{"id":923,"date":"2025-08-11T01:39:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T01:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/?p=923"},"modified":"2025-08-13T23:42:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T23:42:00","slug":"tamales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/tamales\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"942\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/whitebkg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-927\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/whitebkg.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/whitebkg-1600x754.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/whitebkg-768x362.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/whitebkg-1536x723.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This started as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DNMlBduJxj9\/\">doodle<\/a> after hearing about that old tamale lady getting taken down, <a href=\"https:\/\/sanfernandosun.com\/2025\/06\/25\/pacoima-tamales-vendor-suffers-a-heart-attack-during-ice-raid\/\">literally<\/a>, by ICE. Then that South Park episode <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kD4EE6qVIBI\">came out<\/a> and the Kristi Noem face seemed like a rather appropriate addition. Put in a bit more effort in it, and ha. Even I can see the temptation in being a Nazi for a $50k sign on bonus. Damn my empathy and general caring about other human beings&#8230;<br><br>No worries though, this soapbox won&#8217;t come out too often. I&#8217;m not really interested in doing political cartoons, there&#8217;s folks more passionate about covering those subjects and I&#8217;d be fuckin&#8217; depressed if that&#8217;s all I did&#8230; but this one hit a bit close to home. As a California kid I grew up with an old mexican lady who would sell tamales in our neighborhood every year. It was great. We&#8217;d buy a ton of em and load up our freezer. I&#8217;d throw a tamale in the microwave after school in the corn shell and it was amazing. I still crave them decades later.<br><br>The idea of her being hurt in anyway for any reason is appalling. I hope her family is okay.<br><br>You can have your political opinions, but if you don&#8217;t see this for what it is, absurd and cruel, than you&#8217;ve lost your humanity.<br><br>-K<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This started as a doodle after hearing about that old tamale lady getting taken down, literally, by ICE. Then that South Park episode came out and the Kristi Noem face seemed like a rather appropriate addition. Put in a bit<br \/><a class=\"btn-more btn btn-danger btn-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/tamales\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930,"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions\/930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}