Democrats Are Giving Out Free Tacos to Make Fun of Trump
Let's go TACO, let's go!!!
Update: Yes, the Dems have been pretty much useless but they can't do anything when they have no majority in either the House or Senate and Don TACO is ruling by EOs.
But this is how you get him and them. Fuck the high road, hit them at their level. Call them names like weirdos and TACO. If anything induce strokes in all of them.
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What policy are the national Democrats intended to be doing with their swanky majorities of -8 in the House of Representatives and -5 in the Senate?
This is part of what the opposition is supposed to do. They criticise, make fun of, offer legislative resistance to, and draw attention to the bad policies of the government.
They can stop 6-8 of their own members from voting in favor of fascism.
They can make tangible changes in reality instead of lip service.
They can form a coalition and physically restrict access to the senate floor so nothing else can pass.
They can do a lot better if they weren't complicit cowards
What are some examples of non-lip-service changes to national policy that the Democratic Party could be making right now?
Why are you strawmanning his argument? The point is about all the things other than "changes to national policy" the Democrats can do, including obstructing negative changes to it.
Hey learn to read and i might reply in good faith
Learn to read
It's almost like there's an agenda on Lemmy to sabotage the next election.
The Filibuster Explained
Like the Republicans wouldn't just get rid of the filibuster the first time it's used against a major Republican policy objective
Fucking good, make them do it
That's been the excuse since 2005, when Bill Frist dangled "Nuclear Option" over the judiciary committee and Democrats fell over one another confirming Bush judges as a result.
Thankfully, the liberals aren't living to regret any of that.
Did you not watch middle aged Korean politicians scaling fences and grabbing stormtroopers’ guns in the streets?
Why do you demand so little of your elected officials?
I'm not sure exactly what, but it should be something closer to what many brave Americans did in San Diego and Minneapolis recently. Giving out free tacos is better than nothing I guess, but it's not the level of effort their responsibilities require in the moment.
What happened in San Diego and Minneapolis?
Protestors surrounded gestapo goon squads to make everything more difficult for them, while shouting "SHAME" and "GET THE FUCK OUT"
The story how they got to be a minority is an epic story of mismanagement, corruption and insanity that stretches over many decades.
There is nothing wrong with free tacos, but it’s like polishing a mountain high turd
Tacos are delicious, though. 🌮
Hey it's bread AND a circus how fun!
They go high, we go taco.
Por que no los dos?
Good strategy. IIRC, this is how German citizens stopped the rise of Hitler.
Honestly, satire is pretty effective. Hitler was obsessed with projecting power, and humor especially the kind many Jewish people used to survive the camps was a powerful tool for undermining that illusion. Humour takes power away from a thing. It's why it's great against powerful entities but feels evil when used against the weak. If more people had mocked him early on, the myth of a strong, untouchable leader might never have taken root.
It’s always baffling when a leftist jumps in to argue that pointing this out is somehow pointless or juvenile. Maybe it’s a lack of social intuition, or just a failure to grasp the bigger picture but too often, the left underestimates the power of cultural resistance. Ridicule, art, memes, jokes these are tools that shape perception and cut authoritarianism down to size.
And these politicians you roll your eyes at? They’re not doing it for themselves. They’re calling out people like you, trying to shake you awake, trying to keep the pressure on. But instead of joining in, too many of you just sit back, waiting for someone else to fix it all.
What is there to join? They're not doing anything.
The right certainly uses this tactic against the left. Look at all their cringe viral memes, online propaganda targeting generation z/α, & trashy displays on their cars & clothing.
It's like saying, look at the other team playing to the crowd, getting people excited and generally captivating audiences. Don't they know they're supposed to use logic and reason.
Our desire to shit on them has only alienated us from what works to win politically. That divide is growing.
It's effective if it's combined with action. If democrats are, say, voting in enough numbers to help pass his spending bill, then this already overplayed tease is meaningless. Democrats don't even try to obstruct. The least they could do is make witty satire instead latching onto anything with a hint of virality, beating it to death, and then beating the corpse.
