# 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:** 29
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/561 "2021-01-22T13:30:16Z")
It’s like finding out that the last words of one of the 9/11 hijackers was “I thought you brought the parachutes!” ---
**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 22, 2021, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/562 "2021-01-22T13:33:04Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > Woof, on preview, that’s a drinky rant. I’ll let it stand, but I’ll stop before it becomes even more incoherent, or maybe a novel. [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50863090182_a803c6f3cb.jpg "giphy-1") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/68782016@N08/50863090182/) ---
**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:** [January 23, 2021, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/563 "2021-01-23T00:47:34Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > Also known as Occam’s Taser. Beautiful. \ > [@scabpicker](#): > > … In the end, he even got a few of his supporters killed. Their greatest sin seems to have been that they were fools who put their trust in he who is certainly the king of fools, at least as far as members of the POTUS club goes. … Your entire rant: epic and deserving of immortality. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2021, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/564 "2021-01-23T00:51:56Z")
I posted a link to this story in the Capitol Riot Follow Up thread in P&E, but it really deserves a mention here too. [https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/alleged-capitol-rioter-gave-himself-away-by-yelling-trump-2020-on-plane](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/alleged-capitol-rioter-gave-himself-away-by-yelling-trump-2020-on-plane) ---
**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:** [January 23, 2021, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/565 "2021-01-23T00:59:26Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Alleged Capitol Rioter Gave Himself Away By Repeatedly Yelling ‘Trump 2020’… … The entire project of attempting to redefine January 6 as **'antifa did it** ’ has been greatly hampered by the actual words and actions of the Trumpites\* who, you know, _did_ it. \*by analogy with the “Deadites” of the _Evil Dead_ series. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2021, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/566 "2021-01-23T13:40:39Z")
The part that I don’t get is this: > [@](#): > > An airport police officer witnessed the scene but didn’t arrest Lolos. **Instead, Delta simply booked him on another flight, and he continued to wait at the gate.** So, this guy is making a ruckus on the plane, they go back to the gate and escort him off, and the airline decides to just put him on another flight? Where he’s likely to pull the same shit again? You’d think, at the very least, that Delta would have decided to make him some other airline’s problem. ---
**Author:** ![Ziberian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/919ad9/32.png) [@Ziberian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ziberian)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2021, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/567 "2021-01-23T14:22:25Z")
> [@songsearch](#): > > If it were a real coup, they would have had real weapons, not fire extinguishers and spears. Many of them did have real weapons tucked in their backpacks. One of the big mistakes of not arresting people at the time of the incident is that had they done so they would have been able to add weapons charges. Maybe not a big deal for those inside the Capitol since they have bigger charges coming, but had they rounded up all those violating curfew they probably would have been able to charge them with more than ‘breaking curfew’. ---
**Author:** ![Ziberian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/919ad9/32.png) [@Ziberian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ziberian)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2021, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/568 "2021-01-23T14:34:04Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > There’s probably a wheelbarrow-load of doctoral theses to be written about why right-wingers are so gullible about and susceptible to pitches that flatter their existing biases. I would argue these people are right-wingers _because_ they’re so gullible. These are the folks who are still falling for Nigerian prince and other lame email/phone scams, who cheerfully pay exorbitant interest rates for substandard products because the salesman tucked ‘family values’, ‘church’, ‘patriotism’, etc in their sales pitch. It’s this gullibility, with a healthy dose of greed and naivete, that makes them buy into the right-wing scare-mongering BS. ---
**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:** [January 24, 2021, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/569 "2021-01-24T12:57:21Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > There’s probably a wheelbarrow-load of doctoral theses to be written about why right-wingers are so gullible about and susceptible to pitches that flatter their existing biases. Although I think I’ve seen articles that say RW folks are more susceptible, let’s not pretend that humans in general aren’t susceptible to flattering pitches. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2021, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/570 "2021-01-24T13:38:38Z")
Good thing I didn’t say that then. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2021, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/571 "2021-01-24T15:14:13Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > So, this guy is making a ruckus on the plane, they go back to the gate and escort him off, and the airline decides to just put him on another flight? Where he’s likely to pull the same shit again? You’d think, at the very least, that Delta would have decided to make him some other airline’s problem. Delta decided to get him back by torturing him with hostile customer service. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/tHwKmZnc7l4/maxresdefault.jpg "deLTA AIRLINES") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHwKmZnc7l4) ---
