Carter laid to rest. And speaking of bad presidents... (01-09-2025--Hour2)

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[00:00:28] Yes, our show was preempted just a smidge by the conclusion there of the Jimmy Carter funeral that we broadcast live. Look, it is a historical moment. So, you know, that's what we do at WBT. I know people weren't happy about the coverage. I have seen the ones of emails and messages. And I get it. You didn't like Carter. I didn't like Carter either. But he was still the president. It's still a big deal.

[00:00:56] And also, Donald Trump and Barack Obama sat next to each other and actually were cracking jokes with each other. You could see them laughing. They were chit-chatting and laughing. So, which is weird for Obama to be cracking jokes with Hitler. I don't understand.

[00:01:13] Okay. Message from Bill, who says,

[00:01:20] Today was a unique opportunity for us to distinguish the difference between a failed presidency and a presidential failure.

[00:01:29] I'm glad Carter lived long enough to see it, too.

[00:01:37] Dennis says,

[00:01:38] The main thing I remember about Carter's presidency was the gas lines at the service stations.

[00:01:43] The rationing of gas.

[00:01:45] Right? Odd, even, odd, even.

[00:01:48] Right?

[00:01:49] So on odd days, odd number days,

[00:01:51] if you had a license plate that had an odd, or that was the last number, or began with an odd number,

[00:01:58] then you would go get gas on those days.

[00:02:00] And if you had an even number license plate, you would go to get your gas on the even days.

[00:02:09] Motoring was almost a war zone, getting locks for your gas caps.

[00:02:16] And then there was the Iran hostage crisis.

[00:02:19] Yes, tie a yellow ribbon.

[00:02:20] Right?

[00:02:21] And don't forget Billy Beer, promoted by Jimmy's brother.

[00:02:26] It went well with all those Carter peanuts.

[00:02:32] Yeah, this is the thing.

[00:02:33] The retconning is what drives me nuts.

[00:02:37] It's this, the retroactive, you know, hagiography that is being written about Carter.

[00:02:45] And I understand it's the funeral.

[00:02:47] People say nice things at the funeral.

[00:02:50] Right?

[00:02:50] Hopefully.

[00:02:51] And that is really, like, you should live a life where people will say nice things about you at the funeral.

[00:02:58] What I detest is going to a funeral or paying respects to a guy and having to listen to stump speeches

[00:03:07] for a man who was blown out of office and being told that,

[00:03:14] actually, he really did all of these fantastic things and we just didn't know it.

[00:03:20] Right?

[00:03:21] We just all finally caught up to Jimmy Carter's visionary success or something.

[00:03:27] All right, let me go over and talk to David.

[00:03:29] Hello, David.

[00:03:29] Welcome to the show.

[00:03:31] Hey, good afternoon.

[00:03:32] Hey, what's up?

[00:03:34] Well, you know, Dennis kind of stole my thunder because here I am, a high school kid in the late 70s.

[00:03:40] I've got a hopped up Pontiac.

[00:03:44] And you can only buy 10 gallons of gas.

[00:03:47] And I think I might have gotten maybe 10 miles to the gallon.

[00:03:50] And I can remember standing in line pushing my car because it burned too much gas in there idling,

[00:03:57] pushing it to the gas pump to buy my 10 gallons.

[00:04:02] Oh, I believe it.

[00:04:04] Yeah, I mean, people had to, you know, not go to the grocery store, right?

[00:04:09] They had to, you know, coordinate with their working spouse or non-working spouse, whatever,

[00:04:15] to make sure that they had the vehicles so they could get to work and get to the school

[00:04:19] and do their daily activities and the like.

[00:04:23] And how about, remember, when he was trying to tell people that it's okay to set your thermostat

[00:04:30] at a lower temperature to save the oil?

[00:04:34] Just wear more sweaters.

[00:04:35] Remember, he put on the cardigan or whatever.

[00:04:38] And like this was the policy.

[00:04:41] This is what they were recommending people.

[00:04:43] And then he had the briefcase.

[00:04:44] He was like, I'm working hard to fix the economy.

