# Surprises coming for voters for the Leopards-Eating-Faces Party

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166>\
**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")\
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**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 15, 2025, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1581 "2025-02-15T20:32:05Z")

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The Financial Times reports that Wall Street is confused as to how electing a coked-up dementia patient is turning out to NOT be good for the stock market.

[![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tvc7g7sdrdq4g4nbgbeeglmp/bafkreica36hvq6dheaf4rx5z7fxsxehma35wq7o6lg5mpzkrplyfkhsb5q@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tvc7g7sdrdq4g4nbgbeeglmp/bafkreica36hvq6dheaf4rx5z7fxsxehma35wq7o6lg5mpzkrplyfkhsb5q@jpeg)

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**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 15, 2025, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1582 "2025-02-15T20:36:26Z")

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[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/AXTQeSGJjGM/hqdefault.jpg "Family Guy-Didn't I tell you") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXTQeSGJjGM)

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**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 15, 2025, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1583 "2025-02-15T21:11:10Z")

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Did those executives sleep through Shitshow Season 1?

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**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1584 "2025-02-15T21:14:24Z")

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> [@Smapti](#):
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> The Financial Times reports that Wall Street is confused as to how electing a coked-up dementia patient is turning out to NOT be good for the stock market.

If we only had a Captain Foresight, instead of Captain Hindsight. Oh, wait, you’d think Trump fucking up the country would have been obviously before the election.

[Best Of Captain Hindsight | South Park | Clip Compilation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjZeVa6Ue_Y)

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**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1585 "2025-02-15T23:04:40Z")

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> [@wguy123](#):
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> Did those executives sleep through Shitshow Season 1?

I know they saw the episode where they got a big tax cut.

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**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1586 "2025-02-15T23:27:41Z")

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> [@wguy123](#):
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> Did those executives sleep through Shitshow Season 1?

I would say that, after seeing just the first episode, Season 2 is pushing far beyond Season 1 in its utter shitshowiness.

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**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 16, 2025, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1587 "2025-02-16T01:23:07Z")

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Elmo managed to convince a right-wing influencer to infect her womb with a syringe full of his jizz, and surprise surprise, he’s ghosting her and refusing to acknowledge the child.

> **[Author Ashley St. Clair Says She Welcomed Elon Musk’s 13th Baby 5 Months Ago...](https://www.eonline.com/news/1413530/author-ashley-st-clair-says-she-gave-birth-to-elon-musks-13th-baby-5-months-ago)**
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> Ashley St. Clair, a conservative influencer and author, says she welcomed a baby with Elon Musk in 2024.

[![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ey4an5j5m2h5v5qhcqs4hji2/bafkreiepi2ctzr542mdcfypshkebebtgg7nv4j5kl3et3hcxjaypwqqe6q@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ey4an5j5m2h5v5qhcqs4hji2/bafkreiepi2ctzr542mdcfypshkebebtgg7nv4j5kl3et3hcxjaypwqqe6q@jpeg)

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**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 16, 2025, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1588 "2025-02-16T01:23:44Z")

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Chomp chomp chomp

> **[‘We’ve been betrayed:’ Local veterans angry after being laid off by Trump...](https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/weve-been-betrayed-local-veterans-angry-after-being-laid-off-by-trump-administration/FBCKFRIFQRHZVK5FG3W7MUQEYA/)**
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> The VA announced it would cut more than 1,000 jobs on Thursday to save $93 million a year.

I think we are going to see a gazillion stories like this over the next few weeks.

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**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:** [February 16, 2025, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1589 "2025-02-16T01:31:33Z")

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> [@wguy123](#):
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> Chomp chomp chomp

I actually think of this line from _Watchmen_ (at time 4:09 if the link doesn’t take you there):

[My face! Give me back my face!](https://youtube.com/watch?v=bkcpGmeLFTQ&t=249)

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**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 17, 2025, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1590 "2025-02-17T01:12:03Z")

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> **['We call this a Pearl Harbor': 'Mistreated' Georgia vets 'betrayed' over...](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-pearl-harbor-ga-vets/)**
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> Veterans working for Atlanta’s Veterans Administration (VA) Health Care System in Georgia say they were “betrayed” by the Trump administration and former Georgia Congressman Doug Collins — who last week was confirmed as President Donald Trump’s...

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**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 17, 2025, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1591 "2025-02-17T01:40:28Z")

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I bet there will be lots of Face-Eating coming soon to flood ravaged Kentucky.

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**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 17, 2025, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1592 "2025-02-17T01:40:51Z")

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With a side-helping of Tennessee and Virginia faces.

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**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:** [February 17, 2025, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1593 "2025-02-17T02:04:24Z")

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I don’t understand why they’re upset. They’re just getting what they voted for… good and hard.

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**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1594 "2025-02-17T14:07:12Z")

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and no lube.

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1595 "2025-02-17T14:31:24Z")

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> [@Railer13](#):
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> Absolutely they do. ‘Subsidy’ is a dirty word, something given to lowlife lazy folks who refuse to earn their keep. I’m really not sure how they justify receiving that government check, but I’m quite sure that none of them ever send it back to Washington.

It’s the Craig T. Nelson effect. The government money that you’re receiving doesn’t count as government waste.

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**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1596 "2025-02-17T14:44:24Z")

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As a Canadian living in Ontario, I have to say that I found this a little disconcerting.

[Invasive Black Leopards Are Taking Over Ontario Right Now.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvkLr3Vo2Ss&ab_channel=FishingUrbanOntario)

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1597 "2025-02-17T14:47:28Z")

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> [@Gatopescado](#):
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> I bet there will be lots of Face-Eating coming soon to flood ravaged Kentucky.

[Not really](https://www.kentucky.gov/Pages/Activity-stream.aspx?n=GovernorBeshear&prId=2405).

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**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1598 "2025-02-17T14:52:53Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> It’s the Craig T. Nelson effect. The government money that you’re receiving doesn’t count as government waste.

Almost - they’re not “receiving” government money. They have earned that money through their hard work and honest living. Money they get is always deserved and earned. The same money going elsewhere is always wasteful and corrupt.

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**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 17, 2025, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1599 "2025-02-17T15:49:53Z")

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> [@wguy123](#):
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> I think we are going to see a gazillion stories like this over the next few weeks.

And I will say, “Tough shit,” to each and every one.

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**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1600 "2025-02-17T17:36:49Z")

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Now they’re okay with the ‘sin of empathy’.

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