# 2020 Election Schadenfeude Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 4, 2020, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-election-schadenfeude-thread/924790 "2020-11-04T22:27:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-election-schadenfeude-thread/924790/21 "2020-11-07T17:22:49Z")
Add me to the list of those who feel your pain. Not a pleasant situation at all, I’m sure. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-election-schadenfeude-thread/924790/22 "2020-11-07T17:23:24Z")
Fox called it. Trump is cooked. He’ll never go in public again without someone pointing a finger and saying “YOU’RE FIRED” ---
**Author:** ![Kimera757](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimera757/32/3765_2.png) [@Kimera757](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimera757)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-election-schadenfeude-thread/924790/23 "2020-11-07T17:56:23Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > Fox called it. I hate Fox. Except today 😁 ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-election-schadenfeude-thread/924790/24 "2020-11-07T18:36:58Z")
Trump’s statement (full of lies, of course) is a bit of schadenfreude: [https://talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog/biden-inches-ever-closer-to-presidency-as-lead-in-pennsylvania-grows?entry=1343242](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog/biden-inches-ever-closer-to-presidency-as-lead-in-pennsylvania-grows?entry=1343242) “We all know why Joe Biden is rushing to falsely pose as the winner, and why his media allies are trying so hard to help him: they don’t want the truth to be exposed. The simple fact is this election is far from over. Joe Biden has not been certified as the winner of any states, let alone any of the highly contested states headed for mandatory recounts, or states where our campaign has valid and legitimate legal challenges that could determine the ultimate victor. In Pennsylvania, for example, our legal observers were not permitted meaningful access to watch the counting process. Legal votes decide who is president, not the news media. Beginning Monday, our campaign will start prosecuting our case in court to ensure election laws are fully upheld and the rightful winner is seated. The American People are entitled to an honest election: that means counting all legal ballots, and not counting any illegal ballots. This is the only way to ensure the public has full confidence in our election. It remains shocking that the Biden campaign refuses to agree with this basic principle and wants ballots counted even if they are fraudulent, manufactured, or cast by ineligible or deceased voters. Only a party engaged in wrongdoing would unlawfully keep observers out of the count room – and then fight in court to block their access. So what is Biden hiding? I will not rest until the American People have the honest vote count they deserve and that Democracy demands.” ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-election-schadenfeude-thread/924790/25 "2020-11-07T19:03:06Z")
Here, this is what I’m talking about: I’ve just received a report from reliable sources (aka my wife) that Biden plans on instituting a national lockdown as soon as he takes office. When I surreptitiously look this up online, I find the he has announced the EXACT opposite. Bad is good! Black is white! ---
**Author:** ![Kimera757](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimera757/32/3765_2.png) [@Kimera757](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimera757)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-election-schadenfeude-thread/924790/26 "2020-11-07T19:53:29Z")
> [@Daithi\_Lacha](#): > > Bad is good! Black is white! “Four legs good. Two legs `b̶a̶d̶` better!” ---
**Author:** ![Kimera757](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimera757/32/3765_2.png) [@Kimera757](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimera757)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-election-schadenfeude-thread/924790/27 "2020-11-07T20:11:13Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/4sC-k-92JBE/maxresdefault.jpg "Fox News projects Joe Biden will win 2020 presidential election") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sC-k-92JBE) Irony alert: checking Fox for political facts. Truthfully, even at Fox, there’s a gap between the news side and the opinion side. I really don’t think opinion should be called news though. It’s almost like a newspaper being two companies that share a piece of paper, which makes even less sense now that few people read physical newspapers. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-election-schadenfeude-thread/924790/28 "2020-11-07T20:22:55Z")
Don and the MAGA folks just need a couple of rallies to get back in the groove. Donald loves his rallies a lot more than the job of POTUS ---
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-election-schadenfeude-thread/924790/29 "2020-11-07T20:39:58Z")
