Jimmy Carter Shaking Hands With Every Passenger On His Flight Is The Ultimate Power Move
Look at Jimmy Carter throwing those Presidential nuts around! I always had kind of a blind spot for Jimmy Carter’s presidency because it happened during a weird time. The JFK, LBJ and Nixon years were all wild in their own right and Ronald Reagan staring down the Russians at the end of the Cold War always put asses in the seats during history class. But all I really knew about Jimmy Carter is he seemed like a nice guy, he was a peanut farmer, and he was President during the Miracle on Ice because I remember he gives that speech when they show all the players playing football.
But you don’t become leader of the free world by just being nice. Dude clearly has balls of steel and they are on display here. Nobody on an airplane wants to interact with another person. JetBlue bringing DirecTV to the airplane was the biggest advance in the airline industry since the Wright brothers figured out what drag and lift were back in the day. Everyone just wants to get on and off that tin can as quickly as possible with as little hassle as possible. If the person next to you asks to use the bathroom, it’s because they knew if they waited any longer, their bladder would explode 32,000 feet in the air. The quicker that plane can land, the better for the morale of everyone. But instead ol’ peanut head Carter is out there meeting and greeting everyone like he’s campaigning for his job and not giving a fuck about everyone’s ETA. One thing is to wave at everyone. But to lean in and shake hands with every person in every row from aisle seat to window seat while also having people try to get past him in those thin ass aisles is the kind of shit that gets you elected. That flight is no longer under the jurisdiction of the pilot. That flight leaves when 39 says it leaves.
However I do have to admit that Carter being filmed doing this 6 months ago would give him more street cred. If Dr. Dao getting dragged like a sack of potatoes off of that United flight cost millions in bad P.R., Delta throwing Peanut Jimmy off the flight like he was DJ Jazzy Jeff at the Banks house would definitely cost the company billions with a B.
Nonetheless, I have to respect Jimmy Carter for pulling this stunt and I truly believe the phrase “Ball so hard like Jimmy Carter” will be a rap lyric sooner or later.