[00:04:46] He's running around with the briefcase to show.

[00:04:49] It's a prop, right?

[00:04:50] To show everybody that he's working.

[00:04:52] And then like some big breeze comes along and it like pulls the briefcase open.

[00:04:57] And there's nothing in it.

[00:04:59] And nothing in it.

[00:05:00] Right.

[00:05:00] Yeah.

[00:05:00] And I can remember my daddy.

[00:05:04] My daddy yelling at the TV, yelling, damn, communist.

[00:05:11] All right, David, I appreciate the call.

[00:05:13] Thank you, sir.

[00:05:13] Let me go over and get Steve on.

[00:05:15] Hello, Steve.

[00:05:18] Hello, Steve.

[00:05:19] Yeah.

[00:05:19] Hi.

[00:05:20] Hey.

[00:05:20] I'm 70.

[00:05:21] I'm 70 years old.

[00:05:23] And in my opinion, you know, I think Jimmy Carter had a fantastic post-presidency.

[00:05:29] He did so much.

[00:05:32] It was incredible.

[00:05:34] Really?

[00:05:35] As a president.

[00:05:35] Which way?

[00:05:36] What did he do that was incredible in his post-presidency besides the Habitat for Humanity?

[00:05:44] All the things that he did to try to facilitate people around the world having good civil rights

[00:05:58] and enabling them to have a modicum of what the United States is doing.

[00:06:08] He palled around.

[00:06:09] He cozied up.

[00:06:10] He cozied up to communists and Islamists.

[00:06:14] Well.

[00:06:16] I disagree that his post-presidency is something that should be applauded.

[00:06:22] I do recognize the work that he did with Habitat for Humanity.

[00:06:26] Absolutely.

[00:06:26] That was some good stuff.

[00:06:27] But if you're going to talk about the work that he did on a global stage, no.

[00:06:32] I just ran through the examples.

[00:06:34] The guy went to the Soviet Union.

[00:06:36] He went to the ambassador for the Soviet Union and tried to get them to help defeat Ronald

[00:06:43] Reagan during his re-election.

[00:06:45] And I don't care how much you may hate Reagan.

[00:06:47] And that really is the thing that bonded Gerald Ford with Jimmy Carter was their hatred of

[00:06:53] Ronald Reagan.

[00:06:53] They both hated Reagan because they both saw Reagan as the reason why they had lost.

[00:06:58] Because Reagan ran against Ford.

[00:06:59] But Reagan lost to Ford.

[00:07:01] But then he came roaring back and beat Carter.

[00:07:03] Right?

[00:07:03] So they both didn't like Reagan.

[00:07:06] I agree with that.

[00:07:08] But back when the hostages were taken, I was a Marine.

[00:07:15] And I know that when they were taken, we had a Marine landing force that was less than

[00:07:23] an hour away from the embassy.

[00:07:25] And they were all geared up to go help that embassy.

[00:07:29] And Carter called them off.

[00:07:32] That would not surprise me.

[00:07:35] And so from that point on, you know, in my opinion, you know, his presidency was the worst.

[00:07:42] I mean, marginally worse than our current commander-in-chief.

[00:07:45] Oh, wow.

[00:07:46] Okay.

[00:07:46] Well, that's saying something if you're saying he's worse than Biden.

[00:07:51] Well, I say marginally worse because Carter knew what he was doing.

[00:07:57] Ah.

[00:07:57] Oh, no.

[00:07:58] Yeah.

[00:07:58] No, that's fair.

[00:07:59] I got it.

[00:08:00] Thank you, Steve.

[00:08:00] I appreciate the call.

[00:08:01] That's fair because Carter was sentient.

[00:08:04] That makes sense.

[00:08:05] I'll give it to you.

[00:08:06] Now, I will say just in my lifetime, while technically I was alive while Carter was president, I was

[00:08:15] not paying attention to any of that.

[00:08:16] I was a toddler.

[00:08:18] So I don't remember anything about the Carter presidency, really, except like the burnt sienna

[00:08:26] and avocado green fashion that somehow or another puked itself all over our interior.

