# 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:** 412
**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:** [September 11, 2024, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8222 "2024-09-11T17:49:23Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > > Obamacare was lousy health care. Always was. It’s not very good today. “Obamacare” is basically making it possible for everyone to buy for-profit insurance. If it’s so awful, it’s because for-profit insurance is so awful. So, is Trump in favor of doing away with for-profit insurance? Just another example of this idiot not understanding the implications of the bullshit he spews. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2024, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8223 "2024-09-11T18:51:17Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > is Trump in favor of doing away with for-profit insurance? I sincerely doubt that Trump even understands how health insurance works for 99% of the people who rely on it, much less the role Obamacare plays in it. I imagine he thinks Obamacare is a bunch of shitty clinics suitable only for poor black and brown people, which Democrat tyranny has somehow forced upstanding white Americans to not only use, but (even worse) to pay for. ---
**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:** [September 11, 2024, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8224 "2024-09-11T20:33:12Z")
I wish Taylor Swift had held her endorsement for a slower news day. Kind of drowned out by the debate morning-after coverage. > [@dougrb](#): > > I had to re-look up the story behind Carrolls dress. > > > Stains on it were tested and found to have an unknown man’s DNA present, but Trump’s team refused to submit his DNA for testing, causing a standoff in the original case. There must be _some_ Trump-hating near-relative out there who’d gladly provide a genetic sample. ---
**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:** [September 11, 2024, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8225 "2024-09-11T20:42:37Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I wish Taylor Swift had held her endorsement for a slower news day. Kind of drowned out by the debate morning-after coverage. That just tells me it was honest and spontaneous. There was clearly no coordination with the Harris campaign. It was sincere. And it was probably a reaction to a strong debate. Rather than lament the timing, consider it part of how the debate was so successful for Harris. ---
**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:** [September 11, 2024, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8226 "2024-09-11T20:46:45Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > I don’t generally approve of violence, but I wouldn’t mind seeing Elmo being cornered by Travis Kelce. Oh, there wouldn’t necessarily be any violence. Kelce would only have to show Elmo the instruments (his fists). Not that Elmo should be compared with Galileo, who at the very least seems to have been an emotionally stable person. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I wish Taylor Swift had held her endorsement for a slower news day. Kind of drowned out by the debate morning-after coverage. I know what you mean, but there is likely some value in this story coming when it did because of all the people who’d been saying they were waiting for the debate, and would make up their minds when they saw it. Swift basically challenged the hemmers-and-hawers to quit hemming and hawing. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2024, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8227 "2024-09-11T22:58:14Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I wish Taylor Swift had held her endorsement for a slower news day. Kind of drowned out by the debate morning-after coverage. It was just as just as big of a news story as the entire debate, especially to the demographic that would be swayed by the endorsement. ---
**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:** [September 12, 2024, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8228 "2024-09-12T02:07:48Z")
I am not thrilled with a pop star having that much political influence, even if she is using it in the “right” way. But there’s nothing I can do about it except shout at the sky. “Hey, sky! Cut it out!” ---
**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:** [September 12, 2024, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8229 "2024-09-12T02:17:35Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Oh, there wouldn’t necessarily be any violence. Kelce would only have to show Elmo the instruments (his fists). Me too. Travis slowly explaining how “money doesn’t help dead people” to that ass. Maybe having Jason stand in the background?? 😁 ---
**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:** [September 12, 2024, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8230 "2024-09-12T02:32:17Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > I am not thrilled with a pop star having that much political influence, even if she is using it in the “right” way. But there’s nothing I can do about it except shout at the sky. Shake it off. ---
**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:** [September 12, 2024, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8231 "2024-09-12T03:04:03Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > “Obamacare” is basically making it possible for everyone to buy for-profit insurance. If it’s so awful, it’s because for-profit insurance is so awful. Trump and other Republicans who want to repeal it have no problem with the “for profit” they have a problem with the “for everyone”. