“More recently, they lost their minds about Walz making a completely forgettable quip — calling it a joke gives it way too much credit — about how he eats “white guy tacos.” What’s a white guy taco to Walz? “Pretty much ground beef and cheese.” Then he mumbled another throwaway line about black pepper being as hot a spice as his region prefers”.
YgramulTheMany on
It’s not even a joke! For lots of us, that’s just how we’ve always referred to them!
def_indiff on
>Ben Shapiro, generally regarded as a high-level conservative public intellectual….
This is the most damning thing in the article.
revmaynard1970 on
Look these are the same people that were threatened by Taco truck on every street
Ovaltineyum on
I work with a lot of Hispanic men and women. Well before this, it was not uncommon for them to leave one corner of a potluck tray for the “gringo” version.
I have always been quite thankful for said corner of the tray. XD
Dianneis on
Gotta be the biggest story since Obama’s MustardGate, if not worse.
The Harris campaign may as well fold their tent. It’s over.
Few-Till-133 on
Oh come on, everyone calls old El paso tacos “white guy tacos.” Nothing authentic about those. Nothing wrong with eating them either.
beansproutkid on
Yep.
Their frustration comes from being unable to reach him.
Because they don’t realize that Walz, a public school teacher and football coach, was a noncom in the Army National Guard for 24 years and can handle their bullying and adolescent BS. One of his superpowers. lol
Epicskynight on
Minnesota snark is typical. They should avoid the midwest.
Larry_The_Red on
They have to grasp at straws because they can find NOTHING bad to say about the guy and it’s glorious
> More recently, they lost their minds about Walz making a completely forgettable quip – calling it a joke gives it way too much credit – about how he eats "White guy tacos." What's a white guy taco to Walz? "Pretty much ground beef and cheese." Then he mumbled another throwaway line about black pepper being as hot a spice as his region prefers.
> Foreign policy writer Nicholas Grossman summarized this curious phenomenon well: "Right-wing podcasters: Oh so when I make mean-spirited disparaging comments about other races it's wrong, but when Tim Walz makes a mild dad joke at his own race's expense it's ok? How is that fair? I'm the victim here. Yes, again." A political science professor described their expressed outrage as "Ambient victimhood.”
He made fun of white people, which is triggering for the right. I enjoy a white people taco night on occasion.
rdoloto on
As midwestern I’m can say bland tacos with yellow cheese and sour cream are a thing
Pksoze on
These are the same people who lament they can’t make vile and disgusting comments about minorities…but get triggered by the mildest criticism…but liberals are the snowflakes….ok.
oblivion476 on
Authoritarians hate self-deprecating humor and basically any humor in general that isn’t at the expense of somebody else. That kind of humor exposes weaknesses which can never be done. Fear, fear, fear. Fight, fight, fight. This is all they understand.
NoMarketing1972 on
Ben is clearly personally offended to find out that Rick Bayless would not be impressed by his dorito pie
chillbnb on
These people are so weird!!
ChemistAdventurous84 on
Apparently Ben never heard the song “White People Taco Night” by Lewberger, a group partially made up of members of the YouTubers TryGuys.
econoquist on
I think it’s hilarious that they are so desperate for things to attack that they are resorting to to this lame-o stuff.
Raymond_Reddit_Ton on
As a latin kid who grew up having dinner at white friends’ houses… White guy tacos are most certainly a thing. They aren’t bad either. Who getting bent over this?
keptman77 on
Proof that MAGA cannot undersand the difference between self-depricating humor and racism.
elmatador12 on
I literally am so done with these stupid people. Please. Young people. Tell your friends. For the love of god, vote. So we never have to deal with Trump again.
forteller on
Can’t make jokes anymore! Cancel culture has gone too far!
businessboyz on
Have people not seen the OG white people taco night video? I thought it was a known thing.
🎶“It’s not just for white people, but white people love it the most.”🎶
Absolutely will get stuck in your head.
IowaJL on
The person in the picture with him is Sarah Garriott! My wife was her daughter’s preschool teacher.
EwokDude on
I would venture a guess that even Walz’ tacos are too spicy for Trump
Elantris42 on
Here in Texas, white people tacos are definetly a thing… and breakfast tacos (also come in white people ‘styles’).
