# 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:** 154
**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 10, 2023, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3061 "2023-11-10T04:37:02Z")
_Crackers & Krakens_ could work too, a sitcom featuring our Sidney and the mischievous seamonster twins that live in her hot tub. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3062 "2023-11-10T05:00:20Z")
I like _Cheese and Krakens_. Chesebro and Powell would be partners who run a pizza joint that is rumored to have a pedophile ring operating out of the basement. Whether or not it does is immaterial; it provides plenty of gossip to the regular patrons: Jenna Ellis, who always orders one kind of pizza, then changes her mind; Scott Hall, who always offers to “bail” Jenna’s unwanted pizza out at a discount; and Mark Meadows, who thinks they should just pack up the whole enterprise and move it to Washington DC. Hell, let’s add Jimmy Kimmel as the pizza delivery boy, since this definitely will need some talent to provide witty wisecracks. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3063 "2023-11-10T11:06:33Z")
Don’t forget the running gag with Trump making a cameo in every episode just to announce, “Pizza for everybody!”, then leaving without paying. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3064 "2023-11-10T11:37:31Z")
Would it be possible for a mod to kill this sitcom hijack or split it off to its own thread? I think it’s gone on way too long (and isn’t all that funny, either). ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3065 "2023-11-10T11:37:32Z")
After pocketing all the cutlery . . . because no one can eat pizza without them. [![](https://newsfeed.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2011/06/trumppizza.jpg) ](https://newsfeed.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2011/06/trumppizza.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3066 "2023-11-10T11:39:46Z")
It’s the Pit. It’s allowed. Much like the “you misspelled” meme, it won’t die. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3067 "2023-11-10T11:43:32Z")
The only way to stop it is peer pressure. And I agree, it really does seem to have gone on past its expiration date. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3068 "2023-11-10T12:08:08Z")
It’s cruel when one of my favorite threads has 30 new posts, and I dive in gleefully only to find a sitcom gag. Have a heart, people. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3069 "2023-11-10T13:11:01Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > Have a heart, people. Sounds like a great catchphrase for our new sitcom. [![](https://i.imgflip.com/85ks6e.jpg) ](https://i.imgflip.com/85ks6e.jpg) ---
**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 10, 2023, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3070 "2023-11-10T13:14:31Z")
Here’s a return to some good ol’ fashioned Schadenfreude-- the continuing soap opera story of the cat fight (in the sense of leopards eating each others’ faces, not in a sexist sense) between two of the nuttiest trumpsters in Congress. The key money quote from the article is in the first sentence of the preview below, so you don’t have to bother clicking: > **[MTG launches ugly smear campaign against Boebert in the House](https://www.rawstory.com/marjorioe-taylor-greene-lauren-boebert/)** > > The long-simmering feud between Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Lauren Boebert (R-CO) has taken an uglier turn with the Georgia Republican reportedly openly referring to her House colleague as a "whore."Taylor Greene and Boebert have been at... ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3071 "2023-11-10T13:16:16Z")
OMG, like, high school all over again. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3072 "2023-11-10T13:31:51Z")
> **[MTG launches ugly smear campaign against Boebert in the House](https://www.rawstory.com/marjorioe-taylor-greene-lauren-boebert/)** > > The long-simmering feud between Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Lauren Boebert (R-CO) has taken an uglier turn with the Georgia Republican reportedly openly referring to her House colleague as a "whore."Taylor Greene and Boebert have been at... Umm, Marge? > **[Marjorie Taylor Greene officially divorced after cheating allegations](https://torontosun.com/news/world/marjorie-taylor-greene-officially-divorced-after-cheating-allegations)** > > It's official: MAGA queen bee Marjorie Taylor Greene and her husband of 27 years are officially Quitsville. “Every accusation is a confession” isn’t supposed to be life advice. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3073 "2023-11-10T13:52:21Z")
Do we know the reason behind the split of these two lovely women? ( 🤢) I thought they were cut from the same cloth. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3074 "2023-11-10T13:59:23Z")
They (and others) are fighting to be the stupidest asshole in congress. The competition is rough. I think Marge has the lead over Boebert, but she had a head start. ---
**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 10, 2023, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3075 "2023-11-10T14:24:42Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > “Every accusation is a confession” isn’t supposed to be life advice. [Textbook psychological projection](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/projection) is like chapter one of the trumpist playbook. ---
**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 10, 2023, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3076 "2023-11-10T14:55:11Z")
> [@Cardigan](#): > > OMG, like, high school all over again. No. OMG is not the initials of anyone in Congress. Yet. But I can hardly wait for that to happen. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3077 "2023-11-10T15:18:33Z")
This could go into the ‘stupid montherhumpers’ thread, but I’m posting it here because of the last line. Billionaire Peter Thiel gave $1.25 million to Trump and his campaign, but he’s not giving Trump any more money. > **[Billionaire Trump Donor Peter Thiel Backs Down: 'A Lot Of Things I Got Wrong'](https://www.yahoo.com/news/billionaire-trump-donor-peter-thiel-094201257.html/)** > > The tech investor said the former president was not happy with him. This stood out [emphasis mine]: > “There are a lot of things I got wrong,” he admitted to the magazine. “It was crazier than I thought. **It was more dangerous than I thought.** They couldn’t get the most basic pieces of the government to work. So that was — I think that part was maybe worse than even my low expectations.” So he knew Trump was dangerous? Dangerous to the United States? He wanted Trump to ‘make the country work’… how? By circumventing norms and the Constitution? And he gave him money anyway? I know I’m reading too much into the statement, but it’s how I perceive his thought process. And now for the Schadenfreude. > He said Trump called him earlier this year looking for $10 million… > > Thiel turned him down, and told the Atlantic he heard later on that Trump had called him a “fucking scumbag.” I love it every time Trump eats the face of someone who gave him money. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2023, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3078 "2023-11-10T17:19:27Z")
Debated about putting this here or the Evil thread. [Judge rules against GOP effort to overturn election results in Houston.](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/texas-judge-rules-against-gop-lawsuit-seeking-to-toss-2022-election-result-in-houston-area/ar-AA1jI0tO?ocid=windirect&cvid=33122ca8da5d42ffb1737db17a731ac9&ei=11) This is the part that caught MY eye. > His decision came months after a [two-week trial in August]in which **no GOP voters came forward to testify they were unable to vote** because of the problems. No voter witnesses that claimed to be even inconvenienced and they STILL brought it to trial. ---
**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 10, 2023, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3079 "2023-11-10T19:42:57Z")
Judge to lawyers: “_You_ get a disciplinary referral! And _you_ get a disciplinary referral! And _you_…!” ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3080 "2023-11-10T23:46:34Z")
> **[New Jack Smith filing shows he's ready to hammer Trump for inciting Jan. 6 riot](https://www.rawstory.com/jack-smith-trump-2666196014/)** > > Although special counsel Jack Smith did not charge former President Donald Trump directly with inciting the Jan. 6 riots at the United States Capitol, a new court filing shows that the special counsel's team is preparing to use the riot as a central... [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=153) [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=155)