# 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:** 96
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1901 "2025-03-03T19:06:35Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > I would also ask for proof that these “troublemakers” are actually being paid and by whom. > [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > CUE: Anti-Semitic code word answer in 5, 4, 3, 2 ,1 Let me guess… Soros? ---
**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:** [March 3, 2025, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1902 "2025-03-03T19:20:34Z")
Goddammit! I’ve been TroubleMaking Pro Bono for years! Nobody told me I could get _paid_ for it! 😠 ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1903 "2025-03-03T19:27:28Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Goddammit! I’ve been TroubleMaking Pro Bono for years! Dude… Sonny’s been dead for a while now. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1904 "2025-03-03T19:33:31Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > Dude… Sonny’s been dead for a while now. Are you sure he’s not Paul Hewson? ---
**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:** [March 3, 2025, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1905 "2025-03-03T19:39:25Z")
Fun Fact: I was there the day he Fed The Tree. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2025, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1906 "2025-03-03T19:54:45Z")
The right wing nuts stopped caring about Sonny when it turned out he was just another tree hugger. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1907 "2025-03-03T20:05:54Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > 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. I know about vegetarian haggis because it was once featured on an episode of Craig Ferguson. It was stuffed into a Tardis and lived on Craig’s desk where he would offer subsequent guests the opportunity to touch it. (Who knew that the haggis would turn out ti be the _second_ most disgusting thing at the desk that night?) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/2sa4SWx-Jos/maxresdefault.jpg "Neil Gaiman on Craig Ferguson Oct 31 2011") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sa4SWx-Jos) ---
**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:** [March 3, 2025, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1908 "2025-03-03T20:11:39Z")
Hey, farmers! Get fucked! [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4usmserhjqkvhldgedfjb3jw/bafkreibofxtq4ef73oe5nlfhasgqgstuitog3bchq4lpgwpx6vfqw5k6wu@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4usmserhjqkvhldgedfjb3jw/bafkreibofxtq4ef73oe5nlfhasgqgstuitog3bchq4lpgwpx6vfqw5k6wu@jpeg) ---
**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, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1909 "2025-03-03T21:18:39Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > The right wing nuts stopped caring about Sonny when it turned out he was just another tree hugger. That was, just, I mean I feel kind of embarrassed that it does not particularly offend me or make me feel any empathy for the guy. I suppose it should, but I only groaned. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1910 "2025-03-03T21:46:42Z")
I _think_ that probably means that there’ll be tariffs on agricultural imports, which will increase farmers’ competitiveness in the domestic market. Of course, there’s gonna be countervailing duties imposed by other countries that are gonna hurt their competitiveness in export markets, and on the whole it’ll be a net harm to agriculture, but I don’t think that’s what the “truth” is about. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2025, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1911 "2025-03-03T22:37:01Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > I _think_ that probably means that there’ll be tariffs on agricultural imports, which will increase farmers’ competitiveness in the domestic market. Perhaps in the long term. In the short term, they are producing a lot of things we already have an ample supply of - we’re a net exporter of staple crops - and not producing things we can get more easily by importing. That is, prices for some crops may drop precipitously, leaving them to not sell and leave crops rotting or sell at a loss. The things we tend to import are also things farmers can’t switch rapidly to producing - like avocados, other fruits, nuts, and such. Turns out it takes time to grow things. And even longer to grow things at scale. So, prices for many grocery items will go up, and heartland farmers will get hit hard nonetheless. Telling corn farmers (the US is the world leader in corn exports) to sell more inside the country is more than dumb. We’ve already got plenty. So much so that we turn a lot of it to syrup and put it in everything already. And even turning some of it into ethanol to put in our cars. And good luck growing avocados in Iowa. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1912 "2025-03-03T22:38:54Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Telling corn farmers (the US is the world leader in corn exports) to sell more inside the country is more than dumb. I look forward to more Idaho bananas. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2025, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1913 "2025-03-03T22:40:15Z")
What do you mean agricultural products can’t all be interchangeably grown in whatever soil is handy? ETA: if schadenfreude is all we are left with to enjoy, I intend to savor every last morsel as much as possible. ---
**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, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1914 "2025-03-03T22:51:01Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Turns out it takes time to grow things. And even longer to grow things at scale. Takes even longer to retool farms with all the specialized knowledge and equipment to grow things the modern way. Plus, as others have noted, moving them to the latitude where the crop in question can actually, you know, grow. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1915 "2025-03-03T22:51:42Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > In the short term, they are producing a lot of things we already have an ample supply of - we’re a net exporter of staple crops - and not producing things we can get more easily by importing. Oh, I didn’t mean to say it was a good idea. Just I took @Smapti to be interpreting the Trump quote to be saying that farmers should get ready for tariffs on exports when I’m pretty sure the quote was about tariffs on imports. That Trump doesn’t understand the concepts of comparative advantage and positive sum trading should go without saying. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2025, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1916 "2025-03-03T23:01:03Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > Just I took @Smapti to be interpreting the Trump quote to be saying that farmers should get ready for tariffs on exports when I’m pretty sure the quote was about tariffs on imports. With Trump, you can rarely go wrong by taking the stupidest possible interpretation of whatever he says. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1917 "2025-03-03T23:28:25Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > Of course, there’s gonna be countervailing duties imposed by other countries that are gonna hurt their competitiveness in export markets, and on the whole it’ll be a net harm to agriculture, but I don’t think that’s what the “truth” is about. China is already planning on retaliation to the 20% increase in tariffs for them. > **["China Considering Retaliatory Tariffs on Agricultural Products and Food in...](https://bloomingbit.io/en/feed/news/84219)** > > In Response to Trump's Implementation of 20% Additional Tariffs China is the Largest Importer of US Soybeans and Other Agricultural Products China is I’m sure we’ll get news of EU retaliation soon. ---
**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, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1918 "2025-03-03T23:41:09Z")
Posted in another thread, this column has some of the comments on X to the post by Senator Spineless. > **[Republican Senator Blasted for Seconding Trump's 'Paid Troublemakers' at Town...](https://www.latintimes.com/republican-senator-blasted-seconding-trumps-paid-troublemakers-town-halls-claim-without-577350)** > > Kansas Senator Roger Marshall is being blasted by social media users after amplifying President Donald Trump's claim that Republican Town Hall Meetings are being attended by protestors who have been paid to disrupt the events and berate legislators,... ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1919 "2025-03-04T01:15:47Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > I look forward to more Idaho bananas. > [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > What do you mean agricultural products can’t all be interchangeably grown in whatever soil is handy? All the farmers need to do is hire a Trump Org.-connected construction company to build bigly luxury greenhouses to grow those Idaho bananas and Iowa avocados. Oh, wait…where’s the labor going to come from? ---
**Author:** ![Palooka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/palooka/32/2902_2.png) [@Palooka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palooka)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/1920 "2025-03-04T01:25:42Z")
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