# 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:** 203
**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:** [January 8, 2022, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4047 "2022-01-08T16:45:24Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > > [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > > > Fucker Carlson acting all outraged because he thought Trump knew more than he admitted to about alien visitations > > This is absurd on its face, because if Trump was given any kind of briefing on such a sensational subject, it would be literally impossible for him to resist talking about it. Yes, exactly. He couldn’t even keep his big orange lips shut in discussing US espionage tidbits with a Russian delegation - can you imagine how eager he’d be to blurt out stuff from his _Alien Autopsy_ “briefing”? ---
**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:** [January 9, 2022, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4048 "2022-01-09T00:25:48Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > > [@Sherrerd](#): > > > > I suspect no one who would confront Tucker over his blatant lies is ever permitted to get near enough to shout such a question. > > He lives in NYC or commutes in, right? Surely he must go out _sometime_, or has he holed up COVID-style? > > You don’t even have to confront him directly. Can you imagine him showing up at a restaurant and half the other patrons leave? “I can’t stand the stench.” After a while, no place will take his reservations. Well, you’d think so, right? But his stench may include a note of “power,” so people are willing to put up with it. > > [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > …The show theorized that _they_ don’t tell Democratic presidents about the alien stuff. They really said this. Some insults are really complicated: Democratic presidents are apparently too likely to freak out when shown the autopsied aliens? Or too likely to tell the world about them? Or too inclined to say ‘this doesn’t matter, let’s get back to opening the border with Mexico’…? The mental convolutions humans are capable of are so remarkable that it would actually make sense that aliens would want to study us. (I’m a non-believer, but: logic is logic.) ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4049 "2022-01-09T00:29:14Z")
How can Democratic presidents be unaware of alien contacts AND be lizard people at the same time? ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4050 "2022-01-09T00:31:06Z")
Everybody knows that Democrats are endemic lizards. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4051 "2022-01-09T00:45:09Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > How can Democratic presidents be unaware of alien contacts AND be lizard people at the same time? - n/m — ---
**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:** [January 9, 2022, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4052 "2022-01-09T03:45:49Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > How can Democratic presidents be unaware of alien contacts AND be lizard people at the same time? The lizard people are from the center of the planet, coming to the surface from the hole at the North Pole. They aren’t aliens, they’ve been on (in) the planet longer than humans. ---
**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:** [January 9, 2022, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4053 "2022-01-09T07:17:54Z")
“One of the Rigellian 7’s came to me and said, ‘sir, we thank you for what you did for the Alpha Centaurians.’ Big tears forming in his eyes as he said that. ‘The Galactic Council has been trying for years. But you did it, sir’.” ---
**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:** [January 9, 2022, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4054 "2022-01-09T08:07:18Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Democratic presidents are apparently too likely to freak out when shown the autopsied aliens? Democratic presidents are too likely to _be_ one of them! Wouldn’t you freak out too? ---
**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:** [January 9, 2022, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4055 "2022-01-09T20:19:21Z")
> **[GOP Senator Undermines Trump's Fraud Claims: 'The Election Was Fair'](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/senator-mike-rounds-election-was-fair-1281785/)** > > Senator Mike Rounds dismissed former president Donald Trump's claims that the 2020 presidential election was stoled from him. > [@](#): > > Rounds also indicated he would oppose a law designed to keep Trump out of office but said that the former president is vulnerable to criminal prosecution by the Justice Department. “Every single individual in the United States is subject to the court systems. What happens with a president is that he has the shield of office, which, in many cases, prohibits or limits the ability of the courts to address issues surrounding that. … That shield of the presidency does not exist for someone who is a former president,“ he said, adding the caveat that he doesn’t believe DOJ has yet presented any damning evidence against Trump. Really? This senator isn’t “already on his way out in '22 or '24” like all other GOP’ers who take a swipe at Don? Will the people of South Dakota take a liking to this? Will hopefully more fucking GOP’ers (_also_ _NOT_ “on their way out”) have some tesiticular fortitude to maybe come out and back this guy? Naaaaa I’m just dreamin’ and this fucker’ll get shot down in the next primary. Hm…Dude’s still vacillating whether he’ll support a Trump nomination in '24. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4056 "2022-01-09T21:22:06Z")
