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.
They also give out free votes to the Republican party in Congress.
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.
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.
Taco Bell needs to jump on this.
Their parent company might not want the attention of the orange toddler.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Instead of doing policy, they do tacos.
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.
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?
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?
It’s almost like there’s an agenda on Lemmy to sabotage the next election.
Learn to read
Hey learn to read and i might reply in good faith
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.
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?
Some lawmakers acknowledge that the filibuster, which has effectively set a 60-vote supermajority requirement for passing legislation in the Senate, could doom many of the proposals they have championed
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.
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”
Por que no los dos?
Tacos are delicious, though. 🌮
Hey it’s bread AND a circus how fun!
They go high, we go taco.
They go low, we go tacos.
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?
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.
Would you rather they not give out tacos? Fascist.
I’d rather something more substantial than one stunt of tacos. Like, give tacos to Americans in the Republicans home districts.
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 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:
are trying to exterminate the T in LGBT
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.
death by tacos
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.
queer people in general and trans people in particular
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.
if the dems are ever not doing something you want them to, it is entirely and personally your fault.
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.
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.
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:
Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
I polled four trans women and one trans man. All the trans women said if the zyklon b had to be adninistered orally
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.
Maybe dont speak ror marginalized people without their consent, asshole
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.
trans people are stupid and don’t know about the holocaust
One of them made a joke that referenced fritz haber. I think she knows what zyklon b was.
rage, rage against
So you admit you’re just preaching hate? Because youre the real fascist?
grounds for revolution
Fascism is just revolutionary conservatism. You’re really not helping your case here.
tacos are not how you oppose evil
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.”
So you admit you’re just preaching hate? Because youre the real fascist?
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 is just revolutionary conservatism. You’re really not helping your case here.
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.
Also opposing evil is action, and action is fascist.
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.
rage is cool and good
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
i listened to a podcast once
And kinda missed the point
nuh uh! Sometimes action is good!
Im sorry, but no; all action is fascist and only total submission and paralysis can be accepted.
fought against the actual nazis
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.
The conservatards are literally at war with women right now. The Democratic Party suggests we eat tacos. Well played /S
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.
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.
do something! Anything!
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.
don’t even try to obstruct
Which thing do you want? Action or obstruction? Make up your mind!
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.
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.
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.
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?
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!
Castro
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
I get where you’re coming from, but are you actively attacking the government right now?
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.
Or just bitching about how other people aren’t doing enough?
Why not both?
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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.
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
Sounds like communism, maybe you shouldn’t undermine the resistance by moving even slightly to the left ever?
Haha, yeah and name hospitals taco so people can use them for free. Would be hilarious.
I’d rather they start an impeachment.
Where have I heard this before…
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.
