# 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:** 394
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7862 "2024-08-24T01:17:51Z")
That is one of their two types of jokes. The second (which is strongly related) is fighting straw men. Mother: Bobby why are you home from school so early. Bobby: They got a phone call that someone had planted a bible in the school and so they sent us all home. Knee slapper. ---
**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 24, 2024, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7863 "2024-08-24T03:04:01Z")
Oh, my sides. Stop, please. ---
**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 24, 2024, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7864 "2024-08-24T04:40:05Z")
_There are good ones on_ both _sides_. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7865 "2024-08-24T05:11:43Z")
Finally! The (satirical) answer to [Where’s Melania](https://youtu.be/Dp0II2XolEg?si=lQJNnmjT_GXhujMl)! ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7866 "2024-08-24T05:14:22Z")
> **[Now that Trump and RFK Jr. are dating, Vance has to sleep on the couch.](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/8/23/2265391/-Now-that-Trump-and-RFK-Jr-are-dating-Vance-has-to-sleep-on-the-couch?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=latest_community&pm_medium=web)** > > Now that Trump and RFK Jr. are dating, Vance has to sleep on the couch. That is all. Don’t bother to click on that link. There’s nothing else there. ---
**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:** [August 24, 2024, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7867 "2024-08-24T13:36:22Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > I mean, I’d have gone with a Bass myself. …or a lionfish (lyin’ fish, get it? Har har). ---
**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 24, 2024, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7868 "2024-08-24T14:21:26Z")
A much better fit. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7869 "2024-08-24T20:58:05Z")
> [@dougrb](#): > > > Fun For The Entire Family > > Makes A Great Gift > > Trumpy Trout™ says 18 different phrases > > [https://www.trumpytrout.com/](https://www.trumpytrout.com/) I don’t know. That graphic–clearly taken from the Trump/Vance 2024 logo–is rather haunting. Could it be a hint of an upcoming change in the ticket??? > **[Ryan Trout](https://ballotpedia.org/Ryan_Trout)** > > Ballotpedia: The Encyclopedia of American Politics > **[Official Campaign Web Site - W. Michael 'Mike' Trout](https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0007486/)** > > Web Site. electronic | Electronic (Form). > **[Rebecca Trout - National Civic League](https://www.nationalcivicleague.org/team/rebecca-trout/)** > > Rebecca Trout is the Director of the All-America City Award & Communications  at the National Civic League. In this role she connects the over 500 AAC communities with resources around local good governance practices and civic engagement... [https://www.reddit.com/r/NewLondonCounty/comments/1eym36e/trumpy\_trout\_the\_talking\_fish\_with\_hilarious/](https://www.reddit.com/r/NewLondonCounty/comments/1eym36e/trumpy_trout_the_talking_fish_with_hilarious/) ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7870 "2024-08-24T21:35:09Z")
> [@dougrb](#): > > I just called Top Dog Direct Called again so I could see what the first eight products were. TrumpyTrout is up to #13 now. Going Up! ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7871 "2024-08-24T23:34:47Z")
Our orange hero just keeps stepping on his own dick: [Trump’s Carefully Scripted Week Kept Veering Off Script](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/24/us/politics/trump-campaign-2024.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FU4.OrJG.XbqD0qsyjpSk&smid=url-share) Love this paragraph: > On Monday in Pennsylvania, he [struggled](https://www.pahomepage.com/video/andy-mehalshicks-exclusive-1-on-1-with-former-president-trump/9962467/) to clarify a previous comment that he believed the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which honors civilians, was “much better” than the Medal of Honor given to military members. On Tuesday in Michigan, he claimed that Vice President Kamala Harris had won the Democratic nomination after a “vicious, violent overthrow of a president" and called Chicago, which hosted the Democratic convention, “a war zone that’s worse than Afghanistan.” I bet y’all who live in Chicagoland are surprised to hear that your city is worse than one of those ‘shithole’ countries, huh? And while I’ve been out of the US the last couple weeks, I’m pretty sure I still would have heard about that ‘violent overthrow of a president’ if in fact that had actually happened. > He openly rejected advice from allies to limit his personal attacks on Ms. Harris and other Democrats during a speech on Wednesday in North Carolina. He called the nation’s first Black vice president “lazy” during a stop in Arizona on Thursday afternoon Um. I just can’t even. > And on Friday, Mr. Trump concluded his week by embracing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in exchange for his endorsement, a move with an uncertain impact on tilting the race in his favor. Go on, dump Vance and make him your running mate. I can’t think of a more perfect choice! ::snert:: ---
