# 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:** 288
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2022, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5747 "2022-06-28T14:10:20Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Seems to be [Mark Meadows’ aide Cassidy Hutchinson](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/27/jan-6-committee-surprise-tuesday-hearing-00042595). From the article, [quote] Cassidy Hutchinson will testify publicly, according to two people familiar with the committee’s plans, after providing crucial testimony to the panel about significant exchanges among Donald Trump’s inner circle in the weeks before the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Hutchinson [replaced her attorney earlier this month](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/09/hutchinson-former-meadows-aide-replaces-lawyer-jan-6-hearings-00038439) as the select committee’s hearings began; her former attorney was the Trump White House’s chief ethics lawyer, and her new attorney is a longtime ally of former Attorney General Jeff Sessions. [/quote] (emphasis mine) talk about an oxymoron! ---
**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:** [June 28, 2022, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5748 "2022-06-28T14:31:19Z")
> [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#): > > Trump White House’s chief ethics lawyer, and her new attorney is a longtime ally of former Attorney General Jeff Sessions. (emphasis mine) talk about an oxymoron! [/quote] Nobody said he was PRO- ethics. ---
**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:** [June 28, 2022, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5749 "2022-06-28T17:25:18Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Nobody said he was PRO- ethics. Also known as “meh-thics” ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2022, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5750 "2022-06-28T17:51:53Z")
Federal prosecutors are investigating the stocks deal which gave Individual 1’s company money to create Truth Social. > **[Trump social network deal under federal investigation](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-social-network-deal-federal-investigation/)** > > A federal grand jury issued subpoenas to Digital World Acquisition Corp., the special purpose acquisition company merging with Trump Media & Technology Group. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2022, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5751 "2022-06-28T18:23:26Z")
Individual 1 is ranting about how he barely new Cassidy Hutchinson, and if he was so bad, why did she want to to go with him to Florida with the transition team? And he turned her down, so now she’s getting revenge. ---
**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:** [June 28, 2022, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5752 "2022-06-28T18:47:41Z")
Wait, what? Trump had a transition team? ---
**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:** [June 28, 2022, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5753 "2022-06-28T19:05:33Z")
Yes, to effect the transition of the USA from a democratically elected representative republic to an authoritarian kleptocracy. ---
**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:** [June 28, 2022, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5754 "2022-06-28T19:28:16Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Wait, what? Trump had a transition team? Vanity Fair article on the Orange Baboon and Rick Perry’s Energy Department transition team. Summary: There was none, for months. > **[Why the Scariest Nuclear Threat May Be Coming from Inside the White House](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/department-of-energy-risks-michael-lewis)** > > Donald Trump’s secretary of energy, Rick Perry, once campaigned to abolish the $30 billion agency that he now runs, which oversees everything from our nuclear arsenal to the electrical grid. The department’s budget is now on the chopping block. But... ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2022, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5755 "2022-06-28T19:36:31Z")
Nitpick: I believe the “transition team” mentioned in the context of Hutchinson is the subset of the 2021 Trump administration personnel responsible (?) for working with the Biden-Harris transition team. For the 2017 transition, Hutchinson was still a college student and AFAICT played no role in the Trump White House until 2019. ---
**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:** [June 28, 2022, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5756 "2022-06-28T20:28:57Z")
I read the SEC documents containing the disclosures they gave investors, and they pretty much came right out and said that Donald Trump had a deep history as a con artist that scammed investors, that Donald Trump would be the final decision maker on everything, that Donald Trump might make decisions that put his interest over that of the company and that Donald Trump would be paid for content (truths) he submits on the platform. Fuck ‘em. You can only go so far in protecting people from their own stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2022, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5757 "2022-06-28T21:34:17Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > You can only go so far in protecting people from their own stupid. But they like it that way! So fuck 'em, yes. This is about Schadenfreude after all. ---
**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:** [June 29, 2022, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5758 "2022-06-29T04:22:36Z")
I remember back in the 80s there was a bubble of “investment clubs” in the Bay Area where people would pool their money and make big bux. They were all pyramid schemes where the money collected later went to pay the “investors” who had climbed on earlier. The state Attorney General and various county District Attorneys all issued statements decrying them and various police and sheriff offices closed them as fast as they could find them, but they kept popping up like toadstools. All the while, would be investors were complaining how their rights were being trampled on and how they should be allowed to put their put their money where they want to. A month later, after the inevitable collapse, they were squawking about why they hadn’t been protected better. ---
**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:** [June 29, 2022, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5759 "2022-06-29T13:21:49Z")
Made me smile: > **[Colorado Republicans reject 3 election deniers for statewide office | CNN...](https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/28/politics/illinois-colorado-utah-ny-primary-election/index.html)** > > On the same day a former aide to President Donald Trump's chief of staff testified about how Trump had wanted to join the throngs of his supporters at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, Republicans in Colorado on Tuesday rejected three election... ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2022, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5760 "2022-06-29T14:09:29Z")
There is a report that lots of D voters have changed their registration to R. I wonder how many Dem Coloradans changed theirs just to vote against these guys in the primary. I suspect lots of them did. We’ll know if lots of them change back to D in the coming weeks. ---
**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:** [June 29, 2022, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5761 "2022-06-29T14:20:50Z")
-coughs- I didn’t, but many years ago I registered as Libertarian here in Colorado. Mostly (90%) because it got me a lot less fundraising / polling phone calls (landline baby!), but also because it lets me pick to vote in either Primary. And I may have chosen to vote the Republican Primary this year. Not that the quality of Republican leadership at the national level (some quibbles at state) has gotten me to vote for a Republican presidential candidate, well, ever. They keep forgetting we hear all the Christian Conservative BS they spout during the primary. Although, if it had been McCain vs Clinton or Kasich vs Clinton there would have been many hard thinks. [to be clear, I don’t think Hilary was unqualified, or more of a crook than the rest of the invested interest / insider trading politicians, just that I feel (still do) that a more fiscally conservative government is a good idea, if we can drag that POV away from a bunch of Christian coddling, socially oppressive bigots] ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2022, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5762 "2022-06-29T14:39:55Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > There is a report that lots of D voters have changed their registration to R. I wonder how many Dem Coloradans changed theirs just to vote against these guys in the primary. I suspect lots of them did. We’ll know if lots of them change back to D in the coming weeks. OK, I apparently got this backwards. At least that’s what [Electoral-vote.com](https://www.electoral-vote.com/#item-3) thinks. According to them, CO D-voters reregistering as Rs voted for the wakkos because they (the wakkos) would be easier to defeat in the general: > [@](#): > > - …But Not in Colorado: On the other hand, Democratic efforts to boost wackadoodle Republicans in Colorado didn’t work out, as far-right “stop the steal” candidates were rejected up and down the state ballot in favor of sane Republicans. In particular, election-denier Tina Peters did not get the nomination for secretary of state. The Democrats still have the advantage in these races, but they’d have a bigger advantage against nutters. Also, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R) was not harmed by Democratic voters reregistering as “Republicans,” as she easily won renomination with 65.4% of the vote. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2022, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5763 "2022-06-29T14:58:34Z")
Great plan. Trump was the easier-to-beat nutter in 2016 and we see how well that worked out. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2022, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5764 "2022-06-29T17:20:26Z")
Yep. Plus, the fundamentals of the race were a lot better for the Democrats in 2016 than this year. It’s certainly not the way I’d play dice with the republic at stake. ---
**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:** [June 29, 2022, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5765 "2022-06-29T17:21:12Z")
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**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2022, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5766 "2022-06-29T20:39:09Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > I read the SEC documents containing the disclosures they gave investors Link? [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=287) [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=289)