# 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:** 48
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/941 "2025-01-03T23:08:16Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > But he’ll get a $40 tax cut that he’ll believe is thousands and by gum, Murrica will be great! Technically, he’ll get an average forty dollar tax cut. As in, one percent of Americans will get a four thousand dollar tax cut and the rest of us will get zero. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/942 "2025-01-03T23:10:06Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > This may have happened before Trump got in The hell with it, I say we blame him anyways. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/943 "2025-01-03T23:10:21Z")
Gee, Chuck, if only you had been majority leader of a body that had the power to pass legislation or something, maybe you could have done something about that. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2025, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/944 "2025-01-03T23:15:30Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > > [@Sherrerd](#): > > > > This may have happened before Trump got in > > The hell with it, I say we blame him anyways. The appeals court responsible for the decision Schumer describes, cited a June 2024 Supreme Court decision. That’s right: a 3-appointed-by-Trump Supreme Court decision. So: not entirely unreasonable to connect Trump with this. [https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-appeals-court-blocks-biden-administration-net-neutrality-rules-2025-01-02/](https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-appeals-court-blocks-biden-administration-net-neutrality-rules-2025-01-02/) ---
**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:** [January 3, 2025, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/945 "2025-01-03T23:17:20Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Gee, Chuck, if only you had been majority leader of a body that had the power to pass legislation or something, maybe you could have done something about that. What, take the case away from the appeals court? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/946 "2025-01-04T04:07:04Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > exceedingly wealthy people who absolutely could not give a shit about where they are on some list. They dress down, live in extremely comfortable but not showy houses, and drive only slightly fancy cars. You’re describing New England old money, in my observation of 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:** [January 4, 2025, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/947 "2025-01-04T04:12:33Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > You’re describing New England old money, in my observation of them. [Bill Gates standing in line at Dick’s Burgers.](https://www.geekwire.com/2019/billions-served-bill-gates-photographed-standing-line-burger-dicks-drive-seattle/) ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/948 "2025-01-04T04:16:19Z")
Illuminating quote from that article: > In 2011, during an appearance at the University of Washington, Gates told students that being a billionaire can be overrated. And he brought up burgers. > > “I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars, there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that,” Gates said. “But once you get much beyond that, I have to tell you, it’s the same hamburger. Dick’s has not raised their prices enough.” ---
**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:** [January 4, 2025, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/949 "2025-01-04T04:18:22Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Gates told students that being a billionaire can be overrated. I don’t want to be a billionaire. I’d be quite content to be a millionaire. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/950 "2025-01-04T04:20:40Z")
Where did this term come from? Leopards eating faces. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2025, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/951 "2025-01-04T04:26:34Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > Where did this term come from? From a 2015 Twitter post: [![](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/870/771/f1e.png) ](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/870/771/f1e.png) > **[Leopards Eating People's Faces Party | Know Your Meme](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/leopards-eating-peoples-faces-party)** > > Leopards Eating People's Faces Party refers to a parody of regretful voters who vote for cruel and unjust policies (and politicians) and are then surprised ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/952 "2025-01-04T18:15:17Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > The appeals court responsible for the decision Schumer describes, cited a June 2024 Supreme Court decision. That’s right: a 3-appointed-by-Trump Supreme Court decision. > > So: not entirely unreasonable to connect Trump with this. > [https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-appeals-court-blocks-biden-administration-net-neutrality-rules-2025-01-02/](https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-appeals-court-blocks-biden-administration-net-neutrality-rules-2025-01-02/) That horrendous decision is going to have a HUGE and long lasting impact. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2025, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/953 "2025-01-04T21:56:38Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > Where did this term come from? Leopards eating faces. > [@kenobi\_65](#): > > From a 2015 Twitter post: Yep. (I did put it in the OP.) > [@Dinsdale](#): > > That horrendous decision is going to have a HUGE and long lasting impact. Yes; “no regulations” (which the absence of Chevron deference will tend to bring about) means, among other things, rampant food poisoning, banks charging fake fees with no consequences, poison dumped in rivers, and kids’ pajamas that ignite easily. And, no: the free market won’t fix those things. (Not that I’m saying YOU are saying that, but as we know, some will claim it, almost always quite disingenuously.) ---
**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:** [January 4, 2025, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/954 "2025-01-04T23:26:49Z")
A market in which, for example, your apartment building is tied to a particular ISP because the owner has an exclusive contract can hardly be said to be “free.” (And yes, I know there are 5g and satellite options available; but I would guess that 75% of tenants would just take the path of least resistance.) ---
**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:** [January 4, 2025, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/955 "2025-01-04T23:58:28Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > A market in which, for example, your apartment building is tied to a particular ISP because the owner has an exclusive contract can hardly be said to be “free.” There’s no such thing as a “free market” in the first place, either the government keeps it regulated or the wealthier participants will lock it down in their favor. The concept is a fallacy. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2025, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/956 "2025-01-05T03:15:43Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Yes; “no regulations” (which the absence of Chevron deference will tend to bring about) means, among other things, rampant food poisoning, banks charging fake fees with no consequences, poison dumped in rivers, and kids’ pajamas that ignite easily. Its not necessarily no regulations, its that all regulation interpretation will be decided by the courts. Which eventually means them. Combine the with the elimination of any ethics rules for the court, and the legality of gratuities for services rendered, and its easy to see that the justices are putting themselves in the gravy graft line. You want to dump radio active waste into the drinking water, fine, but it will cost you 5 beach houses as an appreciation gift the justices who in their infinite wisdom of calling strikes and balls, decided that uranium mining waste doesn’t count as a pollutant. ---
**Author:** ![bobsmom101](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobsmom101/32/2867_2.png) [@bobsmom101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobsmom101)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/957 "2025-01-05T03:21:28Z")
This just showed up in my YouTube feed, so I guess it’s getting popular right now. We might as well laugh since it beats the runner-up. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Ca7063tXIP4/maxresdefault.jpg "Springtime for Hitler ft. John Barrowman | The Producers (2005) | TUNE") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca7063tXIP4) ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/958 "2025-01-05T16:52:45Z")
Okay, somebody needs to rewrite this song with lyrics referring to Der Trumpf. (Springtime for Donald?). ---
**Author:** ![bobsmom101](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobsmom101/32/2867_2.png) [@bobsmom101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobsmom101)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/959 "2025-01-05T16:56:13Z")
Well not a song, sadly, but Jimmy Kimmel did do this one the first time around. Still works today. 😢 [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/OemqVWi_R0k/maxresdefault.jpg "“Trumped" Starring Matthew Broderick & Nathan Lane") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OemqVWi_R0k) ---
**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:** [January 5, 2025, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/960 "2025-01-05T20:50:06Z")
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