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The protests are not an MTV or TikTok video, aimed at holding the fleeting attention of children and the clueless for 3 second segments. Momentum is building. Each 'No Kings' protest is increasing in size as more people oppose the fascism of MAGA. Trump's approval is falling by the day. The goal, at least intermediate term, is November 2026 and the midterms. Dems will take back the House and begin the process of reigning in the fascist (if he hasn't kicked the bucket by then). The Dems might even retake the Senate in 2026, effectively emasculating the Mussolini wannabe clown. Your constant comments about these protests suggests a fear of what they will accomplish over time. I think you are right to be fearful, because MAGA is dying. People are wising up to what it is, which is fascism and self-dealing, fooling the clueless sheeple known as MAGAs. Enjoy your red hat and Golden sneakers. The warranty on your watch, sadly, expired, and your Trump NFTs have no bid.

I know you brainwashed MAGAs think everything from ending the Ukraine war to getting inflation down can be done in an afternoon, but in reality (MAGAs don't need a visa to visit Reality, despite what you might have been led to believe), good things often take time. Remember the Edmund Pettus Bridge March? A couple of marches in Selma? Eventually, Democrats got past the racist segregationist Republicans and passed the Civil Rights Act. In the 1960s and 1970s, Americans took to the streets to protest the war in Vietnam. Eventually those protests won over the nation and the war ended. Patience, Grasshopper. The ball if now rolling. Trump has an approval rating of a mere 37%, and a negative approval rating of 61%. As these protests continue all the way into the 2026 midterms, you will see what they achieved.

Wow, no doubt he'll soon get an invitation to a private dinner at Mar-a-Lago with Trump, just as Holocaust denier and anti-semite Nick Fuentes got. He also would have fit in with the terrorist MAGAs storming the Capitol on 6 January 2021, aimed at hanging the Vice President, just like the fatboy MAGA wearing the Camp Auschwitz sweatshirt. You might want to tell that guy---who claims he did not know what the tatt represented---how to join the Young Republicans, so he can chat with other MAGAs looking forward to "watching people burn" and note his love of Hitler like a good little MAGA.

When your cult is made up of Neo Nazis, Holocaust deniers, white supremacists, misogynist Incels, and other assorted racists, no one can be surprised that some who looks "different" and isn't a White Jeebus lover, is going to get trashed. This is the base Trump attracted. Patel should have known eventually it will eat him. Not all MAGAs are Neo Nazis, but all Neo Nazis are MAGAs Not all MAGAs are white supremacists, but all white supremacists are MAGAs Not all MAGAs are Holocaust deniers, but all Holocaust deniers are MAGA Not all MAGAs are pro-fascist, but all pro-fascists are MAGA Not all MAGAs are QAnon, but all QAnons are MAGAs

One needs only play a "Danish cartoonist" to get a glimpse into the fever possessing the cultists. It runs to their very core, yet they cannot see it. Curious what cultists will overlook or rationalize. I wonder.... When Trump claimed he "stopped" the 1994 Rwanda Genocide, what is the cult explanation? I never saw that discussed on Fox, so I don't know their spin. Either the cult truly believes Trump stopped it, or they know he is in steep cognitive decline and can no longer separate fantasy from reality. As for stopping the "horrible" war between Cambodia and Armenia, does the cult believe there was a war and the rest of us were just too busy to see it, or is that, too, evidence of cognitive decline? There are no other possibilities; either the cult believes the fantasies and delusions, or Trump is in severe mental decline. Sadly, he still has the nuclear codes, and with one order can begin the eradication of all life on Earth. One wishes there were guardrails, as he had in term 1. There is no Gen Mattis, no Gen Kelly, no Gen Milley, no Steve Cohn, no DNI Coates, no SecState Tillotsen, no Sec Def Esper....just sycophants and yes men, none of whom is qualified for the job, save perhaps for Rubio, who lacks cojones. Hegseth is a drunkard and has horrific opsec. Gabbard belongs to another cult and may well be a nutjob. Miller is a raving psychopathic racist weeny (my opinion, as well as the opinion of his family). Ideally, it is time to invoke the 25th Amendment. It is simply too much of a threat to the continued existence of the human race that a man with such a tenuous hold on reality can issue an order to launch around 7000 nuclear weapons, perhaps because he was offended by a late night comedian's joke. I have noted this before, but will repeat: the men and women who sit at the controls of the components of the nuclear triad run drills every single day where they are instructed to launch all hell. Because the correct code has not been sent, no launches occur. The operators do not know until their weapons fail to launch. Of course they assume it's just a drill, and the point of the constant---often multiple daily drills---is to make sure they simply follow the order. Trump can, on his own, send the code. Maybe Hegseth could advise against it, but he wouldn't. The system was designed so that the President has total and complete discretion. Yes, the man who "stopped the 1994 Rwandan Genocide" can wipe out you, your loved ones, and every other person on this fragile planet just because he's having another tantrum.

