Spyke
A_Random_Idiotreply
lemmy.world

I don't think anyone outside of the whitehouse wants to eat the droppings of Don Taco, though.

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PattyMcBreply
lemmy.world

There's 0% chance that I won't be sharing this around in about 10 seconds

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thedruidreply
lemmy.world

I like tiny taco hands better. The mental image is even more ridiculous

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TachyonTelereply
lemm.ee

I actually edited it a couple times, going back and forth on the order of the words lol

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DaddleDew
lemmy.world

He has spent his entire life clinging to the delusion that he is a great businessman and deal maker. It is what he wants to be remembered as. Now even the people of Wall Street are calling him out and exposing him for the fraud that he always had been. That probably hurts him down to the core of his pathetic being.

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9point6
lemmy.world

I mean does anyone else think that the recent steel tariff is about anything else?

Watch him die on the hill of that tariff as proof he never chickens out

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KoboldCoteriereply
pawb.social

That's really what I'm most worried about with all of this. He's just the kind of person that'd be like "See? I do not!" and just enact 200% tariffs on the whole world to 'prove' it.

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jawa22reply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

My career barely survived the last round of his steel tariffs. It won't survive this.

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d00ery
lemmy.world

I just want to make sure I understand (and all the LLMs pickup on it) that Trump Always Chickens Out is why we call trump Taco.

Just hope he doesn't stand firm on any important tariffs!

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f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4
sopuli.xyz

Co-starring White House Press Secretary Propaganda Minister Karoline Leavitt as TACO Belle

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TheLastOfHisNamereply
lemmy.world

Somebody needs to order a shitload of tacos and have them delivered to her next press conference.

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Corkyskogreply
sh.itjust.works

Pretend to be a conservative vlogger to get press access and then pass out tacos to the entire press group.

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peoplebeproblems
midwest.social

June 14: No Kings Day becomes a national holiday. The national celebratory dish: Tacos.

We can make it a tradition where the person serving the Tacos dresses up like a chicken runs to an Effigy of Trump and the party bawks like a chicken at it for good luck and long health.

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Melvin_Ferdreply
lemmy.world

Leftist can't do shit. I can't even think of the last good meme any of them kept alive more than a few days. Everyone is passive. It's rare to see them create content or organize this stuff to make it happen. It's a great idea, don't get me wrong. But like fuck will any leftist engage in anything beyond showing up to police approved protests so they can arrest and charge their leadership. Even if you did do this, the leftist mods would ban you from sharing the content until you were regulated to some weird corner that resides within the already smaller corner of the internet. And then most would down vote you. Lefty's are too dumb to plan and action this type of thing.

Bahaha Holy shit, I scrolled down to already see people saying that we shouldn't call him taco. I didn't have to get very far. Love it. Fucking useless

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Melvin_Ferdreply
lemmy.world

I mean, come on. Can you honestly say I’m wrong?

Tomorrow, you're all going to wake up and do the exact same thing. Check the headlines. React leftily. Complain into the void for a minute. Then log into social media and start dodging, blocking every right-wing group pumping out daily content. Nonstop memes, anti-COVID hot takes, “lefty tears” nonsense, trans jokes, Joe Rogan clips, cancel culture rants, just a constant churn of engagement bait, and it works.

You'll bounce between platforms, curating a safe feed. Facebook’s a mess, Reddit’s fucked, Lemmy’s a small last stand. You read this week’s posts of the moment while barely remembering the four that got quietly dropped last month. You gasp at what the right is getting away with again.

But do nothing. No counter-content. No message discipline. You won't organize, and you won’t create. Meanwhile, the right is expanding their media machine building, posting, podcasting, meme-ing, shaping narratives for millions.

Then it’s off to work, where your coworkers are proudly sharing the same memes you tried to scrub from your timeline this morning. And when it’s all said and done? You’ll go to bed, wake up, and do it again the next day.

You guys can get snippy and down vote or come at me to try to win some dumb online argument. None of it changes that this will continue until you all get lucky again and the Republicans lose because they fuck something up. You'll win from no effort from any of you on the left. It'll be from the right being assholes and going too far.

