# 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:** 58
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1142 "2021-03-19T20:01:54Z")
There’s a Trump store not far from us on Route 1. It has one of these inflatable Trumps (third image down) > **[‘I’m not voting for personality’: why this Pennsylvania county is the one to...](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/31/pennsylvania-northampton-county-us-election-trump-biden)** > > Northampton county has backed the winning presidential candidate all but three times since 1920, making it the bellwether in a crucial swing state Its only resemblance to Trump is the pose, blue suit, red tie, and sorta yellow hair. The round, wide-open eyes (without the perennial Trump squint) and the smile (Trump never really smiled, except ironically) are so wrong that it hurts. This looks more like Charlie Brown wearing a suit and a wig. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1143 "2021-03-19T20:15:03Z")
Wait; there are Trump stores? ---
**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:** [March 19, 2021, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1144 "2021-03-19T20:23:41Z")
Next to the store that sells glass butt plugs. - Yes, they do exist. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1145 "2021-03-19T20:26:40Z")
There’s some aphorism that comes to mind about fools…money…parted. Something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1146 "2021-03-19T20:31:15Z")
I’m surprised that thing has survived despite being so temptingly pop-able. I have a dart set around here somewhere… ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1147 "2021-03-19T21:23:11Z")
This is the kind of story I enjoy: > **[Glory days of Trump's gold-plated 757 seem far away as plane sits idle at a...](https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/19/politics/trump-757-repairs-gold-plated-glory-days/index.html)** > > Trump's personal Boeing 757 was always the crown jewel of his wealth -- the ultimate sign that he had made it. He's used it as a backdrop for sleek photo shoots, campaign rallies, VIP tours, for shots of him eating his Big Macs and KFC, plated, with... ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1148 "2021-03-19T23:20:12Z")
Been getting spam from them myself. You’re surprised there are more suckers and grifters out there than Trump? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2021, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1149 "2021-03-20T01:15:02Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Wait; there are Trump stores? There were three of them around here, selling pro-Trump merchandise. Two are gone, but the third hasn’t closed yet. They seem to be having a Going Out of Business Sale, though. ---
**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:** [March 20, 2021, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1150 "2021-03-20T01:28:43Z")
Snert. > **[Trump's Mar-a-Lago partially closed due to COVID outbreak](https://apnews.com/article/mar-a-lago-partially-closed-covid-19-outbreak-32a7a9694c1f738eef6af6d3fc6e5aa1)** > > WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, has been partially closed after staff members tested positive for the coronavirus... ---
**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:** [March 20, 2021, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1151 "2021-03-20T16:11:53Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > This is the kind of story I enjoy: > [https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/19/politics/trump-757-repairs-gold-plated-glory-days/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/19/politics/trump-757-repairs-gold-plated-glory-days/index.html) Me, too. For those who haven’t read it and aren’t going to, the thing has turned into a white elephant that the self-glorifying orange narcissist can’t afford to maintain. It’s sitting at a small rural New York airport where it’s slowly rotting away, with major mechanical problems including at least one engine in need of a major overhaul. Trump has been doing his flying in an 8-seat Cessna Citation. I’ve flown in one and trust me, it’s even smaller than it sounds. It’s reported that Trump hates it. Definitely doesn’t appeal to his sense of grandiosity. ---
**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:** [March 20, 2021, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1152 "2021-03-20T17:16:05Z")
Call Raw story a liberal screed if you will, but one of the things they do well that I enjoy is aggregating comments of people on Twitter ridiculing Repub politicians for the batshit crazy things they do and say: > **[Lauren Boebert's latest bonkers conspiracy theory has Twitter users convinced...](https://www.rawstory.com/lauren-boebert-2651153009/)** > > Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) has a new deranged conspiracy theory about the upcoming 2022 primary election and Twitter users are convinced the newly-elected lawmaker has lost her mind. According to the Colorado Times Recorder, Boebert participated... ---
**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:** [March 21, 2021, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1153 "2021-03-21T01:46:47Z")
Funny how, during four long years in charge of both the White House and the DOJ, Donald Trump and the Forces of Righteousness never actually prosecuted, let alone locked up, Hillary, Barack, Joe and all those criminal officials of the Deep State. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1154 "2021-03-21T04:07:49Z")
