# 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:** 338
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2022, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6747 "2022-08-28T23:47:51Z")
[B.J. Penn Contesting Hawaii Election Results, Citing Voter Suppression (msn.com)](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/b-j-penn-contesting-hawaii-election-results-citing-voter-suppression/ar-AA11clqL?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=6212eaff4e3d42c4b6de29f32a7fe705) Republican loses to another Republican, badly, and refuses to admit he lost fair and square. _Penn came in second to Duke Aiona in the Republican primary, pulling 19,667 votes to Aiona’s 37,406._ Nearly 2 to 1, and still… ---
**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:** [August 29, 2022, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6748 "2022-08-29T02:41:16Z")
Well Penn did a poll of the people working in his campaign office and nearly 75% of them said they would vote for him. So there must have been something shady going on for him to lose. ---
**Author:** ![pseudograph](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pseudograph/32/19768_2.png) [@pseudograph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudograph)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6749 "2022-08-29T14:03:37Z")
If you’re familiar with Penn’s MMA career this isn’t surprising. He didn’t know when to gracefully walk away from that either. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6750 "2022-08-29T15:46:14Z")
trump hires lawyer Jim Trusty for his legal team with minimal vetting after seeing him on TV. Has to be only because of his last name. “it’s just a gut feeling, I trust him, I don’t know why.” > **[Trump hired one of the lawyers defending him in the Mar-a-Lago raid case...](https://www.businessinsider.com/mar-a-lago-trump-watched-lawyer-tv-hired-2022-8)** > > Donald Trump hired Jim Trusty, one of two lawyers on his team with federal prosecutor experience, with minimal vetting, people close to Trump said. ---
**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 29, 2022, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6751 "2022-08-29T15:50:09Z")
> [@solost](#): > > trump hires lawyer Jim Trusty for his legal team with minimal vetting after seeing him on TV. As they say, beggars can’t be choosers. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6752 "2022-08-29T18:24:25Z")
The lunacy reaches a new fever pitch: [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FbVwO95XwAIBqxu?format=jpg&name=small) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FbVwO95XwAIBqxu?format=jpg&name=small) ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6753 "2022-08-29T18:27:49Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Well Penn did a poll of the people working in his campaign office and nearly 75% of them said they would vote for him. ISWYDT 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6754 "2022-08-29T18:34:19Z")
Isn’t it charming how he forgets that the FBI renewing its look into Hillary’s emails helped him get elected in 2016? ---
**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:** [August 29, 2022, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6755 "2022-08-29T18:40:11Z")
> [@solost](#): > > after seeing him on TV. He probably first tried to hire Saul Goodman before being informed that he didn’t actually exist. ---
**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6756 "2022-08-29T18:48:54Z")
Is Trump now saying that he _didn’t_ "easily win?’ Like, by a landslide? Because the laptop thing was buried? Were votes flipped by Italian satellites or did the FBI put their big, fat thumb on the scale? I’m so confused. Did he win or didn’t he? ---
**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 29, 2022, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6757 "2022-08-29T18:51:59Z")
It was pinpoint strikes by the Jewish Space Lazer that nearly caused Trump to lose. Prove me wrong! ---
**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 29, 2022, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6758 "2022-08-29T22:09:10Z")
> [@MikeF](#): > > I’m so confused. Did he win or didn’t he? Your problem is that you are _thinking_. You need to **stop using your brain**. Only then can Trump make sense. Look at the vast majority of people who are devoted to the orange stain; do they look like deep thinkers? ---
**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 29, 2022, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6759 "2022-08-29T22:47:54Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > The lunacy reaches a new fever pitch: > > [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FbVwO95XwAIBqxu?format=jpg&name=small](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FbVwO95XwAIBqxu?format=jpg&name=small) I think the most hilarious part is that the likes and “reTruths” are in the low thousands. 😂 ---
**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 30, 2022, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6760 "2022-08-30T00:46:43Z")
And yet the great republic endures. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6761 "2022-08-30T03:32:34Z")
Yeah, but now it’s the “pretty good republic”… ---
**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 30, 2022, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6762 "2022-08-30T05:56:33Z")
Don’t you love it when someone can go ahead and enter the next line for their resume in advance? How soon do you think it will be before Tan the Conman starts calling Trusty a loser who was never good at lawyering? ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6763 "2022-08-30T12:22:07Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > How soon do you think it will be before Tan the Conman starts calling Trusty a loser who was never good at lawyering? ‘Jerkoff’ Jim Trusty is the opposite of his last name. He is a pathetic, lazy loser of a lawyer who did not understand that the Liberal Radical Left has taken over the FBI and was trying to frame me by planting Classifyed Documents among my innocent Presidential Memorabeelia. Also, I only met him once. Hardly knew him. ---
**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 30, 2022, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6764 "2022-08-30T12:33:09Z")
Oh, no’s: > **[‘There’s enormous frustration’: Trump forces Republicans off-script… again](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/30/trump-forces-republicans-off-script-again-00054121)** > > Having once decried the search of Mar-a-Lago, defenders of the ex-president are now warning of civil unrest if the investigation leads to prosecution. ---
**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 30, 2022, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6765 "2022-08-30T13:10:25Z")
I’m starting to like this. _The FBI was out of line searching the former president’s residence. There was nothing there._ _Okay, there was stuff there, but none of it was illegal for the president to have._ _The stuff the president has is legal for him because he declassified it before he took it._ _etc._ This is very much like his narrative for never showing the tax returns he long ago promised to show. What astonishes me even more is that he continues to break the law openly and the rubes continue to support him. ---
**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 30, 2022, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6766 "2022-08-30T16:03:46Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > What astonishes me even more is that he continues to break the law openly and the rubes continue to support him. I’m astonished that anyone is still astonished at this phenomenon. The rubes _want_ him to break the law and get away with it. They _want_ him to be defiant and never admit anything, and double-talk his way out of trouble. He is the most their hero when he behaves that way. The man called it himself back before he was even elected. I don’t pretend to fully understand the psychology behind these rubes’ feelings, but I certainly recognize it. When I was in high school and college, liberal types I knew would warn about populism and the “man on a white horse” seizing control by inciting mob action. But none of them ever talked about what was going on in the hearts and minds of the members of the mob. Now we’re seeing it in full flow. [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=337) [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=339)