Conservative men with posting obsessions always need something new to yell about, and for the past 24 hours they’ve decided it’s Tim Walz’s taco preferences. Sure, why not? Their faux outrage spawned from a video released by the Kamala Harris campaign in which Walz tells Harris that he enjoys “white-guy tacos.”
After Harris asked if that meant that he puts “mayonnaise and tuna” in his tacos (funny!), Walz explained that a white-guy taco is “pretty much ground beef and cheese.” The vice-president then asked if he put any flavor in the tacos, and grimaced when he said no.
“Black pepper is the top of the spice level in Minnesota, ya know.” Walz said.
It’s a funny exchange that makes both Harris and Walz seem like normal people capable of having a normal conversation. (I doubt the Trump-Vance campaign could put out a similar video, but I digress.) The white guys of the Republican Party, however, have decided that Walz is being racist toward them, and they’ve been throwing a hissy fit about it.
“This isn’t cute. Walz is being used as a clown to mock white people,” wrote Fox News columnist David Marcus on X. “If Walz doesn’t like spicy food that’s fine, but it has nothing to do with being a white guy.”
Noted right-wing conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich was so offended by the comment that he dug up Walz’s award-winning hotdish recipe, in which the Minnesota governor used chili powder and paprika. Damn, it’s hard to see how Walz will ever come back from this.
Geezus. On a hunch I thought. Hmmm I wonder if Tim Walz is lying about how people in Minnesota don’t season their food.
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) August 16, 2024
He won a recipe contest in 2016. pic.twitter.com/O4NtmcK9UP
Cernovich later doubled down with this truly bizarre argument:
“White people don’t use seasoning,” is a trope, there’s no set up, it’s not a bit. Would he like saying a white guy jumping around in black face is funny. You need more than a costume!
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) August 16, 2024
Tim Walz being a pathological liar who lies about anything is the punchline. https://t.co/oLHWwumhS4
Is he saying that blackface can be funny if you put a little effort into the routine? How did we get here from a guy saying he likes the kind of tacos you make with a kit from the grocery store? Curiously, it’s not just men on the right who are upset by Walz’s comments.
I really like Tim Walz, but as someone who also really likes cooking with flavor, I will tell you that black pepper is far from the top spice level in Minnesota. https://t.co/zUDsWOiNTQ
— Brian Shea (@BrianPShea) August 16, 2024
I think it might be time to put a moratorium on all posting until everyone can understand what a joke is. Perhaps that means no one will ever share a thought again, but would that really be the worst thing?
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