EDIT: Trump and Columbia seems to have come to an agreement where the Tariffs have now been canceled.
I’m leaving this post up for posterity’s sake. We just need to wait for the next opportunity to push. I’m still confident that Trump and co will dramatically misstep soon and leave an obvious opening. But for now, we should get our meme-skills up and ready. I’m still supportive of large-scale real-world messages, be they stickers or chalk messages or even simple notifications that point out Trump’s political missteps.
First off: condolences to any Colombian who is harmed by these events. We have a Colombian in our family and I certainly fear for her safety and her way of life. She’s the nanny to my nephew, and there’s a solid chance this shit won’t be fixed in time for her Visa renewals, so she’ll be effectively deported due to these events. I understand that Trump’s latest actions today are frightening, but we need to focus on the political messaging needed to swing the tides back into our favor.
As Donald J. Trump tariffs the USA’s #2 trade partner in Coffee (remember, Coffee CANNOT grow in the USA outside of like Hawaii), we can all expect coffee prices to shoot up by 25% in the near future. This is the inflation event we need to begin rubbing shitty marketplace inflation into the MAGAT’s faces.
Coffee is one of the most essential of luxury goods consumed in the USA. Everyone drinks it, and we need to be ready to pin the coffee price hikes on Trump’s shitty policy.
So, what’s the plan people? What’s the best meme we can make a sticker and print en masse. Coffee Shops seem like a liberal safe-haven, it shouldn’t be too hard to ask Baristas to post up signs (or little protests) indicating that coffee shops are against the Columbian Tariffs.
Like I really think this has real action available. Even a sign that says “Due to recent Tariffs, we have been forced to increase the price of our coffee by 25%”, and that’s it. We don’t need to make it incredibly related to Trump, its implicit in Trump’s actions. We need the public to know how Trump is affecting them, but without necessarily rubbing it into their faces.
If using that picture maybe just crop out the American flag. Also when relating to Trump saying “American coffee” might be too long winded for the target audience. “Make Coffee Expensive Again”
Yeah, that was my first meme in this topic. It’s bad for a lot of reasons.
But still, making a bad meme to get other people thinking is still useful. I’m definitely liking my last one: covfefe tariff the most. I think “Covfefe Tariff” has by far the most promise.
Oooo covfefe tarrif is good
I agree and I do like that better! I just wonder if that resonates most with the already politically informed. Better than nothing of course, it gets the ball rolling!
The ideal audience would probably be centrist “I don’t follow politics” people. For that audience keep in mind they may not be aware of “covfefe” but things like “I did that” or just a quote of him saying he’s not interested in addressing grocery prices while pictures of egg prices and coffee prices go up in the background would resonate with any audience
Those people will shutdown on the meme format and stop listening to you.
A simple sign saying: “We apologize for the tariff based increases to coffee prices” probably goes the furthest for the people who don’t follow politics. We don’t want to bring up Trump (or other politics) because it shuts their brains down.
You need to try to sound as neutral as possible to convince those people. Saying the least number of ‘political words’ is to your advantage in those cases.
The meme is preaching to the choir. But if you haven’t noticed, the choir is demotivated. We need some memes to make people laugh and have fun again.