# 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:** 211
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4207 "2022-01-21T01:12:45Z")
> [@Unintentionally\_Blank](#): > > _ **One America News Network** _ is there, like… All of a sudden OAN\* showed up as a sponsored app on my Amazon Fire. Maybe they can see that they’ll soon be desperate for viewers? I’m going to write to Jeff Bezos and complain… . \*are their fans called OANanites? ---
**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:** [January 21, 2022, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4208 "2022-01-21T01:33:20Z")
The Tangerine Twerp declares that this phone wall was even more bigly perfecter than the other one: > My phone call to the Secretary of State of Georgia was perfect, perhaps even more so than my call with the Ukrainian President, if that’s possible. I knew there were large numbers of people on the line, including numerous lawyers for both sides. Although I assumed the call may have been inappropriately, and perhaps illegally, recorded, I was not informed of that. I didn’t say anything wrong in the call, made while I was President on behalf of the United States of America… ---
**Author:** ![mtnmatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a3d4f5/32.png) [@mtnmatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mtnmatt)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4209 "2022-01-21T01:37:36Z")
Maybe by “perfect” he means that, mob-boss style, he doesn’t actually say “do X crime” but makes it _perfectly_ clear what he wants. That is, his mentors would be proud of how perfectly he absorbed their lessons. ---
**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 21, 2022, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4210 "2022-01-21T01:48:29Z")
> [@digs](#): > > > [@Unintentionally\_Blank](#): > > > > _ **One America News Network** _ is there, like… > > All of a sudden OAN\* showed up as a sponsored app on my Amazon Fire. Maybe they can see that they’ll soon be desperate for viewers? > > I’m going to write to Jeff Bezos and complain… > > . > > \*are their fans called OANanites? - Nah-nites. ---
**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 21, 2022, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4211 "2022-01-21T02:57:15Z")
Onanistic. ---
**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 21, 2022, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4212 "2022-01-21T07:20:33Z")
> [@digs](#): > > All of a sudden OAN\* showed up as a sponsored app on my Amazon Fire. Maybe they can see that they’ll soon be desperate for viewers? Your tablet is pre-OANed. ---
**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 21, 2022, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4213 "2022-01-21T09:24:06Z")
I’d ask what constituted a “perfect phone call” but forget it - it’s Trumptown. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2022, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4214 "2022-01-21T11:55:36Z")
No, it’s a good question, and one that is readily answered. A “perfect phone call” is any phone call made by a Stable Genius™. It is characterized by the brilliant soaring rhetoric of an eloquent genius, and the purity of heart and honesty of intentions worthy of a saint. It is, in a word, “perfect”. The perfect call to the Georgia Sec of State offers many examples of this. Just for one example, “I just need you to find me 11,000 votes”. The expository clarity here is breathtaking. There is no room for doubt about what the Orange Peril wants. He wants 11,000 more votes. Not 10,000. Not 12,000. Precisely 11,000. And it’s obviously completely aboveboard, as the Orange Peril himself has reminded us. The Sec of State is merely to re-jigger the vote count so that the Orange Shitstain gets 11,000 more votes and, preferably, Biden gets 11,000 less, so that the Orange Shitstain wins the state. When that’s done, the Sec of State can stop jiggering. What could be simpler? What could be more exemplifying of basic down-home honesty and purity of heart? ---
**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:** [January 21, 2022, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4215 "2022-01-21T11:56:00Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Your tablet is pre-OANed. 🏌️‍♂️👏 ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4216 "2022-01-21T14:57:42Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Your tablet is pre-OANed. Excellent! I did send Amazon an email. Did you know you can theoretically email Jeff Bezos himself? And it’s just **jeff at amazon dot com**. > Hi, Jeff (or whoever gets this)… > > Thought you’d want to know about this: > > Fired up my Fire : ) and there, right below “Next Up For You” was the _ **OAN** _ logo… > [mini-rant with cites snipped] > … It was a Sponsored App, which was disappointing, but Amazon’s description of it was chilling: > > _ **“One America News Network delivers a credible source for national and international news…”** _ > > You might want to rethink promoting them and Newsmax at all, let alone as “credible”… This morning, I got a response! Standard ‘thank you for your feedback’. But it started with “I’m Violet of Amazon’s Tech Support Executive Customer Relations team. Jeff received your email and I’m responding on his behalf.” So I might be penpals with _ **jeff @**!_ ---
**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:** [January 21, 2022, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4217 "2022-01-21T15:02:26Z")
When you speak with him, could you mention the ad I saw yesterday on his site; “Cheap prices for free masks!” I object. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4218 "2022-01-21T15:49:16Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > “Cheap prices for free masks!” My head hurts now. ---