I guess it's like fucking. This is foreplay. It's important. Don't try to rush things. Don't just rush in, fart on them a bit.
Don't over think the power of just teasing these fucking clowns. You're not going to get action anytime soon. Do what you can.
Democrats have been doing "foreplay" for years. Trump is not a new entity on the political scene, we've already lived through a Trump presidency, then after all the noise (or "foreplay" as you put it) that democrats made about how criminal he is, they did absolutely nothing to pursue prosecution during or after his term. They've had years to do something meaningful and they've done nothing. This lame stunt will lead to nothing. Foreplay is supposed to be interesting/exciting and generally leads to something more. There is never anything more to democrats, they just make noise and beg for donations while things only continue getting worse.
Just living in the moment bro.
We don't get many of these. You're killing my buzz man
Oh, fetishizing action for action's sake? Can i ask what kind of people are known for that?
If we take literally any action, we're no better than the fascists.
Which thing do you want? Action or obstruction? Make up your mind!
I want action to advance progressive causes and obstruction to block fascist actions. What you're describing with "do something! Anything!" and "action for action's sake" actually apply to publicity stunts like this free taco event.
Sorry but thats action i couornt possibly want for any reason, so just action for actions sake. Thats fascist. Youre asking for fascism.
Oh, so do exactly what they've been doing for the past few decades? And, again; action for actions sake! You just cant not be fascist, can you?
But what if they just really wanted tacos? I feel like most people want tacos most of the time, and that's a pretty good reason to order tacos. So its not fascist because i wanted to do it.
This is beautiful, thank you.
Leftists are always against any actual action taken to oppose the right.
You sure you didn't mean to say liberals instead of leftists?
Castro
Famously yes, every time fascism has been defeated or delayed, it was because good steadfast liberals made tacos about it.
It's why the fascists won the spanish civil war; not enough liberals, and the damn anarchists were so anti imperial they thought appropriating cuisine from their former colony was bad. Fucking wokeness ends with fascist victory every time!
That's why the woke must be exterminated! In camps!
Most people don‘t know this, but the reason Steiner's attack failed was because he had been to Taco Bell the day before and got the poopenfarten so massively it made his troops slip on the waste flowing from the toilets.
In before...
https://youtu.be/JutPp0Oc0JQ
I get where you’re coming from, but are you actively attacking the government right now? Or just bitching about how other people aren’t doing enough?
Yeah, how dare he expect the Democratic National Committee to do something meaningful.
They've had all their power removed through a vote. They now can
That's it. Right now they're doing both.
This is what always annoys me about ppl going " wHy ArEnT dEmS DoInG MoRe?!?" They are but it has to be as non-violent as possible until they can flip seats and take back the house. We are dealing with an ego maniac who wants ANY reason to pass martial law. What do they expect dems to do? Start shooting ppl? Or storm the capital? They aren't taking that bait, so Republicans can go "SeE?! bOtH sIDes....blah blah blah" 😑 There will be a time after tRump and he will go down in history as the dumb ass, rapist, fascist he is.
How about start by voting down all of Trump's cabinet members and every Republican bill when they had the chance instead of constantly trying to meet halfway with fascists? How about Democratic judges deputising people to act as enforcement for the judicial branch when the Republicans keep ignoring court orders? How about playing all of the Republican's dirty games to get policy through? How about refusing to take any corporate or billionaire money and run primaries against anyone who does?
On this we agree, if one half isn't playing by the rules anymore why should the other? These are the proper means to get shit done that don't involve violence.
What exactly can they do currently?
Maybe, like, one pro-worker policy? And maybe, like, one anti-genocide policy? That would win over a lot of people.
So you want them to do what will boil down to performative things, that will have absolutely no effect on anything?
You’re talking out of both sides of your mouth here. You want them to do something non performative… like performative things?
