It’s harder to get endless pasta at Olive Garden than to vote in 26 states 70%
By Andrea Widburg87%
7/18/2026, 4:00:00 AM
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Two days ago, Olive Garden debuted a pasta lover's dream: a "Never-Ending Pasta Pass" that allowed 10,000 lucky pass holders, for the low, low price of $100, to have unlimited access to 120 different pasta dishes (including endless soup or salad and breadsticks) for thirteen weeks this fall.
Such a deal for the lucky people who acted fast (it's already sold out).
This is not a new promotion.
However, this year, what made the Olive Garden promotion newsworthy is that, even as Trump revealed on Thursday that many U.S. elections are vulnerable to and even riddled with fraud and foreign interference, the Olive Garden's firmly ruled that there can be no pasta access without a a valid photo ID:
No.
The Never-Ending Pasta Pass is only for use by the Passholder whose name is printed on the Pass.
Passes are personalized and non-transferable.
Passholders must present a valid photo I.D. along with the Pass at the time of ordering.
- Olive Garden (@olivegarden) July 16, 2026
Naturally, people noticed the incongruity of Olive Garden's strictures versus the collapse of our constitutional republic into a banana republic.
Sardonic observations and memes flowed with the speed and richness of those unlimited pasta dishes.
Here are some of the best:
Number of states which require ID to vote in our elections: 36
Number of states where Olive Garden requires ID for a pasta pass: 50 pic.twitter.com/YUxXeSKot5
- Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 17, 2026
Getting a deal at Olive Garden should not be more secure than voting in federal elections.
Demand Voter ID pic.twitter.com/yizi1aze1o
- America (@america) July 18, 2026
Olive Garden is basically banning black people and married women from using their pasta passes
Literally shaking rn pic.twitter.com/tPtwjOWHs6
Olive Garden implemented the SAVE America Act more quickly than the US Senate. pic.twitter.com/LoHZpLLrfL
- ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) July 17, 2026
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@StephenM : "We've reached a point in society where access to fettuccine at Olive Garden is vastly more secure than deciding who is Commander-in-Chief of the country."
PASS THE SAVE AMERICA ACT!
https://t.co/3ouug0dSOd pic.twitter.com/u9Jb4wxKy8
- Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 17, 2026
BREAKING 🚨: Olive Garden to deploy retinal scanners for Never Ending Pasta Pass. pic.twitter.com/z3FIY73QJp
- The Drunk Republican (@DrunkRepub) July 18, 2026
What if I gave birth at an Olive Garden location?
Is my baby entitled to a never-ending pasta pass?
https://t.co/OCRCcMX2wG
- Hayley Caronia (@hayleycaronia) July 17, 2026
President Trump didn't forget his ID.
You don't mess around when Olive Garden is serving endless pasta.
😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/Lf3AXJ0zyv
- Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) July 17, 2026
It's all funny...and tragic.
The Constitution, at Article IV, Sec. 2, mandates that our government must ensure that we have a "Republican Form of Government."
Unfortunately, in 2026, that does not mean a Republican Party government.
(While the GOP is no great shakes, it's better than the Dems and the DSA.)
Instead, as the Founders understood that term, this phrase had a very specific meaning.
James Madison explained in The Federalist Papers: No.
39 ,
...we may define a republic to be, or at least may bestow that name on, a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure, for a limited period, or during good behavior.
It is ESSENTIAL to such a government that it be derived from the great body of the society, not from an inconsiderable proportion, or a favored class of it; otherwise a handful of tyrannical nobles, exercising their oppressions by a delegation of their powers, might aspire to the rank of republicans, and claim for their government the honorable title of republic.
In other words, the citizens of a nation vote for their political leaders, and it must be understood by all that the people did in fact cast those votes.
Otherwise, the government is illegitimate.
In a time when most Americans lived in small, rural communities or close-knit neighborhoods in cities, no one doubted that the man who cast a vote was who he said he was.
However, in today's vast communities, where neighbors are strangers to each other, only a photo ID can confirm a person's identity, ensuring the republican government our Constitution demands.
Because (mostly) Democrat governance in 26 states has done away with photo ID to vote, you know fraud is inevitable, and this fraud denies you and me our republican form of government.
Thus, we have no way of knowing whether our votes are being nullified by China or by a handful of tyrannical leftists.
As for me, all I know is that I have very good reason to doubt whether any of the Democrats in Congress are rightfully there.
For this reason, I rightly fear tyranny whenever they cast their votes-and that's no joke.
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