# 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:** 45
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/881 "2024-12-30T15:43:33Z")
I think the problem with that article is the assumption, or implication, that the only reason that people highlight these examples is out of sadism and we are taking some enjoyment from hearing about suffering. “Schadenfreude” as he puts it. As I said upthread, I see these examples as _positive_; that at least some people might realize they have been duped, and (one can only wish for some minority of cases) think about what they could do to not be so easily fooled in future. _Fighting ignorance_ is what this forum is about after all. And, in terms of hate, most of my hate is directed at the people who knowingly lied, or enabled the liars. The platforms spewing nonsense day after day and earning a lavish lifestyle out of it. Meanwhile, sure, some people may have voted for bigoted reasons…I think they very much deserve a backfiring, but that’s case by case, not simply the set of all Trump voters. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2024, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/882 "2024-12-30T15:44:45Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > I agree with the sentiment of the opinion piece. Trump is a giant shit sandwich all of us have to swallow, it’s just that some of us have to take bigger bites than others. This makes it hard to take a lot of joy in seeing Trump supporters get their just desserts. But if I hear a Trump supporter bellyaching, I’m going to tell them to keep it to themselves. I don’t want to see them open their mouths unless it’s to take a big bite of the shit sandwich they made As the saying goes: > The more bread you have, the less shit in your shit sandwich. Gonna be epically bad for a lot of trump voters, both the working poor and the more comfortable who’ve been getting a lot of unnoticed federal subsidies. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/883 "2024-12-30T16:02:23Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > Trump supporters get their just desserts “Just deserts”, for what it’s worth. I think it’s related to getting what they deserve. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/884 "2024-12-30T16:06:33Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > “Just deserts”, for what it’s worth. I think it’s related to getting what they deserve. Just when I thought I knew the difference between the desert and dessert it gets more complicated. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/885 "2024-12-30T17:16:24Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > > The more bread you have, the less shit in your shit sandwich. Kinda related saying I heard in your great state a couple of years back: **If you find yourself with a mouthful of shit, you might as well swallow it, because chewing isn’t gonna make it taste any better.** Not really on point, but I found it amusing - and appropriate for certain situations. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/886 "2024-12-30T17:32:54Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > white color job I haven’t seen one of those since 1964! ---
**Author:** ![leahcim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/887 "2024-12-30T17:44:13Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > Brings to mind a piece of cynical (but sadly too often true) advice I was given decades ago: “If you can’t spot the sucker in the deal, it’s probably you.” I prefer, “You can’t cheat an honest man. He has to have larceny in his heart in the first place.” MAGA didn’t think there were no suckers in the deal, they just thought the sucker was someone else. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2024, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/888 "2024-12-30T18:14:16Z")
That’s one of the rules of poker – right after _Don’t play with a man called Doc_. _When you sit at the table take a look around. If you can’t spot the fish, it’s **you** _. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2024, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/889 "2024-12-30T18:33:14Z")
I have _zero_ sympathy for anyone who supported trump; they _decided_ they wanted to hurt everyone else, whether out of malice or willful stupidity. If they get caught in the fallout of their evil, that’s just a bit of karma. The reason why it’s hard to find much joy in it isn’t because they are suffering too, but because their suffering doesn’t make the rest of us off better off in any way. Not even in the “learn from their mistakes” way; this is Trump’s _second_ term, it’s clear they are incapable or unwilling of learning. If they could they’d vote for him again for a third term, even if it was their last act as they die from his decisions. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2024, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/890 "2024-12-30T19:03:33Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > > [@LSLGuy](#): > > > > white color job > > I haven’t seen one of those since 1964! Oops. 😲 As Gary Larsen almost had one of his deer say > Bummer of a typo, Hal. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2024, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/891 "2024-12-30T20:08:25Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > The sentiment, though, is clear: Whatever happens, these Trump supporters will be getting what they deserve. “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/892 "2024-12-30T20:47:58Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > Donald of course does not need the MAGA base’s votes any more for himself and what does _ **he** _ care if the GOP dies after 2028 or after he does Trump may not need the MAGA vote anymore, but Republicans in Congress do, and Trump needs them. They don’t bend over and take it up the ass for Trump because they like him, they do so because he has their base wrapped around his little finger. If he loses that base then its going to put a damper on his Keptocratic agenda. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2024, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/893 "2024-12-30T21:06:27Z")
I’ll suggest trump needs them (congress) intermitently. Right now he needs to be able to certify election results on the 6th, so he’s all in favor of them annointing Johnson. He intends to rule by decree. He mostly needs Congress to sit on its hands and let him do that. The naturally fractious in-fighting nature of the R congresscritters, and the (I hope) intransigent nature of the D congresscritters should ensure inaction without much need of trump to employ what whip hand he has over them. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2024, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/894 "2024-12-30T21:56:55Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > he’s all in favor of them annointing Johnson Please don’t say ‘anointing Johnson’ in connection with Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/895 "2024-12-30T23:24:46Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > The reason why it’s hard to find much joy in it isn’t because they are suffering too, but because their suffering doesn’t make the rest of us off better off in any way. Not even in the “learn from their mistakes” way; this is Trump’s _second_ term, it’s clear they are incapable or unwilling of learning. If they could they’d vote for him again for a third term, even if it was their last act as they die from his decisions. All that is true, in my view. But we _ **could** _ benefit from this debacle if we could analyze this situation correctly—stop being obsessed by commandments from pundits and party leaders that we shouldn’t blame the Trump voters because they voted solely on the economy, etc. We need to stop pretending to ourselves that it was the economy. If we started looking at the situation without ‘be nice’ colored glasses, we might learn something valuable. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2024, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/896 "2024-12-31T11:13:23Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Please don’t say ‘anointing Johnson’ in connection with Trump. “Oh pointy birds, oh pointy pointy…” ---
**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:** [December 31, 2024, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/897 "2024-12-31T18:03:07Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > The reason why it’s hard to find much joy in it isn’t because they are suffering too, but because their suffering doesn’t make the rest of us off better off in any way. As Calvera said when he had the drop on the Seven, _What’s going to happen to these people is going to happen to them whether you’re still around or not._ Yes, the rest of us are going to suffer, too. We might as well collect what schadenfreude we can. [![](https://i0.wp.com/ryanschultz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Behold-the-Field-19-Dec-2019.jpg) ](https://i0.wp.com/ryanschultz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Behold-the-Field-19-Dec-2019.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2024, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/898 "2024-12-31T19:54:02Z")
So there’s this > **[Tesla replaces laid-off U.S. workers with foreigners using visas pushed by...](https://www.rawstory.com/tesla-h1b-visas-elon-musk/)** > > Electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla has reportedly hired foreign workers with H-1B visas after a wave of layoffs in the U.S.Electrek reported on Monday that Tesla recently "ramped up its use of H-1B visas to replace U.S. workers it let go during a... ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2024, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/899 "2024-12-31T23:08:40Z")
Guess I’ll take a step back and fuck myself in the face. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/900 "2025-01-01T05:06:06Z")
That is the Goddamn Funniest thing I’ve ever seen! 😁 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166.md?page=44) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166.md?page=46)