# 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:** 77
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1521 "2025-02-13T10:13:40Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Let me tell you something: nobody in Israel has any idea what the hell’s going to happen now. Truths and assumptions we’ve counted on for decades have shattered since Trump turned his eye in our direction. The tiger has grabbed us by the teeth and thrown us on his back, and we have no idea where he’s taking us and what he’s going to do when we get there. That also all applies to America. ---
**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:** [February 13, 2025, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1522 "2025-02-13T10:42:30Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > It used to be but politicians got sick of the blowback. So now many civil servants waste time getting coffee from cafes. At a cost in lost time orders of magnitude higher than just giving them some damn coffee. When I got out of the navy I went to work for a defense contractor. At least 40% of the people there were ex-military, either retired or bailed early like I did so the place pretty well ran on coffee, which was a free perq. Then some bean counter discovered it was costing some $50,000 a year and that was the end of that. No coffee clubs either; they took out the Bunn drip coffee makers. So folks brought in compact makers to put in their cubes – which drove the safety manager nuts – or walked down to the coffeehouse a quarter mile away once or twice a day. After six months the coffee was back. ---
**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:** [February 13, 2025, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1523 "2025-02-13T13:20:13Z")
BTW, there is tons of waste in Medicare. It’s the Medicare Advantage programs, but Mush isn’t going to go after that because it lines the pockets of private companies. > Now, we know that there’s huge waste in Medicare, in the form of overpayments to [Medicare Advantage plans](https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/medicare-versus-the-insurance-industry). Through Medicare Advantage insurance companies have been gaming the system; the Medicare Payments Advisory Commission estimates the annual loss to taxpayers at more than $80 billion, that is, roughly twice USAID’s budget. Oddly, however, this clear example of gigantic fraud isn’t on Musk’s radar. From [here](https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/elon-musk-thinks-americans-are-stupid). (Note, that article starts with a picture of a condom in a package, so if you’re worried about that showing up on your computer, don’t click) ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1524 "2025-02-13T13:36:31Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > Because they are two completely different benefits, with two completely different functions. Thanks for your response. I probably ought not have brought it up, as I am not interested in engaging in a debate concerning VA disability benefits at this point. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1525 "2025-02-13T14:14:12Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > “You said ‘Day 1’ several times. Was that a lie?” to which he replies > [@trump](#): > > I didn’t know how badly sleepy Joe had messed things up. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1526 "2025-02-13T14:28:24Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > “You said ‘Day 1’ several times. Was that a lie?” “They say that every day is the first day of the rest of your life. So, no, you just didn’t understand the essential poetry of my soul, man.” ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1527 "2025-02-13T14:40:54Z")
What other important things don’t you know? ---
**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:** [February 13, 2025, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1528 "2025-02-13T14:51:28Z")
“Known knowns and unknown unknowns!” ---
**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:** [February 13, 2025, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1529 "2025-02-13T15:11:48Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Ironically, I’ve read that most government offices don’t pay for coffee specifically because of this kind of ill-informed public outcry, and employees are expected to join “coffee clubs” instead and pitch in dues to a fund that provides the sacred hot bean juice for its members. Yup, in my old building where the plumbing wasn’t great, we even had a water club, where we had bought an interest in a water cooler, and a monthly collection to get water bottles delivered. > [@Alessan](#): > > The tiger has grabbed us by the teeth and thrown us on his back, and we have no idea where he’s taking us and what he’s going to do when we get there. To be fair, neither does the tiger. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1530 "2025-02-13T15:13:56Z")
That is not reassuring. ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1531 "2025-02-13T15:19:47Z")
There’s a reason “May you live in interesting times” is considered a curse. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1532 "2025-02-13T15:21:36Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > To be fair, neither does the tiger. Should be fine - he’ll just wander around until he gets hungry. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1533 "2025-02-13T15:22:37Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > he’ll just wander around until he gets hungry. You’ll be fine as long as you don’t have a face. ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1534 "2025-02-13T15:36:55Z")
This one appears to be a small snack, since it’s a small number of people. But it appears that one of Trump’s EOs cancelled electric bill assistance to a number of poor folks in Alabama. I wonder how most of them voted? > **[Trump executive order leads to $100 charge for 250 Huntsville Utilities...](https://www.al.com/news/huntsville/2025/02/trump-executive-order-leads-to-100-charge-for-250-huntsville-utilities-customers.html)** > > Grants providing assistance revoked. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1535 "2025-02-13T15:57:40Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > “Known knowns and unknown unknowns!” For Trump, there’s unknown to him knowns. How many times has he said something like: “Nobody ever knew about this.” about some common fact? ---
**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:** [February 13, 2025, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1536 "2025-02-13T16:13:28Z")
My favorite was ‘Nobody knew health care could be so complicated’. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1537 "2025-02-13T16:48:23Z")
My favorite Trump quote on insurance was… _Insurance is, you’re 20 years old, you just graduated from college, and you start paying $15 a month for the rest of your life and by the time you’re 70, and you really need it, you’re still paying the same amount and that’s really insurance._ ---
**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:** [February 13, 2025, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1538 "2025-02-13T17:43:21Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > Insurance is, you’re 20 years old, you just graduated from college, and you start paying $15 a month for the rest of your life and by the time you’re 70, and you really need it, you’re still paying the same amount and that’s really insurance. [![](https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2021-03/25/19/tmp/7151e5f6549f/tmp-name-2-682-1616701829-0_big.jpg) ](https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2021-03/25/19/tmp/7151e5f6549f/tmp-name-2-682-1616701829-0_big.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1539 "2025-02-13T22:29:50Z")
Are y’all OK if I stretch the point of this thread a little bit? Because this isn’t face-eating, but it’s somehow an example of someone really choosing the wrong hill on which to die. [https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5144038-trump-denali-name-change/](https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5144038-trump-denali-name-change/) Murkowski’s big stand against Trump is over the name of Denali. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1540 "2025-02-13T23:02:40Z")
She hasn’t been able to stop anything else he’s done. Good luck to her. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166.md?page=76) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166.md?page=78)