Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications
by aylmao on Friday September 19, 2025 @04:50PM
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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.
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> He doesn't look like a taco
Now that you say, I can see some similarities with Al Pastor.
Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications
by adleyjulian on Friday September 19, 2025 @05:17PM
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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!"
You should hear the long form of the acronym!
TACOBELL
- Trump Always Chickens Out Before Eventually Losing Loudly
Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications
by Multicomp on Friday September 19, 2025 @05:02PM
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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.
Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications
by SpicyLemonZest on Friday September 19, 2025 @05:01PM
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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...).
The fact that Trump hates latinos is part of what makes it a great shibboleth.
Dog whistle?
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Well it aint a shibboleth either.