# 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:** 95
**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:** [March 2, 2025, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1881 "2025-03-02T22:01:39Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > This went over my farm-raised brain. Can you explain, please? **Odesio** has answered it adequately but in true SD fashion of ask a question get handed a firehose, here is the [RationalWiki](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/No_True_Scotsman) article. > The coining of the term is attributed to professor [Antony Flew](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Antony_Flew),[[3]](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/No_True_Scotsman#cite_note-3) who gave an example of a [Scotsman](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scotland) who, in his 1975 book _Thinking About Thinking_, wrote;[[4]](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/No_True_Scotsman#cite_note-4) > > “Imagine Hamish McDonald, a Scotsman, sitting down with his _Glasgow Morning Herald_ and seeing an article about how the “Brighton Sex Maniac Strikes Again”. Hamish is shocked and declares that “No Scotsman would do such a thing”. The next day he sits down to read his _Glasgow Morning Herald_ again; and, this time, finds an article about an Aberdeen man whose brutal actions make the Brighton sex maniac seem almost gentlemanly. This fact shows that Hamish was wrong in his opinion, but is he going to admit this? Not likely. This time he says: “No _true_ Scotsman would do such a thing”. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2025, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1882 "2025-03-03T00:31:55Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > > [@LurkMeister](#): > > > > Doesn’t that sort of defeat the purpose? > > Not if the purpose is for the elected official to receive praise and adulation. That’s beneficial, but the main purpose is to masquerade as an elected official who really cares about the views and needs of his/her constituents. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1883 "2025-03-03T00:55:34Z")
I thought it had to do with sugar on porridge. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2025, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1884 "2025-03-03T01:02:49Z")
A true Scotsman puts salt and a little cream on his porridge. (IANA Scotsman, but that’s how I eat mine.) ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1885 "2025-03-03T01:14:51Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > So the only people who will be allowed to attend townhalls are those who don’t think there are any issues that need to be addressed. Doesn’t that sort of defeat the purpose? This is how the town halls during Trump’s campaign worked. They were rallies for his supporters rather than a place for people to ask difficult questions. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1886 "2025-03-03T01:17:16Z")
Scots eat their porridge mixed up with offal and lard, wrapped up in offal. As Mike Myers put it, _Scottish cuisine is based on a dare._ ---
**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:** [March 3, 2025, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1887 "2025-03-03T01:18:51Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Scots eat their porridge mixed up with offal and lard, wrapped up in offal. That would be haggis, as opposed to a bowl of porridge. Speaking of which, I need to thaw and cook the haggis I have. Because I like haggis. (I do like most internal organs.) ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1888 "2025-03-03T02:19:33Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I thought it had to do with sugar on porridge. I can see why this changed to a PG version in the retelling ---
**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:** [March 3, 2025, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1889 "2025-03-03T02:51:11Z")
What was the non-PG varsion 'cause I had the impression the ‘sugar on porridge’ was the original telling. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1890 "2025-03-03T03:08:56Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > While I suppose it’s possible to have a world view where you disagree with some of Obama or Biden’s policies, it is not possible to honestly believe they were dictators. Like “woke,” I think the word “dictator” has become “someone I disagree with on some issue.” There is a far simpler explanation. Spartz is just following the highly successful Trump playbook - as soon as someone makes a negative claim about you and yours, make the same claim about your detractors regardless of how ridiculous it may be to do so. Then keep hammering the point till your doublespeak renders the term meaningless. If you are propagating fake news, call all real news “fake news”. If you are a crook, call Joe Biden “Crooked Joe”. If you aspire to dictatorship, call the democratically elected Obama a dictator. It seems to work quite well. > [@OttoDaFe](#): > > I don’t have a copy of _Catch-22_ to hand… _Shame_ on you. One must always have a copy of Catch-22 to hand. It is the handbook to life. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2025, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1891 "2025-03-03T03:17:35Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Fucker doesn’t seem to realize as a senator Marshall represents the whole state, not just the red parts. Now, now, it’s only the red parts that are Real America, inhabited by Real Americans. Those woke blue bits don’t count. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2025, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1892 "2025-03-03T06:03:54Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Because I like haggis. Totally, utterly off topic, but [vegan haggis](https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/macsween-vegetarian-haggis/057419-28883-28884) is available at Waitrose in the UK. I only know this because I worked for Waitrose, and a vegan colleague (supringly enough!) told me he was vegan. He said it was “fairly good” but would not buy it again. Now back to your regular awful, offal-filled leopards eating awful, offal-filled faces. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2025, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1893 "2025-03-03T14:23:57Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > If Kansans drove across the state to confront him, that is very much _not_ “sabotage”. Every person in Kansas is well within their rights to speak to him, no matter where he chooses to hold a town hall. If he cannot handle the heat, he should find a job he can handle. Roger has shown no ability to handle the heat. That said, there is an argument to be made that town hall attendance should be for locals, and even in Kansas, a 4 hour drive is not local. Of course, if the coward would meet his constituents in the populous parts of the state people wouldn’t have to track him down. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1894 "2025-03-03T14:39:10Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > there is an argument to be made that town hall attendance should be for locals, and even in Kansas, a 4 hour drive is not local. > > Of course, if the coward would meet his constituents in the populous parts of the state people wouldn’t have to track him down. Correct on all points. IIRC, Spineless Roger hasn’t held a town hall in months. And this one was not extensively publicized by the Senator; most everybody (including me) learned of it via social media, specifically Facebook. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2025, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1895 "2025-03-03T15:44:16Z")
“His” constituents are of course the rural ones. So he has to go there to find those folks. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1896 "2025-03-03T17:45:56Z")
To the surprise of nobody, this morning on Facebook Marshall posted a Xitter from Trump in which Trump stated that “Paid ‘troublemakers’ are attending Republican Town Hall Meetings.” Marshall’s comment: “Can Confirm” As of this moment, there are 807 comments on Marshall’s post. Most of them are in strong disagreement with Senator Spineless. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1897 "2025-03-03T18:09:16Z")
“Troublemakers”, of course, is defined as anyone who has the audacity to question the Party Line, or dare to ask why their elected representatives are not doing their jobs. I would also ask for proof that these “troublemakers” are actually being paid and by whom. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1898 "2025-03-03T18:13:12Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Republican Town Hall Meetings Do they check attendees’ registrations? ---
**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:** [March 3, 2025, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1899 "2025-03-03T18:16:32Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > I would also ask for proof that these “troublemakers” are actually being paid and by whom. CUE: Anti-Semitic code word answer in 5, 4, 3, 2 ,1 ---
**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:** [March 3, 2025, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1900 "2025-03-03T18:48:46Z")
Apparently, the husband of imprisoned “Tiger King” Joe Exotic, a Trump shill, was just deported. [https://xcancel.com/joe\_exotic/status/1896414962978811987?ref\_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet](https://xcancel.com/joe_exotic/status/1896414962978811987?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet) A little more about the happy couple and their prison romance. Party of Law and Order, amirite? > **["Tiger King" Joe Exotic announces prison engagement](https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/tiger-king-joe-exotic-announces-prison-engagement/)** > > Joe Exotic, made famous in the Netflix series "Tiger King" and currently serving time in federal prison, says he is engaged to a fellow inmate in Texas and hopes to get married. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166.md?page=94) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166.md?page=96)