October 6, 2025

A.I. powered "sombrero" memes are overflowing on X, and no one seems at all sensitive to the charge that they are racist.

I saw James Woods pushing this one:

Very extreme, perhaps maxxing out the trend. But no. There is much much more. Go to the replies to Woods's post and scroll. The sombrero-themed A.I. concoctions are endless.

120 comments:

Dave Begley said...

AI made Liz Warren look much younger!

Chris said...

Remember, it was leftists that were pushing HARD to have everyone refer to Trump as Taco. As if that was supposed to diminish him, or make him change? Because Trump supposedly has thin skin blah blah blah. He just turned it around on them, and show that they are the ones with thin skin.

Derve said...

Proffy... why do you keep posting this shit here?
Does it really bring the tips to keep echoing Vance/Trump? If we wanted to see that, don't you think we could?

U R sad

Derve said...

Wait until Trump posts a dic pic
and the eternally online like ann
and frank bruni!
clutch their pearls
and





repost. Lol. Good girl.
Now how did Vance respond to what Trump posted? What the fellas dune, annie? Go check them out and come back here and report? Breathlessly? Lol... why you running this racist shit, proffy? Cuz you can't say N-word so this kinda badness excites you?
Silly white boomers...

Leland said...

Liz Warren should be thankful. The problem with the meme is the tamales are cooked, which we know Schumer wouldn’t do.

Ann Althouse said...

Ironically, the Democrats in that video look better than they do on the TV news shows.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

Don't you need Mexicans to declare they are victimized by memes... as opposed to ICE?

gspencer said...

They're not racist. They're funny.

Ah, for the old days when a joke would begin, "A dago and a polack walk into a bar . . ."

Dave Begley said...

I saw a video of the halls of HLS and there were black and white portraits of law professors, including Liz Warren. What about Wisconsin?

tim maguire said...

It can only be good for society when fake cries of “racism!” can no longer be used as a weapon to shut down legitimate expression.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

Duh. Because the same people who ran around yelling "TACO! TACO!" this Spring have no standing when it comes to cultural Civility Bullshit shaming now.

Dave Begley said...

2002 Ann Althouse. Wisconsin Law - teacher of the year; as voted by the students.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

The idea of white declaring other whites racist sounds like insincere rage.

I wasn't sure if it was a thing, so i looked it up:

"Insincere rage is anger that is not genuinely felt but is instead displayed for a strategic purpose, such as to intimidate, manipulate, or gain an advantage. It is also known as "faking anger" or "surface acting anger". This differs from authentic anger, which is a spontaneous and genuine emotional reaction."

R C Belaire said...

Eventually, the memes will pivot to using Devil horns on the Dems. You heard it here first.

Leland said...

Other things they don’t work, Schumer claiming the shutdown is to block the release of Epstein files. Imagine having 4 years of control over the Senate with a Democrat President and never even mentioning Epstein, and now what is preventing the release is lack of funding for illegal aliens.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

Insincere rage and civility bullshit are cousins.

Wilbur said...

Is the Ryan/Pence wing of the GOPe clutching pearls over this stuff too?

rehajm said...

It’s sour white lefties begging…pleading to overturn the election in the land they were declaring the land of the free-est and fair-est elections. No more magic wand to wave and make anything what white lefties sour go away. It feels constructive to civilization.

Shouting Thomas said...

It’s not just a joke, although it’s a great joke. The meme also sends a very subversive message: “Why are Democrats more concerned about illegal immigrants than U.S. citizens?”

rehajm said...

Part of the problem for white lefties is the people being mocked deserve all the mocking. More than they’re receiving. I’m open to other more creative forms of humiliation if ya got some..

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

That’s the beautiful thing Wilbur, nobody cares what the rump gopE thinks or does anymore.

Michael Fitzgerald said...

Oh no, not racistness! Anything but racistness! Stop racisting, you MAGA racisters.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

Memes are todays young preferred method of conveying information, and, historically the yutes are the gate keepers of the prevailing counter culture. To declare memes racists, you have to convict a couple of generations.

hanuman_prodigious_leaper said...

