I don't love the TACO nickname thing

[genxlib]

Afterall, backing down from idiotic ideas is probably his best feature (grading on a curve obviously)

Don't get me wrong. I enjoy anything that causes him distress in any way and he certainly deserves it.

But he is just the kind of thin-skinned, sniveling idiot who would follow through with a terrible just because people have made fun of him too many times.

I am not sure I want to taunt him into following through with his worst impulses.

Greenland, here we come!

[Intractable]

1. It's an insult to Mexican food!

How can I ever enjoy a taco again?

[Conjuay]

18. Wasn't he the Grinning Goya Goon

Last insufferable time around?

[MuchBetterThanThis]

2. I tend to disagree to some extent

Yes, making fun of him as he does to many people on a daily basis may fuel his insane actions, but the alternative is to seem weak and allow him to do so without any type of defense.
Doing what he does to others is, I must say, “childish” or playing his game but it sure makes me feel better to see my fellow Justice warriors making him uncomfortable 👍🏽

[elocs]

5. Demeaning nicknames. Why is it that when Trump does it we consider it juvenile,

but when we do it to him we consider it to be clever and amusing?
It seems hypocritical to me and more than a little pathetically helpless.

[Bettie]

8. This is a part of why we lose

we just hand the bully our lunch money every day and act like he's our friend.

He isn't our friend. He wants us dead. Literally dead and you're arguing about a mean nickname?

Bringing a casserole to a gun fight. It sure has worked out well in the past, eh?

[Captain Zero]

12. Buy a star

Downvote

[11 Bravo]

39. I'm not sure why you find that a point of pride, but whatever melts your butter.

[Cha]

60. I've been on DU for almost 23 Years & have had a STAR

since Day One.

It 's only natural for me to want to support this site that I'm grateful for.

[Shellback Squid]

62. really? 19 years?

I see, 4 posts hidden in the last 90 days

[Iggo]

34. Don't do that.

[lame54]

33. Because we're not the fucking President...

Not even close to the same playing field

[lame54]

54. I'll side with Stewart, Colbert, Kimmel...

And Mike Luckovich

[Orrex]

56. I agree. We need to do better.

That's why I call him the "festering orange prolapse."

And the best part? When I use that phrase without actually naming him, his fuckhead kkkultists lose their shit because they know who I'm referring to.


Finger-wagging scolds who clutch their pearls over impolite language are naive, with seemingly little awareness of how political discourse has functioned for the past few millennia.

[11 Bravo]

38. I don't think of it in terms of being clever or amusing.

I only know that the flabby felon absolutely despises being made fun of, so I'm all in.

[11 Bravo]

41. It's the difference between punching down, and punching up.

[Captain Zero]

13. We will never hear him say anything against Putin

And stick with it

TACO.

[LymphocyteLover]

3. yeah, I feel similarly, though it's still pretty funny

[AltairIV]

4. I support......

I support anything that pushes him along to having a stroke.

[elocs]

9. What would be ironically amusing is if he lives to be 100 and many of us are dead.

So what is the success rate of wishing somebody were dead?
"I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure."
~~Clarence Darrow

[Orrex]

57. Is there some way he can live to be 100

but also die screaming in horrific agony every day from now until then?

[Native]

6. If it got under Trump's skin, I'm all for it.

[Maeve]

7. Doubling down on bad ideas bankrupts fools

While I see your point and don't like the insult game in principle, pushing him to go too far (at long last, too far for his supporters!) might be worth it. Or pushing him to stroke out...heart explodes...several possible outcomes...

[elocs]

10. How would you feel if you ever came to realize that taunting Trump with insults never hurt him,

but did cause some innocent people to suffer or be hurt?

[Captain Zero]

11. Oh well then we should be nicer

By all means. Maybe we should support a third term if he wants one because otherwise it might upset him and he would go for four terms?

Bullshit.

Fuck THE TACO.

[elocs]

22. The extremes are name-calling, wishing he were dead and being nicer to him.

Nothing in between that might actually accomplish something? Think harder, maybe there is something to do that might accomplish something other than being sarcastic, the lowest form of wit.

