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aylmao 4 days ago

Unrelated, but I don't get the "taco" thing. I'm Mexican— it's a head-scratcher that people use the name of our food as an insult to Trump. He doesn't look like a taco, and the acronym is a sentence, not an adjective/phrase, so it doesn't make much sense spelled out in most contexts.

adleyjulian 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

RINO republicans don't look like rhinoceros. That the word makes no sense by itself means that you'd have to ask what they meant by it. If the acronym were "DUMB" or "CLOWN" or whatever then I don't think it'd stand out as much.

Also, you're right that it's often used in a way that wouldn't make sense grammatically if it were written out, but that's true for most acronyms I think; e.g. JPEG or GIF.

"Look at this funny Graphics Interchange Format I just sent you!"

fooker 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> He doesn't look like a taco

Now that you say, I can see some similarities with Al Pastor.

SpicyLemonZest 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It has a lot of memetic value as a callback to a widely discussed Cinco de Mayo tweet he made in 2016 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/72829758741824716...).

syspec 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You should hear the long form of the acronym!

TACOBELL

- Trump Always Chickens Out Before Eventually Losing Loudly

Multicomp 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

taco is an acronym that stands for the phrase trump always chickens out, it was coined or popularized earlier this year when Trump backed off of The Liberation Day tariff stuff when the bond market got nervous.

aylmao 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Surprised I'm getting downvoted by this.

asdff 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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giveita 4 days ago | parent [-]

Dog whistle?

kelnos 4 days ago | parent [-]

I don't think that word means what you think it means.

giveita 4 days ago | parent [-]

Well it aint a shibboleth either.