Carter’s flaw was being a good man in an evil system. He absolutely would have had the hostages freed if the Reagan campaign didn’t ratfuck his administration by treasonously negotiating with the Ayatollah to hold the hostages until Reagan’s election, with the promise of clandestine arms deals in the future.
“You didn’t used to see them out in public like five years ago,” he told me. “But last time I’m out at a Trader’s Joe” (that’s how he said it) “and you see these women dressed up in beekeeper suits,” he said referring to the traditional Muslim garb known as the niqab.
Everything I wrote between 2003 and 2007 will be imported into my new site. You can enjoy twenty years of my ranting on George W. Bush, the Iraq War, the proliferation of anti-gay marriage initiatives and the lead up to my winning The Search For The Next Great Progressive Talk Radio Star.
I used to be a Twitter power user, but since Elongated Muskrat has turned it into a Nazi pub, I have since migrated to Threads. Whaddaya gonna do? It’s the social media run by the lesser-evil billionaire. I’m also on BlueSky, Mastodon, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok as well, just not as often.
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