Have a list of promises to get people to elect you and an acknowledgement that you should have done it last time you were in power. If I saw them connecting not doing what people who voted in 2020, and not even stopping the Republicans to their 2024 performance, I might have have some faith. But no, all they can do is blame messaging and voters.
The point is they can’t even do performative politics because they are so uselessly bought and sold. It’s pathetic, really.
<.< The original commenter was (essentially) complaining that they were only doing something performative.
What they are doing right now is performative things that will have absolutely no effect on anything. They’re already doing it, and you’re defending it.
I think those who are part of the government have a greater chance of effecting change.
Moreover, I live in a red state (currently), and although our TST congregation is small, we do quite a bit.
Why not both?
That’ll show him!
On one hand, it's useless performative bullshit. On the other hand, Trump seems to be exactly the kind of guy to get really upset about that sort of thing.
Also it's this type of performative bullshit that gave Trump his power. Don't underestimate the power of this type of thing.
I'd still prefer actual policy, but it's a start
Yeah it doesn’t work like it does for him without a face. There’s no face here. It works for him because it’s him, personally, doing and saying wild shit.
They can't do anything without a majority?
A spending bill passed last month that did not have enough Republicans to pass it ... Dems voted on it and helped pass it. This should not be happening.
And they didn't have a majority, so what choice did they have, other than rabid enabling capitulation?
It's literally in the comment you're replying to. Are you illiterate, or just arguing in bad faith?
I'm arguing that they should not have voted on it. They voted with Republicans. There is no way the Republicans would have tolerated their people doing that. They have censured them for it in the past.
No but the dems didn't have a majority so they had to enable our enemies.
Maybe if we hadnt failed them it would be different, but without a majority they can only race to cqp>tulate faster and more extravagantly.
Where have I heard this before....
They're planning to take away food stamps, end health insurance for the needy, and are trying to exterminate the T in LGBT (don't worry, they'll come for the LGBs too since its last hired, first fired). But, the best Dems can do is giving out tacos once as a political ploy?
The conservatards are literally at war with women right now. The Democratic Party suggests we eat tacos. Well played /S
Would you rather they not give out tacos? Fascist.
Maybe you should think about how you can best support the democratic party, instead of failing them by asking them to do literally anything? I think that makes the entire invention of fascism your fault.
I'd rather something more substantial than one stunt of tacos. Like, give tacos to Americans in the Republicans home districts.
I vote for them. I donate to the ACLU, the HRC, and the Trevor Project. I am a layperson who is not needed by the political machine more than every other year. I am working on passing the bar exam, so I can't quite litigate yet. But, I will be in a position in a bit. So, do you have any suggestions?
My point that I made here:
was that evil must be opposed beyond mere tacos one time in one location as an obvious political stunt. Ask a T if these tacos would make the Zyklon B go down any easier.
Okay, so, first off, the democratic party cannot fail, only be failed. Big kamala slogan, if you even bothered to pay attention to the campaign, and i think it holds pretty true.
So if the dems are ever not doing something you want them to, it is entirely and personally your fault.
Furthermore, action for the sake of action is literally one of umberto eco's main identifiers for fascism, so asking the dems to do literally anything makes you the real fascist.
I polled four trans women and one trans man. All the trans women said if the zyklon b had to be adninistered orally, they would prefer it be on a taco than straight. The trans guy was from the midwest and asked if it would be spicy, so i think thats the main point of contention, and i cannot imagine fascists knowing what peppers are. Maybe dont speak ror marginalized people without their consent, asshole.
look, sometimes in war, to accomplish absolutely nothing, you have to feed hundreds of thousands, or even millions of your own people into a meat grinder. Great generals like luigi cadorna knew this. But apparently some dipshit half-a-lawyer thinks they know better than the most lethal general italy has ever had.
It's my fault in that I am not rich like the big donors who bought our political system? I'm sorry that I do not have a million dollars to throw around.
