Wait. Schadenfreude? Is that what you are talking about?
I thought Freude meant “Joy”. Freund is friend.
Maybe I’m not understanding what you are saying.
So, what was Trump really thinking, when he sent his zombie army down PA Ave to attack the Capitol? Did he seriously think that a disorganized mob of a couple thousand beer-swilling yahoos, out of more than 300 million, would somehow secure him a second term by force?
I’ve got to think that even Trump knows that he never had any real chance of succeeding, and that this whole sorry episode was little more than flipping the table when it was clear he’d lost his last poker hand. Well, a bit more than that: I’m absolutely certain that Trump was hoping to see at least some of his ever-growing list of tormenters strung up at the hands of his regiments of undead. That no one but a few losers and a cop perished in the melee must seriously disappoint him.
Regarding from now to Jan. 20: I do hope that there is some slow-growing awareness in his pea brain that this time he maybe, just maybe, might have gone too far. I hope, without conviction, that this awareness may constrain his actions until his term ends. And the day after it does end, I hope they throw the whole fucking law library at him.
Correct. Schadenfreude is “harm-joy”, so it’s not figurative at all, it’s literally pleasure at others coming to harm.
Quick note about the new Alaska primary process. It’s an all-comer, all-party deal. Top four vote getters advance to the general election whereupon they use ranked choice voting to determine the winner. That probably makes it a little tougher for a hard core MAGAturd to take her out.
And this is what happens when I don’t disturb the cat to get the dictionary.
Yes and no. It is no crime to believe crazy things, many people do- I have a couple beliefs which arent entirely based on logic myself.
It is when you act on them, then that’s the crime. And those people who just showed up to hear trump speak, then went home? No crime. Those that went to the Capitol, crossed the barricades and just waved flags and shouted slogans? Probably no crime, or at least nothing serious (see below). But anyone who broke into Congress is guilty of a good number of crimes, no matter how sincere their motives.
eta- yeah, I know “unlawful assembly”, but that is weak and doubtful.
The most famous instance of Freude = Joy
Yeah, not a crime. But Twitter, Facebook et al can dump or censor you.
Now, in the case of trump, it could/should be a crime, since he led people into a violent uprising, he encouraged it.
Lions, then.
According to CNBC, Trump posted several times to the @POTUS Twitter account. They were removed, but this article has images:
Somehow he and Rudy thought that if they delayed the reading of the votes by JUST ONE DAY it would invalidate the whole process. 
I thought it was “shameful joy.” I’ll have to look for my German-English dictionary.
Uh, how are they incorrect? Bush lost in 1992. They said since 1992.
What’s interesting is that the last 3 presidents before Trump each served 2 consecutive terms. That hasn’t happened since the early days of the republic, with Jefferson-Madison-Monroe. Single-term Presidents and dying in office were more common.
Come to think of it, of the 44 men who were Presidents, 8 died in office. That’s a pretty high percentage.
Most of them do profess to being Christian…
shame = Schande
harm = Shaden
Schade – pity
Das is Schade. – That’s a pity. That’s a shame.
My bad. My dictionary translates it as “malicious glee,” and Schaden as harm, damage.
My understanding of the distorted thought process was that the timing of the certification of electors is specified by law. Miss the date and, they would have argued, it must go to the House process and the GOP has more states.
They’re all tying to save their careers. I wonder when the bubble head will leave.
I couldn’t make sense out of the phone call Giuliani made to Mike Lee’s voicemail (the one where he thought he was talking to Tuberville. ) They wanted objections to more states, apparently to drag it out. I suppose that could be it, but I thought he was referring to getting state legislators sending different electors.