# 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:** 14
**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:** [February 16, 2025, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/261 "2025-02-16T05:54:39Z")
Congratulations, Donald. You fucked up so badly that you made QUEBECERS proud to be Canadian. This is like pissing off Alabama so much that they start burning Confederate flags in the street. > **[🇨🇦Frank🇳🇱 (@frankvdb.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/frankvdb.bsky.social/post/3li2ztazkfs2w)** > > Saw this video and had to share. > > This was at the Bell Centre, never heard it so loud, this is Canadian unity 🇨🇦 > > \#CanadianUnity ---
**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:** [February 16, 2025, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/262 "2025-02-16T07:29:23Z")
He’s the great uniter. Uniting everyone against him. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/263 "2025-02-16T09:02:38Z")
They also booed the US anthem. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/264 "2025-02-16T17:07:35Z")
I remember a very early post, perhaps just into the 2000’s, in which a Canadian poster from Quebec posted about goint to Ottawa for lobbying about proposed legislation concerning equal rights for all gender orientations. While there he and a companion witnessed the Phelps clan/WBC attempting to burn a Canadian flag. They seemed to be not having much luck getting it started and so a Mountie stepped forward and told them “Here, let me show you how to do that safely. I wouldn’t want you getting hurt and being treated in OUR hospitals with OUR money.” ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/265 "2025-02-16T17:17:46Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I remember a very early post, perhaps just into the 2000’s, in which a Canadian poster from Quebec posted about goint to Ottawa for lobbying about proposed legislation concerning equal rights for all gender orientations. While there he and a companion witnessed the Phelps clan/WBC attempting to burn a Canadian flag. They seemed to be not having much luck getting it started and so a Mountie stepped forward and told them “Here, let me show you how to do that safely. > I wouldn’t want you getting hurt and being treated in OUR hospitals with OUR money.” I love this response! LOL! ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/266 "2025-02-16T22:56:19Z")
> [@Turek](#): > > They also booed the US anthem. As a patriotic American, I really CANNOT blame Canadians for booing the US anthem. It seems perfectly reasonable in the current circumstances. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2025, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/267 "2025-02-17T03:32:17Z")
Hell, I’d be tempted to boo it myself at this point, and my mother’s side goes back to Colonial Massachusetts. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2025, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/268 "2025-02-17T04:15:18Z")
Go anti-woke, go broke; > **[Target drops DEI initiatives and learns there are harsh consequences](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/target-drops-dei-initiatives-learns-175652237.html)** > > The retailer is being sued after removing its diversity programs after President Donald Trump was elected. > [@](#): > > Target shareholders, led by the City of Riviera Beach Police Pension Fund in Florida, filed a class action lawsuit, claiming Target defrauding them by “artificially inflated” stock prices and failing to warn inventors about how removing DEI and ESG (environmental, social, and governance) policies could cause stock prices to plummet, Forbes reports. > > The lawsuit also says that Target concealed the backlash it suffered from the May 2023 Pride Month campaign after the company removed the LGBTQ+ merchandise after confrontations happened in stores. > > Target lost $15.7 billion of market value after share prices fell 22% on Nov. 20, 2024. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2025, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/269 "2025-02-17T04:29:23Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > and my mother’s side goes back to Colonial Massachusetts. As does mine (John Tillotson, cousin to the Archbishop of Canterbury, who’s name he shares), on the ship _James_, 1694. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2025, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/270 "2025-02-17T04:38:39Z")
My dad came over on a steamer in 1950! ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/271 "2025-02-17T05:04:15Z")
I was born a poor black child (who was adopted by a white family). ---
**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:** [February 17, 2025, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/272 "2025-02-17T05:12:10Z")
I was born in the wagon of a traveling show. Mama used to dance for the money they’d throw. Papa would do whatever he could. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2025, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/273 "2025-02-17T05:20:29Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > > [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > > > and my mother’s side goes back to Colonial Massachusetts. > > As does mine (John Tillotson, cousin to the Archbishop of Canterbury, who’s name he shares), on the ship _James_, 1694. Cape Ann is where they settled, also where I live now. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/274 "2025-02-17T14:12:04Z")
I was born a rebel. Down in Dixie, on a Sunday morning. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/275 "2025-02-17T15:21:26Z")
Same. Except my father’s side goes back to Jamestown (after the starving). ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/276 "2025-02-17T16:08:39Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Hell, I’d be tempted to boo it myself at this point, and my mother’s side goes back to Colonial Massachusetts. My father traced his line back to a Mayflower pilgrim. Except the family name line came over a bit later and went with James Bradford. I’m pissed at what Trump and MAGA a are doing to our country. Ham-fisted slash of federal programs and employees without any knowledge of what they are doing, destroying our intensively reputation for dependability, suckering our allies and starting trade wars, supporting the Dictatorial conquest by Russia. Fortunately, if I feel like burning a flag, it doesn’t have to be an American one. Trump has provided his own version. It says “God, Guns, & Trump”. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/277 "2025-02-17T19:09:50Z")
Still trying to reverse doom-scroll to find the article… but long story short last Thursday the Trump Musk Morons fired & deactivated emails, access, and accounts for thousands of gov’t employees at the NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission). Today, realizing that they NEED them, they are desperately trying to rehire all of them. The problem? The Dumb Fucks have no way to find all of them. Oops. It’s just the nuclear stockpile. What could go wrong? “Hey, why is painting myself into a corner bad? Sounds like more elitist lies told to hold us down. Nothing about it in Mah Bible…” ---
**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:** [February 17, 2025, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/278 "2025-02-17T19:38:54Z")
> **[Trump firings cause chaos at agency responsible for America's nuclear weapons](https://www.npr.org/2025/02/14/nx-s1-5298190/nuclear-agency-trump-firings-nnsa)** > > The National Nuclear Security Administration is a semi-autonomous agency within the Department of Energy that oversees the U.S. stockpile of thousands of nuclear weapons. Officials were given hours to fire hundreds of employees. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2025, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/279 "2025-02-17T19:42:35Z")
Drunk, Extremist, & Incompetent is the new DEI. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/280 "2025-02-17T19:44:33Z")
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