# 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:** 382
**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:** [November 11, 2022, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7627 "2022-11-11T22:35:37Z")
That’s where I am – in the 1958-1966 zone. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7628 "2022-11-11T22:45:48Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > The boundary between baby boom and gen X keeps bouncing around. I think I was a boomer last I checked but I haven’t always been. Unless the boundary is a specific event (such as the end of WWII for the start of the Boomers), the dates are never going to be exact. The Boomers ended around 1962-64, which is when the Pill became widely used. That’s not a very well defined event, so the date is vague. I’ve heard Generation Alpha for the one following the Zoomers. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2022, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7629 "2022-11-11T22:49:56Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > And he , in reply, would call you “Lou, Sir”. 👏 👏 👍 ---
**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:** [November 11, 2022, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7630 "2022-11-11T22:57:37Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > …I’ve heard Generation Alpha for the one following the Zoomers. Well, that gives us at least 25 other generational labels, so I guess it’s cool. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7631 "2022-11-11T23:02:26Z")
We’ll always have Hebrew. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7632 "2022-11-11T23:16:42Z")
> [@Yookeroo](#): > > Zoomers. I admit they’re annoying, but they still deserve better than a portmanteau. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2022, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7633 "2022-11-11T23:23:42Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > Generation X never got a name. They probably decided it was too much effort to come up with one, I mean why bother what’s the point. -Buck Godot born 1971. ---
**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:** [November 12, 2022, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7634 "2022-11-12T00:01:01Z")
“ **Fear leads to anger.** **Anger leads to hate.** **Hate leads to suffering."** ---
**Author:** ![Airbeck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/airbeck/32/6574_2.png) [@Airbeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airbeck)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2022, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7635 "2022-11-12T00:38:02Z")
In other words… whatever. -Airbeck born 1978 ---
**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:** [November 12, 2022, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7636 "2022-11-12T01:34:01Z")
We’ll most likely need the zoomers to get back up to around 55% in '24 like they did in '20. We’ll get there if the gopers run Trump. The youngs _hate_ Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2022, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7637 "2022-11-12T04:50:49Z")
Screw them all. - Maus Magill, born in 1970 ---
**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:** [November 12, 2022, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7638 "2022-11-12T08:31:54Z")
I don’t even care. - Atamasama born in 1977 ---
**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:** [November 12, 2022, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7639 "2022-11-12T13:42:19Z")
Huh? - commasense, born in 1955. ---
**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:** [November 12, 2022, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7640 "2022-11-12T16:05:47Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > encouraging constant fear and anger is a conservative thing, and still not a healthy way to live. Thank you for the disclaimer. I just want to point out that I never mentioned fear, and another path to anger (perhaps another kind of anger) is with eyes wide open to reality, not fear of things you don’t understand. > [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > “ **Fear leads to anger.** **Anger leads to hate.** **Hate leads to suffering."** If you don’t start with fear, then (in my opinion) you don’t progress to hate. In fact you could easily leave anger out of that statement and say that fear leads to hate. ---
**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:** [November 12, 2022, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7641 "2022-11-12T18:27:17Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > In fact you could easily leave anger out of that statement and say that fear leads to hate. Naw, the Sith would never leave anger out of it. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2022, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7642 "2022-11-12T19:55:40Z")
Combine fear and anger, then all you need is a target. And the GQP will happily provide you with a plethora of them. (Has Q been active at all of late? I avoid him/her/it as much as possible, but even so I would have thought there would have been _something_.) ---
**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:** [November 12, 2022, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7643 "2022-11-12T20:53:07Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > Has Q been active at all of late? Now that I think about it, I’m surprised that I haven’t heard of any fake “Q” accounts on Twitter during the blue-chex-for-all fiasco. ---
**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:** [November 12, 2022, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7644 "2022-11-12T22:20:37Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > Maybe it’s time to move on, to wave at Trump from the rear-view mirror and focus on the assholes who are still in front of us. If Trump and the MAGAts were in the rear-view mirror, I’d agree with you, but they are not – they keep jumping in front pining to be relevant again. ---
**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:** [November 13, 2022, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7645 "2022-11-13T00:48:00Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > EDIT: Holy shit, Google says the 18 to 29 turnout in 2018 was 36%, up from 20% the previous midterm. Looks like it then went down from 36% to 27% this election, but still above the 20% it had been before Trump. Thanks for that research. Also: yikes. You can’t blame people who define themselves as “the young” for calling for recognition for having voted. It’s a fine old tradition for various groups–defined by demographic traits or anything else–to make similar claims. Squeaky wheels and all that. But: damn. Sure would like to see those numbers increase in the next one. ---
**Author:** ![gnarator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gnarator/32/8266_2.png) [@gnarator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnarator)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2022, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/7646 "2022-11-13T01:02:42Z")
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