# 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:** 184
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2021, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3666 "2021-12-05T00:13:05Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > OMG - that mental image has to be against some sort of rule. Even in the pit. To be fair, at least they didn’t suggest Cheato himself as the mankini model. 🤮 ---
**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:** [December 5, 2021, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3667 "2021-12-05T00:20:43Z")
Okay, then how about this? [![](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/06/21/21/4193E4E200000578-4626666-image-a-49_1498078415013.jpg) ](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/06/21/21/4193E4E200000578-4626666-image-a-49_1498078415013.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2021, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3668 "2021-12-05T00:22:09Z")
MUTE THE THREAD, MUTE THE THREAD!!! “I say we take off, nuke the [thread] from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.” ---
**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:** [December 5, 2021, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3669 "2021-12-05T00:25:09Z")
Trump innocently raises his hands and asks, “What, can’t a guy scratch his own chin?” ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2021, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3670 "2021-12-05T00:29:05Z")
That is technically probably not schadenfreude, but I hat a laugh that made choke. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2021, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3671 "2021-12-05T00:29:50Z")
Er… sure, Don… [https://www.axios.com/trump-social-media-group-raises-1-billion-undisclosed-investors-798f947c-cdd6-416e-bb10-bf537087a4c9.html](https://www.axios.com/trump-social-media-group-raises-1-billion-undisclosed-investors-798f947c-cdd6-416e-bb10-bf537087a4c9.html) > Donald Trump’s social media startup on Saturday announced that it secured $1 billion in new investment as part of its ongoing efforts to become publicly traded via a blank check company. > > Between the lines: None of the investors were identified, which is highly unusual for this sort of transaction… ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2021, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3672 "2021-12-05T00:37:49Z")
Is that located in the birth control aisle? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2021, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3673 "2021-12-05T02:22:25Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > To be fair, at least they didn’t suggest Cheato himself as the mankini model. Worse has been done already. Remember _The Emperor Has No Balls_ ? [![](https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/jason-goodrich-trump-statues-5aa1b9e8-014c-40a8-b553-0077bf1f1e6e.jpg) ](https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/jason-goodrich-trump-statues-5aa1b9e8-014c-40a8-b553-0077bf1f1e6e.jpg) > **[Meet Anarchists Behind 'Emperor Has No Balls' Trump Statues](https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/naked-trump-statues-meet-anarchist-artists-behind-emperor-has-no-balls-249522/)** > > 'The Emperor Has No Balls' naked Trump statues weren't the first action from activist crew Indecline – and it won't be their last ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2021, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3674 "2021-12-05T06:02:06Z")
That’s a Janet Jackson CD cover _and_ [Salo, or the 120 days of Sodom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sal%C3%B2,_or_the_120_Days_of_Sodom?wprov=sfti1), as combined by the Antichrist. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2021, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3675 "2021-12-05T08:49:32Z")
From R.S. article: Indeed, how ruefully quaint the bolded part shows how dated this article is: > [@](#): > > …they painted “[Rape Trump](http://www.vice.com/read/someone-painted-a-rape-trump-mural-on-the-mexican-border-vgtrn-265)” on a **fence at the U.S.-Mexico border** following his comments about immigrants… ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2021, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3676 "2021-12-05T16:52:11Z")
Cheato accidentally tells the truth: > Anybody that doesn’t think there wasn’t massive Election Fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election is either very stupid, or very corrupt! ---
**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 6, 2021, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3677 "2021-12-06T05:18:17Z")
Don’t see why it can’t be both. He manages it without breaking a sweat. ---
**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:** [December 6, 2021, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3678 "2021-12-06T11:00:04Z")
Wall Street losing money on Trump’s social media company: > **[Trump SPAC social media company appears to miss its first product deadline](https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/01/trump-spac-social-media-company-appears-to-miss-first-deadline.html?__source=androidappshare)** > > Trump Media & Technology Group appears to have missed its own November deadline to launch an invitation-only version of "Truth Social," its Twitter alternative. ---
**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:** [December 6, 2021, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3679 "2021-12-06T15:13:27Z")
New Nobel prizes currently being awarded. Looks like it was rigged against Trump. Again! > **[Nobel Prizes awarded in pandemic-curtailed local ceremonies](https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-entertainment-science-health-arts-and-entertainment-2c48ceb4dbcb122a44f75a002a677d5a)** > > LONDON (AP) — Three 2021 Nobel Prize laureates said Monday that climate change is the biggest threat facing the world — yet they remain optimistic — as this year's winners began receiving their awards at scaled-down local ceremonies adapted 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 6, 2021, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3680 "2021-12-06T15:41:35Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Wall Street losing money on Trump’s social media company: It appears to be a basic pump n dump scheme. Get the suckers to buy in early, dump the shares, collect the profit and then let the company meander into the toilet while actually producing nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2021, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3681 "2021-12-06T16:05:53Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > It appears to be a basic pump n dump scheme. Get the suckers to buy in early, dump the shares, collect the profit and then let the company meander into the toilet while actually producing nothing. Does that make it a “Trump n dump” scheme? Can we re-name this grift in “honor” of His Orangeness? ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2021, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3682 "2021-12-06T16:23:19Z")
Of, give them a break, companies miss deadlines all the time. People are saying they have a good excuse. The high school kid they hired to set it up had to study for a big test, but he spent so much time setting up Truth Social that he flunked it. This caused his mom to ground him and he couldn’t get to Staples to buy the cable he needed to finish setting up the $650 server that’s going to host Truth Social. He had to call Trump and explain that he really needed someone to order and drop ship a $20 cable if he was going to launch Truth Social by December. But Trump just thought he was being ripped off and wouldn’t order the cable from Amazon, because he didn’t understand why the kid just couldn’t cut up an extension cord and use that. Once he managed to convince Trump to spend the twenty bucks- it took two weeks- he almost had the Truth Social network ready to launch, then the kids mom unplugged the server and he lost everything. She said she just had to plug in the vacuum cleaner but Trump is pretty sure she’s just a radical antifa socialist that hates Trump. I strongly suspect Trump and Co. have absolutely no idea what it takes to actually run a tech company. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2021, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3683 "2021-12-06T16:32:39Z")
👏🏽 That’s boo’ful, man – er, ma’am. ---
**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 6, 2021, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3684 "2021-12-06T17:08:24Z")
The tech company told Trump that the token ring fell out of the internet, and they need another $500,000 to get a new one. $750,000 to get a gold one. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2021, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3685 "2021-12-06T18:16:49Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > But Trump just thought he was being ripped off and wouldn’t order the cable from Amazon, because he didn’t understand why the kid just couldn’t cut up an extension cord and use that. He’d never authorize a purchase from Amazon. [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=183) [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=185)