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June 16, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 16, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Well, well, well, well, Snerdley and I just spent the last half hour sitting here watching Donald Trump's announcement that he's going to run for president.
And we were laughing ourselves.
I mean, it was a howl session.
But at the same time, there's no doubt in my mind.
I'll tell you what this is shaping up to be.
For those of you who have a long-term memory and in this in a long game, think Perot.
Think Ross Perot.
Remember the reaction people had to Ross Perot.
And I'm not comparing Trump's speech.
Perot, Perot got going with a speech to the National Press Club that was on C-SPAN.
It was amazing, actually, because it was a noontime speech, but it was all about spending and debt spending and how the U.S. was second rate in every regard and how it was silly and how he could fix it.
And there was no intimation he's going to run for president at that time.
And that's what made the speech that Perot gave so, made it so attractive and attracted so much attention to it.
Trump, the same kind of thing here with similar focus, except he made it official today.
He's running for president.
By the way, greetings and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, 800-282-2882.
By me, he was, let me just give you a little summary.
We're still rolling tape here, assembling the audio soundbites.
He started out.
Well, it's hard to say what he started with because there's so much here.
I don't remember where it all happened.
But for example, he said about Mexico, they're sending us their worst people.
They're sending us criminals.
They're sending us the poor.
They're sending us.
They're just bad people.
Some of them may be good people, but they're just bad people.
And we don't need them.
And it resonated.
That's going to resonate.
There's a whole bunch of people, just like Perot resonated.
And the drive-by media, by the way, they're already scoffing.
They're already discounting it.
They're already calling a circus act and this kind of thing.
And it was, I mean, it was not at all what he passed.
He had a 10-minute speech that he gave out that was embargoed that was not what he did today.
You know, Trump's many things.
Serious businessman, he's performer.
He's got a performer's ego that was on display today.
And some days when you see him, he's dead serious about things.
This was improv.
It was by no means on a teleprompter.
He said at the end of the speech, and I'm going to build a wall.
We're going to build the biggest.
It's going to be the best wall.
There's going to be a better wall anywhere in the world.
We're going to build a wall on the southern border, and we're going to make Mexico pay for it.
And the place went months.
And then he said, leading up to announcing his net worth, which he said is required when you run for president, you've got to submit the numbers.
And he had this one piece of paper that he said his best accounting firm in the world had put together where it took months because he's so rich.
He said, I'm really rich.
I'm really rich.
I'm going to show you in a minute here.
I'm really rich.
You know, it's things like that.
I'll tell you something happened.
I was riveted watching this for a whole host of reasons.
And the phone rang, and I got mad because my hearing, the phone, when there's a secondary noise in the room, I can't hear what I'm trying to hear.
Like two people talking at the same time, I'm not able to comprehend either of them.
So I'm watching.
I've got the sound up, which is very rare.
And the phone started ringing, and nobody in the rest of the office here picked it up.
And I yelled it.
I just yelled at, answer the blank, blank phone because I wanted to hear what Trump was saying.
And I stopped myself.
Wait a minute.
Look what just happened here.
There hasn't been a single other person give a political speech in years that if the phone rang and interrupted them, I'd have been mad.
Now, don't misunderstand that.
You know me, I'm not endorsing, haven't endorsed nowhere near any of that.
I'm not even jazzed yet, folks.
I have to tell you that this is all so premature and it's all so early that whatever polling numbers there are just do not interest me.
Because where we are right now is nowhere near where we're going to end up.
And I have a there's a premonition.
I've had a premonition.
After all, we're talking about a presidential race with Hillary Clinton in it.
Last name's Clinton.
Oh, that's another thing.
He's talking about the prison escape, and he's attacking all the losers in the American government.
Losers here, losers there.
We're the dumbest people.
China's beating us.
China's wiping us out.
But he loves China, building buildings all over China.
But he, with the Chinese, we need smart people to beat the China.
We're losing everyone to lose in ISIS.
So we should have had the oil in Iraq.
Instead, if Iran's got it, we're the losers.
Our airports are third world.
Hell, I come back from Qatar.
I come back from anywhere in the world.
I've just been to a great airport and I land at LAX or LaGuardia.
It's a third world airport.
America got third world airports.
