# A Perfectly Reasonable Amount of Schadenfreude about Things Happening to Trump & His Enablers (Part 3) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [January 20, 2025, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175 "2025-01-20T19:23:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 114
**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 11, 2025, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2261 "2025-12-11T23:12:01Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > A lot of them will refuse because it’s not a denomination they’re used to, so they’ll assume its fake. > > It also won’t work in vending machines, which has to be a significant portion of coin-usage in the US. I had those kinds of problems with Sacajawea dollar coins a number of years ago. Some of those rare coins that were minted with errors can be worth thousands of dollars today. I wonder if I ever had one? > [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Only if Trump insists that it be a different size/weight/material than the current dollar coins. I would not be surprised if he did. He’d want them made cheaper and probably wants them “shinier” somehow. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2025, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2262 "2025-12-12T13:38:45Z")
Just refuse it because it’s obscene. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2025, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2263 "2025-12-12T14:26:23Z")
No, they did not do this on purpose: [![](https://img.nzz.ch/2025/12/12/e4195b36-ebee-4d7c-94a3-e8be74448f7f.jpg?width=2400&height=1714&fit=bounds&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=2469,1768,x537,y382) ](https://img.nzz.ch/2025/12/12/e4195b36-ebee-4d7c-94a3-e8be74448f7f.jpg?width=2400&height=1714&fit=bounds&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=2469,1768,x537,y382) Which makes it even better. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2025, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2264 "2025-12-12T21:45:54Z")
That reminds me of the Rappin’ Duke! [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CKsQ0u-ZYGM/hqdefault.jpg "Rappin' Duke ~ Rappin' Duke") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKsQ0u-ZYGM) ---
**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:** [December 13, 2025, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2265 "2025-12-13T15:59:52Z")
You know how they say an honest politician is one who stays bought? His orangenss is learning that he isn’t the only dishonest politician out there. Trump gave Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar a pardon after he was indicted on bribery charges. The assumption was that in gratitude Cuellar would change parties and become a Republican. But it turns out that after taking the pardon Cuellar is sticking it out as a Dem. much to Trumps outrage.. > **Spittle covered Twuth rantings hidden for the faint of heart.** > > > Can you imagine??? The Democrats, under the Crooked Joe Biden Administration, who always use extreme force and jail-time to destroy their political opponent, wanted to put Congressman Henry Cuellar, and his wife, Imelda, in PRISON, for 15 years, which I predicted these Radical Left Lunatics would do - And they never stopped wanting to fulfill this evil quest! The Dems mercilessly went after Henry with everything they had! They were looking to destroy him, his lovely wife, his two young daughters, and anyone close to them. When the Democrats overwhelmingly lost the 2024 Presidential Election, and power with it, they, regardless, did everything they could to keep going after the Cuellar family. The Dems were vicious, and all because Henry strongly wanted, correctly, BORDER SECURITY! He was against illegals pouring into our Country, totally unchecked and unvetted. The Congressman didn’t want gang members, drug dealers, violent prisoners, people from mental institutions and yes, even murderers, in the good ol’ USA. It was all very unfair what they were doing to him and his family, so much so that his daughters wrote me a beautiful letter about their parents (Just posted on TRUTH!). After reading it I decided, in the interest of justice, and based on the daughter’s loving request, that I would give Henry and Imelda a Full and Complete Pardon. I never spoke to the Congressman, his wife, or his daughters, but felt very good about fighting for a family that was tormented by very sick and deranged people - They were treated sooo BADLY! I signed the papers, and said to people in the Oval Office that I just did a very good, perhaps life saving, thing. God was very happy with me that day! THEN IT HAPPENED!!! Only a short time after signing the Pardon, Congressman Henry Cuellar announced that he will be “running” for Congress again, in the Great State of Texas (a State where I received the highest number of votes ever recorded!), as a Democrat, continuing to work with the same Radical Left Scum that just weeks before wanted him and his wife to spend the rest of their lives in Prison - And probably still do! Such a lack of LOYALTY, something that Texas Voters, and Henry’s daughters, will not like. Oh’ well, next time, no more Mr. Nice guy! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2266 "2025-12-13T16:17:01Z")
He keeps using the word loyalty but I don’t think it means what he thinks it means. Or he simply lacks a theory of mind and cannot see things from anyone else’s point of view. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2025, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2267 "2025-12-13T16:51:16Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Spittle covered Twuth rantings hidden for the faint of heart. Odd that even as his TS rants get ever more rambling and unhinged, his spelling has improved. I didn’t notice a single one of his typical childlike misspellings of basic words a second grader knows how to spell. He must either be having an aide spell-check it for him, which seems unlikely, or the TS spell-check algorithm has been much improved. ---
**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 13, 2025, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2268 "2025-12-13T18:27:51Z")
It’s far too coherent. I’d give good odds he didn’t write it, someone else wrote it in his “style”, but cleaned up for comprehension. I expect we’ll see more President Potempkin as time goes on. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2025, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2269 "2025-12-13T21:30:56Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > It’s far too coherent. I’d give good odds he didn’t write it, someone else wrote it in his “style”, but cleaned up for comprehension. Definitely. Maybe @Smapti got a side gig 🙂 ---
