# 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:** 269
**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:** [April 11, 2024, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5362 "2024-04-11T17:53:59Z")
The Democrats will block the “quietly” part so they can take credit for the repeal and embarrass the GOP. But if they can force a repeal, they will. ---
**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:** [April 11, 2024, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5363 "2024-04-11T19:32:33Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > The Democrats will block the “quietly” part so they can take credit for the repeal and embarrass the GOP. Well, really, “These idiots didn’t even know what they were breaking” is a message that needs to get out. Not one GOP elected official stopped to think what the repeal of RvW would mean in practical terms, and so they’re left scrambling trying to find a fix for what they broke. Democrats should loudly and repeatedly remind them that if they’d just left it well enough alone, they wouldn’t be scrambling for a solution that tries to mollify both sides of a seriously contentious issue. ---
**Author:** ![Kelby2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ebca7d/32.png) [@Kelby2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kelby2)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2024, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5364 "2024-04-11T19:56:37Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > > [@JKellyMap](#): > > > > So far, the Pubs (nationwide) haven’t needed any help in shooting themselves in the foot over abortion. > > Way back when SCROTUS shot down Roe, I turned to my wife and said “They’ve just fucked themselves. Their own base is going to scream bloody murder over this.” Turns out that for once I was prescient. State governors and legislatures are passing abortion laws because they’ve badly misread their constituencies, and I believe they’re going to pay for that in upcoming elections. Not to mention healthcare services for women in those states…I mean, how many OB-GYN physicians want to practice in states where providing appropriate care can lead to criminal charges and jail time? ---
**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:** [April 11, 2024, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5365 "2024-04-11T20:39:51Z")
To some of the Pubs, women not being able to access OB-GYN care of any kind is a feature rather than a bug. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2024, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5366 "2024-04-12T03:33:50Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Republicans are falling all over themselves to try to distance themselves from the decision, including that Kari Lake bitch. You made your bed, boys and girls, now wallow in it. The rightwing dogs finally caught the bus; now they’re whining and yelping because the tires are rolling over them. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2024, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5367 "2024-04-12T03:49:33Z")
“After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing afterall as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.” Mr. Spock to the Republican National Convention in 2020. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2024, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5368 "2024-04-12T03:55:05Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > The rightwing dogs finally caught the bus; now they’re whining and yelping because the tires are rolling over them. Well, it was easy to talk about banning, or actually pass ever more ludicrous trigger bans when the Roe was the law of the land. Cheap red meat for the base. And from their POV, getting more Conservative judges was always going to help them hold their power of course. And then, both come together and get them what their base has always demanded, and which they pandered to for votes, and well F\*\*\* if they know what to do about it. Although… what I just said is probably true for the pre-Trump (R) team. The White Nationalist / Christian Nationalist / Nihilist MAGA movement may well want to ban abortion because it’s not “Christian” or they want to deny it to “them” while being assured they’ll be able to reserve exceptions for themselves if needed. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2024, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5369 "2024-04-12T03:56:11Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > > [@Gyrate](#): > > > > It looks to me like the Democrats weren’t blocking the repeal; they were flagging Gress’s hypocrisy. And then the Republicans recessed the House. > > I think we can compromise on a statement that the Democrats aren’t going to make it easy for the Republicans to quietly repeal the law. Of course the real reason the pubbies are in a lather about abortion laws at the state level is their idol came out against a national ban. Of course he did. What do you expect him to do the next time he (or his brat) knocks up a mistress, carry the child to term? Get real! ---
**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:** [April 12, 2024, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5370 "2024-04-12T03:58:12Z")
According to CNN, Evan Corcoran has quit Trump’s legal team and will be a witness against Trump in the documents case: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/eK29HbLUG5g/maxresdefault.jpg "Haberman: Former Trump lawyer's notetaking is 'disquieting' to Trump") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK29HbLUG5g) ---
