# 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:** 370
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7387 "2022-10-24T15:02:04Z")
Ted Cruz received a warm New York welcome at Yankee Stadium last night. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/bc_4T_bhb2Y/maxresdefault.jpg "Watch: Ted Cruz Booed at Yankee Stadium 'Go Back to Cancun'") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc_4T_bhb2Y) > **[Yankees fans give Ted Cruz a proper NSFW New York welcome](https://fansided.com/2022/10/23/yankees-fans-give-ted-cruz-proper-nsfw-new-york-welcome/)** > > Yankees fans welcomed Texas senator Ted Cruz to New York with some NSFW gestures during Game 4 of the ALCS against the Astros. Crowds in New York aren't kn... ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7388 "2022-10-24T15:11:16Z")
Well, most of those boos were probably due to him representing as an Astro’s fan and I presume a general disdain for Texans in general in NYC. Ted’s general level of likeability (-45 the last I checked) certainly played into it. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2022, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7389 "2022-10-24T15:51:56Z")
I had just finished reading some of today’s comic strips when I noticed a headline: > **[Trump claim of ‘Crime of Century’ fizzles in 3-year probe](https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/trump-claim-of-crime-of-century-fizzles-in-3-year-probe/?dicbo=v2-d43f648f18ee0412a81f9e4d2df23c4b)** > > Former President Donald Trump once predicted that a special prosecutor appointed during his administration would uncover “the crime of the century” — a conspiracy to sink his 2016 campaign. That’s about the Durham probe, of course. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2022, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7390 "2022-10-24T16:20:04Z")
It certainly doesn’t measure up to anything by the standard set by the Manchurian Cantaloupe, whose oeuvre includes enough crimes of the century to span the gap from the founding of Harappa to the founding of Mars Base 1. ---
**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 24, 2022, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7391 "2022-10-24T16:52:34Z")
Ted appears on The View. They had to suddenly go to commercial with everyone looking rather nonplussed about something shouted from the audience. Well, Whoopie is looking rather pleased with the turn of events, that’s true. [https://twitter.com/WUTangKids/status/1584575741932761090?t=tqk6tj\_jHIJSPcqiac-IjA&s=19](https://twitter.com/WUTangKids/status/1584575741932761090?t=tqk6tj_jHIJSPcqiac-IjA&s=19) ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7392 "2022-10-24T17:23:22Z")
I don’t know if I can offer some consolation with an old picture, but you have those, we have these: [![](https://external-preview.redd.it/Rr8MxadxchYKZ8TfYFCxQM8NdRbDb3ulkq6GHBCo51o.jpg?auto=webp&s=18d653da082a7de640a9e98819a6348ed4e08982) ](https://external-preview.redd.it/Rr8MxadxchYKZ8TfYFCxQM8NdRbDb3ulkq6GHBCo51o.jpg?auto=webp&s=18d653da082a7de640a9e98819a6348ed4e08982) He is wearing Germany’s 1990 soccer national team top and a famous pre-pissed… ehh… something during [riots against immigrants](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rostock-Lichtenhagen_riots) in Rostock-Lichtenhagen 1992. Some things never change, wherever you go. Bad Männer. Schadenfreude? He died 2006. And he got [his own wikipedia article](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Ewert) in German. Don’t know who the other Scheisskopf is. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7393 "2022-10-24T17:37:16Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > He is wearing Germany’s 1990 soccer national team top and a famous pre-pissed… ehh… something during [riots against immigrants](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rostock-Lichtenhagen_riots) in Rostock-Lichtenhagen 1992. Some things never change, wherever you go. Bad Männer. > Schadenfreude? He died 2006. And he got [his own wikipedia article](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Ewert) in German. Don’t know who the other Scheisskopf is. I remember having seen a documentary about him and the Rostock riots in which he was interviewed (sitting at his kitchen table, drinking beer from a can) and insisted that on the car ride to Lichtenhagen, he had been so drunk that he had spilled beer over his pants, so no pissed pants. That was the struggle of his miserable life, to deny that he had pissed himself on a ride to a xenophobic pogrom where he was inclined to show the nazi salute. What a miserable, wasted existence. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7394 "2022-10-24T19:22:56Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Ted appears on The View. They had to suddenly go to commercial with everyone looking rather nonplussed about something shouted from the audience. > > Well, Whoopie is looking rather pleased with the turn of events, that’s true. Are you better off than you were two years ago? Two years ago we were using refrigerator trucks as makeshift morgues. ---