**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:** [December 15, 2025, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2270 "2025-12-15T17:45:32Z")
The infighting is sweet (also, I can’t believe I’m agreeing with Fucker Carlson, but that is the strange new world in which we live). Apparently he appeared on a podcast where he spent some time slagging assorted MAGAs (gift link): [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/style/tucker-carlson-theo-von-show.html?unlocked\_article\_code=1.808.dQ6x.p77kltAzcMcs&smid=url-share](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/style/tucker-carlson-theo-von-show.html?unlocked_article_code=1.808.dQ6x.p77kltAzcMcs&smid=url-share) My favorite quote from the article: > Mr. Carlson pointedly suggested that the leadership of the country itself was mediocre and malignant. > “The most depressing thing about the United States in 2025 is that we’re led not just by bad people, but by unimpressive, dumb, totally noncreative people,” Mr. Carlson said. Also, regarding the Kirk shooting: > “I just don’t have a ton of confidence in the F.B.I. or the men who run it,” noting, for instance, “leaders of the F.B.I. are on Twitter,” an apparent swipe at F.B.I. director Kash Patel, who is often online. ---
**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 15, 2025, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2271 "2025-12-15T18:16:20Z")
> [@Tucker Carlson](#): > > The most depressing thing about the United States in 2025 is that we’re led not just by bad people, but by unimpressive, dumb, totally noncreative people.” > [@romansperson](#): > > The infighting is sweet (also, I can’t believe I’m agreeing with Fucker Carlson, but that is the strange new world in which we live). Apparently he appeared on a podcast where he spent some time slagging assorted MAGAs (gift link): I wonder if Carlson’s Russian handlers told him to turn against Trump. Certainly he’s one of the people who helped drive us into the mess we’re in now. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2272 "2025-12-15T18:52:29Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > I wonder if Carlson’s Russian handlers told him to turn against Trump. Certainly he’s one of the people who helped drive us into the mess we’re in now. He’s and others like him are certainly part of the problem. But I think they are just blindingly stupid. I’ll say the same of any Trump supporter. I mean _come on_, he’s a traitor and a menace to anyone and everyone. ---
**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 15, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2273 "2025-12-15T18:58:26Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > I wonder if Carlson’s Russian handlers told him to turn against Trump. I wouldn’t be surprised. Best case scenario, we’re stuck with Trump or his successors for the next three and a bit years, so there’s no need to prop them up right now. But sowing confusion amongst the Republicans will pay great dividends in making the US even more dysfunctional. ---
**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 15, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2274 "2025-12-15T19:00:08Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > He’s and others like him are certainly part of the problem. But I think they are just blindingly stupid. I see where you’re coming from, and while I can’t bring myself to vehemently disagree, I do sometimes wonder. I can’t help but think someone like Jesse Waters knows he spouting bullshit whenever he opens his mouth. He’s a performance artist who would have been pro-Biden if that’s what side of his bread was getting buttered. I feel the same way about Carlson. He might genuinely lean conservative, but ultimately he just goes where the grift flows. ---
**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 15, 2025, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2275 "2025-12-15T19:08:50Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > I feel the same way about Carlson. You don’t have to just feel that way about Carlson. Thanks to documentation made public after the discovery phase of one or more lawsuits, we’ve seen messages where he has expressed opinions about Trump that are the complete opposite of what he has shown in public. He knows he is saying things that aren’t true. He’s basically an actor giving lines when he’s doing a show. I think he sees himself the same way a sitcom actor would; they are just his character’s lines. > **[Tucker Carlson's scorn for Trump revealed in defamation lawsuit filings](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/tucker-carlsons-scorn-for-trump-revealed-in-defamation-lawsuit-filings)** > > The defamation lawsuit against Fox News by a voting machine company is revealing some bluntly negative behind-the-scenes Fox attitudes toward Donald Trump. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2276 "2025-12-15T20:27:54Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Thanks to documentation made public after the discovery phase of one or more lawsuits, we’ve seen messages where he has expressed opinions about Trump that are the complete opposite of what he has shown in public. That does not matter one single bit. If someone tries to hurt me or those I love, that is what they meant to do. I don’t give one shit if it’s for ‘ratings’. That really just makes them a bigger asshole. ---
**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:** [December 15, 2025, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2277 "2025-12-15T20:31:52Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > I wonder if Carlson’s Russian handlers told him to turn against Trump. Welp, the MAGAts are attacking him currently because he just purchased a house in Qatar, calling him a tool of Qatar. They’re certainly right about the tool part. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2278 "2025-12-15T20:56:42Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > Welp, the MAGAts are attacking him currently because he just purchased a house in Qatar, calling him a tool of Qatar. That’s a step in the right direction, but when will they start to call him Putin’s bitch? ---
**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:** [December 15, 2025, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2279 "2025-12-15T21:04:29Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > That’s a step in the right direction, but when will they start to call him Putin’s bitch? When they get kicked off the payroll themselves, I expect. ---
**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 15, 2025, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2280 "2025-12-15T21:21:09Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > That does not matter one single bit. If someone tries to hurt me or those I love, that is what they meant to do. I don’t give one shit if it’s for ‘ratings’. That really just makes them a bigger asshole. Keep in mind that I was demonstrating how Carlson is proven to be knowingly spouting bullshit. I don’t know how that disclosed information “does not matter one single bit” in proving that. I don’t think you understood my post in the slightest. Did you somehow think I was defending him?! That takes a real stretch of logic to reach that conclusion. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175.md?page=113) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175.md?page=115)