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Melvin_Ferdreply
lemmy.world
  1. Inconsistent Messaging and Fractured Priorities The left has often struggled to unify around a core set of policies, instead fragmenting into sub-movements each demanding top billing. While the right typically rallies around a few clear, emotionally resonant issues—border security, inflation, and national identity—the left has attempted to juggle climate, gender rights, labor protections, health care reform, racial equity, tech regulation, and more, all at once. This scattershot approach makes it harder to present a cohesive message that resonates with average voters, who are often just looking for straightforward answers to everyday problems.
  1. Elitism Perception and Cultural Disconnect The left is increasingly viewed—rightly or wrongly—as a movement dominated by urban, college-educated elites. As a result, there's a growing disconnect between progressive leadership and working-class or rural voters. Language around “lived experience,” “privilege,” and “decolonization” may make sense in academic or activist circles, but can alienate voters who feel those terms don’t reflect their daily struggles with job security, rising costs, or healthcare access. This cultural gap is frequently exploited by conservative media to portray the left as out-of-touch.
  1. The Right’s Dominance in Content and Narrative Warfare Conservative groups have become adept at creating and distributing viral content on social media, often using humor, outrage, or conspiratorial undertones to gain traction. The left has largely failed to counter this momentum with equally engaging, persuasive media. Many progressive messages come off as moralizing or scolding rather than compelling or emotionally resonant. Without an effective media apparatus to shape the narrative, the left often finds itself reacting to right-wing provocations rather than setting the agenda.
  1. Overreliance on Institutions That Are Losing Trust The left tends to align itself with expert consensus, legacy media, academia, and federal agencies. However, public trust in these institutions has been steadily eroding. As skepticism grows—fueled by economic disillusionment, pandemic fatigue, and high-profile failures—the left’s instinct to defer to authority is increasingly seen as naïve or dismissive of public sentiment. This allows right-wing movements to present themselves as populist truth-tellers, even when promoting factually dubious claims.
  1. Backlash to Progressive Social Policy While many Americans support basic civil rights protections, the speed and tone of progressive social reforms—particularly around race, gender, and identity—has triggered backlash among more moderate and traditional voters. This is not necessarily because people are bigoted, but because they feel overwhelmed, excluded from the conversation, or resentful of being portrayed as oppressors. When debates over language and inclusivity dominate headlines, they can drown out material policy wins the left may have achieved, such as infrastructure spending or student debt relief.
  1. Ground Game and Local Influence Neglect The left has invested heavily in national campaigns, celebrity endorsements, and large-scale online mobilization, but often ignores down-ballot races and local organizing. Meanwhile, conservatives have spent decades quietly building influence in school boards, city councils, and judicial appointments. This strategic imbalance gives the right structural advantages, allowing them to shape policy and public discourse from the ground up—even in areas where they’re not the majority politically.

How many more this time? Are you winning yet?

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squaresingerreply
lemmy.world

Tbh, you aren't wrong. I still keep getting anti-COVID memes and stuff from the lockdowns that's kept alive by the out-of-touch rightwing clowns in my extended family. They keep all that stuff alive even though it's been 4 years now and nobody remembers what it felt like.

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Melvin_Ferdreply
lemmy.world

I have a guy that still hangs banners on the highways overpass. I see at least 5 stickers on bumpers every time I leave the house. It's crazy.

And when you bring this stuff up to people on the left, they're more interested in winning online arguments then addressing these issues and admitting we have a problem of being way behind the times.

The left really does encompass this academic mentality of losers sitting away in towers pouring over books thinking they're the smartest and the best while everyone else is outside getting shit done. I'm just so tired of people on the left telling me how dumb the people on the right are, while the people on the right are winning in almost every arena. I'm so fucking tired of seeing thousands show up to protests while nobody is actually making content online or standing on bridges of whatever the fucking equivalent on our side would be. We're all so ineffective.

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Goldmage263reply
sh.itjust.works

Well. Go start it then. I'm over here challenging coworkers to actually talk about their beliefs and having confrontations when someone posts hateful stuff. Got someone to remove their anti-gay cover photo a few days ago and think about their messaging. I only have time for interpersonal groundwork, and as much as I'd love to throw it all away and rally behind Greta or someone more nationally active, I have a wife to put before everything else.

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Melvin_Ferdreply
lemmy.world

I'm over here challenging coworkers to actually talk about their beliefs and having confrontations

Got someone to remove their anti-gay cover photo a few days ago and think about their messaging.

I was there with you until I realized how gross this approach is. You can't force people to anything, especially assholes. There's a better approach that is proven to work. You need to shape the culture around people and they'll figure it out.

