# 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:** 78
**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, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1541 "2025-02-13T23:17:10Z")
Sorry, no. She hasn’t tried. She’s a sell-out. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1542 "2025-02-13T23:22:09Z")
Farmers are getting hammered from multiple directions by trump. There’s the USAID purchasing they relied on. Theres the USDA freeze. And there’s the tariffs. Farmers usually operate on thin margins. Many are going to be bankrupted. Trump eats all the faces. He is an insatiable maw of destruction. ---
**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, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1543 "2025-02-13T23:22:33Z")
Pretty much. I do think she voted against Hegseth but I think she voted for the rest of the clown car occupants. ---
**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 14, 2025, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1544 "2025-02-14T04:33:15Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > “you just didn’t understand the essential poetry of my soul, man.” “Soul? I’ve seen no evidence you have one. Mr. President.” > [@Ulfreida](#): > > Trump eats all the faces. He is an insatiable maw of destruction. [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Francisco_de_Goya%2C_Saturno_devorando_a_su_hijo_%281819-1823%29.jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Francisco_de_Goya%2C_Saturno_devorando_a_su_hijo_%281819-1823%29.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2025, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1545 "2025-02-14T13:15:06Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > I call it the “coffee budget” gambit. > > Ask someone if it’s OK (or even positively appropriate) for the government to spend a pittance per day providing civil servants with coffee and they will say “sure”. But present someone with the total government coffee budget (a figure in the millions) and they will gasp at the “profligacy”. Excellent point, and perfect name for this. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2025, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1546 "2025-02-14T15:07:19Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > Farmers are getting hammered from multiple directions by trump. Will be interesting to see what happens when flooding/droughts occur during the upcoming growing season. Re: coffee in gov’t offices. I think folk outside gov’t office do not appreciate how strict the rules are as to what can be provided - or accepted. As someone whose career has almost entirely been w/ the feds, the idea of an employer providing coffee is almost as inconceivable as it seems to be to many that coffee would NOT be provided. And - yes - our office had a water cooler fund (when everyone was in-office.) I never understood that, as I think Chicago water just fine. Add in that every year we have “ethics” training hammering that we cannot accept anything of value - used to be $10, might be $25 now. A lawyer used to bring in coffeecake for our office to share. That had to be stopped. A contractor once gave me a sack of green beans from her garden. I was told I had to share them with the entire office. We used to be told we could not use the phones/copiers for any personal business. Some time back that was changed to permit “reasonable” use. None of this really “offends” me. It is simply the way govt employ has always been IME. But I’ve not yet encountered the large numbers of grossly overpaid and underworked civil servants wallowing in luxury. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2025, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1547 "2025-02-14T17:11:06Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > But I’ve not yet encountered the large numbers of grossly overpaid and underworked civil servants wallowing in luxury. Because they are imaginary. We’re all aware of who the overpaid are. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2025, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1548 "2025-02-14T19:48:37Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > But I’ve not yet encountered the large numbers of grossly overpaid and underworked civil servants wallowing in luxury. So… it’s reasonable to assume you’ve never worked for Congress, yes? ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2025, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1549 "2025-02-14T20:21:41Z")
He probably hasn’t - but “civil servant” doesn’t refer to all government employees.\* Generally speaking, it refers to those employees who are neither elected nor political appointees and who stay from administration to administration. So not Congress, not Cabinet secretaries or heads of agencies. Some judges are civil servants, some are not. \* “Public servant” would refer to all government employees including elected officials and political appointees but you don’t hear that often. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2025, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1550 "2025-02-14T21:21:31Z")
Man who voted to put a Fox News host in charge of the military is confused as to why the head of the military talks like a Fox News host. > **[Senior Republican senator ‘puzzled’ and ‘disturbed’ by Hegseth’s Ukraine remarks](https://www.politico.eu/article/senate-armed-services-chair-roger-wicker-pete-hegseth-war-in-ukraine-russia/)** > > Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker is breaking with the line from the Trump White House. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2025, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1551 "2025-02-14T21:48:21Z")
