# 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:** 239
**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:** [March 10, 2022, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4767 "2022-03-10T02:53:32Z")
[Slight tangent] I ran into an old friend and reminded him that, over a decade ago, he’d had a great line: Him: Heard any good audiobooks? Me: Actually, right now, I’m halfway through _The Theory of Everything_ by Stephen Hawking. Him: Read by the author? ---
**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:** [March 10, 2022, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4768 "2022-03-10T03:36:32Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > His fans would still make it a conspiracy somehow. He will have faked his death; the flaming blob of fat at the scene was actually Bill Barr. He’s still president and will reappear in two weeks with Vice President, Mr. Pillow. [I’m going to add a plane to my collection of voodoo dolls] [And buy more needles, great needles, only the best] ---
**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:** [March 10, 2022, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4769 "2022-03-10T05:22:35Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Let him choke on a hamberder. Suffocation from auto erotic asphyxiation, while a prostitute is urinating on him. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Duality](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.duality/32/4098_2.png) [@Mr.Duality](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Duality)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4770 "2022-03-10T12:00:10Z")
The Colorado Republican Party actually has standards. I’d call it a minor miracle if I believed in that sort of thing. “The Colorado Republican Party’s statewide officers on Wednesday called on Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters to suspend her campaign for secretary of state while under indictment on multiple felony charges related to allegations the Grand Junction Republican tampered with voting equipment.” [https://www.coloradopolitics.com/elections/2022/colorado-gop-calls-on-tina-peters-to-suspend-campaign-for-secretary-of-state-in-wake/article\_592138a2-9fe5-11ec-996a-4376445a6a9a.html](https://www.coloradopolitics.com/elections/2022/colorado-gop-calls-on-tina-peters-to-suspend-campaign-for-secretary-of-state-in-wake/article_592138a2-9fe5-11ec-996a-4376445a6a9a.html) ---
**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:** [March 10, 2022, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4771 "2022-03-10T12:10:42Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > If there is a god, he will survive a stroke, totally paralyzed and mute, yet conscious and only able to blink his eyes. I’m picturing something like Captain Pike’s chair in “The Menagerie”, except that instead of a blinking light it has a neon sign reading “THE ELECTION WAS STOLEN”. Since he has no other message, that would be sufficient. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4772 "2022-03-10T14:03:58Z")
I said this before, when Trump was in the hospital for Covid, but it remains true: can you imagine how horrible it would be to be the doctor in charge of Trump’s care when he dies? No matter how it happens, whether by accident, something like a stroke or a heart attack, or just “old age,” you as the doctor who treated him are suddenly going to be at the center of world attention, and it will not be pleasant attention. Everybody in the world will suddenly know your name. Fox News, OANN, and Newsmax will be going over your history with a fine tooth comb. Everything you’ve ever done, every tiny mistake you’ve ever made, every political opinion you’ve ever expressed, will all be examined and re-examined by everyone from Tucker Carlson to Ted Cruz to some crazy dude with a white supremacist YouTube channel, just looking for even the slightest bit of “evidence” that you killed Trump, either deliberately or through negligence. Your home address will certainly be published somewhere, and you and your family will get legitimate death threats. It would be a nightmare. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4773 "2022-03-10T14:05:51Z")
This is why you should get a total scumbag to do it. Then their life will be under the spotlight as well! Win-win. I’d have suggested Epstein if he hadn’t been removed. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2022, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4774 "2022-03-10T14:07:52Z")
I’m envisioning a scenario where Trump sued the airplane maintenance people when they tried to bill him for services rendered, and the next thing you know… engine failure! ---
**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:** [March 10, 2022, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4775 "2022-03-10T14:08:53Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > I said this before, when Trump was in the hospital for Covid, but it remains true: can you imagine how horrible it would be to be the doctor in charge of Trump’s care when he dies? No matter how it happens, whether by accident, something like a stroke or a heart attack, or just “old age,” you as the doctor who treated him are suddenly going to be at the center of world attention, and it will not be pleasant attention. > > Everybody in the world will suddenly know your name. Fox News, OANN, and Newsmax will be going over your history with a fine tooth comb. Everything you’ve ever done, every tiny mistake you’ve ever made, every political