# 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:** 322
**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:** [August 9, 2022, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6427 "2022-08-09T22:31:58Z")
January 2021: “RELEASE THE KRAKEN!” August 2022: “OH, SHIT!” ---
**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:** [August 9, 2022, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6428 "2022-08-09T22:46:40Z")
A federal court has ordered that Individual 1’s tax returns be given to the House Ways and Means Committee. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2022, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6429 "2022-08-09T23:03:01Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > January 2021: “RELEASE THE KRAKEN!” > > August 2022: “OH, SHIT!” July 2016: “FBI is great! Lock her up!” August 2022: “FBI is terrible! Defund them!” ---
**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:** [August 9, 2022, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6430 "2022-08-09T23:08:08Z")
I posted this in the Alex Jones thread in P&E already, but since this is about a Trump enabler and there is much schadenfreude to be had, I thought it was worth repeating here. It’s just too fun to watch this. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/x-QcbOphxYs/maxresdefault.jpg "Alex Jones Obliterated on Cross Because His Lawyer Sent His Cell Phone to Opposing Counsel") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-QcbOphxYs) Yes, this is kind of old news now but the video just went up today. I love Devin’s take on this and his reactions on how incredibly stupid it all is. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2022, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6431 "2022-08-10T03:42:56Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > > [@Gyrate](#): > > > > Republican logic: > > > > “The FBI is investigating Hillary! This proves that Hillary is corrupt!” > > > > “The FBI is investigating Trump! This proves that the FBI is corrupt!” > > I’m surprised at the Republican response to the Trump raid, basically saying the FBI needs to be taken apart piece by piece. I thought Republicans were all about law enforcement and being tough on crime? Maybe everyone else knew this, but I didn’t. Posted by Politico today on Facebook: > Trump – after a fierce campaign against Clinton in which he called for her to be jailed for her handling of classified material – signed a law in 2018 that stiffened the penalty for the unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents from one year to five years, turning it into a felony offense. (Note, I couldn’t seem to copy and paste, so I re-typed this myself; any errors in that transcription are my fault). I have long thought, and occasionally written on here, that vengeful people should be careful when they are crafting tools to harm their enemies, because the exact same tools can be turned around and directed against them as soon as they are out of power (and maybe sooner). This thought is directed mostly at Democrats (because so many Republicans are so far from reality-based as to have no understanding of it). ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6432 "2022-08-10T04:18:54Z")
So, has an executive ever been convicted of a law they themselves signed into law? That would be the best schadenfraude ever. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6433 "2022-08-10T04:27:41Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > I’m surprised at the Republican response to the Trump raid, basically saying the FBI needs to be taken apart piece by piece. I thought Republicans were all about law enforcement and being tough on crime? Yeah, if they wanted to jump on this particular bandwagon they missed it by a few years. The Juggalo March on Washington was all the way back in 2017: [Juggalo March - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juggalo_March) ---
**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:** [August 10, 2022, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6434 "2022-08-10T04:47:45Z")
I’m wondering if the judge, in his order, said, “You must provide your tax returns _as you promised you would_”. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2022, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6435 "2022-08-10T04:51:59Z")
The beauty of it is the law actually seems to provide that someone would try that stunt. IIRC, the apparel in question must have a substantial portion of it produced or assembled in the United States, not just the tag, to qualify for usage of said tag. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2022, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6436 "2022-08-10T11:09:02Z")
Tweet: > Article: > **[Trump says he took the Fifth in questioning in New York Attorney General...](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-deposition-fifth-amendment-new-york-fraud-investigation/)** > > The deposition is part of a wide-ranging probe into Trump's business practices by New York Attorney General Letitia James. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2022, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6437 "2022-08-10T11:11:58Z")
Would like to remark that, from what I’ve seen, the latest two stories about Trump’s investigation were… announced by Trump himself. Is he that much of an attention-whore ninny? ---
**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:** [August 10, 2022, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6438 "2022-08-10T11:18:33Z")
No, he’s just trying to get ahead of the narrative and establish its terms before anyone else. “In Sleepy Joe Biden’s latest example of authoritarian overreach, a search warrant was brutally inflicted on my totally innocent residency staff,” blah blah blah. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6439 "2022-08-10T11:32:49Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > No, he’s just trying to get ahead of the narrative and establish its terms before anyone else. Right, it’s easier to fundraise if he’s defining the narrative. ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6440 "2022-08-10T12:27:19Z")
I think that one awful challenge about the Mar a Lago search warrant is that there is such a huge proportion of the US population incapable of objective, critical thinking that unless the FBI finds a massive nerve agent factory manned by thousands of Hitler, Stalin, and bin Laden clones who all answer only to Trump, they (that is the US population of Trump followers) will always be convinced that he’s being persecuted illegally. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2022, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6441 "2022-08-10T12:55:33Z")
As long as those rogue clones answer only to Tan the Conman, his supporters would still say he’s being persecuted unfairly. ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6442 "2022-08-10T12:56:46Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > As long as those rogue clones answer only to Tan the Conman, his supporters would still say he’s being persecuted. It’s fucking frightening isn’t it. I honestly don’t see the US, and thus the world, ever recovering from this. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2022, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6443 "2022-08-10T13:27:43Z")
I know. It’s truly appalling to me that a significant portion of the population is openly and delightfully supporting Putin and his war on a country I believe we count as an ally. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6444 "2022-08-10T14:19:34Z")
> [@velomont](#): > > unless the FBI finds a massive nerve agent factory manned by thousands of Hitler, Stalin, and bin Laden clones who all answer only to Trump Planted by the FBI during the raid. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2022, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6445 "2022-08-10T15:20:06Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > I know. It’s truly appalling to me that a significant portion of the population is openly and delightfully supporting Putin and his war on a country I believe we count as an ally. Same as it ever was: > **[1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_Nazi_rally_at_Madison_Square_Garden)** > > On February 20, 1939, a Nazi rally took place at Madison Square Garden, organized by the German American Bund. More than 20,000 people attended, and Fritz Julius Kuhn was a featured speaker. The Bund billed the event, which took place two days before George Washington's Birthday, as a pro-"Americanism" rally; the stage at the event featured a huge Washington portrait with swastikas on each side. > The German American Bund was a pro-Hitler organization in the United States before World War II. The ... ---
**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:** [August 10, 2022, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6446 "2022-08-10T17:23:32Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Same as it ever was: The good thing about that incident is that although 20,000 people attended to support the Nazis, 100,000 people showed up to protest. [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=321) [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=323)