Like Daffy Duck with a bad haircut.
He tends to react to everything in random and irrational ways. It doesn’t make any difference.
I am tempted to start a thread about the merits of pushing the TACO narrative to its limits in the hopes that Trump will do the worst thing possible and actually follow through. I just watched season 2 of Andor and there is a similar situation (mild spoilers hidden):
Luthen knows the Empire is going to do something horrible on Ghorman but he encourages the growing rebellion there. He knows the crackdown is going to be harsh (although it’s fair to say he had no idea what the actual plan was) and he knows that the harsher the Empire is, the more pushback there will be across the galaxy.
Pushing Trump’s buttons may mean he pushes nuclear buttons and that’s only fun in the movies. But if he doesn’t do something truly terrible there will never be any real push to get him out of office. Republicans will just continue cowering and hoping that someday he’ll die.
On that note, the media has once again noticed that Trump’s brain ain’t quite right. We had quite an active thread here during the election, documenting the various absurd and demented things Trump would say at an alarming rate at every single one of his rallies. I guess he’s not making the cover of Sanity Fair this year either:
If you’re a member of a foreign gang, you’re the worst thing in the world. If you founded an American gang, however? Well, that’s different.
Trump commutes the sentence of the Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover.
Yeah, Hoover still has his state sentences, but that’s small consolation.
Takes revenge on America. There’s no love, no patriotism, no other concern than taking revenge on America for not reelecting him in 2020.
He still has his state convictions. Just like Trump.
I did see a couple of bumper stickers that added short vertical lines to the diagonals (to represent jet engines), but they were paired with “Victory in Vietnam!” or like sentiments.
Perhaps someone saw this cartoon from Mad magazine and misremembered it years later.
It’s a reasonable thing to hesitate over, given the power the affronted idiot can wield. Though the more mocked he is, perhaps, the less likely he is to find willing hands to help him do harm. (He can’t blow up the planet entirely on his own.)
One possible factor: the “chicken” and “taco” memes can infuriate him only to the degree he understands them. Being called “a chicken” is something he certainly understands. “Let’s Go Taco” is definitely more obscure, though: it’s a take-off on “Let’s Go Brandon” which was embraced by MAGA as a way of saying “F__K Joe Biden” without actually cursing. (Due to someone mishearing the latter as the former, some months or years ago.)
“Let’s Go Taco” doesn’t map onto “F__K Donald Trump” in any such handy way. It’s sort of a meme-at-third-hand: it references something we understand but isn’t actually understandable on its own.
Not that Trump would go through these cogitations, of course. He’d just know that people are mocking him, when he sees banners or signs or hats or whatever.
I’ve often said I wish my Chinese Restaurant would offer a Presidential Special — Orange mushroom chicken with nuts and extra white rice.
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I kind of keep hoping for this.
The redecorated golden room.
Ah…the Taco Belle
I am not quite sure what to make of that classic bit of wisdom “If god hadn’t meant for man to eat it, he wouldn’t’ve shaped it like a taco.”
The Lord works in mysterious ways.
I was curious, put “taco” into the gtranslator Spanish->English, and it gave me “wad”.
There is apparently the Spanish word “taco” which can mean “wedge” or “plug”. And an etymological theory that the food name came from the shape of it. (I don’t think it’s particularly definitive or anything though.) I guess “wad” is also similar.
My dictionary says the original tacos were wrapped (rolled) such that they resembled the plugs that miners woutd stuff into a hole for blasting.
But, calling Felon-ONE a “wad” has a certain appeal to it.
Indeed, a dipwad.
My Go-To is FuckWad.