# 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:** 416
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2023, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8307 "2023-01-03T05:36:03Z")
A friend with a shop that makes all kinds of crafty stuff with computer controlled lasers and routers said “Jesus Sells.” ---
**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, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8308 "2023-01-03T05:52:36Z")
No, but only for the typical reason that drives everything that Trump and his spawn do: that would cost money, either to do the editing or to license any such existing edition. They say it’s the straight King James Version. Incidentally, Junior is billed as “executive vice-president” of the Trump Organization. I can’t help but marvel at his eclectic pursuits. For instance – just to pick a random example – do you suppose that Darío Gil, who is Senior Vice President at IBM and the Director of IBM Research, spends his time hawking cheap Bibles at grossly inflated prices? For all I know maybe Dario Gil hawks Bibles standing on a street corner while proclaiming the coming Apocalypse, but somehow I doubt it. I think this sort of thing is unique to Trump and his spawn. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2023, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8309 "2023-01-03T12:17:10Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > do you suppose that Darío Gil, who is Senior Vice President at IBM and the Director of IBM Research, spends his time hawking cheap Bibles at grossly inflated prices? Unfair - grifting Bibles is not what IBM does. Grifting is now, however, the basic business of the Trump Organization (I say “now” because I think they were probably an actual real estate company at one point). So if Junior is SVP in charge of Bibles, then this makes sense. ---
**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 3, 2023, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8310 "2023-01-03T12:44:32Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > So if Junior is SVP in charge of Bibles, then this makes sense. 2 Corinthians LLC? ---
**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:** [January 3, 2023, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8311 "2023-01-03T13:09:21Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > I think this sort of thing is unique to Trump and his spawn. I wonder if anybody else licenses their name the way Trump does, and as often. No doubt this bible grift is like all the others; some distributor is paying for the privilege of shouldering the risk. They’ve paid the Trump Org a considerable up-front fee and promised a considerable cut of the proceeds in exchange for the authorized use of the Trump name. If the Trump NFT boondoggle sales are to be believed, there’s still plenty of money to be made trading on his name. Doesn’t matter that the NFTs are worthless now. They were worthless before and still pulled in several million dollars in less than a day. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2023, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8312 "2023-01-03T13:09:50Z")
Why is it that I can’t tell if this is real or an Onion article? Crazy. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2023, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8313 "2023-01-03T15:42:11Z")
What a sad sack piece of shit this guy is. Edit: substitute “family” for “guy”. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2023, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8314 "2023-01-03T16:40:01Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > 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. For the first 100 callers, the bookmark will be embossed on one side with the personal check written to Stormy Daniels and checkmarks on the reverse showing which commandments and deadly sins Don the Con has _accomplished_. And that’s not all folks. Lucky buyers will be entered into a drawing for a copy of the US Constitution that has had all the irrelevant parts sharpied out by Oranganus himself. Also a forward endorsing those comments by Clarence Thomas. Operators are standing by. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2023, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8315 "2023-01-03T16:56:50Z")
To be fair, Don Jr is right and “Judeo-Christian values” _are_ under attack. Just not by the people he thinks. ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2023, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8316 "2023-01-03T17:29:57Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > If the Trump NFT boondoggle sales are to be believed, there’s still plenty of money to be made trading on his name. Doesn’t matter that the NFTs are worthless now. They were worthless before and still pulled in several million dollars in less than a day. I exploit you Still you love me I tell you one and one makes three Oh I’m the cult of personality – [Living Colour](https://youtu.be/7xxgRUyzgs0) ---
**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:** [January 3, 2023, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8317 "2023-01-03T18:36:45Z")
_Yawn._ Call me when he starts selling a Tanakh. ---
**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, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8318 "2023-01-03T19:31:09Z")
Now Junior is claiming, once again, that most of the J6 rioters were tourists taking selfies. > ---
**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:** [January 3, 2023, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8319 "2023-01-03T20:27:30Z")
Is it just me or does he seem a bit high? ---
**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, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8320 "2023-01-03T20:43:00Z")
He’s definitely on track to be as incoherent as the orange shit-gibbon that spawned him. The fun fact is that the other one, Eric, is even dumber. Most of the pictures I see show him with a sort of stunned deer-in-the-headlights slack-jawed look. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2023, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8321 "2023-01-03T20:46:00Z")
Right. Because I’m sure to the average tourist it looked like just another typical day at the US capitol. 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2023, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8322 "2023-01-03T21:05:05Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Is it just me or does he seem a bit high? Something. Not MJ though. No real experience with anything else. Coke probably. And yeah, if I’m a tourist, my first thought would be to wade into a riot. Maybe that’s what Don Jr. would do. Tiffany seems the smartest one of the bunch. I believe she has a law degree. Not sure though. And it seems that Ivanka and Jarrad are trying to keep their distance. Good idea, Trump is imploding and will eventually explode. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2023, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8323 "2023-01-03T21:14:54Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Tiffany seems the smartest one of the bunch. I believe she has a law degree. Not sure though. She has a [JD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor), yes. She’s a research assistant at Georgetown Law School. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2023, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8324 "2023-01-03T21:42:02Z")
Rumors of Donnie Jr’s familiarity with cocaine have been around for over a decade. ---
**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, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8325 "2023-01-03T21:53:26Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Rumors of Donnie Jr’s familiarity with cocaine have been around for over a decade.   Right up there with rumours about the alleged religion of the Pope, and the toilet habits of bears. Cocaine is the go-to drug for spoiled useless brats with an excess of money, a deficiency of brains, and too much time on their hands. ---
**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, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8326 "2023-01-03T22:52:07Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > And that’s not all folks. Lucky buyers will be entered into a drawing for a copy of the US Constitution that has had all the irrelevant parts sharpied out by Oranganus himself. That would be every word in the document. Have you forgotten Tan the Conman wants the constitution chucked so he can still be dictator? [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=415) [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=417)