# 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:** 415
**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:** [January 1, 2023, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8287 "2023-01-01T23:02:29Z")
“I talk to the press, but they don’t listen to me; I brag of my wealth, but they never hear me. MAGAts haven’t time to stop and hear what I say, I talk to them all in vain.” From the hit musical “Paint Your Jail Cell.” ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2023, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8288 "2023-01-01T23:35:25Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > DJT had some sort of event and invited the press. Not even Fox News bothered to attend. > > [Cable News Ignores Trump's NYE 'Media Availability' Offer: Report](https://www.businessinsider.com/cable-news-skips-donald-trump-nye-media-availability-offer-maralago-2023-1) This part made me laugh: 😃 > Cable news networks didn’t cover it and half of his remarks were inaudible. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2023, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8289 "2023-01-02T01:15:11Z")
“Newsmax, which have historically offered sympathetic coverage of the former president, skipped on covering his remarks.” I doubt they can afford to send anyone to anywhere. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2023, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8290 "2023-01-02T01:24:15Z")
But any reporter should be proud to pay his/her\* own way to hear the utterances that emanate from Dear Leader’s mouth. Or wherever. \* Sorry, and no offense intended to the non-binary, but as a 75-year old dinosaur who majored in English Literature I just can’t bring myself to use “them” or “their” to refer to a single person. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2023, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8291 "2023-01-02T01:31:40Z")
In TFG’s wet dreams. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2023, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8292 "2023-01-02T15:01:33Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Well that’s his own fault for failing to use the word “major” in the description of the event. But they aren’t going to have any more NFTs until later this week… ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2023, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8293 "2023-01-02T19:11:52Z")
There was a great hero moment in the 2009 Star Trek trailer where Captain Pike tells a young Jim Kirk about how his father was Captain of a starship for twelve minutes. Very inspirational. However, that was before we started measuring things in Scarmuccis. Kash Patel was apparently the Director of the CIA for fourteen minutes until the entire Agency threatened to burn itself down with him inside: > **[CIA staff made a 'suicide pact' to resign if Trump fired director Gina...](https://news.yahoo.com/cia-staff-made-suicide-pact-122507606.html)** > > Trump wanted to replace Haspel with vocal supporter Kash Patel, former White House comms director Alyssa Farah Griffin said. What percentage of a Scaramucci does fourteen minutes amount to anyhow? ---
**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:** [January 2, 2023, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8294 "2023-01-02T19:15:16Z")
That’s about 1/1000th, so a milliscaramucci. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2023, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8295 "2023-01-02T19:17:45Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > What percentage of a Scaramucci does fourteen minutes amount to anyhow? One Scaramucci = 11 days, which is 18,216 minutes, so 14/18216\*100=0.077% (rounded). ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2023, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8296 "2023-01-02T20:32:54Z")
So, 770 microscaramuccis. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2023, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8297 "2023-01-02T22:37:16Z")
[Rudy filmed himself from Mar-a-lago but no one could hear him speaking.](https://news.yahoo.com/rudy-giuliani-filming-himself-voice-075517021.html) More’s the pity. 😂 ---
**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:** [January 3, 2023, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8298 "2023-01-03T02:11:27Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > milliscaramucci Didn’t they get in trouble for not actually singing their songs? ---
**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:** [January 3, 2023, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8299 "2023-01-03T02:36:55Z")
While I was in the Navy, a shipmate and I were walking down Market Street in San Francisco. We passed a duo on the sidewalk and my shipmate said, “Hey, that’s Milli Vanilli!” When we got back to the ship, I mentioned that to another shipmate. That shipmate asked me if they said anything to us. I responded, “Nope”. To which, he replied, “Well, of course not.” ---
**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:** [January 3, 2023, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8300 "2023-01-03T02:44:41Z")
Junior has taken to selling Bibles to pay the rent. > ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2023, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8301 "2023-01-03T02:59:43Z")
I wonder if you can get your wife’s name embossed in gold on the front for extra. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2023, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8302 "2023-01-03T03:30:18Z")
_[Moses Pray] I’ve got scruples too, ya know. You know what that is… scruples?_ _[Addie Loggins]: No, I don’t know what it is but if you’ve got 'em, it’s a sure bet they belong to somebody else!_ ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2023, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8303 "2023-01-03T03:59:22Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Junior has taken to selling Bibles to pay the rent I checked it out. An individual Bible goes for a very profitable $97, plus, I’m sure, shipping, handling, and grift fees. But wait! That’s not all! For only $124 you can get the Patriot Bundle, which includes the Bible **with a bookmark**! Plus a cheap coin and a lapel pin. But wait! For only $152 you can get the Liberty Bundle, which is the same cheap junk plus a cheap T-shirt. But that’s not all! For only $179 you can get the Save America Bundle, which includes all the same cheap junk, plus a hat. I suggest everyone Act Fast, because at these prices, devout Christian patriots will be snapping them up. Because devout Christian patriots have never before owned a Bible. Or, certainly not a Bible with a matching hat and T-shirt for only $179. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2023, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8304 "2023-01-03T04:17:57Z")
What? No American flag? Hell, he could even charge extra for one with a cum stain on it. You know the MAGAts would pay dearly for that! ---
**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:** [January 3, 2023, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8305 "2023-01-03T04:34:03Z")
Jaysus! The grift has gotten downright pathetic. Selling cheap shitty bibles with add-on shitty apparel is about as low on the grift scale as you can go. Maybe actual snake oil next? ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2023, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8306 "2023-01-03T04:38:58Z")
I wonder if it’s one of those Bible editions with all the liberal BS about neighbors and rich people being edited out. [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=414) [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=416)