# 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:** 340
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6787 "2022-08-31T16:24:38Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#): > > Their own candidate is a Trump-supporting, election-denying, Confederate-uniform-wearing would-be insurrectionist. Suddenly that’s not acceptable? Maybe it’s a test case for pivoting around Trump. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6788 "2022-08-31T16:44:11Z")
While I hate to possibly defend him, was that made during a battle recreation at Gettisburg or it was just him on his own cos-playing a defender of the peculiar racist institution? ---
**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 31, 2022, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6789 "2022-08-31T16:50:38Z")
[It was for a faculty party where they could dress as a historical figure](https://www.readingeagle.com/2022/08/28/mastriano-wore-confederate-uniform-for-faculty-photo/amp/). ---
**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 31, 2022, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6790 "2022-08-31T17:03:11Z")
Is Fox News _really_ starting to make that shift away from Don? > **[Fox News Host Calls Out Trump's 'Outrageous' Cry To Be Reinstated As President](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-news-donald-trump-reinstated-president-outrageous_n_630f355ee4b0dc23bbed6a70)** > > But she also called Trump "smart" during a panel that tried to unpack the former president's rant. > [@](#): > > [[Fox News](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/fox-news) anchor Shannon] Bream actually checked the former president. “All of us on this panel know that is not happening,” she said. “When the president says things like this, the former president, it gets a lot of eyeballs saying this is outrageous.” Keep it at it, Faux - these stories make my day. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6791 "2022-08-31T17:30:55Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#): > > Leaders in the Pennsylvania GOP are [endorsing for governor…a Democrat.](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-leaders-endorse-democrat-for-pennsylvania-gov-after-republican-candidate-seen-wearing-confederate-uniform/ar-AA11hZvn?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=1ac8504266b84767b241fc7439383994). I am looking out the window for flying swine. > > Their own candidate is a Trump-supporting, election-denying, Confederate-uniform-wearing would-be insurrectionist. Suddenly that’s not acceptable? Two kinda similar cases from Illinois: A few years ago, in a very very blue district, a man won the Republican primary unopposed. He wasn’t a closet Nazi - he was full-blown out-in-the-open show-up-at-events-with-a-swastika Nazi (OK, a little exaggeration there, but not much.) The Illinois Republican Party said “Don’t vote for this man; we give him 0 funding.” Didn’t say “Vote D”, but that’s the net effect. A bunch of years ago, followers of Lyndon LaRusche won Democratic nominations to several state offices. The gubernatorial candidate pulled out as a Democrat, and he and his entire slate ran as 3rd party candidates. ---
**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 31, 2022, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6792 "2022-08-31T17:34:31Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > And then they run out of money to spend on advertising for Republican candidates. Thanks! You reminded me I wanted to throw some bucks Josh Shapiro’s way. Now that’s done. 👍 ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6793 "2022-08-31T17:40:08Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Is Fox News _really_ starting to make that shift away from Don? I’m convinced at Rupert Murdoch’s insistence, they are actively engaged in Trump-weaning. It’ll be a long gradual process, but I’m sure you’re going to see more of these formerly unspeakable pronouncements from Fox as time goes on. They WANT DeSantis to be their new golden child heir apparent. ---
**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 31, 2022, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6794 "2022-08-31T17:55:59Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > You look at the red- and yellow-bordered “TOP SECRET” and “SCIF” Documents and realize immediately that there’s no way these were taken by mistake or just overlooked. And these were the ones that were IN TRUMP’S OFFICE, and not secured as they were supposed to be (albeit in a room with a simple padlock). Proof positive of obstruction and lying to the grand jury. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6795 "2022-08-31T18:06:29Z")
not a battle recreation. he wore the uniform at the army war college in carlisle pennsylvania, which is about 25 ish miles away from gettysburg. in 2020 he praised armed men defending confederate statues at gettysburg. he called for election integrity hearings at gettysburg. he has a very odd idea of what happened in gettysburg for someone who grew up and went to school in middleish new jersey. Doug Mastriano, the[Republican gubernatorial nominee](https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/28/politics/doug-mastriano-gab-pennsylvania-republican/index.html?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_msn) in Pennsylvania, posed in a Confederate military uniform in a 2013-14 faculty photo at the Army War College, a picture [obtained by Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-pennsylvania-candidate-mastriano-posed-confederate-uniform-army-war-2022-08-26/) shows. Faculty at the school, where Mastriano worked at the time, were given the choice to dress as historical figures, people familiar with the photo told Reuters. While a few others appear dressed up, Mastriano is the only one in the photo dressed in a Confederate uniform, which many associate with hate and the legacy of slavery in the South. ---
**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 31, 2022, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6796 "2022-08-31T21:51:46Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Is Fox News _really_ starting to make that shift away from Don? The way she stumbled around looks like they still need more practice, e.g. first calling him “president” then correcting herself “former president.” ---
**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 31, 2022, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6797 "2022-08-31T23:02:02Z")
…not to mention also calling him “smart”. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2022, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6798 "2022-09-01T00:18:00Z")
The Democrat won against Palin in Alaska: > ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2022, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6799 "2022-09-01T00:25:57Z")
The schadenfreude this day just gets better and better, doesn’t it? 😃 ---
**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:** [September 1, 2022, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6800 "2022-09-01T00:31:41Z")
I can hear Sarah crying from my house! Actually looking forward to the Roevember elections. Chris Hayes found out while reading the teleprompter: > ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2022, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6801 "2022-09-01T02:08:43Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > I can hear Sarah crying from my house! _So_ stealing this! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2022, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6802 "2022-09-01T02:21:03Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > The Democrat won against Palin in Alaska: > > [https://twitter.com/JacobRubashkin/status-/1565128007655849986?t=uStAOSFM5SF0usBo0OpCUA&s=19](https://twitter.com/JacobRubashkin/status-/1565128007655849986?t=uStAOSFM5SF0usBo0OpCUA&s=19) And yet 48.5% thought Palin would make a fine Rep. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2022, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6803 "2022-09-01T05:07:17Z")
Palin whining about ranked choice voting: > ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2022, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6804 "2022-09-01T05:31:59Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > And yet 48.5% thought Palin would make a fine Rep. To be fair, that’s the percentage after the ranked-choice voting was done. Palin was the first choice of only 31%. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2022, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6805 "2022-09-01T05:48:55Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Palin whining about ranked choice voting: Well if it hadn’t been ranked choice she would have lost 30.9% to 39.7%. Would that have made her happier? ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2022, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/6806 "2022-09-01T12:00:14Z")
Almost 50% of third place Begich voters declined to make her their second choice. RCV is not helpful to the most extreme candidates in a multi-candidate race so expect to see Republican opposition to it increase as it grows in usage. [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=339) [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=341)