Crowds cheering.
And I know a lot of people are going to agree with that.
He starts talking about this prison escape up in New York.
And obviously it happened because we have stupidest people running our prisons.
We have the stupidest people in the police force chasing these guys.
He can't believe they're not caught yet.
In a responsible country, great leaders, these guys would have been caught.
But he turned that into a political comment on the Second Amendment.
He said, this is exactly why we need the Second Amendment.
We need people with guns.
We need people able to defend themselves.
We got this prison breakup there, and our losers in charge of this can't even capture these guys yet.
A woman called me the other day.
She said, Mr. Trump, I am joining you now in support of the Second Amendment.
I used to hate the Second Amendment, but you have convinced me.
And so now my husband and I are on the same page because he already likes guns.
And Mr. Trump, I just want to tell you that we now have a gun in every room.
We're ready to start shooting.
We're ready to start shooting.
That's when I lost it.
Snurdley's watching this thing with his mouth half open for long stretches of time.
That's what we're working on the video here, rolling off the audio.
But remember, Perot, that ended up being third party, and it gave us Bill Clinton, arguably.
Now, I know some people claim that even had Perot not run that George H.W. Bush, they looked at the polling data in the post-election analytical data, and some people think that Bush would have lost anyway.
But you can see this setting up.
I mean, if Trump decides to go third party, if anybody goes third party, if anybody goes third party, then you can say, hello, Hillary.
And Hillary's an absolute disaster.
Can we just, I mean, this is something that I don't.
This is what bamboozles me.
If that's the best that Democrats can come up, they don't deserve to win any.
If that's the best they've got, Mrs. Clinton is an absolute disaster.
I just, the biggest thing she got going for her is there's a D by her name.
And that's why she's going to get the majority of votes that she's going to get.
Outside of that, I just, I don't think, I just same, I don't understand the fear.
I do not understand why people are so afraid of Hillary Clinton.
And I understand respect for all of the shenanigans that Clintons are able to pull off.
But I'm talking about just individually, I don't get the fear that I still find prevalent out there on the Republican side.
There's also other news out there that we're going to get.
Rachel Dolezo was on the Today Show today.
Wait till you hear the audio sound bites on this from the drive-by media.
Some of them are welcoming her to the black race.
Her poor parents want, you know, when I say things like this, I'm of an age where I just assume how best to explain this.
I assume that the vast majority of parents are responsible, smart, together people, because they all were when I was a kid.
Now, there were some bad actors, and I don't want to give a false impression here.
I'm not suggesting that just because it was decades ago that things were better and less corrupt or any of that.
But parents, back when I was young enough, and everybody's, a friend of mine had parents, and so they were, you respected them.
And I look at some parents today of children and of people that happen to make news.
And I listen to these parents.
I said, gee, whiz, what, what?
I mean, it just bamboozles me.
What happened to them?
And then I have to stop and think, well, you know, they're baby boomers themselves or younger.
And the change and corruption in our culture began long ago, actually.
But these poor parents of Rachel Dolezo trying to explain what happened and how it happened and how they feel about what she's done.
It's just, it's painful to watch.
It's just painful to listen to these poor parents, and it's painful to listen to her.
And it's painful, well, funny, to listen to the drive-by media analyzes.
There's been a leak of a papal encyclia.
And essentially, what this papal encyclia is suggesting is that every Catholic should vote for the Democrat Party.
Well, no, that's what, how in the hell else do you interpret it when the Pope comes out and sounds like Al Gore on global warming and climate change?
Or when the Pope sounds like Clinton, or when the Pope sounds like any Democrat.
Meanwhile, we're in a 10-year cooling period.
There hasn't been any warming.
The whole thing is a hoax.
And we've got this leak of a papal encyclia on the fact that global warming is man-made.
It's man-caused.
And we have almost a religious commandment here to deal with it.
I mean, it's just right out of the Democrat Party.
Anyway, we'll get into that in great detail.
We've got me in the audio soundbites here that, again, I didn't even know.
By the way, I did not make the news because of anything said on yesterday's program.
And I was discussing this, Mr. Snerdley.
I came in today.
I said, did I make the news last night?
Was it anything I said yesterday tarden face?
I said, nope, nope, Jeb Bush.