I am waiting for Obama and Hillary - are they show up yet?

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

Alinsky No. 13. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.

Mark said...

Like the left at the height of BLM, the GOP are self-congratulating themselves so hard they're unaware of what they appear to be to anyone not down their rabbit hole.

Go and touch grass, Boomers. This is going to age as well as a modern SNL skit.

n.n said...

A sombrero is a symbol of Diversity? A DEIst invocation. A gay medley of Anthropogenic Intelligence (AI). Another bloc in Democrazi, and an apparent "burden". Abort, NOW. Let us bray this, too, will be sequestered in the back... black hole... whore h/t NAACP at the intersection of racism and sexism on the culturally insensitive Isle of Lesbos. #HateLovesAbortion

rehajm said...

Yes true, this is really for the younger set not necessarily the elders here. Hanging with the twenty somethings for a few days at a wedding twas quite remarkable how they are, not rejecting but calmly forming their own cultural identity that’s got nothing to do with what the man is trying to sell them these days…left and right it looked like to me. I was encouraged…

n.n said...

This time the Person of Orange (PoO) has gone too far. What do the Persons of Peach (PoP) think? Let's ask the Persons of White (PoW). And the germs her opinions. Pussy Hats to the back of the bus, girls under the bus, and, fetuses, in sanctuary states, into the clinics with you, as it was in those Hitlarious days of progressive past, where liberal license was wielded to garner relief.

rehajm said...

…another part of the problem for the magic wand people is mariachi has been a ubiquitous element of humor in movies and television for…ever. The insincere cries of racism sound so insincere…

Michael Fitzgerald said...

"Touch grass"... A shibboleth that confers the promise that one is a member of the libtard class.

Ann Althouse said...

"It’s not just a joke, although it’s a great joke. The meme also sends a very subversive message: “Why are Democrats more concerned about illegal immigrants than U.S. citizens?”"

I don't understand your use of "also." It's only a joke because that is the message. Who gets the joke but doesn't see that message? Are you imagining complete brutes, idiots who just think Democrats are being mocked because Mexican ethnic dress and facial hair — used randomly — are ridiculous.

Bob B said...

Fun fact: Trump’s video that first showed House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in a sombrero also showed Trump four times(!) in the background as a mariachi band. Each of the four Trumps is wearing a sombrero.

G. Poulin said...

Righties put up pictures of their opponents wearing sombreros. Lefties put up pictures of the severed heads of their opponents. Righties laugh when their opponents are discomfited. Lefties laugh when their opponents are shot dead.

rehajm said...

They do look better…flattering it is…

n.n said...

These are not Mexicans of European vintage, but rather of La Raza Forward. Our conflation of cultures is insensitive to the Diversity of the Aztec empire past. We should perform human rites, abort, and sequester the virgins, with a brayer for climate progress, and bennies present.

Mr. D said...

Alinsky Rules 5 and 6:

"Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage."

"A good tactic is one your people enjoy."

Just so. Meanwhile, Mark fulminates:

the GOP are self-congratulating themselves so hard they're unaware of what they appear to be to anyone not down their rabbit hole.

Oh, they're aware. They just don't give a shit what the bien pensants think anymore. And why should they? They're going to get scolded in any event.

Wilbur said...

Mark labels this " GOP self-congratulation", and that it's just like the Left with the BLM riots.

Seems a bit strained to me, to say the least.

Keldonric said...

“The state has an interest in protecting people from racist and offensive speech even if they would, misguidedly, welcome it.”

rehajm said...

…there’s also the Streisand Effect in effect, a pile on it is..

Disparity of Cult said...

Liz didn't learn those moves on the rez.

rehajm said...

Mariachi in humor was as common as the rubber chicken. The upbeat tempo and colorful dress plus bad timing during a couple’s argument, a peaceful moment…

Wince said...

They should have modeled the AI on the Cuban live sex show in Godfather II, with Trump as “Superman.” Schumer could be Senator Geary, Hakim as Fredo, and Speaker Johnson as Micheal Corleone. And the AOC, Pelosi and Warren as the women dancing around Superman.

