# 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:** 254
**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:** [October 28, 2026, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5062 "2026-10-28T11:34:51Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > Is anyone keeping track of how many times the DoJ has failed to get an indictment? So many criminal ham sandwiches roaming free… ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2026, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5063 "2026-10-28T12:56:40Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Not really. There are so many things he knows nothing about but has actually been exposed to. He literally knows nothing about anything whatsoever. He is the world’s [expert on everything](https://www.axios.com/2019/01/05/everything-trump-says-he-knows-more-about-than-anybody) except when comes to wrong doing by him and his croneys at which point he’s suddenly a babe in the woods. ---
**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:** [October 28, 2026, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5064 "2026-10-28T13:03:40Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > He is the world’s [expert on everything](https://www.axios.com/2019/01/05/everything-trump-says-he-knows-more-about-than-anybody) The old joke: ‘An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.’ ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2026, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5065 "2026-10-28T14:36:26Z")
> [@solost](#): > > We should, whenever we refer to Fox News on this board for any reason, call it ‘The Failing Fox News’ from here on. Staffed by low IQ on-air talent. ---
**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:** [October 28, 2026, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5066 "2026-10-28T15:11:21Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > The old joke: ‘An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.’ An ‘ex’ is a has-been and a ‘spurt’ is a drip under pressure. Works better verbally. ---
**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:** [October 28, 2026, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5067 "2026-10-28T16:24:40Z")
> [@solost](#): > > > [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > > > Fox News will finish October with its worst ratings in years. > > We should, whenever we refer to Fox News on this board for any reason, call it ‘The Failing Fox News’ from here on. Ben Meiselas of the MeidasTouch Network YouTube channel calls it “state-run media Fox News,” but he’s getting to be a little too reactionary for me. Everything to him is the worst thing ever, and while Trump is a vile piece of trash, Ben’s constant calling him that detracts from the actual story. I’m beginning to give him up over Michael Popok. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2026, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5068 "2026-10-28T22:01:00Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Fox News will finish October with its worst ratings in years. > > Compared to last October, Fox News is down 27% in total viewers and 32% in the 25-54 demo. MSNOW and CNN are up. I hadn’t heard this; a real hope-spot! If the die-hard right-wing viewing audience is shrinking, it’s good for the country. When times are good, people are tolerant of liars; now that times are not so good, it seems possible that folks we’d written off are showing some actual intelligence (by rejecting the Fox propaganda). ---
**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:** [October 28, 2026, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5069 "2026-10-28T22:11:26Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > I hadn’t heard this; a real hope-spot! If the die-hard right-wing viewing audience is shrinking, it’s good for the country. I also wonder if Fox News is losing viewership to even more hard-right, pro-Trump outlets like Newsmax and OANN. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2026, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5070 "2026-10-28T22:20:00Z")
If so, that would inspire less hope, of course. Whatever the truth, I do hope that advertisers are leery of those outlets and withholding their dollars. (Neither Newsmax or OANN is particularly profitable, so far as I know.) ---
**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:** [October 28, 2026, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5071 "2026-10-28T22:35:28Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > These feel like the last gasps of an administration being smothered by its own ineptitude and the increasing scorn of the American people. I worry about what actions Trump may attempt as he feels the walls closing in around him. > [@Superdude](#): > > Ben Meiselas of the MeidasTouch Network YouTube channel calls it “state-run media Fox News,” but he’s getting to be a little too reactionary for me. Everything to him is the worst thing ever, and while Trump is a vile piece of trash, Ben’s constant calling him that detracts from the actual story. I got tired of Meiselas’ hyperbolic language about Trump “panicking” or MAGA being crushed, destroyed, or owned by whatever Democrat was castigating them that day a while back. I still watch on occasion, but only the first few minutes and then I skip the rest. ---
**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:** [October 28, 2026, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5072 "2026-10-28T23:08:18Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > I worry about what actions Trump may attempt as he feels the walls closing in around him. You are not the only one: > **[Donald Trump is Politically Bankrupt. Be Very Afraid](https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/donald-trump-is-politically-bankrupt?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=277517&post_id=221103972&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=203721&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email)** > > What will he do when he has nothing left to lose? Bonus points and kudos for an early version of Janis Joplin’s _Me and Bobby McGee_ as musical coda. She later improved on that version, but you hear the promise of better things to come. I did anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5073 "2026-10-29T00:12:34Z")
James O’Keefe (formerly of Project Veritas) and Cam Higby have been charged with unlawful voting and identity theft in Minnesota. During the state’s primary, the dynamic duo, dressed as Muslims, attempted to use the vouching process to vote in place of people who were not present at the polling place. They of course were being secretly filmed. They used the names of registered voters without permission. > The pair of influencers disguised and recorded themselves going undercover using hidden cameras at the polling places. They posted videos capturing their interactions on social media in August. O’Keefe said on X that they dressed in “Muslim garb” — including, for one of them, a full-face veil known as a niqab — and that their goal was to “expose the sheer lunacy of Minnesota’s ‘vouching’ system.” > After O’Keefe and Higby’s videos became public in August, Simon said in a statement that their “apparent goal was to cast doubt on one or more Minnesota election laws that have been in force for over fifty years. Instead, they revealed their ignorance of how those laws actually work — while putting themselves in legal jeopardy.” > **[Conservative influencer James O’Keefe charged with unlawful voting and...](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/james-okeefe-minnesota-unlawful-voting-identity-theft-charges-rcna606142)** > > O’Keefe was charged alongside fellow influencer Cam Higby. They are accused of misrepresenting themselves at polling places during Minnesota’s primary in August. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5074 "2026-10-29T01:22:42Z")
Throw the book at them. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2026, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5075 "2026-10-29T01:46:17Z")
They came in to prove how inept Minnesota was at preventing invalid people from voting and got caught. And one wore a niqab. Is it a man or a woman? [Nelson voice] Ha ha! [/N v] ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5076 "2026-10-29T02:00:28Z")
I think we have a winner of Trumps $1,000,000 reward for information on election fraud. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2026, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5077 "2026-10-29T03:52:22Z")
I didn’t know O’Keefe was a Democrat! 😜 ---
**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:** [October 29, 2026, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5078 "2026-10-29T08:32:27Z")
So that is what he meant by dumbocrat without a b! It suddenly makes sense. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5079 "2026-10-29T11:00:53Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Ben’s constant calling him that detracts from the actual story. > > I’m beginning to give him up over Michael Popok. I kinda am too. I also like Lawrence O’Donnell. Subtle outrage. Katie Phang is good as well. She’s a real tiger going after that weirdo Blanch. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2026, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5080 "2026-10-29T12:02:21Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > And one wore a niqab. Is it a man or a woman? FTR: O’Keefe and Higby are both men, albeit stupid ones. Higby was the one who dressed in the niqab. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2026, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5081 "2026-10-29T15:51:31Z")
I know. I’m just jabbing at the MAGAt obsession with boys in girls’ sports to the point where they are doing genital checks. [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=253) [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=255)