[lame54]

35. You're above sarcasm?...

What or who makes you laugh?

[Maeve]

20. He will make innocents suffer no matter what

And I do believe the taunts cause him pain

[Blues Heron]

27. It's hurting him politically- don't make the mistake of underestimating the power of ridicule

It’s like a landslide of laughter aimed at the corn-colored creep.

[Skittles]

58. I'd wonder again how SO MANY FUCKING IDIOTS could vote for him

[Celerity]

14. it is already DU-style cheugy, and will soon be cringe in its overuse

[pattyloutwo]

23. It's kinda dumb

[IcyPeas]

53. New word: cheugy

"Cheugy" is a slang term used to describe something or someone as unfashionable or out of touch with current trends. It's often used as a jokey way to critique millennial trends and aesthetics from the early 2010s. The term can be applied to various aspects of lifestyle, fashion, social media, and interior design.

https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/cheugy/

Thanks!

[Wounded Bear]

15. And therein lies his "power"...

Fear of retribution is his greatest ally. He won't go away until he is driven away and his base dwindles to nothing because he is such an asshole that they can no longer justify it away.

[doc03]

16. I agree. If people make fun of him being a chicken he is likely to lash out to

prove he is tough. Being the most powerful man on earth who knows what he may do.

[lame54]

36. Surrender in advance

[ibegurpard]

17. If you watch what you say

Because you're afraid of what he'll do then you're complying in advance.
Ridicule is one of the best weapons against against fascists.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

19. As Gov. Tim Walz said before the South Carolina Democratic Party...

"As for responding to Donald Trump...it is time we(Democrats) bully the bully by standing up to him!"

Another reason why Tim remains a dear personal friend.

[Paladin]

21. Being polite to fascists has gotten Democrats absolutely NOWHERE.

Abundant, painful evidence of this obvious fact is available, every hour of every day.

[orangecrush]

24. TACO

[C_U_L8R]

26. Ridicule and humor are powerful tools

that take away his power (in every regard). I'm all for it... and if he retaliates, well, we have an endless supply of barbs and satire.

[cadoman]

55. TACO checks multiple boxes of rules for radicals

"Ridicule is man's most potent weapon."

"A good tactic is one your people enjoy."

"Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."

And unlike a lot of our strategies, it costs $0.

[Keepthesoulalive]

28. Where is the middle ground

You want dems to fight back but is there a certain way we should do it. How do you want us to take on this monster? There are people being shipped to prisons, sick children being deported, our economy on life support and you worry about insulting a sick mean spirited bully who would shoot you on 5th avenue.

[Uncle Joe]

37. You fight him on the actual real world effects or repercussions to the people or nation from his reckless actions.

Personalizing public policy by calling him names over it only serves to give him a potential political out of doing something horrific.

If *rump's erratic behavior and not doing something stupid (even if he raises the issues in the first place) is being a labeled as "chicken" or "coward" the natural logical implication from doing the opposite becomes "courageous" or "resolute."

In which case too many in the corporate medial will make him out to be Winston Churchill.

We have to keep the American People front and center, not *rump.

[Keepthesoulalive]

40. That doesn't resonate

On one hand you say we need to fight back with everything at our disposal.
Then we need to explain policy and what a lousy president he is, people don’t get it. They understand a coward and that is why it has gained traction around the world. Stop being afraid of a madman anyone who has been around a narcissist knows they are the most unpredictable animals on the planet and anything can set them off. Musk being an addict and trump being a punk they get it.

[Uncle Joe]

44. If you sell the people short they won't get it.

*rump is a coward first and foremost because he's afraid of democracy.

He's most definitely a narcissist and I have no doubt he's a coward as well, but we give him an advantage when we tie a perceived virtue or vice to a specific action that he probably wants to do anyway.

That gives him a certain amount of political control over messaging.

It's not that difficult to tear *rump down just by tying his erratic policies to real world outcomes, ie: the price of groceries loss of respect around the world and loss of health care etc. etc. and the people are waking up.