[00:08:33] But other than that, and I don't really blame Carter for that, but I could, but I won't.

[00:08:38] I'm not going to.

[00:08:38] I'm a bigger person.

[00:08:41] Speaking of terrible presidents, have you seen the fires out in California?

[00:08:48] It kind of seems a fitting way for Joe Biden's presidency to come to a conclusion.

[00:08:53] No?

[00:08:54] The symbolism is inescapable, writes a lefty over at Bloomberg.

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[00:10:14] Let's go over and talk with Alex.

[00:10:15] Hello, Alex.

[00:10:17] Hi, how are you doing?

[00:10:18] Hey, I'm well.

[00:10:19] I just want to say I have two people to thank for my becoming a straight ticket Republican

[00:10:23] voter.

[00:10:24] Rush Limbaugh and Jimmy Carter.

[00:10:29] That makes sense.

[00:10:31] And I think Joe Biden is going to have much of the same impact on a lot of people going

[00:10:36] forward now, too.

[00:10:37] And I think this Karen Bass lady out of Los Angeles and Gavin Newsom might very well have

[00:10:43] some sort of an impact in the same way on a lot of Democrats in California.

[00:10:48] Yeah.

[00:10:49] I guess it takes a script like that to wise people up, you know?

[00:10:52] Mm-hmm.

[00:10:52] Mm-hmm.

[00:10:53] Yeah.

[00:10:54] I got you, Alex.

[00:10:55] I appreciate the call.

[00:10:57] Next up here is Greg.

[00:10:58] Hello, Greg.

[00:10:59] Welcome to the show.

[00:11:01] Hey, Pete.

[00:11:02] Hey.

[00:11:03] The oil embargo was 1974.

[00:11:05] Okay.

[00:11:06] I think that was Ford.

[00:11:09] In 74?

[00:11:10] Well, that may have been Nixon first, though.

[00:11:12] Nixon.

[00:11:13] Okay.

[00:11:13] But that's when you could only...

[00:11:15] It was, you know, A or B on your tag was who could get gas.

[00:11:21] And after that, there was no gas rationing after, like, 76.

[00:11:28] So not that I support anything that Carter did.

[00:11:33] You know, no one loves 14% inflation.

[00:11:36] But you cannot say that it was Jimmy Carter's fault for the oil problems.

[00:11:43] I don't think so, because it was 1974 was the oil embargo.

[00:11:47] You can still see these old gas stations around that they've turned into convenience stores and stuff that the independent gas stations had.

[00:11:58] They couldn't get gas anymore in 74.

[00:12:02] And I remember waiting in line.

[00:12:05] Yeah, now they're fuel pizzas.

[00:12:08] All right.

[00:12:08] Greg, I appreciate the info.

[00:12:10] Thank you, sir.

[00:12:10] Let me go over to Jim.

[00:12:12] Hello, Jim.

[00:12:13] Welcome to the show.

[00:12:13] Yes.

[00:12:15] Okay.

[00:12:15] I was back during Jimmy Carter's time.

[00:12:19] I was working with a company.

[00:12:21] I had been working with them for quite a while.

[00:12:24] And they had built several stages of the building that they were in, up-and-coming company, did the New York sales office for them, and turned right around.

[00:12:35] They bought the property that they started off with leasing it here in Gastonia.

[00:12:42] And then they turned around, and they signed a loan, prime plus three.

[00:12:48] And during Jimmy Carter's tenure, the interest rate ran up.

[00:12:52] Prime rate went up to 21%, and it just killed this company.

[00:12:59] And that happened all across the board.

[00:13:02] Now, I have to admit, he's a good Christian guy and everything, but I don't know that he had a real thing about the realities of life and what went on.

[00:13:14] So, he did a great thing by having Habitat and getting that started.

[00:13:20] I've been involved in that in the past.

[00:13:22] So, there's a lot of good things that he did before there were some things that were crushing.

[00:13:28] Yeah.

[00:13:29] No, and look, this is the same for all people, right?

[00:13:34] Yes.

[00:13:34] All people have things about them that are good and that are not so good.

