# 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:** 213
**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:** [July 13, 2026, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4242 "2026-07-13T14:54:41Z")
FAFO at its finest. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2026, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4243 "2026-07-13T15:01:35Z")
Leopards, faces, etc. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2026, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4244 "2026-07-13T15:05:27Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > You don’t continue voting for him, dipshit. Sounds to me like a rhetorical question as he laments the fact that he and his peers were dipshits, and he is figuring that out. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2026, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4245 "2026-07-13T15:55:41Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Sounds to me like a rhetorical question as he laments the fact that he and his peers were dipshits, and he is figuring that out. Except that he expressed it in the present and future tense. He didn’t say "How **could** we continue voting for someone that is targeting our community?” or “There’s no way possible **we should have supported** that. No way.” The actual phrasing is “mistakes were made” level bullshit, pretending that there was no way they could have known what would happen. Trump was very expressly clear that he would spend his second term targeting Hispanics, but they somehow thought he meant _other_ Hispanics - you know, the “bad” ones - even though his rhetoric contained no such nuance. Many of us saw this coming and told them, and yet they voted for him. To repeat Monty’s mantra: > [@Monty](#): > > This is what they wanted for others. > This is what they voted for for others. > This is what they got for themselves. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2026, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4246 "2026-07-13T16:04:24Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Except that he expressed it in the present and future tense. As in, “Why do we keep doing this to ourselves?” > [@Gyrate](#): > > The actual phrasing is “mistakes were made” level bullshit, pretending that there was no way they could have known what would happen. That’s a bizarre read. So, you think he’s saying that he will continue to vote for Trump? That seems like a profound misunderstanding. It does sound like he worries that his community might still continue to do it, but I doubt _he_ will. And if you read the whole quote, he isn’t alone in his discontent, so it’s unlikely that Trump or those he endorses are going to receive the same support from that community that they did before. It’s weird to me that you’re reading the complete opposite of what he’s saying. > [@Gyrate](#): > > Trump was very expressly clear that he would spend his second term targeting Hispanics, but they somehow thought he meant _other_ Hispanics - you know, the “bad” ones - even though his rhetoric contained no such nuance. Many of us saw this coming and told them, and yet they voted for him. Yup, they were fucking idiots, probably due to the typical “pull the ladder up after us” mentality not uncommon in immigrant communities. “If we act like the assholes who hate us, they’ll stop hating us because we’ll be one of them.” That doesn’t really work. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2026, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4247 "2026-07-13T16:53:07Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > > [@Monty](#): > > > > If it were possible to have negative sympathy… > > The Germans have a word for that. 😉 You don’t have a word for antipathy? 😲 ---
**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:** [July 13, 2026, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4248 "2026-07-13T17:15:57Z")
Well, this is the Schadenfreude thread so…. 😉 ---
**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:** [July 13, 2026, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4249 "2026-07-13T17:36:16Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Trump was very expressly clear that he would spend his second term targeting Hispanics, but they somehow thought he meant _other_ Hispanics - you know, the “bad” ones - even though his rhetoric contained no such nuance. Bigots often have an irrational conviction that other bigots agree with them, I’ve noticed. Then get blindsided finding that no, they _don’t_ agree. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2026, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4250 "2026-07-13T18:58:42Z")
[Judge voids Trump’s “agreement” with the IRS](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8q0e8d4ego)to give him lots of money with no scrutiny. She says, 100% correctly, that it’s not a real lawsuit and was filed for “improper purposes.” Oh, and the lawyer who filed it? Referred to the Ethics Board for disciplinary actions. Ha ha ha. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2026, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4251 "2026-07-13T19:00:22Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#): > > Oh, and the lawyer who filed it? Referred to the Ethics Board for disciplinary actions. Once again, Making Attorneys Get Attorneys. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2026, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4252 "2026-07-13T19:03:38Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Bigots often have an irrational conviction that other bigots agree with them, I’ve noticed. Then get blindsided finding that no, they _don’t_ agree. > All happy men are alike. Each unhappy bigot is unhappy in his own way. (Almost) Leo Tolstoy ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2026, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4253 "2026-07-13T22:13:25Z")
And another Epstein? > a second lawyer, Daniel Epstein, will now be unable to join cases in the Southern District of Florida for at least a year. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2026, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4254 "2026-07-13T23:37:02Z")
Concerning the judge dumping the Ice Bucket Challenge on Trump’s IRS nonsense, I wonder how soon “they” will go after her. Nah, I don’t think I need to explain who “they” are. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2026, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4255 "2026-07-14T04:29:25Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Can’t believe Putin had him killed like that. I’m in good company here… [https://x.com/i/status/2076205132258124052/](https://x.com/i/status/2076205132258124052/) ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2026, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4256 "2026-07-14T06:05:12Z")
Hehe, I don’t mean to complain, but I’m not willing to allow Twitter to run JavaScript. Tell us what company you keep? 🙂 ---
**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:** [July 14, 2026, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4257 "2026-07-14T06:37:21Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > Tell us what company you keep? 🙂 The link is to a tweet by esteemed political commentator and generally sane person, Laura Loomer. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2026, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4258 "2026-07-14T06:39:48Z")
Many thanks! ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2026, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4259 "2026-07-14T14:59:19Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > > [@JohnT](#): > > > > Can’t believe Putin had him killed like that. > > I’m in good company here… > > [https://x.com/i/status/2076205132258124052/](https://x.com/i/status/2076205132258124052/) As a matter of principle, Ido not click on links to the website formerly known as Twitter (when I twig to it early enough). Can you please provide a Précis? ---
**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:** [July 14, 2026, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4260 "2026-07-14T15:18:39Z")
Yes, it’s a drop in the bucket compared to the billions he’s grifting as President, but you know he’s pissed at failing to block the money from being paid and losing, and he is literally paying for his crime, however paltry an amount. Here’s hoping for many more court fails and civil penalties in trump’s future. > **[E. Jean Carroll finally gets Trump’s $5 million — plus interest](https://www.ms.now/news/e-jean-carroll-finally-gets-trumps-5-million-plus-interest)** > > Despite the president’s repeated attempts to block Carroll from receiving the money, $5,625,005.48 was disbursed to Carroll’s legal team this week. ---
**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:** [July 14, 2026, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4261 "2026-07-14T15:25:53Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Can you please provide a Précis? It is Xit by Laura Loomer, pushing (suprise!) a conspiracy theory that Russia is responsible for Old Turkey Neck finally kicking the bucket, ie an assassination. It is not worth the pixels it is displayed upon, just another incredibly dumb assertion by an incredibly dumb person. [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=212) [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=214)