AtomicBlastCandy on
Second husband with his daughter is apparently “beyond parody,” for MAGA. These people are mentally unwell, and I pity them
Soopstoohot on
FYI for everyone outside Mn: this is how we complain about our parents’ cooking. Pepper is the highest their spice level goes. Literally said this about my mom’s cooking like a month ago (sooory mom)
Conservatives are honestly dumber than a bag of fucking rocks.
SicilyMalta on
I believe Republicans don’t get self deprecating jokes or irony because they aren’t very self aware.
I have looked at right wing humor and don’t find it funny – they are still trapped in Har Har, Take My Wife please, misogynist, slip on on a banana peel jokes from decades ago. I’d watch CPAC in fascination as people laughed at really bad stupid jokes. Also much of their comedy punched down. The cruelty was supposed to be funny. No thank you.
A book came out recently warning that like Jon Stewart or Colbert , Republicans are finding their way into humor and are using it to bring in more followers.
>But liberals being unwilling to acknowledge conservative comedy because it tends to punch down is something Trump is the sort of exemplar of. Going after a disabled reporter, going after migrants trying to cross into the United States — over and over again, he took as his targets and often as his punchline folks who are in positions of social, cultural and economic marginalization. And so we see a lot of that means-spiritedness across much of right-wing comedy. The casual dabbling in racism, the free license to go after folks who would maybe be a little more protected by mainstream centrist and liberal comedy institutions — that I think is a tone set most prominently by Trump.
>The growth of the conservative comedy industry isn’t just important in the context of the culture war. According to Sienkiewicz and Marx, conservatives are also using comedy to bring new voters into the conservative coalition and build ideological cohesion among existing right-leaning constituencies. In other words, the left’s unwavering belief in its comedic monopoly isn’t just wrong — it’s also bad political strategy.
If I ever got to the point in my life that I cared about a statement like “White guy tacos” I’d put a shotgun in my mouth and pull the trigger.
Drunken_HR on
It’s hilarious that this is all they can find to latch onto.
stevenriley1 on
They are so out of ideas. I never thought I’d see the day. But I’m glad it’s here. Hopefully just the beginning.
Davidsb86 on
As a Latino, seeing magats like the Cuban Canadian Ted Cruz come to “my aid” is really pathetic.
DEFINITELY_NOT_PETE on
They are so desperate to get some zinger on him to stick but he is fundamentally more likable and more relatable than either of the psychopaths they are trying to push as normal.
All this name calling horseshit is so transparently petty and they only make themselves look absurd
guyincognito69420 on
Conservatives think jokes are times you say something horrible and then need to cover it up by saying “I was only joking.” They don’t realize jokes are actually things meant to be funny.
awesomedan24 on
Walz is effortlessly genuine, just an honest regular guy. The MAGA sycophants on the other hand are constantly walking an identity politics tightrope. They overanalyze every little thing and turn it into a catastrophe when Walz probably never thought anyone would care about this casual comment.
pistolwhip_pete on
Northern MN checking in. My mom thinks ketchup is spicy and “white guy tacos” are a delicacy.
Don’t get me wrong, we have a lot of amazing and diverse restaurants around here, but generic taco Tuesday is most certainly a thing.
KR1735 on
Yeah, they definitely took that literally.
As if a man who lived and taught in China for a significant period of time would have no tolerance for spices.
And for what it’s worth, we eat plenty of spicy food in Minnesota. We’re not living under a rock. Spicy food is simply not part of our traditional cuisine (i.e., what your grandparents grew up on). Our cuisine is influenced by that of Britain, Germany, Poland, Nordic Europe, and Native America. None of those culinary traditions use much for spice. Though a lot of Nordic baked goods use cinnamon and cardamom.
Special_Tip_6428 on
But, hey,they also got upset over m &M’s not being sexy anymore because marketing charged high heels to some other shoe. That still is mind boggling. They fret, rant, and lose their minds over everything but reality.
grunkage on
Tim Walz is a normal American man who has worked hard for his country, his students, and his state. They don’t know anyone like that, so they can’t comprehend normal chatting and dad jokes.
