# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2020, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/121 "2020-11-27T23:37:24Z")
> [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](#): > > So is OANN gonna pretend Trump is still president? > > “It’s May 25, 2021. Today, President Trump went golfing, hyped his outstanding health care plan, and threatened to veto the new environmental protection bills being considered by Congress. The interloper in the building formerly known as the White House, in the meantime, gave an extremely lame press conference attended by no one.” > > Is that what viewers have to look forward to? Probably that, plus a boatload of appeals to viewers for donations to fund the Noble Cause. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2020, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/122 "2020-11-27T23:44:26Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > One of the _antifa_ websites I check has a story about Georgia tighty-righties on Parler, a veritable cesspool, or so I am told. To the effect that a bunch of them are pushing for a _boycott_ of the upcoming Senate races there. Like maybe write in a vote for Il Douche, rather than the Repub candidate, as a gesture of defiance! Yeah, that’ll teach 'em a lesson! … This is one of those things that is so stunningly stupid that I’m left wondering if I’m missing something. Is it possible that they believe the GOP Governor has the power to declare the election invalid, due to the lack of registered Republicans voting? And that said Governor would then be free to appoint the GOP candidates to the Senate seats? I admit I haven’t read the Georgia constitution—but I can’t believe it would contain any provisions that would make this possible. On the Schadenfreude front: Trump has racked up yet another loss in court, this time from the US Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, with regard to Pennsylvania votes. . Trump’s team is now 2 up, 33 down (if I’ve kept score correctly). > **[Trump's Campaign Lost In Court — Again — Trying To Undo Biden’s Win In...](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/trump-court-loss-pennsylvania-election)** > > “The Campaign’s claims have no merit,” wrote Judge Stephanos Bibas, one of Trump’s appointments to the 3rd Circuit. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/123 "2020-11-28T00:06:01Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > “The Campaign’s claims have no merit,” wrote Judge Stephanos Bibas, one of Trump’s appointments to the 3rd Circuit. - I’m surprised the Oversized Toddler hasn’t complained that one of his appointees ruled against him. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/124 "2020-11-28T00:14:09Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > I’m surprised the Oversized Toddler hasn’t complained that one of his appointees ruled against him. He’ll probably get around to it eventually. But this judge wasn’t the first Trump appointee to rule against him. (A comprehensive list, with linkable judge names, is at wikipedia: [Lawsuits related to the 2020 United States presidential election - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawsuits_related_to_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election) ) ---
**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:** [November 28, 2020, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/125 "2020-11-28T00:20:17Z")
Schadenfreude? Trump paid for a recount in Milwaukee and one other county (Dane, iirc). $3 million. Milwaukee came back recounted with a marginal increase for Biden, just 132 votes. So far, the Trump campaign has spent $27,000+, _per vote_, just so Biden can beat him _just a little bit more_. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/126 "2020-11-28T23:49:14Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > So far, the Trump campaign has spent $27,000+, _per vote_ , just so Biden can beat him _just a little bit more_ . . It would be even more interesting if Trump himself were paying for this re-affirmation of Biden’s trouncing of his dictatorship-hopes. But of course it’s Trump’s idiot fans who paid that particular bill. I guess it gives them less to spend on guns and ammo, so: win all around. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2020, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/127 "2020-11-29T07:47:35Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > One of the _antifa_ websites I check has a story about Georgia tighty-righties on Parler, a veritable cesspool, or so I am told. To the effect that a bunch of them are pushing for a _boycott_ of the upcoming Senate races there. Like maybe write in a vote for Il Douche, rather than the Repub candidate, as a gesture of defiance! Yeah, that’ll teach 'em a lesson! > > Crazy as a duck on acid. The OANN website has more comments than I can count and I’d estimate that at least 85% are convinced that Biden is going to lose Pennsylvania, and by extension, the election. One poster actually said that the Supreme Court is going to rule 9-0 in favor of Trump. ---
**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:** [November 29, 2020, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/128 "2020-11-29T16:56:46Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > One poster actually said that the Supreme Court is going to rule 9-0 in favor of Trump. That’s small potatoes. They are in a cult. Members of a cult are indoctrinated to believe absolutely insane things; this is often quite deliberate on the part of the cult leaders, in order to cleave the members away from their friends and family. Cults can have their members believe that UFO’s will come and take them away. Cults are so powerful they can convince their members to kill themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2020, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/129 "2020-11-29T23:54:57Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > That’s small potatoes. They are in a cult. Members of a cult are indoctrinated to believe absolutely insane things; this is often quite deliberate on the part of the cult leaders, in order to cleave the members away from their friends and family. > > Cults can have their members believe that UFO’s will come and take them away. Cults are so powerful they can convince their members to kill themselves. . That’s right. The relevant question is: how many members of state legislatures in how many states have joined the Trump cult? Trump’s last remaining hope is that enough state legislatures will ignore the voters of their states and seat Trump electors, to either give him the Electoral College outright, or deny Biden enough EC votes so that the election will be thrown to the House. In the House, of course, Trump will win, since the voting will be by state delegation (of which the GOP have more) and _not_ by representatives (of which the Democrats have more). So Trump needs some combination of legislators that are true believers, or bribable, or threatenable, or all three. Then he’s home free! ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/130 "2020-11-30T00:06:16Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Cults are so powerful they can convince their members to kill themselves. Hmm… ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/131 "2020-11-30T20:18:45Z")
Not a major cause of suicide, next to mental illness or existentialism. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/132 "2020-11-30T23:58:32Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Not a major cause of suicide, next to mental illness or existentialism. . Well, maybe not before 2020. But statistically I wouldn’t be at all surprised if ‘cult membership’—specifically the cult of _Trumpism/why-should-I-wear-a-mask-MUH-RIGHTS_—racks up an impressive total number of deaths, this year and next. (Which, I assume, was the cult to which needscoffee was referring with that “Hmm…” reply.) ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2020, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/133 "2020-12-01T01:20:06Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > (Which, I assume, was the cult to which needscoffee was referring with that “Hmm…” reply.) Yep.   ---
**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:** [December 1, 2020, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/134 "2020-12-01T05:58:16Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Not a major cause of suicide, next to mental illness or existentialism. Cults were a major cause of suicide (or more likely, mass murder/suicide) one fine day in 1978. Could Trumpcult be far behind? [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trumps-rhetoric-is-so-similar-to-jim-jones-says-woman-who-fled-jonestown-cult/ar-BB1bauqH](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trumps-rhetoric-is-so-similar-to-jim-jones-says-woman-who-fled-jonestown-cult/ar-BB1bauqH) 918 dead. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2020, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/135 "2020-12-01T16:53:02Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > One poster actually said that the Supreme Court is going to rule 9-0 in favor of Trump. I haven’t been looking at the OANN website, but a few people on my Facebook feed are assuring themsleves that all of these losses in the courts are just part of the strategy, so as to get the case to the Supreme Court all the faster. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2020, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/136 "2020-12-04T13:16:37Z")
I have a CT acquaintance that I keep on my Facebook feed for amusement value and she posted a Sun Tzu quote about how Trump’s legal team are fooling the enemy by appearing weak when they are actually strong. But what about the other time when people appear weak? You know, like when they actually are? For anyone who says Trump’s crack legal team is hiding their strength I am reminded of the words of Sgt. Hartmann: “You don’t scare me. Work on it.” ---
**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:** [December 4, 2020, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/137 "2020-12-04T14:22:28Z")
‘If they lose, rhey control the pace of appeals! Trump’s plan is brilliant!’ ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/138 "2020-12-04T16:06:29Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Schadenfreude? > > Trump paid for a recount in Milwaukee and one other county (Dane, iirc). $3 million. > > Milwaukee came back recounted with a marginal increase for Biden, just 132 votes. > > So far, the Trump campaign has spent $27,000+, _per vote_, just so Biden can beat him _just a little bit more_. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 It’s not about winning, it’s about fleecing the idiotic Republican base into donating more money to the campaign that Trump and the Republicans can loot at their leisure. ["Even in defeat, President Trump continued to raise money at some of the fastest rates of the year, pulling in $207.5 million in the month since Election Day along with the Republican Party as he made baseless claims of voter fraud to undermine the legitimacy of the election.](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/us/politics/trump-campaign-money.html) The money he raises doesn’t actually go to fighting the imaginary election fraud (unless the donation is more than $6,000), it goes to a new PAC of Trumps and to the RNC, I can’t imagine Trump stopping his ridiculous claims as long as they can continue to fleece their ignorant, base. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2020, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/139 "2020-12-05T01:14:00Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > I have a CT acquaintance that I keep on my Facebook feed for amusement value and she posted a Sun Tzu quote about how Trump’s legal team are fooling the enemy by appearing weak when they are actually strong. > > But what about the other time when people appear weak? You know, like when they actually are? For anyone who says Trump’s crack legal team is hiding their strength I am reminded of the words of Sgt. Hartmann: “You don’t scare me. Work on it.” This has been the “position” of Trump defenders since the beginning—that everything he says and does that is plainly moronic, is actually (you guessed it) Fifth Dimensional Chess. People have to find a way to explain to themselves and to others why they support something that is inherently ridiculous–and this ‘you just don’t understand how brilliant this really is’ claim has been a go-to for millions. How sad that these mental-gymnasts’ only reward is to be fleeced by con artists! ---
**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:** [December 5, 2020, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/140 "2020-12-05T01:57:28Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > This has been the “position” of Trump defenders since the beginning—that everything he says and does that is plainly moronic, is actually (you guessed it) Fifth Dimensional Chess. So true. “Trump just shit his pants in public? Brilliant move! He did this to expose the deep state operatives lurking in the shadows! 5th dimensional chess!” [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=6) [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=8)