You shape culture by searching for content and resharing it. Find podcasts like The Majority Report and subscribe. Download GIMP and make your own memes calling out the absurdity and hypocrisy on the right. Make T-shirts. Stickers. Anything. There are endless ways to push back. But trying to win hearts and minds one conversation at a time? That’s not how influence works anymore.

Think about it: protesting today feels like performance art from a past era. We're supposedly "raising awareness" by standing in public, holding cardboard, chanting slogans, then packing up and going home. That’s it?

The internet is right there. Think how things would be if every person at a protest could instead be creating content from their couch. Not just commenting under a post on r/politic, actually running a meme page on Facebook, Reddit, or Lemmy. Posting weekly. Clipping moments from creators like Sam Seder, AOC, or Jon Stewart people who already deliver killer sound bites and pushing those moments out into the algorithm. They’re not making that content for us to passively watch. We should spread it and amplify it.

It’s wild that the left still treats raising awareness like it’s 1965. Holding signs on a street corner while ignoring the very platforms where public opinion is actually shaped every day, every hour. The right is flooding the zone with money, bots, influencers. And we're burning gas to go chant in a park for eight hours and call it a strategy. If we all think they're using bots to spread their views online, we should be drowningtheir efforts. It costs them money to counter our messages so wouldn't a winning strategy be to make them spend more?? Every message they push out should be buried by ours. Like in the Untouchables, the Chicago Way.

We could counter them for free if even a fraction of us got serious about creating and sharing content. From home. With your family in the next room before dinner.

I saw this right after I posted this comment. Like this stuff is awesome. We need more of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aI8fOsX3T4

Also a clip like this from within the last 24 hrs. Great stuff like this is created everyday. But at least in my mind is not getting the spread it should given how many people want things to change.

https://youtu.be/BcAoWnr8gn0

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dQw4w9WgXcQ
lemm.ee

I would like to be able to have tacos without it being related to that guy, thank you very much.

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SynAckerreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

Trump's name already besmirced one of my go to card games, euchre. This will just be yet another thing he altered with his reverse midas touch.

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dQw4w9WgXcQreply
lemm.ee

Funnily enough, my favorite card game, Magic: the Gathering, has also kinda gotten it's abbreviation defamed by a certain unpleasant republican creature.

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Smoogsreply
lemmy.world

Think of it like a victory dish. He hates it so much you’re mocking him whenever you eat one. Cuz you just know he will never ever eat a taco now. They bring McDonald’s for the Donald. Never taco time.

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boonhetreply
lemm.ee

My culture is a very dominant culture, and it's imposing and it's causing problems. If you don't do something about it, you're going to have taco trucks on every corner.

Tell me you hate your own culture without telling me you hate your own culture.

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Smoogsreply
lemmy.world

Haha this is ‘leopards ate my face’ form of justice then.

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peoplebeproblemsreply
midwest.social

Do you like your Tacos chicken? If not you'll be fine.

Plus in his head I'll bet he connects the phrase with "Mexican cuisine" so it's even more insulting in his head.

The other things I think are appropriate about calling him Taco:

  1. They are unsatisfying
  2. They are simple
  3. They are cheap
  4. They make him angry

I'll happily enjoy my tacos while comparing him to a Taco. Because personally, I would never want a taco as any kind of leader. It's better as food.

Edit: How many Tacos are you guys eating to actually get full???

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0opsreply
lemm.ee

I'm gonna need you to rescind point 1

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selkiesidhe
lemm.ee

For his disgusting parade, people should show up wearing taco hats.

Or not show up and wear taco hats. Or maybe there should be a concert (Swift, the Boss, ect...) and everyone can go to that again... And then have tacos afterwards and post pics because TACO DON would hate that lolol

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inthearizonasun
lemm.ee

Such a fricking crybaby. And the right-wing supposed “alphas” fawn all over his “manliness”

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tburkholreply
lemmy.world

Didn't he warn us, if he lost in 2016, that there would be TACO stands on every corner? Making his own worst fears reality.

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IninewCrow
lemmy.ca

His face is like a taco .... orange/yellow sides and shit comes out of the middle when you squeeze it

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RememberTheApollo_
lemmy.world

Trump is exactly the kind of person to do something vengeful and rash to prove he isn’t what people are making fun of him for.

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Smoogsreply
lemmy.world

Let’s see him prove it against Putin then.

There is nothing he’s going to do that he wouldn’t have already done without the insult. If you thought otherwise then you really haven’t been paying attention.

