# 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:** 60
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1181 "2025-01-28T22:24:59Z")
That 3% of the Arab vote went to Jill Stein. Just as bad as Trump voters. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1182 "2025-01-28T22:38:08Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > Trump’s response, if he bothers to respond at all, will be something like “because eff you, that’s why”. He may try to adapt the Elon approach of replying with a poop emoji. ---
**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 28, 2025, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1183 "2025-01-28T22:38:10Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > That 3% of the Arab vote went to Jill Stein. Just as bad as Trump voters. A former poster is radically Left Wing. I think the poster voted for Stein. Of course, the poster lives in California, so any vote against Harris was meaningless. I tried to tell the poster eight years ago that a vote for anyone other than the Democratic candidate was a vote for Trump. I no longer discuss politics with this person, and the person is not included on most of my FB posts. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1184 "2025-01-28T22:43:38Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > It seems to me that law means the firings are illegal and have no effect. Those folks are still on the payroll no matter what the criminal regime wants or thinks. What I want to know is: Did those inspectors general show up for work today? By your analysis they had every right to. You’re supposed to disobey illegal orders, right? ---
**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 28, 2025, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1185 "2025-01-28T22:47:27Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > This one is more interesting: > > > Senator Charles Grassley, the Iowa Republican who chairs the Judiciary Committee, [sent President Trump a letter on Tuesday](https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/grassley-durbin-seek-presidential-explanation-for-ig-dismissals) requesting that he provide a detailed written explanation for why he fired each of at least 17 inspectors general over the weekend. Grassley released the letter, which was also signed by Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois, the ranking Democrat on the panel. The mass purge defied a law Grassley helped pass in 2022 that requires presidents to give Congress 30 days advance notice and a “substantive rationale, including detailed and case-specific reasons” for such a removal. Trump feels strongly that Congress is the Duma. Irrelevant and immaterial. > [@](#): > > … The feared disruption highlighted the extent of the new Trump administration’s determination to target long-standing functions of the federal government. Though not confirmed by the Senate, Russell Vought, Trump’s nominee to lead the budget office, **has vowed to try to move power over spending from Congress to the executive branch** … (my bolding) The ‘power of the purse’ is Congress’s signature power. If it’s gone, they are the Duma. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/27/white-house-pauses-federal-grants/?utm\_source=email&utm\_campaign=RH-ACQ&utmcontent=dtpmonthly\_20250128\_RH](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/27/white-house-pauses-federal-grants/?utm_source=email&utm_campaign=RH-ACQ&utmcontent=dtpmonthly_20250128_RH) ---
**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:** [January 28, 2025, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1186 "2025-01-28T22:54:38Z")
So, just how many of Trump’s nominees want to use their offices to do clearly un-Constitutional things? ---
**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:** [January 28, 2025, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1187 "2025-01-28T22:56:12Z")
All of them. Your next silly question? ---
**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 29, 2025, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1188 "2025-01-29T04:35:04Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > What I want to know is: Did those inspectors general show up for work today? I read somewhere, either Bluesky or another SDMB thread, that some IGs showed up for work and found themselves locked out of their offices. Couldn’t even get any personal possessions. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1189 "2025-01-29T04:41:04Z")
Americans are learning the real meaning of “purge”. ---
**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 29, 2025, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1190 "2025-01-29T04:44:35Z")
For Trump voters, I anticipate it’s binge on bullshit, purge in pain. ---
**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 29, 2025, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1191 "2025-01-29T06:36:12Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Americans are learning the real meaning of “purge”. Some Americans are. But then again, maybe not. Because the ones who even know this is happening already knew the danger Trump posed. The people who (purportedly) didn’t know the danger he posed are watching Fox News (at best), which I strongly suspect isn’t covering this at all. Or if it is, it’s covering it as a righteous draining of the swamp to make liberal snowflakes cry. ---
**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 29, 2025, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1192 "2025-01-29T06:41:15Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > What I want to know is: Did those inspectors general show up for work today? By your analysis they had every right to. You’re supposed to disobey illegal orders, right? Good one! But they’re not in the military. _General_ in their title is an adjective, not a military rank. > [@Sherrerd](#): > > The ‘power of the purse’ is Congress’s signature power. If it’s gone, they are the Duma. More like the Supreme Soviet. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1193 "2025-01-29T18:14:56Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > The people who (purportedly) didn’t know the danger he posed are watching Fox News (at best), which I strongly suspect isn’t covering this at all. Or if it is, it’s covering it as a righteous draining of the swamp to make liberal snowflakes cry. Sometimes I wanna check out Fox to see what their reportage is on Trump’s various tramplings so far, but I…just…can’t… My goat will be just too gotten. ---
**Author:** ![Sinaptics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Sinaptics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinaptics)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1194 "2025-01-29T19:53:24Z")
At the gym there is typically a tv tuned to Fox News that I sometimes watch while I’m on the treadmill to get a sense of their spin. When I was there yesterday, Ingram was presenting it as a totally normal justified thing that Trump needed to do in order to get spending under control and the Democratic party was just in a huff because it affected their pet projects. No mention at all of the illegality of it or that it affected major programs. ---
**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:** [January 29, 2025, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1195 "2025-01-29T20:05:16Z")
> [@Sinaptics](#): > > Ingram was presenting it as a totally normal justified thing that Trump needed to do in order to get spending under control Get spending under control? Has Ingram been in a coma the last six months and missed all the things Donny wants to spend money on? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1196 "2025-01-29T20:14:02Z")
If George W. Bush has taught us anything it’s that _Republican_ spending never costs anything. ---
**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 29, 2025, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1197 "2025-01-29T20:30:10Z")
**DesertRoomie** is a demonstrator at Costco and yesterday she was offering samples of Kirkland Columbian Supremo coffee. When an older woman in a MAGA hat got a sample she couldn’t resist poking a little. “Better buy a couple cans. The price is going up soon.” “Why would it do that?” “Because Trump got mad at Columbia and slapped a 25% tariff on all their imports including coffee. It’ll go up to 50% next week.” “Tariff? What’s that?” “A tax paid by the importer at the port of entry. Naturally, Costco will pass that on to the customer by raising the price – they’re not going to eat the increase.” “Trump wouldn’t do that!” “It’s been in the news all week.” “I never heard it,” and she stalked off all miffed. ---
**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 29, 2025, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1198 "2025-01-29T20:38:59Z")
Colombia eventually caved on that one, chalking up a justly-deserved win for Fucking Asshole (a/k/a “Big Stick, Tiny Dick”) Diplomacy: > **[Amid Trump's tariff threats, Colombia sends plane to pick up 110 deported...](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-threatens-colombia-tariffs-after-2-us-military/story?id=118122985)** > > President Donald Trump posted threats against Colombia on his social media platform on Sunday after two U.S. military repatriation flights were prevented from landing. For now. ---
**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:** [January 29, 2025, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1199 "2025-01-29T20:40:42Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > “I never heard it,” and she stalked off all miffed. See also > [@LSLGuy](#): > > I was talking to a trump voter the other day. Most probably actually an “Anybody (R)” voter. Educated, affluent, but not a serious student of politics or world affairs. > > Who was flabbergasted when I told them that trump intends to withdraw support for Ukraine, thereby forcing Ukraine to capitulate to Putin. They had never heard of any such intent. Never. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1200 "2025-01-29T21:03:31Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > If George W. Bush has taught us anything it’s that _Republican_ spending never costs anything. Which he learned himself at the knee of the Great Communicator… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166.md?page=59) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166.md?page=61)