# 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:** 260
**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 3, 2026, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/5215 "2026-04-03T21:01:02Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > You can always try to save your own face by persuading the leopard to eat the face of the person next to you. But then when it’s licking its lips and still peckish… Fourth law of thermodyna[meats]: [meat] on you if [meat] off me. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2026, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/5216 "2026-04-04T00:27:05Z")
What happens when Trump runs out of Fox ‘’‘News’‘’ hosts for cabinet positions? ---
**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 4, 2026, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/5217 "2026-04-04T01:07:43Z")
Maybe he’ll go full circle and recruit OANN and NewsMax personalities, then it’s on to the disgraced podcasters. ---
**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 4, 2026, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/5218 "2026-04-04T01:15:32Z")
There’s the Sex Offenders Registry; he’d find lots of spiritual brethren there to recruit. ---
**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 4, 2026, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/5219 "2026-04-04T03:14:13Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > You can always try to save your own face by persuading the leopard to eat the face of the person next to you. [![](https://i.pinimg.com/474x/4b/d2/6e/4bd26e41fbd2eb2ddc61af0923ea2c12.jpg) ](https://i.pinimg.com/474x/4b/d2/6e/4bd26e41fbd2eb2ddc61af0923ea2c12.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/5220 "2026-04-04T04:34:27Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > Heck, even Jefferson Beauregard Sessions got to a line he refused to cross. But that wasn’t because he actually had principles. He was still playing by the norms and traditions rules. It was early in the admin, before the “but what if we didn’t” plan threw out the norms. I’m sure he regrets it to this day. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/5221 "2026-04-04T11:47:21Z")
A very well-written discussion of loyalty and what it means to Trump. It’s still astonishing to me that the people close to him have no pattern recognition. > **[This Is What Loyalty Costs](https://thehumanityarchive.substack.com/p/this-is-what-loyalty-costs)** > > She begged. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2026, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/5222 "2026-04-04T12:20:56Z")
If they had pattern recognition they’d know better than to be close to him. It’s a self-selecting group. ---
**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 4, 2026, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/5223 "2026-04-04T13:32:31Z")
> The loyalist trap is this: you believe that proximity to power is the same as protection from power. Yeesh. Whatever happened to “the closer you are the Caesar, the greater the fear”? …and now I can’t help but wonder, is that line really original to _The Thin Red Line_? Seems like it ought to be from something. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/5224 "2026-04-04T13:35:40Z")
She had best grifted well. No decent person will hire her. But she could get elected in a county or state I suppose. Is there a liars club? ---
**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:** [April 4, 2026, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/5225 "2026-04-04T13:41:39Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > (_nitpick: except for the typo in “effects” to read “affects”, oh, and the extra “a” in “disloyalty”_) It would be on brand for the trump Presidentin’ library to have errors in the signage. Only the best people! ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/5226 "2026-04-04T13:50:43Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > It would be on brand for the trump Presidentin’ library to have errors in the signage. Only the best people! “The John F Kennedy Trump ‘Library’ (no books allowed)” I can hardly wait until his name gets ripped off of everything. I would like for him to be alive to see it. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/5227 "2026-04-04T14:18:08Z")
> the second time, he hired entirely for loyalty. Or, in the case of females, how physically attracted he was to them. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/5228 "2026-04-04T14:22:52Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > No decent person will hire her. So based on the direction of the country in recent years, she has nothing to worry about. Which is a shame. (Something else we as a country have been lacking in recent years.) ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/5229 "2026-04-04T14:27:20Z")
We have traded shame in for sham. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/5230 "2026-04-04T16:28:12Z")
Another case of “loyalty” that wasn’t rewarded: Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana. Cassidy probably sealed his fate by a vote to impeach Trump. All of Cassidy’s subsequent sycophantic groveling before Trump, including voting to confirm his choice of virulent loon RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary, didn’t prevent Trump from endorsing an opponent in the upcoming LA primary. [https://lailluminator.com/2026/02/13/cassidy-letlow-senate/](https://lailluminator.com/2026/02/13/cassidy-letlow-senate/) ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/5231 "2026-04-04T17:14:30Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > No, because that’s not what this ruling was about, it was about back payments to contractors for work already done. What really astonished me about this affair was the idea that not paying contractors for work previously agreed to and completed could actually be a thing, due only to political changes. Doesn’t that flout the very idea of what a contract is? ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/5232 "2026-04-04T18:27:29Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > Doesn’t that flout the very idea of what a contract is? If a person has a sufficiently distorted (sociopathic, for instance) concept of what makes up a contract, it works out fine. If, for instance, someone feels that a good contract is when they get everything they want and the other part gets fuck-all, that’s how they’ll treat the contract unless someone can apply some type of coersion to the contrary. ---
**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 4, 2026, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/5233 "2026-04-04T21:04:52Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > If, for instance, someone feels that a good contract is when they get everything they want and the other part gets fuck-all, that’s how they’ll treat the contract unless someone can apply some type of coersion to the contrary. This. In DJT World, every transaction (even a handshake) has a winner and a loser. The two parties cannot come out even and mutually satisfied. When they go into the transaction, one side may think will be a fair, agreed-upon outcome, but Donnie knows better. He has his tiny fingers crossed behind his back. He doesn’t feel bound by any such agreements–he HAS to be the winner. He has demonstrated this throughout his whole life. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/5234 "2026-04-04T21:30:42Z")
In the Orange Peril’s world, if the other party gets ANYTHING, he’s a loser. Which is not to be borne. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166.md?page=259) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166.md?page=261)