# 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:** 361
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7207 "2022-10-06T01:10:03Z")
That was disproved when the evangelicals went for Reagan over Carter. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2022, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7208 "2022-10-06T05:28:19Z")
The Herschel Walker story, incredibly, gets even crazier: > **[Herschel Walker Abortion Accuser Drops Another Bombshell](https://news.yahoo.com/herschel-walker-abortion-accuser-drops-025037506.html)** > > The Republican U.S. Senate candidate claimed to have no idea who the woman could be. But apparently she's the mother of one of his kids. > [@](#): > > It’s surprising Walker had trouble working out her identity. She’s apparently the mother of one of the children he has publicly acknowledged as his own. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7209 "2022-10-06T12:54:27Z")
His “defense” now is that everybody makes mistakes, and he is redeemed through Christ, so… ---
**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:** [October 6, 2022, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7210 "2022-10-06T13:27:15Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > His “defense” now is that everybody makes mistakes, and **he is redeemed through Christ** , so… - It appears even Christ makes mistakes. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7211 "2022-10-06T13:59:20Z")
You got that right! ---
**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:** [October 6, 2022, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7212 "2022-10-06T15:09:20Z")
So, it was just a ‘my bad, but I am better now’ when _he_ did it. But he wants anyone _else_ who does it to go to prison. He sent her a get well card. Classy guy. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2022, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7213 "2022-10-06T15:15:52Z")
Jesus Christ. Some guy on Twitter just laid the perfect evisceration of Ron Desantis regarding this widely-publicized photograph from yesterday: [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52409137565_22dae141b2_b.jpg "20221006\_101308") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/68782016@N08/52409137565/) [https://twitter.com/kisstheblade\_/status/1577998393582002178?t=a-1ylsWBiwCgvK4KvAhOVA&s=19](https://twitter.com/kisstheblade_/status/1577998393582002178?t=a-1ylsWBiwCgvK4KvAhOVA&s=19) [https://twitter.com/kisstheblade\_/status/1577999878965399554?t=WkTgevCNWClIWUWTbjmj-w&s=19](https://twitter.com/kisstheblade_/status/1577999878965399554?t=WkTgevCNWClIWUWTbjmj-w&s=19) [https://twitter.com/kisstheblade\_/status/1578001203048357889?t=at4QyxuafeeOEurY1EWlPQ&s=19](https://twitter.com/kisstheblade_/status/1578001203048357889?t=at4QyxuafeeOEurY1EWlPQ&s=19) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7214 "2022-10-06T17:18:16Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > He sent her a get well card. Classy guy. Well, he’s the one that got her “sick”. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2022, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7215 "2022-10-06T17:35:44Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > In other words: we really don’t know _how many_ women Walker may have paid to have abortions. Although perhaps we can make a decent estimate. - We know that if Hershel Walker gets a woman pregnant he sends out checks to pay them to get abortions. - We know that he has 3 children that he didn’t acknowledge until recently. - Let P be the proportion who take the money and discretely “take care of things” vs have an unacknowledged child. (P is probably significantly greater than 0.5) Then the number of abortions he has paid for is approximately 3\*P/(1-P) So for example if 70% take the money then he’s paid for 3\*(0.7)/0.3= 7 abortions ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7216 "2022-10-06T17:37:51Z")
Gonna tell my children this was the Drake equation… ---
**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:** [October 6, 2022, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7217 "2022-10-06T17:41:08Z")
Long live the Dope! ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7218 "2022-10-06T17:45:00Z")
Trump is coming to Mesa for a rally at the huge 3,000 seat Bell Bank Park aka Legacy Sports. The park has been losing money hand over fist and is facing closure. According to [this](https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-investigations/2022/10/06/bell-bank-park-site-trump-arizona-rally-financial-peril/8193877001/) article the park is looking forward to the money they have been promised for hosting him. I’m guessing the place will be closed down by the end of the year. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7219 "2022-10-06T19:17:33Z")
Nevermind ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7220 "2022-10-06T20:28:31Z")
Oh, those poor, poor, innocent souls. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2022, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7221 "2022-10-06T20:39:20Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Gi58pN8W3hY/maxresdefault.jpg "The Little Mermaid | Poor Unfortunate Souls | Disney Sing-Along") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi58pN8W3hY) ---
**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:** [October 7, 2022, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7222 "2022-10-07T00:15:22Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > > [@Sherrerd](#): > > > > In other words: we really don’t know _how many_ women Walker may have paid to have abortions. > > Although perhaps we can make a decent estimate. > > - We know that if Hershel Walker gets a woman pregnant he sends out checks to pay them to get abortions. > - We know that he has 3 children that he didn’t acknowledge until recently. > - Let P be the proportion who take the money and discretely “take care of things” vs have an unacknowledged child. (P is probably significantly greater than 0.5) > > Then the number of abortions he has paid for is approximately 3\*P/(1-P) > > So for example if 70% take the money then he’s paid for 3\*(0.7)/0.3= 7 abortions And once again we must deplore the personal prejudice that led Alfred Nobel to decline to institute a Prize for Mathematics. ---
**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:** [October 7, 2022, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7223 "2022-10-07T00:23:14Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > And once again we must deplore the personal prejudice that led Alfred Nobel to decline to institute a Prize for Mathematics. Instead, there is the [Abel Prize](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_Prize). ---
**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:** [October 7, 2022, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7224 "2022-10-07T00:25:37Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Instead, there is the [Abel Prize](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_Prize). - Sure, but it doesn’t have the “household name” recognition of the NP. Still, I guess we ought to nominate Buck… ---
**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:** [October 7, 2022, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7225 "2022-10-07T03:36:11Z")
And I’ve never understood why this myth grew legs. Nobel’s wife was a wealthy European woman, who lived within commuting diatance of countless first-call gigolos on the Riviera. Why the hell would she have an affair with a… _mathematician?!_ ---
**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:** [October 7, 2022, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7226 "2022-10-07T10:30:18Z")
> [@F.U.Shakespeare](#): > > Why the hell would she have an affair with a… _mathematician?!_ As a wise man once said: " **It’s a fool who looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart."** [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=360) [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=362)