Kamala Harris and Tim Walz launched a YouTube video on Thursday speaking about meals, music, and their hopes for the way forward for America in the event that they win the election in opposition to convicted felon Donald Trump in November. However one a part of the Harris-Walz dialog has been singled out by the weirdest Trump supporters on-line as being racist in opposition to white folks. Particularly, right-wingers are very upset Walz made jokes about how he can’t deal with a lot spiciness in his meals.
The complete 10-minute YouTube video, which was made right into a shorter clip about tacos on X, appears innocuous sufficient.
Walz: I’ve white man tacos and…
Harris: What does that imply, like, mayonnaise and tuna? What do you do?
Walz: Just about floor beef and cheese and…
Harris: That’s okay. Do you set any taste in it?
Walz: Uh, no.
Harris: Oh.
Walz: Right here’s the deal. No, they stated to watch out and let her know this, that black pepper is the highest of the spice stage in Minnesota.
Hear, I’m simply not a lot of a spice man. pic.twitter.com/u9yadJBMh2
— Tim Walz (@Tim_Walz) August 15, 2024
However in case you’ve been following the entire meltdown from Trump supporters on Friday, it wasn’t simply an innocuous second displaying a man from Minnesota poking enjoyable at his personal intolerance to spicy meals. It was one thing way more sinister.
Far-right influencer Ben Shapiro quote-tweeted the clip with, “See, folks, it’s funny that white people hate spices! Not racist at all! Just funny!” Shapiro then adopted it up with, “(FACT CHECK: Europeans liked spices so much that they literally got involved in several hundred years of war in order to determine control of the spice trade.)”
See, of us, it is humorous that white folks hate spices! Not racist in any respect! Simply humorous!
(FACT CHECK: Europeans appreciated spices a lot that they actually received concerned in a number of hundred years of warfare with a view to decide management of the spice commerce.) https://t.co/97FfVoiavx
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 16, 2024
Hateful anti-trans bigot Matt Walsh additionally received in on the motion by hilariously insisting that this was a horrible racist second for the Harris marketing campaign.
“Crazy that a presidential candidate can just casually let out some blatant anti-white racism and nobody cares,” Walsh wrote Friday. “Imagine if Donald Trump said that a ‘black guy taco’ was made with fried chicken and watermelon. Nuclear meltdown.”
Loopy {that a} presidential candidate can simply casually set free some blatant anti-white racism and no person cares. Think about if Donald Trump stated {that a} “black guy taco” was made with fried hen and watermelon. Nuclear meltdown. https://t.co/wIhu7xQ06A
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) August 16, 2024
Even when it’s only a white man poking enjoyable at himself and his meals tolerances, guys like Walsh and Shapiro are able to cry “racism” as if it proves some grand level. However it is smart that Trump supporters will attempt to make every thing about supposed anti-white racism. Keep in mind when Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance, a man who has by no means had intercourse with a sofa, tried to say at a latest rally that his liking Eating regimen Mountain Dew may get him accused of racism? It’s nonetheless not clear what he meant by that.
However the funniest twist in Friday’s cries of “racism” is likely to be the Hotdish Truthers. As a result of Walz stated he didn’t actually use spices in his tacos, a number of the dimmest on-line sleuths have been digging up his outdated recipes to show that he does truly use seasonings.
Dustin Grage, who describes himself on X as a “Minnesota GOP Hype Man” took concern with Walz’s recipe for turkey taco hotdish. The time period “hotdish,” which must be famous for individuals who’ve by no means lived within the Higher Midwest, refers to a baked casserole that sometimes comprises some meat, a starch like rice or pasta, some canned vegetable combine, and one thing like cream of mushroom soup. Hotdish just isn’t recognized for being spicy in any respect.
“Tim Walz’s Turkey Taco Hotdish recipe. Yes, he’s even lying about spices,” Grage wrote on Friday. The recipe screenshot consists of issues like “mild green chiles” and “chili powder,” apparently damning proof that Walz can deal with spice. In reality, these will not be spicy, as anybody with two mind cells to rub collectively can let you know.
Tim Walz’s Turkey Taco Hotdish recipe.
Sure, he’s even mendacity about spices. https://t.co/tbnzZMtbsn pic.twitter.com/mU2545CE3K
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) August 16, 2024
Far-right conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich tried to make the same level by digging up a recipe by Walz from 2016, insisting that, “Walz is lying about how people in Minnesota don’t season their food.” The highest remark to Cernovich’s tweet makes the plain level, “mild green chilies and onion powders is not really breaking the spirit of his skit.”
Geezus. On a hunch I assumed. Hmmm I’m wondering if Tim Walz is mendacity about how folks in Minnesota don’t season their meals.
He received a recipe contest in 2016. pic.twitter.com/O4NtmcK9UP
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) August 16, 2024
The meltdown wasn’t simply on social media. Of us on Fox Information are additionally very upset, with the co-host of Fox & Buddies, Will Cain, getting very indignant that Harris would have any type of declare over what makes an excellent taco.
“I mean, like, she’s dunking on him about tacos?” Cain stated. “What is she?”
However loads of regular folks additionally chimed in to poke enjoyable on the Trumpworld anger. Comic Andy Richter joked concerning the freakout on Bluesky writing, “*I*, as a white guy, can make white guy taco jokes. If you do it, it is a painful reminder of almost four weeks of oppression.”
A part of the explanation that Trump supporters are hyper-fixating on Walz and his tacos proper now’s that they don’t have every other message that resonates with voters. Trump’s agenda is constructed on anger and hate, specializing in doom and gloom in each single rally and his really weird press conferences. Distinction that with Harris and Walz, who’re specializing in optimism and a shared hope for the longer term. That’s most likely why Harris has been surging ever since Joe Biden dropped out of the race because the Democratic nominee, with key polls displaying Harris overtaking Trump in key battleground states.
In reality, FiveThirtyEight’s polling common presently has Harris up 2.6 factors nationally, and that’s earlier than the Democratic Nationwide Conference in Chicago subsequent week. The conventions sometimes hand any given get together a pleasant short-term bump up, one thing that didn’t occur for Trump after the Republican Nationwide Conference in Milwaukee.
With simply 81 days till Election Day, no person is aware of who’s going to win. However Harris and Walz have taken the lead in most nationwide polling and the Trump camp goes to throw each nasty factor they will on the opposition with a view to see that neo-fascist asshole take energy once more. And after they’re debating the “racism” of a white man joking about his delicate tacos, it turns into fairly clear they’ve received nothing else.
