Trump’s meltdown over ‘TACO’ trade spurs wave of chicken memes

My favorite part:
"China was] doing no business whatsoever, and they were having a lot of problems," Trump declared.
How daft can one be?
- Millions of Americans bought it.
  
  Think of how absolutely stupid the average person is, with average intelligence. Likely, they can barely read at a high school level in most cases and can barely make good decisions about, well, anything, especially things outside their limited area of expertise/influence.
  Now, we need to realize that half the people in the US are dumber than that.
- That's "Ghina."
  
  Chai-nuh

- They were ahead of the curve!
- This float needs to be found.

I love that we found a nickname that gets under his skin, but I just hope he doesn't retaliate by targeting Mexicans specifically. Because tacos are a Mexican food and that's all the connection he needs
- Because he's not already targeting Mexicans??
  
  Targeting them more
- The beauty of a smooth brain

The only appropriate use of AI is to lampoon dirt bag politicians.
- One of our customers is using it to develop medications for Parkinson's. Is that appropriate?
  
  If chatgpt is developing medicine, absolutely the fuck not.
  If it's a neural net they're calling Ai, go for it.
  
  I saw my father whither away from Parkinson's. It's an awesome goal to use AI for, fuck Parkinson's
  
  Fine. You can have it this one time. As a treat.
  
  Oh god, we’re so fucked.

I feel like this kind of crap is put out there so opposition to this regime can feel like they are having a victory, while the world order is being overturned.
Don't celebrate this junior-high level mockery. It accomplished nothing. It changes nothing.
Grind, grind, grind, until these evil bastards are overturned or we're all dead.
- It doesn't accomplish nothing. It chips away at the image of him as a strongman, which is one of the things his supporters care about the most. It's obviously not going to solve the problem, but those small victories do matter and help keep morale up when things feel otherwise hopeless. The key is to keep pushing and pushing in any and every way possible.
- Rage rage rage against the dying of the light
- On the other hand, the term is a good summary of his complete lack of negotiating skill.

Snowflake

What meltdown are we on for the year? The toddler in chief seems to have one every couple of weeks.
- They’re all selfish fucks. Don’t want to take responsibility for anything. Doesn’t matter if it’s the environment, masking to save lives, or the laws they break.

This I what AI should be used for and nothing else, and making Vance memes, and musk memes, and Putin memes, and…

Narcissists cannot stand being made a mockery of. This is the way to get under his skin. He will rage and rage over this, tweeting at 4 in the morning for as long as we keep this up lol
Call him a pedo, a rapist, a felon, and you get nothing.
Call him a chicken and he loses his one braincell.

These stories exist to distract from the active degradation of our rights
These stories exist to distract the american people from organizing and mobbing him
- Nah - stories like this serve to both destabilize him, and make resistance feel more achievable.
  It's intimidating to think about trying to oppose a government that can and will disappear people at will, and is stronger than any government in human history. But a chicken TACO? That you can resist.
  Also, if he's focused on people name-calling him, it gets a bit harder for his handlers to keep him focused on their goals.

- Needs to be a Dorito shell so we can capture his dressed up corpse spray tan.

I haven't listen to this baffoon for a long time, now I did and it's mind blowing that anybody can take anything he says serious. You really get stupider listening to him.

Taco will be the next word banned from federal information systems.
- Tacos will be banned from all restaurants in America. Taco Bell is now a terrorist gang, and Del Taco is a fugitive on the FBI-s Most Wanted List.
  
  Reddit will permaban anyone who uses the word.
  
  That would be my red line. Don't you fucking dare touch my tacos you motherfuckers... You can rip the tortillas from my cold, dead, hands.
  
  We all know who ultimately wins the fast food wars, though.

Wanna watch a man-baby throw a tantrum? Just call him a man-baby.

ROFL I love it. It’s a technique that t uses to control people - to make them always be on edge. It creates survival mode. He’s not doing it intentionally, it is a narcissistic trait.

Generative AI slop is bad, no matter what.
- What poor artist should have to live through doing such a cruel job of drawing Donald’s face. Have some humanity.
  
  I wouldn't blame artists for wanting to avoid drawing Trump, he looks like he is mid way through melting Raiders of the Lost Ark style.
- Sometimes I feel like the people who say ai is always bad for everything, no matter what, kinda remind me of horse buggy salesmen putting down automobiles at the turn of the century. There are many instances in which ai would actually be a benefit, and many jobs are pretty much obsolete and ai is gonna give them that last push to die. Those jobs were always gonna go. You can’t stop the future.
  Artists and other jobs people worry ai will steal are safe, so long as you’re good enough to be better than shitty ai artists, you shouldn’t worry. If ai is funnier and better than you, that’s kinda on you.
  Most companies are realizing ai can’t match a human employee for quality. If ai can obsolete you, you were likely on your way out
  
  That said an artist was acccused of using AI but wasn’t https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisstokelwalker/art-subreddit-illustrator-ai-art-controversy
  and if AI was good enough to replace artists we’d have AI rotoscoping. Still hasn’t managed this one job that should be able to be done by AI and they've been trying to for decades.
  no artist wants to rotoscope. Not even AI wants to.
- Who the fuck wants this punishment

Looking at the video I wouldn't call it a meltdown. He seemed upset, but also kind of out of it, like grandpa who doesn't necessarily have dementia but you can tell that engine ain't getting full RPM's anymore.

I mean, that really wasn't a "meltdown" but sure.
- The word does seem overused. Any time he raises his voice or writes in all caps it's a "meltdown"
  
  Lemmy poster VICIOUSLY ACCUSES poster of BLASTING THEIR VOICE in a SCORCHING comment!

i might have missed a news cycle, what does TACO stand for in this context?
- Trump Always Chickens Out
  
  thanks,
- Trump Always Chickens Out
  
  thanks

China: bears
USA: chickens

Great job everyone. We sure showed trump. /$
- I will never understand why dems love latching onto extremely lame insults like this.
  
  Yeah cuz Dems came up with Sleepy Joe, Laughing Kamala, Brandon, Crazy Nancy and all the rest of the childish bullshit names drumpf came up with in his tiny little brain...

Let's not encourage him to stop chickening out. Him not doing the things she says he's going to do is a good thing.
- Imo it's just market manipulation.

Why is the word "trade" in the headline?
new term, “TACO trade,” an acronym
And what is it doing here?
- If I'm not mistaken, the origin of the phrase was wallstreet traders who used it to refer to the trades that happened when trump rolled back tariffs (or paused them, again).
  Thus, TACO trade.
  
  Interesting. That's a good origin, and makes sense. They should have explained that a bit in the article, though.
  Thanks for the extra info.

How, and why, are people takin this dumb twat seriously?
- Because apparently 77million other dumb twats give or take, plus a few million other dumb twat sitouts seated him in the most powerful office in the world. Like it or not, he's affecting your life.
  
  And the total lack of critical thought on the part of those that voted for him, I suppose.
- Because he's the president of the United States. And he is hurting slot of people and can hurt s lot more.
- Years of lead paint exposure.
- Because the smart people with prospects didn’t need to leave Europe.
  
  I don’t understand what you’re saying.
  
  Are you suggesting that some Americans take Donald Trump seriously because their ancestors who came from Europe (big assumption there already) were the ones who didn't have job prospects there?
  Just want to make sure I understood your point correctly...