Beasts of England said...

The worm has turned on racism being used as an effective cudgel. The term has been so overly and insincerely used that it has zero meaning or impact. Nobody cares about it anymore, nor should they. Perhaps the left will now have to employ reason and persuasion to advance their arguments.

(The last sentence was clearly satire.)

Randomizer said...

Ann Althouse said...

Ironically, the Democrats in that video look better than they do on the TV news shows.


The video shows aspirational Democrats. Wouldn't it be great if we had Democrats like that? Alive, vibrant, nice legs and authentic. They are having fun like humans.

In real life, when Liz Warren or Nancy Pelosi smile, they look like Emperor Palapatine.





ronetc said...

I had forgotten how pretty Pelosi, Warren, and AOC can be. They are smiling in the fake video, maybe that is the difference. They should try it in real life.

Jamie said...

Like the left at the height of BLM, the GOP are self-congratulating themselves so hard they're unaware of what they appear to be to anyone not down their rabbit hole.

Go and touch grass, Boomers. This is going to age as well as a modern SNL skit.


Actually Mark's warning isn't amiss. It is easy to lose perspective, and it can happen to anyone.

I confess that whenever I hear the cheerful strains of El Jarabe Tapatío, it cracks me up, even before this (and I was the little white girl in the Mexican dancing group in my elementary school in Mesa back in the day, actually dancing to it). But it isn't a bad idea to keep mixing it up, keep moving forward with the meme ideas, because you never know which one is going to be the one with the guy walking with the girl but looking back at the other girl, or the blonde woman screaming at the orange cat, or any of the others that have stood the test of time.

Not all the modern SNL skits are lame, btw.

Howard said...

These memes remind me of old school Hot plate Mexican restaurants of my youth in Los Angeles. They always had a roving mariachi band. This was before the explosion of the taquerias following the popularity of Tito's Tacos in Culver City.

hawkeyedjb said...

Good to see that Americans still have a sense of humor!

Well, except for Derve...

John Henry said...

Have any Mexicans or Mexican Americans complained?

Not that I've seen

John Henry

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

Mark said...
Like the left at the height of BLM, the GOP are self-congratulating themselves so hard they're unaware of what they appear to be to anyone not down their rabbit hole.

Go and touch grass, Boomers. This is going to age as well as a modern SNL skit.


All 100% wrong, as you expect by now from dumb lefty Mark. From the bottom up, Trump is consistently funnier than any SNL skit since "more cowbell." If anyone needs to "touch grass" it is the out-of-touch democrats willing to shut down the American government to spend more money on foreigners and their syncophants like Markie Mark here.

Finally, comparing this to the BLM riots is apt because it is at least as disastrous for democrats in the long term as that extended assault on normalcy and city safety. And of course there is no self-congratulations because we are all too busy laughing at your side and congratulating Jeffries and Schumer for the dumbest self-own since Hillary said she would beat Trump in 2015 because we are all deplorables and he's a russian asset.

You bought it. You own it. Your gaslighting has no purchase her. And it is crystal clear for the public who is fighting for us and who us fighting for them.

ChrisSchuon said...

Racism as a cudgel is dead. No one cares anymore, with the exception of elderly whites holding "No Kings" signs.

Curious George said...
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Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

Trump wants to do both. He wants to ridicule and also send a message


And I am HERE for it. It's not like they haven't tried their best to ridicule him to death, literally. He deserves the "last laugh" as they say.

Eva Marie said...

I thought this meme started with TACO which may have had its origins in Trump’s taco salad in 2016.

Peachy said...

Mocking the corrupt democrat party in any way = on a platform formerly owned by leftists and used by dutiful leftists to censor speech the left didn't like ..
FREEDOM!

Peachy said...

charges of racism fall flat.
I bet most Mexican-Americans laugh too. They don't like the illegal pandering.

DarkHelmet said...

All politicians should be regularly mocked. It's good for the republic. Roman conquerors had a slave riding with them in their chariots during triumphs to whisper, 'you are only a mortal, after all.' And kings had jesters to make fun of them.