ALightPseudonym on
It gets better: they dug up a winning recipe of his called “Tim’s Turkey Taco Tot Hotdish” which is the whitest, most midwestern thing imaginable. This shit is straight out of VEEP.
tface23 on
Margaritas restaurant sells this taco and calls it el gringo
topplehat on
These guys need to get a life
eqo314 on
If Tim Walz likes white people tacos, I am never making fun of white people tacos again.
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“More recently, they lost their minds about Walz making a completely forgettable quip — calling it a joke gives it way too much credit — about how he eats “white guy tacos.” What’s a white guy taco to Walz? “Pretty much ground beef and cheese.” Then he mumbled another throwaway line about black pepper being as hot a spice as his region prefers”.
It’s not even a joke! For lots of us, that’s just how we’ve always referred to them!
>Ben Shapiro, generally regarded as a high-level conservative public intellectual….
This is the most damning thing in the article.
Look these are the same people that were threatened by Taco truck on every street
I work with a lot of Hispanic men and women. Well before this, it was not uncommon for them to leave one corner of a potluck tray for the “gringo” version.
I have always been quite thankful for said corner of the tray. XD
Gotta be the biggest story since Obama’s MustardGate, if not worse.
The Harris campaign may as well fold their tent. It’s over.
Oh come on, everyone calls old El paso tacos “white guy tacos.” Nothing authentic about those. Nothing wrong with eating them either.
Yep.
Their frustration comes from being unable to reach him.
Because they don’t realize that Walz, a public school teacher and football coach, was a noncom in the Army National Guard for 24 years and can handle their bullying and adolescent BS. One of his superpowers. lol
Minnesota snark is typical. They should avoid the midwest.
They have to grasp at straws because they can find NOTHING bad to say about the guy and it’s glorious
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/tim-walz-white-guy-tacos-harris-campaign-video-trump-ann-coulter-rcna167678) reduced by 83%. (I’m a bot)
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> Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz broke MAGA brains for the second time in a month – and he wasn't even calling them "Weird" this time.
> More recently, they lost their minds about Walz making a completely forgettable quip – calling it a joke gives it way too much credit – about how he eats "White guy tacos." What's a white guy taco to Walz? "Pretty much ground beef and cheese." Then he mumbled another throwaway line about black pepper being as hot a spice as his region prefers.
> Foreign policy writer Nicholas Grossman summarized this curious phenomenon well: "Right-wing podcasters: Oh so when I make mean-spirited disparaging comments about other races it's wrong, but when Tim Walz makes a mild dad joke at his own race's expense it's ok? How is that fair? I'm the victim here. Yes, again." A political science professor described their expressed outrage as "Ambient victimhood.”
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He made fun of white people, which is triggering for the right. I enjoy a white people taco night on occasion.
As midwestern I’m can say bland tacos with yellow cheese and sour cream are a thing
These are the same people who lament they can’t make vile and disgusting comments about minorities…but get triggered by the mildest criticism…but liberals are the snowflakes….ok.
Authoritarians hate self-deprecating humor and basically any humor in general that isn’t at the expense of somebody else. That kind of humor exposes weaknesses which can never be done. Fear, fear, fear. Fight, fight, fight. This is all they understand.
Ben is clearly personally offended to find out that Rick Bayless would not be impressed by his dorito pie
These people are so weird!!
Apparently Ben never heard the song “White People Taco Night” by Lewberger, a group partially made up of members of the YouTubers TryGuys.
I think it’s hilarious that they are so desperate for things to attack that they are resorting to to this lame-o stuff.
As a latin kid who grew up having dinner at white friends’ houses… White guy tacos are most certainly a thing. They aren’t bad either. Who getting bent over this?
Proof that MAGA cannot undersand the difference between self-depricating humor and racism.
I literally am so done with these stupid people. Please. Young people. Tell your friends. For the love of god, vote. So we never have to deal with Trump again.
Can’t make jokes anymore! Cancel culture has gone too far!
Have people not seen the OG white people taco night video? I thought it was a known thing.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8yrSCoEsmqA
🎶“It’s not just for white people, but white people love it the most.”🎶
Absolutely will get stuck in your head.
The person in the picture with him is Sarah Garriott! My wife was her daughter’s preschool teacher.
I would venture a guess that even Walz’ tacos are too spicy for Trump
Here in Texas, white people tacos are definetly a thing… and breakfast tacos (also come in white people ‘styles’).
