# 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:** 310
**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:** [May 25, 2024, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6182 "2024-05-25T23:58:29Z")
> [@Oath of the President](#): > > I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. Officer or not, be as it may, the President serves the Constitution. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2024, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6183 "2024-05-26T00:14:25Z")
> [@Wolf333](#): > > I’ve heard people say that trump is the nation’s top cop using the above logic. I’m sorry. Did you say “Top Flop”? “Popped Glop”? “Flip-flop Milksop”? “Non-stop Slop”? “Desktop Plop”? “Junk Shop Pop”? “Full-Stop Porkchop”? ---
**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:** [May 26, 2024, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6184 "2024-05-26T00:52:30Z")
Behold what happens when Loser Donald is speaking in front of a crowd that was neither paid to be there nor follows him around like the world’s saddest Grateful Dead tour; [https://x.com/Acyn/status/1794530885800530193](https://x.com/Acyn/status/1794530885800530193) [https://x.com/Acyn/status/1794531352118984776](https://x.com/Acyn/status/1794531352118984776) ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2024, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6185 "2024-05-26T01:03:28Z")
“At that venue, no food was for sale; neither pies nor tomatoes.” Something is wrong with the above sentence. Sad. Please correct the above sentence so that it appears in correct format and ready for print in [any modern day newspaper.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLLvuAlSEKY) ---
**Author:** ![vbob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vbob/32/4439_2.png) [@vbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vbob)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2024, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6186 "2024-05-26T01:08:18Z")
> [@Oath of the President](#): > > faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability So, Individual one attempted to execute the office, to the best of his abilities - lucky for us, said abilities were not up to killing it outright, but we shouldn’t let him try again. ---
**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:** [May 26, 2024, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6187 "2024-05-26T01:08:34Z")
Maybe I went insane around nine years ago, and this vivid, waking fever dream is only happening because those drooling idiots in the dayroom insist on watching _The Apprentice_ all day. Yeah, that must it. It makes much more sense that what I’m experiencing as ‘reality.’ ---
**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:** [May 26, 2024, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6188 "2024-05-26T01:17:40Z")
Loser Donald is already wrapping up his speech to the libertarians. He tried to kick them out of their own convention, showed up an hour late, tried to give the exact same speech he always gives, got booed mercilessly, told the audience they must enjoy being losers, and then bailed. This is the reality that isn’t getting reflected in polls - when he’s outside his bubble, he’s very unpopular. Oh, and he also said he’d pardon the 1/6 traitors and the founder of Silk Road. [https://meidasnews.com/news/trump-pledges-to-commute-life-sentence-of-drug-trafficker-serving-life](https://meidasnews.com/news/trump-pledges-to-commute-life-sentence-of-drug-trafficker-serving-life) ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2024, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6189 "2024-05-26T01:47:48Z")
I cannot begin to fathom what idiot decided it would be a good idea to invite Trump to the Libertarian convention. I guess it must be true that a fair number of libertarians truly are just Republicans who want to smoke weed. I would love a reporter to ask Trump to explain what the Silk Road case was about; I am sure he has no idea who the fuck Ross “Dread Pirate Roberts” Ulbricht even is. Some advisor told him to say that because they thought it would get an applause from libertarians. I am guessing that there are some Republicans who hear this bullshit who are getting unnerved; the prosecutors at Ulbricht’s trial introduced evidence indicating he had attempted to solicit the murders of at least five different people who he believed were going to snitch on the Silk Road. ---
**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:** [May 26, 2024, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6190 "2024-05-26T01:53:59Z")
> [@SwissMan](#): > > I would love a reporter to ask Trump to explain what the Silk Road case was about; I am sure he has no idea who the fuck Ross “Dread Pirate Roberts” Ulbricht even is. Some advisor told him to say that because they thought it would get an applause from libertarians. “Dread Pirate Roberts. What a wonderful man. No survivors, he would say, no survivors, that’s why they dread him, and he’s being treated very unfairly by Crooked Prince Humperdinck’s weaponized government. When I’m prince I will proudly put him and Freaky Finger Rugen in the Zoo of Death and we will be looking very strongly at these Guilderian mercenaries they’ve been letting through our open border. You know they don’t have any prisons in Guilder any more, they send them here, and Humperdinck allows it and it’s very sad.” ---
**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:** [May 26, 2024, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6191 "2024-05-26T02:11:51Z")
@Smapti, does your head ever hurt after channeling him so accurately\> ---
