# 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:** 54
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1061 "2025-01-22T18:47:05Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#): > > I had agreed with their dismay-right up until the both-siderism. Not so much after. So you were OK with the first half of the first sentence, then it went downhill? šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1062 "2025-01-22T18:51:07Z")
I agreed with their dismay at the pardons and the message that it sends to right-wing vigilante types. But I donā€™t like equating Bidenā€™s and Trumpā€™s pardons. If Biden releases an elderly criminal who has been in prison for almost 50 years, there are agruments that can be made on both sides as to whether clemency is appropriate. However there are none to be made that pardoning violent insurrectionists is a good thing, at least if you want to maintain the rule of law. But we know Trump doesnā€™t. ---
**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:** [January 22, 2025, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1063 "2025-01-22T22:16:22Z")
Out of curiosity, do FBI agents ā€œcountā€ as police officers? ---
**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 22, 2025, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1064 "2025-01-22T23:28:53Z")
So, ACAT ā€“ All Cops Are Targets ā€“ and thatā€™s okay with FOP, I guess. ---
**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 23, 2025, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1065 "2025-01-23T04:31:33Z")
ā€œPlease, Mr. Leopard sir, I know you didnā€™t eat my face on PURPOSEā€¦ā€ [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:algivkmd3kqhgeeykzbhaxhz/bafkreifaz6wjtyl3rwt32h7hzgvoandmblbphbjxiow6hj5q6vz2l73o2m@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:algivkmd3kqhgeeykzbhaxhz/bafkreifaz6wjtyl3rwt32h7hzgvoandmblbphbjxiow6hj5q6vz2l73o2m@jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1066 "2025-01-23T04:42:36Z")
Suffer, and like it. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1067 "2025-01-23T05:28:43Z")
Report from the Daily Kos passing along a story from _New Republic_: > **[It has begun: Farm workers getting rounded up](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/1/22/2298567/-It-has-begun-Farm-workers-getting-rounded-up?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web)** > > I knew this was coming. You knew this was coming. Everybody and his kid brother knew this was coming. The media were reporting its consequences everywhere. And if this report in the New Republic is accurate, it has begun. Itā€™s going to be... Wonā€™t take many raids like this for farm workers and probably other illegals to start staying away in droves. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2025, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1068 "2025-01-23T05:58:31Z")
The comments to that item are interesting. Plenty of ā€œI told you sos,ā€ of course, but one did give us a new name for the CFSG: ā€œPumpkin Fuhrer.ā€ I like it! ---
**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 23, 2025, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1069 "2025-01-23T07:15:20Z")
Trump three months ago: When Iā€™m president FEMA will be great again Trump today: lol you guys are on your own > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lgeslfcv3v2r)** > > Trump: "FEMA is gonna be a whole big discussion very shortly, because I'd rather see the states takes care of their own problems." ---
**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 23, 2025, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1070 "2025-01-23T08:46:18Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > Wonā€™t take many raids like this for farm workers and probably other illegals to start staying away in droves. Brown people, not ā€œillegalsā€. Every time thereā€™s a crackdown somewhere you get entire families leaving, immigrant or not because _itā€™s not about immigration._ Itā€™s race war. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1071 "2025-01-23T09:24:39Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#): > > I had agreed with their dismay-right up until the both-siderism. Not so much after. Am I being whooshed? The both-siderism is in the first sentence that expresses any dismay. > [@dtilque](#): > > Wonā€™t take many raids like this for farm workers and probably other _illegals_ to start staying away in droves ā€œIllegalā€ is an adjective. No plurals. ---
**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 23, 2025, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1072 "2025-01-23T09:44:39Z")
ā€œIllegalā€ is a slur, the point is to dehumanize them. Even serial killers arenā€™t _illegal._ ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1073 "2025-01-23T10:10:27Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > ā€œIllegalā€ is a sIur, the point is to dehumanize them. Even serial killers arenā€™t _illegal._ Yes, I know. OTOH, thereā€™s plenty of time for accusations of bigotry if the prescriptivist reprimands _donā€™t_ lead to people thinking things through instead of accidentally posting slurs. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2025, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1074 "2025-01-23T10:29:00Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > prescriptivist Speaking of prescriptivism, damn! That tweet/twuth/WETF it is quoted by @Smapti above is a prime example of how not to write in English. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1075 "2025-01-23T10:35:05Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > ā€œIllegalā€ is a slur, the point is to dehumanize them. Even serial killers arenā€™t _illegal._ Well, excuse me for using the term. Lets substitute ā€œundocumented workersā€ for that. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2025, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1076 "2025-01-23T11:18:31Z")
The leopards were _right there_ but then John found someone else to blame. Weā€™ll be seeing a lot of this. > > > John Basham @JohnBasham ---
**Author:** ![colinfred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colinfred/32/21338_2.png) [@colinfred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colinfred)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1077 "2025-01-23T11:22:55Z")
Regardless of the merits of his case, I hope actual, non metaphorical, leopards eat his face as punishment for typing like that. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2025, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1078 "2025-01-23T11:38:43Z")
You beat me to the punch on that one. Is his tweet just one long title, or is every word in it a proper name? ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1079 "2025-01-23T11:42:06Z")
Shutting down any health information communications from the CDC, NIH, etc. Canā€™t let Georgia and other states with a large poultry industry know about the avian influenza outbreak. Donā€™t want them knowing that they and their kids could be at risk. The point seems to be to just dismantle the entire government, even the boring and non-controversial parts. Even the MAGAs didnā€™t vote for that. > **[Trump administration directs federal health agencies to pause communications...](https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/health/hhs-cdc-fda-trump-pause-communication/index.html)** > > Amid a deluge of executive actions, the Trump administration has asked federal health agencies to pause external communications, such as regular scientific reports, updates to websites and health advisories, according to sources within the agencies. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1080 "2025-01-23T11:45:11Z")
It reads like parody, but sadly I have no doubt itā€™s genuine. Satire is dead. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166.md?page=53) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166.md?page=55)