# 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:** 487
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9722 "2024-12-30T19:20:15Z")
If only we could collectively agree to forget the last eight years like the residents of Springfield could forget about [the real Seymour Skinner](https://youtu.be/5ZVql59iNJs?si=g3lXw6LYawJFwByS). Stranger ---
**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:** [December 30, 2024, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9723 "2024-12-30T23:08:49Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I suspect Loomer made it up completely. Yeah, there’s no way BlueSky would ban someone **before they’ve made a single post.** Even if their name/avatar advocated violence or depicted naked kids or such, they’d get some kind of notification that they needed to change said name or avatar. Maybe Elon promised Loomer full reinstatement if she did something to undermine his rival BlueSky…? ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9724 "2024-12-30T23:20:46Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Maybe Elon promised Loomer full reinstatement if she did something to undermine his rival BlueSky…? ‘I double-dog dare you!’ Stranger ---
**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:** [December 30, 2024, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9725 "2024-12-30T23:24:31Z")
Trump has ordered his nominees to shut up and stop posting until after they’ve been confirmed, which I can only assume is targeted at the idiot who’s been paying $2000 a night to live in his mother-in-law cottage. > **[Trump nominees ordered to stop posting on social media until confirmation:...](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-nominees-2670703316/)** > > President-elect Donald Trump's team is instructing all his nominees to stop posting on social media before confirmation, reported the New York Post on Monday.“While this instruction has been delivered previously, I am reiterating that no member of... > **[Trump bragging to friends Musk renting cottage from him at $2K a night: report](https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-trump-2670702944/)** > > Elon Musk is sleeping near Donald Trump in a cottage at the Mar-a-Lago club that would normally cost at least $2,000 each night. > Musk is staying in the Banyan cottage several hundred feet from the big house, A source told The New York Times.... ---
**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:** [December 30, 2024, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9726 "2024-12-30T23:31:51Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > ‘I double-dog dare you!’ Heh. It’s possible. But on the other hand these right-wingers make money only when their audience sees them as Tough and Unstoppable and all that sort of thing. Loomer would _neve_r have chosen to be humiliated by Musk, even if there was a payoff in the future (via her pretending to go to his rival and then pretending it was Unfair). So I don’t think it was a case of dares–not even the _triple_-dog dare. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2024, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9727 "2024-12-30T23:44:11Z")
Remember when Trump said, “You wouldn’t want to be Loomered?” Was Loomer Loomered by Musk? ---
**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:** [December 31, 2024, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9728 "2024-12-31T00:26:45Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Yeah, there’s no way BlueSky would ban someone **before they’ve made a single post.** Her account is still there and active. ---
**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:** [December 31, 2024, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9729 "2024-12-31T00:42:07Z")
That still doesn’t answer the question: _Which of the two, Trump or Musk, is the lapdog sleeping at the door of the other one?_ ---
**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:** [December 31, 2024, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9730 "2024-12-31T00:42:50Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Her account is still there and active. Not to mention the misspellings and other mistakes in the message. Also, I checked to see if there were other examples of similar ban notices from Bluesky being sent to anyone else, because surely this would be some standard form letter, and despite reading numerous indications of people complaining about being banned, never have I seen anything resembling what she claimed she received. In other words, it seems completely made up. She’s just another right winger trying to look like a victim in the mold of her Lord and Savior Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2024, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9731 "2024-12-31T00:49:24Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > That still doesn’t answer the question: _Which of the two, Trump or Musk, is the lapdog sleeping at the door of the other one?_ > **[Best Friends Each Secretly Think Of The Other As Sidekick](https://theonion.com/best-friends-each-secretly-think-of-the-other-as-sideki-1819566048/)** > > OXFORD, OH–Though neither has openly acknowledged it, Marc Morrell and Justin Rotham, longtime best friends and sophomores at Miami University of Ohio, each regard the other as a sidekick. Stranger ---
**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:** [December 31, 2024, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9732 "2024-12-31T19:39:18Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > the idiot who’s been paying $2000 a night to live in his mother-in-law cottage. Here’s the real question: > This doesn’t mean that Vice President-to-be [J.D. Vance](https://www.rawstory.com/tag/jd-vance) has handed over his duties, as a source told the Times. He also stayed in one of the cottages when he visited. Did Vance have to pay? Imagine dumbing yourself down enough to become Trump’s VP, and then being stuck with thousands in hotel costs because Trump expects you to rent a room from him during the transition. