# 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:** 147
**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 16, 2025, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2921 "2025-04-16T21:09:36Z")
Shocking news for one Trump-loving attorney: > “I really thought things would change after this administration, when we have Mr. Trump in office, things would change to the better,” Atallah said. “Things actually changed to the worse.” [US citizen says he was detained returning from Canada – NBC Boston](https://www.nbcboston.com/news/politics/treated-like-a-criminal-us-citizen-says-he-was-detained-returning-from-canada/3686188/) ---
**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 16, 2025, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2922 "2025-04-16T21:23:26Z")
On top of that one, farmers: [‘Shock to the system’: farmers hit by Trump’s tariffs and cuts say they need another bailout | Trump administration | The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/15/farmers-trump-tariffs-bailout-extreme-weather) To be fair, farming counties only went for Trump with 78%, so some non-Leopard subscribers are unfairly having their faces eaten too. Here’s one bit that should’ve occurred to me, but didn’t: > Trump is also shuttering local food programs which provide farmers with stable domestic markets like public school districts and food banks, helping make farms more resilient to global economic shocks. The [USAID](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/usaid), which purchased about $2bn every year in agricultural products particularly wheat, sorghum and lentils for humanitarian aid programs, has been dismantled. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2025, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2923 "2025-04-16T21:25:33Z")
[![](https://i.imgur.com/k1uIQol.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/k1uIQol.jpeg) > **[Trump floats plan for undocumented farm and hotel workers to work legally in...](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/trump-farmworkers-hotel-workers-undocumented-legal-rcna200722)** > > The president's comments suggested a vague plan that would allow the government to bring back "great" people who are "working hard" and who "go out ... in a nice way." ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2025, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2924 "2025-04-16T21:26:40Z")
If there were even a whisper of logical and economic consistency to these MoFo’s, RFK, Jr., would be touting the idea that these domestic food programs serve as a de facto bulwark against the further dietary incursion into the lives of our children by the likes of Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, and the entire highly-processed food industry. Nope. Missed opportunity, that one :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2025, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2925 "2025-04-16T23:40:32Z")
Next: Find some way to allow undocumented private household workers, gardeners, etc to be allowed to continue working. After all, those houses aren’t going to clean themselves! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2025, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2926 "2025-04-16T23:43:45Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > Next: Find some way to allow undocumented private household workers, gardeners, etc to be allowed to continue working. Where does Mar-a-Lardo stand these days? > **[Trump resort hired undocumented workers](https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/trump/2018/12/07/women-claim-trump-resort-hired-undocumented-workers-trump-organization-denies-it/6747606007/)** > > A two-week long anti-immigrant twitter tirade launched by President Donald Trump from the living room at Mar-a-Lago on Thanksgiving morning ended abruptly on Thursday when two undocumented immigrants… (^ From 7 December 2018.) ---
**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 17, 2025, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2927 "2025-04-17T00:15:49Z")
It’s going to be extremely ironic if Trump winds up stumbling into the exact same immigration policy that Dubya tried to enact 20 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2025, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2928 "2025-04-17T02:31:46Z")
The John Jerome tweet is misleading, I don’t see any indication that they are thinking about not deporting illegal farm workers….i think all they are saying is if they are “good” and self-deport _maybe_ they can come back legally. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2025, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2929 "2025-04-17T02:38:33Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > The whole Trump experience defies history and common experience. He won an election then lost an election. There were people who voted for him who then didn’t. ---
**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 17, 2025, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2930 "2025-04-17T02:57:32Z")
I’m 100% sure some people voted for him and then didn’t, but he received 62.9 million votes in 2016, and 74.2 million votes in 2020, so I’m not sure “won/lost” is the proof of that. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2025, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2931 "2025-04-17T03:01:29Z")
Plus, if this was implemented DJT would run the risk of being torn limb from limb by the MAGA cultists. If he’s _really_ interested in working this angle he just needs to call up Sen. Lankford of OK (R) and ask him if he has a bill that would solve some of these problems. /s ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2025, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2932 "2025-04-17T03:56:47Z")
Good point. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2025, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2933 "2025-04-17T09:10:35Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > Plus, if this was implemented DJT would run the risk of being torn limb from limb by the MAGA cultists. Nah, you just have to implement it properly, with sufficient protocols in place to allow the immigrants to be properly abused by their lords and masters. Restrict them to a single employer, require them to register with the state so the government always knows exactly where they are, deny them access to any social services while they’re here, and make it very easy for the employer to fire and deport them at any time, similar to “right to work” rules. Basically, as close to slavery as we can manage. With such rules in place, it would be trivial to coerce them into paying kickbacks or submitting to sexual abuse. ---
