# 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:** 309
**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:** [July 29, 2022, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6167 "2022-07-29T13:20:19Z")
Proof, as if any were needed, that Trump values vengeance over party: > **[Trump's revenge tour over Michigan Republican's impeachment vote endangers a...](https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/26/politics/peter-meijer-impeachment-vote-trump/)** > > It was just three days into Republican Rep. Peter Meijer's term when a pro-Trump mob ransacked the Capitol. A week later, the freshman voted to impeach Trump. ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6168 "2022-07-29T21:28:26Z")
Not to forget—a naked Chuck Grassley strolling around at the cocaine orgy in the Capitol, arm in arm with Moscow Mitch. Too much? 🤣 ---
**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:** [July 30, 2022, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6169 "2022-07-30T00:55:52Z")
Fucking evil ghoul starts to lose it all… > **[Conspiracy website InfoWars parent files for bankruptcy](https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/infowars-parent-files-bankruptcy-2022-07-29/)** > > The parent of far-right conspiracy website InfoWars filed for U.S. bankruptcy protection on Friday as the company and its founder Alex Jones face up to $150 million in damages in a trial over longstanding falsehoods he perpetuated about the Sandy... ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6170 "2022-07-30T00:57:28Z")
Hasn’t he already transferred most of the assets to various other “companies” and family? I could swear I’d read something about that. ---
**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:** [July 30, 2022, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6171 "2022-07-30T00:58:30Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Fucking evil ghoul starts to lose it all… How funny is it that “Free Speech Systems LLC” is filing for bankruptcy because they can’t afford defamation lawsuits? 🤣 ---
**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:** [July 30, 2022, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6172 "2022-07-30T01:05:41Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > > [@JohnT](#): > > > > Fucking evil ghoul starts to lose it all… > > How funny is it that “Free Speech Systems LLC” is filing for bankruptcy because they can’t afford defamation lawsuits? 🤣 - Pretty darned funny. But then hypocrisy always was a big part of the right-wing brand. If Jones IS able to shield most or even much of his wealth from being distributed to his victims as the court-awarded damage, then it will be…much less funny. If he _can_ do it, surely new legislation to stop that sort of thing will be called for by many. ---
**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:** [July 30, 2022, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6173 "2022-07-30T01:21:43Z")
I’ve never heard Jones’s show, but I’m guessing as much as he’s into conspiracies, he’s paranoid enough to bury his money in secret vaults and offshore accounts in the case of apocalypses. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6174 "2022-07-30T05:32:06Z")
I’ve no evidence about if he really believes conspiracy theories or not. I think he rants on about them because he knows he can get the people who listen to his show to buy his products if he tells them the stories they want to hear. ---
**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:** [July 30, 2022, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6175 "2022-07-30T07:22:24Z")
Didn’t Jones admit in court that he does not believe any of his tripe, but rather that he is playing a character who, he believes, has a right to say those things? ---
**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:** [July 30, 2022, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6176 "2022-07-30T07:36:32Z")
> **[Alex Jones' lawyer admits the one thing we all already knew](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/infowars-alex-jones-performance-artist-playing-character-lawyer-conspiracy-theory-donald-trump-a7687571.html)** > > But his ex-wife says he is 'not a stable person' > Notorious US broadcaster Alex Jones is a “performance artist” and his on air persona is an act, according to his lawyer. > Mr Wilhite said that using Mr Jones’ on-air persona to judge him as a father would be like judging Jack Nicholson in a custody dispute based on his performance as the Joker in Batman. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6177 "2022-07-30T11:08:15Z")
A human being? (The character he’s playing, that is). ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6178 "2022-07-30T11:59:18Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Didn’t Jones admit in court that he does not believe any of his tripe, but rather that he is playing a character who, he believes, has a right to say those things? Based on @Atamasama’s quotes above and what is ethical behavior I’d replace “admit” with “tried to use as an excuse, so as not to lose custody of kids / have to pay restitution to people he’s hurt”. And playing a character like that, when you know what it does to your audience, makes you as bad, or worse, than being it for real. Also if you are actually selling supplements and other crap, you are not playing a character when you shill for said supplements and other crap, you’re just a shill. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2022, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6179 "2022-07-31T02:43:21Z")
At the time, Jack Nicholson didn’t, as I recall, insist to everyone both on and off the screen that he really, _really_ was the Joker. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2022, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6180 "2022-07-31T15:22:35Z")
Heath Ledger either, but then he didn’t get the chance. Maybe Jones could take the same route. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2022, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6181 "2022-07-31T16:07:26Z")
Wesley Snipes **did** insist on being called Blade and sending out notes under that name on the set of Blade: Trinity, so perhaps that will be his precedent. Just rename “action star” as “crisis actor.” ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2022, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6182 "2022-07-31T17:20:22Z")
Sure, Schadenfraude Lite - but heck, it’s Sunday > **[Tickets for Trump's Saudi-backed LIV golf tournament selling for as little as...](https://ca.news.yahoo.com/tickets-trumps-saudi-backed-liv-121029252.html)** > > The controversial Saudi-backed event is being held at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster golf course in New Jersey. > [@](#): > > According to [The Wall Street Journal](https://affiliate.insider.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Fliv-golf-trump-bedminster-saudi-arabia-11659148739&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoo.com), Saturday tickets were sold for as little as $1 on the ticket website StubHub, and “light crowds were spread across much of the vast grounds.” > [@](#): > > When asked how much he was being paid to work with LIV, Trump said it was “very generous” but added, “I don’t do it for that,” per the outlet. ⛳ 💩 ---
**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:** [July 31, 2022, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6183 "2022-07-31T17:28:05Z")
The article says the Saudis are bankrolling the event. But I hope Trump the master businessman made a special deal giving them a break on hosting charges in exchange for a cut of the gate. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2022, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6184 "2022-07-31T19:19:01Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Wesley Snipes **did** insist on being called Blade and sending out notes under that name on the set of Blade: Trinity, so perhaps that will be his precedent. Wesley Snipes was also a SovCit. > **[Actor Snipes found not guilty of tax fraud](https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2008/feb/01/film.usa)** > > Wesley Snipes found not guilty of tax fraud and conspiracy charges, but convictions for misdemeanour counts could bring prison sentence > Snipes said the IRS’s own code meant no citizen had to pay taxes on income earned in the country, and the agency had no legal authority to collect wages anyway, because it is not a proper government entity. > Later, the actor threatened the government and individual agents in his pursuit, declaring himself a “nonresident alien” not subject to tax laws. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2022, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6185 "2022-07-31T21:09:15Z")
> **[Over 12,000 Christians condemned Marjorie Taylor Greene's embrace of...](https://www.insider.com/12000-christians-condemn-marjorie-taylor-greene-embrace-gop-christian-nationalism-2022-7)** > > "Christian nationalism is unchristian and unpatriotic," a petition reads from the online Christian community Faithful America. Og only knows what kind of goofy pushback she’d attempt, here. _How un-American to desecrate my Christian nationalism like this!!!_ ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2022, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6186 "2022-07-31T21:21:57Z")
Even Republicans don’t expect her to know what she’s talking about, or what the words she says mean. They love her because she’s dumb as a post, and racist as shit. [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=308) [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=310)