# 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:** 170
**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 20, 2023, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3381 "2023-12-20T04:26:36Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > If they are practitioners of what they believe, isn’t that sincerity? Assuming this is meant seriously…. No. A belief in two diametrically opposed things, depending on what benefits you most is not sincere. It is hypocrisy. ---
**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:** [December 20, 2023, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3382 "2023-12-20T05:29:58Z")
If I were charitably inclined, I’d suspect doublethink. So I won’t. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3383 "2023-12-20T11:31:53Z")
Speaking of evil slime. ---
**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:** [December 20, 2023, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3384 "2023-12-20T12:24:01Z")
It’s the Worm vs. The Turtle. Perhaps not strictly Schadenfreude, but I do like seeing the jerks circle each other and slap-fight in West Side Story fashion. > **[Hawley blocking ex-McConnell aides’ appointments to FTC, NTSB](https://punchbowl.news/article/hawley-blocks-appointments-to-ftc-ntsb-frustrating-mcconnell/)** > > Sen. Josh Hawley and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have been butting heads for months now on several fronts. ---
**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:** [December 20, 2023, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3385 "2023-12-20T23:00:57Z")
> **[Mary Trump Splatters Uncle With Priceless Picture After Colorado News](https://www.yahoo.com/news/mary-trump-splatters-uncle-priceless-093221699.html)** > > Donald Trump’s niece needed only three words and an image to roast him after the development. > “In loving memory,” she wrote, alongside an image of a dozen small ketchup bottles. ---
**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 21, 2023, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3386 "2023-12-21T05:30:10Z")
Nice, small ketchup bottles on account of the tiny hands. ---
**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:** [December 21, 2023, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3387 "2023-12-21T05:54:49Z")
Heinz ketchup? Why that’s a commie leftist ketchup, isn’t it? ---
**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:** [December 21, 2023, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3388 "2023-12-21T05:55:36Z")
Not as commie leftist as mustard. ---
**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:** [December 21, 2023, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3389 "2023-12-21T10:35:47Z")
I met him once. Nice guy. Oh, Scott Perry. May your misfortunes increase like a Gremlin in a swimming pool. > **[Judge orders Rep. Scott Perry to turn over cell phone records to federal...](https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/12/20/politics/trump-scott-perry-cell-phone-records/index.html)** > > The special counsel’s office can access more than 1,600 communications found on Rep. Scott Perry’s cell phone, including some about his interest in assisting former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according... ---
**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:** [December 21, 2023, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3390 "2023-12-21T13:20:40Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > “In loving memory,” she wrote, alongside an image of a dozen small ketchup bottles. > [@DWMarch](#): > > Nice, small ketchup bottles on account of the tiny hands. According to the article: > Asked about the ketchup debacle on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” in October, Hutchinson [shared](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cassidy-hutchinson-trump-fear_n_651d6911e4b094f84021cfae) another condiment anecdote, claiming that Trump favors the “small Heinz glass ketchup bottles” because he has a “potent fear of being poisoned,” and likes to hear the “pop” when the bottle is opened. I have to say, I’m getting some high-quality Schadenfreude from thinking about the paranoia trump suffers every day at the level of a [1st Century A.D. Roman Emperor](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgajpd/medicina%20antiqua/sa_poisons.html). ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3391 "2023-12-21T14:38:25Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > [Mary Trump Splatters Uncle With Priceless Picture After Colorado News](https://www.yahoo.com/news/mary-trump-splatters-uncle-priceless-093221699.html) > > > “In loving memory,” she wrote, alongside an image of a dozen small ketchup bottles. I can’t help but think of Stormy Daniels’ description of Trump’s anatomy. ---
**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:** [December 21, 2023, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3392 "2023-12-21T20:03:39Z")
Maybe he, too, makes a small “pop” sound when he… ugh, no, never mind! ---
**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:** [December 21, 2023, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3393 "2023-12-21T21:07:11Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Oh, Scott Perry. May your misfortunes increase like a Gremlin in a swimming pool. Funny and also timely! Now if you wanted to start a thread war, we’d ask if Gremlins is a Christmas movie… -runs and hides- Oh, schadenfreude, just in case, Rudy Ghouliani just officially declared bankruptcy to dodge his judgements, I mean, because he has $10 million in assets and $500 (and increasing) million in liabilities… Awwww. ---
**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:** [December 21, 2023, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3394 "2023-12-21T21:44:46Z")
I am dumbfounded by his claim “Hitler said that, but in a much different way!” and how he can know in which way Hitler said it, as he claims he never has read Hitler. FTR: I am sure he has never read Hitler, he has never read a book in his life, not even the one he “wrote”. But he has listened – not understood – but he heard people talking about Hitler. And he thought there was something there for him, somehow. > [@solost](#): > > claiming that Trump favors the “small Heinz glass ketchup bottles” because he has a “potent fear of being poisoned,” and likes to hear the “pop” when the bottle is opened. I for one, if I was a murderer with evil intent to poison him and had the chance to, would have no problem opening a bottle of ketchup, and be it a small one, taking a bit out, filling it up with poison, mixing it well, and closing it again in a [bain-marie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bain-marie) so that it would “pop” just like new when opened. Of course he does not know any of this and would not understand it if a child explained it to him. The poison, of course, would have to be thermostable up to 100°C, which is not difficult to choose. ---
**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:** [December 21, 2023, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3395 "2023-12-21T21:52:24Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > I for one, if I was a murderer with evil intent to poison him and had the chance to, would have no problem opening a bottle of ketchup, and be it a small one, taking a bit out, filling it up with poison, mixing it well, and closing it again in a [bain-marie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bain-marie) so that it would “pop” just like new when opened. Of course he does not know any of this and would not understand it if a child explained it to him. > The poison, of course, would have to be thermostable up to 100°C, which is not difficult to choose. Just know, if Trump is murdered via this method, _I will remember this post_. I won’t do a damn thing when I do, but I will remember. ---
**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:** [December 21, 2023, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3396 "2023-12-21T21:55:58Z")
If the murderer reads this post too I will not claim royalties. But I will know that he is in violation of prior knowledge. Which may be the least of their concerns at that point. I still have the childish hope that if he is ever poisoned the poison of choice will be [Polonium 210](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko). Which would exclude ketchup, because it gets hot. ---
**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:** [December 21, 2023, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3397 "2023-12-21T22:13:15Z")
If he did get murdered via this method, I hope no unintended consequences would _catch up_ with you for writing it. (Please, please, hold your applause. I’ll be here all week.) ---
**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:** [December 21, 2023, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3398 "2023-12-21T22:17:30Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > would _catch up_ with you ISWYDT, but the time may have come to close this hijack. ETA: Almost forgot the 👏 ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3399 "2023-12-21T23:00:27Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > I for one, if I was a murderer with evil intent to poison him and had the chance to, would have no problem opening a bottle of ketchup, and be it a small one, taking a bit out, filling it up with poison, mixing it well, and closing it again in a [bain-marie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bain-marie) so that it would “pop” just like new when opened. You’d be charged with citricide! ---
**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:** [December 21, 2023, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3400 "2023-12-21T23:19:54Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > If he did get murdered via this method, I hope no unintended consequences would _catch up_ with you for writing it. I’m sure @Pardel-Lux only condiment what he said. [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=169) [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=171)