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.
Genuinely an escalation on the part of dem resistance; i say we shouldn’t be too hard on them moving in the right direction.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The conservatards are literally at war with women right now. The Democratic Party suggests we eat tacos. Well played /S
Instead of doing policy, they do tacos.
Por que no los dos?
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?
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”
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
They go high, we go taco.
They go low, we go tacos.
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.
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.
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.
What is there to join? They’re not doing anything.
Leftists are always against any actual action taken to oppose the right.
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!
You sure you didn’t mean to say liberals instead of leftists?
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.
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In before…
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.
They’ve had all their power removed through a vote. They now can
- make noise
- wait for an opportunity to get the ability to do a-ny-thing else.
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.
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?
I’d rather they start an impeachment.
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.
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.
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?
Hey can Democrats support popular leftist policy?
No. People don’t want leftist policy. They want to go endless fundraising events where the opposition party is lightly teased.
Can the Democrats please stop allowing this fascist administration’s bills to pass?
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.
Can they do anything that actually matters?
Yes. They can rubber stamp more money for weapons to Israel.
