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

Talking about Häme, see this thread for many descriptions of & words for happy satisfaction at the expense of deserving others.

Damn, too late to edit that. :smiley:

mala leche ([turned to] bad milk) can be translated as: “bad/negative vibes or ill-intentioned” …

and the joke plays on the literal and the wider translation of this phrase …

its a grandfatherly joke to begin with and falls completely flat when translated …

ps: never heard the “mala uva” phrase before

I would like this person from the MI phony electors to do serious prison time. I would gleefully gloat over that and add any and all harsher language you can think of: Meshawn Maddock. She is a piece of work and knew exactly what she was doing.

The phrase “mala uva” puts me in mind of “sour grapes” in English, though it means being spiteful about something you can’t have. It’s a sort of particularly loathsome envy.

I get your joke though, if “spoiled milk” is a bad attitude, it’s a pretty funny joke. :laughing:

I think the Republicans are dining on mala uva and washing it down with mala leche.

Oh no, we English speakers absolutely have that mindset too - it’s just that the English language is pretty famous for swiping words from other languages when an already-existing English word doesn’t quite fit. The emotion/feeling is definitely there, so off we go to rifle some other language’s pockets for a suitable candidate.

Where would sadism appear on this spectrum?

Where does ‘gloat’ fit in the spectrum? ‘Just deserts’?

It is quite subjective, but I think gloat could be placed between schadenfreude and Häme, closer to Häme, just deserts closer to schadenfreude, and sadism would be on another line, forming an angle, starting close to Häme.

At some point people have to start noticing that all the social-issue wedge politics is just camouflage for the grift, right?

Right?

… Yeah, I know.

Well, stomping on teh gays and denying the vote to ni— felons, that’s it, felons, is such demanding, time-consuming work you can’t possibly expect them to squeak by on a mere civil-servant’s salary, can you?

If you want to know what the modern Republican Party looks like, it’s that guy. Hatred and grift.

That dude has a fivehead.

Very well said. Thank you. Short & punchy.
With side orders of stupid and hubris. But mostly stupid.

Interesting:

Full title: Lawsuit to block Trump from Colorado 2024 ballot survives more legal challenges

Perfectly suited for a Schutzstaffel uniform?

Wow, never saw this coming!

So, so: the 2020 presidential election was RIGGED & STOLLEN? In case you are wondering, a Stollen looks like this (wikipedia).