# 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:** 3
**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:** [January 21, 2025, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/41 "2025-01-21T22:56:08Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Is the next four years (or however many) going to be us as Picard, and David Warner insisting we say we see five lights, when there are actually four? We’ve been living this for a while. Trump turns on four lights, tells us there are five, his supporters say there are five, and think we’ve got Trump derangement syndrome for only seeing the four. i.e. Don’t believe what you see, believe what we tell you. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/42 "2025-01-21T23:03:56Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > That ‘two become one’ stuff could get tricky, though, if they carry it to its logical conclusion. There’s an upcoming executive order about there only being one, bible-approved hybrid gender. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/43 "2025-01-21T23:06:46Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > There’s an upcoming executive order about there only being one, bible-approved hybrid gender As a matter of fact, Trump appears to have declared that all Americans are now female. > **['All Americans legally female': Trump invites mockery with sloppy executive...](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-transgender-2670902521/)** > > President Donald Trump published two executive orders late Monday that targeted transgender people, but critics couldn't help but note that the clunky language declared all Americans legally female. > > One of Trump's order is titled "Defending Women... > [@](#): > > One of Trump’s order is titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.” In the definition, the order claims, “‘Female’ means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.” It then says, “‘Male’ means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell." > > What critics point out is the crucial phrase “at conception.” According to the Associated Press, the second “order declares that the federal government would recognize only two immutable sexes: male and female. And they’re to be defined based on whether people are born with eggs or sperm, rather than on their chromosomes, according to details of the upcoming order.”… > > …Author, game designer and transgender woman, Crystal Frasier wrote on Blue Sky, “In that familiar old incompetence I haven’t missed, Trump’s executive order defines sex as what a person is at CONCEPTION. Fetal sex doesn’t begin to differentiate until about 7 weeks into gestation. Which means Donald used the highest office in the land to declare all Americans legally female.” ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/44 "2025-01-21T23:19:56Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > …think we’ve got Trump derangement syndrome… You can safely anyone using the term “Trump Derangement Syndrome” unironically is by default either trying to gaslight or troll you, more more likely, both. Stranger ---
**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:** [January 21, 2025, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/45 "2025-01-21T23:24:27Z")
Or just an idiot Poe’s Law is a rough beast ---
**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:** [January 22, 2025, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/46 "2025-01-22T00:12:41Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > So its only gay marriage that is legit. Your logic is infalliable. ---
**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:** [January 22, 2025, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/47 "2025-01-22T03:35:39Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > You can safely anyone using the term “Trump Derangement Syndrome” unironically is by default either trying to gaslight or troll you, more more likely, both. Or projecting. Recall how demented the Right always gets about any Democratic President. The difference of course is that Trump _really is_ doing and saying the awful things he’s accused of, which Clinton, Obama and so on _didn’t_ do the crazy (or outright impossible) things the Right accused them of. ---
**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:** [January 22, 2025, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/48 "2025-01-22T19:31:52Z")
I THINK this belongs here. King Leopard vs. King Leopard cage match? > **[‘No Other Choice’: Trump Issues an Ultimatum to Pal Putin](https://ca.news.yahoo.com/no-other-choice-trump-issues-165831539.html)** > > Trump tried to bend the strongman leader’s arm over the war in Ukraine. > [@](#): > > “I’m going to do Russia, whose Economy is failing, and President Putin, a very big FAVOR. Settle now, and STOP this ridiculous War!,” Trump [wrote](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113872782548137314). “IT’S ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE. If we don’t make a ‘deal,’ and soon, I have no other choice but to put high levels of Taxes, Tariffs, and Sanctions on anything being sold by Russia to the United States, and various other participating countries.” Whatever the hell will come of this… ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/49 "2025-01-22T19:36:22Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > King Leopard vs. King Leopard cage match? I misread this as “King Leopard vs. King _ **Leopold** _” and thought: [“That would be interesting.”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium) Stranger ---
**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:** [January 22, 2025, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/50 "2025-01-22T19:38:33Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Whatever the hell will come of this… What the hell is the United States buying from Russia now? What good will tariffs and sanctions do when we don’t buy anything from them? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/51 "2025-01-22T19:38:37Z")
If Putin keeps having to go back further in time for workable equipment it may be King Leopard vs. King Tiger. ---
**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:** [January 22, 2025, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/52 "2025-01-22T19:44:42Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Whatever the hell will come of this… Well, his “24 hours” to end the war in Ukraine came and went without peace being achieved. I’m sure this isn’t the first campaign promise he has broken, but it is pretty early. Is someone keeping a list? ---
**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:** [January 22, 2025, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/53 "2025-01-22T19:46:39Z")
He said in 24 hours. He didn’t tell you _which_ 24 hours. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/54 "2025-01-22T19:47:07Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > I misread this as “King Leopard vs. King _ **Leopold** _” and thought: [“That would be interesting.”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium) You weren’t the only one. Let’s just hope ours doesn’t try to repeat Leopold’s history in the Belgian Congo here… ---
**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:** [January 22, 2025, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/55 "2025-01-22T19:47:55Z")
He’s still trying to get a hold of Kiefer Sutherland. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/56 "2025-01-22T19:49:57Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > > [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > > > I misread this as “King Leopard vs. King _ **Leopold** _” and thought: [“That would be interesting.”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium) > > You weren’t the only one. Let’s just hope ours doesn’t try to repeat Leopold’s history in the Belgian Congo here… Me too, and I thought “Yeah, I’m rooting for King Leopard”. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/57 "2025-01-22T19:51:09Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Me too, and I thought “Yeah, I’m rooting for King Leopard”. Regardless of who vanquishes whom, the worms win in the end. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/58 "2025-01-22T19:51:32Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > What the hell is the United States buying from Russia now? What good will tariffs and sanctions do when we don’t buy anything from them? Well, the US probably does buy some things from Russia. Not many, though. Regardless, does the CFSG not yet realize that tariffs are paid for by the American taxpayer? The way he goes on about tariffs, it seems that he thinks that China, Russia, Canada, Mexico, etc., are cutting cheques payable to the United States, in return for the privilege of exporting their goods to the US. No, all that his tariffs do is make things more expensive for the American consumer, who ultimately pays the tariffs. The exporting countries pay nothing. Is there no adult in the room who can explain this to him in simple words he can understand? ---
**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:** [January 22, 2025, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/59 "2025-01-22T19:53:07Z")
There is the scenario that the exporting company reduces their prices so they don’t lose the business. How likely that is, is anyone’s guess. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/60 "2025-01-22T19:53:17Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > No, all that his tariffs do is make things more expensive for the American consumer, who ultimately pays the tariffs. The exporting countries pay nothing. Is there no adult in the room who can explain this to him in simple words he can understand? This point has been raised umpteen times alone at this board, but I think there’s no one in his inner circle who has the guts to explain it to him. [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=2) [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=4)