# 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:** 61
**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:** [June 14, 2025, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1201 "2025-06-14T19:02:52Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > But remember, both sides are equally bad. They are, though! One side is accused of really heinous things and the other does them. So they’re equivalent. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2025, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1202 "2025-06-14T19:05:01Z")
I missed the detail that his selfie porn vids with underage hookers were made in _Colombia_, South America. Not Columbia, South Carolina. What is it with SC philandering pols and South America (paging Mark Sanford). ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2025, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1203 "2025-06-14T22:45:06Z")
> [@F.U.Shakespeare](#): > > What is it with SC philandering pols and South America (paging Mark Sanford). They are looking for a relatively close place that has no age of consent or a much lower one. Also bonus if the local government is indifferent. The assumption seems to be that since the age of consent is lower, it’s legal to have sex with them. Except the US has laws specifically against this kind of sex tourism. American law says that it is illegal to travel to another country to have sex with someone who would be underage in America. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2025, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1204 "2025-06-14T22:57:48Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Except the US has laws specifically against this kind of sex tourism. American law says that it is illegal to travel to another country to have sex with someone who would be underage in America. Pfft! The US has a ton of laws. What, am I supposed to be some kind of law…knowing…guy and just remember them all? /s ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2025, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1205 "2025-06-14T23:06:31Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > American law says that it is illegal to travel to another country Pfft! It says nothing about Mars. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2025, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1206 "2025-06-15T02:57:33Z")
No worries: [Mars, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars,_Pennsylvania) ---
**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:** [June 15, 2025, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1207 "2025-06-15T07:14:54Z")
I was just now disappointed to learn that this isn’t a company town like fellow Pennsylvania community Hershey. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2025, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1208 "2025-06-15T07:56:00Z")
So **[Lieutenant Scheisskopf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheisskopf)** did not have a nice day? So sad! Should have stuck to his bonespurs. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2025, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1209 "2025-06-15T10:24:18Z")
nm pointed out already. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1210 "2025-06-15T11:01:15Z")
If cops don’t need to know the law you shouldn’t need to either. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2025, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1211 "2025-06-15T14:10:10Z")
> [@dougrb](#): > > Pfft! It says nothing about Mars. Mars needs women. ---
**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:** [June 16, 2025, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1212 "2025-06-16T01:30:04Z")
Also Santa Claus. Or Pia Zadora. ---
**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:** [June 16, 2025, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1213 "2025-06-16T04:19:09Z")
But not all three, obvs! ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2025, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1214 "2025-06-16T22:58:18Z")
The Atlantic, despite their in-depth analyses, is often very dour and pompous in tone. But they had a [clearly gleeful time making fun](https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/06/trump-birthday-tank-parade/683201/) of Trump’s presumed disappointment over the parade fiasco: "Dear Diary, I did NOT have the birthday of my dreams last weekend! Everyone knows that 79 is the tank birthday. One is paper, 77 is emoluments, 78 you get to destroy one constitutional amendment of your choosing, 80 you get to become the state, but 79 is tanks, and I was so looking forward to my tank birthday…" 😆 ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2025, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1215 "2025-06-17T02:06:19Z")
Oh no! Another bad hit for Mike Lindell. The man can’t sell enough pillows to keep up with this! > **[Jury finds MyPillow founder defamed former employee for a leading voting...](https://apnews.com/article/mike-lindell-dominion-voting-defamation-2020-election-af473792a6e395d86ea6ca0f97742c3f)** > > A federal jury in Colorado has found MyPillow founder Mike Lindell defamed a former employee for a leading voting equipment company. > The jury found that two of Lindell’s statements about Eric Coomer, the former security and product strategy director at Denver-based [Dominion Voting Systems](https://apnews.com/article/fox-news-dominion-defamation-voting-machines-arizona-921a9a45f3622c54ba62f2f642b6c38d), including calling him a traitor, were defamatory. It ordered Lindell and his online media platform, formerly known as Frankspeech, to pay Coomer $2.3 million in damages, far less than the $62.7 million Coomer had asked for to help send a message to discourage attacks on election workers. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2025, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1216 "2025-06-17T04:07:40Z")
A Reagan-appointed judge (he’s 84) tells it like it is regarding the Trump administration. ([Link](https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/16/judge-rebuke-trump-nih-cuts-00409095) to Politico) > “I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable. I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this,” said U.S. District Judge William Young, a Massachusetts-based jurist who took the bench in 1985. > > Young’s sweeping rebuke during a court hearing was a reference to two executive orders signed by President Donald Trump that led the National Institutes of Health to rescind funding for research related to racial minorities and LGBTQ+ people. > > “You are bearing down on people of color because of their color,” Young said. “The Constitution will not permit that. … Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?” ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2025, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1217 "2025-06-17T04:31:14Z")
Hoo boy, Judge Young does not suffer fools gladly, or at all. I proofread hearing transcripts for a couple of reporters in the Federal District Court in Massachusetts, and the guy is usually the sharpest mind in the courtroom, immensely learned, and most definitely not susceptible to the usual baloney served up by Trumpist lawyers. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2025, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1218 "2025-06-17T04:32:30Z")
I wish everyone could get a soundbite of this… ---
**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:** [June 17, 2025, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1219 "2025-06-17T09:10:20Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame? As a country? Yes. No. Next question? ---
**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:** [June 20, 2025, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1220 "2025-06-20T17:02:23Z")
An appeals court has rejected Attorney General Pam Bondi’s attempt [remove Trump’s name from the E. Jean Carroll defamation lawsuit](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2025/06/18/appeals-court-shuts-down-trump-effort-to-kill-83-million-e-jean-carroll-case/), and inserting the DoJ instead. If the ploy had worked, Trump wouldn’t have to pay for all the appeals of his defamation suit, nor would he have to pay Carroll the judgement; the American taxpayers would have been on the hook for the money. The idea, per the linked article, was that, since Trump defamed her as president, Carroll should be suing the government, and not him as an individual. There’s a provision in the law, the [Federal Employees Liability Reform and Tort Compensation Act of 1988](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Employees_Liability_Reform_and_Tort_Compensation_Act_of_1988?wprov=sfti1) (also known as the Westfall Act), which gives federal officials some immunity from legal claims brought over their acts in office. It’s hard to see how Trump defaming Carroll was an official act, but we know he doesn’t care about the law. Or the taxpayers, since we’d have been on the hook for those millions he’s been ordered to pay. [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=60) [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=62)