opinion you’ve ever expressed, will all be examined and re-examined by everyone from Tucker Carlson to Ted Cruz to some crazy dude with a white supremacist YouTube channel, just looking for even the slightest bit of “evidence” that you killed Trump, either deliberately or through negligence. Your home address will certainly be published somewhere, and you and your family will get legitimate death threats. It would be a nightmare. I hope it’s Ronny Jackson! Please! Please! Please! That would be an overflowing mug of delicious schandenfreude! ---
**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:** [March 10, 2022, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4776 "2022-03-10T14:23:42Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > I hope it’s Ronny Jackson! Please! Please! Please! > > That would be an overflowing mug of delicious schandenfreude! - Seconded. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2022, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4777 "2022-03-10T14:27:58Z")
Dr. Oz would be a good schandenfreudeific choice as well, especially if Trump buys the farm while Oz is giving him a big old green tea and curcumin weight loss enema. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2022, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4778 "2022-03-10T14:31:17Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > Dr. Oz would be a good schandenfreudeific choice as well, especially if Trump buys the farm while Oz is giving him a big old green tea and curcumin weight loss enema. - And watch Trump deflate like a balloon. Maybe even fly around the room. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2022, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4779 "2022-03-10T14:33:13Z")
Florida’s Ladipo would be a good choice, too! ---
**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:** [March 10, 2022, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4780 "2022-03-10T14:36:56Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > Dr. Oz would be a good schandenfreudeific choice as well, especially if Trump buys the farm while Oz is giving him a big old green tea and curcumin weight loss enema. Giving Trump an enema would be like hitting him with a [Tissue Compression Eliminator](https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Tissue_Compression_Eliminator). ---
**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:** [March 10, 2022, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4781 "2022-03-10T14:47:18Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > Dr. Oz would be a good schandenfreudeific choice as well, especially if Trump buys the farm while Oz is giving him a big old green tea and curcumin **weight loss enema.** I can’t help but remember one of the videos that Vicente Fox made after Trump got elected. “Donald, I notice you drink a lot of Diet Coke…which, by the way, is not working.” ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4782 "2022-03-10T14:56:07Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > I hope it’s Ronny Jackson! Please! Please! Please! > > That would be an overflowing mug of delicious schandenfreude! Sure, if it were someone who had been in league with Trump the whole time, that’s one thing. I’m imagining some poor doctor who just happens to be on duty in the ER when Trump is brought in. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2022, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4783 "2022-03-10T14:57:33Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > I said this before, when Trump was in the hospital for Covid, but it remains true: can you imagine how horrible it would be to be the doctor in charge of Trump’s care when he dies? An episode of the show _House_ covered a similar situation. > **[House (season 6)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyrant_(House))** > > The sixth season of House premiered on September 21, 2009, with a two-hour premiere filmed at the Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in New Jersey. In the United Kingdom, the season began airing on Sky 1 and Sky 1 HD on October 4, 2009. Season six featured 22 episodes, two fewer than usual. It is the first season of House to feature Hugh Laurie as the only original cast member in all episodes, and the last season to feature Jennifer Morrison as a main cast member. It was fairly well Ray Abruz... ---
**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:** [March 10, 2022, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4784 "2022-03-10T15:15:46Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > Florida’s Ladipo would be a good choice, too! A somewhat unknown, but well-deserving, candidate would be [Roger Marshall, MD](https://www.newsweek.com/dr-anthony-fauci-roger-marshall-rand-paul-viral-committee-meeting-covid-19-senator-1668383), junior senator from Kansas. ---
**Author:** ![lum\_s\_husband](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lum_s_husband/32/3698_2.png) [@lum\_s\_husband](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lum_s_husband)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4785 "2022-03-10T15:18:29Z")
If the CFSG dies or is totally incapacitated (by a stroke for example) his chances of election improve in 2024. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4786 "2022-03-10T15:22:01Z")
I’m now imagining him as a sort of evil stupid Stephen Hawking. Or an even worse Dalek. [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=238) [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=240)