# 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:** 136
**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 10, 2025, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2701 "2025-04-10T21:55:28Z")
They are fools, not stupid. Stupid people learn from their mistakes, just slower. Fools never learn. Fools _refuse_ to learn. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2702 "2025-04-10T23:10:28Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > People with less than average intelligence still get to vote. I didn’t mean to imply they were below average intelligence. I meant that they were deliberately doing something terrible and even if it was bad for them, they would keep doing it. It might not be smart, but that’s not the root of the problem. ---
**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 10, 2025, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2703 "2025-04-10T23:48:46Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > They are fools, not stupid. Stupid people learn from their mistakes, just slower. Fools never learn. Fools _refuse_ to learn. QFT. Well said! ---
**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:** [April 11, 2025, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2704 "2025-04-11T01:16:07Z")
Let’s settle on stupid fools. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2705 "2025-04-11T01:47:01Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > I think the leopards are starting to get fat. > > And I love the parasocial delusions, most of these people seem to think Trump is listening directly to them, In the middle of all that there’s the guy who showed a screenshot of how he’d lost $200K = 33% on his investments in the past 3 months. And I’m like, taken out of the story to wonder OK, wait, what were you investing in? Sanctuary Cities R Us? ---
**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 11, 2025, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2706 "2025-04-11T02:17:43Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > most of these people seem to think Trump is listening directly to them If you’ve read Trump’s fundraising emails, they’re written with pretty much the same kind of language televangelists like Peter Popoff and the Bakkers have been using for decades to get their marks to part with their money. It’s very much about engendering this sort of one-sided parasocial relationship where the mark believes that the person ripping them off is communicating personally with them and cares about them on an individual level. These people probably do believe they’ve received personal messages from Trump and that he’s listening to what they have to say, and the only reason they’re losing money is because he’s getting bad advice or the Deep State is sabotaging him. ---
**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 11, 2025, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2707 "2025-04-11T02:24:50Z")
This reminds me of all the people scammed by fake Elon Musk, who really thought he was talking to them. Genuinely, factually, believed it. People are so fucking incurious. ---
**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:** [April 11, 2025, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2708 "2025-04-11T02:41:09Z")
I wondered that too. At the lowest, I’d lost around that amount, but my overall starting point was much higher. How did that moron lose a third? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2709 "2025-04-11T03:21:14Z")
One possibility, [DJT:US](https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/djt). Down about 54% from its high 3 months ago. And of course [Tesla](https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/tsla) down 48%. There are innumerable ways for MAGAs to lose their money betting on the business acumen or their leaders. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2710 "2025-04-11T09:40:00Z")
> [@Zoobi](#): > > Everyone single one of them would still vote for him if an election was held today. Every. Single. One. > > They are venting, but they aren’t turning on him or the Republican party. [![](https://i.redd.it/kt3ah8uddu751.jpg) ](https://i.redd.it/kt3ah8uddu751.jpg) ---
**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 11, 2025, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2711 "2025-04-11T12:33:57Z")
Needs a third panel where they say “Whoooo!! MAGA, baby!” again. ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2712 "2025-04-11T12:51:42Z")
“He tells it like it is!” ---
**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 11, 2025, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2713 "2025-04-11T12:53:46Z")
Oh, that works. ---
**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 11, 2025, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2714 "2025-04-11T13:03:39Z")
Yeah. The look of dismay on the MAGAts’ faces in the second panel is totally not the right sentiment. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2715 "2025-04-11T16:23:42Z")
It never gets old [![](https://i.imgur.com/LOQM6kB.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/LOQM6kB.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2716 "2025-04-11T17:08:25Z")
Oh yeah. That would have totally nailed it. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2717 "2025-04-12T00:24:46Z")
I only have sympathy for the bees: > **[MAGA Beekeeper Admits Trump Tariffs Have Cost Him Half His Business](https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-beekeeper-admits-trump-tariffs-have-cost-him-half-his-business/)** > > “I never thought I was going to lose this much money this fast,” the beekeeper told CNN. > A beekeeper who voted for President Donald Trump three times says he would have “considered other options” after the president ordered tariffs and cuts that could put him out of business. > > “I never thought I was going to lose this much money this fast,” farmer Jim Hartman told CNN, explaining that cuts to the federal budget, combined with the Trump administration’s tariff policy, could cause him to lose over half of his annual income. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2718 "2025-04-12T00:45:11Z")
I made two attempts to ‘sign in’ with Facebook. Unsuccessful. ‘You need a password.’ ‘You need an email.’ Never mind, then! Thank you for quoting the relevant part. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2719 "2025-04-12T04:14:05Z")
> **[Pro-Trump creators play down market turmoil: ‘Losing money costs you nothing’](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pro-trump-creators-play-down-140905396.html)** > > After President Donald Trump’s tariff pledge last week sent stock prices plunging, the pro-Trump influencer Benny Johnson offered his 3 million followers a rosy perspective on the news. “Losing money costs you nothing,” he said on his podcast. “In... “Losing money costs you nothing.” MiniTrue couldn’t have said it better. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2720 "2025-04-12T13:45:22Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > [Pro-Trump creators play down market turmoil: ‘Losing money costs you nothing’](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pro-trump-creators-play-down-140905396.html) Not only play down, but it’s a good thing! I was listening to a radio show last night while driving. The guest had some sort of market-focused channel/podcast or something and was obviously pro-Trump. He said we’re only in the “downslope of a V-shaped economy” and were about to rebound to greater than ever heights. This seems like the “patient before-and-after surgery” analogy that seems currently popular with Trump apologists. A few minutes later, he said the economy was also on solid ground because there was now an adult in charge–Donald Trump–repairing all the damage done by every incompetent admin before him. The guest boohoo’ed claims of a coming recession because we’re actually currently in a recession that Biden caused but no one has noticed. Apparently, all the claims that the economy had the most successful recovery after the pandemic and was the envy of the world were just smoke and mirrors because Biden was manipulating government spending to make “numbers look good” and destroying private business. The decrease in unemployment? All those jobs were going to non-native-born immigrants. Native-born Americans saw increased unemployment. (I don’t know if this is true.) The best part was the defense of tariffs based on trade deficits. You see, all those US dollars spent on goods abroad are money that the American worker no longer has access to. If we had trade surpluses with all those countries or didn’t have to buy goods from them, American workers would be awash in money for themselves. Don’t be misled and discouraged by the mainstream media, MAGA; Donald Trump is fighting the Deep State and working hard to fix and improve the American economy to prosperity never seen before for YOU! (When the guy talked about a “V-shaped economy” I guess he was talking about a graph of a soon-to-come recovery using some variable over time. My first thought was Trump’s economy is probably more L-shaped.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166.md?page=135) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166.md?page=137)