A cult is a cult is a cult. Cult members lack the self-awareness to know they’re cult members, as “belonging” is what finally gives their otherwise mediocre to meaningless lives some sense of purpose. This is true whether it’s Hare Krishna, Rev Moon, Jim Jones, David Koresh, Adolf Hitler or Donald Trump. Cultists cannot see they’re cultists, nor do they want to, because finally getting some sense of purpose is too valuable to their insecure and fragile egos to dismiss. Cult leaders can do no wrong. Everything they do is either a major triumph, like “nothing anyone has ever seen before”, or it’s a way to attack their enemies, indicating just how clever the cult leader is. The cult leader also becomes fantastical, having traits and accomplishments attributed to him that have no connection to reality. Anyone who in any way does not stand in absolute awe of their cult leader is a blasphemer or a heretic, or suffers from some fantasized “syndrome”. Cults are good at covering all the bases, too: you’re with them, or you are the enemy. They allow no middle ground. MAGA is obviously a cult and Trump a cult leader. MAGA and Trump check all the boxes of cultism. Everything about him is exaggerated and made almost mythic. He encourages that myth himself by his constant use of superlatives when discussing himself, which he does ad nauseum. “Everybody said it couldn’t be done”. “Nobody has ever seen anything like it.” “Many people are saying best ever.” “Greatest economy ever”. “I alone can fix it.” “I’ll be releasing---in two weeks---the best ever plan.” “I’m like…really really smart”. “I’m a stable genius”. Similarly, when going after critics, Trump resorts to using negative superlatives. “Worst ever”. “American carnage.” “Loser”. “Low IQ. “Third rate”. “Worst ratings”. “Nobody has any respect for….” “The failing [XYZ]”. Part of being a cult leader, and maintaining it, is allowing no one else to share the stage. For cult leaders, adoration is a finite entity, so no one else is allowed to have any. Be involved in a “peace deal”---even if you don’t know which sides are making peace---and “I did it”. So insistent are cult leaders in keeping all the adoration coming their way, they’ll steal valor from anyone who has gained even a hint of praise. Trump did this when giving a supposed eulogy at a medal ceremony for Charlie Kirk, by boasting about how Trump avoided getting hit by a bullet because he turned quickly. “If only Charlie could be like me.” Such a statement also is an attempt to solidify Trump’s status as something between being a “chosen” one and actually being semi-divine himself. Trump’s staff is in on the deification. They repeatedly release fanciful images of Trump being everything he is not, never was, nor ever could be. Trump himself began that practice, something his cult sucked up, when he issued NFTs portraying himself as everything from a fighter pilot to an astronaut. That these silly things sold is absolute proof of cult status. The White House handlers have added to this. They’ve released fake images of him as buff, as some sort of warrior, as a superhero, even as a King (which was the reason behind the protest movement being called “No Kings”. Trump and his staff provided the impetus.) Of course he’s just a fat old man suffering cognitive and physical decline. The reality is that Trump is pure fabrication, owing his entire later life to the fantasy created by Mark Burnett, who took a failed businessman, who lived solely off of his father’s wealth and co-signed loans, and made him into a celebrity good enough to fool the unsophisticated and weak-minded, which is to say the kind of people susceptible to becoming cult members. Some credit must be given to Trump for seeing what Burnett had done for him---though he would never give Burnett public credit---and parlaying that into his political career. Trump had---at least when he was still in possession of his cognitive facilities---an innate awareness of whom he could fool and how to fool them. He has said himself two things that indicate both this awareness and what he really thinks of his cult (whose value is primarily how it gives him power, gives him endless opportunities to grift, while also feeding his woefully fragile and insecure ego.) “I love the poorly educated” (2016) “Smart people don’t like me”. (2025) Trump might still be aware enough to know he really doesn't have genuine support from the most visible members of the billionaire class, but his power gives Trump a hook into them. Some want tax cuts, some want favorable treatment by the postal system, some want government contracts, and at least one (Zuckerberg) wants to stay out of jail, something with which Trump threatened him when he blocked Trump's Facebook account. These guys, however, blow with the wind, and would abandon Trump if a Democrat took power and had authority. Remember how quickly Musk went from "love" to threatening information about Epstein. Those guys----Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, etc.