You forgot Jeb Bush is running and they're occupied with that.
And I put, yeah, the stuff I said yesterday was evergreen.
Can go back to that anytime they want and cream me.
So it's that in other words, evergreen, it's timeless.
It would be, you could use it anytime they want.
But nevertheless, I am credited for creating words in a new dictionary now.
And it's not feminist.
It's one I don't even remember, but they are crediting me with it.
So look, let's take a brief timeout.
I'm going to turn back to the printer and I see if any of these Trump soundbites have rolled in, but as you missed this, you really have to hear excerpts of it or maybe the whole thing.
Ah, there's the Dolezole parent.
I'm just watching TV.
They're just watching a video replay of those poor people in their interview today on Fox.
Anyway, lots of stuff here today, folks.
As there was yesterday, as there is every day, and this is the only place you get an intelligent, reasonable take on all of it.
Your guiding light, Rush Limbaugh, always having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Look, folks, you know, I hate saying I told you so all the time, but when it needs to be said, I do not shirk from it.
Did not I tell you that Pope Francis, after I've early on, remember this?
Early on, he started attacking capitalism using Democrat Party language, unfettered capitalism.
I said, this guy sounds like a Marxist.
And remember the ruckus that that caused?
And the Vatican, without naming me, of course, because I'm just a peon, started denying it left and right.
Hey, Pope is not a Marxist.
This is an extreme characterization of the pontiff's remarks.
There's no way.
But I stood by it at the time.
I caught a heck of a lot of grief from the drive-by media for pointing out early on that Euro Papa sounded like a Marxist.
Well, this global warming encyclical, that may be Latin for rant, seems to confirm.
I'm just kidding.
I'm just kidding.
I know that encyclical is not Latin for rant.
I just watched Trump.
But he doesn't even disguise it, folks, in this encyclical.
It doesn't even disguise every other word seems to be about how unfettered capitalism is destroying the world and how the rich countries have to give more money to the poor countries to make amends.
I mean, that's call it what you want, Marxism, socialism, what have you.
But if this thing is real, then it leaves no doubt here what the political leanings or inclinations of the pontiff are.
It's in the Washington Post, in the Washington Post, a giddy reporting this.
Pope Francis blasts global warming deniers in a leaked draft of encyclical.
Draft of a major environmental document by Pope Francis says the bulk of global warming is caused by human activity and calls on people, especially the world's rich, to take steps to mitigate the damage by reducing the consumption and reliance on fossil fuels.
Now, I couldn't find, I know the Pope, get this.
Pope Francis actually has a, he got a degree as a chemical technician back in 1936.
See, I looked up this stuff.
I want to find out where does this come from.
So he got a degree as a chemical technician in 1936, which does make him, gives him a leg up on Al Gore, who's got nothing.
And Al Gore doesn't have any scientific pedigree whatsoever.
But still, there's no record of Il Papa having studied meteorology or climatology or any of the related sciences.
So we're supposed to take his assertions on faith.
Now, deniers does not show up in the text of the article.
The Washington Post here has deniers in their headline, Pope Francis Blast Global Warming Deniers, but that does not appear in the article.
This is what we were talking about yesterday.
Deniers.
See, there's a consensus that's formed.
In this case, a consensus of scientists.
And the grand delusion is that the climate of the Earth is abnormal caused by this current crop of human beings occupying the planet at this moment.
I've always found it interesting.
As old as the Earth is, and I don't think there's an exact science to document it, for as long as people have been around, isn't it interesting that the vanity of humanity is the assumption that apparently 50, 60, 70 years ago, the Earth was quote-unquote normal.
Whatever was going on back, that was the norm.
This so happens when we're alive.
That's the norm.
So anything that happens above or below that line from 70 years ago to today, we are responsible for, according to these people.
But what is the norm?
Does anybody know?
Can there be scientific proof?
What is the norm of the climate of planet Earth?
There's nobody that knows this.
So all of this is speculative.
It's all just politics.
But it has a grand delusion about it, fulfilling the requirement that propaganda be part of the delusion.
And you got a consensus, and everybody goes along with a consensus because that's a path of least destruction.
And anybody objects?
Denier.
Or weirdo.
Or cook.
Or worse.
