# 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:** 463
**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:** [March 18, 2023, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9247 "2023-03-18T16:10:04Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > don’t underestimate the number of loyal asshats that are out there just waiting for a call like this, and most of them carry weapons. Interestingly, the police also have weapons, and are relatively interested in maintaining the rule of law. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2023, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9248 "2023-03-18T16:12:18Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Interestingly, the police also have weapons, and are relatively interested in maintaining the rule of law. Let’s hope it goes better than the last time. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9249 "2023-03-18T16:14:01Z")
Insurrectionists in DC Jails pounding on the bars: Let me out!! I heard the call! ---
**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:** [March 18, 2023, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9250 "2023-03-18T16:17:58Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Let’s hope it goes better than the last time. Let’s hope that any ass-hats that have the idea of an insurrection take a look at what happened to the last bunch of idiot foot soldiers. Under the bus they went, bumpity bump. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2023, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9251 "2023-03-18T16:22:33Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Let’s hope that any ass-hats that have the idea of an insurrection take a look at what happened to the last bunch of idiot foot soldiers. Under the bus they went, bumpity bump. I think you’re crediting them with higher IQs than is justified. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9252 "2023-03-18T16:22:42Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > According to [this](https://imgur.com/a/R7WdCuz), Trump expects to be arrested on Tuesday. See you next Tuesday, Donald. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9253 "2023-03-18T16:27:38Z")
Yes, but some only took the lesson not to fail at step 2. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2023, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9254 "2023-03-18T16:31:28Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I think you’re crediting them with higher IQs than is justified. Totally agree. But who is going to step forward to organize these marching morons into some semblance of a mob? Someone with an iota of ability will also know that they will be next in line for standing in front of a jury. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2023, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9255 "2023-03-18T16:33:57Z")
Let’s hope some of that has seeped in through the layers of brain lard. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2023, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9256 "2023-03-18T17:02:05Z")
We absolutely should not be leading the former president away in handcuffs. That would be a terrible mistake. 😖 After all, he has fat wrists and tiny hands, it would be like putting cuffs on an ice cream cone. Instead, they should use those poles that animal control uses on violent dogs. [![](https://animal-care.com/wp-content/uploads/ketch-all-with-homer-scaled.jpg) ](https://animal-care.com/wp-content/uploads/ketch-all-with-homer-scaled.jpg) It might take two or three people but I think it’d work. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2023, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9257 "2023-03-18T17:05:44Z")
I think leg shackles would be better. He could do the perp shuffle for us. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2023, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9258 "2023-03-18T17:09:12Z")
Oh, but wait: from the New York Times "Prosecutors working for the district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, have signaled that an indictment of Mr. Trump could be imminent. But they have not told Mr. Trump’s lawyers when the charges — expected to stem from a 2016 hush money payment to a porn star — would be sought or when an arrest would be made, people with knowledge of the matter said. At least one more witness is expected to testify in front of the grand jury, which could delay an indictment, the people said. One of the people said that even if the grand jury were to vote to indict the former president on Monday, a Tuesday surrender was unlikely given the need to arrange timing, travel and other logistics." ---
**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:** [March 18, 2023, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9259 "2023-03-18T17:51:08Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I think leg shackles would be better. It’s too hard to get them around the bone spurs. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2023, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9260 "2023-03-18T18:04:42Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I hope he really gets the sadz when 6 losers show up on a single street corner with misspelled signs. > **[Blank protest sign](https://imgflip.com/i/7ez4cg)** > > An image tagged blank protest sign ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9261 "2023-03-18T18:07:30Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > One of the people said that even if the grand jury were to vote to indict the former president on Monday, a Tuesday surrender was unlikely given the need to arrange timing, travel and other logistics." Trump was saying that there was a leak that it’s coming down. If such a leak would be impossible then that would seem to signal that Trump wants people to _believe_ that he’ll be arrested on Tuesday. The most obvious reason I can think of for that would be a plan to flee the country on Monday. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2023, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9262 "2023-03-18T18:07:58Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I’ll be very curious as to how Republican lawmakers will react to this. [https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3906624-republican-lawmakers-blast-potential-trump-indictment-as-politically-motivated-abuse-of-power/](https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3906624-republican-lawmakers-blast-potential-trump-indictment-as-politically-motivated-abuse-of-power/) No word on whether Kevin McCarthy did the party trick where he talks while Margey drinks Everclear. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2023, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9263 "2023-03-18T18:30:26Z")
The Pussy Assed Bitch just dropped this turd in all caps. [[Album] imgur.com ![](https://i.imgur.com/l8zo3XB.png?fb "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/i9zom4m) Meanwhile, what I’m seeing on right wing Twitter is a whole lot of _ **Don’t Protest, it’s a deep state / FBI trap** _. I guess they’re remembering how well it worked out for them the last time they turned out for the PAB, and how he threw them all to the wolves to save his flabby orange ass……he could’ve pardoned them all, but then there would have only be one prosecutable person left - the only one he couldn’t pardon. So I’m not expecting big protests……there is also some talk of “going on strike” to protest, but that would mostly hurt the Trumpy business owners and the wallets of the Trump worker drones. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2023, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9264 "2023-03-18T18:49:12Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > > [@Chefguy](#): > > > > One of the people said that even if the grand jury were to vote to indict the former president on Monday, a Tuesday surrender was unlikely given the need to arrange timing, travel and other logistics." > > Trump was saying that there was a leak that it’s coming down. If such a leak would be impossible then that would seem to signal that Trump wants people to _believe_ that he’ll be arrested on Tuesday. > > The most obvious reason I can think of for that would be a plan to flee the country on Monday. More likely, when he’s not arrested Tuesday, he’ll cry, “Totally exonerated!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9265 "2023-03-18T18:55:40Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > No word on whether Kevin McCarthy did the party trick where he talks while Margey drinks Everclear. TIL that Everclear will help three-toed Lizard NAZIs grow a fourth toe… ---
**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:** [March 18, 2023, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9266 "2023-03-18T19:14:41Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > More likely, when he’s not arrested Tuesday, he’ll cry, “Totally exonerated!!!” He’s like the guy who fell off the top of the Empire State building who, as he passed the 89th floor, was heard to remark, “So far, so good.” [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=462) [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=464)