Second husband with his daughter is apparently “beyond parody,” for MAGA. These people are mentally unwell, and I pity them
FYI for everyone outside Mn: this is how we complain about our parents’ cooking. Pepper is the highest their spice level goes. Literally said this about my mom’s cooking like a month ago (sooory mom)
[White Guy Tacos](https://suno.com/song/640393bb-d9e2-4f60-96e9-8f5da80d2ca8)
Conservatives are honestly dumber than a bag of fucking rocks.
I believe Republicans don’t get self deprecating jokes or irony because they aren’t very self aware.
I have looked at right wing humor and don’t find it funny – they are still trapped in Har Har, Take My Wife please, misogynist, slip on on a banana peel jokes from decades ago. I’d watch CPAC in fascination as people laughed at really bad stupid jokes. Also much of their comedy punched down. The cruelty was supposed to be funny. No thank you.
A book came out recently warning that like Jon Stewart or Colbert , Republicans are finding their way into humor and are using it to bring in more followers.
>But liberals being unwilling to acknowledge conservative comedy because it tends to punch down is something Trump is the sort of exemplar of. Going after a disabled reporter, going after migrants trying to cross into the United States — over and over again, he took as his targets and often as his punchline folks who are in positions of social, cultural and economic marginalization. And so we see a lot of that means-spiritedness across much of right-wing comedy. The casual dabbling in racism, the free license to go after folks who would maybe be a little more protected by mainstream centrist and liberal comedy institutions — that I think is a tone set most prominently by Trump.
>The growth of the conservative comedy industry isn’t just important in the context of the culture war. According to Sienkiewicz and Marx, conservatives are also using comedy to bring new voters into the conservative coalition and build ideological cohesion among existing right-leaning constituencies. In other words, the left’s unwavering belief in its comedic monopoly isn’t just wrong — it’s also bad political strategy.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/13/liberals-should-worry-conservative-comedy-00031907
If I ever got to the point in my life that I cared about a statement like “White guy tacos” I’d put a shotgun in my mouth and pull the trigger.
It’s hilarious that this is all they can find to latch onto.
They are so out of ideas. I never thought I’d see the day. But I’m glad it’s here. Hopefully just the beginning.
As a Latino, seeing magats like the Cuban Canadian Ted Cruz come to “my aid” is really pathetic.
They are so desperate to get some zinger on him to stick but he is fundamentally more likable and more relatable than either of the psychopaths they are trying to push as normal.
All this name calling horseshit is so transparently petty and they only make themselves look absurd
Conservatives think jokes are times you say something horrible and then need to cover it up by saying “I was only joking.” They don’t realize jokes are actually things meant to be funny.
Walz is effortlessly genuine, just an honest regular guy. The MAGA sycophants on the other hand are constantly walking an identity politics tightrope. They overanalyze every little thing and turn it into a catastrophe when Walz probably never thought anyone would care about this casual comment.
Northern MN checking in. My mom thinks ketchup is spicy and “white guy tacos” are a delicacy.
Don’t get me wrong, we have a lot of amazing and diverse restaurants around here, but generic taco Tuesday is most certainly a thing.
Yeah, they definitely took that literally.
As if a man who lived and taught in China for a significant period of time would have no tolerance for spices.
And for what it’s worth, we eat plenty of spicy food in Minnesota. We’re not living under a rock. Spicy food is simply not part of our traditional cuisine (i.e., what your grandparents grew up on). Our cuisine is influenced by that of Britain, Germany, Poland, Nordic Europe, and Native America. None of those culinary traditions use much for spice. Though a lot of Nordic baked goods use cinnamon and cardamom.
But, hey,they also got upset over m &M’s not being sexy anymore because marketing charged high heels to some other shoe. That still is mind boggling. They fret, rant, and lose their minds over everything but reality.
Tim Walz is a normal American man who has worked hard for his country, his students, and his state. They don’t know anyone like that, so they can’t comprehend normal chatting and dad jokes.
It gets better: they dug up a winning recipe of his called “Tim’s Turkey Taco Tot Hotdish” which is the whitest, most midwestern thing imaginable. This shit is straight out of VEEP.
Margaritas restaurant sells this taco and calls it el gringo
These guys need to get a life
If Tim Walz likes white people tacos, I am never making fun of white people tacos again.