**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 17, 2025, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2934 "2025-04-17T09:24:06Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Nah, you just have to implement it properly, with sufficient protocols in place to allow the immigrants to be properly abused by their lords and masters. Restrict them to a single employer, require them to register with the state so the government always knows exactly where they are, deny them access to any social services while they’re here, and make it very easy for the employer to fire and deport them at any time, similar to “right to work” rules. Basically, as close to slavery as we can manage. With such rules in place, it would be trivial to coerce them into paying kickbacks or submitting to sexual abuse. Well, it was _already_ pretty much like that, but that wasn’t enough for the MAGA types. They want brown people _gone._ Now _blacks,_ they’d probably be in favor of enslaving. “Put the blacks back on the plantations” started making the rounds almost immediately after Trump won. Expelling all brown people and enslaving all black people is probably what they’d find acceptable. ---
**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 17, 2025, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2935 "2025-04-17T11:36:02Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Restrict them to a single employer, require them to register with the state so the government always knows exactly where they are, deny them access to any social services while they’re here, and make it very easy for the employer to fire and deport them at any time… I mean, that’s not too far off for how the work visa programs function today, either by law or in practice. For example, under the :cringe: _Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996_, even legal permanent residents (which is a more permanent status than a work visa) are ineligible for most forms of public benefits for their first 5 years in the US. While H1B “work” visas can be changed, workers can’t just quit and then look for work: first they have to line up a job at a new employer. If they just straight up quit (or get fired!) without having a similar job already lined up, they may be required to leave the US within 60 days unless they have some alternative path to immigration status (not a given). However, under the H2A and H2B visas, which are for the kind of temporary workers Trump has in mind, there is even less flexibility, and more practical hurdles to changing jobs. As far as registration, have you heard about this? > **[The New Registration Requirement: Frequently Asked Questions | Immigrant...](https://www.ilrc.org/community-resources/new-registration-requirement-frequently-asked-questions)** Stand by for some face-eating over that. I guarantee you some MAGA mamma who is in the US undocumented and who urged her US citizen kids to vote for Trump because he was going to leave “law abiding” immigrants like her alone and just go after the “criminals” from countries like [not hers] is going to register under that program thinking they’re being a good American, following the law and maybe even getting a path to residency, when really they’re just raising their hand and saying “Deport me first, please!” The irony is, if MAGAts actually knew immigration law, they might actually get a kick out of how draconian 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 17, 2025, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2936 "2025-04-17T11:45:47Z")
NZ billionaire who described Trump’s election as “sanity coming back” is discovering this is in fact not the case. [Trump tariffs: Zuru Toys co-founder Nick Mowbray says planning through chaos impossible - NZ Herald](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/trump-tariffs-zuru-toys-co-founder-nick-mowbray-says-planning-through-chaos-impossible/AT4U6IOJBRAKPJV7C52CAJJGKQ/) ---
**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 17, 2025, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2937 "2025-04-17T11:51:35Z")
Ladies and gentlemen, we have an anthem. [The Ultimate “Leopards Ate My Face” Rendition!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QGy9D_c1pY) ---
**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 17, 2025, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2938 "2025-04-17T12:13:20Z")
“Planning through chaos impossible” you say? Gee… who’d a thunk it. 🤔 ---
**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 17, 2025, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2939 "2025-04-17T12:57:01Z")
Leopards Eating Face party voting state of Idaho has part of their face eaten by leopards. > **[USDA abruptly halts $59 million grant to University of Idaho](https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/apr/16/usda-abruptly-halts-59-million-grant-to-university/)** > > The University of Idaho took a gut punch earlier this week when the U.S. Department of Agriculture abruptly terminated a $59 million grant, which mostly would have mostly pumped money into Gem State farmers to boost the marketing of most of the crops... ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2025, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/2940 "2025-04-17T13:03:03Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Gee… who’d a thunk it. We really need to study these people. On the one hand, their brains do kind of work: > He also said it would be “obviously impossible” to shift manufacturing of his products from China to the United States to skirt the 145% tariff rate. I mean, he realizes this, right? It’s “obvious” to him that moving to the US just won’t work. So WTF was he thinking, the entire time Trump was campaigning on “Bringing back manufacturing to the US”? Attempting something that was, to this guy, “obviously impossible” didn’t raise any red flags? I just don’t understand these people. I mean, if my prefered candidate started talking about something impossible, like repealing the law of gravity or something, I’m pretty sure I’d at least take a second look at them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166.md?page=146) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166.md?page=148)