# 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:** 491
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9802 "2025-01-05T21:03:26Z")
That too. ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9803 "2025-01-05T21:38:56Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Or even one who genuinely understood what “the law” means. No, I don’t think we want one who both understands the law but yet has no respect for it. At least with Trump, we’ll probably know about most of his misdeeds and we can hope to have a chance of holding him and/or his supporters accountable. Somebody savvy? Like Nixon? No. No thanks. ---
**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:** [January 6, 2025, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9804 "2025-01-06T02:55:50Z")
> [@Ponderoid](#): > > Somebody savvy? Like Nixon? I was thinking Dick Cheney myself. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2025, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9805 "2025-01-06T06:41:12Z")
That is a weird fetish, Man! ---
**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:** [January 8, 2025, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9806 "2025-01-08T00:15:14Z")
Just a bit of Canuck pushback. > **[‘Shark Tank’ Host Ripped Over U.S.-Canada Merger: ‘Traitor’](https://www.thedailybeast.com/traitor-kevin-oleary-ripped-by-fellow-canadians-for-pushing-us-canada-deal/)** > > “Kevin O’Leary is despised in Canada,” one of the “Shark Tank” star’s countrymen wrote. Some nice responses in the article. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2025, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9807 "2025-01-08T00:24:14Z")
Proposing that Canada merge with the US in the wake of Trump being elected is like telling everyone you have an extremely awful case of Chlamydia that you refuse to seek treatment for, and in the middle of describing the symptoms asking that one cute girl out on a date. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2025, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9808 "2025-01-08T17:29:54Z")
Remember former poster sam\_stone? He must jizzing his pants at the thought of Canada becoming a US state. Beyond that, there must be a couple other Albertans hoping to officially become North Texas. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2025, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9809 "2025-01-08T19:17:23Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Remember former poster sam\_stone? I try not to remember that serial liar but yeah, he’d probably love it. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9810 "2025-01-08T20:26:30Z")
From my admittedly selfish POV, the US can have Alberta in exchange for Washington state (the wet side, at least). ---
**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:** [January 8, 2025, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9811 "2025-01-08T20:31:38Z")
Climate change denier cries on TV over losing his house to the apocalyptic fires that are happening for no reason. > ---
**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 8, 2025, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9812 "2025-01-08T20:42:47Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > From my admittedly selfish POV, the US can have Alberta in exchange for Washington state (the wet side, at least). Works for me. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9813 "2025-01-08T20:43:52Z")
How about you get all of Point Roberts in exchange for something a bit nicer than Alberta? Like Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands? ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9814 "2025-01-08T21:11:26Z")
Rather than trading real estate, can we trade parts of the population? I mean, I’d happy take citizenship in Canada the way things are, and a bunch of Albertant wanna-be Texans can come to the US in a one-for-one swap! Of course, I don’t currently live in Texas, but Colorado Springs isn’t too far divorced from that mindset, and if you move to the eastern or western areas away from the mountains, it’s super Texan. I’d feel bad for the increase in crazies in my former nation, but, well… I for one would welcome (most of) my new Canadian overlords. ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9815 "2025-01-08T21:58:39Z")
Is there any way we can give Texas back to Mexico? Maybe some kind of multi way deal, we get Greenland, Mexico gets Texas, and Denmark gets - something. The plan needs work. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9816 "2025-01-08T22:19:46Z")
From The Daily Show “Canada can’t become part of America, that’s the country I pretend to be from when I’m traveling abroad” ---
**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 8, 2025, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9817 "2025-01-08T22:35:47Z")
> [@Tatterdemalion](#): > > Is there any way we can give Texas back to Mexico? Maybe some kind of multi way deal, we get Greenland, Mexico gets Texas, and Denmark gets - something. The plan needs work. I’m up for giving Florida back to Spain (whether they want it or not), and we can grant the Dakotas to…Uzbekistan? They get Mount Rushmore for free. Stranger ---
**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:** [January 8, 2025, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9818 "2025-01-08T23:51:31Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > They get Mount Rushmore for free. Didn’t you hear? It has a new addition and a new name: Mt. Trump. BTW, that’s a real photo. no Photoshop was harmed in its creation. [![](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-1000w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2020_27/3394652/200704-trump-rushmore-axc-1205a.jpg) ](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-1000w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2020_27/3394652/200704-trump-rushmore-axc-1205a.jpg) ---
**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:** [January 9, 2025, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9819 "2025-01-09T00:07:48Z")
Stolen gravitas, that! > [@wguy123](#): > > Like Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands? Hey. HEY! (damn discourse for not allowing 60-point font) > [@dougrb](#): > > From The Daily Show “Canada can’t become part of America, that’s the country I pretend to be from when I’m traveling abroad In France and briefly Britain in '86, three Americans (in different cities) offered me cash for the Canuck flag on my knapsack. I think it’d be really funky if Vancouver Island got Austin. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9820 "2025-01-09T01:36:25Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > Rather than trading real estate, can we trade parts of the population? This is worth considering, although the difference in population (not to mention the relative willingness to relocate) would probably leave many USians out if it were done on a one-for-one basis. So what we would need is some sort of “exchange” rate that would level the playing field a bit. Something like one Canadian is worth, oh, [three-fifths](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-fifths_Compromise) of a USian? ---
**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:** [January 9, 2025, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/9821 "2025-01-09T02:32:24Z")
> [@Tatterdemalion](#): > > and Denmark gets - something. The Gulf of America? [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=490) [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=492)