# 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:** 161
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2026, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3202 "2026-03-22T03:36:26Z")
[Felon-supporting fishermen are carping about him.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-voting-florida-fishermen-rage-132902631.html) > [@](#): > > Florida fishermen are criticizing the Trump administration as fuel costs soar following the president’s war with Iran. > > As President Donald Trump’s [military operation in the Middle East](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/cnn-data-guru-blown-away-133646699.html) drags on, and as the Strait of Hormuz, through which about a fifth of global oil supplies normally flow, remains shuttered, the president is facing growing criticism as soaring oil costs exacerbate the [cost-of-living crisis](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-confronted-fox-news-maga-011141392.html) for Americans. > > The vital waterway was closed by Iran after the U.S. and Israel launched coordinated strikes last month. Trump, 79, was repeatedly warned of the likelihood of the strait getting shut down before he decided to launch the war. Oil prices have soared more than 40 percent since the [war with Iran](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-hit-scathing-poll-major-100048749.html) began on February 28. & > [@](#): > > She aired interviews conducted by an MS NOW reporter with Florida fishermen who said they were unhappy with the Trump administration. > > “I’m really scratching my head because I voted Republican, and most of us in the fishing industry did, and we’re not seeing the positives come out of it, why we voted that way,” one fisherman said. > > Another fisherman urged the president to “think about the people.” & > [@](#): > > “Think about the people, the working class people like us,” he said. “My wife said she paid almost over $4 a gallon for regular gas. That’s unheard of. I mean, add the cost of living. And then you add that on top. It’s terrible. Just, please think about the people, man. What are we really doing there besides raising our prices?” I have exactly zero fucks to give about how you’re suffering under your chosen idol. The suffering is what you wanted for others. It’s what you voted for for others. It’s what you got for yourself. In short: go fuck yourselves. ---
**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 22, 2026, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3203 "2026-03-22T04:31:33Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Nothing frightens me more. I just have to look at the normal and decent people I see around me, and hope they’re in the majority. I went for a walk today and I’m now looking at young guys walking by wondering “are you one of those gooners?” I now wish I never knew about this. Like some of the videos I watched that still haunt me (beheading videos in particular). That’s why I didn’t watch the videos of ICE murdering good people in MN. Stuff gets in my head and I can’t apply brain bleach. I am so glad my wife and I decided to not have children. I wouldn’t want kids to grow up in this fucked up time. I’d love someone to say “no, it’s a great time to grow up”. I don’t see it. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2026, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3204 "2026-03-22T06:29:23Z")
They’re sociopathic, aren’t they? Or is it psychopathic? One of those. ---
**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:** [March 22, 2026, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3205 "2026-03-22T12:19:20Z")
(whynotboth?.gif) ---
**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:** [March 22, 2026, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3206 "2026-03-22T14:09:53Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > I have exactly zero fucks to give about how you’re suffering under your chosen idol. The suffering is what you wanted for others. It’s what you voted for for others. It’s what you got for yourself. 🐆 ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2026, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3207 "2026-03-22T17:08:20Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Another fisherman urged the president to “think about the 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:** [March 22, 2026, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3208 "2026-03-22T17:48:20Z")
I just started reading a book by Ian Buruma, _Stay Alive – Berlin 1939-1945_. Very interesting, I wish such a book had been written by a native German speaker, that might have made it even better. I can recommend it wholeheartedly. In this book there is a quote by **[Robert Ley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ley)**, a despicable corrupt nazi, heart- and soulless, a odious horrible person all around. He was the head of the German Labor Front, among many other titles he collected. That is the quote: > The Führer is always right. Obey the Führer. The mother is the highest expression of womanhood. The soldier is the highest expression of manhood. God is not punishing us by this war, he is giving us the chance to prove whether we are worthy of our freedom. If this quote sounds like “Napoleon is always right!”, of _Animal Farm_ fame, that is surely no coincidence. Orwell found inspiration in nazi Germany to critizise Stalin. And if the thing about the soldier sounds like Kegsbreath I would only object that Kegsbreath does not read history, so it is probably a case of convergent ~~evo~~ involution. And all the incels and women haters and wannabe oppressors? Same shit, different latrine (–\> see **[Donnerbalken](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnerbalken)**). And Elon Musk? So sad that he does not know any better: [![](https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2025/03/1200/675/elon-musk.png?ve=1&tl=1) ](https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2025/03/1200/675/elon-musk.png?ve=1&tl=1) An asshole will asshole. So for him and the other