And if he gets on Fox, he will walk it back. Just like Ted Cruz. ---
**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:** [January 9, 2022, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4057 "2022-01-09T21:32:06Z")
They probably wouldn’t let him on if he didn’t promise, and have it on tape delay in case he reneges. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2022, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4058 "2022-01-10T00:27:49Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > > [@Sherrerd](#): > > > > Democratic presidents are apparently too likely to freak out when shown the autopsied aliens? > > Democratic presidents are too likely to _be_ one of them! Wouldn’t you freak out too? Depends on _which_ Democratic president is on the table. Harry Truman?–I’d be pretty shocked. Andrew Jackson?–not so much. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2022, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4059 "2022-01-10T02:33:03Z")
Jackson would have loved to hunt aliens. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2022, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4060 "2022-01-10T09:09:24Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Depends on _which_ Democratic president is on the table. Harry Truman?–I’d be pretty shocked. Zoidberg: Are you coming on to me? Harry Truman: By cracky, I take exception to that remark! Zoidberg: I’m not hearing a “No…” ---
**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:** [January 10, 2022, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4061 "2022-01-10T17:03:25Z")
Fox slowly coming to its seances senses? > **[Fox News ally tells Trump he needs to ‘learn to lose’](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/fox-news-kilmeade-trump-election-b1990028.html)** > > Fox News host rejected what has become known as the ‘big lie’ and advised that former president’s fixation on it is a political liability > [@](#): > > “I think that in life, you have to learn to lose,” Mr Kilmeade opined. “Hillary Clinton has to learn that. You know, Al Gore pretty much did learn that. Stacey Abrams didn’t learn that. And if you did, in fact, get screwed out of this election, put together an A-team list of lawyers – not the ones we witnessed – and show us the districts and show us how. I have not seen any of that.” ah, but then the _slight_ hedge… > [@](#): > > Asked by Mr Kurtz if it was “anti-Trump” for the media to report the fact that there is no evidence of widespread electoral fraud in 2020, Mr Kilmeade said it wasn’t. However, he then nodded to the false conspiracy theory propagated by [Tucker Carlson](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/tucker-carlson) that the 6 January riot may have been fomented in part by outside forces seeking to make Mr Trump “look bad”. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2022, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4062 "2022-01-10T17:14:58Z")
Well, Trump’s never going to support Mike Rounds again! He’s a jerk who “went woke” on the election and Trump doesn’t know if he’s stupid or crazy! This one REALLY pissed Trump off. > **[News | Donald J. Trump For President 2024](https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news)** > > Certified Website of Donald J. Trump For President 2024. Text “Trump ---
**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:** [January 10, 2022, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4063 "2022-01-10T17:17:18Z")
“Senator”. Odd thing to put in quotes. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2022, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4064 "2022-01-10T17:20:30Z")
> **[North Carolina voters dispute Cawthorn candidacy over Jan. 6](https://ca.news.yahoo.com/north-carolina-voters-dispute-cawthorn-153154057.html)** > > A group of North Carolina voters urged state officials Monday to disqualify U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn as a congressional candidate, citing his participation in a rally last January in Washington that questioned the presidential election outcome and... > [@](#): > > The written challenge says the events on Jan. 6, 2021 “amounted to an insurrection” and that Cawthorn’s speech at the rally supporting President Donald Trump, his other comments and information in published reports provide a “reasonable suspicion or belief” that he helped facilitate the insurrection and is thus disqualified. > [@](#): > > The 11 voters, identified in additional paperwork filed with the board, are from four counties within the new 13th District, which stretches from the state’s foothills east to parts of Charlotte. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2022, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4065 "2022-01-10T17:22:48Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > This one REALLY pissed Trump off. He sure is: > …and I hereby firmly pledge that he will never receive my Endorsement again! ---
**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:** [January 10, 2022, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4066 "2022-01-10T18:02:00Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > “I think that in life, you have to learn to lose,” Mr Kilmeade opined. “Hillary Clinton has to learn that. FWIW, the guy Kilmeade was speaking with, Howie Kurtz, noted later that Hillary Clinton did indeed concede her 2016 election loss. [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=202) [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=204)