[00:13:40] And I'm fine with highlighting people's achievements and the good and how they lived their lives and their faith.

[00:13:48] I'm fine with all of that.

[00:13:50] What I don't like is getting a campaign stump speech as if he's running for president again.

[00:13:57] And I understand why they do it.

[00:13:58] It's to calcify the legacy and to let everybody know that this guy was actually really awesome, and we just didn't know it.

[00:14:06] I understand why they did it.

[00:14:07] I just don't appreciate it.

[00:14:09] Yeah, I don't appreciate that either.

[00:14:11] I know who he is.

[00:14:13] I know what he was.

[00:14:14] I know both sides of it.

[00:14:16] Yeah.

[00:14:16] No, I got you.

[00:14:17] Jim, I appreciate the call, sir.

[00:14:18] Because what is it except an example of, it's a form of gaslighting.

[00:14:25] For the people who lived through that time, the eulogies were a form of gaslighting them.

[00:14:34] That you didn't really experience these things.

[00:14:37] That he was actually better and did so much of the awesome stuff and, you know, you just didn't know it or didn't appreciate it.

[00:14:44] Now the truth can be told or something.

[00:14:48] So, yeah, it's just a rewrite of the record, I think.

[00:14:52] And, again, I know why they did it.

[00:14:55] But I am just here to offer some other perspective on it.

[00:15:00] To see the different angles, if you will.

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[00:16:09] Got a message on Twitter, formerly known as X, from Melissa.

[00:16:15] It's a Pete tweet.

[00:16:16] She says, a mini Wellstone memorial it was.

[00:16:19] Had this been before Election Day, there probably would have been a marching band and cheerleaders at the church.

[00:16:23] During the Carter years, at a local savings bank, people were bringing in stacks of savings bonds to convert to CDs because interest rates were so high.

[00:16:35] The bank had an offer, forego the first year of interest in exchange for a compact car or small boat.

[00:16:44] I kid you not.

[00:16:46] Now that is a deal right there.

[00:16:49] Like, that's the thing too.

[00:16:50] Like, back in the day, like, you just, you wouldn't be able, you just wouldn't be able to buy it.

[00:16:57] Like, if you wanted to buy something and you wanted to get an extension of like a line of credit from the bank or something to buy, I don't know, a washer or dryer or something.

[00:17:06] Nope.

[00:17:07] You just didn't get it.

[00:17:08] And that means you didn't buy the washer or dryer.

[00:17:10] You had to keep saving your money.

[00:17:11] Like, um, Russ says, no, Pete, all Carter's policies were brilliant.

[00:17:19] The people just couldn't realize it at the time.

[00:17:21] He didn't break energy and the economy and set up a lot of dominoes for Middle East instability and Islamic terrorism.

[00:17:28] Wait a minute.

[00:17:29] Isn't this exactly what the Biden administration and media, but I repeat myself, are telling us about Biden's failed presidency?

[00:17:35] It is indeed.

[00:17:36] There are so many similarities.

[00:17:42] What do we got up next here is, I guess, Susan.

[00:17:44] Hello, Susan.

[00:17:45] Welcome to the program.

[00:17:47] Hey, Pete.

[00:17:48] Hello.

[00:17:49] The one thing that I remember about the Carter presidency was he wanted to give everyone in America $500 and even his own party turned against him.

[00:18:04] Did he, wait, but did he, did he throw in a chicken in every pot?

[00:18:09] Because, like, that might have sealed the deal.

[00:18:12] I think you're right.

[00:18:14] You're really onto it now.

[00:18:15] Yeah.

[00:18:15] Susan, I appreciate the call.

[00:18:16] And what's funny, though, is that people still, like Joe Biden, did that with the student loan bailouts.

[00:18:21] Right?

[00:18:22] Same kind of promise.

[00:18:24] Buying votes.

[00:18:25] Right?

[00:18:26] Let's go talk with Ray.

[00:18:28] Hello, Ray.

[00:18:30] Hello, Pete.

[00:18:30] How are you?

[00:18:31] Hey, I'm well.

