# 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:** 232
**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:** [March 11, 2024, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4622 "2024-03-11T15:15:51Z")
Peter Navarro ordered to report to prison next week. Justice was too long delayed on this and the sentence is half what I had hoped, but still one can feel a little schadenfreude from this. [Peter Navarro ordered to prison on March 19 for four-month sentence (msn.com)](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/peter-navarro-ordered-to-prison-on-march-19-for-four-month-sentence/ar-BB1jHmhY) ---
**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:** [March 11, 2024, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4623 "2024-03-11T15:25:14Z")
> [@Cardigan](#): > > Justice was too long delayed on this and the sentence is half what I had hoped, but still one can feel a little schadenfreude from this. It’s like buying a large order of fries, you get a small, and they aren’t even hot anymore. But dammit, you’re hungry so you eat them. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2024, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4624 "2024-03-11T16:10:52Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > It’s like buying a large order of fries, you get a small, and they aren’t even hot anymore. But dammit, you’re hungry so you eat them. Yuck - horrible, stodgy, greasy, unpleasant, and guaranteed to upset your stomach. - and that’s just Peter Navarro. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2024, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4625 "2024-03-12T03:05:47Z")
I knew Mikey would eventually come through. Mark your calendars. Friday March 15 2024. > **[Mike Lindell promises new evidence in Lake lawsuit. 'The most explosive...](https://news.yahoo.com/mike-lindell-promises-evidence-lake-215626584.html)** > > Opinion: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell claims to have "explosive" new evidence in Kari Lake's lawsuit challenging tabulation machines. ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2024, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4626 "2024-03-12T04:15:03Z")
> [@dougrb](#): > > I knew Mikey would eventually come through. Mark your calendars. Friday March 15 2024. Charlie Brown. Lucy. Football. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2024, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4627 "2024-03-12T04:25:02Z")
> [@Cardigan](#): > > Peter Navarro ordered to report to prison next week. Justice was too long delayed on this and the sentence is half what I had hoped, but still one can feel a little schadenfreude from this. > > [Peter Navarro ordered to prison on March 19 for four-month sentence (msn.com)](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/peter-navarro-ordered-to-prison-on-march-19-for-four-month-sentence/ar-BB1jHmhY) I’ll always remember Peter Navarro as the adviser in the Trump administration who ridiculed Canada’s sacrifices in Afghanistan, saying they were only there to suck up to the US. He is a piece of shit excuse for a human being, like most of Trump’s sycophants and Trump himself. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2024, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4628 "2024-03-12T05:18:02Z")
I love how the orange man-child just **cannot** shut his pie-hole. This might turn out to be fun … 😃 > **[New lawsuit possible, lawyer says, after Trump renews attack on writer who...](https://apnews.com/article/e-jean-carroll-trump-defamation-columnist-9a9932b83d2f7dcae1b63701f6405352)** > > A lawyer for a writer who won an $83.3 million defamation award against Donald Trump suggests a new defamation lawsuit is possible against the ex-president after he resumed verbal attacks against her at a weekend rally. ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2024, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4629 "2024-03-12T06:42:35Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > I love how the orange man-child just **cannot** shut his pie-hole. This might turn out to be fun … 😃 Just heard about this last night and was wondering if this would lead to another judgment. Please? Pretty Please? I briefly considered making some sort of joke about Trump not being able to control himself but I just don’t know what to say anymore. I’ve said before and I’ll say it again, if somebody wrote down the last 10 years of politics in this country and submitted it as a book or a movie it would be rejected as being too farfetched. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2024, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4630 "2024-03-12T12:07:49Z")
He managed not to defame her for several weeks following the judgement. Is it a coincidence that he launches back into defaming her again within hours of posting a $91 M bond preventing her attorneys from seizing his assets while his appeal is pending? ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2024, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4631 "2024-03-12T13:10:16Z")
> [@Cardigan](#): > > Is it a coincidence that he launches back into defaming her again within hours of posting a $91 M bond preventing her attorneys from seizing his assets while his appeal is pending? He’s probably certain that he’ll “win” the case on appeal, so Chubb won’t have to seize any of his properties or pay Carroll a dime. And, since in his brain he’s already won, he’s free to say whatever the fuck he wants again. ---