**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:** [August 24, 2024, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7872 "2024-08-24T23:40:37Z")
Before another gift link goes to waste, [here](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/24/opinion/trump-harris-dnc-election.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FU4.qVb0.xmmZpp2VY1aV&smid=url-share) is a nicely written opinion/analisys of the One That Shall Not Be Named and his _modus operandi_. A little schadenfreude is there too. ---
**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 25, 2024, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7873 "2024-08-25T00:36:32Z")
[This one](https://www.yahoo.com/news/gotta-trump-tells-police-union-044626244.html) is actually Trump happening to one of his enablers. That has to some kind of meta for this thread. (The link goes to Yahoo.) > Former President [Donald Trump](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/donald-trump) interrupted the head of a [police](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/police) union to tell him to bring his endorsement speech to a close during a campaign rally in [Glendale, Arizona](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/glendale-arizona) on Friday. And the union head’s response? > “Folks, let me finish up here, please,” said Harris as Trump continued to stand behind him. The article has a great screen grab of a xit showing the shit behind the union shithead. ---
**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 25, 2024, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7874 "2024-08-25T00:55:39Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > I bet y’all who live in Chicagoland are surprised to hear that your city is worse than one of those ‘shithole’ countries, huh? I mean, I did see about a dozen teenagers loitering and smoking dope in front of a 7-Eleven in the Loop when I was there in April. It could have escalated to creating a public nuisance at any second! ---
**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 25, 2024, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7875 "2024-08-25T01:15:21Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > Before another gift link goes to waste, [here](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/24/opinion/trump-harris-dnc-election.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FU4.qVb0.xmmZpp2VY1aV&smid=url-share) is a nicely written opinion/analisys of the One That Shall Not Be Named and his _modus operandi_. A little schadenfreude is there too. Great op-ed! Thanks for sharing. ---
**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 25, 2024, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7876 "2024-08-25T02:28:16Z")
Maybe the guy’s name just pissed Trump off. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2024, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7877 "2024-08-25T02:31:45Z")
What was even better was the teleprompter telling [Kari Lake](https://www.allsides.com/news/2024-08-24-0615/politics-please-get-stage-impatient-trump-reportedly-pushed-kari-lake-wrap-asap) to “wrap it up” and “get off the stage.” ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2024, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7878 "2024-08-25T02:35:46Z")
[Trump wants to hold a Gala for J6 rioters.](https://www.rawstory.com/trumps-gala-honoring-courage-and-sacrifice-of-j6-rioters-may-violate-his-terms-of-rel/) > “Someone should alert Trump’s probation officer — because convicted felons are legally prohibited from associating with other felons” ---
**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 25, 2024, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7879 "2024-08-25T04:22:00Z")
I always thought that was something the judge ordered as part of the sentencing. In ~~this case~~ these cases, the judges have already sentenced a lot of those criminals so even if it’s not applicaple at the moment to the melon felon, it does apply to his select group of honorees. [And in other news, the melon felon managed to compliment Kamala Harris when he was trying to say how awful she is.](https://www.newsweek.com/trump-compliments-harris-newsom-san-francisco-california-1943323) (The link goes to Newsweek.) > During his remarks to reporters, Trump said, “California, you can’t go into San Francisco. It’s not livable. Fifteen years ago, it was the best city in the country, one of the best cities in the world, and now you can’t do anything. Look at what she’s done, and now she’s going to be president. And she’s going to do the exact same thing.” That’s some pretty damning stuff. Wait just a moment, though. Enquiring minds want to know. \*Exactly who was the DA in San Francisco fifteen years ago? Same link tells me… > Fifteen years ago, however, Harris was San Francisco’s district attorney ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2024, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7880 "2024-08-25T04:24:21Z")
> [@dougrb](#): > > [Trump wants to hold a Gala for J6 rioters.](https://www.rawstory.com/trumps-gala-honoring-courage-and-sacrifice-of-j6-rioters-may-violate-his-terms-of-rel/) I wonder how much he wants to charge each of them ---
**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 25, 2024, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/7881 "2024-08-25T04:26:58Z")
I’m honestly surprised he’s not holding an auction for everything he’s hawking. [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=393) [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=395)