#jimmy carter's funeral

[realityhop]

"It is an essential condition of any traditional religious service that the space in which it is conducted must be invested with some measure of sacrality. ... People will eat, talk, go to the bathroom, do push-ups or any of the things they are accustomed to doing in the presence of an animated television screen."

— Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985)

"Pre-Christian Europe lacked the distinction between the secular and the sacred in much the same way that other polytheist cultures do. The world itself was sacred, and there could be no question of confining religion to a private sphere – the very idea of religion as a set of practices distinct from the rest of life was lacking. A domain separate from the sacred was recognized only when Augustine distinguished between the City of Man and the City of God." — John N. Gray, Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia (2007)

“No transcendental religion can compete with the spectacular pagan nearness and concreteness of the carnal-red media.” — Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)

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[spokenforinvaliduser]

[theonion]

Peeking out of his coffin with one eye open, a jealous President-elect Donald Trump reportedly threw his own state funeral Thursday in an effort to upstage the late Jimmy Carter’s ceremony. “I’m way deader than he is,” mumbled Trump, who lay at the opposite end of the National Cathedral as his senior aides attempted to persuade Carter funeral attendees to leave their seats and pay respects to the 45th president. “This coffin sure is impressive, isn’t it? Full Story

[frontpagewoman]

Trump cannot believe VP Harris silently told him to kiss her ass.

She hates him. I loved it.

[deadpresidents]

We do not yet know the policy of the next administration toward Israel and Palestine, but we do know the policy of this administration. It has been President Obama’s aim to support a negotiated end to the conflict based on two states, living side by side in peace. That prospect is now in grave doubt. I am convinced that the United States can still shape the future of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict before a change in presidents, but time is very short. The simple but vital step this administration must take before its term expires on Jan. 20 is to grant American diplomatic recognition to the state of Palestine, as 137 countries have already done, and help it achieve full United Nations membership. Back in 1978, during my administration, Israel’s prime minister, Menachem Begin, and Egypt’s president, Anwar Sadat, signed the Camp David Accords. That agreement was based on the United Nations Security Council Resolution 242, which was passed in the aftermath of the 1967 war. The key words of that resolution were “the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war and the need to work for a just and lasting peace in the Middle East in which every state in the area can live in security,” and the “withdrawal of Israel armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict.” The agreement was ratified overwhelmingly by the Parliaments of Egypt and Israel. And those two foundational concepts have been the basis for the policy of the United States government and the international community ever since.

-- Here is a gift link to Jimmy Carter's 2016 New York Times opinion piece, "America Must Recognize Palestine".

[saywhat-politics]

[locke-esque-monster]

Trump announcing increasingly insane moves on the international scale for his presidency this week is coming off as his attempt to distract from Jimmy Carter's funeral.

Trump can't stand not to have all the attention on him. He's a little kid trying to show off to his parents (the American media & public) to get them to look at him. When they're actually trying to focus on some event his older sibling is participating in.

It looks like this to me: Trump: "Mom! I can do a magic trick. Pick a card."

*card is begrudgingly and absentmindedly picked by parent* Trump: "Is your card Greenland? Why aren't you looking at me? Dad! Dad! Watch me! I can wave my wand and change the Gulf of Mexico in the the Gulf of America! Ugh, why are you watching Jimmy??! You promised you'd watch me do my magic tricks. He only got peace in the Middle East! And that was like, forever ago! My next trick is even better. Look - I can pull Canada out of a hat!"

[fredersen]

kind of an insane choice to sing a song starting with “imagine there’s no heaven” at a funeral lmao

[ohihopeicanchangethislater]

Kamala Harris (and the photographer) did the funniest thing possible for this post.

best crop ever

[maircries]

I am once again late to the show but I just binged all of @camlannpod in one sitting, and I IMMEDIATELY need more.

I’m going to remedy this by looking up and consuming as much Welsh mythology and folklore as possible

[justinspoliticalcorner]

AP, via The Guardian:

Nearly 44 years after Jimmy Carter left the country’s capital in humbling defeat, the 39th president returned to Washington DC for three days of state funeral rites starting on Tuesday. Carter’s remains, which had been lying in repose at the Carter Presidential Center since Saturday, left the Atlanta campus on Tuesday morning, accompanied by his children and extended family. Special Air Mission 39 departed Dobbins air reserve base north of Atlanta and arrived at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. A motorcade carried the casket into Washington for a final journey to the Capitol, where members of Congress will pay their respects. In Georgia, eight military pallbearers held Carter’s casket as cannons fired on the tarmac nearby. They carried it to a vehicle that lifted it to the passenger compartment of the aircraft, the blue and white Boeing 747 variant that is known as Air Force One when the sitting president is on board. Carter never traveled as president on the jet, which first flew as Air Force One in 1990 with George HW Bush. The scene repeated outside Washington. The former president’s casket was removed from the plane, cannons fired and a military band played. A hearse emblazoned with the seal of the president joined a motorcade that steered toward Washington.

A bipartisan delegation of members of Congress were led in to the Capitol rotunda by Senators Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, Democrats who represent Carter’s home state. Three of the nine US supreme court justices were also present. Justices John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh and Elena Kagan stood next to the Washington DC mayor, Muriel Bowser, in the rotunda. The US army band brass quintet played as people awaited the casket’s arrival. Carter, who died 29 December at the age of 100, will lie in state on Tuesday night and again on Wednesday. He receives a state funeral on Thursday at Washington National Cathedral. Joe Biden will deliver a eulogy. There are the familiar rituals that follow a president’s death: the air force ride back to the Beltway, a military honor guard carrying a flag-draped casket up the Capitol steps, the Lincoln catafalque in the Rotunda.

There also will be symbolism unique to Carter. As he was carried from his presidential center, a military band played hymns – Amazing Grace and Blessed Assurance for the outspoken Baptist evangelical who called himself a “born-again Christian” when he sought and won the presidency in 1976. In Washington, his hearse stopped at the US Navy Memorial, where his remains were transferred to a horse-drawn caisson for the rest of his trip to the Capitol. The location nods to Carter’s place as the lone US Naval Academy graduate to become commander-in-chief.

All of the pomp carries some irony for the Democrat who went from his family peanut warehouse to the governor’s mansion and eventually the White House. Carter won the presidency as the smiling southerner and technocratic engineer who promised to change the ways of Washington – and eschewed many of those unwritten rules when he got there. From 1977 to 1981, Carter was Washington’s highest-ranking resident. But he never mastered it.

The late former President Jimmy Carter’s remains are in DC for funeral rites leading up to tomorrow’s state funeral.

[spokenforinvaliduser]

[chronotopes]

i have to hang out with a friend within the week or i'll die. i really will

[jd-vance-official]

they would find eachother in any timeline

[deadpresidents]

Just think what this deference to the leader of this personality cult will look like a few weeks from now once Trump has comfortably taken control of every aspect of the government backed by the trusty safety net of Supreme Court-validated Presidential Immunity.

Congratulations, America.