# 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:** 249
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/4995 "2026-02-02T03:08:20Z")
And in Texas. She got shellacked by the Dem in a Republican dominated area. Demento Don backed her … now has no knowledge of her. [![](https://images.spot.im/image/upload/v200/68c1a086-d142-4003-a496-56c34b810460) ](https://images.spot.im/image/upload/v200/68c1a086-d142-4003-a496-56c34b810460) ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/4996 "2026-02-02T03:13:15Z")
> [@Mr.Duality](#): > > My security software alerted on that Rice News page Wow, okay. Sorry. I’m using Windows Defender and Chrome is my browser. I am getting no alerts. I certainly wouldn’t post a suspicious link. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2026, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/4997 "2026-02-02T05:27:56Z")
Piece of shit can’t go ten seconds without lying. He won Texas by 14 points. I mean, that would be enough for a normal person, but Liar McShitMyPants just has to inflate every number. I’d love to hear him tell us is IQ score. Would 200 be high enough? ---
**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:** [February 2, 2026, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/4998 "2026-02-02T05:43:06Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Would 200 be high enough? I can imagine him boasting about getting “a perfect 100” on an IQ test. But then (1) even that would be inflated and (2) IQ tests are bunk and I am ashamed to even imply that there is merit to them. There isn’t. But I couldn’t resist the punchline. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2026, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/4999 "2026-02-02T06:00:41Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Piece of shit can’t go ten seconds without lying. He won Texas by 14 points. The 17 points is in reference to the district this state Senate election took place in, not the entire state. > **[Democrat wins special election for red Texas Senate seat](https://www.texastribune.org/2026/01/30/texas-senate-district-9-runoff-rehmet-wambsganss-special-election/)** > > With ballots tallied from all but a handful of voting centers, Rehmet had 57% of the vote, besting the 43% for his GOP opponent, Leigh Wambsganss, who had a massive spending advantage. > Democrat and machinist union leader Taylor Rehmet won the special election Saturday to represent a solidly red Texas Senate district that President Donald Trump carried by 17 points in 2024, a stunning upset that injected a fresh and urgent sense of a panic into the GOP from the Texas Capitol to the White House heading into November’s midterm elections. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/5000 "2026-02-02T06:06:02Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Piece of shit can’t go ten seconds without lying. He won Texas by 14 points. > [@Smapti](#): > > The 17 points is in reference to the district this state Senate election took place in, not the entire state. And it appears that Trump simply repeated “17 points” in response to whoever asked him the question, and who had teed up “in an area you won by 17 points.” I can say with 100% certainty that Trump has no actual idea if he won Texas as a whole by 14 points, 17 points, or 1000 points (yes, I know, impossible), much less the area in Texas of that state Senate district. He just knows that he won _bigly_. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Duality](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.duality/32/4098_2.png) [@Mr.Duality](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Duality)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/5001 "2026-02-02T06:10:25Z")
The alert came from Malwarebytes Premium. It said “riskware”. I use Malwarebytes Premium and Avast Premium in conjunction with the FireFox browser. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2026, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/5002 "2026-02-02T07:12:24Z")
Ah, thanks. Usually I’d give a shit about getting it wrong, but all I really wanted was to say terrible things about Anusface Fucknugget. Sick, twisted, evil un-American stain on all of our honor. Whew. I don’t feel better at all. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/5003 "2026-02-02T10:02:49Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > > [@icon](#): > > > > You are right Contra came out in 1987 so he presided over that impossible to play video game without the Konami code! > > > > It was a fun game though… > > I could beat it with the 3(?) standard lives (although that was after practicing with the extra cheat code ones). Spread gun for the win! Spread gun? What the hell are you smoking? The laser was where it was at. Not only was it the best against the bosses, because it would do multiple hits in just one shot it was the best for those 3D type of levels that required you to shoot at the power source. The spread gun was horrible against bosses and those levels. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2026, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/5004 "2026-02-02T14:53:32Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > The 17 points is in reference to the district this state Senate election took place in, not the entire state. That was my take on it: He’s “never heard” about this district, the person running in it, or that there was a special election last week, but oh, just coincidentally, he remembers exactly how much he won it by just off the top of his head. Totally plausible. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/5005 "2026-02-02T20:49:39Z")