---are not actual members of the cult, just opportunists. They never drank the Kool Aid. They're successful people, not losers trying to live vicariously through a cult leader. Trump also must be given credit for understanding the mood among many members of society, people who were being left behind by technological change and the obviation of labor. He gave these people hope, despite having no real solution to help them, but with false hope being better than no hope at all, Trump’s message resonated. Of course he did not deliver, not in his first term and obviously not yet in his second term, but dreams die hard. His first term growth, even before Covid hit, was in the bottom 30% of all Quarters since the end of WWII, and his new term is seeing declines in growth and employment, coupled with increases in inflation. One final credit Trump must be given is that in conjunction with false hope, he also gave people excuses for their lack of success, as well as targets to blame. That is a tactic used by all cult leaders and autocrats since time immemorial, and Trump knows this innately. Trump tossed out various bogeymen and waited to see which resonated. He’s used Moslems, Blacks, Hispanics, immigrants and “liberals” as the causes of why so many of Trump’s followers are failing to keep up. Trump tapped in to latent racism and sexism, giving racists and misogynists the all clear, knowing it would attract the bigoted in US society. Racists and bigots still have the right to vote, so Trump knew not to alienate a demographic others would not want. Trump welcomed the endorsement of KKK boss David Duke, though when asked claimed he didn’t know who Duke was. Trump entertained Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes at a private Mar-a-Lago dinner, solidifying the antisemite vote. Trump can claim he didn’t know Fuentes’ beliefs, but only the hopelessly naïve would buy that lie, as certainly Trump has staff who would inform him of such things, weighing the potential cost vs the gains of attracting a large and hateful demographic, the same way Trump lent credence to QAnon fantasies, thereby securing them, too. Incels were a natural for Trump, as guys with no game need an excuse and Trump's contempt for women ("I can grab them by the pussy") appeals to male losers. Trump barely disguises his own calls to hate, calling all immigrants “rapists and murderers”, and claiming most anyone who is not a white male is in her position because of “DEI” programs. He has stepped up these calls for hate, beyond Hispanics or Blacks or Moslems, and now includes all Democrats and liberals, who he calls “domestic enemies” or “the enemy within”. The result? False hope works. Calls to hate work. Both keep the cult tight on their leash. Though his popularity is in decline (hitting a new Approval low of 37% and a Disapproval rating of 61%), Trump can keep some of his cult by meeting at least one of their needs. Trump cannot create economic growth nor job growth, and he is failing on the inflation front. He can, however, appeal to the cult’s racism by sending his masked, badgeless stormtroopers after female garment workers or 73-year old South Asian grandmothers. Trump has also learned he can soften his language at times, so instead of calling the seized people “gang members” or “rapists and murderers”, he can simply call them “illegals” and cater to the racist tropes of his cult indirectly. Everyone can pretend ICE is all about law and order, when clearly it’s all about racism. If Trump really wanted to stem the flow of undocumented workers coming across the border (60%) or on visa overstay (40%), he would send ICE after the business owners who hire them. The owners are lawbreakers, too, but get a free pass, as many are members of the Donor Class. If demand dried up, few migrants would bother to try crossing the border. Of course that would snare white males, and that might alienate his base, so he prefers to focus on the symptom, not the cause….go after the people who are “different”. As Trump’s mental acuity and cognition deteriorate, as clearly both are doing now, his handlers become much more important. They have to parse his bizarre statements, almost as if he's Chance