The more arrogant, officious, entitled, power-mad, grasping, insincere and corrupt they are, the more mocking they need.

Jaq said...

No matter how careful Trump we are, they still call us racists and fascists, oh yeah, and Nazis, so sure.

A website I like to go to has been labeled by "source watch" as "far right" and shadow banned, even though they are a bunch of peacenik commies, well, socialists, you know, like Russel Brand. So at some point, the boy who cried wolf dynamic comes into play.

planetgeo said...

Mark, someday when you grow up you too will be able to create funny memes.

Mason G said...

""Touch grass"... A shibboleth that confers the promise that one is a member of the libtard class."

The same libtards that want everyone to live packed like sardines in high density housing in concrete jungles riding mass transit because a house with a yard in the suburbs is racist or something.

Jaq said...

"to be to anyone not down their rabbit hole."

It seems like the people in the rabbit hole are the white headed boomers marching around with No Kings signs, as has been pointed out, and watching Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert. They seem to be the distinct minority.

Jaq said...

I wonder how completely out of touch the Democrats can get with common people? It almost seems like a dare to them now, it's like they have become the party of "Church Ladies" speaking of classic SNL.

rehajm said...

Your English teacher schoolmarm schtick is not your best look

Now now she’s just a bit out of touch. Still trying, credit fir that…

Peachy said...

VA Democrat running for office calls bullets and assassination.

Peachy said...

Jay Jones(D) - open Assassination hate-fueled Radical Leftist.

His boss says "Let your rage fuel you."

Iman said...

Got no time for chit chat. I’m headed out to the fields to harvest more memes for you ungrateful bastards.

Peachy said...

Check out how the corrupt Soviet-Democratic Media spin Jay Jones(D) words.
Guy Benson"No, he is not “facing accusations.” He did it and admitted it. And he did not ‘suggest’ that he would like to shoot his political opponent. He stated it clearly, to another political opponent. And said even worse things in the exchange. Hope this helps!"

Freder Frederson said...

Well, I for one am disgusted with this racist bullshit. Just because no one you know is complaining about this blatantly racist shit (and the administration is encouraging it) means your acquaintances are bad people. Since you apparently only know evil racist people, maybe you should consider how that reflects on you.

Iman said...

“Not all the modern SNL skits are lame, btw.”

Just heard a couple of fellows on the radio - both longtime SNL watchers - just agree that the show the other night was the least funny it has ever been.

Mr. D said...

Well, I for one am disgusted with this racist bullshit. Just because no one you know is complaining about this blatantly racist shit (and the administration is encouraging it) means your acquaintances are bad people. Since you apparently only know evil racist people, maybe you should consider how that reflects on you.

Somebody needs a sombrero.

Iman said...

…and El Mustachio flies toward Fredo to complete the buffoon attachment…

Freder Frederson said...

Somebody needs a sombrero.

Thank you for so succinctly demonstrates my point.

Jamie said...

want everyone to live packed like sardines in high density housing in concrete jungles riding mass transit

This is the part that bugs me.

I am and have always been suburban - ok, we lived in Seattle for seven years and were ten minutes from downtown, but for five of those years it was in our first house with a postage stamp of a yard and a little garden for us to tend. It's been easy for me to touch grass all my life, to the point where I didn't really "get" why this little phrase became a thing at first.

Then I remembered our six months in London, and visiting friends in NYC, during which grass was something we had to go seek out, which we could do because we were professionals who either had cars or could afford cabs and had time off from work - we weren't working multiple jobs to afford city life.

But of course who would want to live in the suburbs, those cultural deserts? As I've said elsewhere, this used to be pretty true, and (I believe) led to bridge groups and brunches at home and dinner parties and and book clubs and so on and so forth. At least, when we did live in London and visited those NYC friends, no one entertained at home - there was no space, and anyway, you were in the middle of the great whirl of Life and should be out in it, right?

The fact that suburbs are no longer cultural deserts doesn't matter. Suburbs are still where the declasse live.

