# 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:** 72
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1421 "2025-07-24T18:39:45Z")
Tariffs and the electric vehicle tax credit which was ended by the big ugly bill apparently has Telsa senior staff worried. > **[Tesla's finance chief says Americans should buy its cars now — Trump's Big...](https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-americans-buy-cars-now-cfo-trump-tax-ev-credit-2025-7)** > > Tesla's chief financial officer, Vaibhav Taneja, said that President Donald Trump's tax bill could affect the availability of its cars. > Earlier this month, the House passed the final version of the bill, which extends the president’s 2017 tax cuts and makes key changes to the tax system. The law also ends the $7,500 EV tax credit awarded to buyers on September 30, which analysts saw as a win for [smaller rivals such as Lucid and Rivian](https://www.businessinsider.com/rivian-lucid-stock-trump-tax-bill-passed-tesla-ev-credit-2025-7), who are less dependent on the credit. > > The [Tesla](https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-tsla-stock-q2-earnings-report-call-2025-7-2025-7) CFO said that the company would start “paring” back planned incentives as cars start to sell. > > After the tax law was passed, Tesla began offering perks such as free supercharging on select models, a one-month free trial of Full Self‑Driving, and a $1,000 discount for “American heroes” like military members, teachers, and first responders. > [CEO Elon Musk](https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk) said Tesla is in a “weird transition period” as it navigates the expiration of incentives and the wider regulatory environment for autonomous vehicles. > > The Trump administration’s tariffs are also raising costs for the automaker, the CFO said. > **[Trump Extends Olive Branch to Musk as Tesla's Stock Takes a Hit](https://www.thewrap.com/trump-musk-tesla-thrive-subsidies/)** > > President Trump extended an olive branch to his friend-turned-critic Elon Musk, saying he has no intention to "destroy" his companies. There’s that wannabe mob boss mentality again: everything is an accident. ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1422 "2025-07-24T18:49:33Z")
The Epstein thing really is having an impact. > **[Even the ‘QAnon Shaman’ has turned on Trump](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/qanon-shaman-trump-epstein-jan-6-b2795134.html)** > > ‘F\*\*\* Donald Trump!’ the spear-wielding pardoned January 6 rioter, Jacob Angeli-Chansley said Wednesday ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1423 "2025-07-24T18:58:50Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I’d feel a lot more hopeful if this was from a legitimate news source. Occupy Democrats is notorious for posting bogus info though. Really? I couldn’t tell from that highly professional and totally unbiased story! /s ---
**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:** [July 24, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1424 "2025-07-24T19:00:58Z")
> [@ShadowFacts](#): > > I couldn’t tell from that highly professional and totally unbiased story! The person who posted it here certainly couldn’t tell, no sarcasm tag there. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1425 "2025-07-24T19:16:11Z")
Sorry, I was agreeing with your take, just in a more assholish way 🙂 ---
**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:** [July 24, 2025, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1426 "2025-07-24T19:17:47Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > The person who posted it here certainly couldn’t tell, no sarcasm tag there. I thought that people would understand that something calling itself **Occupy Democrats** would understand that they just might have a bias. ---
**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:** [July 24, 2025, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1427 "2025-07-24T19:26:33Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I thought that people would understand that something calling itself **Occupy Democrats** would understand that they just might have a bias. There’s bias, and then there’s straight-up misinformation. OD tends toward the latter as much as the former. [https://www.laweekly.com/behind-the-scenes-at-occupy-democrats-the-left-wings-answer-to-fake-news/](https://www.laweekly.com/behind-the-scenes-at-occupy-democrats-the-left-wings-answer-to-fake-news/) ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1428 "2025-07-24T19:46:17Z")
Occupy Democrats is the bane of my Facebook feed, and I really wish my friends would stop posting their nonsense. If their - ahem - reporting got any more breathless they’d be in a vacuum. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1429 "2025-07-24T20:36:46Z")
If it’s been posted on these boards, I haven’t seen it, but South Park absolutely slammed Trump for last night’s season premier. It’s all over the web today. > [@](#): > > …the action shifts to the White House, where an animated version of Trump — with a photorealistic head and a floppy mouth (usually a _South Park_ signifier for Canadians) — is portrayed, in short order, as: an unapologetic con man pushing a fundamentalist Christian agenda as a cover to steal money from the government and the American people; a whiny narcissist who threatens to sue anyone who doesn’t suck up to him and is in denial that he has a micropenis; and an all-around dictator who — like Saddam Hussein in the movie _South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut_ — is literally in bed with Satan. And the devil is no happier in this relationship than he was back then with Saddam. He’s arguably even more miserable. > > It’s a blistering, no-holds-barred attack on Trump — including animated full-frontal nudity of the aforementioned micropenis. > **[Yes, 'South Park' Went There -- And It's Glorious](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/south-park-donald-trump-ai-penis-1235393024/)** > > 'South Park' Season 27 premiere depicts President Trump as a con man with a micropenis who's in bed with Satan, and takes on parent company Paramount. The AI generated live video of Trump wandering naked through the desert, his micro penis announcing his name, was an especially nice lowbrow touch. > **[‘South Park’ Launches Website for Naked Trump Parody PSA: ‘His Penis Is...](https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/south-park-trump-naked-psa-tiny-penis-1236469030/)** > > 'South Park' mocked Donald Trump with a parody PSA that depicts the president naked, stumbling through the desert with a 'tiny' penis. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1430 "2025-07-24T21:01:37Z")
