# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2024, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/21 "2024-11-12T22:06:55Z")
I mean, it is the epitome of the leopard-eating-face thing. You not only voted for the face-eating leopard, you did so after observing that it ate the faces of all the people who came before you; the face-eating habit of the leopard was never theory, it was an observable (and widely _observed_) fact, but _you still believed the leopard wouldn’t eat **your** face_ ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2024, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/22 "2024-11-12T22:07:10Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Regardless of whatever point in the process prices went up, they’re the ones who end up paying it. And people will soon be realizing just how many things in consumer products, from ingredients to packaging, come from China. ---
**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:** [November 12, 2024, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/23 "2024-11-12T22:30:47Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > the Leppies Lepers. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2024, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/24 "2024-11-12T22:57:43Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > As Trumpite Chad Wolf said on the topic today: “No one is exempt from the law.” He’s wrong. SCOTUS recently ruled otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/25 "2024-11-13T01:04:48Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Once again, it’s the customers who are the losers with a choice between buying $1.50 and $1.60 bottles of ketchup. Don’t forget the guy who unloads the ketchup off the boat - and the people who sell lunch to the dockworkers, the ones who maintain the dockworker’s equipment, and the like. They pay more for ketchup, and lose their jobs, too. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/26 "2024-11-13T01:43:17Z")
When public education collapses, Republicans with autistic and other special needs children are going to find out home schooling isn’t as fun as they were led to believe. Private schools don’t take special needs kids. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/27 "2024-11-13T02:00:41Z")
It will be interesting to watch the domino effect of deporting large numbers of people who basically do the scut work for us. I’m talking about the people who harvest crops, gut the fish, process the meat, etc. These are largely immigrants. Let’s say 50% of them get the boot. So the farmers have to hire other people to do the job. But who wants to do that sort of back-breaking work for minimum wage? So the farmers have to pay workers more money, and they will charge more to the distributors for the product, who will pass that on to the retailers, who will raise their prices. Or, even worse, nobody else will show up to do that necessary labor, which will mean nationwide shortages of nearly everything edible. If the hoopleheads think that inflation is bad now, just fucking wait. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/28 "2024-11-13T02:03:30Z")
Maybe tariffs will bring jobs back. Maybe they will raise revenue. No way they can do both. ---
**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:** [November 13, 2024, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/29 "2024-11-13T02:15:09Z")
What about his clown car of new, unqualified cabinet members? Many of them will have tenures measured in milli-Scaramuccis. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/30 "2024-11-13T02:18:05Z")
I’ve been kind of wondering that too. There’s got to be a betting line somewhere on when the first of Trump’s appointees will leave, voluntarily or otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/31 "2024-11-13T02:20:18Z")
I really, really REALLY hope we don’t have another pandemic while the anti-science loons are in office, especially if it is as serious (and it could be MORE serious) than Covid. The leopards may feast upon us all if that happens. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/32 "2024-11-13T09:07:40Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > It will be interesting to watch the domino effect of deporting large numbers of people who basically do the scut work for us. I’m talking about the people who harvest crops, gut the fish, process the meat, etc. These are largely immigrants. Let’s say 50% of them get the boot. So the farmers have to hire other people to do the job. But who wants to do that sort of back-breaking work for minimum wage? So the farmers have to pay workers more money, and they will charge more to the distributors for the product, who will pass that on to the retailers, who will raise their prices. Something Something Brexit. Literally happened here. “Send them all home”, then “Waaah! who will do the work now?!” ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/33 "2024-11-13T09:20:39Z")
Yeah, got some customers already bitching we don’t have enough staff at the store and “people don’t want to work anymore”. Well, fact is there are a lot of other places to work these days than a big box store, many which involve little or even no abuse from the general public. They don’t make the connection between “remove millions of low-level laborers” and “why are there no low-level workers anymore?” Where is the abundance of native-born citizens to fill these jobs supposed to come from? If it weren’t for immigration the US population would be declining, there are fewer young people than old people now and the whiners certainly aren’t stepping up to do their patriotic part to keep the economy running by taking a low-level job to keep store shelves stocked. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/34 "2024-11-13T09:22:46Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > I really, really REALLY hope we don’t have another pandemic while the anti-science loons are in office, especially if it is as serious (and it could be MORE serious) than Covid. The leopards may feast upon us all if that happens. “Anyone wearing a mask is fair game for the leopards. If they injure you while attempting to tear off your mask, then don’t antagonize them by wearing a mask in the first place.” ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/35 "2024-11-13T09:34:02Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > there are fewer young people than old people now Ah. But this is where the plan is so ingenious. With the nationwide abortion ban, American women will start producing (preferably Caucasian) children en masse. With the added benefit of tethering women to their homes. This will vacate jobs that can be held by all the deserving men, i.e. supporters of the Leprechaun. The men who didn’t are all at “re-orientation camps” thus freeing up even more jobs. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/36 "2024-11-13T10:36:38Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > So the farmers have to pay workers more money, and they will charge more to the distributors for the product, who will pass that on to the retailers, who will raise their prices. Farmers don’t actually set the prices they get paid for their crop. I’m sure they wish they could, but that’s not how the farm market works. But if they can’t get workers at the pay rate they can make money at, the crops will be left to rot in the fields. Which will cut the amount of produce available and that will raise prices. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/37 "2024-11-13T10:43:06Z")
In the short term, sort of; certainly when farmers are faced with the choice of: 1) This much loss, or 2) _More than_ this much loss, they’ll probably choose option 1, but the shortage of produce at the point of retail sale does tend to drive up the price. Whether or not this filters all the way back to the farmers producing the stuff, is questionable; it’s possible that the price goes up solely to keep the supermarkets afloat, at the same time as selling less stuff in total. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/38 "2024-11-13T11:03:42Z")
Let’s face it: Trump’s tariffs will cause prices to rise for all Americans. His supporters will say, “What the hell?”, and his detractors will say, “We told you so.” Trump still does not understand how tariffs work. Ah well. Trump voters, how do you like paying for those additional taxes? Because you are. ---
**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:** [November 13, 2024, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/39 "2024-11-13T11:17:19Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > instead they will be given a free GIF of Elon Musk jumping up and down. More like diving into a pile of gold doubloons like Scrooge McDuck. > [@dtilque](#): > > Farmers don’t actually set the prices they get paid for their crop. I’m sure they wish they could, but that’s not how the farm market works. There’s the old saw about farmers buy retail, sell wholesale, and pay the freight both ways. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/40 "2024-11-13T11:35:21Z")
> [@Charlie\_Tan](#): > > Ah. But this is where the plan is so ingenious. With the nationwide abortion ban, American women will start producing (preferably Caucasian) children en masse. With the added benefit of tethering women to their homes. This will vacate jobs that can be held by all the deserving men, i.e. supporters of the Leprechaun. The men who didn’t are all at “re-orientation camps” thus freeing up even more jobs. Where do the handmaidens come into the picture? Stranger [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166.md?page=3)