And that is to discredit people who are not going along with the consensus.
But here's what the Washington Post says, in words likely to anger some of his conservative critics, the Pope backs the science of climate change, saying, quote, plenty of scientific studies point out that the last decades of global warming have been mostly caused by the great concentration of greenhouse gases, especially generated by human action.
Now, as we know, plenty of scientific studies say a lot of things turn out to be untrue.
Most scientific studies are bought and paid for.
Every scientific study on the dangers or benefits of various foods, from eggs to oats to red wine, is shown to have been wrong.
But I mean, the empirical data here, there hasn't been any warming, actually, in the last 18 years, and the latest data is that the last 10 years we are witnessing a cooling.
The papal encyclopedia reads, the poor and the earth are shouting.
The poor, it's a tip-off.
The Pope is a product of liberation theology.
Got to be back in a second.
Greetings, welcome back.
Great to have you.
Rush Limboy here, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
And telephone number if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882.
Now, near the end of the Washington Post piece, there is an allusion, not illusion, allusion to the fact that this whole papal encyclical on global warming is an attempt to ruin the Pope.
The leak immediately fueled rumors about schemes to take down a Pope, many see as left-leaning on some issues.
So it can't really be that the Pope is a Marxist.
We've had a few calls that the Pope's degree in 1936 is impossible given his age.
Well, find out what researcher fed me the information and just fire him then.
Anyway, the leak immediately fueled rumors about schemes to take down a pope many see as left-leaning on some issues.
And there are people, it's not just the Washington Post, there are a couple of other people who have raised this possibility.
And in fact, you know, there's a history of this with this Pope.
The Pope will be reported to have said something, or he will be reported to be writing something that is off the wall and hard to believe.
And then later somebody will come along from the Vatican and deny it and say that it was a trick or it was incorrect, the Pope never said it.
Almost as like the Vatican sends out trial balloons.
So I guess it's possible this could be one of those things.
If it is, typical move by the left.
And it's, by the way, entirely believable that the left would attempt to co-opt the Catholic Church.
And the left does not like the Catholic Church at all.
The left doesn't like any religion.
But the Catholic Church, particularly, is an institution that they despise, fear, all of that, because it stands as a stark reminder in opposition to what the left believes and seeks.
And so anything that they've been, the efforts to corrupt the Catholic Church and religion, period, by the left have been undertaken for years.
So I guess it's possible it could be a leak.
But I'll tell you what, to get serious about this for just a second.
I mean, here you have a papal encyclical about how the rich nations of the world are destroying the planet with global warming and need to give even more money to poor nations.
I mean, this is right out of the Democrat Party playbook, right out of the leftist Alinsky manual, any other leftist manual.
Meanwhile, Catholics and Christians are being wiped out all over the world by Muslims and other enemies.
Literally wiped out.
Catholics and Christians are being targeted for mass murder all over the world.
And here we get a papal encyclical on climate change and global warming.
I don't know.
The two don't go together.
If we're going to have a papal encyclical, you would think it'd be something opposing war or the real enemies of people.
Climate change.
Is climate change an enemy of the Catholic Church?
Is climate change an enemy of Catholics?
Is climate change, even if it is happening, is they say, is climate change?
Is it a matter of faith?
Is it something that the church believes is a weapon being used against the faithful?
It just doesn't, I don't know.
Folks, it doesn't wash here.
And that's why when I first heard the Pope start talking about economics, just like in this encyclical on global warming, it just sounded like pure, not even deluded Marxism.
Here it is from the Daily Quarter today.
Data from America's most advanced climate monitoring system shows the U.S. has undergone a cooling trend over the last decade, despite recent claims by government scientists that warming has accelerated worldwide during that time.
The U.S. Climate Reference Network was developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, it's NOAA, to provide high-quality climate data.
The network consists of 114 stations across the fruited plane in areas that NOAA expects no development for the next 50 to 100 years.
The climate stations use three independent measurements, temperature and precipitation, to provide continuity of record and maintenance of well-calibrated and highly accurate observations.
So this is the most advanced climate station data shows that in a 10-year is it, U.S. is in a 10-year cooling trend, which, by the way, is also widely known and widely accepted by people outside the delusional consensus.
