# 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:** 191
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2024, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3802 "2024-01-23T02:59:50Z")
And an extra dose of demented word salad, for good measure. The emperor has no brains. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2024, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3803 "2024-01-23T04:45:20Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > word salad From him, it’s more word dysentery. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2024, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3804 "2024-01-23T05:04:28Z")
> [@dougrb](#): > > He did provide a helpful escort service. > [[https://youtu.be/O7py5121Sbc?t=40](https://youtu.be/O7py5121Sbc?t=40) ]([https://youtu](https://youtu). be/O7py5121Sbc?t=40) The comments to the video are prime MAGA; including a guy from **Australia** who claimed only a Trump victory would lift him from poverty (how? why?). Don’t go there, that way madness lies. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2024, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3805 "2024-01-23T05:08:10Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > a guy from **Australia** who claimed only a Trump victory would lift him from poverty (how? why?) It makes sense to me. The US will implode and become a dystopian hellhole, allowing Australia to emerge as the new global superpower. I for one welcome our new underlords. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2024, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3806 "2024-01-23T09:27:04Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > It makes sense to me. The US will implode and become a dystopian hellhole, allowing Australia to emerge as the new global superpower. I for one welcome our new underlords. The whole world will descend into chaos. The Australian guy sells post-apocalyptic _Mad Max_ style leather biker gear. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2024, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3807 "2024-01-23T12:01:03Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > The whole world will descend into chaos. The Australian guy sells post-apocalyptic _Mad Max_ style leather biker gear. Are all the Mad Max movies set in Australia (or at least plausibly so)? In which case, maybe it’s just Australia that went to shit and for some reason the rest of the world doesn’t care (return to penal colony status?). Presumably not an original thought, but new to me just now. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2024, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3808 "2024-01-23T12:14:00Z")
No, I’ve seen it speculated that all that just happened in Australia and then tourists turn up and are like “Wtf happened here?”. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2024, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3809 "2024-01-23T12:52:23Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > I for one welcome our new **underlords**. ISWYDT. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2024, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3810 "2024-01-23T18:40:15Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > I for one welcome our new underlords. YOMANK ---
**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:** [January 23, 2024, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3811 "2024-01-23T18:42:46Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > Are all the Mad Max movies set in Australia (or at least plausibly so)? Yes, the entire series takes place in the Australian outback which in the dystopian future of the setting is called “[the wasteland](https://madmax.fandom.com/wiki/The_Wasteland)”. In the first film, society is on the verge of collapse due to scant resources and ecological disaster. Max is a police officer whose job is becoming more and more impossible, as gangs are taking over and there are few people to stop them. It’s a revenge film where he turns vigilante after losing his family. In the second film, (Road Warrior) society has collapsed and gangs are now the law. Sometime between the second and third film (Thunderdome) there has been a nuclear war which has started a new dark age of sorts, and society is now feudal. There’s a bit of exposition about the war among the orphans that Max finds and is briefly sheltered by, as they tell stores of the “before times”. The last film, Fury Road, is a continuation of the setting as seen in Thunderdome. It’s heavily implied that the world is crap everywhere, especially after the nuclear apocalypse, but nothing outside of the outback is portrayed in any of the films. And the first two films are supposed to show the outback as we know it today, except that civilization is failing and things like oil and water are becoming harder to find. The last two films are full on post-apocalyptic. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2024, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3812 "2024-01-23T23:52:35Z")
> ---
**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:** [January 24, 2024, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3813 "2024-01-24T00:11:50Z")
Well, that’s something… ---
**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:** [January 24, 2024, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3814 "2024-01-24T00:36:08Z")
Sure, but what percentage of them believe that Biden’s victory was rigged? Maybe they just don’t like to _call themselves_ maga. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2024, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3815 "2024-01-24T02:26:43Z")
I don’t give a flying whatever how they identify. What I care about is how they act. They walk like MAGA, they talk like MAGA, and they vote like MAGA. They’re MAGA no matter what they tell themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2024, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3816 "2024-01-24T03:12:49Z")
Some Republicans in Florida want the state to foot Trump’s legal bills and DeSatnis says no. > **[DeSantis shuts down Florida lawmakers’ efforts to pay Trump’s legal bills](https://www.local10.com/news/politics/2024/01/23/desantis-shuts-down-florida-lawmakers-efforts-to-pay-trumps-legal-bills/)** > > Gov. Ron DeSantis is saying no to an effort by some Republican Florida lawmakers who want taxpayers to pay former President Donald Trump’s legal bills. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2024, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3817 "2024-01-24T03:16:36Z")
I thought that was pretty funny. The lawmakers were only willing to go up to 5 mil. That covers Trump’s first installment to E. Jean Carroll, and nothing else. DeSantis saying no may be the first (and likely only) thing on which we agree. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2024, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3818 "2024-01-24T03:21:03Z")
I think it says a lot about Loser Donald’s odds in the general that he just barely managed to win a primary with only one remaining opponent in a state full of lily-white libertarians. ---
**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:** [January 24, 2024, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3819 "2024-01-24T03:24:22Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > Some Republicans in Florida want the state to foot Trump’s legal bills and DeSatnis says no. Well, I guess DeSantis didn’t really want to be VP anyway. Seriously, if I was a Florida taxpayer, I wouldn’t want my tax dollars to go towards that cause, or anything similar. Taxes pay for things that benefit taxpayers, not to the legal bills of candidates of any political stripe. Wonder what Trump has/had to say about this? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2024, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3820 "2024-01-24T03:49:21Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Wonder what Trump has/had to say about this? Probably something along the lines of “The very low-rated Mike “the Mouth” DeSantis, who didn’t do the right thing on January 6th, better think about who will pay his legal bills once he’s no longer president. We’re going to put it back bigger than anyone ever could. I need scissors! SIXTY-ONE!” ---
**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:** [January 24, 2024, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3821 "2024-01-24T04:10:47Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > Some Republicans in Florida want the state to foot Trump’s legal bills This must be illegal. The fact that a political party holds a majority _surely_ cannot mean it can just vote to give taxpayers’ money essentially to itself. [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=190) [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=192)