# 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:** 241
**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:** [March 11, 2022, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4807 "2022-03-11T04:54:47Z")
Is it too late to suggest [Dr. Stella Immanuel](https://www.thedailybeast.com/stella-immanuel-trumps-new-covid-doctor-believes-in-alien-dna-demon-sperm-and-hydroxychloroquine) for the medical team? So we can add crazy invoking of God and casting out of demons (and reptillians!) to the fake cures and diagnosis? And maybe she’ll threaten all the ghosts who stabbed the Orange Idol with additional damnation if they don’t fess up to God to have the CFSG rezz’d? ---
**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:** [March 11, 2022, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4808 "2022-03-11T17:15:22Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > I thought it was because the only thing honest about them was the name. > > “We’ll commit fraud, we guarantee!” At last, truth in (Republican) advertising! ---
**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 11, 2022, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4809 "2022-03-11T18:04:41Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > “We’ll commit fraud, we guarantee!” “How do we know you’re trustworthy?” ---
**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:** [March 11, 2022, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4810 "2022-03-11T18:33:26Z")
I will admit this made me laugh. > **[Stephen Miller Is Still on His Parents' Cell Phone Plan, Jan. 6 Lawsuit Reveals](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/stephen-miller-cell-phone-family-plan-january-6-1319036/)** > > The former Trump adviser acknowledged that the phone records the Jan. 6 committee is seeking are tied to a T-Mobile family plan ---
**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:** [March 11, 2022, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4811 "2022-03-11T19:16:26Z")
He still tries to eat for free when they go out to Fricker’s. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2022, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4812 "2022-03-11T19:35:33Z")
I hope his mom still smacks his hand when he reaches across her plate for something. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2022, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4813 "2022-03-11T23:43:45Z")
Another day, another legal setback… > **[Judge blocks Donald Trump’s effort to countersue rape accuser E Jean Carroll](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/11/donald-trump-e-jean-carroll-countersue-blocked)** > > New York judge accuses ex-president of ‘bad faith’ in tactics that would have further delayed defamation lawsuit The judge was a wee bit cranky about the deliberate delaying tactics and said so. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2022, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4814 "2022-03-12T00:26:33Z")
I hate Stephen Miller, but I actually don’t think less of him for the family phone plan thing. I guess I hate phone companies more. ---
**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 12, 2022, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4815 "2022-03-12T00:28:42Z")
Being on his parents’ phone plan could just be sensible budgeting. Using it as an argument for evading a subpoena is just pathetic. ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2022, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4816 "2022-03-12T05:21:50Z")
This, so much this. We have a totally unrelated almost 70 year old guy\* on our cell plan because its cheaper for everyone that way. That doesn’t give any of us justification to evade a subpoena, we are just cheap. \*Hub’s best friend. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2022, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4817 "2022-03-15T16:32:08Z")
If she blocks Trump from the GOP nomination in 2024, so much the better. > **[Republican donors line up behind Liz Cheney as she takes on Trump | CNN Politics](https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/14/politics/liz-cheney-trump-republican-fundraiser/index.html)** > > Republican donors are opening their wallets for Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, but their interest is not limited to her House race. More than two full years before the 2024 election, Cheney is emerging as the anti-Trump champion, and plenty of Republicans... ---
**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:** [March 17, 2022, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4818 "2022-03-17T01:00:35Z")
This could go into any of these Pit threads about Trump, so here it is: I think it was Maya Angelou who wrote something to the effect “When someone shows you who he is, believe him”. It looks like Trump is finally morphing into his post-pupal adult form, showing us who he really is: [![](https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/donald-trump-speaks-at-joint-base-andrews.jpg?id=27952475&width=1000&height=562) ](https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/donald-trump-speaks-at-joint-base-andrews.jpg?id=27952475&width=1000&height=562) [![](https://timothysjohnston.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Salt-Vampire.jpg) ](https://timothysjohnston.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Salt-Vampire.jpg) (ETA: Looks kinda like Stephen Miller too.) ---
**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:** [March 17, 2022, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4819 "2022-03-17T01:20:13Z")
“Jim, all the salt has been drained from his body!” ---
**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:** [March 17, 2022, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4820 "2022-03-17T01:28:43Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > (ETA: Looks kinda like Stephen Miller too.) No, too much hair. Stephen Miller looks like a hairless version of Joseph Goebbels. In fact, he IS a hairless version of Joseph Goebbels. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2022, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4821 "2022-03-17T01:29:49Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > No, too much hair. But definitely has Stephen Miller’s bleary eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4822 "2022-03-17T03:51:11Z")
So, more like Gollum? ---
**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 17, 2022, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4823 "2022-03-17T13:36:37Z")
Except without the charm and opportunity for redemption. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2022, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4824 "2022-03-17T13:44:49Z")
And snazzy wardrobe. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4825 "2022-03-18T04:24:32Z")
I missed this when it happened but the DOJ has indicted a former Fox exec as an accomplice for Russian propoganda: [https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1479761/download](https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1479761/download) One notes that he was interviewed within two weeks of Biden taking office even though the matter was noted by the press in 2017: > **[Prominent Russian TV Station Reported Details of Trump’s Reaction to FBI...](https://medium.com/@ScottMStedman/prominent-russian-tv-station-reported-details-of-trumps-reaction-to-fbi-briefing-that-were-not-602633d1f52a)** > > The routine 2016 meeting for then-candidate Trump took place in New York. The attorney who will oversee the prosecution seems to have been a protegee of Merrick Garland and is noted for taking down corrupt politicians: > **[Meet the U.S. Attorney](https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/meet-us-attorney)** ---
**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:** [March 20, 2022, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4826 "2022-03-20T07:29:12Z")
This isn’t really Schadenfreude, but for lack of any other place to put it, a few Andy Borowitz articles from the _New Yorker_ that relate to Trump. If you don’t have a subscription, there is a stingy hard limit to the number of articles you can read each month (3 or 4) so don’t waste your quota on the very short Borowitz articles – just enjoy the headlines and the brief abstracts … Site: > **[Satire from the Borowitz Report | The New Yorker](https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report)** > > Satire from The New Yorker’s Andy Borowitz. Recent headlines: **Putin Starting to Worry About His Strategy After Trump Calls Him Smart** “As Putin watched Trump call him smart, all the blood drained from his face,” a source said. “He was clearly shaken.” **Trump Suggests Putin Just Claim He Won** “All he needs to say is, ‘Frankly, we did win this invasion,’ ” the former President said. **Putin Upset to Find Ukrainians Less Obedient Than Trump** The Russian President’s entire plan for invading Ukraine was predicated on the false assumption that the Ukrainians “would act like Trump,” one source indicated. **Trump Offers to Help Russia File for Bankruptcy** “Bankruptcy is scary the first time you do it,” Trump said. “But once you’ve done it five or six times it’s the easiest and most beautiful thing in the world.” **Poll Shows Zelensky Leading 2024 U.S. Presidential Race** A new survey shows the Ukrainian President outpacing both Republicans and Democrats in the race for the White House. [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=240) [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=242)