# 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:** 273
**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:** [May 29, 2022, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5447 "2022-05-29T21:47:24Z")
After reading the article, I was reminded of a quote from Schlock Mercenary > **Breya:** I think if we listen carefully we can hear the demons casting lots for the tattered, grubby remains of your soul. Although Targon is small potatoes when it comes to grift and evil. ---
**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:** [May 29, 2022, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5448 "2022-05-29T21:57:54Z")
He danced. Trump read the names of dead children, and then he _fucking did a little dance._ Him and his supporters are sick pig fuckers that dance on the graves of dead children. Can’t wait to see how low they’ll sink next. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2022, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5449 "2022-05-29T22:07:50Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Trump read the names of dead children, and then he _fucking did a little dance._ I mean, this (from 2016) wasn’t hyperbole: > I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK? ---
**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:** [May 29, 2022, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5450 "2022-05-29T22:47:41Z")
Yet 69-million voters saw nothing wrong with that, and then _after_ four years’ experience with his… administration, _74_-million. 😠 ---
**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:** [May 30, 2022, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5451 "2022-05-30T00:04:08Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > He danced. Trump read the names of dead children, and then he _fucking did a little dance._ And someone in the venue played music for him to dance to. I realize that “the cruelty is the point” has become a familiar descriptor for Republicans in the Trump era, but sometimes it seems inadequate. Is it that they’re determined to prove Hillary’s adjective—deplorable—correct? ---
**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:** [May 30, 2022, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5452 "2022-05-30T00:16:52Z")
Is it that they have no empathy whatsoever? Nobody had the common sense to think “Hey, maybe doing a little dance at the NRA convention after reading the names of DEAD CHILDREN who were gunned down just days before… maybe that would be in bad taste”. Did they not think? Are they that lacking in brains and/or empathy? Did they not for a moment get how that would look? Alternatively, are they just that keen to “own the libs”? Did they actually give it some thought, and decided that it was worth it, just to troll people with what assholes they are, and how they can get away with anything - even mocking dead children? Either is a pretty nasty look. ---
**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:** [May 30, 2022, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5453 "2022-05-30T00:22:49Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Alternatively, are they just that keen to “own the libs”? Did they actually give it some thought, and decided that it was worth it, just to troll people with what assholes they are, and how they can get away with anything - even mocking dead children? … This option seems most likely to me. The high the right is on, now, is: I CAN DO ANYTHING AND THE PEOPLE I HATE CAN’T STOP ME AND I WILL MAKE THEM WEEP AND I WILL DRINK THEIR TEARS AND I AM _ **ALL-POWERFUL** _. It’s brain-damaged-toddler-think. But it’s selling really well. They really think the road to happiness is being as despicable as possible and ‘getting away with it.’ ---
**Author:** ![excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e8c25b/32.png) [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excavating_for_a_mind)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2022, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5454 "2022-05-30T01:05:23Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Is it that they have no empathy whatsoever? Nobody had the common sense to think > > “Hey, maybe doing a little dance at the NRA convention after reading the names of DEAD CHILDREN who were gunned down just days before… maybe that would be in bad taste”. Did they not think? Are they that lacking in brains and/or empathy? Did they not for a moment get how that would look? > … No, no empathy involved. They don’t care how it would look. That’s not the point. It will get the news coverage. That is the point. Those who are in favor of Trump don’t care about the kids in Uvalde. But, they do have to be reminded from time to time that Trump is still capable of pissing-off the libs. Bad taste is a feature, not a bug. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2022, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5455 "2022-05-30T04:23:17Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > He danced. Trump read the names of dead children, and then he _fucking did a little dance._ Well, of course he did. How many of the names on that list weren’t Hispanic? ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2022, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5456 "2022-05-30T04:27:46Z")
The idiots there clapping obviously missed the point of that speech mocking “thoughts and prayers”. ---
**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:** [May 30, 2022, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5457 "2022-05-30T09:35:29Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > “Hey, maybe doing a little dance at the NRA convention after reading the names of DEAD CHILDREN who were gunned down just days before… maybe that would be in bad taste”. Did they not think? Are they that lacking in brains and/or empathy? Did they not for a moment get how that would look? I’ve seen the video of him reading the names, and I’ve seen the video of him dancing. Just for my own understanding of context, how much time passed between the two? I mean, I’m not defending the dancing at all; I’m just trying to calculate _exactly_ how tasteless this was. “Read the names and then danced” is horrific; “read the names, babbled incoherently for another 15 minutes and then danced” is marginally less so. ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2022, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5458 "2022-05-30T10:32:14Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > (…) Just for my own understanding of context, how much time passed between the two? Thank you for asking this. I don’t have the fortitude to watch video of The Loser, but like my hate to be evidence-based. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2022, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5459 "2022-05-30T11:12:42Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > “Read the names and then danced” is horrific; “read the names, babbled incoherently for another 15 minutes and then danced” is marginally less so. My understanding it’s the latter. After reading the names, he made a speech covering the usual NRA ideas about arming teachers, armed guards, and whatnot, and then went into his usual thing about the stolen election. After he was done, he did the dance. You wouldn’t know this from watching many of the videos on line, which leave out the speech. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2022, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5460 "2022-05-30T11:31:45Z")
I wouldn’t want them to make a practice of it, but it’s nice to see the left playing the “context? what’s that?” game. ---
**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:** [May 30, 2022, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5461 "2022-05-30T11:33:40Z")
Tbf the right would have literally edited the two together and then flooded social media with the doctored video. As they’ve done with multiple Biden and Pelosi videos already. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2022, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5462 "2022-05-30T15:10:07Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > I wouldn’t want them to make a practice of it, but it’s nice to see the left playing the “context? what’s that?” game. No it isn’t. Or do you want to have to distrust all the media all the time, just to score a useless point against a sociopath? > [@Gyrate](#): > > Tbf the right would have literally edited the two together (snip) So non-right media can say “Yes, we ignored context to rile people up, but at least we’re not as bad as them.” What an ambition. ---
**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:** [May 30, 2022, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5463 "2022-05-30T15:14:18Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > So non-right media can say “Yes, we ignored context to rile people up, but at least we’re not as bad as them.” What an ambition. Feel free to take it up with the “non-right media”. I made the effort to check before jumping to conclusions. ---
**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:** [May 30, 2022, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5464 "2022-05-30T15:18:00Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > > [@Gyrate](#): > > > > “Read the names and then danced” is horrific; “read the names, babbled incoherently for another 15 minutes and then danced” is marginally less so. > > My understanding it’s the latter. **After reading the names** , _he made a speech covering the usual NRA ideas about arming teachers, armed guards, and whatnot, and then went into his usual thing about the stolen election._ **After he was done, he did the dance**. You wouldn’t know this from watching many of the videos on line, which leave out the speech. It was still fucking inappropriate. Don’t forget, this is the same jackass who wished everyone a “Happy Memorial Day”. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2022, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5465 "2022-05-30T15:24:10Z")
Maybe he thought it was Mammarial Day. Mammaries make him happy. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2022, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5466 "2022-05-30T15:29:30Z")
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