[00:18:32] How are you?

[00:18:33] Good.

[00:18:34] Good.

[00:18:34] I just had a, well, the first time I ever voted was in, well, when I was 23, I think, in 1976.

[00:18:43] I voted for Carter, and I haven't voted for a Democrat of any stripe ever since.

[00:18:49] But what I was going to say, I had like an aha moment this morning that probably hasn't just occurred to me.

[00:18:57] It may have.

[00:18:58] But we know Trump was more popular in this last election than he was the one before and made inroads into blue areas pretty heavily, I think, if I understand it correctly.

[00:19:14] But he won those areas better than he did in 2016.

[00:19:25] And the kicker is he won those areas in places that were less, had less conservatives because conservatives had about four years to move out of those areas.

[00:19:39] So he made bigger inroads than we might believe or realize.

[00:19:45] Yeah, a lot of people flipping from Democrat to Republican, that would be, yeah, there would be a greater shift.

[00:19:54] I understand what you're saying.

[00:19:54] There's a greater shift than the data would might on its face indicate, because if you've got Republicans that have already moved out, you'd have to look at the proportions.

[00:20:04] But no, it's a fair, that's a, I think it's a fair observation.

[00:20:06] I don't know how true it is in every single jurisdiction.

[00:20:09] But yeah, I think you may be onto something there.

[00:20:13] Let me see here.

[00:20:14] Chip says, oh, and to that point, wait until I saw Adam Carolla's podcast he was doing.

[00:20:19] Adam Carolla lives out in California.

[00:20:22] And he had actually applied.

[00:20:24] He testified in front of Congress a while back.

[00:20:25] And he talked about how he had gone to apply to be a firefighter.

[00:20:31] And they said to him, thanks for your application.

[00:20:35] The wait list, because you're a white dude, is going to be seven years.

[00:20:38] And so he went to work in construction.

[00:20:40] And so he was a construction worker for seven years.

[00:20:43] And then he gets a letter and they're like, hey, you can come back.

[00:20:46] It's your time.

[00:20:46] So he shows up.

[00:20:47] He's standing in line.

[00:20:49] He said this to Congress.

[00:20:51] And he said there's a woman standing behind him.

[00:20:53] And he asks her.

[00:20:56] Hey, how long ago?

[00:20:57] Just out of curiosity.

[00:20:58] How long ago did you apply?

[00:20:59] And she said Wednesday.

[00:21:03] And now these people in California that have just been traumatized by the wildfires and devastated, they've lost everything.

[00:21:15] They're now going to have to rebuild.

[00:21:17] And they are now going to get the government that they voted for good and hard.

[00:21:23] They are going to have to go through the permitting, the regulations, all of that stuff.

[00:21:27] They're going to have to go through all of this red tape.

[00:21:30] And as Carolla said, the guys camping out in the RVs, they're going to be there like next week.

[00:21:39] They're going to be parked at these places next week.

[00:21:42] And you're not going to be able to get back into your home, a new built home.

[00:21:46] You're not going to be able to get back in for like four years.

[00:21:50] That's how long it's going to take you because of that.

[00:21:52] And that's going to radicalize people.

[00:21:55] Much like Jimmy Carter helped usher in Reagan, Biden, Bass, Mayor Bass of L.A., Newsom.

[00:22:04] Right.

[00:22:05] Nothing radicalizes people towards conservatism better than Democrat policies in action and the failures of Democrat uniparty control.

[00:22:20] Over at Bloomberg, I mentioned this earlier, so let me pay it off.

[00:22:23] Flavia Krauss Jackson writing at Bloomberg dot com says America is burning in the dying days of Joe Biden's presidency.

[00:22:31] The symbolism is inescapable as wildfires rage across Los Angeles, engulfing the homes of the rich and famous.

[00:22:38] The winds are also fanning the flames of political polarization.

[00:22:42] Even in the face of a national tragedy, Republicans and Democrats are at odds.

[00:22:47] President-elect Donald Trump blamed Governor Gavin Newsom for mismanaging water supplies.

[00:22:52] Well, yeah, because he warned you.