Maybe, but it can also be the grounds for revolution rather than fascism. But even if this point is correct, I ask: is better to go quietly into the extermination camps they're setting up? Or should you ardently resist, struggle, and force them to drag you into the camp? I quote Dylan Thomas to make my point:
Polling people over Zyklon B and its application is absurd. It shows that you either asked a foolish question or the recipients did not comprehend Zyklon B. Zyklon B was the cyanide-based pesticide gas used by the Nazis at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek, and other extermination camps. My point is that we're dealing with Nazis resurgent, and the Dem's tacos are a so limited in their messaging/resistence that its absurd. Evil is winning, and tacos are not how you oppose evil.
You don't know me. You don't know what communities I am and am not apart of. Furthermore, it is bold of you to assume I was speaking for anybody but myself. I was merely stating my position that tacos are a poultry pittance of a resistance against the evil that is the Republican party.
One of them made a joke that referenced fritz haber. I think she knows what zyklon b was.
So you admit you're just preaching hate? Because youre the real fascist?
Fascism is just revolutionary conservatism. You're really not helping your case here.
You don't know me! You dont know how i do things!
Also opposing evil is action, and action is fascist.
You know what neitzsche said: "he who fights monsters is always automatically worse than the other guy, because hes fighting abd fighting is bad."
Rage is not the same thing as hate. Where rage is an intense feeling of passion, hate is an extreme dislike or disgust. They are synonymous, but they are not the same. Rage would have been what they French expressed against King Louis the XVI and the first two estates, hate is what the Nazis expressed against the Jews and the other undesirables.
Fascism need not even be brought in via a coup. While Mussolini took over from a coup, Hitler was elected. They were revolutionary mindsets in that they were so diametrically opposed to the established reigns of power, but conservatism is not necessarily the direction revolution must follow. Take for example the French revolution or compare the Mensheviks with the Bolsheviks. Both those revolutions had a leftist slant. Hell even the American Revolution was a leftist position compared to the British parliament's conservatism that was undertaken in during its empire.
Really? Tell that to MLK, Rosa Parks, or the march across the bridge to Montgomery. Tell that to the allies as they fought against actual Nazis.
So you admit that what you really want isn't freedom, but a new red terror that makes the streets run red with blood? Thanks, comrade 1794; youre really selling the hell out of this
And kinda missed the point
Im sorry, but no; all action is fascist and only total submission and paralysis can be accepted.
Im old enough to have actually talked to a few of those guys, and, um... Clearly you aren't, or missed the opportunity.
Plus they took action, which is the most fascist tjing you can do. Fighting against fascism is the real fascism.
Alt text: the withered raisin-looking "wojak' man looking depressed, with "fight trump plz" above him in a serif font.
Action for action's sake, huh? The left, in wanting us to do literally anything, are basically the same as the fascists, and just keep proving it over and over.
Really we should be reaching across the aisle for allies to fight them, nevermind all that stuff i just said about taking literally any action ever being fascist.
I wish we had a real opposition party instead of whatever this generational disconnect and enrichment cult is.
This kind of ontological chauvanism and privileging of the "real" is exactly why nobody genuinely woke will ever tolerate your presence for more than five minutes.
Wanting things that are "real"? Grow up.
"Real" by not being weak ass cowards that stand in silence or enable the GOP's agenda. The one who should grow up is you.
So you don't care that it's real, just better written? Fuck, i can give you that, if you like.
Hey can Democrats support popular leftist policy?
Can the Democrats please stop allowing this fascist administration's bills to pass?
Can they do anything that actually matters?
No. People don't want leftist policy. They want to go endless fundraising events where the opposition party is lightly teased.
No. The bills are actually incredibly popular (among the donor class) and Democrats don't want to risk a negative news cycle by appearing overly oppositional.
Yes. They can rubber stamp more money for weapons to Israel.
Give out free guns and MANPADS instead
That seems like socialism, Republicans would hate that. Guns are only for people who can afford them and white people, otherwise the cops wouldn't know who to shoot and who to give leeway to
I hate absolutely everything about this.
