Guardian Journalist Calls for Fat People To Rise Up Against Trump

A wise man once said, "Woe to thee whom the obese rise against."

And after Trump's debate performance last night, it appears that he has drawn the ire of this terribly powerful demographic.

An article written in The Guardian titled "Fat people, rise up! We could swing this election" by Lindy West serves as a rather hilarious call-to-arms for America's overweight voters. 

During the debate last night, Trump, while discussing cybersecurity, said the following:

Nobody knows that it was Russia that broke into the DNC – she’s saying ‘Russia, Russia, Russia’ – but I don’t, maybe it was! I mean, it could be Russia, but it could also be China. It could also be lots of other people. It also could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds, OK? You don’t know who broke into DNC.

This fairly innocuous quote is precisely what Lindy West found so angering.

She writes:

While I do want to congratulate Trump on one of his few successful deployments of the English language last night – buddy put words in an order that conveyed a vaguely decipherable meaning, much like Franklin Delano Roosevelt! – the phrase “somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds” raises a vital question.

Fat people, are we going to stand for this shit?

First off, I doubt Trump is going to lose any supporters over this. Right-wing people with weight issues tend to own up to it; they don't expect special treatment, and are generally confident enough to have a sense of humor about it. Most importantly, they tend to understand that serious obesity is something undesirable, unhealthy, and unattractive.

The Left, however, seeks to normalize degeneracy. One need only take a look at the cretins protesting outside of Donald Trump rallies to conclude that such people eschew excellence and self-masteryin the name of "tolerance." Such creatures are generally overweight, disheveled, on drugs; they often appear emotionally disturbed, likely due to their poor lifestyle habits.

Whether intentionally or not, Leftist policies erode social technology developed by the West over centuries, if not millenia. Not accepting obesity leads to a less obsese – and therefore, healthier – society. Our ancestors knew this. In fact, many non-Western countries, particularly in Asia, shame their overweight citizens into losing weight.

Body positivity, however, results in obese people deluding themselves into thinking that being overweight is anything but unhealthy and unattractive.

Now, for the record, I don't advocate bullying fat people. There is a fine line between constant, positive encouragement and being cruel. The former leads to positive change, whereas the latter causes demoralization and resentment.

The author continues, writing:

But by pointing a wee alabaster doll finger at fat nerds for the DNC hack, Trump didn’t just express the standard disgust for fat bodies, he positioned fat people as dangers to national security. The implications are familiar, even if the context is outlandish: fat people are lazy, bedridden, unscrupulous, untrustworthy, antisocial, gluttonous (for secrets!) and worthless as anything but a punchline. Trump could have said, simply, “a person sitting on their bed”, but he chose to specify the fictional hacker’s fictional weight, because it evokes destructive stereotypes about fat people and antique ones about nerds. Because it milks harsh, cheap laughs out of the bullies who make up Trump’s base. Because Americans do not like or trust fat people – nor, really, consider them fully human – and neither does Trump.

Isn't it amusing that the author, while attacking Trump for saying mean things about other people's bodies, feels no qualms in saying mean things about Trump's body?

She also writes:

That’s the same dislike and distrust that makes fat people less likely to be hired for jobs, take home equal pay or receive adequate medical care under their insurance. It’s that dislike and distrust that make it socially acceptable (a public service, even!) to harass and verbally abuse fat people. It’s the reason why most clothing labels refuse to make garments in larger sizes – because we fat people are so worthless that they do not even want our money.

This is classic Leftist logic. Rather than pushing people to overcome their gluttony and laziness, the Left seeks to enforce "equality" and thereby normalize the aforementioned vices.

The author concludes:

So, come on, fat people, JOIN ME. RISE UP. We never get to be the hero. I’m being silly, but what if we did? I can think of no more appropriate fate for this classist, xenophobic, white supremacist whoopee cushion than to be hurled back into F-list obscurity by a coalition of women, people of colour, Muslims, fat people, veterans, LGBT people and every intersection therein. My fat ass is with her.

I'm sorry, Lindy, but fat people who aren't supporting Donald Trump are only going to "rise up" off of the couch to grab another bag of Doritos while they continue hacking the DNC.

And the idea of veterans being part of a coalition against Trump – a coalition consisting of the stupid, obese, and sexually deviant – is completely laughable.