# 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:** 224
**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:** [August 11, 2026, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4462 "2026-08-11T18:01:46Z")
Some of their objectives may look unreasonable to you and me, but their actions seem to me completely reasonable in trying to achieve those objectives. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2026, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4463 "2026-08-11T18:06:03Z")
It’s still better than a lot of decisions the US makes. For example, the ridiculous tariffs, the decision to invade Iran, kidnapping the leader of Venezuela, threatening to conquer countries that are supposed to be allies… ---
**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:** [August 11, 2026, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4464 "2026-08-11T18:07:53Z")
Exactly. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2026, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4465 "2026-08-11T19:44:38Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I’m pretty sure that the fear of Iranian drones is **exactly** why that’s there.. So… Drones can now use facial recognition. [Relatively cheap drones.](https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-wrote-code-make-100-drone-stalk-someone-using-facial-recognition-rcna590642) What’s to stop someone from launching a dozen or so small drones with this tech, also equipped with 10 grams of Semtex and a detonator? I assume that the anti-missile defense system would be hard pressed to defend against a dozen of these all coming in at low altitude from different directions… ---
**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:** [August 11, 2026, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4466 "2026-08-11T20:06:01Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > What’s to stop someone from launching a dozen or so small drones with this tech, also equipped with 10 grams of Semtex and a detonator? Probably a jammer would work. Anti-missile defense systems are to protect against missiles, such as those launched by larger military drones (the kind the US uses for taking out strategic targets). If there was a credible threat of a small drone attack, there are different countermeasures. The military even has a document explaining the measures they have in place. [**Small Drones, Big Problems:** A First Principles Approach to Countering-UAS](https://media.defense.gov/2026/Jul/08/2003958884/-1/-1/1/SMALL-DRONES-BIG-PROBLEMS-A-FIRST-PRINCIPLES-APPROACH-TO-COUNTER-UAS.PDF) And of course I doubt that outlines everything they’ll do, for security purposes. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2026, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4467 "2026-08-11T20:07:10Z")
Makes sense. Anti-drone systems are probably big business these days. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2026, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4468 "2026-08-12T05:03:43Z")
> [@JackieLikesVariety](#): > > honestly asking: would they want to kill him? It depends on whether they hate Trump or America more. If hurting the US is their top priority, then they’ll want to keep Trump in power as long as possible so he’ll keep doing damage. If personal revenge is more important to them, then they’ll want to kill Trump. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2026, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4469 "2026-08-12T05:36:37Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > It depends on whether they hate Trump or America more. They’ve hated America for a long time; by extension, they’ve hated every U.S. President, at least as far back as Carter. What Trump has done, which I don’t think any other U.S. President dating back to the ouster of the Shah has done, is (a) wage actual war on Iran, and (b) personally signed off on the killing of two top Iranian officials: their Supreme Leader, and a key member of their military. They might well hate Trump even more. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2026, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4470 "2026-08-21T02:33:25Z")
[Who knew committing treason has a consequence?](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/even-republican-primaries-jan-6-160637983.html) > [@](#): > > It’s not common for [The New York Times to describe](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/us/politics/florida-byron-donalds-election.html) a congressional primary as “zany,” but this week’s Republican race in Florida’s 19th Congressional District was, among other things, unique. > > [It featured](https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/florida-19-congressional-district-republican-gop-primary-collins-cawthorn-oberweis-strand) a former New York congressman who went to prison, a scandal-plagued former North Carolina congressman who lost in a primary four years ago and a handful of other failed GOP candidates from states very far from Florida. > > But as weird as it was to see all of these candidates run in the same primary, their most outlandish primary rival was a man by the name of John Strand. I’ll just let [this recent Mother Jones report](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/john-strand-the-international-underwear-model-who-stormed-the-capitol-is-now-running-for-congress/) speak for itself: > > > _When Florida congressional candidate John Strand introduces himself to potential voters, he starts with his criminal record. “I’m John Strand, patriot for Congress, the J6 hostage who went to prison on principle so that you don’t have to,” he said at a January debate hosted by the Women’s Republican Club of Naples Federated._ > > > > _The former international underwear model spent about a year in federal prison after a DC jury convicted him of five criminal counts, including one felony, related to his participation in the January 6 assault on the US Capitol. In January 2025, Trump pardoned him, along with 1,500 people convicted of J6-related crimes. And now, Strand is using his J6 infamy to try to catapult into Congress in one of the weirdest GOP primaries in the country this year._ > > This week, Republican voters in the Fort Myers-area district finally had their say, and it turns out, all of the aforementioned candidates lost to talk radio station owner Jim Schwartzel, who [finished with roughly 29% of the vote](https://www.ms.now/elections/2026-primaries/fl/florida-congressional-primary-live-results-midterms-mills-moskowitz-ryww) in the 10-candidate field. > > And how did the former underwear model who was sentenced to prison for his role in the Jan. 6 attack fare? Strand [finished seventh](https://www.ms.now/elections/2026-primaries/fl/florida-congressional-primary-live-results-midterms-mills-moskowitz-ryww), garnering just under 4% of the vote. > > Time will tell whether he tries his hand at elected office again, but if he does, Strand should probably take note of the fact that Jan. 6 rioters keep losing in their bids for public office. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2026, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4471 "2026-08-21T13:14:24Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > the 10-candidate field. > > … Strand [finished seventh](https://www.ms.now/elections/2026-primaries/fl/florida-congressional-primary-live-results-midterms-mills-moskowitz-ryww), garnering just under 4% of the vote. So he finished eleventh in a ten-candidate field? That’s pretty bad. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2026, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4472 "2026-08-21T14:09:51Z")
He lapped them backwards. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2026, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4473 "2026-08-21T16:55:57Z")
**Online marketplace PublicSquare, backed by Donald Trump Jr., has suffered a 99% share-price collapse after accumulating huge losses and consultancy fees** > **[Trump Jr.-Backed Company Loses $160 Million](https://www.bgnes.com/economy/trump-jr-backed-company-loses-160-million)** > > Online marketplace PublicSquare, created as a MAGA-aligned alternative with the backing of Donald Trump Jr., has faced severe financial difficulties and a 99% collapse in its share price, The Wall ---
**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:** [August 21, 2026, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4474 "2026-08-21T17:00:23Z")
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. I guess for this family, it should be the road apple doesn’t fall far from the horse’s ass. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2026, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4475 "2026-08-21T20:36:30Z")
I am so stealing this. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2026, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4476 "2026-08-21T21:13:00Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Online marketplace PublicSquare, backed by Donald Trump Jr., has suffered a 99% share-price collapse after accumulating huge losses and consultancy fees I wouldn’t be surprised if a large portion of those consultancy fees went to Donald Trump Jr. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2026, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4477 "2026-08-21T21:24:05Z")
I heard it somewhere, sometime, and it seemed to fit here. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2026, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4478 "2026-08-22T07:59:08Z")
Yep the article says he was getting a disgusting amount each month, equating to around half a million a year. So the schadenfreude is aimed very much at the suckers who invested money in shares, rather than Jr himself, who, just like Pops, somehow escapes with all the money and none of the consequences. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2026, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4479 "2026-08-22T10:32:39Z")
I was not sure where to put this… a short satire about Trump in the style of Hemmingway: [The Old Man and the Strait](https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-old-man-and-the-strait) ---
**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:** [August 22, 2026, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4480 "2026-08-22T14:18:53Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > He lapped them backwards. Wow, did I mis-read what I quoted. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2026, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/4481 "2026-08-22T16:32:25Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > The Old Man and the Strait Brilliant! [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=223) [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=225)