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

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250>\
**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:** 1\
**Showing post:** 4232

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4232 "2024-02-17T13:33:43Z")

</div>

> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
>
> > [@Monty](#):
> >
> > A quick search tells me that’s the correct quote and it’s usually attributed to Chris Rock.
> 
> I’m not finding anything. Do you have the exact wording?
> 
> > [@Folly](#):
> >
> > Isn’t there something about happy living under a bridge eating a rat as long as the guy next to them only has half a rat.
> 
> That sounds familiar too.

I remembered this post from one of my thread topics:

> [@How is trump still a viable candidate for president? Really, how?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-trump-still-a-viable-candidate-for-president-really-how/983949/680):
>
> [Way back in 2009](http://outsidetheinterzone.blogspot.com/2009/10/of-sparrows-and-curtain-rods.html) a blogger named Davis X Machina summed the mindset up thus: “The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.” There’s also [this classic line](https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/8/18173678/trump-shutdown-voter-florida) f…

---

_[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250)._