# 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:** 257
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5122 "2024-03-27T22:49:57Z")
So the boss of a major news network, doesn’t watch the news. Got it. Fox might be hiring. ---
**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:** [March 27, 2024, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5123 "2024-03-27T22:51:28Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > Didn’t he say it was a group decision, but as the boss he accepted responsibility for it? I think that’s what he said and I’d like to know who the other people in the group are, but I reckon I’ll die of curiosity on that. What’s the point of accepting responsibility if you’re not willing to pay the price? Empty words. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5124 "2024-03-27T22:53:43Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > Didn’t he say it was a group decision Uh, huh. Pull the other one. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5125 "2024-03-27T23:38:53Z")
Suck shit, Eastman: > **[John Eastman, architect of Trump’s 2020 election plot, should be disbarred,...](https://www.yahoo.com/news/john-eastman-architect-trump-2020-232234560.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall)** > > Judge Yvette Roland made the recommendation. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5126 "2024-03-27T23:39:55Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > > [@CalMeacham](#): > > > > Isn’t Corinthia over by Ephesia? > > Actually, I think his speech comes from Aphasia. Basse or Haute Aphasia? SDMB obscure literary reference #3,582,179 ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5127 "2024-03-28T00:19:47Z")
I read that the $60 bible is to circumvent the prohibitions of churches to finance political campaigns … They dont finance campaigns, but the might be buying 1000s of overpriced bibles … and who knows even a sharpie-sketch of jesus - incredible fine art, people who saw it had tears in their eyes - for $1.000,000.- or three ---
**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:** [March 28, 2024, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5128 "2024-03-28T00:32:53Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Ya know, Mike, there’s an old saying about not sticking your dick in the crazy. Does that saying apply if both the sticker and the stickee are batshit crazy? ---
**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:** [March 28, 2024, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5129 "2024-03-28T00:37:09Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > there’s an old saying about not sticking your dick in the crazy. How would you say ‘Don’t stick your dick in the crazy’ in Latin? I tried _Ne in insanis pene haereas_, but on re-translation it came out ‘Don’t get stuck in a crazy situation’ in Google Translate. ‘Do not insert your penis into a crazy person’ came out as _Noli mentula in furiosum hominem inserere_ – 'Don’t put your brains in a mad man… ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5130 "2024-03-28T00:38:26Z")
> [@Jihi](#): > > > [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > > > “Corithia is a country no one had ever heard about before I mentioned it, but they’re the best. I speak Corinthian.” > > “And I’m the only one person who speaks Corinthian! All these languages no one speaks but me! Big, burly, Corinthian men come up to me with tears in their eyes begging me to teach them how to speak! But they wouldn’t understand, that’s why I only talk to myself…” That was some **Smapti** -level stuff. Well done. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5131 "2024-03-28T00:49:38Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > As with Trump’s June 2020 photo-op appearance at the church across the street from the White House, I’m a little surprised the Bible doesn’t burst into flame at his mere touch. All the iterations of this joke are beginning to annoy me. They resemble what I’d expect to see when people actually buy into the basic premise that the supernatural (and a supernatural with a teleological underpinning, at that) exists. Seeing it around here is a real downer for me. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5132 "2024-03-28T02:27:35Z")
Either one sounds correct…some do think with it. ---
**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 28, 2024, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5133 "2024-03-28T02:58:54Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > All the iterations of this joke are beginning to annoy me. They resemble what I’d expect to see when people actually buy into the basic premise that the supernatural (and a supernatural with a teleological underpinning, at that) exists. Seeing it around here is a real downer for me. I get that. Allow me to respond as I’ve told that joke I’m sure in this thread, and I told it at least in one other thread. For me personally, I don’t view this as a joke about spirituality or religion at all. (Gosh I’m about to explain the logic behind a joke, I feel so dirty…) If we make the assumption, granted it’s a heck of an assumption, that what Trump and other so-called Christians claim to believe, that their religion is literally true, then not only Trump but I’m sure a large portion of them, have violated every single one of The commandments in seven deadly sins several thousand times over at least. If what Christians believe is true, then Trump should not be going