the Gardener in "Being There". When they cannot make sense of them, they either ignore them or write them off as jokes or trolls aimed at critics. His handlers also have to excuse his most egregious absurdities, all the while continuing to build and rebuild/repair the fantasy of Trump being what he is not. This parsing and redefining has never been more clear than in the last two or three months. Trump is given credit for stopping conflicts in which his actions played no role or next to no role. He himself is taking credit for stopping wars that didn’t exist, and he cannot keep straight the conflicts his handlers are giving him credit for halting. Trump has also simply made up, no doubt owing to his accelerating cognitive decline, victories in which he had absolutely no part. We have heard Trump recently claim of stopping the largest genocide in human history (sic), that of Rwanda in 1994. “Seven million dead….machetes machetes everywhere, but I stopped that.” We have heard Trump take credit for stopping a “terrible” conflict between a place he called Aberbaijiban and Albania. He took credit for stopping a war between Cambodia and Armenia. (I wonder if Marco Rubio or Witkoff will one day step up to take credit for what they now still gift to Trump, as both might vie for the role of MAGA, Jr., and hope to pick up his banner.) Obviously, Trump did not stop what never existed, and he had no hand in anything whose names he cannot even remember, but his handlers need to keep foisting credit upon the cult leader, because it’s the handlers who stand to benefit by retaining power and the ability to self-deal. There isn’t an icon ready to replace the mentally and physically failing Trump, and the power and money spigot gets shut off if Trump is gone. Hence, they prop him up and give him credit for things he cannot even remember. Both the handlers and some of the cult members sense that the end is near. Trump and his team have gotten away with a lot, but his appeal is fading. His approval rating is tumbling. The economy is in decline, and despite the farcical claims to the contrary, is performing well below what it was when he took office. Growth is slower, if not now negative. Inflation is higher than the day he took office. Job growth has plunged. AI exuberance has kept the equity market on the same path it was on under his predecessor, but that has the smell of early 2000 and Dot.Com. A plus for Trump is that the government shutdown has kept both GDP and job numbers invisible, although private sector projections suggest significant decline. No clearer was the decline in cult appeal than during last weekend’s “No Kings” rally, which saw the largest single day, peaceful, 1st Amendment right protest in the history of the United States, with over 7 million Americans from all walks of life taking to the streets against Trump and MAGA. The cult has tried hard to downplay this massive public display, making up lies of who was behind it, but they failed. It wasn’t antifa. It wasn’t “hate America”, but rather love of the ideals upon which America was founded, including the precious rights of free speech, a free press and freedom of assembly to address grievances. It wasn’t funded by the antisemite’s favorite bogeyman, George Soros. It was grass roots, and in every State of the Union, Blue and Red. Those protests scared the bejesus out of MAGA. Trying to play, as Trump and his handlers do, to their unsophisticated and forlorn cult members, Trump reposted an AI video of him as a king piloting a bomber and spewing diarrhea over the peaceful protestors, a metaphor for Trump defecating on the US Constitution. Cult members, who would never accept such tastelessness and childishness from a politician such as Obama, loved the idiocy and justified it by saying it was a joke or a way to troll the critics. Of course it was nothing of the sort, but cultists are too deep in the fever swamps to even begin to see reality. Like all cults and temporary absurdities or outrages in human behavior, the MAGA cult, too, will end. It’s all a function of Trump and the appeal he has to the forlorn. His mental and physical decline seems to be accelerating, so it’s not out of line to think Trump will no longer be around in a year’s time. There is no one to replace him, so the cult will die. It may sputter for a while as others try to salvage what’s left of it or jockey for leadership, and cult members will try to hold on to what finally gave them a reason to be, but die it will, just as all cults---from Jim Jones to Hitler---eventually died and their sins were laid bare for all to see.