**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 21, 2022, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4219 "2022-01-21T16:01:12Z")
That’s right up there with all those _Free Gift_ offers we’ve seen for decades. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4220 "2022-01-21T16:06:30Z")
Penn & Teller used to do a bit where Penn would say to their Las Vegas audiences: “You know what your problem is; you all suffer from _bad math_. You see the billboards and the signs all over town that say “99% return on our slot machines” and you think you’re winning. That’s _bad math_.” Plenty of people would jump at the opportunity to acquire free masks at a cheap price. ---
**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 21, 2022, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4221 "2022-01-21T16:21:14Z")
A couple of comments…… IIRC, Trump asked Brad Raffensperger to find him 11,780 votes. A VERY specific number. Trump didn’t get that he couldn’t _find_ them even if he wanted to, because he’d have to give details on where they were _found_ and those details could be readily disproven. Raffensperger’s no hero, he would’ve cheated if he could’ve done so without getting caught. Having attorneys on the call wasn’t Trump’s idea, it was Raffensperger’s. Because he knows the first rule of negotiating with Trump is to always have witnesses. This is because Trump’s prime deal-making strategy is to leave the negotiation and loudly and publicly lie about what agreement was reached. To me, the best part of the phone call was Trump trying to butter up the attorney on Raffensperger’s side, Ryan Germany, by effusively complimenting him on his last name. Trumps always had a stupid thing about phone calls. There’s a leaked tape out there, one Michael Cohen surreptitiously recorded during the Stormy Daniels payoff incident. At the very beginning of the tape, Cohen immediately begins gushing out Trump about the awesomeness of the phone call Trump just finished, and Trump ate it up. ---
**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 21, 2022, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4222 "2022-01-21T20:15:55Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > No, it’s a good question, and one that is readily answered. > > A “perfect phone call” is any phone call made by a Stable Genius™. It is characterized by the brilliant soaring rhetoric of an eloquent genius, and the purity of heart and honesty of intentions worthy of a saint. It is, in a word, “perfect”… Ahem. _Very_ Stable Genius™, please. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2022, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4223 "2022-01-22T00:43:24Z")
Here’s some news: > **[Giuliani associate gets year in prison in foreign donor case](https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-joe-biden-europe-manhattan-campaign-finance-07c83dcbb9ecc93d14e65b43e0eb72bb)** > > NEW YORK (AP) — A Florida man who helped Rudy Giuliani seek damaging information against Joe Biden in Ukraine was sentenced to a year and a day in prison and fined $10,000 Friday in an unrelated campaign finance case. ---
**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:** [January 22, 2022, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4224 "2022-01-22T02:15:47Z")
While it’s the most minimal amount of pain for Trump’s whiniest supporters, every bit is enjoyable. > **[Rhode Island school revokes honorary degrees for Giuliani, Flynn](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/590852-university-revokes-honorary-degrees-given-to-giuliani-flynn/)** > > A Rhode Island university announced on Friday that it would be revoking honorary degrees given to Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor turned personal lawyer for President Trump, and Michael Fl… Awwww. Lost honorary degrees for Guiliana and Flynn seems so appropriate since their personal honor is non-existent, subsumed to blind loyalty to the CESG. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2022, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4225 "2022-01-22T02:17:45Z")
Oh yeah. That’s the good stuff. ---
**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:** [January 22, 2022, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4226 "2022-01-22T18:56:25Z")
This is hilarious. The Orange Peril sat down for an interview with Hannity, who went on a rant about Biden’s “failed policies” and his alleged intransigence, concluding that “you keep banging your head against the wall” trying to understand Biden’s thinking. So our Stable Genius™ hears the word “wall”, completely fails to comprehend anything that Hannity was saying, and launches into a completely unrelated stream of lies and incoherent word salad about his beautiful border wall. Which, incidentally, was just three weeks away from completion (I thought everything in Trumpland was always two weeks away, but I guess The Wall would have taken a bit longer). It’s like something _The Onion_ would have written, except the Orange Shitstain is so irredeemably stupid that this is actually real! > **[Donald Trump and Sean Hannity just had the most amazing exchange | CNN Politics](https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/21/politics/trump-sean-hannity-border-wall/index.html)** > > On Thursday night, former President Donald Trump appeared on Sean Hannity's Fox show. And the two men had the following exchange: [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=210) [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=212)