I've never been a fan of calling Trump nicknames or going low, not because I'm trying to uphold any sort of highroad Liberal ideology but because I personally find it crass and he's an abominable human being with thousands of legitimate offenses to point to. If you do it on your own time to blow off steam, whatever, I'm not gonna get on your case. But I need more from our politicians.
What's the message here? I get that it's generally to agitate him, but are you trying to goad him into not chickening out? Just fucking do it, bro. There are thousands of Americans with food insecurity right now and you're gonna give Republicans tacos?! Again, I get that it's not really comparable and those issues are on different levels, but it still maintains that glossy respectability where you can't really levy any criticism against it because they're just giving away tacos. There's no real message here at all.
And lastly, nobody is even standing up to put their name on this. The DNC is doing this? Who? Whose idea? We have so many Republicans at every level chomping at the bit to get themselves in front of any camera they can to spread their repugnant message and we can't even get one Democrat to stand up and put their name on this meager messaging. Fucking cowards, the lot of them.
I expected nothing and I'm still disappointed.
And these tacos don't raise minimum wage to a livable wage, tacked to COL adjustment, universal health care, safe infrastructure, leisure time, she, livable housing, safe public transportation, green energy, clean food, soil, air, water, fully funded, world-class education. And they probably add to the myriad health effects of garbage food.
NoBoDy WaNtS tO WoRk AnYmOrE Dems can resume saying that when they fix these issues and do get to work on constituents' behalf.
And while they're at it, codify Roe and cap C-suite salaries.
Eta: and codify lgbtqia/race protection. this absolutely will happen when they fear the public more than they fear the ultrawealthy.
They have nothing to offer. Tacos is an easy press win. Keeps their names in the headlines and attracts what they see as favorable attention.
The goal is status quo, but that's hard to sell. So, tacos
Taco Bell needs to jump on this.
Especially with his birthday approaching.
$1 Nacho Cheese Doritos Locos.
Make it happen, Taco Bell.
Nah, new limited edition Chicken Doritos Locos Supreme Ruler edition that gets topped with a generous layer of ketchup. Also available in child size for those with tiny hands.
Their parent company might not want the attention of the orange toddler.
I'd rather they start an impeachment.
That was already done weeks ago
Ok but what are they doing about the fascist takeover of your country?
Considering how ineffective they are at negotiating passage of bills, approval of incompetent political appointees, etc, this is pretty hypocritical. I'm amused, but it is not like they've suddenly grown a spine themselves.
Thank god Dacos arent an immensely popular food item
And everyone hates THAC0s
Anything to avoid actually fighting fascism eh?
That goes against the political machinations of their donors.
Funny. Now do something of substance.
Where? I'm hungry and it's Tuesday. I need tacos.
Can we finally get taco trucks on every corner? I’m still waiting for that catastrophe the republicans said would happen.
Another broken campaign promise.
fucking pathetic
They also give out free votes to the Republican party in Congress.
Hey look, man, Dems are useless but Ill take some free tacos. Where can I get one?
Now this is how you stop fascism.
It'd be really funny if they made this a regular thing to own the president haha and like they should do it everywhere across the country just to really hammer it in maybe they can buy specific free taco lots where they sell tacos and then put taco themed buildings up where you can stay overnight to support not liking the other guy gosh that would be hilarious
Haha, yeah and name hospitals taco so people can use them for free. Would be hilarious.
Sounds like communism, maybe you shouldn't undermine the resistance by moving even slightly to the left ever?
I mean go around the country, give tacos to everyone, rich or poor. Seems like a sound policy while simultaneously poking fun at Trump.
Something, something, taco truck on every corner?
https://youtu.be/sIVo3ISxE9c#t=28s
Genuinely an escalation on the part of dem resistance; i say we shouldn't be too hard on them moving in the right direction.
It's really not.
