As much as that creature attacks the weight, or appearance, or uses overt misogyny and racism to attack people and gets total support from his pissdrip base despite it all.. I'm actually a bit okay with our candidates dishing him some of his own medicine.

If they ever decide that it's NOT okay for their own to use such tactics, I'll reevaluate and change as well.

"...his pissdrip base..."

And still love your post.

It’s an understandable position to hold.

Wish I didn’t feel that way myself.

makes me sad to have do it.

recognition. He could have picked anything else though.

"I met him at the Macy's parade, he was wearing ropes.” </Rodney Dangerfield>

people based on their looks. I love it.

He dishes it out copiously but can't take it. I feel no need for anyone to be polite to him.

not to cause offense isn't a great strategy against the most destructive president in history. This isn't a contest to see who is the most timid and polite.

If he calls our candidate sleepy or crazy, our candidate should offer him a donut and ask how many push-ups he can do, or challenge him to read a tongue-twisting phrase, or pronounce a common long word.

If he attacks our candidate, that candidate must make him look like a fool, using whatever language.

He seems to be saying that overweight people are slobs. Also what does a person's weight have to do with their mental ability? He is not just insulting Trump. He is putting down overweight people. Since many voters in this country are overweight, I don't think this was a smart move.

to be ballast on a hot-air balloon or win in an eating contest. Can you think of anything that Donald Trump can do better? If so, I agree it would be fat shaming.

Obviously Yang dislikes fat people and thinks it is okay to say these things about them. Many voters are overweight. I don't think that it was a smart move on Yang's part. I don't see it getting him more support. I think he has alienated some overweight voters. He said that he could beat Trump at any mental contest because Trump is fat. That implies that fat people are dumb and not worthy of respect.

I certainly don't think Trump is good at anything. He has absolutely no redeemable qualities.

However, I think some voters would be offended and I don't think he gained any support by what he said. It was childish and not something I would expect from someone who wants to be the president. It shows his lack of experience and decorum. I wasn't planning on voting for Yang in the primaries anyway but I'm more sure now that I made the right decision. I believe that there are better candidates currently running.

Of course as with any of the democratic candidates, if he does become the candidate in the general election then I will vote for him.

Have a good evening.

president fat.

Slobs come in every size.

I believe that he implied that overweight people are slobs. He also said that he would beat Trump in a mental competition because Trump was fat. I don't see how he equates mental ability with someone's weight. I believe that what Andrew Yang said was childish and not befitting a future president. I don't see that what he said will help his candidacy. I believe that it will alienate some overweight voters.

Have a good night.

I agree with you on that point. But I don't think his intent was to bash heavy people.

He could have simply made it an issue of physical and mental fitness. While physical fitness correlates to weight some, it does not in many cases. Mental fitness has no relation to weight at all (as you pointed out well).

I agree that Yang should at least clarify what he was trying to say and apologize to heavy people for his hurtful phrasing. Good Presidents do apologize for verbal missteps, there is historical cases, so Yang making a hurtful statement that he likely didn't intend as it came out does not disqualify him if he makes proper amends.

Never assume someone overweight is also nonathletic. I was in a bicycle riding club and it was amazing how overweight middle aged guys could out-cycle me.

He cannot walk a few hundred yards without wheezing. That's why he has to take a golf cart when others are walking.

He famously claimed that he doesn't exercise because one has a finite amount of energy and he doesn't want to waste his. As if Trump knows anything about energy!

I know a sumo wrestler. He has incredible strength and stamina. Trump is no sumo wrestler.

Trump is an idiot.

Give your place in the debate to someone who is serious about this race.

Please.

Fat people are stupid. Brilliant.

and present the evidence

indicative of one's ability, worth or endurance. I hope that this is a teachable moment.

Is the next election going to be a Thunderdome affair? Nobody told me. Two men enter, one man leaves. What relevance does a He Man attitude have here?

Well, he is off the viability list if he thinks that playground-style rhetoric is at all useful at this stage. In fact, it is very counter-productive.

My candidate is going to address the wall of rhetorical slime that the Slug-in-Chief has erected and utilized to manipulate both sides in different ways. I say that from my own perspective, having poured over volumes of video material, including the debates, interviews and Big Brother-style rallies.

I really am not concerned that people dismiss this or lump sum all of Trump's voluminous faults, ignorance and despicable character in together with his main skill. That skill is why he is in office and continues to serve as a very, very useful idiot while more important issues get buried, pushed aside and avoided. Even a poorly educated, somewhat illiterate carnival barker can do a great job with time-tested and practiced means of manipulation. Watch him more closely and you can see the tricks, especially in the debates. His tweets often have a different approach, though his spell is cast there, too.

Hate trump? Does he have you really riled up? Are you content with ridiculing him? Are you aghast, shocked and overwhelmed? Have you have thought of that as being manipulated?

It is going to burnout, but I would like to accelerate that process with full gusto. The more people are aware of his vulnerabilities and catch onto the well-time, often instant tactics, the faster this is over with, and I would hope for a candidate that will not be at all naive about that and bring some well practiced skills to the table and use them almost instinctively without reservation.

If you go up to face the Mister Excrement, Jr., and you think that just being reasonable, stating facts and appealing to the people is your only task, you don't get it. You are going to have to deal with his alpha moves, double-binds, and a host of other aggressive and psychological ploys at the same time.

Hit him back with his own insults.

He should brag about being better at golf.

then it's smart. The way you deal with bullies is find their buttons and push. This will get under Trumbo's delicate yet leathery looking thin skin.

I don't get the interest in this guy one bit.

Trump fat shamed a protester recently so...

Chess
Bridge
Tennis
Badminton
Ping Pong
Field hockey
Cricket
Soccer
Target practice with pistol at 30 feet
Algebra
Trigonometry
Calculus
Physics (Newtonian)
Organic chemistry
Thermodynamics
Heat transfer
Stress analysis
Heavy machinery design
Fortran programming
dBase programming
Cobol programming
Numerical Control programming

Only sport he will probably beat me in is golf...He plays too damn much
And he knows more about building skyscrapers and dealing with unions.

Graduated with engineering degree 2nd rank in class of 400.

cheated playing against a kid . usually people would let the kid win but he cheated in order to beat him.

but I have played a lot of golf with cheaters and know how to handle them.
I have a good memory for shots taken, and I confront them every time they cheat the score or move the ball which is not allowed unless the pick and clean rule is in effect after heavy rain and muddy conditions.

I have watched him play on TV, and he seems to be a good player. So I am not 100% sure I can beat him now because I am 7 years older than him as well and have lost distance.

Was intramural badminton champ at Univ of Iowa, have played 5000+ rounds of golf and my handicap was at one time in single digits.

Babe Ruth. Teddy Roosevelt. Alfred Hitchcock. Queen Victoria. Minnesota Fats. Al Hirt. Pavarotti.

I could go on, Mr. Yang.

I hesitate to condemn Yang unless I see more of what happened than just take the alleged word of this one Daily Beast reporter.

Is there corroborating evidence or other people who can vouch for what was said exactly? Video would be best.

Or is this a stupid satire?

Honestly, if we aren't going to be better than they are, what's the point?

But then the truth is not what some people are after.

Called taking a butter knife to a gunfight. It is time to stop apologizing whenever a Democrat takes the gloves off.

Jeez, it’s like middle school crap.

His words don’t go very far any way; his fat shaming lead balloon is going nowhere

"Fight fire with fire."

"These are strange times."

Nonsense. You're principled or you're just a partisan. It makes the party look bad.

Let Trump be Trump. Be better than that. Let's fight fire with water.