# 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:** 58
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1141 "2025-01-24T18:23:23Z")
Fair point. I think I’ve posted here that I was working on a drug development project in 2011, and we were in Phase 2, and the API (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient; the IP crown jewels of a new product) showed up for sale in China, available for purchase through some research chemical supplier like a Sigma Aldrich type. Our lawyers said there was nothing we could do. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1142 "2025-01-24T18:57:14Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > Not that they could vote in the last election, but one of them wanted to know why the various advocates who had been working to help them come back to the US were suddenly all doom and gloom about the prospect of getting anything done for them under Trump. One of them had this idea that it’s because we’re unwilling to work with Trump, and if only we’d overcome our prejudices and forget about whatever past disagreements we might have had with Trump and his policies and just ask nicely, he would surely reach across the aisle to pardon them and give them a path to Citizenship because he’d understand that they deserve it. If this were a movie, he’d reason that, _hey, what do we really know about this Trump guy? Well, he pardons people who storm a particular building, so…_ ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1143 "2025-01-24T19:17:17Z")
And now, Fauci. Smh ---
**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:** [January 24, 2025, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1144 "2025-01-24T19:26:52Z")
I find it unlikely that Fauci voted for the Leopards Eating Faces party, though. I wonder what Pompeo did to deserve this – hasn’t he been a Trump lickspittle all along? ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1145 "2025-01-24T19:29:03Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > > [@OldOlds](#): > > > > You know, if Trump wants to beat China, hamstringing one of the world’s pre-eminent research agencies probably isn’t the way. > > China steals so much of our research data, this will at least slow their progress. > > Said semi-sarcastically. I chortled at this one! High five! ---
**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 24, 2025, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1146 "2025-01-24T19:56:44Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I just hope she _notices_ everything’s turned to shit. She’ll notice. Take a wild guess whom she’ll blame for it. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1147 "2025-01-24T20:27:16Z")
I’m going to help her with that part! ---
**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:** [January 24, 2025, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1148 "2025-01-24T21:11:15Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > I find it unlikely that Fauci voted for the Leopards Eating Faces party, though. I wonder what Pompeo did to deserve this – hasn’t he been a Trump lickspittle all along? I don’t quite remember what happened with Pompeo but he’s been out of favor with Mango Mussolini for awhile now. I think Trump is intending this to be some sort of object lesson for those who oppose him. The idea is to strip their defenses and let some nutjob (or in some cases displeased foreign nation) have a shot at them. Perhaps literally. ---
**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 24, 2025, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1149 "2025-01-24T23:00:35Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > > [@RitterSport](#): > > > > I find it unlikely that Fauci voted for the Leopards Eating Faces party, though. I wonder what Pompeo did to deserve this – hasn’t he been a Trump lickspittle all along? > > I don’t quite remember what happened with Pompeo but he’s been out of favor with Mango Mussolini for awhile now. > > I think Trump is intending this to be some sort of object lesson for those who oppose him. The idea is to strip their defenses and let some nutjob (or in some cases displeased foreign nation) have a shot at them. Of course Donald will get personal pleasure from any news of injury or death to someone he finds insufficiently worshipful of him. But it’s more than that. He needs chaos. He needs frequent assassination attempts (the more successful, the better). He needs millions of Americans to decide that maybe we DO need more of a law-and-order crackdown, and if that means the Army stationed on every street corner, then so be it. Related: Pete Hegseth, who has fully expressed his contempt for the Geneva Conventions, is almost certainly going to be in a position to make Donald’s dream come true after tonight’s vote in the Senate. > **[Senate poised to vote to confirm Hegseth to lead Pentagon despite allegations](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/senate-poised-vote-confirm-hegseth-lead-pentagon-despite/story?id=118068080)** > > The Senate is poised to hold a vote to confirm Pete Hegseth, President Donald Trump's nominee to serve as secretary of defense, late Friday evening. ---
**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 24, 2025, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1150 "2025-01-24T23:16:37Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > No, it won’t. The capacity of people to rationalize or deny bad news is nearly