# 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:** 171
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2025, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/3401 "2025-05-21T12:14:35Z")
Thoughts and prayers arriving in two weeks. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2025, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/3402 "2025-05-21T12:41:28Z")
I’m lost. What happens in two weeks? ---
**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:** [May 21, 2025, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/3403 "2025-05-21T12:58:20Z")
You get an excuse and a suggestion to wait two more weeks. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2025, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/3404 "2025-05-21T13:04:31Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I’m lost. What happens in two weeks? Red staters are still fucked, but blame Biden. ETA: I heard one of them blame Obama the other day for the quality of the local school’s lunches. The dude has been out of office for almost a decade. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2025, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/3405 "2025-05-21T13:46:01Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > ETA: I heard one of them blame Obama the other day for the quality of the local school’s lunches. The dude has been out of office for almost a decade. Remember when Michelle Obama tried to improve school lunches and the conservatives went bat shit? Neither do they… ---
**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:** [May 21, 2025, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/3406 "2025-05-21T14:00:41Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Remember when Michelle Obama tried to improve school lunches and the conservatives went bat shit? Well, that’s just it! Obama should have suspended _Haveus Lunchus_, and forced them to develop better school lunches! ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2025, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/3407 "2025-05-21T14:19:29Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Haveus Lunchus I picture some little kid who watches too much HeMan holding a sandwich and a juice pack over his head, proclaiming, “I HAVE THE LUNCH!” ---
**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:** [May 21, 2025, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/3408 "2025-05-21T15:30:01Z")
Well, they sorta remember “Obama … something … something … school lunch”. And since it involves the Dems, it _had_ to have been eeeevil. The rest is just irrelevant details in their minds. And I use the term “minds” loosely. They may not have been born mindless, but 30 years exposure to relentless RW propaganda has pretty well deprived them of the ability to think rather than just parrot. ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2025, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/3409 "2025-05-21T20:08:41Z")
This appears to be the correct thread for this: > **[‘Karma Hits the C-Suite’: Target CEO Takes $9.9M Pay Cut After $1M Trump...](https://thesarkariform.com/karma-hits-the-c-suite-target-ceo-takes-9-9m-pay-cut-after-1m-trump-donation-and-dei-cuts/)** > > Target CEO Brian Cornell saw his compensation drop sharply in 2024, continuing a multi-year downward trend… ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2025, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/3410 "2025-05-21T20:30:01Z")
Is _The Sarkari Form_ a fact-based news source? It might be, but I’ve never heard of it and so I’m skeptical. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2025, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/3411 "2025-05-21T20:46:33Z")
MSN has the same story about his earnings decrease. Technically his wages aren’t changes, it’s incentives that dropped. > **[MSN](https://www.msn.com/)** [Let’s try that link again?](https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/target-ceo-brian-cornell-s-pay-declines-45-to-99m/ar-AA1DWXjh?) ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2025, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/3412 "2025-05-21T21:30:38Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Well, they sorta remember “Obama … something … something … school lunch”. And since it involves the Dems, it _had_ to have been eeeevil. The rest is just irrelevant details in their minds. And I use the term “minds” loosely. Not quite: they remember “Obama…something…school lunch…NWORD.” Sorry, I meant to say: “they voted for Trump because of inflation.” ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2025, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/3413 "2025-05-21T21:40:21Z")
Can you keep him please? We don’t need more of that kind of idiot down here. Eh bueh I suppose we’ll have to take him, one idiot more or less won’t make a difference. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2025, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/3414 "2025-05-21T23:21:16Z")
> [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](#): > > This appears to be the correct thread for this: Well, TBF if it’s a _multi_-year year downward trend the current administration isn’t solely to blame, unless maybe it started with Trump 1.0 and Biden “only” slowed the trend. ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2025, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/3415 "2025-05-21T23:35:04Z")
Perhaps more schadenfreude then. So not the right thread after all. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2025, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/3416 "2025-05-22T17:30:34Z")
How many MAGA voters and MAGA-adjacent (i.e.: relatives) are going to lose their health care? # [GOP bill raises fears of major reduction in home care for seniors, disabled](https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5312979-gop-bill-fears-of-major-reduction-home-care-seniors-disabled/) > Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” proposes cutting billions from social benefit programs, including $800 billion from Medicaid and $300 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). > Medicaid also provides health insurance coverage to about 5 million disabled Americans. > > Medicaid is also a major funder of nursing home care. Medicare, the federal health insurance program for Americans 65 and older, only covers short nursing home stays. Medicaid will often pay for Longer-term nursing home stays and at-home care for low-income Americans who qualify. > > The program pays more than [60 percent](https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/medicaid-nursing-home-payments-care-mandate/) of long-term care residents in nursing homes, according to reporting from KFF Health News. [Passed the House this morning.](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-house-passed-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-heres-how-it-affects-taxpayers-and-businesses-110041500.html) ---
**Author:** ![LoneRhino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lonerhino/32/1311_2.png) [@LoneRhino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LoneRhino)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/3417 "2025-05-22T17:57:14Z")
As a disabled person, this scares the shit out of me. I’m also trying to get disability from Social Security. I don’t know if the current regime is going to make that harder. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2025, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/3418 "2025-05-22T19:39:52Z")
At a minimum, the staffing cuts at SSA will make the process slower, even it it’s no more difficult in terms of meeting the rules & policies. MAGA’s goal has always been to disassemble anything but the “survival of the fittest”. Where for “fittest” you can substitute “most wealthy”. ---
**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:** [May 24, 2025, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/3419 "2025-05-24T23:00:14Z")
And when the _vast majority_ of MAGA is _light years_ away from “most wealthy” you’d think that they’d…aaa, forget it. ---
**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:** [May 24, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/3420 "2025-05-24T23:10:00Z")
There’s a political corollary to the old saw about “You can’t cheat an honest man.” I can’t formulate it tightly but it’s something like “You can’t bamboozle a [something] person.” Which [something] is really missing from the generic MAGA psyche. I just don’t know what word or two fits to succinctly complete the saying. Any ideas? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166.md?page=170) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166.md?page=172)