President Carter and Darryl's comment

 

Lt. Jimmy Carter, center top, in the main control room

 of submarine USS K-1 in 1952. (U.S. Navy)

A nuclear reactor was melting down. Jimmy Carter 

came to the rescue.

As a 28-year-old Navy lieutenant, Carter was one of the few people

 on the planet authorized to go inside a damaged nuclear reactor

By Gillian Brockell

February 20, 2023 at 6:15 a.m. EST

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The world was in the grip of the Cold War in 1952 when a nuclear reactor began melting down.

That reactor, located at Chalk River Laboratories in Ontario, had suffered an explosion on Dec. 12. Radioactive material had escaped into the atmosphere, and millions of gallons of radioactive water flooded into the reactor’s basement. Thankfully, no one was injured, but the Canadians needed help to disassemble the reactor’s damaged core.

The United States sent 28-year-old Jimmy Carter...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/02/20/jimmy-carter-nuclear-reactor-navy/

Darryl's comment with  2075 likes and many written replies is the Featured Comment:

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The same people (Fox, the RNC) who spent 30 years brainwashing the American public about Hillary Clinton spent 40+ years doing the same about Jimmy Carter and are actively doing the same about Joe Biden as we speak.

The smears about Carter and Biden are similar and done for the same reason, to distract from the Republican criminals who preceded them in office: Nixon and Trump.

Carter took office after Watergate had destroyed our faith in government; after a long, polarizing war; after nearly a decade of racial conflict and deaths/beatings that Republicans chose to blame on the victims; in the midst of economic turmoil and the loss of prestige abroad. He entered office in the middle of a global economic crisis, including stagflation and wage/price freezes implemented by Nixon/Ford; and faced a global fuel crisis.

The little-known governor from Georgia was voted into office by a traumatized nation desperate for a president they could trust, one who swore he would never lie to them. Four years later, hypocritical voters decided the truth was overrated. They couldn't possibly turn the heat down, drive less, or trust diplomacy. That's how we got Reagan and the era of greed is good.

Biden's election checks the same boxes: Traumatized nation reeling from Trump and Covid. Racial unrest. Long, undeclared war jerryrigged by the outgoing president. Global financial struggle. Division and violence, and an electorate begging for a competent, calm, mature problem-solver in the White House.

A mere two years later, amnesia once again strikes the right wing. And the propaganda circus cranks up the Republican clown show. Anyone who lived through the long effort to rehabilitate Nixon and demonize Carter will see the same feral hands at work today with Trump and Biden.

         --Darryl G.

Here are some of the most popular replies to Darryl's comments, including a second comment by him:

Darryl G.

On June 20, 1979, the Carter administration installed 32 solar panels designed to heat water on top of the White House.

in 1986 the Reagan administration quietly dismantled the White House solar panel installation while resurfacing the roof. Reagan administration then gutted the research and development budgets for renewable energy at the then-fledgling U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) and eliminated tax breaks for the deployment of wind turbines and solar technologies—recommitting the nation to reliance on cheap but polluting fossil fuels, often from foreign suppliers.

Jimmy Carter was 50 years ahead of his time whereas Reagan was another Drill-Baby-Drill Republican

-- Darry G. 1518 likes 

He’s been on my mind all day yesterday and when waking up during the night. A truly honorable man. One of very few Christians who actually LIVE their professed religion. This coming from an atheist. The world will be worse off without him.

I remember when he and his wife came to Winnipeg building for Habitat for Humanity housing. Inspirational

 

People keep referring to him as a peanut farmer, when they should be saying, former "Nuclear Engineer".

A genuine American hero in practically every way and the single finest man to ever serve as president. America‘s ungratefulness toward Carter is embarrassing.

Jimmy Carter was a good President. However, he was ill-prepared for the cesspool of politics in Washington. When he left the Presidency, he continued his life helping people, teaching in the church, and promoting democracy across the globe. He set a standard that few could live up to.

Carter is an actual hero and Reagan only ever played one on TV.

Life well lived. Rest well, good sailor.

Jimmy Carter was and is a Giant! He is the yardstick by which laudable human behavior must be measured. President Carter, thank you!

Public service molds an individual, we should return to the model where everyone serves at least 2 years.

Thank you for a lifetime of service President Carter.