Why bother to respond when Trump always chickens out?
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It will be hilarious if there's discussion of a federal tax on the sale of tacos.
Or an executive order forcing Taco Bell to change its name
I have some suggestions:
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Supreme Commander of the Ultimate Mission
Tell me this wouldn't work.
Taco Bell marketing should be leaning hard into this. It's a gold mine waiting to be exploited.
They can't call trump out specifically, but they can really imply it cleverly to give themselves plausible deniability:
Taco Bell presents the Taco47:
- Doritos Loco Taco shell with artificial bright orange nacho cheese dust flavoring
- Grilled chicken that has a tendency to fall out. Resulting in a "chicken out" situation, as always.
- Too much sour creme ruining the meal
- Served with Diet Coke only, but with way too much ICE
Cost is 75 cents each, which you'd expect to be a bargain, but we've decided you've been taking advantage of us for years so there is a 150% tariff we've placed on it resulting in a $1.87 price before other taxes.
This is the end of my joke, but I have to share this part. I went looking for a picture to include in this post and found one on NPRs website from 2012 when the Doritos Loco taco first came out (Wait Wait Don't Tell Me show). They were commenting on it and I'm laughing hard at some of these comments:
- Eva: Everything about this is disgusting, and I love it.
- Peter: I don't like it. I open my mouth and take a breath before biting it, and get a lungful of powder. It's part taco, part asthma inhaler.
- Eva: Dorito's orange powder: The fat man's cocaine.
- Peter: Next time somebody thinks they've hit bottom, they should ask themselves, "Sure, I've lost my job and my spouse, but am I eating a Dorito Supreme? No? Then party on."
- Eva: Just like with regular Doritos, you can't eat just one. Which must be why I just absent-mindedly ate 23 tacos.
- Mike: This is the perfect combination of two things that are terrible for you. As if ammonia and hydrochloric acid, mixed together, tasted like chocolate.
- (Eva is offered another.) Eva: No thanks. I ate the first one, but now I feel really bad about it.
- Mike: Exactly. I'm trying to find an analogy, for something you do, but don't enjoy. It's like shooting Lenny at the end of "Of Mice and Men."
- Peter: Think of the tacos, Lenny! Think of the Tacos!
- [The verdict: If you like Doritos, in all their orangey glory, you will like these, but just a little while later you will regret everything you've done to lead you to that moment.]
Doesn't work. Sorry.
Trump is team (diet) Coke, and Taco Bell is owned by Yum Brands, which is owned by Pepsi.
Now if it came with its "own" Diet Trump Cola, maybe. The cup could have a depiction of Don Taco thin/muscular, you know, how he sees himself in a mirror
I knew about the Pepsi relationship, but the forced Diet Coke just adds to the absurdity and just had to be included in the joke.
But a failed shitty product is right in line with Trump about as far back as it goes.
Taco? On an article by Latin times? That's racist! Lol
I didn't even notice that. Good catch. Don't worry about it, though. I took a photo op of me eating a taco salad (an originally Mexican and completely authentic dish) while saying, "I love Hispanics!" That means I can't possibly be bigoted against Latinos.
That situation sounds somewhat familiar. Almost like some high-profile figure has done it before...
I was just joking around. I can't imagine that the public would tolerate, much less be fooled by, such transparent and sloppy manipulation. That would be like the US President selling crypto, or promoting a brand of cars, or selling access to himself. I just don't see that happening.
We took our ball and left, everyone else just went to play a different game. Good thing Titler is the best recess schoolyard bully
It’s like when the girl you asked for a date never texted you back.
Or like when the girl you "theatened" not to date unless she was willing to do certain things never texted you back.
When an office with unhinged idiots sends you a message ... no matter how important it sounds
It's best not to respond
Their game is to play back and forth rage baiting that leads to nowhere and nothing ... so the only way to shut them down is to never speak to them or answer them or acknowledge them. The silence and non-response just kills them.
This is the way. Attention-seeking, authoritarian, narcissistic, maniacs can't stand firm non-participation.
"Lead, follow, or get out of the way."
"No. Fuck off Karen. I was here first."
Rest of the world, in their best Joe Pesci voice: "you were serious about that?"
Yet Vinny went to jail for contempt.
Trump is contemptible and it got him the White House.
How appropriate is it that this took place on taco Tuesday?
Way.
New world trading amongst themselves, who dis?
Lol at conservative conspiracy theorists who were all worried about a New World Order... hadn't considered what happens when the New World Order comes and we weren't invited.
We'll look at the 2024-2025 economy the same way we look at 2007-2008 TV shows. Just a whole bunch of great stories getting thrown in the shitter.
It’s about time for the weekly tariff threats, after all. Then they will be walked back next week.
Sounds like Soft Taco is having a moment.
Translation: They thought everyone would be crawling over eachother to contact them first.
It has happened multiple times now in different situations, where they set demands and/or set up meetings. And then they don't send out or prepare paperwork. They just assume that the other party will be so eager to meet their demands, that everything will be done for them.
Sing to the tune of Macho Man by the Village People
He's a TACO TACO man. That chicken shit mango is a TACO man!
Let's go Taco.
Go back to the chair in the corner, taco don
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