This should fit in this thread: > **[Brazilian influencer who defended US immigration crackdown arrested by ICE](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/02/rightwing-brazilian-influencer-junior-pena-arrested-by-ice)** > > Trump supporter Júnior Pena falsely claimed migrants being rounded up, including Brazilians, were ‘all crooks’ > “I [support] Donald Trump – I like the guy,” announced the South American TikToker and Instagrammer whose account purports to show “the reality of the United States” from a migrant’s perspective. > > In a previous video, Pena reportedly urged Brazilians to stay calm and not “despair” after reports that ICE agents were rounding up migrants, including Brazilians. “But they’re all crooks. The lot of them,” > […] > On Saturday, Pena was himself reportedly detained and sent to the Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark, New Jersey. One friend told the local newspaper the Brazilian Times that Pena had been taken into custody after missing a court hearing. Only criminals have court hearings. And only stupid criminals miss them. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2026, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/5006 "2026-02-02T22:46:46Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > That was my take on it: He’s “never heard” about this district, the person running in it, or that there was a special election last week, but oh, just coincidentally, he remembers exactly how much he won it by just off the top of his head He didn’t “remember it off the top of his head”, though. He was repeating what the reporter just told him. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2026, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/5007 "2026-02-03T00:02:38Z")
“Mr President, we’ve arrested Brazilian illegal immigrants!” “Great! But where could you possibly house so many?” ---
**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:** [February 5, 2026, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/5008 "2026-02-05T14:27:34Z")
Tariffs are going well for farmers in my region. > **[WSU agriculture economist: Area farmers face grim realities](https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/feb/04/wsu-agriculture-economist-area-farmers-face-grim-r/)** > > Eastern Washington farmers, who face a double-gut punch of higher input costs and low prices for wheat, could force career-altering decisions soon if economic forces don't change, an agriculture economist told them Wednesday. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/5009 "2026-02-05T19:42:13Z")
> Two or three more years of net returns to farmers like we’ve had this past year and I would expect those bankruptcy numbers to take off.” And then Trump’s oligarchs can step in and get the farms for pennies on the dollar! Winning! ---
**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:** [February 6, 2026, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/5010 "2026-02-06T02:46:04Z")
They’ll vote for him even as their heads go under water. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2026, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/5011 "2026-02-06T11:50:48Z")
Yeah that’s the thing. In some other site I saw one of the “repentant voters” clarify that they’ll “never vote for a Democrat”, before laying out why they were giving up on MAGA. So the most we can expect is they sit it out, the likeliest is they STILL vote for whoever the Republican is on that ballot. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2026, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/5012 "2026-02-06T13:01:58Z")
'Zactly. The RW propaganda machine and the social monoculture od farmland America has filled their heads with three incontrovertible “facts”: D = evil, R = righteous, and MAGA = wonderful. They are now struggling to swallow the last of those three. Which does nothing to undermine their rock-solid belief in the first two. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2026, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/5013 "2026-02-06T13:14:55Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > So the most we can expect is they sit it out, I used to be a strong advocate for getting everyone out to vote in every election, but honestly, lately, I’ve started thinking that getting MAGAs to just entirely drop out of public participation is the best option. They’ve proven that they simply cannot analyse current events in a rational way, to arrive at reasonable conclusions upon which to base their votes. Even if they temporarily abandon Trump and the Republicans, they’ll still be picking their next candidate in the same messed up manner they used to glom onto Trump to begin with. Far better that they just stay out of it entirely. ---
**Author:** ![irae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f0a364/32.png) [@irae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irae)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/5014 "2026-02-06T19:01:59Z")
The way they did before 1979 when Reagan called. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166.md?page=248) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166.md?page=250)