# 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:** 144
**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 8, 2026, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2861 "2026-02-08T19:29:29Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > But since Kentucky is pretty red outside of Louisville and Lexington, that’s probably why I wouldn’t be elected. That’s probably a good prediction. ---
**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 9, 2026, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2862 "2026-02-09T21:06:32Z")
The Detroit auto worker who heckled Trump last month will be keeping his job. > **[UAW: Ford worker who heckled Trump kept job, 'no discipline' on record](https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/ford/2026/02/09/ford-worker-who-heckled-trump-keeps-job-no-discipline-for-incident/88588763007/)** > > The United Auto Workers union said TJ Sabula remains employed and called out the president for making an obscene gesture toward the worker. ---
**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 9, 2026, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2863 "2026-02-09T22:01:53Z")
May his example inspire millions. ---
**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 9, 2026, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2864 "2026-02-09T22:12:34Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > The Detroit auto worker who heckled Trump last month will be keeping his job. Being in a union is a good thing. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2865 "2026-02-09T22:14:01Z")
Imagine trying to sell Ford vehicles in this country if they fired or disciplined that guy. ---
**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 10, 2026, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2866 "2026-02-10T10:52:40Z")
Blackwater founder Erik Prince has been captured by Congolese rebels while leading a mercenary force supporting the government. > **[Reports Emerge Claiming M23 Detained Blackwater Founder Erik Prince in...](https://kigalidailynews.rw/reports-emerge-claiming-m23-detained-blackwater-founder-erik-prince-in-eastern-drc)** ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2026, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2867 "2026-02-10T11:54:52Z")
I don’t want to feel schadenfreude about this. And yet… ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2026, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2868 "2026-02-10T12:16:52Z")
I do. He’s genuinely one of the worst human beings on the planet. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2026, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2869 "2026-02-10T12:44:29Z")
Yeah. He’s an [extremely nasty person who has done plenty of harm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Prince#Private_career). Schadenfreude away. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2026, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2870 "2026-02-10T12:58:32Z")
Oh I know. I’m just trying to be a better person. Although he’s a pretty easy person to be better than. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2026, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2871 "2026-02-10T19:15:40Z")
Only Kim and Putin are worse. Though they are way smarter. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2872 "2026-02-11T04:45:31Z")
Huzzah! More bungling by his hand-picked lawyers. > **[Trump administration fails to indict Democrats involved in 'illegal orders'...](https://www.aol.com/news/doj-fails-indict-case-democrats-010921653.html)** > > President Donald Trump had accused six Democratic lawmakers of "seditious behavior" after they urged members of the military and intelligence communities to refuse unlawful orders. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2873 "2026-02-11T05:43:54Z")
Endless buffoonery appears to be the order of the day! ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2874 "2026-02-11T06:31:10Z")
It’s like that old Star Trek Mirror Universe episode, where it’s commented that civilized people can act like barbarians, but barbarians can’t fake being civilized. The Trump Administration is headed by a fool and full of fools, and fools can’t fake being smart. Endless buffoonery is inevitable in an administration full of buffoons. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2875 "2026-02-11T13:07:36Z")
And, as I’ve pointed out many times before, Mirror Universe Ted Cruz even has The Beard. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2876 "2026-02-11T13:24:36Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Blackwater founder Erik Prince has been captured by Congolese rebels while leading a mercenary force supporting the government. I live in Southern Africa. My home country is Zimbabwe, whose asshole government has been supporting the Congolese militarily and inevitably economically, in exchange for mining contracts and bribes. Prince is the amongst the worst of the worst neo-colomialists. I’m anti-death penalty, but for Prince, a truely evil man, I hope he gets life. Congolese prisons are going to be interesting for the rest of his sad life. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2877 "2026-02-11T13:46:12Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Huzzah! More bungling by his hand-picked lawyers. To be fair, I’m not sure any lawyer could have brought home an indictment for what is pretty clearly constitutionally permitted free speech. And that’s ignoring the get out of jail free card members of Congress have. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2026, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2878 "2026-02-11T14:19:17Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > To be fair, I’m not sure any lawyer could have brought home an indictment for what is pretty clearly constitutionally permitted free speech. To be more fair, if he had any interest in staffing competent, ethical lawyers (ha!), they wouldn’t have brought the charges in the first place ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2879 "2026-02-11T15:03:23Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > Some local to me schadenfreude: Dr Oz is accusing Armenians of fraud. The Armenian community has tended to think of themselves as “model immigrants” and vote more republican than the typical SoCal resident. But of course the fascists in office only see “immigrant”. > > There’s also the history of this being Adam Schiff’s former district. Schiff, as a good representative, was very good at constituent service, despite Armenians tending to be more conservative. > > [https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/30/why-dr-oz-is-spending-time-outside-armenian-bakeries-00756440](https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/30/why-dr-oz-is-spending-time-outside-armenian-bakeries-00756440) Another fuck you from the Trump administration: Vance explicitly recognized that the Armenian Genocide happened, but that’s insulting to the authoritarian government in Turkey. So Vance has removed the post. Inconvenient history never happened, again. [![](https://i.postimg.cc/nLd0505x/IMG-8743.jpg) ](https://i.postimg.cc/nLd0505x/IMG-8743.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2880 "2026-02-11T15:24:17Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > So Vance has removed the post. Inconvenient history never happened, again. It also shows the depth of this maladmistration’s incompetence. Have your trip itineraries - have your social media posts & press releases - vetted by people at State _before_ you do them so that you can decide on the right message your actions will send. Acknowledging the Armenian genocide is _always_ going to piss off Turkey - and now withdrawing publicity of that acknowledgment is going to piss of Armenians. Net effect is that you’ve pissed off everybody because of the ham-handed way you’ve handled it, turning what, with a little finesse, could be at least a zero-sum outcome into a negative-sum outcome. [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=143) [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=145)