***(Live feed of Jimmy Carter’s funeral)

Good morning. Thousands of mourners and living former US presidents will gather at Washington’s national cathedral today for the state funeral of Jimmy Carter, the 39th president.

Joe Biden will deliver the eulogy for his fellow Democrat, with Bill Clinton, George W Bush, Barack Obama and president-elect Donald Trump expected to join about 3,000 mourners at the service. Thursday has been designated a day of national mourning, with federal offices closed.

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    7 hours ago

    What a sight those “thousands of living former US presidents” must be! Too bad they couldn’t get a few thousand of the dead ones to attend.

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    23 hours ago

    Can you imagine the solemn farce that will be trump’s funeral? We are going to be forced to endure all the pomp and circumstance that a normal leader gets. Media drones are going to speak in hushed respectful tones about the clown. There will be commentators spinning a fiction about the merit of his “maverick” ways. We are going to be expected to heal, and unite, and respect the fool and his mournful idiot fans. It’s going to be such nauseating bullshit.

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    22 hours ago

    Bidens eulogy is very good. They had fords son or grandson give a eulogy he wrote as they apparently wrote eulogies for each other and had promised to deliver it to each other.

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      22 hours ago

      Apparently Carter planned for Biden to give his eulogy before the end of Carter’s presidency!