# 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:** 127
**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:** [April 4, 2025, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2521 "2025-04-04T22:40:08Z")
Ben Shapiro has been monched. > **[Republican Accountability (@accountablegop.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/accountablegop.bsky.social/post/3llyirpqagc2i)** > > Ben Shapiro: "Trump's reciprocal tariffs impose hundreds of billions of dollars in new taxes on Americans...One of the biggest tax increases on American consumers in the history of America." ---
**Author:** ![SoToasty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sotoasty/32/2803_2.png) [@SoToasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoToasty)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2522 "2025-04-04T23:11:33Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Trump knows what he’s doing.” I wonder if the people around him told him what to do. As they shorted every stock they could get their hands on.. My quote from this crap… Every businessman in the world just screamed at the U.S. saying Trump is the Dumbest person in the World. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2523 "2025-04-04T23:23:10Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > ~And you know who you were then, > Girls were girls and men were men, > Mister we could use a man like Rex Tillerson again!~ I’ve been thinking of that song also. And the thing that Herbert Hoover did when the market crashed - push harder for the Smoot Hawley tariffs. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2524 "2025-04-05T04:02:49Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > Some MAGAs seem to think the virus was a hoax, or a Chinese plot to make Trump look bad, etc. President’s can make their whole reputation with how they respond to a crisis. Bush the Younger was president on 9/11, but in the aftermath he took charge and launched decisive action in response. (It was bollocks, but we didn’t know that at the time.) The country rallied around him, and he was re-elected. If COVID was a Chinese plot, they were handing Trump a golden opportunity. All he had to do was follow the science, take decisive steps to keep people healthy, and it could have launched him into a second term. But, he didn’t. He fucked it up. COVID as a plot only makes sense if the perpetrators knew, in advance, that Trump was going to fuck it up. Anyone who says COVID was a plot is admitting the same thing. They knew Trump would fuck it up, too. That’s the only way it makes any sense. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2025, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2525 "2025-04-05T05:16:53Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Anyone who says COVID was a plot is admitting the same thing. They knew Trump would fuck it up, too. That’s the only way it makes any sense. That’s where the doublethink comes in - it was a biological doomsday weapon unleashed by Jyna and Dr. Fauci and also a hoax no more dangerous than the common cold. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2526 "2025-04-05T09:56:52Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > That’s where the doublethink comes in - it was a biological doomsday weapon unleashed by Jyna and Dr. Fauci and also a hoax no more dangerous than the common cold. Yeah, it’s classic conspiracy theorist thinking, or rather, _not_-thinking. Since they are avoiding using critical thought in the first place conspiracy theories tend to be _fractally irrational,_ full of absurdity at every level; including internal contradictions like that. A mishmash of whatever ideas feel “right” to them with no concern for if they fit together. Really if you think about it, it’s the pandemic version of the classic fascist conception of the enemy as simultaneously an existential threat and pathetically weak. ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2527 "2025-04-05T11:11:16Z")
> [@SoToasty](#): > > Every businessman in the world just screamed at the U.S. saying Trump is the Dumbest person in the World. I had a meeting with the head of purchasing for a very large customer of ours yesterday. I’ve known this guy a while and he was definitely a Trumper. Well, during the small talk part of the meeting yesterday he went on a tirade about what an idiot Trump is. So there is hope. By the way, pharma also has supply chains that crisscross borders. Our prices will have to go up starting next week. ---
**Author:** ![mozchron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mozchron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mozchron)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2528 "2025-04-05T12:02:31Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > fractally irrational This is a wonderful concept. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2025, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2529 "2025-04-05T13:25:08Z")
> [@OldOlds](#): > > I had a meeting with the head of purchasing for a very large customer of ours yesterday. But alas, it’s just more “I didn’t think the leopard would it _my_ face” sobbing. People who are head of purchasing for large companies and people who _don’t_ have holdings in the stock market (whether as individual stocks or as part of a retirement plan or mutual fund) just think it’s more standing up for the little guy by eating the slightly less little guy. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2530 "2025-04-05T14:07:36Z")
> [@mozchron](#): > > > [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > > > fractally irrational > > This is a wonderful concept. QFT. Bravo there @Der_Trihs, that is a brilliant characterization. CT-style thinking calls an image to mind for me. Namely a child jumbling several jigsaw puzzles’ pieces together on the table and just sort of piling the pieces here and there with no real attempt at getting tab A into matching slot B, then calling Mom over to marvel at how well they’ve assembled the puzzle. ---
**Author:** ![Chad\_Sudan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chad_sudan/32/4509_2.png) [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2531 "2025-04-05T14:33:21Z")
Serving up more _visage tartare_… - “When I listen to Trump, what he’s saying is, ‘It’s a short-term pain, but there’s the light at the end of the tunnel.’” - “I’m not an expert in economics, but I do see how he’s trying to bring manufacturing back… It’s not going to happen from one day to the next.” [7 Americans Weigh In on Trump’s Sweeping Tariffs](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/us/tariffs-trump-voters-reaction.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9U4.EoB_.2Pg5BYhzjpJc&smid=url-share) – _New York Times_ (gift link) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2532 "2025-04-05T14:35:15Z")
Generally you build a new bridge before demolishing the old one. It’s even better if you stop traffic on the old one _before_ setting off the charges. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2533 "2025-04-05T14:59:22Z")
👏👏👏 This is the perfect explanation of this administration. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2534 "2025-04-05T15:07:43Z")
The longtime Democrat who voted for Trump because she thought he could help the economy can go fuck herself. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2535 "2025-04-05T15:09:02Z")
She might have to get in line… ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2536 "2025-04-05T15:13:53Z")
I’m not sure what that means. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2537 "2025-04-05T15:16:54Z")
It means that a non-zero number of people in the second America-hating fuckstick administration are already screwing her. I won’t speculate on the actual number. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2538 "2025-04-05T15:23:46Z")
Reading those (most of them) just made me want to weep. The guy who seems to think that all the money the USA will raise from tariffs will be used for Universal Health Care and feeding the poor??? _“We could do that but we don’t have the money”_??? The level of stupidity is beyond comprehension. They’ve seen Der Trumpnik in action-- WHY do they still expect him to do great things for the ordinary citizens of this country. Trump is the quintessential example of, _“When people tell you who they are, believe them.”_ ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2539 "2025-04-05T15:51:34Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > The guy who seems to think that all the money the USA will raise from tariffs will be used for Universal Health Care and feeding the poor??? Ya have to wonder how that idiot has never heard of Medicaid or SNAP and how MAGA wants to gut both. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2540 "2025-04-05T16:59:21Z")
> [@Chad\_Sudan](#): > > - “When I listen to Trump, what he’s saying is, ‘It’s a short-term pain, but there’s the light at the end of the tunnel.’” Sounds like Chauncey Gardiner. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166.md?page=126) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166.md?page=128)