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > wish Taylor Swift had held her endorsement for a slower news day. Kind of drowned out by the debate morning-after coverage. To the people to which it matters, i.e. swifties, world war three couldn’t have drowned it out. ---
**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:** [September 12, 2024, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8232 "2024-09-12T03:10:13Z")
Trump and Vance are vindicated! [![](https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t39.30808-6/459504864_10162453904627518_6186446729220042247_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e15&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6ImltYWdlX3VybGdlbi4xMjg0eDE0OTEuc2RyLmYzMDgwOC5kZWZhdWx0X2ltYWdlIn0&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=110&_nc_ohc=bMZNwvfBBQkQ7kNvgFEjGIl&_nc_gid=0bd10afa328c4581a6003c936a4ec9d7&edm=APs17CUAAAAA&ccb=7-5&ig_cache_key=MzQ1NDgzODY5MTg3MTU5MDM2OA%3D%3D.3-ccb7-5&oh=00_AYBHF2CGYzqQZp4z126ZosqBwzsHYn6AdlDbO7Ri7cvlbQ&oe=66E7B891&_nc_sid=10d13b) ](https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t39.30808-6/459504864_10162453904627518_6186446729220042247_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e15&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6ImltYWdlX3VybGdlbi4xMjg0eDE0OTEuc2RyLmYzMDgwOC5kZWZhdWx0X2ltYWdlIn0&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=110&_nc_ohc=bMZNwvfBBQkQ7kNvgFEjGIl&_nc_gid=0bd10afa328c4581a6003c936a4ec9d7&edm=APs17CUAAAAA&ccb=7-5&ig_cache_key=MzQ1NDgzODY5MTg3MTU5MDM2OA%3D%3D.3-ccb7-5&oh=00_AYBHF2CGYzqQZp4z126ZosqBwzsHYn6AdlDbO7Ri7cvlbQ&oe=66E7B891&_nc_sid=10d13b) ---
**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:** [September 12, 2024, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8233 "2024-09-12T03:32:52Z")
More infighting among Republicans. Do you think Trump likes to see his underlings vie for his love and attention? It does remind me of a certain dictator who loved to see his underlings fighting amongst themselves because it meant they couldn’t gang up on him. > **[MAGA Unravels: Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls Laura Loomer a Racist, Loomer...](https://dailyboulder.com/maga-unravels-marjorie-taylor-greene-calls-laura-loomer-a-racist-loomer-fires-back-with-a-torrent-of-explosive-revelations/)** > > Tensions are rising between far-right figures Laura Loomer and Marjorie Taylor Greene following a recent controversy. The disagreement began when Greene criticized Loomer for a racist post about Vice President Kamala Harris. ---
**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:** [September 12, 2024, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8234 "2024-09-12T03:42:00Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > More infighting among Republicans. Do you think Trump likes to see his underlings vie for his love and attention? It does remind me of a certain dictator who loved to see his underlings fighting amongst themselves because it meant they couldn’t gang up on him. You have to read those interactions to really understand how “OMG!” this really is. This is a couple of high schoolers pulling each others hair on a national stage. Seriously Jerry Springer shit. ---
**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:** [September 12, 2024, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8235 "2024-09-12T03:56:43Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > This is a couple of high schoolers pulling each others hair on a national stage. Seriously Jerry Springer shit. And it’s the same shit that MTG did with Lauren Boebert; they even reportedly had a loud fight in the ladies’ room once. That’s real HS drama. ---
**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:** [September 12, 2024, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8236 "2024-09-12T05:16:18Z")
Every single one of these fuckers absolutely, 100% has to be the center of attention at all times. With Trump as the fucked up little orange star, in the middle of their fucked up little solar system. With their outsized egos it’s amazing to me they can all fit in the same room at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2024, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8237 "2024-09-12T05:32:16Z")
Could I request a cage match? Suspended above the ring? With perhaps a black cloth covering it so we don’t actually have to watch? And just leave the cage there for a couple of weeks? ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2024, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8238 "2024-09-12T12:28:24Z")
David Blaine could help with the logistics. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2024, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8239 "2024-09-12T14:03:36Z")
? MTG calling someone out on racism? What’s this world coming to? ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2024, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8240 "2024-09-12T14:26:20Z")
Wow. Just… Wow. ---
**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:** [September 12, 2024, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8241 "2024-09-12T14:47:00Z")
If a Xitting billionaire can have excessive influence on the right side I think Ms. Swift can have her influence on the other side. Remains to be seen whether that influence is really there, I have trouble believing that someone would change their vote because Taylor Swift says she endorses one side. I don’t have problems believing that some moron will change his vote influenced by the manipulations of an egomaniacal cry-baby, so much for the coherence of my fears. Speaking of the idiot: Some genius has noticed that the worst looking and selling car he has on offer should be called **DepLorean**. I think I should not just steal that but actively spread it. I like it a lot. So here I share it hoping you like it too! [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=411) [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=413)