# 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:** 261
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5202 "2026-11-04T17:33:17Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > The D’s will reach across just as much as the Rs did the last two years. I.e. virtually never. To be fair, I hear that Lauren Boebert would often reach across the aisle. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2026, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5203 "2026-11-04T17:38:49Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Republicans are crying themselves to sleep tonight and begging for a life preserver. > The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout ‘_Save us!_’…and I’ll look down and whisper 'No.” _–Dr.Manhattan_ ---
**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:** [November 4, 2026, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5204 "2026-11-04T17:49:42Z")
Ha! 😄 ---
**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:** [November 4, 2026, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5205 "2026-11-04T18:03:27Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > > The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout ‘_Save us!_’…and I’ll look down and whisper 'No.” > > _–Dr.Manhattan_ Rorschach, surely ---
**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:** [November 4, 2026, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5206 "2026-11-04T18:03:40Z")
C’mon, let’s not slut shame anyone. Thanks! ---
**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:** [November 4, 2026, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5207 "2026-11-04T18:07:03Z")
Very definitely Rorschach. Meanwhile, _the wheels on the bus go squish squish squish…_ > **[Hegseth becomes target No. 1 for Trump’s midterm failure as questions swirl](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/pete-hegseth-midterm-impeachment-democrats-b3079125.html)** > > A September address to service members at Quantico detailed Hegseth’s vision for his remaining two years in office, including expanding advanced weaponry and establishing a new overseas facility ---
**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:** [November 4, 2026, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5208 "2026-11-04T18:30:40Z")
This article on [thehill.com](http://thehill.com) made me laugh. Link preview not available so I’ll just quote and link the headline and part of the first paragraph: [Kristi Noem blames GOP election results on Trump’s first year successes - Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Tuesday the second Trump administration was “too successful” in its first year, a comment which came as unfavorable GOP election outcomes rolled in.](https://thehill.com/homenews/6195841-noem-trump-administration-success-midterm-results/?tbref=hp) Repubs failed so badly because trump was ‘too successful’? Sure, just like the Titanic sank because it was too successful at hitting icebergs. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5209 "2026-11-04T19:01:02Z")
JD Vance blamed the Iran War in a Twitter post earlier today. (He’s not wrong; starting the war was a dumbass move.) Other Republicans blamed their weak candidates. (People needed a better reason to vote for Darline Graham other than her brother was a longtime senator.) ---
**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:** [November 4, 2026, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5210 "2026-11-04T19:09:29Z")
The main reason is Trump and Trump alone, well Trump and their lack of huevos to stop him. Trump started the Iran war without a valid reason, without consulting with allies or coordinating anything Trump imposed the tariffs by executive order that exacerbated inflation Trump behaved like an idiot, completely detached from the electorate´s reality and asked people to take the midterms as a referendum on him. They put an idiot at the wheel and now complain because he drove them off a cliff. It would be funny if it the rest of us, worldwide, weren’t probably in the same vehicle careening into the void. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5211 "2026-11-04T19:13:49Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Rorschach, surely It takes a real tough guy to call Rorschach “Shirley”. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5212 "2026-11-04T19:14:29Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Repubs failed so badly because trump was ‘too successful’? Well, he did say we would get tired of all his ‘winning’. 😂 ---
**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:** [November 4, 2026, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5213 "2026-11-04T19:50:20Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Rorschach, surely Ah, crap. It sounded like the doctor to me. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2026, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5214 "2026-11-04T20:12:39Z")
> “None of you seem to understand. I’m not locked in here with you. You’re locked in here with _ME_!” _– Abdul El-Sayed addressing Republican Senators_ ---
**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:** [November 4, 2026, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5215 "2026-11-04T21:11:37Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Trump loses the election bigly (well, not him directly, but we all voted as if he were on the ballot) and what does the stock market do? Shoot up Trump over there desperately making lemonade with his lemons. > [@](#): > > Stock Market just hit another Record High — 91 Days in just a short period of time — Less than two years. Your 401(k)s are through the roof. Record Setting All! President DONALD J. TRUMP 🤣 🤣 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5216 "2026-11-04T21:40:22Z")
The stupidity there is assuming that an increase in the stock market benefits everyone while many of his followers have no investments. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5217 "2026-11-04T21:41:20Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > while many of his followers have no investments. and, as he pointed out, none of them could afford a meal at Mar-a-Lago. (even with the $5,000 he was promising) ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5218 "2026-11-04T21:42:25Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > To be fair, I hear that Lauren Boebert would often reach across the aisle Not for much longer hopefully. They haven’t called her race yet but she is trailing with 83% counted. That is some schadenfreude I am eagerly awaiting. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5219 "2026-11-04T21:43:56Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > To be fair, I hear that Lauren Boebert would often reach across the aisle. Ignoring the inuendo, some more Schadenfreude is that Boebert is currently losing her reelection in CO-04. She’s down about 1.5 percentage points with 83% of the vote counted. For some reason, they haven’t released any new counts since some time last night. ETA: pipped by @xizor ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5220 "2026-11-04T21:44:29Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > Not for much longer hopefully. I heard her on the radio Monday. She wasn’t worried about her race (she said) but was complaining about her opponent and all the “outside money” that was trying to influence Colorado voters. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2026, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/5221 "2026-11-04T22:02:18Z")
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