# 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:** 44
**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:** [February 17, 2021, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/861 "2021-02-17T21:06:52Z")
What a reprehensible excuse for a human being. The Slovenian hooker isn’t much better. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/862 "2021-02-17T21:07:09Z")
Ah, oui, je me rappelle maintenant! It was Donald the Grinch. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2021, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/863 "2021-02-17T21:23:23Z")
Remember when Mr. Empathy met with Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad? You could tell he was bored to tears listening to her blather on about how ISIS killed her family. All he wanted to talk about was how she got the Nobel Prize. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/864 "2021-02-17T23:37:19Z")
One thing I noticed about how Biden spoke to that little girl: he used age-appropriate language but addressed her as one respectful person to another, not with the sing-songy condescension some adults think is the way to talk to children. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/865 "2021-02-18T07:26:02Z")
When I visited the Trump Plaza about 20 years ago their deli had awesome whitefish salad. That’s as close as I’m going to come to saying anything good about the orange scum. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/866 "2021-02-18T16:46:25Z")
Get popcorn ready for the new GOP cockfight. So fun to watch them turn on each other: > **[Trump is on a warpath to make McConnell's life a living hell](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-mcconnell-2650611139/)** > > Former President Donald Trump may have been acquitted by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and most Republican lawmakers in the Senate but the former president is reportedly not pleased with the top-ranking lawmaker's scathing rebuke of... ---
**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:** [February 18, 2021, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/867 "2021-02-18T16:57:32Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > When I visited the Trump Plaza about 20 years ago their deli had awesome whitefish salad. > That’s as close as I’m going to come to saying anything good about the orange scum. And then there’s this: [The Professor Is In. - #MakeupMonday | Facebook](https://m.facebook.com/TheProfessorIsIn/photos/a.751411938238689/3453139004732622/?type=3&source=48) ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/868 "2021-02-18T20:51:51Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > When I visited the Trump Plaza about 20 years ago their deli had awesome whitefish salad. > That’s as close as I’m going to come to saying anything good about the orange scum. I’m the same way. I recall having a nice lunch at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, back in the early 1990s. But that’s the best I can say. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/869 "2021-02-19T08:19:28Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Get popcorn ready for the new GOP cockfight. So fun to watch them turn on each other: Trump is poorly equipped for cockfighting. ---
**Author:** ![carlb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carlb/32/5930_2.png) [@carlb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlb)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/870 "2021-02-19T11:52:01Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > When I visited the Trump Plaza about 20 years ago their deli had awesome whitefish salad. > That’s as close as I’m going to come to saying anything good about the orange scum. > [@Spoons](#): > > I’m the same way. I recall having a nice lunch at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, back in the early 1990s. But that’s the best I can say. I always liked the bar at the Trump building in Chicago; it had a fantastic view up the river to the lake. Overpriced, but every upscale hotel bar is. I keep hoping someone will buy that building (hopefully under foreclosure) and redeem it in some way. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/871 "2021-02-19T12:30:14Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > > [@solost](#): > > > > Get popcorn ready for the new GOP cockfight. So fun to watch them turn on each other: > > Trump is poorly equipped for cockfighting. Ha! In all seriousness though, this is a very interesting confrontation. McConnell is arguably the most powerful and influential political figure in the Repub party, at least after trump, who inexplicably remains influential so far. McConnell is a terrible person, but in a very different way from trump. McConnell is much smarter and more calculating about his agenda. However, McConnell, in trying to play both sides of the coin by acquitting trump, yet condemning his actions, seems to have miscalculated. If McConnell wanted to reduce trump’s influence over the party and stop any hope for trump to run again in 2024, he should have gone all-out and led a Senate conviction. Now he’s facing the wrath of trump and trumpublicans anyway, while leaving trump with a shred of a viable future in politics. trump may have finally met his match in turning on McConnell, because McConnell is miles more shrewd and calculating. And trump is hardly in a strong position to attack, being an exiled ex-president facing a host of legal issues. But McConnell is going to be seriously damaged by losing the trumpublicans. I’m hoping this leads to mutual assured destruction for both their political futures. ---
**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:** [February 19, 2021, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/872 "2021-02-19T12:32:37Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Trump is poorly equipped for cockfighting. He’ll find a way to cheat, don’t worry. And [bone spurs](https://schumanchu.eu/html/l/l_00091donnie~amin.html) can be deadly weapons when sneakily used. ---
**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:** [February 19, 2021, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/873 "2021-02-19T13:03:21Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > > [@solost](#): > > > > Get popcorn ready for the new GOP cockfight. So fun to watch them turn on each other: > > Trump is poorly equipped for cockfighting. Damn. 745 in the AM and the internet was already won today? Good job! ---
**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:** [February 19, 2021, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/874 "2021-02-19T17:23:18Z")
The battle between lawful evil and Chaotic evil for the soul of the Republican party. ---
**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:** [February 19, 2021, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/875 "2021-02-19T21:35:01Z")
I think it’s more like two different flavors of Chaotic Evil. Ask Merrick Garland as to just how lawful ol’ Mitch is. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2021, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/876 "2021-02-20T11:57:08Z")
It’s the Blood War! ---
**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:** [February 20, 2021, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/877 "2021-02-20T20:47:11Z")
Safety space… I don’t want you reading the graphic below without first sitting down or otherwise ensuring that your reaction will not cause harm to loved ones, pets, property, or even yourself. This is the Schadenfreude America needs right now. This is the Schadenfreude America has been waiting for. Ladies and gentlemen, It Is Happening: [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50963643986_445d29f9f6_b.jpg "2021-02-20\_02-45-54") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/68782016@N08/50963643986/) ---
**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:** [February 20, 2021, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/878 "2021-02-20T21:37:05Z")
Brings a smile to my face and a glow to my heart. Where is this from? ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/879 "2021-02-21T01:48:46Z")
I found it. > **[Trump's Grand Return to the Spotlight Makes a... Ripple](https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/trumps-grand-return-to-the-spotlight-makes-a-ripple/)** > > Donald Trump ascended to the presidency thanks, in no small part, to his ability to relentlessly dominate headlines and consume news cycles. His opinions on matters of foreign policy, the birthplace of presidents, and the cosmetic surgeries of cable... ETA - My Tip ——to find the full article when you have an unattributed quote, just paste a sentence or two of it verbatim into a search engine ---
**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:** [February 21, 2021, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/880 "2021-02-21T18:50:40Z")
And may 45’s diminution in the public eye continue apace, unless and until it is due to his successful prosecution and incarceration for some too-long-unpunished crime(s). [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=43) [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=45)