# 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:** 333
**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 21, 2022, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6647 "2022-08-21T02:12:49Z")
Damn, you’re right. Who can even keep up with it all? ---
**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:** [August 21, 2022, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6648 "2022-08-21T02:31:54Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > “There are plenty of lawyers who would love to represent President Trump, but the Soros-controlled deep-state liberal elite mainstream media has poisoned them against him, and they’re all (rightly) terrified that antifa blm transgender terrorists will kill them and their families if they dare to go up against the woke queer agenda.” Don’t forget, Hillary took out Supreme Court Justice Scalia and made it look like natural causes. A plain jane lawyer, just delegate to the nearest Drag Show groomer. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2022, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6649 "2022-08-21T08:57:06Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > If I were a lawyer remotely interested in representing him (not bloody likely), I would quadruple my hourly rate, insist on a sizable retainer up front, warn him when it was close to being depleted, and not work a freakin’ _nanosecond_ that wasn’t paid for. During the 2016 election I read an article quoting a contractor who’d been active in Atlantic City when everyone – including Trump – was putting up casinos. All the major contractors in the area learned with his proposals to bid extra high and collect enough before breaking ground to cover the materials and make a little profit because they knew collecting subsequent payments would be problematic. They called it the Trump surcharge. He said some new guy would start a company, bid the regular amount on a Trump proposal, and go into bankruptcy because they didn’t get paid. I imagine the same thing with lawyers. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2022, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6650 "2022-08-21T14:42:30Z")
Leopardface, meet leopardface. > **[Donald Trump launched a furious attack on 'broken down hack' Mitch McConnell...](https://ca.news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-launched-furious-attack-121421042.html)** > > Donald Trump lashed out at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell after he said the GOP might struggle to flip the Senate due to "candidate quality." > [@](#): > > “Why do Republicans Senators allow a broken down hack politician, Mitch McConnell, to openly disparage hard working Republican candidates for the United States Senate,” Trump wrote on [Truth Social.](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/108858312481973600) > [@](#): > > Trump said the senior senator from Kentucky should spend more time and money helping Republican Senate candidates get elected and “less time helping his crazy wife and family get rich on China.” ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2022, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6651 "2022-08-21T15:04:12Z")
Considering all the criminality surrounding trump, you’d think turtle guy could get off a few jabs back. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2022, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6652 "2022-08-21T15:24:12Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > you’d think turtle guy could get off a few jabs back. He doesn’t dare. Therein lies the problem. A small number of true trumpers and a huge number of cowards and opportunists. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2022, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6653 "2022-08-21T15:45:55Z")
I guess he’s too witless to be able to make snide or oblique references to CFSG that would stick it to him, yet sail over the heads of the MAGA dumbfucks. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2022, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6654 "2022-08-21T16:14:55Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Close enough. You forgot to mention how the ‘woke, queer agenda’ is being promoted by the FBI. “Agenda” sounds like “gender”, doesn’t it!? The “wokegenda!” ---
**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:** [August 21, 2022, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6655 "2022-08-21T17:44:04Z")
Hoping to hear more of this from Liz: > **[Cheney Bashes GOP: McCarthy Should Not Be Speaker, Cruz and Hawley 'Unfit for...](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/cheney-bashes-gop-mccarthy-hawley-cruz-1234578971/)** > > “I was ashamed to hear Republicans immediately and reflexively attack the FBI agents who executed a search warrant,” the congresswoman said But why stop at just Ted, Josh, and Kevin? ---
**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:** [August 21, 2022, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6656 "2022-08-21T18:48:47Z")
It’s just amazing. Look at her voting history, and Republicans wanted her out. The Republican party is nothing more than a collective boot licking machine for a con man. The mind (that functions) boggles. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2022, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6657 "2022-08-21T22:28:46Z")
Trumplicans are the _real_ RINOs. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2022, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6658 "2022-08-22T01:17:50Z")
And, have to ask…where was this three years ago, Liz? ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2022, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6659 "2022-08-22T01:59:12Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > It’s just amazing. Look at her voting history, and Republicans wanted her out. The Republican party is nothing more than a collective boot licking machine for a con man. Exactly. This proves so clearly how it’s all a cult of personality, much more than a coherent policy preference. (What makes Trump such an alluring, charismatic god-emperor, I’ll never know.) ---
**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 22, 2022, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6660 "2022-08-22T04:38:38Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > What makes Trump such an alluring, charismatic god-emperor, I’ll never know. I’ve never considered anything about Tan the Conman as charismatic. But then I’ve never looked at him as though he’s the mirror of soul and mind like his supporters do, bleating out loud the horrible things they used to only wish they could say out loud, but now actually say out loud. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2022, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6661 "2022-08-22T10:06:30Z")
That’s it in a nutshell. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2022, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6662 "2022-08-22T10:59:28Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > boot licking machine Oh, they’ve moved beyond just licking his _boots_ by now. The fact that they are so desperate to keep a deathgrip on his good graces really underlines the kompromat theory. It’s depressing that I’d rather have a sycophantic worm like Cruz around than a “true believer” like Boebert and Iron Crossfit MTG. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2022, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6663 "2022-08-22T14:44:10Z")
Name your poison. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2022, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6664 "2022-08-22T16:46:50Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > I’ve never considered anything about Tan the Conman as charismatic. But then I’ve never looked at him as though he’s the mirror of soul and mind like his supporters do, bleating out loud the horrible things they used to only wish they could say out loud, but now actually say out loud. Him being so horrible, they really look at him and think, “One of Us! One of Us! One of Us!..” ---
**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 22, 2022, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6665 "2022-08-22T17:46:08Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > “One of Us! One of Us! One of Us!..” Gooble-gobble, gooble-gobble ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2022, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6666 "2022-08-22T17:49:20Z")
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