# 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:** 324
**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:** [June 5, 2024, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6462 "2024-06-05T23:47:02Z")
From the file of, “Can Trump tell the difference between real people and fictional characters?” 🤔 Does Trump think Batman is a real person? Maybe? > **[“He Thought I Was Bruce Wayne”: People Have Been Reminded Of Christian Bale’s...](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/think-thought-bruce-wayne-people-173011109.html)** > > A run-in with Trump while shooting a Batman movie — what could go wrong? ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2024, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6463 "2024-06-05T23:55:36Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > De Niro has done this for the city: According to the [composers](https://www.npr.org/2023/04/19/1170851174/fresh-air-pays-tribute-to-the-music-of-john-kander-and-fred-ebb) De Niro is responsible for the song “New York, New York” in some sense. After De Niro didn’t like the first song with that name, Kander and Ebb: > thought, some actor is going to tell us how to write a song. And we could not have been more internally pompous, I think. Anyway, we went back to Fred’s apartment, and **I think because the juices of rage were coursing through our bodies, we wrote another song very fast, probably 45 minutes, called “New York, New York,” and took it back, and that was the song that was used in the movie and became the song which is now pretty well known.** ---
**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:** [June 5, 2024, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6464 "2024-06-05T23:56:14Z")
> [@Mr.Duality](#): > > They add: “Any split that is higher than 5% will be seen favorably by the RNC and President Trump’s campaign and is routinely reported to the highest levels of leadership within both organizations.” That’s exactly the kind of statement – right down to some of the exact same words and not-so-subtle coercion – that is routinely issued by Kim Jong-Un to his minions in North Korea. I’m just speechless at the depths of cluelessness of these wannabe authoritarians. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2024, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6465 "2024-06-06T00:10:51Z")
I know that. Doesn’t mean it’s not still funny that I’ve got Newt Gingrich begging Hannibal Lecter for money. (PS: Add “I’ve got Newt Gingrich begging Hannibal Lecter for money” to the list of sentences that have never been said before.) ---
**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:** [June 6, 2024, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6466 "2024-06-06T00:18:17Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Doesn’t mean it’s not still funny that I’ve got Newt Gingrich begging Hannibal Lecter for money. Lecter would be horrified. “That Gingrich is a monster!” ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2024, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6467 "2024-06-06T00:43:34Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > I like that the golden fleece email above is from the HOUSE GOP CHAIR It’s actually from Elise Stefanik, who is the House GOP Chairwoman. So that much is legit. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2024, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6468 "2024-06-06T00:55:35Z")
Fair enough! ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2024, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6469 "2024-06-06T01:10:57Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > It’s actually from Elise Stefanik, who is the House GOP Chairwoman. So that much is legit. She is illiterate, hires illiterate aides, and/or “knows her audience”. The email is an embarrassment to her office, her party, the nation and the human race. Crude, filled with LIES and errors, and insulting one’s intelligence. And lets not forget it’s for the sole benefit of a corrupt, traitorous, felon. No doubt she’s angling for VP or cabinet. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2024, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6470 "2024-06-06T02:29:57Z")
> [@Mr.Duality](#): > > They add: “Any split that is higher than 5% will be seen favorably by the RNC and President Trump’s campaign and is routinely reported to the highest levels of leadership within both organizations.” That sounds like the same kind of reporting (to the highest levels, including the orange turdmonkey himself) in reverse, that Arizona Republicans (was it?) were threatened with if they failed to vote. Somehow I keep hearing this threat from my school days – “and it will be on your permanent record.” ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2024, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6471 "2024-06-06T02:48:29Z")
This is pretty meaningless, except it will set MAGA’s hair on fire: > **[NYPD preparing to revoke Donald Trump’s license to carry a gun after felony...](https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/05/politics/trump-gun-nypd-revoke/index.html)** > > The New York City Police Department is preparing to revoke former President Donald Trump’s license to carry a gun, a senior police official told CNN. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2024, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6472 "2024-06-06T04:18:23Z")
Those perfidious Democrats! How will he kill someone on 5th Ave now? His hands are too small to throttle anyone. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2024, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6473 "2024-06-06T04:50:33Z")
“They deny him his First Amendment rights with gag orders, they deny him his Second Amendment rights with this. What’s next, him having to quarter soldiers in Mar-a-Lago in times of peace, contrary to the Third Amendment?” ---
**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:** [June 6, 2024, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6474 "2024-06-06T04:57:22Z")
Not sure what thread this belongs in, but Jon McNaughton has produced another gem of a painting: [![](https://cdn10.bigcommerce.com/s-dcvfa4/product_images/uploaded_images/trump-shrugged-1-sm.jpg) ](https://cdn10.bigcommerce.com/s-dcvfa4/product_images/uploaded_images/trump-shrugged-1-sm.jpg) Shouldn’t the United States be centered more above Trump’s head, Jon, instead of the Atlantic Ocean? ---
**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:** [June 6, 2024, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6475 "2024-06-06T05:01:27Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > It’s actually from Elise Stefanik, who is the House GOP Chairwoman. So that much is legit. That explains a lot. Stefanik has become a full-blown Trumpist, supporting his election lies,blaming Nancy Pelosi for the Jan 6 insurrection, and objecting to the House Select Committee investigation into it. In order to do these things, as well as fleecing the rubes to create a petition to the NY Appellate Court as it Trump’s appeal was a popularity contest, one must either have no brain or no ethics. The evidence suggests that she has neither. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2024, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6476 "2024-06-06T05:35:26Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Jon McNaughton has produced another gem of a painting Just outside the frame is the mob of people chasing Trump to recover what he’s attempting to steal. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2024, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6477 "2024-06-06T06:20:29Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Shouldn’t the United States be centered more above Trump’s head, Jon, instead of the Atlantic Ocean? He’s just covering the bald spot with South America, what’s more patriotic than that? ---
**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:** [June 6, 2024, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6478 "2024-06-06T06:28:41Z")
Convict Donald is now literally foaming at the mouth. > > ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2024, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6479 "2024-06-06T06:42:03Z")
His Commodore 64 couldn’t handle the detailed graphics 🙄 of the US Continent. 😁 ---
**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:** [June 6, 2024, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6480 "2024-06-06T06:44:41Z")
Also, wasn’t Atlas having to hold the world on his shoulders supposed to be a punishment for defying the gods? ---
**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:** [June 6, 2024, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/6481 "2024-06-06T07:14:00Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Shouldn’t the United States be centered more above Trump’s head, Jon, instead of the Atlantic Ocean? Nah. The way he treats the country, he should be sitting on the US. > [@Smapti](#): > > Also, wasn’t Atlas having to hold the world on his shoulders supposed to be a punishment for defying the gods? It’s not the first time the magaflatearthers and their idol got something backwards. They’re still convinced the national flag represents the military. [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=323) [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=325)