So it seems that "touching grass" is yet another class signifier. Proper urbanites - that is to say, proper citizens - live in high density buildings and take (idealized visions of) public transportation, but also eat all their meals at tony restaurants and set aside weekends for "touching grass."

Mr. D said...

Thank you for so succinctly demonstrates my point.

We understand your moral goodness. You've told us many, many times.

Jamie said...

the show the other night was the least funny it has ever been.

Maybe the problem is my timeframe for "modern." I'm thinking specifically of a skit in which Lizzo played a music producer, with other cast members, working on a new Black Eyed Peas number. I was figuratively ROTFLMAO throughout. Obviously this was a few years ago...

Beasts of England said...

Freder used ‘racist’ three times in his comment, without ever once explaining why the memes are in any way racist. Argument by assertion is weak sauce, dude, and entirely unpersuasive.

Thanks for so succinctly reinforcing my comment at 7:12 am.

Iman said...

Who knew Fredo was one of those scoundrels we’ve read about?!

Iman said...

Shelter from teh storm… eh, Fredo?

Iman said...

…and all hands reach toward Mark, to touch ass…

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

Remember: when all the Congressional democrats drape themselves in kente cloth and African colors and kneel to saint George Floyd, well that is honoring the costume, NOT racist cultural appropriation. But when we use AI to dress democrats in traditional Mexican garb in order to illustrate how they are shutting off services to Americans in service to their foreign constituents (like the ones they go to bat for every day!) then the costumes can be safely called racist by other white leftists who gatekeep this sort of thing.

OK boomer Freder. Go back to your Maude reruns and let the sane adults sort this out. You have lost all perspective.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

I'm so glad I missed that one Jamie. I hold SNL, Lizzo and the BEP all in the same exact low esteem. I'm too old to waste more time hoping SNL will have a pony in their pile of shit. I have the first few seasons on physical media if I want a real laugh.

Joe Bar said...

Peachy said...
Jay Jones(D) - open Assassination hate-fueled Radical Leftist.

His boss says "Let your rage fuel you."

I have bad news for you, Peachy. They're still going to get elected. Remember the picture of Northampton in blackface? Glenn Youngkin was an anomaly.

Michael Fitzgerald said...

Oh, the racisticity! Oh, the racisticity!

Beasts of England said...

Sometimes a sombrero is just a sombrero.

RCOCEAN II said...

"Well, I for one am disgusted with this racist bullshit."

Nobody believes you. The far-left lies so often and calls everyone they dislike a racist/sexist/fascist every hour on the hour. Your side kills people on the Center-right. Just like Israel assissinates anyone it dislikes and commits war crimes.

So quit pretending your upset because you care so much for "people of color". POC's in Gaza are dying and people like you don't care.

RCOCEAN II said...

I think after 50 years, most people have finally caught on that all his liberal/left bullshit about Racism was just an excuse for the Liberal/left to hate white people and anyone else they dislike. Its a weapon. They aren't "bleeding hearts" they're haters.

Achilles said...

Freder Frederson said...
Somebody needs a sombrero.

Thank you for so succinctly demonstrates my point.

And you demonstrate our point. You are just too stupid to understand it.

We know you don’t actually care about Hispanic people. We know you are a racist. We know you want us dead.

We don’t care about anything you say or do. You are an evil piece of shit who has already attacked the first and second amendments directly and who wants to take our freedom and ability to defend ourselves from your violent brown shirt thugs that you import from foreign countries and rich kids recruited from the hamptons.

Go fuck yourself freder and you can take your racism and fascism to China where you belong. Take George soros with you.

Skeptical Voter said...

I'd call these guys Poncho and Lefty. Pro tip--Poncho is the guy with the hat. Or I could see them as The Frito Bandito and his partner in crime Nacho Guacamole.

Jaq said...

Remember when people like Freder talked them into pulling the Speedy Gonzalez cartoons, and then it turned out that he was immensely popular in Latin America, and among Latin Americans? They ended up having to reverse the decision due to the backlash, and here is a free clue, Freder, the backlash was not from racists.