**Author:** ![Dandan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@Dandan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandan)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2024, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4632 "2024-03-12T15:12:10Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > He is a piece of shit excuse for a human being, like most of Trump’s sycophants and Trump himself. Who says “opposites attract”? Dan ---
**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:** [March 12, 2024, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4633 "2024-03-12T15:23:29Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > He’s probably certain that he’ll “win” the case on appeal, so Chubb won’t have to seize any of his properties or pay Carroll a dime. And, since in his brain he’s already won, he’s free to say whatever the fuck he wants again. I don’t believe Trump is so far gone as to think he’s going to win on appeal. It seems fairly obvious that Trump has no intention of winning any of his cases. He’s on a sucide run. Either he’s going to be elected the next president of the United States, which he belives will shield him from all his troubles, or he’s going to crash and burn spectacularly. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2024, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4634 "2024-03-12T15:37:15Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > Either he’s going to be elected the next president of the United States, which he belives will shield him from all his troubles, or he’s going to crash and burn spectacularly. He’s going to crash and burn either way. Even if he’s reelected and maybe somewhat protected from the worst of his legal judgements as a sitting President, a second trump administration is going to be an epic shit show. So it’s a question of…does he crash and burn on his own as a private citizen, or take down the country with him? ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2024, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4635 "2024-03-12T15:52:17Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > > [@Akaj](#): > > > > He’s probably certain that he’ll “win” the case on appeal, so Chubb won’t have to seize any of his properties or pay Carroll a dime. And, since in his brain he’s already won, he’s free to say whatever the fuck he wants again. > > I don’t believe Trump is so far gone as to think he’s going to win on appeal. It seems fairly obvious that Trump has no intention of winning any of his cases. He’s on a sucide run. Either he’s going to be elected the next president of the United States, which he belives will shield him from all his troubles, or he’s going to crash and burn spectacularly. At the risk of getting into Trump’s brain (such as it is) … now that Chubb has covered the financial burden of the appeal, he’s won, because he doesn’t have to worry about it _now_. And _now_ is all he cares about, so he can go back to saying whatever he wants. Once he wins re-election (and it’s incomprehensible to him that he won’t) the problem will go away forever. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2024, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4636 "2024-03-12T16:51:06Z")
> [@solost](#): > > …So it’s a question of…does he crash and burn on his own as a private citizen, or take down the country with him? I’ll take… Option A. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2024, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4637 "2024-03-12T17:31:05Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > because he doesn’t have to worry about it _now_. I think this is accurate. Trump has never cared about winning cases, really. His tactic has always been delay and attrition culminating in settlements with no blame assigned and, preferably, paid using somebody else’s money. Today’s news cycle is all about how his people are cleaning house at the RNC. That means an avenue for using their money to foot his legal fees. He doesn’t care if he loses the cases. He loses cases all the time. The only important thing, to him, is that the losses don’t get in the way of him doing whatever he wants whenever he wants. And despite everything else, he’s still mostly doing that and will be able to continue for the foreseeable future. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2024, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4638 "2024-03-12T17:35:17Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > Today’s news cycle is all about how his people are cleaning house at the RNC. He has his undocumented immigrant servants from Mar-a-Lago cleaning the RNC? (sorry, that’s what it initially sounded like to me). ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2024, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4639 "2024-03-12T17:36:53Z")
I doubt he considers them to qualify as people. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2024, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4640 "2024-03-12T17:38:55Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > Today’s news cycle is all about how his people are cleaning house at the RNC. That means an avenue for using their money to foot his legal fees. It’s also good practice for when he takes over as president again, if the worst should happen. Last time, he had done no prep work at all, and it showed. This time, he’ll have a little list all ready to go Day One, of who is to be fired immediately. Taking over the RNC is just the dress rehearsal. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2024, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4641 "2024-03-12T19:20:57Z")
I agree with this. I’m convinced he believes the rest of his existence comes down to this one last desperate roll of the dice. He’s certainly acting that way. I don’t think he’d be wrong either. Someone with nothing to lose and everything to gain makes him all the more dangerous. [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=231) [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=233)