# 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:** 117
**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 20, 2025, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2321 "2025-12-20T22:28:21Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Maybe they think that it’s generating solar power, like the sun does, and they can use it to get tan like Trump Now I’m picturing someone using a solar panel to power their tanning bed. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2025, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2322 "2025-12-20T22:29:49Z")
There’s a car in that picture? I was too busy looking at the girls. ---
**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 20, 2025, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2323 "2025-12-20T22:32:30Z")
A friend’s grandfather once told us, “You know you’re old when you see a naked woman ride by on a horse, and you think to yourself, ‘That’s a nice looking horse!’” ---
**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 20, 2025, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2324 "2025-12-20T22:44:29Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > There’s a car in that picture? I was too busy looking at the girls. I wanted to ask “did the girls come wit the Porsche?”, but thought nah, that’s too skeevy… ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2025, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2325 "2025-12-20T23:54:07Z")
I’ve always walked that “borderline skeevy” tightrope. ---
**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 21, 2025, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2326 "2025-12-21T00:49:49Z")
I’ve reached the stage where I see a woman in a skimpy outfit and wonder what her parents think. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2327 "2025-12-22T04:30:20Z")
Congratulations to all those Canadians who have been boycotting American liquor. Your efforts have borne fruit. > **[Jim Beam closes its distillery for 2026. In Trump's America, even Bourbon is...](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/12/21/2359465/-Jim-Bean-closes-its-distillery-for-2026-In-Trump-s-America-even-Bourbon-is-heading-for-the-rocks)** > > In lore, America is motherhood and apple pie. Close behind is Bourbon — a whiskey that must be made in the US (among other things) to be so called. Its formulation dates back two centuries to the distilled corn mash spirit made in Bourbon County,... According to the article, American whiskey sales to Canada are down over 60% up through October. Also the article points out that Bullitt County, KY, where the distillery is located, voted 3-1 in favor of Trump. So the employees there got what they voted for. [Note the headline of that article implies that Beam will not be produced next year. That’s an invalid implication, since they have more than one distillery and only one is being shut down.] ---
**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:** [December 22, 2025, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2328 "2025-12-22T05:05:46Z")
I been lookin’ for a reason to quit drinkin’ Beam. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2329 "2025-12-22T05:16:19Z")
Well, sure, they have other distilleries, but… The Clermont distillery is their main distillery. It’s a major reduction in production for them. More than half, at any rate. On the other hand, their other distillery in Clermont is a small micro-batch craft operation, so that doesn’t make a whole lot of bourbon by volume and doesn’t employ that many people. On the gripping hand, their other distillery of any size is in a nearby county that also went 3-1 for Trump. So yeah, world’s smallest violin ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2330 "2025-12-22T05:26:21Z")
I’ve got a bottle of Beam bourbon in my liquor cabinet. It’s been there for a while, bought and paid for, and I have a glass every now and then. But when it’s gone, I don’t think I’ll replace it. At least, not for a few years. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2331 "2025-12-22T05:33:46Z")
So bourbon (and whisk[e]y in general) don’t go bad once they’ve been opened, as long as the bottle is resealed after every glass? I know mead needs resealing, vacuum pumps, and refrigeration to protect it from rapid oxidation, and even then it should be consumed within weeks or at most a few months. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2332 "2025-12-22T05:38:22Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > So bourbon (and whisk[e]y in general) don’t go bad once they’ve been opened, as long as the bottle is resealed after every glass? They may not “go bad,” but exposure to the air in the bottle, and light (coming through the glass), will cause oxidation and changes to its flavor over time. Especially once a bottle has been opened, the general advice is to finish it within a year or two – if it’s kept sealed, and in the dark, maybe a few years longer than that. > **[How Long Does Whiskey Keep Once Opened? - The Whiskey Wash](https://thewhiskeywash.com/whiskey-styles/bourbon/how-long-does-whiskey-keep-opened/)** > > How long does whiskey keep once you've cracked the seal? Not forever, despite our most fervent wishes. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2333 "2025-12-22T05:48:30Z")
Huh. I did not know that. Mead is a lot less tolerant of slow use after opening, which is a pity for me. There’s [an excellent meadery](https://www.1634meadery.com/) a short distance from where I live, but the quantity per bottle, at my modest level of intake, would take me over a year to get through, and most of it would deteriorate past enjoying. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2334 "2025-12-22T06:56:53Z")
I mean, did anyone here ever think bourbon _wasn’t_ made by right-wing hillbillies? ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2335 "2025-12-22T13:50:40Z")
A ‘new’ market for the bourbon? [![](https://images.spot.im/image/upload/q_60,fl_lossy,dpr_3,h_100,w_52,c_scale,f_avif/v200/25f97a25-b191-4da1-8463-addc9a99387f) ](https://images.spot.im/image/upload/q_60,fl_lossy,dpr_3,h_100,w_52,c_scale,f_avif/v200/25f97a25-b191-4da1-8463-addc9a99387f) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2336 "2025-12-22T18:25:21Z")
Looks like something Ke$ha should be told about. ---
**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 22, 2025, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2337 "2025-12-22T18:34:32Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > I mean, did anyone here ever think bourbon _wasn’t_ made by right-wing hillbillies? We never thought that, but we were willing to tolerate them until they started thinking that exporting US-style hillbillyism to Canada was a good idea. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2338 "2025-12-23T05:28:17Z")
I’m not sure if this is the right place for this, but you know all those redacted Epstein files that were recently published? Whoever did the reduction at the FBI just laid color blocks over the text, which means you can copy and paste it elsewhere. If you’re on Bluesky, or presumably Twitter, it’s all being dissected out there. But how fucking stupid can you be? Nelson Muntz has something to say to you. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2339 "2025-12-23T06:16:37Z")
It’s either, as you say, incredibly stupid… or someone at the FBI has a serious grievance. ---
**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 23, 2025, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2340 "2025-12-23T06:27:53Z")
So far there’s been no verification that this is valid. In the link from [Smapti’s post](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/929) about this in the other Trump thread, one of the comments was “Can you post another example? This file has been this way since 2022 and, so far, no others have been identified as being readable with this trick (or any others). Pretty sure this isn’t the big smoking gun…” I want it to be true, but I can’t find anything that says it’s real. [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=116) [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=118)