Perhaps you are unaware that the year is 2025. There are today ample resources and ways to assess crowd size in all of the 2500+ protests across all 50 States, and then perform the metaphysical miracle, beyond the scope or skill of MAGAs, and add them up. In DC alone the size of the protest likely exceeded the combined total of Trump's 2 Inauguration Day crowds. What's particularly amusing is seeing the Saturday DC crowd and contrasting it with Trump's silly birthday parade. Trump's lucky there are some homeless people in DC, because that made his birthday parade seem better attended that it actually was.

The metaphor of the AI video is clear: Trump is <deleted> on the US Constitution. The people are exercising their 1st Amendment right of peaceful assembly, and the "King" Trump sprays diarrhea all over them. It couldn't be more obvious. Trump is probably too stupid to see the metaphorical meaning, and just has the maturity of a 3 year old, so found the AI video funny. I have to assume at least one member of his staff has the brains to understand what the intent of the video was, and still allowed the child to repost it. That tells you what they intend, which is a fascist autocracy.

That does not describe the Japan I know. I lived in downtown Roppongi, Tokyo for many years. Whether women in my office, women met in bars, or women introduced by friends, I found Japanese women very matter-of-fact about sex and they seemed to consider it just a normal bodily function and part of getting to know someone. It almost seemed like an insult if you didn't try to bed them early on, if not the very first date. I do not think my experience was unusual, as my friends also enjoyed a good deal of cultural exchange, so to speak.

Trump certainly is The Great Uniter! He got 7 million American patriots into the streets on Saturday to protest him and his policies. He's also pretty much united the world against the US, where he and, sadly, the country, is now the butt of jokes. As for policies, he's kind of deja vu all over again. He took a growing economy from Biden, as he did from Obama, and now has growth slowing. He took a vibrant job market and has it now moribund----and if the government was open, it's likely the numbers would show UE is climbing. Inflation is also higher than it was the day he took over again. Fail, fail, and fail. He has sent many people home, though many were just garment workers or fruit pickers. He hasn't taken the one step that truly would discourage migrants from crossing the border or being on visa overstay, which would be arresting the business owners who employ undocumented workers. Of course those owners might be members of the Donor Class, so Republicans are loathe to upset those lawbreakers. Racism and going after Hispanics is easier, and it works well with the cult anyway. Not sure if he's done anything else. SInce he cannot even remember all the wars he supposedly stopped, it's rather clear if any US involvement stopped any battle, the credit would go to others such as Marco Rubio or Steve Witkoff. When Trump is gone, I suspect both will speak up and try to take credit, in the hope they can inherit the MAGA movement. On the plus side, he's finally made himself some real money. Grifting off his position has never been better, from meme coins to $1 million a plate dinners to free 747s to watches and sneakers to having his sons peddle the family name for licensing and development opportunities internationally.

