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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[+] 139 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (21 children)
  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago* (15 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    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?

    The Filibuster Explained

    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

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    [–] 94 points 1 year ago (34 children)

    Good strategy. IIRC, this is how German citizens stopped the rise of Hitler.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (15 children)

    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago

    Where have I heard this before....

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    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?

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    [–] 31 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Alt text: the withered raisin-looking "wojak' man looking depressed, with "fight trump plz" above him in a serif font.

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    [–] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I wish we had a real opposition party instead of whatever this generational disconnect and enrichment cult is.

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    [–] 27 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Give out free guns and MANPADS instead

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    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

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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    [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'd rather they start an impeachment.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Taco Bell needs to jump on this.

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    [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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    [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Ok but what are they doing about the fascist takeover of your country?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Anything to avoid actually fighting fascism eh?

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    [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Can we finally get taco trucks on every corner? I’m still waiting for that catastrophe the republicans said would happen.

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    [–] 10 points 1 year ago*

    Where? I'm hungry and it's Tuesday. I need tacos.

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  • Funny. Now do something of substance.

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    fucking pathetic

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Hey look, man, Dems are useless but Ill take some free tacos. Where can I get one?

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  • They also give out free votes to the Republican party in Congress.

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