You just know trump is going to whip his out in anger soon. Well, ‘whip’ might not be the appropriate term here. ---
**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:** [July 24, 2025, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1431 "2025-07-24T21:44:26Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > If it’s been posted on these boards, I haven’t seen it, but South Park absolutely slammed Trump for last night’s season premier. It’s all over the web today. Somewhat here: > [@How has the disgraced, CONVICTED FELON, former but once again President Trump pissed you off today? (Part 2)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/1859): > > OMG. Yesterday I learned South Park is still a going concern, today I find out they did this: [[The PSA contains synthetic media] ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afetnw70S04) Although I don’t think that was as appropriate a thread as this one is for the subject. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1432 "2025-07-24T22:06:31Z")
> [@dougrb](#): > > Trump didn’t get the judge he wanted After reading the comments in that rawstory link, it turns out the judge is a black gay man. Is there a word for a combination of Shadenfreude AND Karma? ---
**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:** [July 24, 2025, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1433 "2025-07-24T22:15:09Z")
**Schadenkarma** (Actually I just made that up.) ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1434 "2025-07-24T22:17:20Z")
Karmafreude has a nice ring to it. ---
**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:** [July 24, 2025, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1435 "2025-07-24T22:26:10Z")
> [@dougrb](#): > > Karmafreude My German is totally crappy but I think that ends up being “Karma Joy” as a literal translation, and seems to be a pretty apt way to put it. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1436 "2025-07-24T22:54:50Z")
I’m fine with the animation. _South Park_ occasionally does cool things, and have made me laugh at things I have no business laughing at (like the parody of _The Accused_ where George Lucas and Steven Spielberg rape Indiana Jones.) I’m not fine with naked AI generated Trump, I mean for obvious reasons, but I would be _furious_ if this happened to a layperson as some sort of revenge-porn adjacent thing. In this case, though, I’m really struggling to muster outrage. I mean really struggling. But maybe it leads to Trump cracking down on this sort of thing more globally which I would support. But in our current situation, I think what those guys did was brave as hell. > [@Moriarty](#): > > is portrayed, in short order, as: an unapologetic con man pushing a fundamentalist Christian agenda as a cover to steal money from the government and the American people; a whiny narcissist who threatens to sue anyone who doesn’t suck up to him and is in denial that he has a micropenis; and an all-around dictator who — like Saddam Hussein in the movie _South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut_ — is literally in bed with Satan. Huh, so they’re going for realism, now? ---
**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:** [July 25, 2025, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1437 "2025-07-25T01:16:01Z")
Actually, it didn’t go as far into Trump’s anatomy than I’d hoped. Not that the size of a guy’s penis is more important than the content of his character, but it’s the level his base understands. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2025, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1438 "2025-07-25T01:40:12Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > It still rankles me that this idiocy might be the only thing between us and fascism, but if it works, that’s the important thing. Hey, they took down Capone for tax evasion, right? Whatever works. > [@ShadowFacts](#): > > Occupy Democrats is the bane of my Facebook feed, and I really wish my friends would stop posting their nonsense. If their - ahem - reporting got any more breathless they’d be in a vacuum. They also steal other people’s content and post it as their own without attribution to the real author. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1439 "2025-07-25T02:42:19Z")
In the episode, they said they had to make 50 PSAs. I’m looking forward to the other 49! ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1440 "2025-07-25T03:00:11Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Not that the size of a guy’s penis is more important than the content of his character, but it’s the level his base understands. Well, it’s something Trump is sensitive about and probably explains some of the psychological problems he has. His niece is a clinical psychologist and has said many times how Trump suffers from deep-seated feelings of inadequacy and a lot of his bullying and bluster stems from that. > “Every time you hear Donald talking about how something is the greatest, the best, the biggest, the most tremendous (the implication being that he made them so), you have to remember that the man speaking is still, in essential ways, the same little boy who is desperately worried that he, like his older brother, is inadequate and that he, too, will be destroyed for his inadequacy. At a very deep level, his bragging and false bravado are not directed at the audience in front of him but at his audience of one: his long-dead father … Mary Trump in “Too Much and Never Enough” [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=71) [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=73)