# 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:** 195
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2026, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3882 "2026-05-30T00:53:35Z")
TIL that Nancy Mace went to the Citadel. That brought back fond memories from a few decades ago of my right wing friends, who wanted to crucify advocates of allowing women into the Citadel. To paraphrase the line from "Love Story ": _Conservative means never having to say you remember anything._ ---
**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:** [May 30, 2026, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3883 "2026-05-30T00:55:46Z")
The wheels on the bus go TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP. ---
**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:** [May 30, 2026, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3884 "2026-05-30T15:15:06Z")
> [@F.U.Shakespeare](#): > > TIL that Nancy Mace went to the Citadel… Yes, and her book about it is worth reading: [Amazon.com: In the Company of Men: A Woman at the Citadel: 9780689840036: Mace, Nancy, Ross, Mary Jane: Books](https://www.amazon.com/Company-Men-Woman-Citadel/dp/0689840039) ---
**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:** [May 30, 2026, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3885 "2026-05-30T15:15:48Z")
Good on ya, Maria! _People_: Maria Shriver Calls Judge’s Decision to Reverse the Trump-Kennedy Center Rebrand a ‘Great Birthday Gift’ to Her Uncle JFK > **[Maria Shriver Calls Judge's Decision to Reverse the Trump-Kennedy Center...](https://www.aol.com/articles/maria-shriver-calls-judges-decision-001907872.html)** > > The order to remove Trump's name from the building came on what would have been the 35th president's 109th birthday ---
**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:** [June 1, 2026, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3886 "2026-06-01T10:01:02Z")
I don’t know if this counts as proper schadenfreude, but might as well put this here as anywhere: A bunch of Canadian teens have created a boardgame called “[American Dictator](https://e-upgames.com/products/american-dictator-board-game)”. It looks fun, if a little too on the nose. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/kP5uLNZB4HU/maxresdefault.jpg "Canadian teenagers invented the most unhinged board game, and I need you to see it.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP5uLNZB4HU) Ships to you in a pizza box. Spray tan not included. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2026, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3887 "2026-06-01T14:51:39Z")
Pizza? S/B a Happy Meal. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2026, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3888 "2026-06-01T15:13:29Z")
…or a KFC bucket. ---
**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:** [June 1, 2026, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3889 "2026-06-01T15:27:35Z")
The problem is finding a container that a board would fit into. Me, I’d see if I could get it to fit into a box shaped like a toilet seat (and colored gold). ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2026, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3890 "2026-06-01T16:16:59Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > The problem is finding a container that a board would fit into. Well, maybe once you open the container you find that there is no board included; it’s a separate purchase. You’ve already started playing the trump grifting game, and you’re already losing! ---
**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:** [June 1, 2026, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3891 "2026-06-01T16:53:16Z")
> [@solost](#): > > You’ve already started playing the trump grifting game, and you’re already losing! You have to send in a $200 check with a form you fill out, and it will arrive in “two weeks”. Pending the approval of a Trump-appointed board. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2026, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3892 "2026-06-01T16:56:58Z")
You need more asterisks, like: You have to send in a $200 check with a form you fill out, and it will arrive\* in “two weeks”\*\*. Pending the approval of a Trump-appointed board\*\*\*. \* Or you may have to retrieve it from an approved Trump Distribution Center\*\*\*\* \*\* Or other suitable\*\*\*\*\* period. \*\*\* Approval may take 1 year to heath death of the universe \*\*\*\* TDC may be in another state, country, continent or in the nearest garbage dump. \*\*\*\*\* Suitable for us, not for you. ---
**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:** [June 1, 2026, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3893 "2026-06-01T18:33:29Z")
This essay is a thing of beauty. Poor Pam. > **[New Ethics Complaint Reminds Florida Bar That Pam Bondi Isn't Attorney...](https://abovethelaw.com/2026/05/new-ethics-complaint-reminds-florida-bar-that-pam-bondi-isnt-attorney-general-anymore/?utm_campaign=Above%20the%20Law%20Daily&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-95IPK2wi_KcU3lcuv-VuMFDQwBQDyU6eDCUrokuPrqaHLKqJU0tOvTANqA9l3sG3smZvr_GQ8N4utbg5ItnfHDJ4ooWg&_hsmi=421584397&utm_content=421584397&utm_source=hs_email)** > > Florida Woman Earns Bar Complaint. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2026, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3894 "2026-06-01T18:51:36Z")
> [@solost](#): > > You’ve already started playing the trump grifting game, and you’re already losing! A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess? ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2026, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3895 "2026-06-01T19:54:59Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > You have to send in a $200 check with a form you fill out … Which form has a box\* you need to tick in order to opt out of having $200 a week withdrawn from the account on the check. \* In one half point sans serif ---
**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:** [June 3, 2026, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3896 "2026-06-03T20:05:42Z")
I recall seeing somewhere (could have been the Legal AF YouTube channel) that Trump is giving her one of those Noem-like positions, figuring that her still technically “working” for the government might spare her from this. I don’t know how that work, or if it’s even true. No cite, unfortunately. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2026, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3897 "2026-06-03T21:36:34Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > No cite, unfortunately. Here’s one. > **[Trump appoints former Attorney General Pam Bondi to White House science panel](https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5897146-trump-appoints-bondi-to-science-panel/amp/)** > > President Trump has appointed former Attorney General Pam Bondi to his panel on science and technology, nearly two months after he fired her as the head of the Department of Justice.  Bondi will se… > Bondi will serve on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), joining several business and technology leaders, a White House official confirmed. It comes as Bondi recovers from treatment for thyroid cancer, [Axios first reported](https://www.axios.com/2026/05/27/pam-bondi-white-house-ai). Before you ask what makes her qualified for a “science and technology” panel, she wasn’t qualified for her last job either. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2026, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3898 "2026-06-04T17:04:30Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Before you ask what makes her qualified for a “science and technology” panel, she wasn’t qualified for her last job either. Well, more qualified for that one than this, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2026, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3899 "2026-06-05T02:58:08Z")
Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz is an obscenely expensive boondoggle that Rick DeSantis will never get federal reimbursement for. > A conservative estimate of how much it costs to hold a single immigrant at Alligator Alcatraz for a year is about $500,000. By comparison, Florida spends $30,000 a year to house a convicted criminal in a state prison. > A local, previously obscure, portable-toilet firm named Doodie Calls transports about 45,000 gallons of wastewater from the facility every day. According to documents released through a public-records lawsuit, Florida paid Doodie Calls more than $92 million for a six-month period of Alligator Alcatraz’s operation. The state projected that Doodie Calls would be paid $480 million for about two years of work. By comparison, the construction of a sewage-treatment plant for a city of 10,000 people costs about $5 million. > **[The Alligator Alcatraz Boondoggle](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/alligator-alcatraz-desantis-florida-immigration/687415/?gift=_rmiG048tHyymVydqk9QbggGPhwuAfd0x0pUKayo3x0)** > > The immigrant-detention facility, which may soon be shut down, has been a cruel and costly publicity stunt. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2026, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3900 "2026-06-05T14:07:30Z")
Republicans are well known for demonstrating fiscal responsibility! Ha ha ha ha ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2026, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3901 "2026-06-05T14:12:48Z")
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