[Keepthesoulalive]

45. This is round 2

They didn’t get it the first time. He was saying insane things during the campaign
And they didn’t get it. This they understand, I am on a lot of different alternate media sites and this is gold. He is wounded and that’s a good thing. He is also alienating the big money and the conservative think tanks, hopefully they tear each other to shreds. The financial boys started this , let’s see where it takes us.

[brush]

29. Invading Greenland will never happen, nor will Canada become the 51st state. All that trump silliness is hardly heard...

anymore as a Denmark/French concern have reached an agreement to mine in Greenland, and since both Denmark and France are NATO members it's highly doubtful trump or his clown car cabinet will be willing to take on NATO.

[Ocelot II]

30. I'm all in favor of derision as one weapon, but not the only or most important one.

"TACO" is clever for now but it will wear out soon as he commits more and different atrocities.

[peggysue2]

31. Backing off of the TACO trolling because of 'what Trump might do' is the same . . .

Attitude as not pushing vigorously against Republicans because of what they may do. Remember the infighting over the filibuster? Oh, we can't do that because the Repugs will use it against us when they're in power.

Well, they're in power now.

In fact they have the Lion's share of power, albeit small majorities. While they slash and burn the foundations of our government, are we really going to debate over what we call Agent Orange? Or worry 'what he may do' in retribution?

Look around, the Maniac and his Flying Monkey Brigade are doing the vindictive Mafia tour as we type.

We need to fight with whatever we have.

If shouting out TACO makes the man-baby squirm? Good! Keep him off-balance, make him rage while he feels the heat of our own disgust and anger.

Trump's ego is his Achilles's heel. He wants to be loved and admired. He wants to feel superior in all things. He needs constant stroking and adulation.

Any time we can bruise or batter that flimsy armor he's wrapped in is a very good day.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

61. Neville Chamberlin appeased Hitler ... and

Hitler eventually bombed the crap out of London.

Tiptoeing around maniacs does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING except give them a pass.

TACO THE CRAP out of that M*****F**ker!!!!

[MorbidButterflyTat]

32. Sure

If everyone quits calling him Taco, I'm sure he'll magically become rational, law abiding and sane.

[bif]

42. He does have access to nukes. So I wouldn't taunt him too much.

Seriously.

[Keepthesoulalive]

47. So if we don't call him names

He will become rational. Stop being afraid , we have seen so much cowardice from the republicans, the media, the business elite and retail giants. He has slapped them around and hurt all of their businesses. Don’t give in to a bully, it only encourages them.

[bif]

48. So if we keep calling him TACO

He'll actually follow through with high tariffs and screw up the economy even more? Great. I don't think my stocks can take much more abuse than they already have.

[Keepthesoulalive]

49. You cannot stop him

The man is nuts. Everyone said that tariffs can cause a depression, he didn’t listen. I’m sorry your stocks are going to be affected but if we don’t find a legal way to stop him we’re all going to be in a world of hurt. You have high prices, people being laid off, safety nets in tatters. Spending by the federal government is always what helps when the economy is in trouble, not with these imbeciles. People have got to stop being afraid, the Canadians get it , The Chinese get it, Americans need to get it.

[JI7]

43. It's not that serious. The main thing is it describes Trump as a loser

coward etc. The specifics don't matter.

Our side always argues about things like this instead of just going with it.

Most people aren't going to analyze things.

[H2O Man]

46. Yet we must consider

what goes into a good taco. What if republicans use that very detail to divide Democrats in upcoming elections? I mean, we are talking cheese here. Surely that will be the most important yet dangerous issue we face.

[Martin Eden]

51. TACO diverts attention from what is most likely the REAL reason

For The Felon constantly raising then lowering tariffs:

Stock prices!

Insiders who know in advance can make a killing buying & selling at the right time.

[BigmanPigman]

52. I like it

In fact yesterday I made a 14" taco to attach to my NO KINGS protest sign. It sort of looks like his hair so I might make another sign for my sister to use and I'll put it on his head in place of a crown.

[David__77]

59. Totally agree