**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 24, 2021, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/572 "2021-01-24T18:17:04Z")
Heheheheheheh. > **[Members are quitting 'sad' Mar-a-Lago after Trump loses | CNN Business](https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/24/business/mar-a-lago-donald-trump-guests/index.html)** > > Many once-loyal members of Mar-a-Lago are leaving because they no longer want to have any connection to former President Donald Trump, according to the author of the definitive book about the resort. ---
**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:** [January 24, 2021, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/573 "2021-01-24T18:58:37Z")
> [@Ziberian](#): > > One of the big mistakes of not arresting people at the time of the incident is that had they done so they would have been able to add weapons charges. I don’t think that was a mistake, so much as situation where it would have been difficult for 200 police to arrest 5,000 people. The police were fighting to simply keep them from attacking and murdering legislators. They did not have command and control of the situation. So not a “mistake” not to arrest everyone on the spot. ---
**Author:** ![Ziberian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/919ad9/32.png) [@Ziberian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ziberian)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2021, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/574 "2021-01-24T23:36:40Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I don’t think that was a mistake, so much as situation where it would have been difficult for 200 police to arrest 5,000 people. The police were fighting to simply keep them from attacking and murdering legislators. They did not have command and control of the situation. > So not a “mistake” not to arrest everyone on the spot. True. Had the police attempted to arrest them during the attacks, we would have seen all those weapons in action and a lot more dead. But a shame it wasn’t an option – felony vs out past curfew, ya know. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2021, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/575 "2021-01-25T00:01:33Z")
That was hard to watch. I think its just a step or two beyond my schadenfreude limit (not that I will judge anyone who did feel a sense of satisfaction). It scary how seriously they take such lies. Hopefully when the country fails to devolve into satanist police state she will feel better about things, but given her likely susceptibility to confirmation bias she may be in for an unpleasant 4-8 years of jumping at shadows. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2021, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/576 "2021-01-25T00:09:39Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > … she may be in for an unpleasant 4-8 years of jumping at shadows. Odds are she’s lived her entire life in that state of mind. There’s a correlation between pro-authoritarian thinking and being fearful to the point of paranoia. > [@](#): > > … A new book by a psychology professor and a former lawyer in the Nixon White House argues that Trump has tapped into a current of authoritarianism in the American electorate, one that’s bubbled just below the surface for years. > > … They measure it using a tool Altemeyer developed in the early 1980s, called the right-wing authoritarian (RWA) scale. … Many fervent Trump supporters, Altemeyer and Dean write, “are submissive, fearful, and longing for a mighty leader who will protect them from life’s threats. They divide the world into friend and foe, with the latter greatly outnumbering the former.” … > **[Analysis | New research explores authoritarian mind-set of Trump’s core...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/10/12/trump-voter-authoritarian-research/)** > > A psychologist and a former lawyer from the Nixon White House explore new survey data on the authoritarian tendencies driving millions of voters. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2021, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/577 "2021-01-25T00:33:25Z")
I always wondered what all those gun fanatics were so afraid of. I guess the answer is “Everything.” ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/578 "2021-01-25T13:24:37Z")
Along with Sidney Powell, [Dominion Voting Machines is now suing Rudy Giuliani](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/25/us/politics/rudy-giuliani-dominion-trump.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage) for $1.3 _billion_ (each). The article indicates they intend to sue others, possibly even Trump. Rudy is also facing removal from the NY State Bar Association and loss of his law license. I hope that fucker is buried so deep in lawsuits for the rest of his life that he will never see daylight again. Of course, it would be great if he goes to jail as well. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/579 "2021-01-25T13:50:08Z")
Sorry…which fucker? 😉 j ---
**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 25, 2021, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/580 "2021-01-25T14:14:38Z")
> [@Treppenwitz](#): > > Sorry…which fucker? There are so many potential choices, but I’m assuming from context this particular fucker is Rudy. [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=28) [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=30)