Michelle Obama, during a conversation with students in the UK, in the United Kingdom.
Yeah, that's right.
Pope Francis was born in 1936, so he couldn't have a degree in 1936.
That guy got, the date got screwed up.
But he's got a degree in chemical technicians or whatever.
But the point is that in all the research to find out what kind of technical scientific background Pope Francis has, I just found one thing, which is more than what Al Gore has in the field.
But that is it.
I don't know what the date of his actual chemical degree is.
Looks like it's sometime in the late 50s or early 60s before he took up religious studies.
So that 36 was the year he was born.
Anyway, Michelle Obama in the UK, during a conversation with students, told these women that men were useful for promoting the idea of more education for girls.
She said, we've got to change cultural norms too.
That's why work on the ground is so important.
We've got to send different messages about the importance of educating our girls.
And Ms. Obama suggested that while boys and men were important, it was crucial for them to talk about the lack of education for girls around the world.
You know our sons are important.
We love men.
We all do.
They're good.
They're useful, she said.
I have one in my life.
Referring to her husband, President Obama.
I like him, she said.
But you know, we have to change the definition of what it means to invest in our young girls.
Young men, she said, Were important to supporting the idea of education for girls, revealing that Prince Harry endorsed the idea of having male voices in the conversation.
The First Lady added that it was essential for women to be involved on the ground with people and keep informed about the issues of the day.
Don't just be book smart, be smart about the world, know your community, understand your politics, read your papers, know what's happening in the world.
You have to know how your government works, and you have to vote and be actively engaged at all times.
That's part of an education.
That used to be understood.
That something like that makes news today.
A statement of education, what education ought to be makes news when it used to be standard operating programs, used to not have to define what education was.
I love this line: men are useful.
I have one myself.
I have one in my life.
Of course, that's okay.
We're not supposed to take anything from that.
No, no, no.
That's not insulting.
It's not discriminatory.
No, no, no, no, it's not.
But you let some poor schlub in a university say he can't let girls in his science lab because if you disagree with them, they cry that all hell breaks loose and the guy gets fired.
And his wife gets fired from her job as a professor et at the university.
Okay, I got to say, quick timeout.
We'll come back.
I think we got some Trump soundbites to go.
And Rachel Gozalt, I didn't get any soundbites for her yesterday, but today is a different story, a whole bunch of them.
And we'll get started with all the rest of it.
We get back.
Don't go away.
Okay, sorry, folks.
For the goof up, here's the skinny on Pope Francis and his education in chemistry.
This, according to the National Catholic Reporter, Pope Francis studied chemistry and worked as a chemist prior to entering seminary, before he began his life with God.
But the chemistry diploma is from a state-run technical secondary school, this is the National Catholic Reporter, which is comparable to a community college certificate here.
And it's just the extent of the Pope's scientific education and knowledge.
So all the rest of this is politics.
All the rest of it is politics.
That entire papal, well, we haven't even seen it yet.
Whatever has been leaked, the leaked aspects of the Papal Encyclical are pure politics.
And they're right out of it.
Pick any Democrat Party candidate.
And it's what they're saying.
Any leftist, any socialist around the world, it's what they're all saying.
Okay, we got the Trump soundbites.
Let's get started here.
They're not in any particular order here.
We just cherry-picked.
Our country is in serious trouble.
We don't have victories anymore.
We used to have victories, but we don't have them.
When was the last time anybody saw us beating, let's say, China in a trade deal?
They kill us.
I beat China all the time.
When did we beat Japan at anything?
They send their cars over by the millions.
And what do we do?
When was the last time you saw a Chevrolet in Tokyo?
It doesn't exist, folks.
They beat us all the time.
When do we beat Mexico at the border?
They're laughing at us at our stupidity.
It's going to resonate with a lot of people.
I guarantee you.
And the drive-by is going to poo-poo it.
They're going to relegate it to the carnival characteristics of a campaign and so, but it's going to, just like, just like Perot did.
Do not misunderstand this.
It is going to resonate with a lot of us as you hear more of this.
Now, this bit about we're in serious trouble.
I mean, we, when's the last time we beat China?
They kill us.
When's the last time we beat Japan and anything?
You know what a lot of people's reaction that's going to be?
