# 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:** 258
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5142 "2024-03-28T12:19:04Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > Trump is now selling a “God Bless America” Bible for $59.99. Gift link The guy cheapens everything he touches. Even rats won’t eat his garbage. ---
**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, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5143 "2024-03-28T15:40:38Z")
What’s the over / under on this, being considered as I type? Will we get a bit of perfectly reasonable schadenfreude when the judge refuses to throw out the case on First Amendment grounds, or will we all shake our fists and look to the heavens screaming “NOOOOOOO!!!”, movie cliche-style, when trump walks away from a consequence yet again? **[Judge to consider if Trump can throw out Georgia election subversion case on First Amendment grounds](https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/28/politics/fulton-county-trump-first-amendment-hearing/index.html)** ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5144 "2024-03-28T16:00:59Z")
You have a right to say, “Those people over there should die!” You don’t have a right to go over there and try to achieve their death. They can make the argument but I’d give it a 0% chance of success. Maybe there’s some specific charge that it applies to that could be dropped but dropping a few charges here and there isn’t going to add up to much. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2024, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5145 "2024-03-28T16:30:46Z")
The seedy history of the Trump Bible uncovered by [Meidas Touch](https://www.meidastouch.com/news/a-total-scam-trumps-endorsed-bible-has-a-history-of-negative-reviews). Ben Meiselas’ video on the same story: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/qZp0zjobSK8/maxresdefault.jpg "Trump Stunt BLOWS UP IN HIS FACE as Origins Revealed") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZp0zjobSK8) TL;DR: This is not a new product. Greenwood started selling these (for $50) a few years ago, but had terrible customer service and lots of one-star reviews. So no wonder Trump decided to go into business with the guy, and Jack up the price to $60. ---
**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 28, 2024, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5146 "2024-03-28T17:29:02Z")
Is there **anything** that Trump has ever been involved in that didn’t stink to high heaven of scam and shameless dishonesty? Including his entire presidency, his entire business career, and even his own golf game? Has there ever been a shred of honesty in anything he’s ever done? I don’t think he’s capable of it. I’m sure if he ever sold an honest product for a fair price, he’s feel that **he** was being cheated, because how much better to sell a cheap piece of shit at an inflated price, and then run away and blame somebody else for the scam! What’s also amazing is the consistent laughably bad taste of what he does to his gaudy gilded mansions and penthouses; you’d think that by sheer accident, someone with reasonably good taste might have decorated something, somewhere, that he owns. But I’ve never seen it. I have no words left for how much I loathe that orange shit-stain. ---
**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, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5147 "2024-03-28T18:12:34Z")
> [@solost](#): > > What’s the over / under on this, being considered as I type? > > Will we get a bit of perfectly reasonable schadenfreude when the judge refuses to throw out the case on First Amendment grounds, or will we all shake our fists and look to the heavens screaming “NOOOOOOO!!!”, movie cliche-style, when trump walks away from a consequence yet again? > > **[Judge to consider if Trump can throw out Georgia election subversion case on First Amendment grounds](https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/28/politics/fulton-county-trump-first-amendment-hearing/index.html)** Hearing wrapped without a ruling. No idea if it gives any clue as to whether or not trump will be able to weasel out of this one, but it seems like it should have been a quick & easy ‘denied’ from the judge. > The judge did not rule from the bench, nor did he say when he would rule. > **[Live updates: Trump Georgia election interference case hearing](https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-georgia-hearing-03-28-24/h_19fc1dc749668ae51011557de0ba60ac)** > > A judge is holding a hearing Thursday on a motion to dismiss the Georgia 2020 election case against Donald Trump on First Amendment grounds. Follow here for the latest live news updates. ---
**Author:** ![rejemy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/898d66/32.png) [@rejemy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rejemy)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5148 "2024-03-28T18:26:20Z")
I recently learned that there’s allegedly a replica of the Ark of the Covenant at Mar a Lago: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Qult\_Headquarters/comments/1abr1bu/why\_is\_there\_a\_copy\_of\_the\_ark\_of\_the\_covenant\_at/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Qult_Headquarters/comments/1abr1bu/why_is_there_a_copy_of_the_ark_of_the_covenant_at/) This is the first thing I’ve ever learned about Trump that didn’t make me think even less of him. It’s a fun movie prop to have on display. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5149 "2024-03-28T18:27:09Z")
I hope the face-melting part is functional. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5150 "2024-03-28T18:32:52Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I hope the face-melting part is functional You want the leopards to starve? ---