**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:** [April 12, 2024, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5371 "2024-04-12T09:51:38Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > What do you expect him to do the next time he (or his brat) knocks up a mistress, carry the child to term? Get real! Please be more specific about the brat-do you lay better odds on Eric or Don Jr.? (I don’t count Barron-he can’t help who his father is and seems to stay out of the limelight.) ---
**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:** [April 12, 2024, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5372 "2024-04-12T10:07:06Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > According to CNN, Evan Corcoran has quit Trump’s legal team and will be a witness against Trump in the documents case … “Evan Corchoran? Never heard of him. Maybe he brought me a Diet Coke once, I dunno.” It’s what Donnie does. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2024, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5373 "2024-04-12T10:09:29Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > It’s what Donnie does. Don’t forget the classic, “He was a very bad lawyer, I fired him for incompetence, he’s always been anti-Trump!” ---
**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:** [April 12, 2024, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5374 "2024-04-12T10:40:21Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > > [@Monty](#): > > > > What do you expect him to do the next time he (or his brat) knocks up a mistress, carry the child to term? Get real! > > Please be more specific about the brat-do you lay better odds on Eric or Don Jr.? (I don’t count Barron-he can’t help who his father is and seems to stay out of the limelight.) Half dozen on one, six on the other. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2024, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5375 "2024-04-13T00:52:18Z")
Roger Stone is so unlikeable that people lose their jobs just for trying to introduce him to people. > ---
**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:** [April 13, 2024, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5376 "2024-04-13T20:22:35Z")
Did anyone here watch Dan Olson’s Youtube documentary about the Gamestop bubble, and how true believers and crypto bros kept buying the stock well after the bubble burst because they were convinced the stock price would magically rocket upward and turn them all into billionaires? The exact same thing is now playing out with Loser Donald’s fans buying up increasingly worthless stock in Twooth Social. > **[Truth Social Investors Try to Keep Hope Alive as Stock Tanks](https://www.thedailybeast.com/truth-social-investors-try-to-keep-hope-alive-as-stock-tanks?ref=home?ref=home)** > > But some are holding out hope that Donald Trump’s hyping of the company means better days are ahead. ---
**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:** [April 14, 2024, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5377 "2024-04-14T00:02:42Z")
If the Saudis start pouring money into it, will that make a difference? ---
**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:** [April 14, 2024, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5378 "2024-04-14T07:11:29Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Of course the real reason the pubbies are in a lather about abortion laws at the state level is their idol came out against a national ban. Of course he did. What do you expect him to do the next time he (or his brat) knocks up a mistress, carry the child to term? Get real! When has the piece of shit currently facing 90+ criminal indictments ever given a damn about the law? No, he got elected in 2016 partly on a promise to pack the court with nutbars and overturn Roe v Wade. Now that it’s proven deeply unpopular, the Orange Hypocrite is hoping to get elected to what he plans to turn into the position of President for Life by claiming it should all be left to the states. Abortion is murder in some states, perfectly fine in others – it’s all A-OK with him, because he has such high principles and convictions. The only convictions the hypocritical self-serving Orange Shit-stain will ever have will be the ones imposed by the criminal courts. ---
**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:** [April 14, 2024, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5379 "2024-04-14T08:05:51Z")
Oh, I definitely get where you’re coming from on this. My point rests on not the law but how the snake and his offspring would be affected by it. Of course the only reason he would care about how is offspring is affected by it is how that would affect him. It has nothing to do with consistency, legality, or even morality. It’s all about him. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2024, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5380 "2024-04-14T08:20:40Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > My point rests on not the law but how the snake and his offspring would be affected by it. They would never be affected by it at all. Rich people including fervently anti-abortion rich people have always arranged an abortion by travelling to wherever it was legal to obtain one. If abortion became illegal throughout the US any Trump family member who needed an abortion would simply make a quick trip to Canada or Mexico or Europe. I don’t believe Trump’s recent softpedalling on abortion has anything to do with personal or family concerns. ---
**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:** [April 14, 2024, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5381 "2024-04-14T08:34:52Z")
Ah, but that was before he and his crime family invited the scrutiny they are now subject to, thanks to mister ego’s arrogance. Consider that much of his reaction to the fallout from his stupidity is predicated on the way things used to be for him. And I think the biggest mistake anyone can make about that traitor is to not recognize that every thought he has is soley for himself. [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=268) [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=270)