anywhere near a Bible or a church. The fact that they don’t see this is an insult to them. It’s not a joke about religion really, it’s about Trump and his supporters hypocrisy. It’s pointing out that they don’t even believe what they claim to believe. If they did this wouldn’t be happening. Which is a lot to cram into what is essentially a one sentence joke. Here on the board I feel like those assumptions are pretty wildly carried by most of us and can be assumed. The “burning Bible” example, the people who get it will get it. I would never tell this joke to a Christian or a trump supporter because they wouldn’t get it. That’s a problem with jokes in general. They require both the speaker and the audience to carry the same assumptions. And then the joke teller needs to head off the assumptions that are made. That’s what creates the punchline. For the record I don’t consider myself a christian. I really don’t consider myself religious at all really. When I was younger I thought about religion a lot, now nowhere near as much. As a matter of fact I don’t think about religion much at all unless it’s specifically intersects something I consider more important like politics. This reminds me of the debates over the use of the phrase “come to Jesus meeting” after Biden used it at the sotu. Not taking a side necessarily, but it’s a sensitive subject I agree. And we need to examine our use of language over subjects like this. That phrase is widely thought of as not being religious anymore even though that’s where it’s origins obviously are at. It’s just a phrase people use now and everyone understands it. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2024, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5134 "2024-03-28T03:29:39Z")
This. If you believe in the bible, how can you stand behind the multi-divorced guy that talks about grabbing women by the pussy, talks of two Corinthians, brags about paying nothing in taxes, hates on non-whites, etc. I’m an atheist, and from my point of view, if I am wrong and there is a god, Trump should be one of the first to get hit by a lightning bolt (I believe god does strike out from time to time - see Exodus). Trump is the complete 180 from what I would expect “Christians” to view as “Christ-like”. But they love the guy. I guess the Antichrist is to appear at some point before the end of times and he’s about as anti-religion as anyone I’ve seen so maybe they love him despite his wickedness because they know he will trigger the end times. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2024, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5135 "2024-03-28T03:58:45Z")
John Eastman, the alleged lawyer behind Trump’s coup memo, is being disbarred. > **[California judge recommends disbarment of pro-Trump attorney John Eastman](https://www.npr.org/2024/03/27/1240905447/john-eastman-trump-lawyer-california)** > > A California judge found that attorney John Eastman committed "exceptionally serious ethical violations" in his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election and recommended disbarment. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2024, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5136 "2024-03-28T04:49:06Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > hates on non-whites For quite a few of them, ISTM, that’s all that matters to earn their support. ---
**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 28, 2024, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5137 "2024-03-28T07:35:07Z")
Is there a list somewhere of all the GOP/Trump lawyers that have faced or are facing sanctions or disbarment? I can’t keep up, but it must be getting pretty long. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5138 "2024-03-28T08:50:29Z")
> [@Jihi](#): > > I would never tell this joke to a Christian or a trump supporter because they wouldn’t get it. I’ve used it on two Christians, and they both thought it was pretty good. No MAGA folk yet but one day…. And all I could find was a list of lawyers who have pled guilty to crimes or left his employment. I bet it’s a long list. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5139 "2024-03-28T09:32:12Z")
> [@solost](#): > > the difference being, his prayers I’m sure are only to improve his own personal riches or fame, or to **bring misfortune to his enemies** Note the title of this thread – we’re guilty of the same hope. 🙂 ---
**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 28, 2024, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5140 "2024-03-28T12:03:40Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Is there a list somewhere of all the GOP/Trump lawyers that have faced or are facing sanctions or disbarment? I can’t keep up, but it must be getting pretty long What do you call a thousand lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? Trump’s Roldex ---
**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 28, 2024, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5141 "2024-03-28T12:18:27Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Note the title of this thread – we’re guilty of the same hope. 🙂 Umm, I think there’s a qualitative and quantitative difference between those of us who are feeling a karma-style schadenfreude when the bad actions of trump and his enablers come back to bite them on the ass, and trump’s famous petty vengefulness. 🙂 [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=256) [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=258)