# 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:** 388
**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:** [August 19, 2024, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7742 "2024-08-19T22:44:43Z")
Nothing nefarious or lazy here. It works, because all Democrats are the same and therefore remarks about them are interchangeable. There’s no need to reinvent the wheel, you know. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2024, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7743 "2024-08-19T23:15:24Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > Poor benighted liberal, you don’t understand: the Dow is up in anticipation of Dear Leader’s foreordained victory in November and ~~canonization~~ ~~coronation~~ inauguration next January. You left out ~~beatification~~. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2024, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7744 "2024-08-19T23:16:43Z")
He should simply be beaten, not beatified. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2024, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7745 "2024-08-19T23:17:46Z")
You both left out ~~deification.~~ ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7746 "2024-08-19T23:29:49Z")
I saw an ad out there somewhere where they showed trump proclaiming that the dow would collapse if Biden wins in 2020, we’d fall into a depression, unemployment would sky rocket, etc. Then they showed him saying the exact same thing about a Harris win. Even I was a little startled that he would try a rerun of predictions that failed to materialize after 2020. Ha ha, not really. But it did make me pay attention and I wish some trump fans would see it and just think about it a little bit. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7747 "2024-08-19T23:45:19Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > He should simply be beaten, not beatified. I’d settle for cannonized. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2024, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7748 "2024-08-19T23:57:21Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I’d settle for cannonized. Funny! ---
**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:** [August 19, 2024, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7749 "2024-08-19T23:58:53Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > You left out ~~beatification~~. That usually precedes the ~~canonization~~ mentioned above (in the RCC, at least; Og knows what the process is in the Trumpiverse). > [@commasense](#): > > You both left out ~~deification.~~ Why should he take a demotion? ---
**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:** [August 19, 2024, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7750 "2024-08-19T23:59:34Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > But it did make me pay attention and I wish some trump fans would see it and just think about it a little bit. They’re conspiracy theorists. And one of the defining traits of true CTists is, no matter how often a prediction fails to come true, they will never stop to question the usefulness of the CT mindset. They will just move on to the next prediction, convinced that it’s really going to happen. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2024, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7751 "2024-08-20T01:02:11Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > I saw an ad out there somewhere where they showed trump proclaiming that the dow would collapse if Biden wins in 2020, we’d fall into a depression, unemployment would sky rocket, etc. Then they showed him saying the exact same thing about a Harris win. I’m honestly surprised he hasn’t accused Harris of deleting emails. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7752 "2024-08-20T01:20:17Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I’m honestly surprised he hasn’t accused Harris of deleting emails. Give Trump time. As he becomes more out of touch with reality, he might go there. After all, it “worked” against the last woman he ran against for President. It seems like it will be only a matter of time before Clinton, Pelosi, Warren, AOC, and Harris all merge together in his mind as the nemesis that hounds him in his waking nightmares. Actually, that might make a good Lincoln Project ad. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2024, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7753 "2024-08-20T01:25:16Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > t works, because all Democrats are the same and therefore remarks about them are interchangeable. Yup, we’re all just like clones. Identical, down to the fingerprints. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7754 "2024-08-20T04:23:30Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > Actually, that might make a good Lincoln Project ad. Each one comes into view saying something that annoys him, then slides out of view for the next one to slide into view, at an accelerating rate – a sort of swirling Demmocaine. