# 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:** 118
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2021, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2345 "2021-08-04T23:30:48Z")
My favorite part is his observation that it is the judge’s legal opinion entered into the public record that Mike Lindell is not a serious person. From the decision itself (reference deleted for brevity): > Referencing, among others, the owner of the MyPillow company, Mike Lindell, Mr. Fielder argued that these are“serious people”who are “all committed to disclosing the truth.” [reference] Yet, as cited above, there was substantial public evidence that these were not serious people, ---
**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:** [August 5, 2021, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2346 "2021-08-05T00:24:16Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > America’s Republicans Are Killing Their Voters > [America’s Republicans Are Killing Their Voters by Jeffrey Frankel - Project Syndicate](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/vaccination-reduced-mortality-evidence-republicans-by-jeffrey-frankel-2021-07) The problem with this excellent analysis by the well-regarded economist Jeffrey Frankel is that it ignores the new reality guiding the Republican Party: **that they no longer need votes.** All they need to gain and remain in power is a newly-passed law that permits their state legislature and/or election officials to declare “fraudulent” _any_ election in which a Democrat gets more votes. From the Electoral College on down to county offices, Republican “winners” can now be guaranteed. **With perpetual one-party rule, elections become mere theater, and voters are irrelevant.** From a very long article: > [@](#): > > … the changes to rules affecting local election administration fit broadly into the sorts of approaches authoritarian parties in other countries have used to target regions where the opposition is stronger. “They will usurp the authority of those local elected officials, either by creating parallel administrative structures, and/or by controlling revenue flows to them and basically cutting them off,” [Georgia State University political scientist Jennifer McCoy] said. > > She noted that in Georgia, the GOP-controlled state board could use its power to replace officials in heavily Democratic — and Black — counties such as Fulton and DeKalb around Atlanta. And worryingly, what’s happened in Georgia is also bubbling up in a dozen other states where Republicans have proposed legislation that could undermine local control over elections. A pair of new laws in Arkansas, for instance, puts local election officials more under the thumb of Republican-controlled state and county boards of election. > > Meanwhile, Iowa has made it a felony for local officials to fail to perform their duties or disobey guidance from the secretary of state, who is currently a Republican, and implemented $10,000 fines for “technical infractions” of election law… > **[How The Republican Push To Restrict Voting Could Affect Our Elections](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-the-republican-push-to-restrict-voting-could-affect-our-elections/)** > > In the aftermath of the 2020 election, Republican lawmakers have pushed new voting restrictions in nearly every state. From making it harder to cast ballots ear… ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2021, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2347 "2021-08-05T01:18:40Z")
Definitely cause for concern - and the Federal courts are not necessarily going to be as protective of democracy as they should be. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2021, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2348 "2021-08-05T01:21:48Z")
Yes, the courts in the post-McConnell/Trump-appointees era definitely can_not_ be counted on to care about the USA remaining a democracy. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2021, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2349 "2021-08-05T02:45:09Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Yes, the courts in the post-McConnell/Trump-appointees era definitely can _not_ be counted on to care about the USA remaining a democracy. There were some outrageous nominations, but there were also some decent (but conservative) selections. Not my choice, for sure, but not stupid and corrupt like Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2021, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2350 "2021-08-05T02:49:41Z")
If this is true, fuck this guy. He deserved it. [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-gop-official-mocked-covid-five-days-before-he-died-of-virus/ar-AAMWOsJ?li=BBnb7Kz](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-gop-official-mocked-covid-five-days-before-he-died-of-virus/ar-AAMWOsJ?li=BBnb7Kz) The people he misled… ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2021, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2351 "2021-08-05T05:54:58Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Smackdown! > > [MSN](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/lawyers-sanctioned-over-fantastical-suit-alleging-2020-us-election-was-stolen/ar-AAMWeKK?li=BBnb7Kz) This was the best part of the article for me: > Neureiter ordered the two lawyers, Gary D. Fielder and Ernest John Walker, to pay the legal fees incurred by people and entities they sued, including Facebook Inc and voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems Inc. I’m quite confident Facebook and Dominion have lawyers who charge a reeeeally pricey hourly rate. I hope this ends up bankrupting these two fucks and their firms. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2021, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2352 "2021-08-05T06:09:11Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > In this case, they actually cut off their own faces to feed the leopard. Members of Death Cult Surprised When Membership in Death Cult Leads to Death ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2021, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2353 "2021-08-05T09:08:48Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Members of Death Cult Surprised When Membership in Death Cult Leads to Death “He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.” ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2021, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2354 "2021-08-05T12:10:52Z")
I initially read that as “hunting”. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2021, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2355 "2021-08-05T16:15:40Z")
Hah! Fuck this guy! [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ron-desantis-approval-rating-tanks-as-covid-delta-variant-ravages-florida/ar-AAMYK5S?li=BBnb7Kz](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ron-desantis-approval-rating-tanks-as-covid-delta-variant-ravages-florida/ar-AAMYK5S?li=BBnb7Kz) ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2021, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2356 "2021-08-05T18:11:46Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Hah! Fuck this guy! Currently he’s trying to blame the Florida virus surge on immigrants. With zero evidence, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2021, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2357 "2021-08-05T18:19:47Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > Currently he’s trying to blame the Florida virus surge on immigrants. As has been pointed out elsewhere, Florida does have a long unwalled border with Mexico. The Gulf of Mexico, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2021, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2358 "2021-08-05T18:23:25Z")
I also heard him say that the number one thing the citizens of Florida had going for them was “natural immunity”. What a dumb fuck. He sounds like a shoe in (shoo-in?) for the Republican nomination. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2021, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2359 "2021-08-05T18:57:34Z")
At the rate he’s going killing off his own voters… it would be ironic if he lost by just a bit - enough that it could be said that he would have won if he had not deliberately killed his supporters. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2021, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2360 "2021-08-05T20:34:44Z")
[![](https://i.imgflip.com/5ipjn7.jpg) ](https://i.imgflip.com/5ipjn7.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2021, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2361 "2021-08-05T21:08:24Z")
Very nice. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2021, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2362 "2021-08-05T22:05:49Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > At the rate he’s going killing off his own voters… it would be ironic if he lost by just a bit - enough that it could be said that he would have won if he had not deliberately killed his supporters. Sure, wonderful, but the closer it is, the more perilously inviting it is for the GOP to blather “_recount!_” ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2021, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2363 "2021-08-05T22:16:57Z")
Oh these poor little covid-denying GOP putzfaces… > **[House lawmaker suing Pelosi over mask rule says he has COVID](https://apnews.com/article/health-coronavirus-pandemic-6b2267e56b73c8d7635bb106947f4ea0)** > > One of the three congressional Republicans suing Speaker Nancy Pelosi over fines for not wearing masks during a U.S. > [@](#): > > Rep. Ralph Norman, one of the three congressional Republicans suing Speaker Nancy Pelosi over fines for not wearing masks during a vote on the U.S. House floor, has contracted a breakthrough case of COVID-19, the second member of South Carolina’s delegation to do so. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2021, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2364 "2021-08-05T22:21:25Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Sure, wonderful, but the closer it is, the more perilously inviting it is for the GOP to blather “ _recount!_ ” “Recount” wouldn’t be so bad, provided it’s done honestly (which is no longer guaranteed); it’s when the blather turns to **FORENSIC AUDIT!!!** that things get dicey. And I’d be almost willing to bet that will be the battle cry should the GQP candidate lose, whatever the margin. [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=117) [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=119)