# 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:** 443
**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:** [October 14, 2024, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8842 "2024-10-14T01:42:54Z")
Dude is just a magnet for crazy. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2024, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8843 "2024-10-14T01:49:19Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > If you bus people to the middle of nowhere, they _can’t_ leave the rally. And you don’t need them after the photo op. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2024, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8844 "2024-10-14T03:55:41Z")
I like how the person who made that recording seemed to think it was the mayor of Coachella who is the one who should be doing something about this. Is this over yet? What finally happened? ---
**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:** [October 14, 2024, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8845 "2024-10-14T03:59:51Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Sounds like whoever made the arrangements were the same people who made the arrangements for Giuliani at Four Seasons Total Landscaping. Already polishing their resumes for a spot on the White House Advance team! ---
**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:** [October 14, 2024, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8846 "2024-10-14T04:08:31Z")
Knocked back the trusty brain bleach before checking out trump’s rally itinerary - tomorrow night in a Pennsylvainian town and, er, oh - right here: 😛 > **[Donald J. Trump For President 2024](https://www.donaldjtrump.com/events)** > > Certified Website of Donald J. Trump For President 2024. America's comeback starts right now. Join our movement to Make America Great Again! Can only imagine the trepidation tomorrow’s MAGAts might be feeling if they have busses to catch. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2024, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8847 "2024-10-14T04:41:03Z")
I doubt they are aware of what happened at Coachella or a few years ago in Nebraska. God knows none of their news channels of choice will tell them. ---
**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 14, 2024, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8848 "2024-10-14T04:50:20Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > From the rally to the parking lot was only 10 miles. The guy whose video was used by Meidas Touch said five or six miles. A normal person should be able to walk that in a couple hours (as opposed to waiting all night for a bus ride). Granted, it was night, so doing the walk might be difficult (though not under the burning sun). And, of course, to describe a person who goes to a Screaming ShitGibbon as “normal” stretches the meaning of normal beyond the breaking point. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2024, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8849 "2024-10-14T05:53:35Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > A normal person should be able to walk that in a couple hours (as opposed to waiting all night for a bus ride). That also assumes that they knew the route back to the parking area. The people attending the rally may have been from out of town, and not known the roads in Coachella. They probably weren’t paying much attention on the ride to the rally, since they didn’t think they’d have to find their own way back. With a limited number of buses available, the smart thing to do would have been to only allow car drivers on board. Once they were shuttled back to the parking lot, they could drive to the rally site and pick up the rest of their group. If they wanted to be really community minded, they could make a few extra round trips with their fellow rally-goers. I wonder if we’ll hear about that in the news, how many of the attendees chipped in to carry strangers back to the parking lot in their personal vehicles? ---
**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:** [October 14, 2024, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8850 "2024-10-14T06:23:22Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > God knows none of their news channels of choice will tell them. Is it being covered by any regular news source? I haven’t been able to find anything online (from an admittedly cursory search). It’s been overshadowed by the guy with a gun who got arrested, and the heckling incident. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2024, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8851 "2024-10-14T07:01:38Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I wonder if we’ll hear about that in the news, how many of the attendees chipped in to carry strangers back to the parking lot in their personal vehicles? What? Do you think they’re some kind of _socialists_? ---
**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 14, 2024, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8852 "2024-10-14T07:35:17Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > If they wanted to be really community minded, they could make a few extra round trips with their fellow rally-goers. If they were that thoughtful they wouldn’t be MAGA. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2024, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8853 "2024-10-14T07:51:35Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > Is it being covered by any regular news source? I haven’t been able to find anything online (from an admittedly cursory search). I’ve seen it mentioned on a few sites like [Yahoo News](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-coachella-rally-attendees-were-010925587.html), but they all say that their information is based on reports from social media. ---
**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 14, 2024, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8854 "2024-10-14T10:39:58Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > With a limited number of buses available, the smart thing to do would have been to only allow car drivers on board. Once they were shuttled back to the parking lot, they could drive to the rally site and pick up the rest of their group. If they wanted to be really community minded, they could make a few extra round trips with their fellow rally-goers. Remember that Trump boat rally? Where the larger boat owners swamped a lot of the smaller boat owners because they were zooming around without any regard for the other people on the water? Yeah, “Community minded” isn’t in their wheelhouse. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2024, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8855 "2024-10-14T12:23:16Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > A normal person should be able to walk that in a couple hours (as opposed to waiting all night for a bus ride). That’s assuming you know there aren’t buses coming. Your average person is going to assume they are just running a bit late, which resets every 10 minutes or so. And wouldn’t you feel foolish if you were halfway to your car and a bunch of buses pass you headed to the rally site? > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > the smart thing to do would have been to only allow car drivers on board. And you’re assuming the owner of the site where the rally was wants/allows several hundred(?) cars driving on to their property. Plus the chaos of people trying to find their car in the line, and a wait time to get in and out of presumably a single gate that would make getting out of a NFL game seem fast. Although having them aimlessly milling around waiting for transportation isn’t ideal either. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2024, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8856 "2024-10-14T13:37:30Z")
Not to mention older people who might not be able to walk that far, or families with kids. In other news- Richard Grenell, the only openly gay member of Trump’s administration, was introduced at a rally to the song “It’s Raining Men.” it’s not really schadenfreude, but more “shake your head because it’s terrible but also a little funny in a really shitty way”. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2024, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8857 "2024-10-14T13:51:17Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Remember that Trump boat rally? You mean the Battle of Lake Travis? > **[20200905-191235 hosted at ImgBB](https://ibb.co/6v0FrhC)** > > Image 20200905-191235 hosted in ImgBB Edit: I would post a bigger version of this picture but the board keeps telling me I am not allowed to no matter which way I try to do it. ---
**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 14, 2024, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8858 "2024-10-14T15:05:59Z")
That…is brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2024, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8859 "2024-10-14T15:14:30Z")
I’ve been searching the web this morning and can’t find any new reports on how the rally-goers eventually got back to their cars. Anybody see anything? As mentioned above, a two-hour walk in the dark over unknown roads in the desert without water sounds more than a bit dangerous. ---
**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 14, 2024, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8860 "2024-10-14T15:43:30Z")
[![](https://i.redd.it/64dcuy77tgl51.jpg) ](https://i.redd.it/64dcuy77tgl51.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2024, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/8861 "2024-10-14T16:31:27Z")
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