Is this in the right vein, or are you looking for people more accepting of reality? > I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT! > > — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) [November 7, 2020](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1325099845045071873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) This is from this morning, a little before PA was called. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-election-schadenfeude-thread/924790/30 "2020-11-07T20:48:39Z")
Both! Bring it all to me and shoot it into my veins! ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-election-schadenfeude-thread/924790/31 "2020-11-08T00:15:07Z")
> A plethora… ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-election-schadenfeude-thread/924790/32 "2020-11-08T00:18:33Z")
> A gentleman from Puerto Rico throws a paper towel pack over the WH fence. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-election-schadenfeude-thread/924790/33 "2020-11-08T00:53:30Z")
Anderson coopers worst nightmare 😝 [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/XeSXkODNGg4/maxresdefault.jpg "SNL - Kate McKinnon's Kellyanne Conway IT Parody 'Kellywise' Steals the Show") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeSXkODNGg4) ---
**Author:** ![Kimera757](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimera757/32/3765_2.png) [@Kimera757](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimera757)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-election-schadenfeude-thread/924790/34 "2020-11-08T16:01:20Z")
> **[Keep on digging: Trump team holds press conference at suburban garden centre](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/08/the-other-four-seasons-trump-team-holds-press-conference-at-suburban-garden-centre)** > > Rudy Giuliani details strategy in the car park of Four Seasons Total Landscaping, a suspected mixup with Four Seasons hotel in Philadelphia > [@](#): > > Donald Trump’s increasingly desperate bid to hang on to the White House crossed into abject farce on Saturday, after his campaign staged a purportedly major press conference at a Philadelphia landscaping business situated between a crematorium and sex shop. Said shop has dildo madness nights. Also one of those shops was actually across the street, but within plain view… I haven’t been able to find the full press conference on video yet. I anticipate pain in my sides. > Almost makes me forget the makeup of the Senate. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-election-schadenfeude-thread/924790/35 "2020-11-08T21:19:52Z")
For some of the strangest schadenfreude I’ve ever seen, check out Voat’s Q site. These folks are convinced that all of this is part of Trump’s plan. [https://voat.co/v/QRV](https://voat.co/v/QRV) ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-election-schadenfeude-thread/924790/36 "2020-11-10T03:39:25Z")
Self appointed guru of electoral predictions and Trump toady Scott Adams (the creator of Dilbert) appears broken. So he is now at the bargaining level. His latest idea is that Trump has the Democrats in his hands because he will demand an audit of the voting systems and then go away peacefully, instead of going all scorched earth on his last months. It seems that Adams does think that the Democrats are deluded by expecting Trump to make a mess of things before leaving on January 20. So Trump “the genius” will figure out that he will use that faulty idea of the Democrats so as to win a way to demonstrate fraud in the election… 🙄 [Any moment now…](https://www.scottadamssays.com/2020/11/07/episode-1180-scott-adams-lets-explore-the-depths-of-my-cognitive-dissonance-and-congratulate-president-elect-biden/) Adams dissonance seems to be that he can still think of Trump as a genius and that fraud took place, while Addams congratulates Biden for winning at the same time. It sucks for Adams theory that Trump is right now reaching for the scorched earth solution (ineffective so far) with no bargaining coming from Trump. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-election-schadenfeude-thread/924790/37 "2020-11-11T00:54:25Z")
Its almost as if he forgets what pointy-haired bosses are like. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-election-schadenfeude-thread/924790/38 "2020-11-12T15:58:03Z")
The recent storm tore down the biggest Trump sign from the neighbor’s fence and put a big crimp in it as well (it’s lying on the other side of the road). I’m waiting to see if he puts it up again or takes it as a message from the gods… ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-election-schadenfeude-thread/924790/39 "2020-11-12T18:55:08Z")
\< shaking my head \> He put the sign up again. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-election-schadenfeude-thread/924790/40 "2020-11-12T19:13:01Z")
Here’s Newt Gringrich talking about how 538 never learns anything, a few days before the election. Go to 1:46 if you don’t want to watch the whole thing. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/WqaW0YKXosY/maxresdefault.jpg "Newt Calls It!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqaW0YKXosY) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-election-schadenfeude-thread/924790.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-election-schadenfeude-thread/924790.md?page=3)