# 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:** 160
**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:** [March 20, 2026, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3182 "2026-03-20T21:18:24Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > They’ve had a reputation for being misogynists unable to maintain a relationship or get sex from a woman without paying them (or using force) for decades now. I recall an old news story about how for a Republican national convention literal busloads of prostitutes were being brought is by their pimps to service the convention goers, and how that’s standard practice whenever the Republicans have a convention I seem to remember reponds of Grindr usage spiking during the Republican National Convention. It can’t all be just Lindsay Graham, can it? I’ve read that some of those misogynist red pill types are turning to femboys for affection because they just can’t bring themselves to have a healthy relationship with a woman. I don’t get it. ---
**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:** [March 20, 2026, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3183 "2026-03-20T21:34:13Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > I don’t get it. Neither do they. ---
**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:** [March 20, 2026, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3184 "2026-03-20T22:24:27Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > It can’t all be just Lindsay Graham, can it? Methinks you underestimate the capacity of Lady G’s libido. ---
**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:** [March 20, 2026, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3185 "2026-03-20T22:30:19Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > One hopes they are clever enough to try to line things up before they start I hope they are not, or at least don’t do a competent job of it ---
**Author:** ![moes\_lotion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@moes\_lotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moes_lotion)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2026, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3186 "2026-03-20T22:36:02Z")
Neither an American nor a lawyer, but my reading of this is the judge was pointing out that the additional evidence that came to light involved additional victims, while the plea deal only covered charges involving the “first” victim, and so the plea deal would not be affected by bringing additional charges. ---
**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:** [March 20, 2026, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3187 "2026-03-20T22:59:34Z")
I had no idea about that “culture”. I read that article and a Harpers article that was linked to and it’s left me a bit speechless. It’s all so freaking odd. And sad. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2026, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3188 "2026-03-20T23:09:55Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > I just assumed that you were one of Trump’s enablers and that you were generously inviting us to take pleasure in your misery 😉 Hey, I could have invited you all to dinner, since I now have a working oven that heats evenly (that should have been my big hint to go ahead and replace the element). 😃 In Trump enabler news, NC State Senate leader Phil Berger hasn’t been having a good month. He’s now demanding a hand recount after the primary. > **[‘Not fair to the voters’: Berger requests new recount after first recount led...](https://www.wral.com/news/nccapitol/phil-berger-decision-hand-recount-23-vote-deficit-rockingham-nc-friday-deadline-march-2026/)** > > State Senate leader Phil Berger on Friday requested a hand recount in his Republican primary against Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page, who leads by 23 votes after a machine recount. He also reupped a request for a special examination of 220... ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2026, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3189 "2026-03-20T23:15:51Z")
Thanks! ---
**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:** [March 21, 2026, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3190 "2026-03-21T00:28:30Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Salon reports on how Gen-Z Republican men are unfuckable losers who hate women and are obsessed with masturbation. So the “G” in GOP now stands for “Gooner”? It’ll never occur to them that the combination of getting their cues on how to behave from “manosphere” influencer bros AND advocating deplorable policies that harm women is exactly what makes them undesirable. Has GOT to be something wrong with the women. Oh well, may they inflict on themselves the Death Grip. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2026, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3191 "2026-03-21T00:32:14Z")
I blame internet porn. If I had internet porn when I was 14, I might have turned out a hopeless wanker. Gen-Z had that. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2026, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3192 "2026-03-21T00:36:10Z")
Plenty of wankers using skin mags back in the day. I blame the parents. Women are allowed to actually live without a husband or father now. But nobody thought to teach the cretins that meant women no longer had to settle for hopeless losers ---
**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:** [March 21, 2026, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3193 "2026-03-21T01:16:54Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > I just find it a bit terrifying. Is this not just evolution in action? Horrible people can’t get laid, therefore preventing the next generation of horrible people from being born… I am totally fine with losers with this attitude being unable to pass it on to another generation. ---
**Author:** ![bobsmom101](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobsmom101/32/2867_2.png) [@bobsmom101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobsmom101)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2026, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3194 "2026-03-21T01:21:06Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > Horrible people can’t get laid, therefore preventing the next generation of horrible people from Horrible people just take what they want by force. The most successful forcers pass their genes along. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2026, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3195 "2026-03-21T02:06:36Z")
> [@bobsmom101](#): > > The most successful forcers pass their genes along. Given the incel community appears… less than forceful, aside from a few psychopaths who take out their rage through gun violence, I’m hoping they become extinct. It is bad enough for teenage girls and young women already, without - to paraphrase - “toxic non-masculinity”, to deal with men and boys who feel that the world owes them sex & a relationship, despite the fact they (the males) are not up to the task. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2026, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3196 "2026-03-21T02:27:55Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > Given the incel community appears… less than forceful, aside from a few psychopaths who take out their rage through gun violence, I’m hoping they become extinct. [They are pro-violence, pro-rape and pro-pedophilia and appear to be getting worse](https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-62908601). Much like other violent movements the few who do something spectacular enough to make the news are just the tip of the iceberg. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2026, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3197 "2026-03-21T02:32:46Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > …Brutal point-by-point disassembly of the prosecution’s claims for why the plea was justified and why they can’t reassess and why they can’t delay for two weeks to gather the information required to satisfy the court that the District Attorney’s office is not still acting illegally… Nitpick: United States Attorney’s Office. > [@scudsucker](#): > > > [@Maserschmidt](#): > > > > I just find it a bit terrifying. > > Is this not just evolution in action? > > Horrible people can’t get laid, therefore preventing the next generation of horrible people from being born… > > I am totally fine with losers with this attitude being unable to pass it on to another generation. Good 'ol Darwin! ---
**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:** [March 21, 2026, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3198 "2026-03-21T03:59:31Z")
“Well, sure, I lied about _some_ things, but not others…!” > **[Mark Robinson admits ‘I lied’ about CNN story | CNN Politics](https://www.aol.com/articles/mark-robinson-admits-lied-cnn-210322151.html)** > > Former North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson admitted he lied about a bombshell CNN KFile investigation during the final months of his 2024 gubernatorial campaign, uncovering his extensive history of posting inflammatory and racist comments on a... ---
**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:** [March 21, 2026, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3199 "2026-03-21T04:01:54Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Holy shit! I’m not real familiar with reading court proceedings and usually skip them since there is too much nuance and lawyery stuff, but this read like a movie script. As a proofreader for three court reporters taking hearings in federal court, I AM familiar with how hearings usually go, and this was frikkin extraordinary. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2026, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3200 "2026-03-21T11:31:57Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > In Trump enabler news, NC State Senate leader Phil Berger hasn’t been having a good month. He’s now demanding a hand recount after the primary. This story is particularly delightful to me, after being subjected to months of ads suggesting that Sam Page is a murdering rapist, or raping murder, who is insufficiently loyal to Trump - with the latter being the far more serious offense. For months, it was like he was every other ad I saw…..and I don’t even live in or particularly close to that district. Then Berger lost by TWO votes on Election Day, after spending something like 10 million to try and save his seat. IIRC, his opponent Sam Page spent something like 50K. Now, it’s not like Page is some sort of liberal, he’s a typical Trump Republican asshole even if his opposition found one clip of him saying that he didn’t Trump’s deportation goals were realistic. But -if the victory holds- it throws a big wrench into the Republican plan to turn the state into a Handmaid’s Tale type dystopia, as Berger was spearheading that effort. However, apparently Berger’s son is on the State Supreme Court, so I expect more shenanigans. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2026, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3201 "2026-03-21T14:58:59Z")
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