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2024, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9733 "2024-12-31T20:01:31Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Imagine dumbing yourself down enough to become Trump’s VP, and then being stuck with thousands in hotel costs because Trump expects you to rent a room from him during the transition. 😃 To Trump, everybody else is a sucker. This is a guy who left his previous vice-president out to be lynched by the insurrectionist mob he set upon the Capitol despite the fact that Pence had been a perfect lickspittle in staunchly defending Trump’s most morally indefensible behavior. He’d eat J.D. Vance’s liver if given the chance, only not with fava beans and Chianti but only if deep fried in KFC’s Special Blend and served with fries and a Coke. Stranger ---
**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:** [December 31, 2024, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9734 "2024-12-31T20:06:07Z")
Yup. He overcharged the Secret Service [while it protected him, too.](https://www.npr.org/2022/10/17/1129491352/trump-hotels-overcharged-secret-service-agents) But this made me smile: > **[Federal appeals court upholds sexual abuse verdict against Trump | CNN Politics](https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/30/politics/federal-appeals-court-upholds-sexual-abuse-case-against-trump/index.html)** > > A federal appeals court upheld the jury’s verdict finding Donald Trump sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll and denied his request for a new trial. ---
**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:** [December 31, 2024, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9735 "2024-12-31T20:49:10Z")
Don Jr. says he hates New Years at Mar-a-Lago because his dad’s friends are all stupid jerks. > **[Don Jr. trashes New Year's at Mar-a-Lago: Dad's pals treat me like a...](https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-jr-new-years-eve/)** > > Donald Trump Jr. revealed that he dreaded attending the annual New Year's Eve party at Mar-a-Lago because his father's drunk friends treat him like a "freaking imbecile."While speaking on Monday's Triggered podcast, Trump said ringing in the New Year... ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2024, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9736 "2024-12-31T21:34:20Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [Don Jr. trashes New Year's at Mar-a-Lago: Dad's pals treat me like a 'freaking imbecile'](https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-jr-new-years-eve/) There’s a very good reason for that, Don. ---
**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:** [December 31, 2024, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9737 "2024-12-31T21:52:21Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > But this made me smile: > > [https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/30/politics/federal-appeals-court-upholds-sexual-abuse-case-against-trump/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/30/politics/federal-appeals-court-upholds-sexual-abuse-case-against-trump/index.html) That story was apparently too intellectually challenging for Nancy Mace to be able to understand. She took it as GREAT news for Donald: > **[George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/georgetakei.bsky.social/post/3lemrzbsye22i)** > > Nancy Mace deleted this but not before she proved both she and “Gunther” have reading comprehension issues. Poor Nancy Mace. Mocked without mercy for merely being pathetically stupid. ---
**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:** [December 31, 2024, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9738 "2024-12-31T21:59:25Z")
I was just thinking… Vivek Ramaswamy was born to non-citizen parents. That makes him an ‘anchor baby’, right? Of course he says that his parents were in the country legally, so all this talk about children born the U.S. to non-citizen parents doesn’t apply to him. (And yet it would apply to Obama, who was born in the U.S., because his father was legally in the U.S. and his mother was a U.S. citizen.) I would laugh my hairy ass off if Ramaswany could be hoisted with his own petard. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9739 "2025-01-01T03:30:50Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I would laugh my hairy ass off if Ramaswany could be hoisted with his own petard. Shades of [Max Naumann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Naumann). None of these people give a good whore’s fuck about intellectual consistency or philosophical integrity as long as they can hook their wagon to the current in-group. Vivek Ramaswamy is a real piece of shit who was formerly CEO of Roivant Sciences, a ‘Big Pharma’ adjacent company infamous for spurious acquisition, fraudulent research trials, and “pump & dump” schemes. He cares about integrity about as much as a billy goat cares about smelling fresh. Stranger ---
**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:** [January 1, 2025, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9740 "2025-01-01T03:44:59Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Don Jr. says he hates New Years at Mar-a-Lago because his dad’s friends are all stupid jerks. Stupid? Evidently not if they recognize that junior’s an imbecile. Jerks? He got that one right. They support his daddy and that is currently the Platonic ideal of being a jerk. > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > (And yet it would apply to Obama, who was born in the U.S., because his father was legally in the U.S. and his mother was a U.S. citizen.) You’re forgetting the magaflatearthers still believe Obama was not born in the United States. ---
**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:** [January 1, 2025, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9741 "2025-01-01T03:50:26Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > You’re forgetting the magaflatearthers still believe Obama was not born in the United States. Except that he was. [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=486) [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=488)