It's performative, bandwagonning bs from these guys.
Like staging a sit in on the weekend and then voting for Republicans with Republicans the next day, it's hollow words.
I think 'hiring a taco truck' is more concrete action to oppose fascism than we've seen from the democratic party so far, possibly year to date combined.
I stand by my statement.
Sure, nothing wrong with standing behind your convictions.
Guess well see in two weeks of "hiring a taco truck", which to me falls into the literal least you can do, pans out with concrete action to oppose fascism or my bet is that they will roll over like they always do.
I dont think you're gonna gwt concrete.
Best we can do is a side of tortilla chips.
It's so goddamn stupid. YOU WANT TRUMP TO KEEP BACKING OUT OF THE BAD THINGS HE'S DOING YOU DOLTS! Why would you mock him for doing the thing you want him to do? Do you think this will increase or decrease the likelihood of him doubling down on everything going forward and do you think he really is all that hurt by it? Come on.
It's such a a weak ass thing that 99.9% of the people in the real world won't even recognize when they see it because most people aren't in on dumbass politics.
These people in charge. I don't know how they don't choke on their tongues and make it through each day without forgetting to drink water but I guess that's what assistants are for.
Look, there ain't nothing wrong with mocking a weak ass bitch that continually acts like a big man while his mouth keeps writing checks his ass can't cash while taxpayers foot his bill.
Absolutely nothing wrong with that and come on, you know how cocaine and pedo addled brain is going to do this tacos or not because he's a true believer in his big man BS.
Problem is these even weaker Democrat ass hats don't have the convictions and constitution to see see this through. They'll never expand beyond giving away tacos thinking this "How do you do, fellow kids" moment means they actually connected to the average moron voter and they go back to finding bipartisanship that feeds more of this bullshit behavior from Republicans.
He is still going to back down. Cowards always cower. Keep calling him out or you risk normalizing his bullshit.
He is a bully and we have to FIGHT BACK. Hit him where it hurts.
Oh shit! It's TACO TUESDAY!!! 🌮🌮🌮
blatant bribery. now lets see how my memecoin is doing.
They're running it into the ground already, just like their ghoulish party members who cling so long onto power that they die of old age in office.
TACO POLLO LOCO ARIBA!
In this thread there's a bunch of leftists who voted to make the democrats powerless wondering what they're powerless.
How's that progressive party coming along?
Almost ready for the 2026 midterms?
Non-voting democrats were further to the right. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democratic-nonvoters-policy-preferences/
You can probably drop this trope now that there’s plenty of data showing that. It was largely moderate, working class Democrats who didn’t vote, not online leftists.
But data proving them wrong is a russian bot psyop, or something.
Does that mean the democrats are doing the right thing by moving the party right but they didn't take it far enough?
No, when asked about specific policies the majority of people still support progressive policies. How the poll questions are worded are incredibly important to how people respond
Not to mention the morality side of it
::: spoiler Progressive policies that a majority of Americans support
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Democrats' Working-Class Failures, Analysis Finds, Are 'Why Trump Beat Harris'
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How Trump and Harris Voters See America’s Role in the World
Majority of Americans support progressive policies such as higher minimum wage, free college
Democrats should run on the popular progressive ideas, but not the unpopular ones
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Progressive Policies Are Popular Policies
Tim Walz's Progressive Policies Popular With Republicans in Swing States
:::
So why did the progressives vote but the moderates didn’t?
Seems like the democrats need to move right to capture them.
That's addressed in detail in the 3rd and 4th link
This is genuinely not true. Same goes for 2016. Non-voting democrats tend to skew conservative. You're just trying to start a fight with the left. That's not helpful to our current situation; it literally only helps the fascists.
I'm an anarchist and anti-electoralist and I still voted for the cop. Blame the democratic party and ignorant libs for the fat Ls we're all taking. Leftists aren't a big enough voting bloc to sway the election, and most of us still vote no matter how stupid and pointless it is.