It isn't just liaison relationships that are drying up, as everyone from MI6 to the Japanese NPA no longer trust Trump or his Signal-using braggadocio drunkard SecDef. It is increasingly difficult both to recruit new clandestine assets as well as retain existing ones. When Trump stole all those documents after his first term and took them to his wedding planner facility/country club, it did not go unnoticed that some documents were classified HCS---human clandestine sources---which show the identities of assets. Trump was never entitled to those even as POTUS, so it has to be assumed one of his lackeys he appointed as DNI (Ratcliff or Grennel) gave them to him. DCI Haspel would never have given him anything HCS, as he had no need to know. Anyone who chooses to cooperate with US intelligence---whether a high Russian, Chinese, Iranian or North Korea official, or someone in an international terrorist group like al Qaeda or ISIS---they put their own life as well as the lives of family members on the line. If a President is so reckless and cavalier that he plops boxes with these identities haphazardly around a facility anyone willing to pony up the $200K initiation fee can join (such as Chinese MSS ops officers), that discourages people from taking the chance to cooperate, no matter their original motivation. Russians in particular are avoiding cooperation, and existing assets had to be exfilled, because of Trump, and the belief Trump would share the data with his friend Putin...or sell it, as was his likely intent when he originally stole it. That is not conjecture. It is a combination of fact as well as damage control that intel orgs must take when leaks or exposure are possible. Intel officials, absent any plausible reason why Trump would steal HCS documents, had no choice but to assume Trump's intent was to monetize them. Intel being produced at CIA is now quite poor. It doesn't matter to Trump, of course. He blows up Venezuelan pleasure craft based on the flimsiest of intel, and with the free press now excluded from the Pentagon, nobody will have access (except via unauthorized leaks by true patriots). There's less intel on all US adversaries, whether nation states or terror groups, and even the intel that used to come via liaison (and liaison entities such as MI6, Indian RAW, the BND, etc., have their own clandestine assets) has dried up. Hey, but no problem. Trump is above the law and SecDef is a "warrior".

LOL! The "very definition" eh? Are you channeling Merriam-Webster? That guy thinks a President blowing diarrhea on Americans practicing their 1st Amendment right to peaceful assembly is funny. That makes me wonder just what would be off limits to the MAGA cultists. Why don't you tell me, since you think you know how to define things. I've seen what "Young Republicans" think. I watched some Fox talking heads make hammer jokes after the attack on Speaker Pelosi's husband. I have no clue if there are any limits to what MAGAs find humorous.

So you're saying Trump knows his cult thinks blowing diarrhea on Americans practicing their 1st Amendment rights is funny, as it's actually analogous to blowing diarrhea on the US Constitution? Okay. I had a very low opinion of MAGAs before, but realize I have been far too generous.

You clearly do not know what "sick" is, as your find Trump's demented, childish reposts "funny". I extrapolated your sick views onto other "funny topics". The cult to which you belong DOES find both rape and Holocaust jokes funny. Since you're a cult member....same brush gets you painted. Does that offend you? Then you should understand why Trump's sh!tting on the Constitution and being an embarrassment to the nation bothers me. Go look again at the 2900 pages of leaked "Young Republicans" chats. They're your people. Own them.

I bet you also like rape jokes and Holocaust jokes, too, like your Young Republican brothers and sisters in the MAGA cult.

You mean all that economic growth and job creation under Biden? For a babbler, he sure achieved way more than the blubberbutt demented Trump.

Hard to imagine how empty your life must be. The Cult of Losers. MAGA.

Is that Louis XVI ? If I remember correctly, it didn't end well for him.

If you think that is a "joke" or funny, you are seriously effed up. It's a sick work of a sick man, appealing to his sick cult.

Oh, and if people with decency and taste, as opposed to low life MAGAnistas, take exception to the President of the United States reposting a video of him dropping diarrhea on Americans, we suffer from some fictitious "syndrome".

Oh yes, soooo funny! Just a joke. Ha Ha Ha. The President of the United States reposts an AI video of him dropping diarrhea on American citizens. Yes, that kind of humor is right up there with rape jokes. I guess it's the sophistication level of the typical MAGA. Imagine what MAGAs would say if Obama had done that. Your lot would call for his resignation, and if you deny that, you're lying. Imagine what Putin and Xi and the mullahs think of the US with such a disturbed and demented child as Commander-in-Chief. Trump is a disgrace. MAGAs are a disgrace.

True. The goal of such things as the No Kings Rally is to mobilize people so that in the next election, Americans do not make the same mistake they did in 2024. It seems to be going well, which is why Trump pressured Texas to gerrymander, and why he'll do it with other Red States. Absent that, Trump will declare martial law and try to cancel the 2026 midterms. The people will not stand for that.

The little guy is head of some religious group that "prays away the gay". According to the rumors around Louisiana and DC, it hasn't worked on him. Just man up and admit it, Mike. Your supposed messiah (Jesus, not Trump) never spoke out against homosexuality.

