# 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:** 202
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4022 "2024-02-06T18:56:38Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > James O’Keefe of Project: Veritas “fame” has had to settle his election fraud suit and admit that there was no fraud in Erie PA. Mmmmmm, mmmmmm, mmmmm that is some extra tasty schaudenfreude - thank you for sharing! ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4023 "2024-02-06T18:58:42Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > The truest and deepest damage Trump has done to our country is to get many citizens to question what used to be bedrock foundational principles, things we took for granted would always be respected and relied upon. They no longer are. Ehh, I’m not so sure we can lay that at his feet. It seemed like there was a portion of the populace that would have went along with Nixon’s “It’s not illegal when the president does it” theory. The main difference now is that more members of the legislature are willing to go along with it as long as they stay in power. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2024, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4024 "2024-02-06T19:00:14Z")
> [@MindsEye\_Watering](#): > > I’ll bet that ketchup is hitting the walls at MAG-A-Lardo! Should I call my broker and instruct him to buy shares in Heinz? ---
**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:** [February 6, 2024, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4025 "2024-02-06T19:46:41Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > Ehh, I’m not so sure we can lay that at his feet. It seemed like there was a portion of the populace that would have went along with Nixon’s “It’s not illegal when the president does it” theory. The main difference now is that more members of the legislature are willing to go along with it as long as they stay in power. We’ll agree to disagree. Nixon said it once and it was so shocking, we’re still talking about it to the current day. Yet he stepped down when told to and non-verbally understood and acknowledged he was in fact subject to prosecution by accepting Ford’s pardon. Trump has made being above the law the centerpiece of both his presidency and his 2024 campaign. And while it’s true that if Republican lawmakers had not gone along with this shit we’d be in a far better place, it’s likewise true that Trump has controlled the party by controlling his followers. Anyone who doesn’t fall in line risks shunning, harassment, death threats and worse. I’m not saying Republican lawmakers don’t have some responsibility. They have a lot of responsibility, especially early on when they nominated Trump in 2016. But Trump, from Day One, has relentlessly worked the levers of power toward making himself a despot. No one else in our history has done such a thing, and he has degraded many of the institutions that we once took for granted would prevent it. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2024, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4026 "2024-02-06T20:12:49Z")
Personally, I hope SCOTUS lets the DC decision stand and decides not to even bother hearing the immunity case. Keep in mind Trump’s attorneys never expected to win the Presidential immunity argument, just delay things. By granting cert, it would only further delay things. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4027 "2024-02-06T20:23:52Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > Trump, from Day One, has relentlessly worked the levers of power toward making himself a despot. No one else in our history has done such a thing, and he has degraded many of the institutions that we once took for granted would prevent it. One saving grace (there were others, thankfully) was that he was so incompetent at it. If he had been as smart as he was ruthless, well, I hate to imagine what that would have been like. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2024, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4028 "2024-02-06T20:35:20Z")
I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that we’d already be lost. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4029 "2024-02-06T20:37:36Z")
New truth from trump. What the fuck is he going on about? Does he own a bunch of AB stock? [![](https://i.imgur.com/Vy1XtdZ.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/Vy1XtdZ.png) ---
**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 6, 2024, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4030 "2024-02-06T20:42:11Z")
Like the [Trump Organization](https://www.trump.com/)? ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4031 "2024-02-06T20:43:38Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Hannah Giles, who worked with O’Keefe and was its chief executive, announced in December that she was leaving Project Veritas, writing on X that she had “stepped into an unsalvageable mess — one wrought with strong evidence of past illegality and post financial improprieties.” Isn’t she the woman who played the “prostitute” when O’Keefe was pretending to be a pimp back during their Accorn “sting” days? ---
**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:** [February 6, 2024, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4032 "2024-02-06T21:02:00Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Does he own a bunch of AB stock? He needs $83 million pronto, why not look for more ways to fleece the rubes? When he finds BUD difficult to manipulate, look for him to move on to more typical pump and dump penny stocks. ETA: did that come out half an hour ago? BUD did suddenly rally 2% near the close today. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2024, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4033 "2024-02-06T21:05:26Z")
I’m pretty sure he didn’t write that. Not enough CAPITALS, and there are too many commas used more or less correctly. (Believe me, I know commas.) ---
**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 6, 2024, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4034 "2024-02-06T21:10:19Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > Isn’t she the woman who played the “prostitute” when O’Keefe was pretending to be a pimp back during their Accorn “sting” days? Huh. You are indeed correct. From Wikipedia: > In September 2009, O’Keefe and his associate [Hannah Giles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Giles) published edited hidden-camera recordings in which Giles posed as a prostitute and O’Keefe as her boyfriend, a law student, in an attempt to elicit damaging responses from ACORN employees. I guess she knew about the “strong evidence of past illegality” because **she participated in it herself.** ---
**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:** [February 6, 2024, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4035 "2024-02-06T21:22:57Z")
That’s definitely some Anheuser-Busch PR copy prepped for Trump before he contributed his own brand of stupidity. AB CEO Brendan Whitworth is just another right-wing shitbird and no doubt he groveled on his knees with tears in his eyes “Sir, please accept my most profound apologies for blah blah blah…” ---
**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:** [February 6, 2024, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4036 "2024-02-06T21:26:07Z")
I’m just curious just what “Bud Light ad” he’s talking about. 'Cause some definitions are including an ad that was not an Anheuser-Busch ad. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2024, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4037 "2024-02-06T21:34:06Z")
Sounds like someone just received a “campaign contribution”. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4038 "2024-02-06T21:42:55Z")
Bud Light should immediately make Dylan Mulvaney their national spokesperson. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4039 "2024-02-06T21:53:50Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > I’m pretty sure he didn’t write that. Not enough CAPITALS, and there are too many commas used more or less correctly. (Believe me, I know commas.) I find is suspicious because we all know he thinks fallen servicemen & women are losers. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2024, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4040 "2024-02-06T22:00:29Z")
And since when has Trump asked anyone, “What do you think?” or cared? ---
**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:** [February 6, 2024, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4041 "2024-02-06T22:04:44Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > he thinks fallen servicemen & women are losers Perhaps he thinks the ones that got injured seriously enough to be losers couldn’t be working at a beer factory. [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=201) [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=203)