# 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:** 81
**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:** [May 19, 2021, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1603 "2021-05-19T23:20:02Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > I expect he will plead bunions or something medical Bone spurs. ---
**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:** [May 20, 2021, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1604 "2021-05-20T00:03:49Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > asking if the early 20th century Nazis in Germany were also Grammar Nazis. It’s going to bother me for _days_ that I have never once, in a longish life, thought to ask this excellent question. (Thanks for addressing it!) \ > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Given the uphill battle of trying a former president, and the almost inevitability of house arrest rather than prison, I’ll be chugging champagne if he just gets convicted. … Yeah, this. If we all wait for the Orange Jumpsuit stage, champagne sales will stagnate. To keep the industry healthy we must celebrate both indictment, and conviction—we can’t wait for “imprisonment” because it’s so unlikely to happen. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1605 "2021-05-20T01:43:50Z")
I won’t eat it if Octavia Spencer made it. ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1606 "2021-05-20T02:01:59Z")
Sorry, I don’t get it. ---
**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:** [May 20, 2021, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1607 "2021-05-20T02:20:37Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Drink a joyous toast when he actually goes to prison. Joyous mobs dancing in the streets! Yes, I remember the day Nixon resigned. I was in Berkeley. Massive street party. People celebrating on Telegraph Av. (the main street near campus). One guy was wearing an oversize papier-mâché Nixon mask. He paraded up the middle of the street (waving his hands in the V sign) and everybody fell in and made a conga line behind him. Fun times. It’s been a long time. We need this again. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1608 "2021-05-20T02:50:55Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > f he goes to prison, I expect he will be like Al Capone, still running his mob from inside. Neurosyphilis gradually destroyed his mind; when he got his release he was basically a dead man walking, tho it took 8 years for Hades to finally claim him. IOW he was in no shape to run anything, not even the weekly bingo game. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1609 "2021-05-20T03:01:36Z")
A reference to the movie The Help. At the end she (well, her character) made a chocolate pie with a very special ingredient. I don’t want to spoil it for you or anyone who hasn’t seen it. ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1610 "2021-05-20T05:26:51Z")
I made one once. If you want try it, I’d suggest you do a half sized one, soooo rich. And forget about the milk, it needs strong coffee. Back to topic, I doubt he will live long enough to hear all of the charges. Its amazing that he hasn’t had a stroke or seven yet. ---
**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:** [May 20, 2021, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1611 "2021-05-20T06:43:47Z")
> [@JaneDoe42](#): > > Back to topic, I doubt he will live long enough to hear all of the charges. Its amazing that he hasn’t had a stroke or seven yet. I think we all have to accept by this point that whatever his many, many, _many_ flaws, Donald Trump was born with the constitution of a concrete elephant. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1612 "2021-05-20T07:08:28Z")
Another flaw, from my POV anyway. 😉 ---
**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:** [May 20, 2021, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1613 "2021-05-20T13:35:06Z")
He certainly has a concrete elephant’s appreciation of the Constitution. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1614 "2021-05-20T20:29:43Z")
I don’t expect Donald to ever see the inside of a prison, much as I’d love to. But I will giggle uncontrollably when (and I do think it is WHEN, not IF) Eric, Don Jr and Jarvanka are fitted for orange jumpsuits. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1615 "2021-05-20T20:50:26Z")
That’s the aggravating thing. They’ll probably all get day passes to take their jumpsuits out to have them tailored. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2021, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1616 "2021-05-21T06:51:40Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#): > > I don’t expect Donald to ever see the inside of a prison, much as I’d love to. But I will giggle uncontrollably when (and I do think it is WHEN, not IF) Eric, Don Jr and Jarvanka are fitted for orange jumpsuits. Given Donny Two-scoops’ habit of throwing _anyone_ under the bus to save his own ass, I suspect this is much more likely. I’ll have to ponder whether it would be an adequate consolation prize. Thinking of him living in a single-wide in some trailer-park in Florida after his riches are stripped away from him helps. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1617 "2021-05-21T07:14:56Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Given Donny Two-scoops’ habit of throwing _anyone_ under the bus to save his own ass, I suspect this is much more likely. Ivanka is clearly his favorite. I believe he’d accept his sons going to prison long before he stopped fighting on behalf of his favored daughter. On the other hand, if he knows where she is at all times, this makes it easy for him to arrange conjugal visitation. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2021, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1618 "2021-05-21T08:43:25Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > On the other hand, if he knows where she is at all times, this makes it easy for him to arrange conjugal visitation. Let’s not do this, please. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1619 "2021-05-21T13:11:35Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > He certainly has a concrete elephant’s appreciation of the Constitution. :golf clap: > [@Gyrate](#): > > Let’s not do this, please. I agree. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2021, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1620 "2021-05-21T13:13:34Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > all times, this makes it easy for him to arrange conjugal visitation. I despise these people but can we keep abusive sexual dominance rhetoric out of the discussion? Thanks. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2021, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1621 "2021-05-22T14:48:27Z")
More on the Rudy front: > **[How federal prosecutors are pursuing Rudy Giuliani | CNN Politics](https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/22/politics/rudy-giuliani-investigation-fara/index.html)** > > After being under investigation by federal prosecutors for more than two years, Rudy Giuliani got a glimpse late last month of the possible charge authorities are eyeing for him: a breach of foreign lobbying laws connected to his work in Ukraine. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2021, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1622 "2021-05-23T04:28:57Z")
Sort of Trump adjacent, as he’s been a supporter. CNN “parted ways” with Rick Santorum today. > **[CNN Drops Rick Santorum After Racist Comments About Native Americans](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rick-santorum-cnn-native-americans_n_60a92fa6e4b0313547978140?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004)** > > The former GOP senator lost his contract with the network after claiming there was "nothing" in America before white colonizers arrived. [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=80) [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=82)