But why should we be beating anybody?
Why can't we cooperate?
Why can't we all just get along?
Why do we have to beat China today?
That's just going to make China mad.
Why do we have to beat the Japanese?
Why did we always do that before?
Wasn't that when we were a bad country?
We're always beating everybody.
Have to be winners and a loser.
Why do we have to do that?
That's the reaction a lot of people are going to have.
Because that's the way they've been raised.
It's unfair to beat anybody.
It's unfair.
Competition is not necessary.
Conflict resolution.
That's what we need.
We need to compromise.
Get along.
Be bipartisan.
It's going to scare a lot of people.
Beating the Chinese, beating the Japanese.
These are people that are ignorant, have no idea that what Trump says here is actually true.
Look, the Chinese just hacked every government employee.
Why do you think they did that?
You don't think the Chikoms consider us an enemy?
They sure as heck do.
You don't think Putin considers us an enemy?
He sure as heck does.
We're an enemy simply because we're the lone superpower anymore.
It's how you deal with that that distinguishes you.
And Trump's point is we don't have anybody.
We don't have any smart people at all in positions of authority and power making decisions on anything that matter.
Which he made clear in his speech today.
Here's the next bite.
All of my life, I've heard that a truly successful person, a really, really successful person, and even modestly successful, cannot run for public office.
Just can't happen.
And yet that's the kind of mindset that you need to make this country great again.
So, ladies and gentlemen, I am officially running for President of the United States, and we are going to make our country great again.
Now, one thing, he does not make excuses for who he is.
He doesn't apologize for his wealth.
And he claims that people like him are the kind of people that need to be in political leadership positions, but they don't dare do it because of all the different possibilities that could happen to them.
He says, instead of criticizing people like him, instead of targeting people like him, we need people like him in positions of authority and power making decisions because we need the smart people, the smartest people we've got running this country.
We don't have that now.
Here's the next bite.
I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created.
I tell you that.
I don't need anybody's money.
I'm using my own money.
I'm not using the lobbyists.
I'm not using donors.
I don't care.
I'm really rich.
I'll show you that in a second.
And by the way, I'm not even saying that in a bragging.
That's the kind of mindset, that's the kind of thinking you need for this country.
So, because we've got to make the country rich, it sounds crass.
Somebody said, no, that's crass.
It's not crass.
It's not crass.
Now, can you say, can you hear Mitt Romney?
I'm rich.
I'm really rich.
I'll acknowledge it.
They're all calling me, I'm really rich.
I'll show you here in a minute.
And I'm proud of it because I know Romney will go buy a station wagon, put the dog on the roof, and go on vacation.
Trump's out there flying his Boeing 757 with his name on it in 14-karat gold on the fuselage.
He's out bragging about everything he's done because he's proud of it.
He's proud of his success.
He's proud of his achievements.
He wants people to know.
He says he's not bragging because he doesn't have to brag.
He's not ashamed of any of it.
And he doesn't want to put on any airs and act like it was an accident or act like he doesn't deserve it because he does deserve it.
He told a story.
He grew up in Queens and Brooklyn.
His dad was a great negotiator.
He learned a lot from his dad.
But his dad said, Donald, don't ever take our business into Manhattan.
It's a cesspool over there.
It's too big.
We're right where we need to be.
And Trump said he told me he's, but, dad, I got to go to Manhattan.
I got to go to Manhattan.
That's where the action is, Dad.
And I went to Manhattan and look what I own.
I own a Bank of America.
I own Trump Tower rebuilding the greatest hotel in Washington, D.C. I'm doing all of this.
I'm very proud of this.
I make no excuses for any of it.
I am really rich.
I'll show you in a minute.
And I'm not bragging.
Take a break here.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Okay, we have four more soundbites.
Just give me a little heads up here.
What's coming?
Four more soundbites from Trump.
And then we'll head into Rachel Dozelzall, who was on the Today Show today.
And her parents were over on Fox.
And various African-American media types, some angry that she wants to be black or identifies as black.
Others saying it's perfectly fine and welcoming her to the race.
You know, I think I think I'm going to identify as skinny.
That way I will not have to ever go on a diet.
I'm just going to identify as skinny.
I just am.
You think I'm not?
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