enablers, brownnosers, toadies and lickspittles I would like to describe from the German Wikipedia how Robert Ley died. Just to get them thinking about whether this is worth it: > Facing an inevitable conviction before the International Military Tribunal, Ley took his own life in his cell in Nuremberg: sitting on the toilet in his cell, he strangled himself with a noose made from strips of his own underwear, tieing it around a drainpipe. The English Wikipedia gets the underwear wrong, they write about a towel, but they end with an uplifting note: > The Chief Medical Office of the [Military Tribunal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials), [Lt. Col Rene Juchli](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rene_Juchli), made a report to [Major General](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_general) [William J. Donovan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Donovan) regarding the effect the suicide had on other prisoners, stating “It appears to be the unanimous consensus of opinion among the witnesses that no bereavement was indicated over the self-inflicted death of the late Dr. Ley.” ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2026, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3209 "2026-03-23T00:19:33Z")
And strangling yourself with your gaunch just makes a better overall-sounding story anyway. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2026, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3210 "2026-03-23T01:30:04Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > However, apparently Berger’s son is on the State Supreme Court, so I expect more shenanigans. His other son is a Rockingham County commissioner, which is where Sam Page is the sheriff. Not too long after Page announced his candidacy for Papa Berger’s seat, county officials started getting all up in Page’s shit about how he was running the jail and the sheriff’s office. Hm. Page is now ahead of Berger by 23 votes and I hope Berger’s petard gets well and truly hoisted. He’s been too powerful for far too long. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2026, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3211 "2026-03-24T20:44:46Z")
… and Berger conceded today. It will be interesting to see how (and by who) the power vacuum gets filled. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2026, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3212 "2026-03-24T20:49:29Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > … and Berger conceded today. That’s totally unexpected. Congrats, NC. You’re clawing your way out of the pit. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2026, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3213 "2026-03-24T21:04:29Z")
Yes. I was expecting another long drawn-out fight like we saw with the NC Supreme Court seat back in 2024. I guess he didn’t want the bad press that would have resulted from it. ---
**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 24, 2026, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3214 "2026-03-24T23:07:44Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > However, apparently Berger’s son is on the State Supreme Court, so I expect more shenanigans. I was too! But now Berger has conceded, and was apparently “very kind” on the phone according to the local news. So I guess that’s the end? I was really expecting something to come out of Berger’s complaint that incomplete ballots shouldn’t be counted. ---
**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 24, 2026, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3215 "2026-03-24T23:09:02Z")
New Mexico is fining Facebook $375 million for harming the mental health of children. > **[New Mexico jury says Meta harms children's mental health and safety,...](https://apnews.com/article/meta-facebook-new-mexico-trial-28eabd8ec5f58c1d1ecddc21bb107de7?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-03-24-Breaking+News)** > > A New Mexico jury finds that social media conglomerate Meta is harmful to children’s mental health and in violation of state consumer protection law. ---
**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:** [March 25, 2026, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3216 "2026-03-25T09:17:12Z")
Good news! Anything that goes against social media is good for society. But: > Meta is valued at about $1.5 trillion and the company’s stock was up 5% in early after-hours trading following the verdict, a signal that shareholders were shrugging off the news. This seems to be not good enough. Yet. And of course Meta will appeal. ---
**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 25, 2026, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3217 "2026-03-25T15:34:08Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > New Mexico is fining Facebook $375 million for harming the mental health of children. good for New Mexico! all the states should follow suit, IMO ---
**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:** [March 25, 2026, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3218 "2026-03-25T17:36:02Z")
Approval in Nate Silver’s aggregate poll has hit 40% - the theoretical floor. He’s 16.7 points under water. ---
**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 25, 2026, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3219 "2026-03-25T17:56:36Z")
I need to make a sign for this Saturday’s protest…hard to pick ONE thing I want to say. Last sign I made said “Doge IS the fraud/waste” I don’t want to just say “No Kings” - too generic ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3220 "2026-03-25T19:09:01Z")
I got a share of the time FB had to pay out a privacy invasion settlement, a whopping $33. They sent it as an app that none of the stores I went to would accept. I requested a card instead and have yet to get it. Cram it, Mark Buttfuckerburg. ---
**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 25, 2026, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3221 "2026-03-25T19:40:39Z")
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