# 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:** 200
**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:** [February 2, 2024, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3982 "2024-02-02T17:44:17Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > At which point there was a huge pile of documents, exhibits, sitting in front of him, and he took the pile and he just threw it across the table. I swear to all that is holy that I thought that said “pie” at first and I was imagining a very different scene. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3983 "2024-02-02T18:51:56Z")
Not sure where to post this. It’s definitely worth noticing: > [@](#): > > # Team Trump to GOP megadonors: Ignore what the candidate says > > Members of Team Trump expect the former president to say radical and ridiculous things in the coming months. They’re asking megadonors not to care. > > … > … > … > NBC News reports: > > “A top adviser to Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign has a message for some of the wealthiest Republican donors in the country: Don’t take the former president’s divisive rhetoric too seriously. … Speaking at the luxurious Four Seasons hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, [Susie] Wiles encouraged the powerful donors to essentially ignore Trump’s more offensive remarks and focus instead on the fact that the former president is in pole position in the Republican primary for president, according to people familiar with her remarks.” > > … > … > … > As the Republican tries to return to the White House, his team’s position hasn’t changed much. Members of his campaign operation seem to realize that Trump will spend the next several months saying ridiculous, offensive, and potentially even dangerous things, and they’d appreciate it if the party’s megadonors didn’t pay too much attention when this inevitably happens. > > Not to put too fine a point on this, but there is no modern precedent for a national campaign effectively telling campaign contributors, “Please ignore all the crazy stuff our boss is poised to say between now and Election Day.” > **[Team Trump to GOP megadonors: Ignore what the candidate says](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/team-trump-gop-megadonors-ignore-candidate-says-rcna136966)** > > Members of Team Trump expect the former president to say radical and ridiculous things in the coming months. They’re asking megadonors not to care. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2024, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3984 "2024-02-02T18:56:33Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > > encouraged the powerful donors to essentially ignore Trump’s more offensive remarks and focus instead on the fact that the former president is in pole position in the Republican primary for president “Don’t worry that _a crazy guy_ is winning, _because the crazy guy **is winning!** _” Was that not supposed to be the takeaway? ---
**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:** [February 2, 2024, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3985 "2024-02-02T19:01:33Z")
On the plus side, at least _someone_ was apparently able to book the correct “Four Seasons”. 😛 ---
**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:** [February 2, 2024, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3986 "2024-02-02T19:09:10Z")
Still pile of manure adjacent. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2024, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3987 "2024-02-02T19:19:37Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > “Don’t worry that _a crazy guy_ is winning, _because the crazy guy **is winning!** _” That sums up the Republican Party since at least 2016. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2024, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3988 "2024-02-02T20:04:13Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > at least _someone_ was apparently able to book the correct “Four Seasons”. My reaction was, “Do they really want to remind everyone about that last time?” I mean, every time I see “Four Seasons”, I still chuckle at that disaster. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2024, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3989 "2024-02-02T20:47:04Z")
Since late 2020, it doesn’t have the most pleasant associations for the Trump campaign, I would think. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3990 "2024-02-02T22:20:45Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > You need more evidence? They offered lunch to Ms Kaplan An engineer co-worker who did side gigs once got involved in a trial over a stolen design. He had designed a circuit for a wireless telephone (remember those?) and handed it off to the product designers of the company who’d hired him and went on his way. A couple years later he got a call from them. The accountant for the company had quit then six months later a company he’d founded came out with a wireless telephone using the same circuit and they wanted him as a witness. During the cross examination it came up that he and the company attorneys had discussed his testimony over a dinner. The defendants’ attorney hammered down on that and he told me, “I looked that guy in the eye and said, ‘I won’t claim to be perfectly honest but it would take a hell of a lot more than a dinner to convince me to perjure myself.’” The case was a slam dunk. This was way before CAD and hand-drawn schematics had their own particular stamp in them from the draftsman. He made a transparency copy of the one the defendants had entered into evidence and his own, original drawing. In the courtroom the two were laid atop each other on an overhead projector and were identical but for the title block. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2024, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3991 "2024-02-02T22:56:18Z")
I don’t think this has been posted before … > **['Unhinged' Trump is panicking that Jan. 6 trial will be the end of him: insiders](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-jan-6-trial-2667153211/)** > > Despite all of his bravado and claims that his trials are solidifying support among conservatives for his presidential re-election bid, Donald Trump is reportedly raging that a conviction — particularly one involving his conduct around the Jan. 6... ---
**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:** [February 2, 2024, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3992 "2024-02-02T23:28:39Z")
From that article: > In private, Trump reportedly is having problems dealing with his onslaught of legal problems despite bragging about how they are helping him with fans, with a source telling Axios, “If he really thought it was a good thing, he wouldn’t be so unhinged.” I mean, if he _really_ thought all of his legal problems were a good thing, that doesn’t sound extremely “hinged” either. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2024, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3993 "2024-02-02T23:36:54Z")
If he really thought he would not get convicted, he would not be pushing so hard to delay, delay, delay. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2024, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3994 "2024-02-02T23:53:33Z")
And to me, that’s why all this doom and gloom I hear about how Trump is invincible, like the Incredible Hulk, and the more legal shit you throw at him just makes him stronger, that’s baloney. Sure, it’s mind-boggling how he has somehow managed to handle piles of scandals that you’d expect would just individually sink anyone else’s campaign, and is still a viable candidate. But I think I’ve said before, he’s like Mr. Burns and the Three Stooges Syndrome, or at least the legal equivalent. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/gmBj8r1-fDo/hqdefault.jpg "The Simpsons - Three Stooges Syndrome") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmBj8r1-fDo) Just imagine those diseases are instead legal problems. There are so many that they just sort of overwhelm and people get fatigue about them. And Trump can say, surely one person can’t be **this** guilty, this has to be persecution by my enemies. Or to quote the video… > BURNS: “So what you’re saying is that I’m indestructible!” > > DOCTOR: “Oh, no-no, and in fact even a slight breeze could…” > > BURNS: “In-de-structible…” ---
**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:** [February 3, 2024, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3995 "2024-02-03T00:09:35Z")
Nancy Mace held a Trump rally today in South Carolina. The volume of support… wow. I think if you remove the obvious staff members (those in black coats like DC professionals wear), you might have 20 people? [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53505161101_2d70379c71_b.jpg "Mace Trump Rally 2-2-2024") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/68782016@N08/53505161101/) ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2024, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3996 "2024-02-03T00:14:14Z")
But look at that big ship! ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2024, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3997 "2024-02-03T01:57:30Z")
Compensation. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2024, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3998 "2024-02-03T02:16:26Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Or to quote the video… “Three Stooges Syndrome” is even better. ---
**Author:** ![lum\_s\_husband](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lum_s_husband/32/3698_2.png) [@lum\_s\_husband](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lum_s_husband)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2024, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3999 "2024-02-03T03:07:33Z")
Yes, but as a prominent exponent of Stoogeology, I would say this phenomenon is more properly understood as an example of Archie-Meathead syndrome. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2024, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4000 "2024-02-03T03:35:14Z")
What’s that on her leash? A penguin? ---
**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:** [February 3, 2024, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4001 "2024-02-03T06:13:01Z")
**Dozens of us, dozens!!** ![](https://media.tenor.com/wtrAXsMLstQAAAAM/dozens-of-us-20th-century.gif "Dozens Of Us 20th Century GIF - Dozens Of Us 20th Century - Discover & Share...") [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=199) [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=201)