infinite. [![](https://duet-cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/0x0:600x887/1200x1774/filters:focal(300x443:301x444):format(webp)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/6439857/20130109.0.png) ](https://duet-cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/0x0:600x887/1200x1774/filters:focal(300x443:301x444):format(webp)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/6439857/20130109.0.png) ---
**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 25, 2025, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1151 "2025-01-25T00:23:35Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I just hope she _notices_ everything’s turned to shit. Trump told them “I alone can fix it”. But when “it” actually gets worse, they won’t blame Trump. It will be the deep state stopping him from implementing his glorious plans. Always. Rule #1 of MAGA: never take responsibility for _any_ failure. ---
**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 25, 2025, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1152 "2025-01-25T00:29:49Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > Rule #1 of MAGA: never take responsibility for _any_ failure. ‘The Party of Responsibility’. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2025, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1153 "2025-01-25T01:29:38Z")
The Party of _Personal_ Responsibility. And they _personally_ know someone else must be responsible. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2025, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1154 "2025-01-26T19:56:09Z")
I’m guessing this one belongs here, too: > [@The Trump Administration: The Clusterfuck Continues](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues/1010068/1104): > > From the annals of “Careful What You Wish For …” [Arab Americans for Trump chair blasts president’s ‘wild’ call to relocate Palestinians](https://www.timesofisrael.com/arab-americans-for-trump-chair-blasts-presidents-wild-call-to-relocate-palestinians/) The chairman of a group that lobbied Arab and Muslim Americans to vote for Donald Trump in the recent election came out strongly on Sunday against the US president’s call for Jordan and Egypt to take in Palestinians from war-torn Gaza. ---
**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:** [January 26, 2025, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1155 "2025-01-26T23:15:58Z")
Yep. Big surprise, that - skeevy real estate developer now an elected leader of a major world power suggest doing what he used to do back in the day - clear rubble and shove the poor and unwanted off real estate, the build all sorts of stuff for those with more money. Essentially, gentrify Gaza. Except on this scale and in this context it’s ethnic cleansing and genocide. Meanwhile, the Arab-Americans are getting their faces eaten by leopards. ---
**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 26, 2025, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1156 "2025-01-26T23:19:32Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Meanwhile, the Arab-Americans are getting their faces eaten by leopards. If there was ever a group of declared-for-Trump voters who were told in plain terms that their guy would be MUCH worse for them than the guy (and gal) they wanted to punish, it’s the Arab-Americans. It’s as though they smeared the leopards’ favorite food all over their own faces. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2025, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1157 "2025-01-26T23:32:14Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > If there was ever a group of declared-for-Trump voters who were told in plain terms that their guy would be MUCH worse for them than the guy (and gal) they wanted to punish, it’s the Arab-Americans. Yeah, this was one was always going to happen. The Arab-Americans that voted for Trump were just dolts. The greater number of disillusioned who declared a pox on both houses and then just didn’t vote… I get it. They felt like they were between a rock and hard place, with no good choices. I’m far too much of a pragmatist to ever agree with them and make that choice, but I can at least sympathize with their frustrations. I won’t throw eggs at them. But the ones who thought Trump would be better for Palestinians or even Arab-Americans, as opposed to merely a greater evil, were idiots. ---
**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 26, 2025, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1158 "2025-01-26T23:41:17Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > But the ones who thought Trump would be better for Palestinians or even Arab-Americans, as opposed to merely a greater evil, were idiots. And those that believed that punishing the Administration that was much more favorable to the Palestinians than Trump was ever going to be, would actually _accomplish something_ for Palestinians, were…likewise. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2025, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1159 "2025-01-27T01:00:20Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > I won’t throw eggs at them. Certainly not with the price of eggs these days. ---
**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 27, 2025, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1160 "2025-01-27T03:11:22Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > I can at least sympathize with their frustrations. I can’t. It has never in our history been a more clear choice as to the only candidate to vote for in the last three presidential elections. Anyone who put their faith, trust, or hope in Trump doing the right thing has no excuse for that other than willful stupidity. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166.md?page=57) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166.md?page=59)