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Chris Fox's avatar

In a Facebook post about a year ago I referred to Trump as "the fat oaf," back when we were trying to not spell out his name.

Someone implored me to refrain from "body shaming."

My response was "no."

I've known people with multiple sclerosis, cancer, disabilities of all sorts, people who would leap at a chance to rid themselves of their problems by something as freaking simple as going on a diet. When I stopped taking Zoloft I dieted off over a hundred pounds in nine months, instead of demanding that people not notice I'd developed a belly.

As Rosanne Barr said back before she stopped being funny, "if you're fat, then be fat, and shut up." And if being fat makes you feel bad about yourself, then eat less for a while.

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Grow Some Labia's avatar

Totally okay to 'fat shame' certain people, and Donald Trump is one of them. Why? Because he has 'fat-shamed' so many women. Kim Jong-Un? I call him 'the fat kid'. He's slimmed down in recent years, probably forced to by his health, but for years he was quite obese while his people were starving. Former Toronto mayor the late Rob Ford, self-descried '300 pounds of fun' and an international scandal 13 years ago, suggested a better way to deal with the homeless was a 'public lynching'.

Yeah, some folks are game for 'fat shaming' and Donald Dumpy is one of them. That reminds me, gotta go get some champagne tonight in anticipation of an arrest this week.

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Chris Fox's avatar

I don't make fun of fat people, that would just be rude, but compared to people with the afflictions I named, being fat is nothing to whine about. If it makes you uncomfortable, diet it off. Problem solved. If I can do it, anyone can. It's not like I'm some master of self-discipline.

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Grow Some Labia's avatar

I don't either, but I do point out hypocrisy when applicable.

Rob Ford claimed he was going on a diet and then got caught sneaking out of a KFC with a bucket of chicken. I have a huge problem with someone who's never missed a meal in his life (his family was wealthy) and showing so little compassion for people living with food insecurity.

And I have zero sympathy for a man who fat-shames women who don't meet his exacting standard of female wankability (the only reason, he thinks, that women exist), especially when he lies about being '239 pounds' when he's clearly over 3 or 400 himself.

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Chris Fox's avatar

At my peak, before I couldn't stand it anymore, I was within a few pounds of 239. And despite being a good 6" shorter than him, I was nowhere near the sphere that Trump is. I still had a shape. I still had pecs even if it would be over 7 months before I saw my abs again.

Trump can't be a gram under 350. His staff probably orbits him.

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Grow Some Labia's avatar

Well he is the centre of their universe lol

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