# 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:** 50
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/981 "2025-05-14T17:39:24Z")
> **[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - 2012-03-21](https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2556)** > > Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - 2012-03-21 ---
**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 14, 2025, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/982 "2025-05-14T17:51:54Z")
Wow I haven’t read SMBC in years. That strip is so messed up and so damn funny. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/983 "2025-05-14T18:02:10Z")
I’ve known a few MENSA members who were living proof that having a high IQ is no indication of having common sense. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/984 "2025-05-14T18:26:20Z")
Ok, shadenfreude alert. Saw a story on old coal miners suffering from health conditions like black lung. OSHA got gutted, and one program cut was the health care they were providing to these old guys. Heath care workers fired. It’s limited, because once this came out that program was reinstated, but the leopards still chewed their faces a bit. So, how do _you_ like being classified as “fraud, waste, and abuse”? ---
**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:** [May 14, 2025, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/985 "2025-05-14T18:47:51Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > [Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - 2012-03-21](https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2556) Geez – Now I really regret writing books and articles about mythology, variable stars, pop culture, and amusement parks. I’m telling people in other fields about their fields, so I must be well along into my dotage. Don’t put me down. Just let me gambol on the fields of knowledge upstate. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/986 "2025-05-14T20:25:36Z")
Sorry about that. No offense intended (I have a degree in Applied Physics myself) ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/987 "2025-05-14T21:05:29Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > For fuck’s sake I’m a member. Is your name Bob, cause I can spell any name I hear backwards. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/988 "2025-05-14T21:11:18Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I’m sure this is true. You also have situations where a person becomes an expert in a particular field of study, where they are accomplished and respected, and believe that this gives them authority in other disciplines where they really have no idea what they’re talking about. See Ben Carson. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/989 "2025-05-14T21:59:43Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > So, how do _you_ like being classified as “fraud, waste, and abuse”? I’m pretty sure these were included in my wedding vows. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/990 "2025-05-14T22:18:15Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Geez – Now I really regret writing books and articles about mythology, variable stars, pop culture, and amusement parks. I’m telling people in other fields about their fields, so I must be well along into my dotage. Now now now, I think the critique is directed at those physicists who get dogmatic about entire mainstream hypotheses of other fields being wrong (without having any broad expertise in the field), just based on their own idiosyncratic application of physics principles. In short, the problem isn’t that physicists are learning and writing about technical arcana in other fields of research. The problem is that some (often elderly) physicists are asserting that they don’t even need to learn the technical arcana of other fields of research, because their existing physics knowledge functions as a sort of secret decoder ring to reveal to them what’s true and what’s false about those other fields. Needless to say, these assertions tend not to hold up under informed scrutiny. ---
**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 14, 2025, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/991 "2025-05-14T22:22:43Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > See Ben Carson. Perfect example. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/992 "2025-05-14T23:26:10Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I’m pretty sure these were included in my wedding vows. 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/993 "2025-05-15T18:30:42Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Geez – Now I really regret writing books and articles about mythology, variable stars, pop culture, and amusement parks. I’m telling people in other fields about their fields, so I must be well along into my dotage. Are you arguing with scientists in other fields that you haven’t studied about their fields? Or are you passing along knowledge accepted in those fields to a broader audience? There’s a difference between talking about gravity and arguing Einstein was wrong. Same principle applies here. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2025, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/994 "2025-05-15T20:10:28Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Is your name Bob, cause I can spell any name I hear backwards. How 'bout Emily? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/995 "2025-05-15T22:37:18Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > How 'bout Emily? Should have been “I can speak any name I hear backwards” But you got the reference. I could go on and on about that show, but will end my side track now. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2025, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/996 "2025-05-15T23:08:07Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Are you arguing with scientists in other fields that you haven’t studied about their fields? Or are you passing along knowledge accepted in those fields to a broader audience? > > There’s a difference between talking about gravity and arguing Einstein was wrong. Same principle applies here. Sometimes somewhere between the two. In **Medusa** I wrote about interpretations of classical mythology, which I had no formal training in. Also about psychology and forensic medicine (really). Of course, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone with formal training in all those areas. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2025, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/997 "2025-05-16T02:37:32Z")
A restaurant in Tennessee owned by Kid Rock had to shut down because so many undocumented employees failed to show up for work because of ICE raids in Nashville. > **[Kid Rock’s Restaurant Closes to Avoid Trump’s ICE Raids](https://www.thedailybeast.com/kid-rocks-restaurant-closes-to-avoid-trumps-ice-raids/)** > > Kid Rock’s Big A-- Honky Tonk Rock N’ Roll Steakhouse in Tennessee shuttered reportedly closed on Saturday to avoid being caught by ICE. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2025, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/998 "2025-05-16T03:08:09Z")
Pick up that spatula and mop and get to work, Kid! ---
**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:** [May 16, 2025, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/999 "2025-05-16T03:33:06Z")
From the linked article: > the “manager came back and told anyone without legal status to go home” around 9:30 p.m. on Saturday evening Shouldn’t they arrest the manager for obstruction or whatever? Isn’t that exactly the sort of case they trumped up (pardon the pun) against a judge in Wisconsin? ---
**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 16, 2025, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1000 "2025-05-16T08:20:49Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#): > > > [@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. That would fall under _supposed to_. We already know how much respect the felon has for the law and the courts. > [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > > [@Monty](#): > > > > Didn’t Asimov have some rather sharp commentary about Mensa? > > Yes he did, despite being active in Mensa off and on for much of his life. Even Asimov managed some major blunders. He admitted a number of them in his autobiographies. What shocked me was a blunder he didn’t realize he was making and that his editor and publisher didn’t prevent: he published his social security number in one. > [@Gyrate](#): > > But the idea of paying money to associate with people as intelligent but emotionally crippled as me did not appeal, especially as I can get that for free right here. You just had to let the cat out of the bag, didn’t you. 😉 Isn’t that why we’re all here? [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=49) [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=51)