# 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:** 148
**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 20, 2026, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2941 "2026-02-20T19:56:28Z")
> [@Chad\_Sudan](#): > > For easing international trade tensions, those six Supreme Court justices deserve the Nobel Prize! hmm, aren’t they just finally doing their job? honestly asking! ---
**Author:** ![vbob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vbob/32/4439_2.png) [@vbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vbob)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2026, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2942 "2026-02-20T23:18:00Z")
> [@Chad\_Sudan](#): > > those six Supreme Court justices deserve the Nobel Prize! Peace prize, or Economics? ---
**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 20, 2026, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2943 "2026-02-20T23:45:10Z")
I’d say literature, because the justices just wrote a ruling. New genre for the Nobel Prize! But they won’t get it. The prize has never been shared among so many people at once. I believe three is the most, usually for physics, chemistry, or medicine, and literature has never been granted ex aequo, much less ex aequo for six. Now if they would grant it to Justice Roberts alone, who wrote the ruling, it would have to be for his oeuvre, and that is classic Literture Nobel Prize territory: confabulatio fantastica. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2026, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2944 "2026-02-21T10:22:07Z")
Whereas the peace prize can be awarded to an organization, which could represent any number of people. ---
**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 21, 2026, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2945 "2026-02-21T13:09:34Z")
Oh, right, that would be the way out: give the prize to the whole of the SC, like they once gave it to the **[EU](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2012/summary/)** (that was also a good joke, although it did not make the temper tanTrump in the WH as mad as the Obama one) and to the **[International Committe of the Red Cross](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/themes/the-red-cross-three-time-recipient-of-the-peace-prize/)** (three times!) and **[Médicines sans Frontières](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1999/msf/facts/)**. But if we stick to the literature prize and we award it to the SC they will have to give it to ChapGPT next. And let`s be frank: Literature is nice and good, they also gave it to **[Winston Churchill](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1953/summary/)**, but a Nobel _Peace_ Prize? How woke can you get! High time to start conceding the Nobel War Prize, much manlier. For real conquerors who rule supremacist. Let’s start conceding it to Darth Putin and Lord HegSith von DoW. ---
**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 21, 2026, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2946 "2026-02-21T17:57:41Z")
Oh, and as we are talking about Schadenfreude, friends and enablers let’s let **[Jonathan Pie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiOvAgw4hwE)** take the stage for five glorious minutes while he talks about the Prince formerly known as Andy (his words) and draws a line from him to someone who has been exonerated, or so he loudly claims (spoiler: he has **not** ). ---
**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:** [February 21, 2026, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2947 "2026-02-21T18:38:44Z")
Excellent rant! Oh my god, how much this whole Epstein case makes my stomach turn…🤢 ---
**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 21, 2026, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2948 "2026-02-21T19:02:22Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > let’s let **[Jonathan Pie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiOvAgw4hwE)** take the stage for five glorious minutes wow, thanks for sharing that link. although I’m sad to hear Liz was part of the cover up, I shouldn’t really be surprised. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2026, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2949 "2026-02-21T19:36:00Z")
I’d never heard of Mr. Pie before, but I like the cut of his jib! ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2026, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2950 "2026-02-21T20:07:30Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > the Prince formerly known as Andy (his words) Just listened to it. Actually his words were the other way around: “The Andrew formerly known as Prince.” ---
**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 21, 2026, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2951 "2026-02-21T21:56:40Z")
Ah, damned! You’re right. Much better Pie’s way, of course. ---
**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 23, 2026, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2952 "2026-02-23T18:26:04Z")
More non-Trumpian (but Epstein-related) schadenfreude: > **[Peter Mandelson arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/23/peter-mandelson-arrested-on-suspicion-of-misconduct-in-public-office)** > > Video footage shows former peer being driven away shortly after being escorted from his London home by officers Since I can’t really say this in the relevant P&E or IMHO threads, let me say it here: _ **AHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAA!!!** _ _ **AAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAAHAHAAA!!!** _ \< ahem \> Sorry you had to see that. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2026, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2953 "2026-02-23T18:53:14Z")
My Schadenfreude would be complete if I also saw some conservative heads roll…Especially in America. ---
**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 23, 2026, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2954 "2026-02-23T21:35:04Z")
Team USA women’s hockey declines Trump’s invite to the State of the Union Address. The wimmin-hating tweets will commence in five, four, three, two… > **[Winter Olympics 2026: Team USA women's hockey declines President Donald...](https://www.aol.com/article/winter-olympics-2026-team-usa-womens-hockey-declines-president-donald-trumps-invite-to-state-of-the-union-194108743.html)** > > The women's hockey team declined the invite due to a previous engagement. ---
**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 23, 2026, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2955 "2026-02-23T21:50:07Z")
> The women’s hockey team declined the invite due to a previous engagement. There will a really good rerun of _MASH_ on that night. ---
**Author:** ![Frazzled](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frazzled/32/3368_2.png) [@Frazzled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frazzled)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2026, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2956 "2026-02-23T22:18:28Z")
I sincerely wish the men would decline too ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2026, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2957 "2026-02-23T23:52:55Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > > The women’s hockey team declined the invite due to a previous engagement. > > There will a really good rerun of _MASH_ on that night. Nonsense, sirrah: obviously, that is the night that the US champion women’s hockey players wash their hair. Hey, [that excuse was good enough for their great-grandmothers](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/5v5g0e/i_have_to_wash_my_hair_was_a_popular_excuse_to/), it’s good enough for them. 🤣 ---
**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 23, 2026, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2958 "2026-02-23T23:57:04Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Nonsense, sirrah: obviously, that is the night that the US champion women’s hockey players wash their hair. I was originally going to say that, but thought it would come off a tad sexist. Then I realized, everyone loves _MASH_. 😃 (Seriously, it was my first take then I self-edited before submitting.) ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2026, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2959 "2026-02-24T00:02:44Z")
No worries, it’s a great comeback that should never die. No reason men can’t use it themselves, either. (What would the traditionally male midcentury counterpart to “Sorry, I have to wash my hair” be? “Sorry, I have to organize my baseball cards”?) ---
**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 24, 2026, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2960 "2026-02-24T00:11:54Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > (What would the traditionally male midcentury counterpart to “Sorry, I have to wash my hair” be? “Sorry, I have to organize my baseball cards”?) Maybe, “Sorry, but I need to change the oil in my car.” [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=147) [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=149)