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2024, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7755 "2024-08-20T07:04:44Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > I saw an ad out there somewhere where they showed trump proclaiming that the dow would collapse if Biden wins in 2020, we’d fall into a depression, unemployment would sky rocket, etc. Then they showed him saying the exact same thing about a Harris win. Jon Stewart showed the two pronouncements side by side on the _Daily Show_ on August 12. Trump used literally the exact same words in predicting an apocalypse if Biden was elected that he’s now using against Harris. It’s just astonishing how mind-bogglingly stupid his followers are. ETA: I hadn’t noticed that @BlankSlate had posted a clip from that show **[up here](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7740)**. Anyway, I don’t know if there’s even a word to describe the abject stupidity of the average Trumpist. Even my dog wouldn’t fall for that, and I do mean that literally. Being a dog, he’s more trusting of us humans than is warranted, so you can usually trick him once. But he has a memory because he has an actual working brain, and he won’t fall for the same trick a second time. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2024, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7756 "2024-08-20T07:27:41Z")
I think that it’s astonishing that Trump thinks that what worked before, but didn’t, will work again. And it won’t. What’s the definition of insanity after all? Doing the same thing twice and expecting a different result. Good analogy with your dog, @wolfpup . I haven’t owned a dog since I was 12, but I have owned numerous cats, and a horse, in the years since. None of the animals I have owned have been so stupid as to think that what didn’t work before will work now. Animals do indeed have memories, and they learn. I suppose what this all means is that Trump and his followers are dumber than our dogs, my cats, and a horse. That’s good schadenfreude! ---
**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:** [August 20, 2024, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7757 "2024-08-20T07:58:23Z")
You gotta wonder how Trump is complaining about Harris replacing Biden when he’s using the exact same lazy arguments against her that he had made up way back in 2020 against Biden and used again this year. Also, how he claims that Harris, being a communist, will be easier to beat than Biden, yet it’s somehow all very “unfair”. Truly, the stupidity of his followers is a wonder to behold. I think the reason Trump doesn’t like dogs is because he hates have anyone around who can outwit him. > **['It's not fair': Trump launches latest gripe about Kamala Harris' entry into...](https://www.rawstory.com/kamala-trump/)** > > As Democratic delegates gathered for the launch of their convention in Chicago Monday, and less than an hour before he was expected to speak about the economy at a Pennsylvania event, former President Donald Trump unleashed his latest attack.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:** [August 20, 2024, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7758 "2024-08-20T08:34:19Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Anyway, I don’t know if there’s even a word to describe the abject stupidity of the average Trumpist. Feel free to use an expression I coined just a few years ago. > It would take an entire brand-new language to adequately describe how… In this instance: > It would take an entire brand-new language to adequately describe how abjectly stupid magaflatearthers (aka Trump supporters) are. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7759 "2024-08-20T14:47:52Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > > [@Cardigan](#): > > > > Wasn’t that the same rally where he indicated that he believed he was speaking in North Carolina? > > > > [Donald Trump ‘Confusing’ State He’s In At Rally Raises Questions - Newsweek](https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-confusing-state-hes-raises-questions-1940779) > > If you go to a lot of different venues that is bound to happen occasionally. I remember being at a concert at University of Maryland where the performer repeatedly shouted “Is University of Michigan in the House?” and was flummoxed as to why he wasn’t getting his usual enthusiastic confirmation. Reminds me of an old Southwest Airlines “Want to get away?” ad with a rap star on stage saying “Thank you Detroit! We love you!” and the crowd just goes dead silent. The bass player leans over and whispers “Detroit was _last_ night.” ---
**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:** [August 20, 2024, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7760 "2024-08-20T15:58:51Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > trump proclaiming that the dow would collapse if Biden wins in 2020 That one definitely came true. Didn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7761 "2024-08-20T18:09:48Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Also, how he claims that Harris, being a communist, will be easier to beat than Biden, yet it’s somehow all very “unfair”. When I was growing up, one of the fastest ways to infuriate my father was to complain something was unfair. He’d go into a tirade about how life isn’t fair, and whining about it will get you nowhere. You had to just deal with it and make of life what you will. As a child it was not what I wanted to hear, but as an adult I consider it one of the two most important things he taught me. The other was you should always be willing to admit when you’re wrong. I’ve noticed (and this is true) that the MAGA types I know get really mad when I point these things out to them, in the context of Trump. I think it’s weird that this impacts them so, but it sure seems to. Almost like it’s a sliver of truth piercing the veil of the cult. [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=387) [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=389)