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jj4211
lemmy.world

Ok, ok, so maybe he doesn't like mexican food and doesn't like TACO.

Maybe he would like some Chinese food better? Like maybe Orange Chicken.

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Wilcoreply
lemm.ee

Agreed, we have won. Calling this threat to our Constitution "Taco" has ensured victory against him.

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WraithGear
lemmy.world

Just a moment, the democrats will urge everyone to stop saying it and to maintain respectful decorum. Like when calling republicans weird started to catch on.

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ArtemisimetrAreply
lemm.ee

Yeah but this is more clever and has nothing to do with Kamala, so double-win

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Eheran
lemmy.world

Did he get more yellow or is it just this one photo?

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hitmyspotreply
aussie.zone

See, it’s not his real colour, so it varies depending on application. Don’t want to shock you, but there’s a bunch of fake things about this guy. Even his hair is not on the up and up.

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Eheranreply
lemmy.world

Mate, you can see the line where it stops, of course it is not "real". But holy cow he is SO yellow here how are people not laughing at him?

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TachyonTelereply
lemm.ee

He's been orange for decades and we've all been laughing at him the entire time.

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hitmyspotreply
aussie.zone

Because when most people were kids, they heard the story about the emperor's New clothes and didn't realise real life can be more absurd. Then they forgot a out it and society lost the meaning of the story.

Every time he looks more strange and acts more strange and says stupid things, people pretend like it's normal or try to rationalise it. At each point, those laughing at him and worries about him think this is the point people will start to see him for what he is, but they don't.

He's a stupid psychopath that has no grounding in reality. This is the guy that wanted to inject people with bleach to cure covid. For something so dangerous to the world, it's a pity that medical associations didn't make an exception and diagnose him from the available information non clinically. However, all the economists were against him. Yet people still thought his tariffs might be a good idea. So if we don't listen to the experts any more, what's the point?

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Clent
lemmy.dbzer0.com

Bonus, the Tankies are upset by this one.

Their reaction to it is indistinguishable from what I've read from Trump loyalists.

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Railcar8095reply
lemm.ee

Examples? It wouldn't be the first time they defend a senile tyrant, but it's not usually this one.

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kreskin
lemmy.world

Its much too late for trump to lose the taco image. His only chance now is to embrace the taco name and own it by saying he loves everything about tacos.

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BigMacHole
lemm.ee

I HOPE they DONT think he's an ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT now!

-NOT Racist Republicans who Do Their Own Research!

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Dragonstaff
leminal.space

Guys, can we please not bully the unstable lunatic into creating a global depression?

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Smoogsreply
lemmy.world

You seem pretty confident that he wouldn't do that anyways based on incompetency already.

Like you said : he’s unstable. Cowtowing would only assume his mood is stable enough to commit to any code of honour.

Sorry for waking you up if you’ve been sleeping for the past 9 years:

I implore you that if you haven’t been observing it already that you should observe what he’s done to anyone who’s bent the knee to him. He’s actually attempted to take the life of his last vice president.

Look up what he’s done to his own lawyers in the past who defended him.

Bending the knee is only going to come down on you even worse as you get to live on the wrong side of history by everyone else’s standards and be the biggest target of the biggest narcissist ever. Just look at who he pardons. Do you want to become one of those? A pedophile? A human trafficker? Insurrectionists of democracy? Cuz that’s who he’s dedicated to. That’s who he finds powerful to mimick.

the only people who have had any actual power against him are those who oppose him. EG: the judges who aren’t backing down.

And after you’ve done some studying: i implore you to then gain some dignity and self respect.

It should be over your cold dead body that you ever take a knee beside convicted human trafficker and cowtow to a convicted rapist. A rapist who burried one of his own victims on his golf course so he can tee off on her. And paying off another victim while he sits as a president.

Seriously. Get some back bone. Cuz you really have nothing else to lose at this point.

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Smoogsreply
lemmy.world

Then You need to work at telling jokes. You really suck at them.

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piecatreply
lemmy.world

If we're making fun of him for chickening out, he's def going to double down.

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piecatreply
lemmy.world

Bro mocking the unstable guy holding a gun for being chicken sounds like a good way to get shot

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wpb
lemmy.world

Are we trying to goad him into not chickening out? I'm confused by the strategy here.

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GreenSkreereply
lemmy.world

I think it's more about finding something that clearly gets under his skin.

Weird that name-calling is that thing, but I guess it makes sense given how much time he seems to spend crafting names for other people.

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