Saw on the news today around 7500 folks got fired by text. Various agencies, but The Forest Service is the only one I took note of. 3400 of the poor bastards. Way To Go, Shitheads! ---
**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 14, 2025, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1552 "2025-02-14T22:01:30Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > The Forest Service is the only one I took note of. 3400 of the poor bastards “We should have raked the damn forests…” ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2025, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1553 "2025-02-14T22:07:21Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > _Saw on the news today around 7500 folks got fired by text. Various agencies, but The Forest Service is the only one I took note of. 3400 of the poor bastards._ Smokey the Bear says “Only you can prevent forest fires. Seriously. We’ve been defunded. It’s just you now.” ---
**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:** [February 14, 2025, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1554 "2025-02-14T22:42:15Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Saw on the news today around 7500 folks got fired by text. Various agencies, but The Forest Service is the only one I took note of. 3400 of the poor bastards. > > Way To Go, Shitheads! [https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/yosemite-national-park-in-chaos-20163260.php](https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/yosemite-national-park-in-chaos-20163260.php) [Discourse is declining to show a preview. From the article:] > [@](#): > > Yosemite National Park is in trouble. Hamstrung by President Donald Trump’s hiring freeze, hundreds of [rescinded job offers](https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/hiring-freeze-national-parks-job-offers-rescinded-20052544.php) and the threat of coming layoffs, the park is poised to enter its busiest months of the year severely short-staffed. Not only that, but the park’s day-use reservation system — created to protect park resources and improve the visitor experience by reducing crowding — appears unlikely to return this year. … > > … decades of efforts to protect the park’s ecosystems for future generations are being derailed. > > …The Yosemite employee who spoke on the condition of anonymity says reservations are seeming unlikely. “Those of us left are being told to be prepared for chaos and having to cover,” the employee said. > > This wouldn’t be the first time that Yosemite is forced to operate with a skeleton staff and no restrictions on visitors. In December 2018, during Trump’s first term, he and Congress reached an impasse over funding to build a wall on the Mexican border. A partial government shutdown left many federal employees, including most of the park’s staff, furloughed. > > … Without park rangers to guide and monitor their behavior, visitors left garbage at scenic viewpoints, brought dogs to ecologically sensitive meadows and other areas where pets were prohibited, drove over curbs, and even defecated on the ground next to locked restrooms, according to the [Reno Gazette-Journal](https://www.rgj.com/story/news/2019/01/03/volunteers-yosemite-clean-up-trash-diapers-government-shutdown/2475319002/). When temperatures dropped, the garbage and human waste froze to the ground. … Quite symbolic. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2025, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1555 "2025-02-14T22:47:45Z")
I expect the plan is to sell the national parks all off to various industries for exploitation. Given the level of spite that characterizes Trump and company, to the most destructive ones they can find. Clearcutting & stripmining the national parks and filling them with toxic waste would make them ecstatic, they’d gloat endlessly about it. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2025, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1556 "2025-02-14T22:49:03Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > I expect the plan is to sell the national parks all off to various industries for exploitation. Given the level of spite that characterizes Trump and company, to the most destructive ones they can find. I wish I could believe that’s hyperbolic. ---
**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 14, 2025, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1557 "2025-02-14T23:04:44Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Saw on the news today around 7500 folks got fired by text. Various agencies, but The Forest Service is the only one I took note of. 3400 of the poor bastards. > > Way To Go, Shitheads! Here’s a list I pulled from the fednews subreddit. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Department of Education Department of Energy General Services Administration Office of Personnel Management Small Business Administration US Forest Service Veterans Affairs National Nuclear Security Administration Housing and Urban Development Center for Disease Control National Park Service ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1558 "2025-02-15T01:23:10Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > National Nuclear Security Administration This one, something about this one stands out a little. ---
**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:** [February 15, 2025, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1559 "2025-02-15T02:18:50Z")
> [@XOldiesJock](#): > > Smokey the Bear Smokey Bear, no middle name. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1560 "2025-02-15T02:23:33Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > _Smokey Bear, no middle name. 😉_ Right you are! 🐻 I forgot. Either way, Smokey’s been…fired. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166.md?page=77) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166.md?page=79)