Jaq said...

"We can't treat Mexicans as equals, as grownups in the discussion, the way we might put a beret on a Frenchman!" - Freder.

Original Mike said...

"Go and touch grass, Boomers. "

Mark apparently hasn't noticed the preponderance of Boomers amongst the "resistance".

GRW3 said...

Official notice that normies are no longer phased by bogus accusations of racism.

Krumhorn said...

I loved the Jeffries in a sombrero image captioned High Plains Grifter.

Fredo, your rant is characteristic of the violent and hateful lefties we daily endure. Nasty little shits all.

- Krumhorn

PM said...

They should make a droopy one called The Somberero.

JAORE said...

At least they didn't use images of peanut butter (RACIST!) or golf (RACIST). Could it be at long, long last that hollow charge has been spread so thin its very fabric is fragile gossamer unable to even support itself? Trump not giving a single F may well be due credit. And high time.

Howard said...

If you're Mexicans, where are your sombreros?

Sombreros? We ain't got no sombreros. We don't need no sombreros. I don't have to show you any stinking sombreros!

Howard (not that Howard) said...

"the charge." You just answered yourself.

boatbuilder said...
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boatbuilder said...

Somebody needs a sombrero.

And a Margarita. Lighten up, Freder!

Rusty said...

"We can't treat Mexicans as equals, as grownups in the discussion, the way we might put a beret on a Frenchman!" - Freder.

Yes we can, Freder. And we do. We just don't treat you as a grownup. You have to earn that.

stlcdr said...

R C Belaire said...
Eventually, the memes will pivot to using Devil horns on the Dems. You heard it here first.

10/6/25, 5:51 AM


Devil: "Shit, they are on to me."

bagoh20 said...

Does anybody have a way to get leftists to stop calling everyone "racists" when they disagree on anything?
Yea, me either, so who cares?

Yancey Ward said...

A good tactic is one your supporters like.

Yancey Ward said...

Elaine Benes missed the trend by only 30 years.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

Freedom Fries aren't racist either.

Yancey Ward said...

Only a dunce cap is the proper hat for our Fredo.

Jon Ericson said...

Sputtering Fredo is best Fredo.

Iman said...

“Donald Trump… has been inspiring… since 2020.”

—— El Hakeemito Jeffries

Peachy said...

Charlie Kirk's assassination by a leftist loon.
Collective left do not care.

A sombrero meme - the left melt down in a pool of gooey soupy toxic rage.

Vance said...

So wearing a Sombrero and waving a maraca is racist?

How, exactly? Isn't racism supposed to be something demeaning, like a Democrat wearing blackface? To mock the underlying culture?

So, according to Freder and the rest of the left, apparently wearing a sombrero and playing the maraca is... bad somehow? Because these AI videos seem to show Democrats having a good time. Is that... bad?

Please, Freder, tell us how a sombrero and a maraca or Mariachi band is "bad" so that we too can be outrageously outraged.

Butkus51 said...

I thought Warren was an Indian.

rehajm said...

the left melt down in a pool of gooey soupy toxic rage.

Evergreen.

narciso said...

even she doesn't believe that, but 'Faucahantas' is a good signifier, still

narciso said...

they had Danang Dick, as contrast to the Trump celebration, of the 250th anniversary,

Jim at said...

Oh, no! The left is whining something's racist. What shall I do?

Fuck off.

Jim at said...

Like the left at the height of BLM, the GOP are self-congratulating themselves so hard they're unaware of what they appear to be to anyone not down their rabbit hole.

That is a great comparison ... considering all the rioting and buildings we're burning.

Kirk Parker said...

> Devil horns on the Dems

Given that today's Democrats are the Party of Moloch, that seems appropriate.

JIM said...

Remember when Democrats accused Republicans of pushing wheelchair bound elderly off a cliff?
File this one under the tag "cry me a river".

DINKY DAU 45 said...

oh la la ,they say (you know the "THEY") senorita Ocasio HOT TAMALE. Not a blonde in sight!!(thank goodness)

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