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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I get why people want Trump to have to submit to the same rituals that other criminal defendants must go through, because that is kinda the point, but I do get so tired of the people calling him fat and orange.
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He is fat and orange, and that's exactly how he'd describe himself if he were in a different body and a person who looked like him were a perceived enemy.
But yes, the petty shit is annoying. "Look at old shuffling and stumbling Joe!" No shit. Biden is old. I get it. It's funny when used in a joke, or to sadly reflect that the best this country can do is nominate 77 and 80 year old men who are way past their prime. But if that's all you can say about Biden -- if you can't bother to think about his policies even a little before you comment about his age - Don't Say Anything.
Really. Don't. Say. Anything. You're part of the problem. And the atta boys you get for the cheap shots make the country generally a dumber place than it already is. And we can ill afford that. You're giving fuel to hive minds who won't, and probably cannot, understand how the policies of Biden and Trump impact inflation, supply chain resumption, attempts at dedollarization, balkanization of the world into pre-WWII blocs, energy costs, etc.
He is fat, and he is orange, and I'll violate this suggested rule endlessly because it's just too easy to make fun of him. But that's his game. That's what he wants: MAGA vs. Wokeworld, each lobbing personal insults at the other side's candidate. Maybe opt out of it. Maybe that'll suck the wind out of the Big Dumb that Trump has turned our national discourse into over the past seven years.