Yea, it was so nothing that you and the other MAGAs have to try to disparage it. Fox Comedy News spent the last day trying to make fun of the largest peaceful protest and largest display of 1st Amendment rights in the history of the United States. Obviously it was intimidating to Fox, the White House, and all of MAGAstan. The movement will evolve. I wouldn't be surprised if we have work stoppages and strikes, and boycotts against corporations that support Trump's authoritarianism, such as how Disney got hammered after the Kimmel ban. Corporate America's allegiance is to money, and the anti-authoritarians can hit a company right where it hurts.

We all make choices. We all have biases. We all have opinions. Other than on anonymous Forums, most opinions are best kept private. Since this is an anonymous Forum..... I've never understood fat. I've never been overweight. I've never been out of shape. I know how much effort, discipline and self-control it takes to maintain fitness and health, but I also know the great benefits of it. I cannot help but lose respect for people who simply refuse to take care of the only body they are ever going to have. If people take the easy way out in one aspect of their life, chances are they will do that in every sphere. Lack of discipline translates across all parts of life, from work to relationships, even to personal finance and budgeting. (Some will disagree, but I bet on average this is correct. The USA, for example, has an epidemic of obesity, debt problems, broken relationships, and poor health....it all stems from the same thing.) The average Western expat in Thailand is obese. Not fat. Obese. They can pretend they're just a little overweight, or claim they are "big boned" or have a different metabolism, but the fact is they are obese, and it is no one's fault but their own. I see these guys waddling around, t-shirt untucked, but unable to mask the bloated belly that has them looking like they're in their 3rd trimester. Spare tires flop to the sides and jiggle as they waddle. Though I'm a liberal, I'm not so woke that I think every body is beautiful. Fat is ugly. Fat-shaming would save lives and make those lives more enjoyable, besides saving money for society. 18% of US GDP is related to healthcare, and the primary reason for that is the fact at least 41% of Americans qualify as obese. Nobody went to bed one night slim, fit and ripped, and woke in the morning looking like a land whale. To look as they do takes years of neglect, rationalization, lack of discipline, lack of self-control, and simple laziness. It cannot be fun to look like that. It cannot be comfortable. With fat comes aches and pains one need not have, as there is extra strain on the joints, ligaments and tendons. The odds soar for Type II diabetes, liver disease, dementia and cancer. Life is shortened, and what life there is, is burdened by body pain or disease. Embark on a health and fitness routine and it becomes habit. If the slacks get a little tight, cut back on meal portions until the tightness is gone. It's not hard. Develop a gym and exercise routine. Make time for it. Everybody has a little free time, so instead of flopping on the sofa and binge watching some banal TV serial or Superhero drivel while scoffing down chips and cookies, use that time to hit the gym. Yes, I'm a bit strident in this regard. I'm also a bit of a fanatic. I'm 2 hours every morning in the gym, 6 days a week, doing both cardio and lifting heavy weights. I average, per DEXA scans, between 8% and 11% body fat, and the six pack and ripped shoulders attest to that. Natty, too, so it's not too bulky. If I'm in a dress shirt, no one would ever guess I bench almost twice my body weight. What I do is likely excessive and not for everyone, but even doing half of what I do will reap benefits that the obese simply cannot imagine. I suspect most people have forgotten what it feels like to feel good. To walk without pain. To roll over easily in bed. To run up the stairs at the BTS to catch the train. To be able to wear the same clothes for as long as the garments last. To stand in front of the mirror after showering and not be embarrassed or ashamed as you towel off. That kind of discipline and self-control will impact every aspect of one's life. You'll bring it to work, you'll bring it to relationships, you'll bring it to everything you do. All of life will be more enjoyable, as everything stems from first feeling good. As for the OP's question....no, don't tell the guy he's a slob. On a one-to-one basis, it's best to keep one's mouth shut (though one cannot help but have an opinion). How society can begin to fix itself is by being critical of all obesity without directing it individually. Fat shame in general, not specifically. It's time to call fat by its name.