# Surprises coming for voters for the Leopards-Eating-Faces Party **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [November 12, 2024, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166 "2024-11-12T19:54:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 113
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2241 "2025-03-19T00:24:07Z")
Well, so far this term Trump is 0-2 in the Supreme Court and Roberts was in the majority on both, so that’s considerably less than “100% in the tank for Trump”. > **[Supreme Court rejects Trump administration's bid to avoid paying USAID...](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rejects-trump-administrations-bid-avoid-paying-usaid-con-rcna194230)** > > The administration’s efforts to effectively dismantle the foreign aid agency led contractors to file a suit claiming they're owed money. [https://www.npr.org/2025/02/21/nx-s1-5302492/supreme-court-special-counsel-hampton-dellinger](https://www.npr.org/2025/02/21/nx-s1-5302492/supreme-court-special-counsel-hampton-dellinger) ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2242 "2025-03-19T00:32:23Z")
Granted, but we’ll see when something that actually helps or hinders Trump’s plans appears on his docket. Ruling that people who are owed money should be paid is not much of a slapdown. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2243 "2025-03-19T02:17:40Z")
Pretty sure Fox News will have an increasingly hard time trying to spin all this dysfunction to MAGA viewers especially if serious threats to Social Security and Medicare are actually implemented, and maybe that is what’ll be required for a lot of people to finally come to their senses. 😒I mean, Jesse Waters can smooth things over only so much. 😄 Actually speaking of that never-polished-enough turd… > **[MAGA superfan Jesse Watters once again laments DOGE cuts that impact him](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-jesse-watters-doge-cuts-b2716057.html)** > > Johns Hopkins University announced staff layoffs as a result of massive funding cuts to federal aid programs – where Watters’s sister works > [@](#): > > “I just saw some news that Trump took some grants away from Johns Hopkins where my sister works and now my mom is upset,” Watters told guest Ned Ryun, the founder of conservative nonprofit American Majority. aw, maaaaaa… ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2244 "2025-03-19T02:27:39Z")
So the government has actually handed over the money? edited to add: oops, no. The last line reads “The court delayed acting on the case for a week. In the meantime, the contractors have not been paid.” ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2245 "2025-03-19T02:33:20Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > The last line reads “The court delayed acting on the case for a week. Referring to the week before that ruling was issued, which was on March 5th. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2246 "2025-03-19T02:35:37Z")
So has the money actually been released to USAID by the government? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2247 "2025-03-19T02:41:14Z")
If you have a cite that it hasn’t, then why are you keeping it to yourself? ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2248 "2025-03-19T02:43:37Z")
Our USAID project is still 100% shutdown. No huge spigot in CA turned on yet. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2249 "2025-03-19T02:45:25Z")
Why are you attempting to answer a question with a question? I am not seeing _anything_ in your link that says the money has actually been given by the government to USAID. Your own fucking link is my cite. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2250 "2025-03-19T02:46:43Z")
So you don’t have a cite, then. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2251 "2025-03-19T02:48:31Z")
Are you saying USAID funding has already been restored? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2252 "2025-03-19T02:48:41Z")
Your own link is my cite. Nothing in your link says that the money was actually paid out. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2253 "2025-03-19T02:56:38Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Are you saying USAID funding has already been restored? No, because that’s not what this ruling was about, it was about back payments to contractors for work already done. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > Nothing in your link says that the money was actually paid out. Correct! That’s because it’s an article about the ruling that was written on the day of the ruling. It cannot make statements about events in the future. That’s how causality works. Now do you have a cite for your off-topic unsolicited gotcha ya or not? ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2254 "2025-03-19T03:00:34Z")
Well, I’ve had **Smapti** on ignore since he came out in favor of genocide, but I think I can infer his position from all the replies: _The leopard won’t actually eat anyone’s faces because that would be illegal. Pay no attention to the mass of blood and puss where my face used to be. Tis but a flesh wound, I assure you!_ ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2255 "2025-03-19T03:04:27Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > I’ve had **Smapti** on ignore since he came out in favor of genocide, but I think I can infer his position from all the replies: _The leopard won’t actually eat anyone’s faces because that would be illegal. Pay no attention to the mass of blood and puss where my face used to be. Tis but a flesh wound, I assure you!_ You’d be wrong - but seeing as I’ve never “come out in favor of genocide”, that seems to be par for the course for you. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2256 "2025-03-19T03:36:25Z")
Did I forget to thank you for providing the cite I needed? I am so sorry about that. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2257 "2025-03-19T03:39:04Z")
So to recap, your proof that the administration is defying the Supreme Court is that an article about its ruling, written on the day of its ruling, does not say that events set to take place on a future date have already happened. Isn’t there another thread you can shit on with your “Trump is all powerful and the tides themselves obey his command” schtick? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2258 "2025-03-19T04:57:32Z")
That’s your schtick, not mine, bucky. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2259 "2025-03-19T05:30:43Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > _Pay no attention to the mass of blood and puss where my face used to be._ Interesting typo. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2260 "2025-03-19T06:17:16Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Pretty sure Fox News will have an increasingly hard time trying to spin all this dysfunction to MAGA viewers especially if serious threats to Social Security and Medicare are actually implemented Nah, they’ll just blame the Dems. “You may have noticed a disruption in your Social Security payments. Trump is working hard to reform and fix the system and replace it with something better, but those evil Democrats are sabotaging and disrupting his efforts. It’s their fault you’re not getting paid.” Cue stochastic terrorism. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166.md?page=112) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166.md?page=114)