# A Perfectly Reasonable Amount of Schadenfreude about Things Happening to Trump & His Enablers (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [May 19, 2023, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250 "2023-05-19T03:20:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 147
**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:** [November 3, 2023, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2921 "2023-11-03T14:40:03Z")
The stink of fear is strong in this one. I can’t _wait_ for him to be held in contempt of court, jailed and deprived of his cellphone: [https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/03/politics/trump-legal-system-attack-sons-trial/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/03/politics/trump-legal-system-attack-sons-trial/index.html) ---
**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:** [November 3, 2023, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2922 "2023-11-03T14:50:52Z")
If you don’t want your kids to stand trial, maybe you shouldn’t hire them to “work” in your sleazy organization. Maybe if they got _real_ jobs they wouldn’t be in this predicament. I had to laugh at Junior’s press conference where he’s whining about being found guilty because their accountants couldn’t do (air quotes) accounting. Hey doofus, they can only work with what you give them. Fraudulent numbers in means fraudulent numbers out. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2023, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2923 "2023-11-03T15:02:57Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > The stink of fear is strong in this one. I can’t _wait_ for him to be held in contempt of court, jailed and deprived of his cellphone: > > [https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/03/politics/trump-legal-system-attack-sons-trial/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/03/politics/trump-legal-system-attack-sons-trial/index.html) trump quotes in the article (originally from Truth Social): > “So sad to see my sons being PERSECUTED in a political Witch Hunt by this out of control, publicity seeking, New York State Judge, on a case that should have NEVER been brought,” It is absolutely amazing and frightening how many Witch Hunts are being pursued by ‘out of control, publicity seeking’ judges and politicians against trump and his family. The Deep State must really run deep. Thank God we have trump standing against them. Remember, they’re not really after trump, they’re after us-- trump is just in their way. > “Legal Scholars Scream Disgrace!” Sarcasm aside, trump is surely correct about this. Just not for the reasons he means. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2023, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2924 "2023-11-03T15:07:16Z")
Jimmy Kimmel said that the Trump boys were being tried as adults. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2925 "2023-11-03T15:13:59Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Sarcasm aside, trump is surely correct about this. Just not for the reasons he means. Well, that depends on whether Trump is paying them. Given enough money, they’ll scream whatever he likes (and then have their lives shot to hell). ---
**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 3, 2023, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2926 "2023-11-03T15:37:03Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > > [@Procrustus](#): > > > > His apparent glee in passing a dementia screening test is quite funny. And telling. > > Yeah, this. He could have quoted the actual words used, and it still would have been funny, because this test is insultingly easy for anyone who isn’t cognitively impaired. He fundamentally doesn’t get what was being tested. Yes. At the time, I pointed out that my Aunt had recently passed this test, which meant she could stay in her long term care room with 24 hour nursing support, and not be moved into the locked dementia ward. Not exactly a high bar for a president. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2023, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2927 "2023-11-03T15:41:19Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > > [@solost](#): > > > > Sarcasm aside, trump is surely correct about this. Just not for the reasons he means. > > Well, that depends on whether Trump is paying them. Given enough money, they’ll scream whatever he likes (and then have their lives shot to hell). That’s "legal scholars’, not lawyers. And any lawyers willing to work for trump are no legal scholars 😄 ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2928 "2023-11-03T15:47:19Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Remember, they’re not really after trump, they’re after us-- trump is just in their way. Because of course, there’s only one prosecutor in the whole country. Not like there are thousands more who could spend some time prosecuting all the other Trumpers, were they so inclined… ---
**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:** [November 3, 2023, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2929 "2023-11-03T16:36:34Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Jimmy Kimmel said that the Trump boys were being tried as adults. FTW!!! ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2930 "2023-11-03T16:38:28Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > f you don’t want your kids to stand trial, maybe you shouldn’t hire them to “work” in your sleazy organization. Maybe if they got _real_ jobs they wouldn’t be in this predicament. Like Tiffany. I really wonder about the family dynamics there. Would Tiffany have joined the firm and been in it as deep as Ivanka if they’d let her? Or did they offer her a place, and she was too smart to take them up on it? As outsiders, we’ll probably never know for sure, and I’m sure that if asked, Tiffany would give whatever answer serves her purposes. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2931 "2023-11-03T18:39:13Z")
One day, a Trump kid is going to write a heckuva tell-all book. Maybe Barron. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2932 "2023-11-03T20:18:40Z")
> [@Tatterdemalion](#): > > Would Tiffany have joined the firm and been in it as deep as Ivanka if they’d let her? Since the Orange one is involved, I suspect it was largely out of her hands, either way. Primarily, I imagine, because she’s a “she” and also because he does not find her sexually appealing, at least to the extent he finds her sister. Unsurprisingly, he seems to have somewhat outdated notions as to the place and purpose of women, so it would not shock me that his advice would be to marry well, like her sister. > [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > One day, a Trump kid is going to write a heckuva tell-all book. Maybe Barron. No doubt ghost written, at that. The niece has already done so but anything but blatant hagiography is going to be either ignored or excoriated by the hordes of unwashed who worship at his feet ---
**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 3, 2023, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2933 "2023-11-03T20:36:56Z")
Cannot stop laughing at this: > Her article is here: [https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4292647-mark-meadows-sued-by-book-publisher-over-false-election-claims/](https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4292647-mark-meadows-sued-by-book-publisher-over-false-election-claims/) ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2934 "2023-11-03T20:52:16Z")
> [@Tatterdemalion](#): > > Would Tiffany have joined the firm and been in it as deep as Ivanka if they’d let her? I expect that how Tiffany turned out can be, for better or worse, laid to the credit of her mother, Marla, who made sure that Donald wouldn’t be the primary influence on her formative years. While we can certainly question her judgment in choice of mate, I thnk she did the right thing with Tiffany, who seems to be no worse than your typical overprivileged upper-class socialite. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2935 "2023-11-03T21:02:55Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Her article is here: > > [https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4292647-mark-meadows-sued-by-book-publisher-over-false-election-claims/](https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4292647-mark-meadows-sued-by-book-publisher-over-false-election-claims/) So the suggestion is that they published his book, the book of a known serial liar, without bothering to read it to see if it contained lying stuff they didn’t want their name associated with? Good luck succeeding with that in court. Meadows deserves to lose everything he ever had or will have. But that publisher deserves nothing but ridicule, not a juicy settlement. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2936 "2023-11-03T21:08:13Z")
Hey, I get tons of schadenfreude out of that article. Meadows and the publisher, which I quote “The suit reveals a long and tense relationship between Meadows and his publisher, which has published a suite of books from conservative figures.” Good, let them both waste a ton of money paying lawyers. Couldn’t happen to a nice bunch of folks. May both sides end up financially, as well as morally bankrupt. 🖤 ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2937 "2023-11-03T22:07:16Z")
I thought the book was already in the FICTION section? ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2938 "2023-11-03T22:15:59Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > That’s how she rolls. Not that I want to perpetuate sexist stereotypes, but in the wild it’s very romantic. The boy dung beetle displays his finest giant ball of poop, and if the girl falls in love (I like to think she falls in love with both beetle _and_ ball) she hops on board and they roll off together into the sunset. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2939 "2023-11-03T22:21:07Z")
What, like a pair of lumberjacks on a log? ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2940 "2023-11-03T22:22:32Z")
The way I have always seen it in South Africa is that she actually jumps onto the ball and holds on, and the male rolls the ball with her on board. Here we go, although I have to say this seems like an unimpressive ball. Perhaps it is the quality rather than the quantity. [https://youtu.be/2HAkmfw8trA?si=H\_vHb5EGMbwYM-Kp&t=20](https://youtu.be/2HAkmfw8trA?si=H_vHb5EGMbwYM-Kp&t=20) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250.md?page=146) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250.md?page=148)