# A Perfectly Reasonable Amount of Schadenfreude about Things Happening to Trump & His Enablers (Part 2)

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**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")\
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> [@Robot\_Arm](#):
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> I feel sympathy for anyone golfing with Trump even without a gunman around.

Well, they’re going into the game knowing that they’re not winning. That Trump will cheat at golf is well known.

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> [@aurora\_maire](#):
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> The right-wing hypocrisy over this is crazy. I watched a little Fox news to see how they are taking it and they have lost their minds.

Someone needs to tell them it’s just a “fact of life” here in ~~Guntopia~~ America.

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Yeah, trump just needs to, “get over it.” 🙄

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> [@dtilque](#):
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> here in ~~Guntopia~~ America.

Unfortunate strikethrough read…

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Pete is so good at this.

> <https://x.com/PeteButtigieg/status/1835345080955105370?t=ZsVp8VZcGKQeQonVM3mu-w&s=19>

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Heh. When his campaign adds a talking baby puppet, we know he’s cooked.

Of course, it could be argued the campaign already has one of those…

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I mean, Trump has _literally_ talked about jumping a shark already.

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**Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8369 "2024-09-16T13:44:40Z")

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> [@ParallelLines](#):
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> She could talk about doing a cover of “You’re so Vain”…
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> Lots of deniability if she wants it. 🙂

2013:  
[Taylor Swift & Carly Simon - You’re So Vain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0XPRBiAV_Y)

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**Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8370 "2024-09-16T16:43:42Z")

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Drew Carey has been pretty open about his libertarian beliefs. He is on the record of being overtly critical of both Republican and Democratic administrations pn particular issues . He did endorse Biden in 2020.

I have a distinct memory of Drew Carey being on a distressed Fox News panel on election night 2008 when Obama was elected. I must be mistaken though, because I can find no record of him ever appearing on Fox News.

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He was standing his ground?

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> [@FluffyBob](#):
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> I have a distinct memory of Drew Carey being on a distressed Fox News panel on election night 2008 when Obama was elected.

I think that was Karl Rove.

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Oh yeah. Rove had a full blown meltdown.

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I think it is just a corrupted memory. The only way I would have seen Fox News anything is if it was a clip on someone else’s show satiring it, or I happened to be glancing at somebody else’s TV.

Im not very good with faces but I don’t think thet look alike.

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> [@kaylasdad99](#):
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> I think that was Karl Rove.

It was, though it was actually in 2012 when he had the meltdown. He was angered by the fact that Fox had called for Obama to win Ohio (which, of course, turned out to be correct).

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That was when a reporter (Megyn Kelly?) coined the term “Republican math”.

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Yes, it was Megyn Kelly (of all people) who chided Rove.

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> [@FluffyBob](#):
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> Im not very good with faces but I don’t think thet look alike.

Mostly it’s the glasses. Drew always wears thick-rimmed glasses, while Karl wears thin.

[![](https://www.ocregister.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/kpi/kpiivq-07drewcareylarge.jpg?w=535) ](https://www.ocregister.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/kpi/kpiivq-07drewcareylarge.jpg?w=535)

[![](https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/styles/pubs_2x/public/wp-content/uploads/Rove.jpg?itok=lXg5YvIO) ](https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/styles/pubs_2x/public/wp-content/uploads/Rove.jpg?itok=lXg5YvIO)

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Drew is funny. Karl is not.

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Karl is not.

Karl Rove is not… But what about MC Rove?

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/KO0F6a4jVhg/hqdefault.jpg "ROVE TRYING TO DANCE") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO0F6a4jVhg)

There is more than one definition of “funny”…

(WARNING: If you have never seen MC Rove, then don’t watch this video if you want to be one of the fortunate people who have never seen MC Rove. Consider yourself warned!)

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> [@FluffyBob](#):
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> Drew Carey has been pretty open about his libertarian beliefs.

That makes sense. One bit from his stand up that sticks out in my mind is about his “cheeseburger police.” He was standing up for his right to eat the shittiest possible food he could find.

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