# 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:** 145
**Author:** ![2\_More\_Bits](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2_more_bits/32/4148_2.png) [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2881 "2026-02-11T15:38:55Z")
I’m confident his freedom will be purchased shortly. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2882 "2026-02-11T15:39:21Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > 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 These are people who have constructed whole public identities around “no one tells me what not to say” and then later just deleting, denying they said it and asking “why do you insist in bringing it up, get over it, you’re the one being divisive.” (Come on, if you are a top official and go to Armenia you WILL be invited to pay respects at the Genocide Memorial. The comms team then has to manage things so you can respect your hosts AND appease Ankara. _You have to let yourself be managed._ ) ---
**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:** [February 11, 2026, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2883 "2026-02-11T15:56:28Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > Acknowledging the Armenian genocide is _always_ going to piss off Turkey - and now withdrawing publicity of that acknowledgment is going to piss of Armenians. They probably see that as win-win. I mean, it’s not like they consider any of them to be Proper White People. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2884 "2026-02-11T17:16:20Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Blackwater founder Erik Prince has been captured by Congolese rebels while leading a mercenary force supporting the government. > [@scudsucker](#): > > Congolese prisons are going to be interesting for the rest of his sad life. > [@2\_More\_Bits](#): > > I’m confident his freedom will be purchased shortly. Indeed. Lawyers, Guns and Money will be deployed soonest to get him out of this… Press on. ---
**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 11, 2026, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2885 "2026-02-11T17:30:01Z")
Tariffs for everyone until he’s released. Another war ended. Makes at least nine or ten. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2886 "2026-02-11T17:37:38Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > Lawyers, Guns and Money will be deployed soonest to get him out of this… wow, I really hope that doesn’t happen. JUSTICE would be nice, whatever that looks like. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2026, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2887 "2026-02-11T17:41:41Z")
I understand Erik Prince is being held captive by a rebel group and tariffs do not work against those. I know he will not understand that, but I wanted to point that out nonetheless. It’s part of the schadenfreude. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2888 "2026-02-11T17:55:02Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > Indeed. Lawyers, Guns and Money will be deployed soonest to get him out of this… Until a Thompson gunner finds him. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2026, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2889 "2026-02-11T19:11:53Z")
I don’t think I’d seen this anywhere else, so I’ll drop it here. The Orange Loser loses again: > **[Trump quietly pulls National Guard from US cities after series of court losses](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-quietly-pulls-national-guard-163846290.html)** > > Supreme Court blocked Trump’s troop deployment in December in apparent rebuke of his attempt to send troops into cities > The withdrawal quietly concluded last month, with no public acknowledgment from the White House or Department of Defense despite the administration’s insistence that U.S. military assets needed to be deployed on American streets to curb violent crime and [support immigration enforcement.](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-protests-ice-arrests-insurrection-act-b2900860.html) > The end of those deployments, first reported by [_The Washington Post_](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/02/11/national-guard-los-angeles-chicago-portland/), is mentioned only by the U.S. Northern Command, stating that troops sent to Chicago, Portland and Los Angeles have “completed demobilizing activities.” > That includes the withdrawal of more than 5,000 troops from California, roughly 500 troops in Chicago and another 200 in Oregon at the president’s direction. They were sent home by January 21, according to the Pentagon. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2026, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2890 "2026-02-11T21:01:30Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > 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 > > These are people who have constructed whole public identities around “no one tells me what not to say” and then later just deleting, denying they said it and asking “why do you insist in bringing it up, get over it, you’re the one being divisive.” > > (Come on, if you are a top official and go to Armenia you WILL be invited to pay respects at the Genocide Memorial. The comms team then has to manage things so you can respect your hosts AND appease Ankara. _You have to let yourself be managed._ ) That’s what’s so weird about the Trump cult. I play around on Twitter, and there constant attacks about the Obamas. Some about how Michelle is trans, but a great many of them are still calling Obama an illegitimate president from Kenya. I always counter by asking why Trump held a press conference and announced that Obama was born in America. I point out that there’s no answer they can give that paints Trump in a positive light. No one has ever answered me. ---
**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, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2891 "2026-02-11T21:12:02Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > That’s what’s so weird about the Trump cult. I play around on Twitter, and there constant attacks about the Obamas. Some about how Michelle is trans, but a great many of them are still calling Obama an illegitimate president from Kenya. > > I always counter by asking why Trump held a press conference and announced that Obama was born in America. I point out that there’s no answer they can give that paints Trump in a positive light. > > No one has ever answered me. They treat Trump just like they treat their Messiah; as a blank slate that supports _whatever they want to believe,_ regardless of what that Messiah is recorded as saying. Trump can say whatever he wants and they’ll hear what they want to hear, just as the Bible can say whatever it wants and they’ll read what they want to see. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2892 "2026-02-12T00:41:52Z")
No-Bills from a grand jury are very rare (something like 1 in 10,000 cases according to this article in [2014](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/11/24/the-single-chart-that-shows-that-grand-juries-indict-99-99-percent-of-the-time/). But in this case, they didn’t just fail to get a majority of the grand jury. They failed to get a single juror! That’s wild > Trump administration officials failed Tuesday to convince a single juror that they had met the threshold to bring charges against the Democratic lawmakers, according to two of the sources familiar with the investigation. Federal grand juries have between 16 and 23 members, with 12 needed to advance an indictment. ---
**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 12, 2026, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2893 "2026-02-12T00:43:52Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > They failed to get a single juror! Sometimes I get a little ray of hope for our future as a country. ---
**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 12, 2026, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2894 "2026-02-12T00:56:42Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > The comms team then has to manage things so you can respect your hosts AND appease Ankara. _You have to let yourself be managed._ You’re assuming there are still competent comms teams around, of course. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2026, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2895 "2026-02-12T03:34:39Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > I always counter by asking why Trump held a press conference and announced that Obama was born in America. I point out that there’s no answer they can give that paints Trump in a positive light. > > No one has ever answered me. They often have a hard time defending Trump when they’re faced with unassailable evidence he did something. They typically react in one of three ways. 1. Fake news! 2. What about Biden/Obama/Someone else? 3. Ignore it. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2896 "2026-02-12T04:31:04Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Until a Thompson gunner finds him. I normally would hope that he enjoys every sandwich until then, but, fuck him! ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2897 "2026-02-12T05:20:52Z")
He’s defnitely Mr. Bad Example. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2898 "2026-02-12T15:42:03Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > The Orange Loser loses again I very much hope someone is adding up how much money was wasted on this and every one running against every repube everywhere repeats this number over and over and over until even the most die-hard cultist has heard it. It wasn’t just unnecessary and evil it was a huge waste of money. ---
**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 12, 2026, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2899 "2026-02-12T23:01:44Z")
My hometown is making me proud. > **[Kristi Noem drowned out by loud protesters at press conference](https://www.rawstory.com/kristi-noem-protest/)** > > Protesters surrounded Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem during a news conference in California on Thursday. It appeared that Noem's voice was nearly drowned out at some points by people yelling and sirens blaring during a visit to Otay Mesa,... ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2026, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2900 "2026-02-13T13:09:27Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > 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 It brings up the question: if you’re a DOJ lawyer when Trump is elected, do you stay on and try to fight, or leave in protest? [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=144) [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=146)