That is an occasional roundup of people that voted for Donald Trump and are shocked to seek out out nobody is immune from the harm and ache he causes. Many are actually grappling with the implications of their alternative because it impacts them and their family members—and probably regretting their vote.
The “Leopards Ate My Face” meme hails from this iconic tweet:
It’s analogous to “Fuck Around and Find Out,” aka FAFO, and completely describes the brand new phenomenon of Trump voters unironically complaining concerning the penalties of their vote. It’s definitely my favourite style of writing as of late (see right here and right here).
The leopards are feasting because the Trump administration 2.0 will get underway, and I’ve rounded up a handful of latest examples.
First up is this Trump-voting Latina on TikTok actually crying about Trump’s deportation scheme, set to probably the most maudlin music you may think about.
That is so loopy that we voted for Trump. We trusted within the phrase that he promised, as Latinos.
That is loopy that beginning subsequent week, a number of cities will likely be hit by immigration. It’s so loopy that a number of individuals are scared to go to work. The place I work at, a variety of Latinos didn’t go to work and that’s loopy as a result of we now have a residing, too.
I hate that I voted for him, now I’m so scared for my household.
We have to come collectively and do one thing about this.
Trump made two constant guarantees throughout this previous election: that he would deport everybody, and impose tariffs. If she actually “trusted in the word that he promised,” SHE WOULD’VE VOTED FOR KAMALA HARRIS. In a earlier submit, I featured one other Latino who was shocked that Trump was anti-Mexican, with a number of folks insisting it was a joke or satire. It isn’t. These clueless folks truly exist.
What did they hear that made them imagine Trump would shield the Latino neighborhood or immigrants? It was definitely nothing he mentioned, and never any of his speeches.
In a follow-up submit, the crying lady insisted, “It doesn’t matter who you voted for, they both was full of shit” as a result of both-sides blah blah. She additionally mentioned, “We’re supposed to be here for each other, support each other.” That’s nice, but when she actually meant that, she wouldn’t have voted for Trump, the literal reverse of “being here for each other.”
Nom nom nom. Eat up, leopards.
Subsequent up is Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar of Florida, who all of the sudden desires Donald Trump to deport folks—simply not her folks.
As you understand, on Monday, January 20, President Trump ended this system previously often known as the “Processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans (CHNV).” Following up on this, yesterday’s steerage expands expedited elimination towards these populations. Since many of those people at the moment reside in Miami, there are open questions on how precisely this will likely be applied.
People should be afforded due course of. I strongly urge you to make sure that all Cubans paroled in beneath the CHNV program eligible for or with pending purposes for the Cuban Adjustment Act are protected against deportation till their instances are totally resolved. Moreover, Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, and Haitians who arrived beneath the CHNV program, haven’t any prison file, and have utilized for asylum by way of the correct authorized channels, also needs to be protected till their instances are totally resolved.”
The CHNV program started beneath former President Joe Biden, so it’s not stunning that Trump is concentrating on the immigrants protected by it. What is stunning is that one in all Trump’s first actions successfully goes after the reliably Republican Cuban neighborhood.
But it surely’s not as if Trump didn’t warn his voters with some very clear phrases: “I don’t care about you I just care about your vote.”
Nom nom nom.
Subsequent up, this masterpiece of a headline: “Chair of Arab election campaign for Trump blasts president’s ‘wild’ call to relocate Palestinians.”
Was there something extra self-defeating than the pro-Gaza neighborhood’s assist for Trump, as they screamed about Genocide Joe and Killer Kamala? However this man who was in control of getting the Arab neighborhood to vote for Trump actually had the gall to say, “This is not what we voted for as Arab Americans for Trump.”
Prepare to listen to much more of “That’s not what we voted for!” from Trump-supporting Gaza activists. And each single time, it will likely be precisely what they voted for. As a result of for all of Trump’s faults and bluster, he was principally truthful about his agenda, and he was by no means something however hostile to the Palestinian trigger. In the meantime, his son-in-law Jared Kushner was fantasizing about beachside condos in Gaza as lately as final 12 months.
Harris would’ve been an sincere dealer within the battle, whereas Trump will likely be pleased to see Palestinians swept out of Gaza in favor of that candy seaside actual property. There’s a motive right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did his half to assist Trump get elected.
I’m going to confess shock at this subsequent merchandise. Take a look at this headline: “Oil Executives Fume as Trump Shakes Up Climate Rules Again.”
The forty seventh president’s political agenda is nothing if not oil and fuel pleasant. In reality, oil and fuel are amongst Trump’s prime priorities, and he has wasted no time in making life simpler for the trade gamers after 4 years of additional regulatory and political strain beneath Biden. But oil executives’ obvious frustration with Trump’s reversal of Biden insurance policies is unlikely and maybe stunning on the floor.
Under this floor sits all the cash that Large Oil invested in its personal transition, beneath strain, certainly, however fairly some huge cash. The initiatives this cash has been invested in might properly turn out to be stranded property now, in an ironic twist of environmentalists’ warnings that oil and fuel fields are about to turn out to be stranded property in a transitional world.
“Big U.S. oil companies, however, believe the withdrawal only limits Washington’s ability to influence an ongoing global energy transition and exposes them to an uneven regulatory environment, according to Reuters interviews with industry representatives,” Reuters reported.
In different phrases, the U.S.’s potential to influence the local weather frameworks, and the vitality trade’s potential to foyer for its personal pursuits, are all gone now. The world can proceed with out the U.S., and create regulatory frameworks that transnational companies should abide by anyway.
Oh properly. Possibly they shouldn’t have put all their eggs within the Republican basket.
How about another delicious headline?
“’He is speaking to the mistaken folks’: Gays For Trump Founder’s Message to the President.”
I can’t even. The leopards should be in a meals coma.
