# A Perfectly Reasonable Amount of Schadenfreude about Things Happening to Trump & His Enablers (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 14, 2020, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537 "2020-11-14T00:09:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/181 "2020-12-15T00:18:38Z")
Ah, Don Novello. He dispensed quite a few words of wisdom on SNL, eh? ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/182 "2020-12-15T09:54:18Z")
Would you believe: [Francis of Assisi](https://www.nytimes.com/1926/09/12/archives/fascism-takes-francis-as-patron-saint-ascetic-virtues-of-little.html)? I know, right? Bennie’s still alive, otherwise he’d be a shoo-in… ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/183 "2020-12-15T10:57:57Z")
It really looked bizarrely like you referring to Signor Mussolini there. I mean, Bennie. Fascism… I presume you’re actually thinking [this dude](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI) ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/184 "2020-12-15T11:06:50Z")
Yep, that’s the one. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/185 "2020-12-15T11:07:06Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > > [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > > > The first Pope was Jewish, after all. > > Very true. As was, as well, the guy on whom the whole shebang was founded. And his whole _schtick_ was promising to Make Judea Great Again™ by taking it back from the Romans, the predecessors of modern Democrats. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/186 "2020-12-15T11:35:07Z")
Today’s schadenfreude: Putin called Biden to congratulate him on his win. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/187 "2020-12-15T11:39:32Z")
See, that just proves that Russia, Russia, Russia was all about getting Biden elected! Just the break the Trump legal team has been waiting for! ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/188 "2020-12-15T12:13:05Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > Today’s schadenfreude: Putin called Biden to congratulate him on his win. The orange shit-gibbon must feel like a jilted lover. If Biden starts getting love letters from Kim Jong-Un, I don’t know how Trump will ever be able to face the world. Although Putin was truly The One – the bestest boyfriend ever. It’s interesting to look at the timing of this, though. Putin called Trump to congratulate him right after the 2016 election, but with Biden, he waited until the EC vote a month and a half later. This despite the fact that Biden won with the same number of EC electors as Trump and won the popular vote by a wide margin, whereas Trump had lost the popular vote. Maybe Putin was more enthralled back in 2016 because Trump was his First Love. I think his heart will always belong to Trump. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/189 "2020-12-15T12:59:01Z")
I will always believe that the best way Russia (or others) could have thrown this election to Trump is by ham-handidly throwing races to _Democrats_, giving Trump credence for his subsequent challenges. That they did not do so is as telling as anything re: their opinion of Trump. Would’ve been easy, right? Disinfo campaigns aimed to support D’s in the same 6 states (WI, MI, FL, PA, AZ, OH), maybe some hacked voting records, pretty much the 2016 playbook all over again. ‘What we did for you, we are going to do for Biden - then YOU prosecute him for it… thereby getting rid of the Democrats for a generation’ is a plan Trump may have signed on for. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/190 "2020-12-15T16:15:30Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > What we did for you, we are going to do for Biden - then YOU prosecute him for it… thereby getting rid of the Democrats for a generation’ is a plan Trump may have signed on for. Too complicated for Trump’s tiny brain to comprehend. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/191 "2020-12-15T18:03:03Z")
[Randy Rainbow knocks another one out of the park.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DygRa5JlYhs) (Sorry, wasn’t sure which thread to put this in, but it pairs well with my schadenfreude.) ---
**Author:** ![Ranch\_Dip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranch_dip/32/5238_2.png) [@Ranch\_Dip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranch_Dip)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/192 "2020-12-15T19:13:32Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > Biden is already more popular than Trump ever was: I don’t think that’s true. He is the less facist of the two. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/193 "2020-12-15T19:58:49Z")
and I’m less fascist than Mussolini. Why do you think Biden supports a political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition? ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/194 "2020-12-15T20:20:20Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > [Randy Rainbow knocks another one out of the park.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DygRa5JlYhs) That’s superb. > Then one night two years ago > Donald called to say: > **Rudolph with your Rogained roots > Help me hide my prostitutes** The last two lines in that verse may honestly be the finest poetry I’ve read this year. ---
**Author:** ![irae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f0a364/32.png) [@irae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irae)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/195 "2020-12-15T21:53:25Z")
Schadenfreude isn’t my favorite freude, but I’ve been enjoying it frequently while it’s cheap and abundant during this extended season. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/196 "2020-12-15T22:45:24Z")
I had no idea you could lose an election so many different ways and times. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/197 "2020-12-15T22:49:19Z")
For some brain-deaders, Biden is both Fascist and Socialist at the same time. In fact, it’s a well known fact that he fought on both sides in WWII. It’s also a fact that some people use these terms without one fucking notion about what they mean. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/198 "2020-12-15T23:03:22Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > I had no idea you could lose an election so many different ways and times. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2020, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/199 "2020-12-16T00:02:10Z")
Here’s an interesting article which seems perfectly fitted to this thread: [https://thetriad.thebulwark.com/p/everyone-trump-touches-dies-the-list](https://thetriad.thebulwark.com/p/everyone-trump-touches-dies-the-list) The article supports my theory that Trump is the ultimate stress test for ethics. (Although many of them were just quietly skating along under the law until working for Trump brought them media attention…) Here’s the first entry on the list: > [@](#): > > **(1) Paul Manafort** was an anonymous conservative consultant who had parlayed his years as a political operative into untold riches. Until he took a call from Donald Trump and agreed to become his campaign manager. That was June 20, 2016. Manafort was fired on August 17, 2016. > > Because of the 58 days he spent working for Trump, Manafort wound up losing everything. He lost his license to practice law. He was arrested, tried, and sentenced to 47 months in jail. In separate charges, he pled guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States and witness tampering, and for this was fined $22 million and had an additional 30 months tacked on to his sentence. Probably not worth it. (Unless the alternative was getting whacked by some Russian mobsters, I guess). And later on, a sad one that makes me realise I’m not really a nice person because I laughed: > [@](#): > > **(9) Brad Parscale** made bank from Trump in 2016 and then, like an idiot, accepted the Death Job of campaign manager. Next thing you know he’s fired. Then out of his mind. Then getting carted off from his house by the po-po, shirtless, [like a Special Guest Star on COPS](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U86UEfo3Dv0). Well worth a skim. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2020, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/200 "2020-12-16T04:33:08Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > Today’s schadenfreude: Putin called Biden to congratulate him on his win. And Putin congratulated Biden _before Mitch McConnell did_.\* So I guess Mitch has more hair on his chest? Or maybe he’s just a bigger son-of-a-thing, which is saying quite a lot when the comparison is with Putin. \ > [@wolfpup](#): > > the Romans, the predecessors of modern Democrats. For this, you have been awarded the _North American Odd Comparison of the Day_ trophy. 🏆 Wear it in good health. \*[Did Putin Acknowledge Biden's Win Before Mitch McConnell? | Snopes.com](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mcconnell-biden-putin/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537.md?page=11)