Douglas Mercer
December 29 2024
Jimmy Carter has bitten the dust and it’s not a day too soon. He will be recalled (when he is recalled at all) as the guy who put on a Mr. Rodgers cardigan and told us to turn our temperatures down as the energy crisis was the moral equivalent of war. Meanwhile apparently unbeknownst to him a real war was going on involving Jewish Power that was well along in the process of turning this once great nation into a trumped up pile of dust. Carter was the accidental President who came in on the heels of Watergate when America was looking for someone moral, and the old Peanut Farmer did not disappoint as he roamed the country in the guise of a Christian Preacher wagging his finger at us and saying that we were in a malaise. No doubt the Me Decade where one did one’s own thing in an inner migration and in which key parties and encounter groups and EST became popular pastimes was certainly a malaise, but his prescription for it (a particularly bland version of Christianity) was no solution. He spent his waning years tooling around the world vamping for “humanity” which was a lost cause by then for sure, and at State Events they would trot him out to stand aloof from his peers looking odd and forlorn. There is really not that much more to say about Jimmy Carter for there is no there there, he was just the void at the center of emptiness, a speed bump on the road of time. One would say that the sooner he is forgotten the better but then his cold body has not been laid in the ground yet and he already has been.
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Notes:
Erstwhile Beatle John Lennon showed up at the Inaugural of Jimmy Carter on January 20 1977. The singer's former assistant claims in a new documentary that Lennon was a Ronald Reagan fan and a conservative at the time of his death. John, basically, made it very clear that if he were an American he would vote for Reagan because he was really sour on Jimmy Carter, Seaman reportedly told filmmaker Seth Swirsky. He'd met Reagan back, I think, in the '70s at some sporting event. Reagan was the guy who had ordered the National Guard, I believe, to go after the young (peace) demonstrators in Berkeley, so I think that John maybe forgot about that. He did express support for Reagan, which shocked me, he continued. According to the Toronto Sun, Seaman added that Lennon was embarrassed by his earlier radicalism. I also saw John embark in some really brutal arguments with my uncle, who's an old-time communist. He enjoyed really provoking my uncle. Maybe he was being provocative but it was pretty obvious to me he had moved away from his earlier radicalism, Seaman reportedly said. He was a very different person back in 1979 and '80 than he'd been when he wrote Imagine. By 1979 he looked back on that guy and was embarrassed by that guy's naivete.
From the book of his daughter called The Dream Catcher we glean that Salinger was a hardline cold warrior.
No one is going to do for you--Lennon, Serve Yourself
Carter
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Douglas Mercer
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Re: Carter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s16NcDji_rY
The world found out about Lennon's murder on a Monday Night Football telecast. Lennon met Reagan at a Monday Night Football game. The two were shot at within four months of each other by killers obsessed with the Salinger book
The world found out about Lennon's murder on a Monday Night Football telecast. Lennon met Reagan at a Monday Night Football game. The two were shot at within four months of each other by killers obsessed with the Salinger book
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