic. If Carter didn't respond to the Iranian terrorists well, how did Bush respond to the Saudi terrorists? The economic collapse in late 2008 dwarfs Carter's economic problems. Carter shut down the government over the Democratic House wanting deficit spending. Carter eventually gave in, but Bush ran up trillions of after being handed a balanced budget by the previous administration. And no one ever gives credit to Carter for appointing Paul Volcker who single-handedly beat inflation by raising Fed rates in spite of Reagan crying for him not to because it would lead to a recession - which it did.

It's like the nation is subconsciously trying to forget Bush was ever president.

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I thought hospice is where they light you up with the good narcotics and stand on your feeding tube

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Pretty much what happened to my mother. Except they didn't stand on it. They just turned it down to nothing.

Is it to late for me to pick him in the celebrity death pool?

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Carter shut down the government over the Democratic House wanting deficit spending.

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Carter and Speaker Tip O’Neill were pretty much not fans of each other, and that animus also led to Ted Kennedy attempting a primary challenge in 1980.

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Sorry, but this is just wrong. Yes, what’s happening today is a debacle. But in terms of actual effects on day to day life, Carter’s tenure was worse. The inflation back then was way worse. And few who are alive today got to experience long lines just to get some gas. I could go on and on.

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At least all of that eventually subsided, not to return until now (inflation) and I’ve never seen gas lines outside of hurricanes.

You think any of the stuff in the past few years is just going away in the internet age? You think the fight to ban gas appliances and all of that will just stop and reverse? No way. What’s happening now feels far more permanent. Maybe I’ll eat my words in 20 years.

Yep. My parents bought a home in ‘73 and the plan was to upgrade 4-7 years in. Seventeen percent mortgage interest rates killed that plan and my mom will celebrate 50 years in that house at Christmas.

My paternal aunt, the last of the 10 siblings, went into hospice care and her cancer went into remission at age 89. She is back home and getting stronger.