**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 24, 2022, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7395 "2022-10-24T20:03:18Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Are you better off than you were two years ago? My current president does not fill me with shame and rage at least. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7396 "2022-10-24T20:49:07Z")
Two years ago I was unvaccinated. Doing objectively much better now, yes, thanks for asking, Ted. ---
**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 24, 2022, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7397 "2022-10-24T21:59:06Z")
> **[Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene loses up to $41,000 after buying stock in a...](https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/savingandinvesting/rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-suffers-large-financial-loss-one-year-after-buying-stock-in-a-company-that-s-trying-to-merge-with-trump-s-truth-social-platform/ar-AA13kjYe?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=abf2ecd9d7f041e4b77f152ef8b37e97)** > > Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has seen financial losses a year after she invested in a SPAC that's set to marge with Trump's "Truth Social" platform. Server her right. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2022, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7398 "2022-10-24T22:04:54Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Server her right. She _is_ more on the “mark” end of the spectrum than the “grifter” end. ---
**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 24, 2022, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7399 "2022-10-24T22:30:31Z")
[Jakob Wohl and Jack Burkman, two Stooges looking for a third, have pled guilty to single counts of telecommunications fraud.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2-conservatives-accused-in-hoax-robocall-scheme-plead-guilty/2022/10/24/c596921e-53dd-11ed-ac8b-08bbfab1c5a5_story.html) ---
**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:** [October 24, 2022, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7400 "2022-10-24T23:01:15Z")
I liked this nugget in the story: > In late September, Greene’s husband [filed for divorce](https://www.businessinsider.com/rep-marjorie-taylor-greenes-husband-files-for-divorce-2022-9), citing that the marriage was “irretrievably broken.” Greene and her estranged husband, Perry Greene, jointly own many stocks, which could complicate the divorce proceedings. An Insider analysis previously found Perry Greene invested [hundreds of thousands](https://www.businessinsider.com/kanye-west-divorce-mtg-marjorie-taylor-greene-madison-cawthorn-2022-10) into corporations that openly champion social causes Marjorie Taylor Greene opposes. ---
**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 25, 2022, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7401 "2022-10-25T01:27:53Z")
By the way, how do you get a gift link to a story? I see it requested sometimes but I’m not sure how to do it. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2022, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7402 "2022-10-25T02:44:35Z")
For NYT and Wapo (the two services I pay for) you have to be a paid subscriber, and you click on a little gift box icon in the article to get a link you can copy and paste. Typically, you have a certain number, like 10, you can give away per month. I don’t know how it works for other site, but I assume it’s similar. ---
**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 25, 2022, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7403 "2022-10-25T11:11:32Z")
Danke! ---
**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:** [October 25, 2022, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7404 "2022-10-25T15:08:58Z")
Set to “marge” with Trump’s “Truth Social”? That’s one hell of a typo! ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2022, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7405 "2022-10-25T15:29:35Z")
It’s heart-warming when they turn on each other. Apparently there are two Republicans running against each other for the Alaska Senate seat and [Alaska Republicans want to censure McConnell for supporting Murkowski](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/alaska-republicans-vote-to-censure-mcconnell/ar-AA13m5XV?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=6a6e27bf518e4aaaa221bbb3b19a04ce) even though she is the incumbent. I am no McConnel fan but this line of thinking is ridiculous. Individuals and parties have the right to support whomever they please, even if that person is a batshit lunatic (who hopefully will lose badly at the ballot box). Having a differing opinion is not some crime that requires censure outside of Orwell-world. Even in Russia they come up with some other plausible-sounding offense before imposing sanctions. ---
**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:** [October 25, 2022, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7406 "2022-10-25T15:36:12Z")
Friend, we just suffered four years of a batshit lunatic in office. Why do you think such a condition would cause someone to lose a republican race? [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=369) [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=371)