**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, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5151 "2024-03-28T18:33:54Z")
> [@rejemy](#): > > I recently learned that there’s allegedly a replica of the Ark of the Covenant at Mar a Lago: From the link: ‘_A perfect replicant of the The arc of the covenant_’. A perfect _replicant_? Which Harrison Ford is after it-- Indiana Jones or Rick Deckard? ---
**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:** [March 28, 2024, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5152 "2024-03-28T18:35:00Z")
_An exact replicat of The arc of the covenant? 2700 hours of labor? 6 pounds of gold?_ Never in a lifetime. And if that cheap piece of plastic was in [Mar-e-Cage](https://dictionary.reverso.net/french-english/mar%C3%A9cage) he would of course claim it is the original. No, not from the movie. From God himself, who gave it in person to him when he adopted him as better that the other son, the one with the woke leanings. ---
**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 28, 2024, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5153 "2024-03-28T18:36:29Z")
> [@rejemy](#): > > I recently learned that there’s allegedly a replica of the Ark of the Covenant at Mar a Lago: > > This is the first thing I’ve ever learned about Trump that didn’t make me think even less of him. It’s a fun movie prop to have on display. Why? I very much doubt the orange fuckstick has seen the movie, or cares about it (or about any other movie, unless he had a cameo in it). If he has such a replica, it’s only because it’s exactly the kind of gaudy gilded shit that he loves. He probably keeps some of his best Top Secret documents in it, the ones that will likely fetch the best price from Putin or Xi. ---
**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 28, 2024, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5154 "2024-03-28T18:42:58Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Is there **anything** that Trump has ever been involved in that didn’t stink to high heaven of scam and shameless dishonesty? Including his entire presidency, his entire business career, and even his own golf game? Has there ever been a shred of honesty in anything he’s ever done? No. It’s why the Trump Organization hasn’t been able to do any business ever since a monitor was appointed to keep track of things. He is incapable of doing business without either committing fraud or doing something shady. ---
**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, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5155 "2024-03-28T18:57:04Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Is there **anything** that Trump has ever been involved in that didn’t stink to high heaven of scam and shameless dishonesty? Actually, his steaks were pretty good. No wait, they were terrible too. ---
**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, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5156 "2024-03-28T18:58:28Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Hearing wrapped without a ruling. No idea if it gives any clue as to whether or not trump will be able to weasel out of this one, but it seems like it should have been a quick & easy ‘denied’ from the judge. One hopes that the judge wanted time to craft his denial ruling in such a way as to communicate to the America-hating fuckstick’s legal team that he’s not going to put up with any more of their bullshit, and that if it continues they themselves might find themselves as overnight guests of the Fulton County jail, a la _My Cousin Vinny_. ---
**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 28, 2024, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5157 "2024-03-28T19:11:30Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Actually, his steaks were pretty good. No wait, they were terrible too. It’s hilarious that this vulgar blowhard – known for years to like his steaks overdone to the tough consistency of shoe leather and then rejuvenating them with ketchup – thought that hawking steaks with his name on them was just the kind of sheer marketing genius needed to denote “Quality” and promote incredible sales! Narrator’s epilogue: “it didn’t work! It never does.” ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5158 "2024-03-28T19:23:44Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Actually, his steaks were pretty good. No wait, they were terrible too. Maybe you should have cooked them longer. And topped them with ketchup. ---
**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 28, 2024, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5159 "2024-03-28T19:53:16Z")
Two weeks of cooking could only help. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5160 "2024-03-28T19:56:25Z")
If you got it down to a lump of carbon you could grill something edible over it. ---
**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, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5161 "2024-03-28T20:03:21Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > I’m sure if he ever sold an honest product for a fair price, he’s feel that **he** was being cheated, because how much better to sell a cheap piece of shit at an inflated price… A childhood friend has always exhibited the symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder. He’s like Trump without the (alleged) money. Of course he’s a Trump supporter. Before Trump, he told me about a scheme he had (which I don’t think he ever followed through on). He wanted to buy cheap vodka (or other spirit) and put it into ‘fancy’ bottles to sell at an inflated price. [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=257) [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=259)