# 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:** 404
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2022, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8067 "2022-12-09T11:13:00Z")
A serving of Hope, with Schadenfreude seasoning: > **[Analysis | Democrats now govern more Americans at the state level than...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/08/democrat-state-government-trifecta-americans/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjM2NTAzMDQiLCJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNjcwNTg0MjgyLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNjcxNzkzODgyLCJpYXQiOjE2NzA1ODQyODIsImp0aSI6Ijg3OGZlZTVmLWFmM2UtNGRkMS04MjYwLWUyYTQ0NTQ1ZDI3NCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy8yMDIyLzEyLzA4L2RlbW9jcmF0LXN0YXRlLWdvdmVybm1lbnQtdHJpZmVjdGEtYW1lcmljYW5zLyJ9.JB3ZhaZ3Ade7AIgZTf1h5EqOI6Rzj80ihMAZQkygAuY&itid=gfta)** > > Republicans control more states, 22 to 17. But population-wise, Democrats have the edge for the first time since before the 2010 election. ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2022, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8068 "2022-12-09T16:50:34Z")
Fascinating thing to consider. Pundits have noted for years now the Democrats neglect of state races. It appears that the message was finally received and the Dems seem to be trying to do something about it. ---
**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:** [December 9, 2022, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8069 "2022-12-09T17:32:23Z")
A lot of that is probably due to the Dobbs decision. Now that abortion access is no longer a federal issue but a state issue, there a strong motivation to make sure that the state houses respect the right to choose. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2022, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8070 "2022-12-10T20:25:36Z")
Gift link: > **[3 men who fought police and lit up during Jan. 6 riot sentenced](https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/12/09/jan6-defendants-forfeit-funding/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjI4MzY2NzQiLCJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNjcwNzAzODY5LCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNjcxOTEzNDY5LCJpYXQiOjE2NzA3MDM4NjksImp0aSI6ImJhZjEyMjI4LTllM2UtNDNkMy05MmQ4LWY4NDYzMjM4MDE5OCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9kYy1tZC12YS8yMDIyLzEyLzA5L2phbjYtZGVmZW5kYW50cy1mb3JmZWl0LWZ1bmRpbmcvIn0.eLH-qe5ecyCRZ9EG6eR_ZAjH9ZxUYRWU9bCscXIOMrI&itid=gfta)** > > A Las Vegas man and two Proud Boys associates were ordered to forfeit some of the money they raised off their prosecutions as part of their punishment ---
**Author:** ![Kzbre5m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kzbre5m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kzbre5m)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2022, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8071 "2022-12-11T14:49:22Z")
> [@saje](#): > > The graphs included are particularly sweet 🙂 Some of them look like his signature ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2022, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8072 "2022-12-11T17:24:04Z")
Now you and your family can enjoy the Mar-a-Lago raid for the holidays! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/OdA5K0J2rjQ/maxresdefault.jpg "Mar A Lego Search & Seizure Xmas Set") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdA5K0J2rjQ) ---
**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:** [December 11, 2022, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8073 "2022-12-11T18:05:46Z")
I’d pay big bucks for one and send it to my cousin. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2022, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8074 "2022-12-13T17:43:17Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Now you and your family can enjoy the Mar-a-Lago raid for the holidays!.. Genius! This made me smile, too: > **[Trump in trouble: Republican support for his 2024 bid falls amid political,...](https://www.aol.com/news/trump-trouble-republican-support-2024-100009359.html)** > > Most Republican voters want Trump-ism but are no longer so enthusiastic about ex-President Donald Trump himself, a warning sign for his 2024 campaign. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2022, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8075 "2022-12-13T17:47:13Z")
I find myself wishing on Trump the foresight and fortitude to start a 3rd party. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2022, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8076 "2022-12-13T18:21:51Z")
> By 2-1, GOP and GOP-leaning voters now say they want Trump’s policies but a different standard-bearer to carry them. While 31% want the former president to run, 61% prefer some other Republican nominee who would continue the policies Trump has pursued. “We want the same hate, racism, misogyny, science denial and shitty economics, but just in a different wrapper please” ---
**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:** [December 13, 2022, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8077 "2022-12-13T18:23:42Z")
“Without quite so much bronzer.” ---
**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:** [December 13, 2022, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8078 "2022-12-13T19:11:23Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > “We want the same hate, racism, misogyny, science denial and shitty economics, but just in a different wrapper please” I’d find it satisfying for Trump to suffer the same thing his wives no doubt endured: getting tossed aside for a “newer model.” ---
**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:** [December 13, 2022, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8079 "2022-12-13T19:48:39Z")
So…Trump Light! ---
**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:** [December 13, 2022, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8080 "2022-12-13T20:53:25Z")
It’s Walker!!! [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/herschel-walker-s-likely-political-future-has-been-revealed/ar-AA15enXa?cvid=8e04362971e1454eb44aff977f634951](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/herschel-walker-s-likely-political-future-has-been-revealed/ar-AA15enXa?cvid=8e04362971e1454eb44aff977f634951) > “Over the last year, I’ve gotten to know Herschel and have seen first-hand the movement he built in his home state," Scott said Texas??? > In it, Scott said he anticipates Walker being “a leader” in the Republican party “for years to come.” Good. Their leader will be a man who can barely form a sentence and cannot keep a thought in his damaged mind. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2022, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8081 "2022-12-13T20:57:38Z")
**Desantis/Walker 2024** _“Werewolves Are Better Than Vampires”_ The WABTV (“wob-tiv”) movement will rise up and take over with patriotic fervor. (You just take old MAGA hats, change the words, and add a couple of pointy red wolf ears to the top.) ---
**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:** [December 13, 2022, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8082 "2022-12-13T21:18:30Z")
I often wondered why Walker did not play the Christian ‘saved’ card? “I was sinful, but now I am saved!!!” Wouldv’e given cover to hisself and all the ‘Christians’ that voted for him. “Yeah, he **used to be** a violent woman-beater, fornicator, abortion guy, child abandoner guy, but that was THEN”!. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8083 "2022-12-13T21:31:17Z")
Other than the fact such a tactic would require more intelligence than Walker has exhibited to date, it would also require admitting he may have been wrong at some point in his life. And that’s anathema to such people. Admitting to wrongdoing, even in the context of becoming a better person, means one is a loser now and forever. They love telling redemption stories where they save other people. They can’t stand cases where they themselves require saving. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8084 "2022-12-13T21:43:52Z")
Why bother? Trump showed the GOP that they don’t actually have to **admit** to anything in order to get that sweet sweet “he’s a flawed soul but aren’t we all?” double-think from the evangelical right. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2022, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8085 "2022-12-13T22:06:56Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Their leader will be a man who can barely form a sentence and cannot keep a thought in his damaged mind. The current Republican voters can identify with him. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8086 "2022-12-13T22:14:26Z")
Not wanting to reignite the ire of the Mods in the Mar-a-Lago thread, but not willing to relinquish the challenge of [finding an appropriate German term for the inevitable Trump-enabler fate of being “thrown under the bus”,](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-08-08-22/969329/4320) I figured that this would be the best place to remark: - German has already adopted the English idiom “to throw under the bus” in the form "unter den Bus werfen," past participial construction “unter den Bus geworfen”. - There is (sadly) a widely used and somewhat parallel native German construction “vor den Zug werfen”, “to throw [e.g., oneself] in front of a train”, past participial form sometimes occurring as “Zug vorgeworfen”. - So I propose, subject to correction by more knowledgeable German speakers, the compound participle “Busuntergeworfen” “thrown under the bus”. [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=403) [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=405)