# 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:** 146
**Author:** ![MonkeysBrother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@MonkeysBrother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeysBrother)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2905 "2021-09-20T05:56:47Z")
Oh, of course. What was I thinking? ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2906 "2021-09-20T06:46:12Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > you would clearly see the left’s communist islamist fascist socialist atheist anarchist agenda. You left out feminist. Sheesh. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2021, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2907 "2021-09-20T08:42:47Z")
And homosexual. > [@Sherrerd](#): > > The sense of this is that right-wingers are SO MENTALLY WEAK that they can do _nothing_ stemming from their own (apparently absent) powers of reason. > > The only action they can take is RE-action. Only if a leftist makes a declaration can the right-winger do anything _other_ than, presumably, stare at the ceiling of his parent’s basement as he lies in his bed. But if that leftist makes a declaration (on anything), the right-winger can now _act_ —he can do the opposite! How often have we been told here about people who voted for Trump just because the left were so _mean_ to them? ---
**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:** [September 20, 2021, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2908 "2021-09-20T14:28:47Z")
They MADE me drive drunk by passing laws against driving drunk. It’s THEIR fault! This is the logic of a mental defective. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2021, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2909 "2021-09-20T14:32:43Z")
Brought to you by the same subculture that gave us “rolling coal”. > **[Rolling coal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > Rolling coal is the practice of modifying a diesel engine to emit large amounts of black or grey sooty exhaust fumes—diesel fuel that has not undergone complete combustion. It is a predominantly North American phenomenon (more specifically in the United States and Canada), despite being illegal. > Rolling coal is sometimes used as a form of anti-environmentalism. Such modifications may include the intentional removal of the particulate filter. Prac... Because “freedom”. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2910 "2021-09-20T15:30:32Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > They MADE me drive drunk by passing laws against driving drunk. It’s THEIR fault! > > This is the logic of a mental defective. > **[Was an Anti-Seat Belt Law Advocate Killed in an Automobile Accident?](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/seat-belt-advocate-killed/)** > > Anti-seat belt law advocate is killed in automobile accident. Presented without comment. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2911 "2021-09-20T17:57:46Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > The only action they can take is RE-action. Only if a leftist makes a declaration can the right-winger do anything _other_ than, presumably, stare at the ceiling of his parent’s basement as he lies in his bed. But if that leftist makes a declaration (on anything), the right-winger can now _act_—he can do the opposite! Hasn’t this essentially been the GOP M.O. for the last 30 years? Name one successful piece of legislation - other than a tax cut for the rich - that has been initiated by the GOP. They don’t know how to govern, all they know how to do is react to whatever Democrats (try to) pass. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2021, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2912 "2021-09-20T18:32:07Z")
In the GW Bush years they passed some legislation, the patriot act for example. It was really MItch (#1 goal to make Obama a one-term president) McConnell that turned the Republicans into the anti-Democrat party. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2913 "2021-09-20T18:36:45Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > [Was an Anti-Seat Belt Law Advocate Killed in an Automobile Accident? | Snopes.com](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/seat-belt-advocate-killed/) > > Presented without comment. It’s not even ironic, it’s just what you expect to happen. Anti-Vaxxers die of Covid, Anti-Parachutists die while skydiving, Anti-Breathers suffocate, and so on. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2914 "2021-09-20T18:40:00Z")
That may be when it went into overdrive (or maybe over-over-over drive), but they’ve been following the basic playbook Newt Gingrich drew up in the 90s. They’ve refined it, of course, but the ‘win at all costs, forget governance’ attitude has been around in the Senate for nearly 30 years. Ditto the House but with different players. I mean, it’s kind of obvious when, in the aftermath of 9/11, the GOP decided the appropriate response to the biggest attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor was…tax cuts for the rich. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2021, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2915 "2021-09-20T18:49:21Z")
Democrats should craft a policy that promotes breathing air into your lungs, and pass laws that prohibit people from wrapping drycleaning bags around their heads. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2021, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2916 "2021-09-20T19:03:17Z")
Sure, ever since the Gingrich’s Contract ~~with~~ on America, and continuing through Tom Delay’s permanent Republican Majority, the GOP has been putting party over country. But prior to McConnell they included some active legislation. As compared to McConnell’s all obstruction all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2917 "2021-09-20T22:32:49Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Democrats should craft a policy that promotes breathing air into your lungs, and pass laws that prohibit people from wrapping drycleaning bags around their heads. 👍 I mean, we can present all the science related to these laws. Fauci can support us. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2021, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2918 "2021-09-20T23:59:47Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > How often have we been told here about people who voted for Trump just because the left were so _mean_ to them? Very, very often. > [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > They MADE me drive drunk by passing laws against driving drunk. It’s THEIR fault! > > This is the logic of a mental defective. This is also the all-too-familiar rationale behind beating up one’s romantic/marital partner—‘she MADE me do it!’ Related, too: the “tone argument” (‘we’d listen to your argument if you made it in a more deferential-to-us manner, but not otherwise’). There must be an experimentally-verifiable link between all of this and the pro-authoritarian brain. Something about having no agency of one’s own, since all agency properly belongs to the Great Father/Dear Leader. (Given that the GF/DL is the holy and righteous hand of the Deity, of course.) Being pro-authoritarian is probably attractive to these people because they believe that the philosophy frees them from all personal responsibility. They can live in eternal childhood. (Or so they _believe_. In actual fact, the grownups among the species behold the pro-authoritarians’ passive/aggressive, irresponsible shit and feel disgust and disdain.) ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2021, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2919 "2021-09-22T01:59:32Z")
Eric Trump’s lawyer just quit: > **[Eric Trump lawyer in New York attorney general’s fraud case quits](https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/573261-eric-trump-lawyer-in-new-york-attorney-generals-fraud-case-quits/)** > > A lawyer for Eric Trump in New York Attorney General Letitia James’s (D) fraud investigation into the Trump Organization has withdrawn from representing the former president’s son in the… ---
**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:** [September 22, 2021, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2920 "2021-09-22T05:24:17Z")
“Rats Desert Stinking Shit” Film at 11. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2021, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2921 "2021-09-22T10:21:59Z")
I heard he wasn’t being paid. ---
**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:** [September 22, 2021, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2922 "2021-09-22T10:32:06Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Eric Trump’s lawyer just quit: Take a close look at Eric Trump sometime. I see more intelligence in a head of cabbage. The wonder is that any lawyer ever agreed to represent him at all. ---
**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:** [September 22, 2021, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2923 "2021-09-22T10:41:31Z")
The lawyer in question, Marc Mukasey, is a former law partner of Rudy Giuliani, represented accused war criminal Eddie Gallagher, and is on Matt Gaetz’s legal team - and it’s _Eric Trump_ he’s distancing himself from? ---
**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:** [September 22, 2021, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/2924 "2021-09-22T14:29:06Z")
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