# 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:** 195
**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:** [January 27, 2024, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3882 "2024-01-27T17:15:46Z")
> If only President Trump knew how his most loyal and dedicated supporters were treated by his staff… That reminds me of the saying in Nazi-Germany: _Wenn das der Führer wüßte!_ (If the Führer only knew this! [Link to the German wikipedia](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenn_das_der_F%C3%BChrer_w%C3%BCsste) about that phrase and its origins) expressing exactly the same degree of naive stupidity. So his name is Dylan Quattrucci? Nice to know, tell Discobot to direct the search engine crawlers here lest the internet forgets this! Oh, and he is wearing a horrible suit and a terrible tie, both crumpled like he has slept rough in them. I bet he smells. And he is smaller than her, even with a [MooGA](https://schumanchu.eu/html/l/l_00048moo~too.html) cap. He is a schadenfreude inducing loser! ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2024, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3883 "2024-01-27T17:34:51Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > And he is smaller than her, On behalf of short men everywhere, let me say I don’t get this part of your otherwise fine string of insults. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2024, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3884 "2024-01-27T17:37:19Z")
I am sorry, I was just imagining what would hurt _him_ the most, did not intend to insult anybody else and in particular not you. Please accept my apologies. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2024, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3885 "2024-01-27T17:40:22Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > I was just imagining what would hurt _him_ the most, did not intend to insult anybody else and in particular not you. All is forgiven. Carry on. [his suit really did look like he slept in it] ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2024, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3886 "2024-01-27T19:21:49Z")
Republicans worry they have no achievements to run on in 2024. > **[‘It’s embarrassing’: Republicans worry they have no achievements to run on in...](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/s-embarrassing-republicans-worry-no-achievements-run-2024-rcna131902)** > > Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, has openly questioned whether the GOP deserves to keep the House majority, lamenting the lack of accomplishments this Congress. He’s not alone. ---
**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 27, 2024, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3887 "2024-01-27T19:25:50Z")
But, but, they’re impeaching Hunter Biden! That’s got to account for something. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2024, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3888 "2024-01-27T20:11:38Z")
Not accomplishing anything is a kind of accomplishment in itself. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2024, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3889 "2024-01-27T20:58:13Z")
That White House drug probe has some _amazing_ exhibits to it… apparently the Trump WH was handing out fentanyl and morphine like candy: [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53491785255_5d28051d22_b.jpg "Screenshot\_20240127\_145239") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/68782016@N08/53491785255/) Report can be found here: [https://t.co/7JAqRshIPA](https://t.co/7JAqRshIPA) ---
**Author:** ![Chad\_Sudan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chad_sudan/32/4509_2.png) [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2024, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3890 "2024-01-27T21:03:30Z")
… And you thought the Republicans didn’t have a health-care plan! ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2024, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3891 "2024-01-27T21:45:49Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > apparently the Trump WH was handing out fentanyl and morphine like candy: Who was eligible for drugs by virtue of their employment? Everyone on staff? Or just the higher ups? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2024, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3892 "2024-01-27T21:49:23Z")
I also noticed a bunch of Provigil. I assume to counter the sleepiness of the opiates. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2024, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3893 "2024-01-27T22:00:47Z")
Someone was on ketamine! Now we’re going to the big leagues. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2024, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3894 "2024-01-27T22:13:16Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > > [@JohnT](#): > > > > apparently the Trump WH was handing out fentanyl and morphine like candy: > > Who was eligible for drugs by virtue of their employment? Everyone on staff? Or just the higher ups? That was part of the problem too. “[The report] also detailed the dispensing of medication to ineligible White House staff members, which meant some staffers “received free specialty care and surgery at military medical treatment facilities.” The unit also dispensed medications like Ambien and Provigil “without verifying the patient’s identity,” the report said.” Nobody should be surprised by this from the Trump administration. ---
**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 27, 2024, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3895 "2024-01-27T22:15:44Z")
Is there any potential criminality for freely giving out controlled substances? There has to be, right?! ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2024, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3896 "2024-01-27T22:26:36Z")
But it was Hunter Biden who left a dime bag of blow in the White House. :rolleyes: Yeah: Ketamine really caught my attention. Most of the rest looked like your garden variety “ups to go up, and downs to go down.” Not an endorsement, it should be said. Just an observation. No wonder they did nothing about the opiate crisis. That’s be like me knocking off the Domino’s guy when he’s on his way to my house with a pizza! ---
**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:** [January 27, 2024, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3897 "2024-01-27T22:28:08Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Someone was on ketamine! Now we’re going to the big leagues. Isn’t that special. > [@DavidNRockies](#): > > That’s be like me knocking off the Domino’s guy when he’s on his way to my house with a pizza! Pizza? Or ‘pizza’? Underage pizza. KnowhatImean? ---
**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:** [January 27, 2024, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3898 "2024-01-27T22:28:20Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > Nobody should be surprised by this from the Trump administration. Yes, but however, there is a 2014 hand-written note from someone saying that Executive Staff can be given controlled substances w/o presenting an ID card. (Page 50 from the link.) ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2024, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3899 "2024-01-27T22:34:22Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > 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. This might be the wrong [prequel](https://archive.org/details/on-the-beach-1959)… ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2024, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3900 "2024-01-27T22:37:54Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > That White House drug probe has some _amazing_ exhibits to it… apparently the Trump WH was handing out fentanyl and morphine like candy: > > [Screenshot\_20240127\_145239 | JohnT\_15 | Flickr](https://flic.kr/p/2puTo8z) > > Report can be found here: > > [https://media.defense.gov/2024/Jan/09/2003373440/-1/-1/1/DODIG-2024-044\_REDACTED%20SECURE.PDF](https://t.co/7JAqRshIPA) Shocking, yes, but ultimately, this is nothing new in the history of thoroughly corrupt self-serving regimes. > **[High Hitler: how Nazi drug abuse steered the course of history](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/25/blitzed-norman-ohler-adolf-hitler-nazi-drug-abuse-interview)** > > German writer Norman Ohler’s astonishing account of methamphetamine addiction in the Third Reich changes what we know about the second world war ---
**Author:** ![Tride](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tride/32/13907_2.png) [@Tride](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tride)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2024, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3901 "2024-01-27T22:45:11Z")
Wasn’t JFK pretty medicated? Not that I’m advocating wanton drug use (well, maybe I am) but people in the upper echelons of government are (usually) burning the candle at both ends and then HAVE to perform in meetings, press conferences, etc. A little bit of this to get you up, a little of that to bring you down is probably pretty common. [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=194) [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=196)