**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:** [May 26, 2024, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6192 "2024-05-26T02:28:01Z")
I like it, but it makes to much sense. To channel Tan the Conman, one must be unintelligible at least 30% of the time. ---
**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:** [May 26, 2024, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6193 "2024-05-26T03:02:58Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > To channel Tan the Conman, one must be unintelligible at least 30% of the time. My imitation is 2016 Trump - rambling and ignorant, but you can at least trace the chain of logic his stimulant-ridden brain is slaloming along. Modern Trump has too much word salad, rote repetition, and utter nonsense (When did Robert E. Lee ever say “Never fight me uphill boys” in an Irish brogue?) to make that possible. ---
**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:** [May 26, 2024, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6194 "2024-05-26T03:17:49Z")
> [@SwissMan](#): > > I would love a reporter to ask Trump to explain what the Silk Road case was about; I am sure he has no idea who the fuck Ross “Dread Pirate Roberts” Ulbricht even is. Some advisor told him to say that because they thought it would get an applause from libertarians. From the story linked above: > Trump was given a list today by the Libertarian Party of the Top 10 most important issues for delegates attending their National Convention this weekend. The first item on that list was to commute the sentence of Ross Ulbricht. Yep, he was literally told to say this. And Trump’s real superpower is a willingness to just tell people what they want to hear, without regard for the truth. ---
**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:** [May 26, 2024, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6195 "2024-05-26T03:19:06Z")
Meanwhile, Mike Lee claims the libertarians were saying “Boo-urns”. [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GOeLnquWwAA6VaK?format=jpg&name=medium) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GOeLnquWwAA6VaK?format=jpg&name=medium) ---
**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:** [May 26, 2024, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6196 "2024-05-26T03:19:31Z")
> [@SwissMan](#): > > I cannot begin to fathom what idiot decided it would be a good idea to invite Trump to the Libertarian convention. I guess it must be true that a fair number of libertarians truly are just Republicans who want to smoke weed. In several of our recent Libertarian threads, the discussion is that the much more radical, right-leaning caucus basically swept the “traditional” Libertarians aside and took over all leadership. Which might explain why the officers are very happy to have Trump speak to them, but a large chunk don’t care for him. > **[Mises Caucus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mises_Caucus)** > > The Libertarian Party Mises Caucus (LPMC) is a caucus within the Libertarian Party in the United States that promotes paleolibertarianism, as well as a more radical version of American libertarianism associated with the presidential campaigns of former U.S. congressman Ron Paul. It was founded in 2017 by Michael Heise, mainly in opposition to Nicholas Sarwark's position as party chairman and the pragmatic faction of the party associated with the presidential campaigns of former New Mexico Gove Th... ---
**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:** [May 26, 2024, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6197 "2024-05-26T03:35:52Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > (When did Robert E. Lee ever say “Never fight me uphill boys” in an Irish brogue?) I truly would not be surprised a whit if Trump were to use, instead of a fake Irish brogue, a stereotypical Chinese accent to fake-quote Robert E. Lee. ---
**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:** [May 26, 2024, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6198 "2024-05-26T03:39:07Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > I truly would not be surprised a whit if Trump were to use, instead of a fake Irish brogue, a stereotypical Chinese accent to fake-quote Robert E. Lee. “Robert E. Lee, not in favor any more, did you notice that? His cousin Bruce is more popular, but we’re not allowed to say that so we don’t say it, every newspaper is gonna have the headline “Trump With the Chinese”, but no president has ever been harder on China than Trump, because I get along great with President Xi and they weren’t laughing when we were president…” ---
**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:** [May 26, 2024, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6199 "2024-05-26T03:52:46Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Meanwhile, Mike Lee claims the libertarians were saying “Boo-urns”. I have to say it’s been interesting watching the Republicans raise “brain melting cognitive dissonance” into an actual communication strategy. ---
**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:** [May 26, 2024, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6200 "2024-05-26T07:17:01Z")
Wow. He sounds like he’s falling asleep standing up in the first one. ---
**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:** [May 26, 2024, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6201 "2024-05-26T08:46:21Z")
> [@Jihi](#): > > I have to say it’s been interesting watching the Republicans raise “brain melting cognitive dissonance” into an actual communication strategy. To borrow a meme about a different annoying narcissist billionaire; Donald Trump: slams dick in car door MAGA: masterful gambit, sir [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=309) [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=311)