Which is, of course, evidence of the deep state! ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1155 "2021-03-21T14:05:58Z")
[quote=“Procrustus, post:1147, topic:925537”] This is the kind of story I enjoy: > [@](#): > > ### [Glory days of Trump’s gold-plated 757 seem far away as plane sits idle at a…] > > Trump’s personal Boeing 757 was always the crown jewel of his wealth – What I’ve always wondered about this kind of thing, is do all these people with private jets also have a full-time pilot, co-pilot, flight mechanic (whatever the minimal crew is) on their payroll, just sitting around for the boss to want them to fly somewhere? A couple of stewardesses, too? Or is there a “Rent a Pilot” company? You call up, say you need a crew that’s qualified for a 757 to fly from Boston to Memphis next Tuesday, and they hook you up? Maybe you can specify that they have to wear gold colored ties or something? ---
**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:** [March 21, 2021, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1156 "2021-03-21T15:42:49Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Yes, that’s exactly the book: Revelation: Its Grand Climax at Hand, with the red cover. Darn! Google changes the results according to your search history, location and what they think of you. Result: just happening to be in Belgium I get only results in Dutch. If you wonder: WTF?, so do I. Thanks for your tip anyway, should YWs ever come knocking at my door again, I know now what to ask them. > [@JRDelirious](#): > > So the Bride is the New Jerusalem, all ready to receive the triumphant King looking her finest as a bride receiving her husband, and a common interpretation is that it is a personification of the redeemed world and the church triumphant, having overcome all the tribulations. And I thought it was about Mary Magdalene! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/9MFsNSPcESg/hqdefault.jpg "Jesus Christ Superstar - I Don't Know How To Love Him") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MFsNSPcESg) ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1157 "2021-03-21T16:10:12Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > What I’ve always wondered about this kind of thing, is do all these people with private jets also have a full-time pilot, co-pilot, flight mechanic (whatever the minimal crew is) on their payroll, just sitting around for the boss to want them to fly somewhere? Depends on the owner and on the jet. At least for maintenance and storage and keeping up permits and other such logistical support most people will contract with a Fixed Base Operator, because, most corporations and most multimillionaires are not in the business of running aviation operations. And yes, you will have crewing companies who provide qualified crews on a schedule or on demand, rather than have crews just sitting around – that would run into serious money seriously fast (and for a 757 change that to “really serious”), especially when it comes to having to keep up rating hours and training. I must imagine that there are only so many FBOs nationwide that can take care of an executive 757. Meanwhile SoFla is just crawling with such services for smaller bizjets like a Citation. I can also fully imagine that once DJT got access to the Andrews USAF VIP wing, the company cut what they were putting into support for the 757 to the barest minimum possible, including a lot of “paying” with IOUs counting on that nobody would put a shop lien on something owned by the President. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2021, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1158 "2021-03-21T17:23:44Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Call Raw story a liberal screed if you will, but one of the things they do well that I enjoy is aggregating comments of people on Twitter ridiculing Repub politicians for the batshit crazy things they do and say: I never thought I’d agree with Lauren Boebert but here we are. She says “I want accountability”. And so do I. Perhaps we could start with the person who was directing the insurrectionists to Nancy Pelosi’s location during the riot. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1159 "2021-03-21T19:33:19Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > I can also fully imagine that once DJT got access to the Andrews USAF VIP wing, the company cut what they were putting into support for the 757 to the barest minimum possible, including a lot of “paying” with IOUs counting on that nobody would put a shop lien on something owned by the President. Ha! I can just picture Trump standing in an airport, glowering at the Denver Boot slapped on his airplane. I imagine, though, that once he was a presidential candidate his secret service team had to vet every person flying/working on his jet. For convenience, it would probably be easier to do one team, full-time, rather than whoever the rental place came up with this time. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2021, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1160 "2021-03-21T22:58:01Z")
Our vision of the future, imagining a boot stamping down on the face value of Trump assets, forever. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2021, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1161 "2021-03-21T23:16:25Z")
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