# 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:** 438
**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:** [October 8, 2024, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8742 "2024-10-08T15:06:37Z")
The promotion of that story seems tailored for an audience of one. ---
**Author:** ![Frazzled](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frazzled/32/3368_2.png) [@Frazzled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frazzled)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8743 "2024-10-08T15:10:47Z")
I’d not heard that conspiracy theory. But I’ve been thinking for a while that Elon Musks new found Trump love is a ploy to win over a large, gullible swath of voters. When Trump is gone I can see Musk trying to become their new leader - presumably to launch a political career himself (possibly to influence the laws that affect his businesses). Trump is so deranged now that even if he does win, I can’t imagine how he’d finish his term. The 25th is highly likely. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8744 "2024-10-08T15:10:53Z")
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in schadenfreude and couldn’t stop laughing. [![](https://preview.redd.it/bankruptcy-notice-in-the-newspaper-v0-b8jpm75tfftd1.jpeg?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=5a5372e1010c7beffd13467378bd0645f8e779b4) ](https://preview.redd.it/bankruptcy-notice-in-the-newspaper-v0-b8jpm75tfftd1.jpeg?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=5a5372e1010c7beffd13467378bd0645f8e779b4) I wonder what John Oliver’s current discretionary budget is… ---
**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:** [October 8, 2024, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8745 "2024-10-08T15:30:06Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > all the CT theories that people believe “cyber truck theories”? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8746 "2024-10-08T15:49:21Z")
Conspiracy theory theories. You know - theories about conspiracy theories. ---
**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:** [October 8, 2024, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8747 "2024-10-08T16:14:54Z")
I’d tell you my theory about conspiracy theory theories but I left my notes in my cyber truck. ---
**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:** [October 8, 2024, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8748 "2024-10-08T16:45:04Z")
Is CT commonly used to refer to Deploreans? ---
**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:** [October 8, 2024, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8749 "2024-10-08T16:45:37Z")
This made my day. 😄 😄 😄 ---
**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:** [October 8, 2024, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8750 "2024-10-08T16:52:41Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I wonder what John Oliver’s current discretionary budget is… We can bid on _parts_, one of which is his archival library. How much would it take to get that? Then, we could take it all off the web entirely. And probably make a decent income suing all the CTers who try to re-post bits of it, for copyright infringement. ---
**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:** [October 8, 2024, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8751 "2024-10-08T17:56:55Z")
If the headquarters of Truth Social gets destroyed by Milton, do we get to take that as a sign from God? > **[Hurricane Milton is barreling down on Trump's Truth Social HQ](https://www.rawstory.com/truth-social-2669359111/)** > > Hurricane Milton is barreling toward former President Donald Trump’s social media platform Truth Social, according to government records and a new report. > Trump Media's headquarters are on North Cattlemen Road in Sarasota, the coastal Florida city... ---
**Author:** ![Frazzled](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frazzled/32/3368_2.png) [@Frazzled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frazzled)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8752 "2024-10-08T18:08:58Z")
Elon Musk “joking” with Tucker Carlson that Kamala Harris will send him to Prison if she wins. Remind me, which candidate openly speaks about silencing his critics and jailing people who get in his way? Yet more projection. I see this all over social media with people in that right wing bubble - they see the terrible things Trump is saying and doing and yet somehow they attribute it all to Democrats! I understand the anger because I feel it too, but these repeated lies in their bubble is why they live in a fantasty world! [Elon Musk tells Tucker Carlson he’s f\*\*\*ed if Trump loses election: ‘How long do you think my prison sentence is going to be?’ | Daily Mail Online](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13934743/Elon-Musk-tells-Tucker-Carlson-hes-f-ed-Trump-loses-election-long-think-prison-sentence-going-be.html) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8753 "2024-10-08T18:23:21Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > If the headquarters of Truth Social gets destroyed by Milton, do we get to take that as a sign from God? I posted on FB that the hurricanes are God’s punishment on the South. My Trump Cultist friend said I’m a very sick man. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8754 "2024-10-08T19:12:11Z")
As a Southerner who lives in WNC, I’m inclined to agree with your friend. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8755 "2024-10-08T19:14:13Z")
So when natural disasters happen to Liberal states, it’s God punishing them for being wicked. But when they happen to Conservative states, it’s just natural (or ‘They’ caused them)? ---
**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:** [October 8, 2024, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8756 "2024-10-08T19:29:48Z")
> [@a poster](#): > > I think Melania knows full well what Donald has in store for Barron, and I think she wants to keep him away from the grifting, the cons, the cheating, the lawsuits, the lawyers, and so on; and though she has her faults, then if what I have suggested is the case, good on her. When it comes to non-politicians, I’m fine with people believing what they want to believe. Apparently some people want to believe that Melania is characterized by Decency and Honesty. I don’t see any evidence of that. In fact I think there’s plenty of evidence of the opposite. But whatever. > [@Gyrate](#): > > I wonder what John Oliver’s current discretionary budget is… Not the springboard to fun that the Red Lobster purchase was, though. No Cheddar Bay Biscuits, for sure. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8757 "2024-10-08T19:39:59Z")
No, it’s just f’ng offensive to say that all the chaos and destruction we’re going through is God punishment. Also, how do you explain Asheville getting wiped out? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8758 "2024-10-08T19:41:57Z")
It’s offensive when Trumpists and fundamentalists say it about Liberal states. It’s just a taste of their own medicine. You know, and I know, God has nothing to do with it. But since they think it does when a Liberal area gets hit, turning their own words against them points to their hypocrisy. ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8759 "2024-10-08T19:45:34Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > So when natural disasters happen to Liberal states, it’s God punishing them for being wicked. But when they happen to Conservative states, it’s just natural (or ‘They’ caused them)? No. When it happens to conservative states it’s because Democrats control the weather. (which does raise the question of why Democrats let it happen to liberal states, but lets not introduce any of that pesky logic stuff) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8760 "2024-10-08T19:54:18Z")
> [@Fugazi](#): > > (which does raise the question of why Democrats let it happen to liberal states, but lets not introduce any of that pesky logic stuff) Because when it happens to Liberal states, it’s God’s punishment for their being in favour of equal rights, women’s rights, etc. ---
**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:** [October 8, 2024, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8761 "2024-10-08T20:08:14Z")
> [@Fugazi](#): > > (which does raise the question of why Democrats let it happen to liberal states, but lets not introduce any of that pesky logic stuff) Clearly, god can override the Democrat Weather Machine in order to punish those homersextualists and cat-eating ladies. He chooses _not_ to override it when they hit Gawd-Fearing Red States in order to motivate those Good and Perfect People to vote against the Demoncrats. [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=437) [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=439)