# 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:** 48
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/941 "2025-05-12T18:11:21Z")
Can we not and say we did? ---
**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:** [May 12, 2025, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/942 "2025-05-12T18:18:14Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > On the other hand, all of that money invested into $TRUMP coins could earn you a dinner with Donny Tump. A dream come true! Mmmmm, McDonald’s hamberders. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/943 "2025-05-12T18:56:18Z")
> **[Germ-theory skeptic RFK Jr. goes swimming in sewage-tainted water](https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/05/germ-theory-skeptic-rfk-jr-goes-swimming-in-sewage-tainted-water/)** > > The National Park Services bars all swimming and wading due to the health hazard. I don’t… I mean… it’s just… I can’t… it’s not the… … I’m just gonna stop trying to say anything, because there’s just nothing more to say. ---
**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:** [May 12, 2025, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/944 "2025-05-12T19:07:47Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > I don’t… I mean… it’s just… I can’t… it’s not the… He’s got that dead worm in his brain to serve as an example to any other parasites that might want to enter his body. So he might be uniquely safe to go in such filthy water. His grandkids on the other hand, that seems like abuse to me. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/945 "2025-05-12T19:15:26Z")
I’ll just cross my fingers and hope that he may learn something. 😐 He won’t though. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/946 "2025-05-12T19:16:58Z")
The article said that area is under a swim ban. Could he get cited for that? ---
**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:** [May 12, 2025, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/947 "2025-05-12T19:42:25Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > Could he get cited for that? Theoretically yes, but it’s unlikely. Here is another article on the incident: [KRON4 News: RFK Jr. goes swimming in DC’s Rock Creek despite ban over bacteria](https://www.kron4.com/news/national/rfk-jr-goes-swimming-in-dcs-rock-creek-despite-ban-over-bacteria/) > Swimming has been illegal in most of D.C.’s waterways since the 1970s, largely because of contamination from the district’s aging sewer system, though there have been recent efforts to roll back the five-decade prohibition and it is rarely enforced. So it has been illegal for around 50 years but usually violations are ignored. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/948 "2025-05-12T21:06:17Z")
A reasonable amount of schadenfreude would involve RFK’s (but not his grandkids) getting horrible GI problems from swimming in sewage-tainted water that would keep him laid up and unable to do his job for weeks if not longer. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/949 "2025-05-12T21:17:16Z")
This one isn’t huge but is worth a giggle to me. I did expert witnessing in a case or two for the US AG’s office and so have apparently ended up on their list of approved contractors. So when the AG’s office gets slapped by a federal court and told not to do something, they have to email all their contractors to warn us that we are all also not allowed to do said thing on their behalf -worded as if it was our idea and they are reining us in. 🙄. But I do get to read the the details of the slappage, and they don’t look good for the DOJ, regardless of how they try to spin it. The latest one tells us we are NOT ALLOWED to harass the Perkins Cole Law Firm, and the judge is mandating that we be provided a copy of his order to prove it. The order has PERMANENTLY ENJOINED in bold capitals throughout. ---
**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:** [May 12, 2025, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/950 "2025-05-12T21:22:49Z")
Is it wrong of me to root for the bacteria in this case? (not for the kids, I’m not that low), but a lovely infection right in the guts of RFK Jr. would be Schadenfreude served well-done…and runny… ---
**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:** [May 12, 2025, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/951 "2025-05-12T21:28:52Z")
Oh, if that happened he would just go for a swim in it. Splashy Splashy! ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/952 "2025-05-12T21:40:59Z")
What do you have against the poor bacteria? ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/953 "2025-05-13T01:00:23Z")
Username checks out. If this were to come to pass, it’d be nice if the general public were to be notified and there be no question as to what caused it. ---
**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:** [May 13, 2025, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/954 "2025-05-13T04:48:25Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#): > > keep him laid up and unable to do his job for weeks if not longer What makes you think he’s able to do his job _now_? > [@Toxgoddess](#): > > So when the AG’s office gets slapped by a federal court and told not to do something, they have to email all their contractors to warn us that we are all also not allowed to do said thing on their behalf _Have to_ or _supposed to_? The First Felonial Era was also the post-truth era. The Second Felonial Era, in which we are now suffering, is also the post-law era. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/955 "2025-05-13T12:04:58Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > > [@ekedolphin](#): > > > > Could he get cited for that? > > Theoretically yes, but it’s unlikely. Here is another article on the incident: > > [KRON4 News: RFK Jr. goes swimming in DC’s Rock Creek despite ban over bacteria](https://www.kron4.com/news/national/rfk-jr-goes-swimming-in-dcs-rock-creek-despite-ban-over-bacteria/) > > > Swimming has been illegal in most of D.C.’s waterways since the 1970s, largely because of contamination from the district’s aging sewer system, though there have been recent efforts to roll back the five-decade prohibition and it is rarely enforced. > > So it has been illegal for around 50 years but usually violations are ignored. Legalities aside and bacteria aside…..I’ve never been to Rock Creek Park but I’ve been to large urban parks, and the idea of jumping into a creek and taking a swim is just clueless in a Beverly Hillbillies sort of way. If saw someone doing that and there wasn’t a reality show filming, I’d assume they had mental issues, if I had children with me I’d discreetly hustle them away without being obvious because who knows when the crazy people might start doing something really crazy. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/956 "2025-05-13T12:18:49Z")
His grandchildren’s names are “Bobcat” and “Cassius”? … OK, I have to admit that “Bobcat Kennedy” would be a great name for a band. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/957 "2025-05-13T12:19:54Z")
Not to mention naming a child “Kick”? ---
**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:** [May 13, 2025, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/958 "2025-05-13T13:02:23Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > … OK, I have to admit that “Bobcat Kennedy” would be a great name for a band. As [Dead Kennedys](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Kennedys) is already taken. Nice punk/alt-punk band. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/959 "2025-05-13T14:52:38Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > _Have to_ or _supposed to_? The First Felonial Era was also the post-truth era. The Second Felonial Era, in which we are now suffering, is also the post-law era. Ordered to by the judge, apparently. The email states “On May 2, 2025, U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell permanently enjoined the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government from implementing Executive Order 14230 and ordered the Attorney General and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to provide you with a copy of the court’s order (attached hereto).” So there’s that, anyway. ---
**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:** [May 13, 2025, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/960 "2025-05-13T16:42:18Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > > [@Toxgoddess](#): > > > > keep him laid up and unable to do his job for weeks if not longer > > What makes you think he’s able to do his job _now_? Depends on what his job _is_. Arguably, his job is to prevent any science happening (and as much as possible, to discourage respect for science and the scientific community). Him being unable to report to the office _might_ impede his ability to do that, [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=47) [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=49)