Thursday, March 10, 2022

Throwback Thursday Welcome Back Carter Edition

Let’s play Carter-era Throwback Thursday again, that’s always fun. The clothes of course were smashing,

70's men fashion

but the politics even more so. Forty years from now I suspect they’ll be saying the same thing about the Biden era.

pelosi3Coordinated facemasks all the rage

If, that is, anyone talks about it at all.

vaccine mandates like Jimmy carter - you never supported

Just like it’s hard today to find people who openly admit to having voted for Carter (twice!), I’m betting there won’t be many Millennials who will admit to having voting for Biden.

sen_joe-biden_meets_with_president_jimmy-carter

And for many of the same reasons. Biden is looking to break Jimmy’s records in taxes, inflation, interest rates and cost of gasoline. (37%, 14%, 19% and nearly $5 in today’s dollar respectively). So get out your sweaters, prepare to drive 55 and prepare for the next great housing market crash. All this, in the third term of the Obama administration,

Obama family arrives at US Capitol prior to inauguration swear-in Welcome Back Carter

This held up pretty well, but for the 4 year Trump era:

carter resolute foreign policy