Jimmy Carter celebrates his 100th birthday on Tuesday, making him the first US president to reach the milestone.

Carter, a Democrat who served in the White House from 1977 to 1981, has spent the past 19 months in hospice care in his home state of Georgia.

But the former peanut farmer, who first entered politics in the 1960s as a state senator, is “emotionally engaged and still having experiences and laughing, loving,” his grandson, Jason, said in September.

And the centenarian still has political ambitions: “I’m only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris” in November’s election, the humanitarian and Nobel Prize recipient said, according to his grandson.

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I gasped before reading the title till the end

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A rollercoaster of emotions within the span of a sentence.

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You had me in the first half dot jpg

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Any and every headline that begins with “Jimmy Carter, former US President” makes my stomach drop a bit. For like a decade now.

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Seriously, with all the other bad celebrity news lately, I expected the worst.

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Yup, my heart skipped a little beat before I got to the end.

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I had read the headline before this post and still gasped.

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he made it!!

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Hopefully he makes it a couple more months! so he can vote for Kamala! (maybe even attend her inauguration? Maybe Bernie can get the school teacher lady to make him a pair of those cozy mittens…)

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Early voting in Georgia is October 15. I assume he is going to vote as early as he can.

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does it count if you die before the actual election?

In any case, I got my ballot last Saturday here. (in MN. I’m signed up for it to be automatic… which is super easy to do. Just go through the online registration at the MN secretary of state page, and make sure to tick the box for ‘automatically send ballots for mail in voting’ or whatever.)

Everyone- Check your voting status here,. remember, Trump loses if we vote. Maybe we can convince Kamal to paint the White house Tiedye or something.

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Spoiler

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Yay! I though he was going down when he was hospitalized last.

Also fuck og headline writer makin me worry til the end they knew

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No no no no noooo noooo no oh ohh ohh ohhhh YES!

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They knew they were fucking with us with that title and they did it anyway

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