[00:22:54] Trump warned you.

[00:22:56] For like six years, you guys got to do better management of your resources and fire protection.

[00:23:04] Days from his swearing in, Trump is already taking a scorched earth approach to his second term, threatening U.S. neighbors with tariffs, setting impossible targets for NATO partners, even holding out the possibility of military action to seize Greenland and the Panama Canal.

[00:23:18] At home, the California blaze is yet another reminder that climate change doesn't distinguish between the haves and haves.

[00:23:25] This is not a climate change event.

[00:23:28] This is Democrat misprioritization, maladministration and mismanagement.

[00:23:34] That's what this is.

[00:23:35] But always remember, journalism in rule number two.

[00:23:39] When the scandal is about a Republican, the story is the scandal.

[00:23:44] And when a scandal involves a Democrat, the story is the Republican reaction to the scandal.

[00:23:52] Right.

[00:23:52] It's what are the Republicans saying in reaction to.

[00:23:55] And now they're getting that.

[00:23:56] That's the focus of the story now is Republicans.

[00:24:00] They're criticizing the Democrats.

[00:24:02] How dare they?

[00:24:03] Rather than, you know, I don't know, the utter failure of Democrats at the state, local and national level in California in these wildfires.

[00:24:15] Oh, and also Western North Carolina, too.

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[00:25:28] I got a tweet here or a message from Mama Tooted who says, I'm confused.

[00:25:36] Why did they perform Imagine at both Jimmy Carter and his wife's funeral for being as religious and Christian as they were promoted to be?

[00:25:46] That song is far from it.

[00:25:48] I mean, good song, but still.

[00:25:51] Yeah.

[00:25:53] I made the exact same comment when we were watching and Garth Brooks got up there and why on earth did he not let Trisha Yearwood sing that song?

[00:26:04] His voice is shot.

[00:26:06] I was not aware of that.

[00:26:07] He did not do a good job with that.

[00:26:10] And I'm not a Garth hater.

[00:26:11] OK, that does sound like Darth Vader.

[00:26:14] But I didn't mean that.

[00:26:16] But it like but I mean, I do mean that I'm not a Garth hater.

[00:26:20] He's OK.

[00:26:21] I like some of his songs.

[00:26:22] In fact, I've won a karaoke contest singing Friends in Low Places.

[00:26:27] All that aside, his voice was not good in this performance, first of all.

[00:26:31] And second of all, the very first line of his song, he's singing in a church at a, you know, allegedly really, really, really devout Baptist's funeral.

[00:26:41] And the first line is imagine no religion.

[00:26:44] Imagine no heaven.

[00:26:45] Like what?

[00:26:47] Wait, what?

[00:26:47] You guys are talking that he's in heaven.

[00:26:49] You guys are talking about him seeing Rosalind again in all this.

[00:26:54] Why?

[00:26:55] What?

[00:26:56] Oh.

[00:26:58] He's an enigma.

[00:27:00] Let me get Steve on real quick.

[00:27:01] Steve, I have about 30 seconds or so for you.

[00:27:03] But it's all yours.

[00:27:05] It's all quick.

[00:27:06] I was during those gas era.

[00:27:09] And I don't know if people mentioned this before, but the gas pumps didn't go over 99 cents.

[00:27:13] And it was so confusing to everybody because they had to start selling gas at a half a gallon.

[00:27:17] And some of the stations sold gas by the leader.

[00:27:21] And you could buy it on Monday, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

[00:27:23] And you only had to look at the pumps that go to 99 cents.

[00:27:27] And so they had to get all their pumps updated.

[00:27:29] But I don't know.

[00:27:30] You're right about the gas lighting.

[00:27:32] There's a lot of gas lighting going on right now.

[00:27:34] Yeah.

[00:27:34] Now, I hear you, Steve.

[00:27:35] I appreciate the call.

[00:27:36] Well, I have heard that, too.

[00:27:36] When the original gas pumps were put in, they never contemplated gas going above a dollar a gallon.

[00:27:43] And so they only made like 99 and a half cents or something.

[00:27:46] All right.

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