# 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: ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2025, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/4349 "2025-08-22T00:15:29Z")

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Reminder that I thoughtfully created a **Leopard hijack thread**. The rants here are topical there.

> [@Resolved: America is a dystopian shithole and madmonk28 is planning to emigrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-america-is-a-dystopian-shithole-and-madmonk28-is-planning-to-emigrate/1022330/):
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> Continuing the discussion from [Surprises coming for voters for the Leopards-Eating-Faces Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/4247): I have no problem with madmonk expressing this perception, I just think he’s doing it in the wrong thread. Also, there’s no shame in exploring the possibility of emigration and not carrying it out. Those who attack madmonk28 in a year or five for not emigrating or the opposite are being assholes in my view. It’s a big project and madmonk28 has explicitly said that he’s not sure he can pull it off.

There’s also a thread for _substantive_ discussion in GD, should your rant be sufficiently adaptable:

> [@Questions for those that think that the U.S.A. will collapse...and the sooner, the better](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-those-that-think-that-the-u-s-a-will-collapse-and-the-sooner-the-better/1022348):
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> I have heard from those, on this board and other places, that not only is the U.S. on a nonavoidable path to collapse, but the sooner it happens the better because what will replace it has to be better. What do you think will replace what we currently have going on, and what prevents things from getting worse instead of better?

**More Leopard news** from a couple of weeks ago in the Economist. Background: Alligator Alcatraz is an immigration detention facility _paid for by the state of Florida to the tune of $245 million_. It was constructed by a firm with no experience in building such facilities and could very well become a death trap during hurricane season, depending in part on whether FL has made sufficient evacuation plans. A few Trump supporters are not happy. Emphasis added:

> In Miami, where 70% of people are Hispanic, the deportation theatre is not going over well. Many expected the Trump administration to pick up gang members, but not cleaning ladies and Uber drivers. “Arbitrary measures to hunt down people who are complying with their immigration hearings” is “not what we voted for”, **the co-founder of Latinas for Trump wrote on X in June**. Conditions at Alligator Alcatraz resemble prisons in places their grandparents escaped. “Pick them up, throw them out, but don’t mock them,” one veteran Republican says of criminal immigrants. Another party strategist who “loves everything else Trump is doing” wonders how a country known for taking in “the poor and huddled masses” can also be “dragging them out to be tortured in the Everglades”.

> A majority of Americans agree. In recent polling 52% said the government is trying to deport more people than they expected; 57% opposed building new detention centres. Last month Mr Trump’s net approval rating on immigration flipped from positive to negative.

Sub req: [Alligator Alcatraz: an exercise in performative cruelty | The Economist](https://www.economist.com/interactive/united-states/2025/08/05/alligator-alcatraz-is-an-excercise-in-performative-cruelty)

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