# 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:** 8
**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:** [January 24, 2025, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/141 "2025-01-24T23:49:19Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > > [@wguy123](#): > > > > Sounds like the Republicans need to get themselves to their safe spaces. What a bunch of crybabies! > > That’s the point of having power: you can cry, cry, cry, and sycophants will describe you as Strong and Brave. (Or they will if they know what’s good for them.) Look, real Tough Guys don’t show you how tough they are, they **tell** you, loudly and often, usually while whining about some minor grievance. ---
**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 24, 2025, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/142 "2025-01-24T23:54:28Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > minor grievance. Being asked to show mercy on the downtrodden is not a fucking minor grievance! Jesus would be ashamed at someone uttering those words at one of the most powerful person in the world. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2025, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/143 "2025-01-25T00:05:26Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Look, real Tough Guys don’t show you how tough they are, they **tell** you, loudly and often, usually while whining about some minor grievance. Indeed. I’m not sure how often an actual, bona-fide tough person (as opposed to a Trumpian “Tough GuyTM”) would continually use the term “unfair” in describing how others treat them. ---
**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 25, 2025, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/144 "2025-01-25T01:15:52Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > the Catholic church can’t _possibly_ be Christian! I am nominally catholic, having been circumsized according to the backwards weirdo beliefs in my country in tbe 70s. But, fuck yes, if I get to the afterlife, I will rejoice in seeing Trump next to me in hell. The fucker will have a really shit time. I mean, hell is, in theory, really bad, but what if every person sent to hell hates you? Edit: wait. MAGA idiots are also going to hell. For eternity. It is time to rethink my religious beliefs. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2025, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/145 "2025-01-25T01:40:51Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [Mexico refuses to accept a U.S. deportation flight](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/mexico-refuses-accept-us-deportation-flight-rcna189182) But three planes (two of them military) did go to Guatemala and dump 256 people there. I’m wondering if the raid-runners will sort their captives by nationality and send them off accordingly, or whether they won’t bother. Anyway, if Mexico won’t take any, ICE can always stick them in (for profit) prisons which can rent them out to farmers and factories that need the cheap labor. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2025, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/146 "2025-01-25T01:43:13Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > MAGA idiots are also going to hell. For eternity. It is time to rethink my religious beliefs. If it helps at all, there’s a theory that everyone gets the heaven or hell they believe in, so you’d best get to work on envisioning the afterlife you’d find agreeable. ---
**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 25, 2025, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/147 "2025-01-25T01:51:24Z")
Not sure if the hell of champagne, hot young ladies and plenty of cocaine is going to cut it, alas. I mean, I don’t even like cocaine so there is some suffering. And I prefer red wine. Oh, and fuck it, I am old. I like women in my age group. Hell is gonna be hell. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2025, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/148 "2025-01-25T01:52:17Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > But three planes (two of them military) did go to Guatemala and dump 256 people there. I’m hoping it wasn’t a [_Vuelos de la Muerte_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_flights) flight . . . but I’m not going to surprised by anything. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2025, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/149 "2025-01-25T01:54:10Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > I’m hoping it wasn’t a [_Vuelos de la Muerte_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_flights) flight Not yet. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2025, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/150 "2025-01-25T02:00:38Z")
I only posted that link so folks would be able to know what I was referencing . . . and then I scrolled through the page and got to this, > Some [alt-right](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right) commenters use the phrase “free helicopter rides” to euphemistically refer to murdering political opponents (usually socialists, [liberals](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_liberalism_in_the_United_States), and [progressives](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressivism_in_the_United_States#In_the_21st_century)), particularly [opponents of President Donald Trump](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_Donald_Trump),[[41]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_flights#cite_note-41)[[42]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_flights#cite_note-42) notably in reference to Pinochet’s [death squads](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_squads).[[43]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_flights#cite_note-43)[[44]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_flights#cite_note-44) Fortunately my medical conditions, with the help of Trump policies, mean I don’t need to look for a proper blade for seppuku. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2025, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/151 "2025-01-25T02:20:38Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Anyway, if Mexico won’t take any, ICE can always stick them in (for profit) prisons which can rent them out to farmers and factories that need the cheap labor. Are you suggesting that they could be concentrated into camps? What would the final solution be? ---
**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:** [January 25, 2025, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/152 "2025-01-25T02:26:13Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > If it helps at all, there’s a theory that everyone gets the heaven or hell they believe in, so you’d best get to work on envisioning the afterlife you’d find agreeable. I’ve already been to my heaven, a luxury suite skybox at Lumen Field. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/153 "2025-01-25T16:24:13Z")
> **[Trump's inauguration is a ratings bust](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/1/22/2298475/-Trump-s-inauguration-is-a-ratings-bust)** > > The ratings are in, and let’s just say they don’t look too good after Donald Trump’s second inauguration. In fact, his ratings are downright underwhelming compared to both his own 2017 ... > [M]ore people [watched](https://www.themirror.com/entertainment/beyonce-netflix-donald-trump-inauguration-925560) Beyonce’s Christmas halftime show than the 47th president’s inauguration. As I said earlier, I put on the 50th Anniversary marathon of _The Jeffersons_. ---
**Author:** ![vislor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vislor/32/5933_2.png) [@vislor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vislor)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2025, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/154 "2025-01-25T20:11:34Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Compassion for someone afflicted with the consequences of their own actions is the mark of a great man. > _(snicker)_ Guess I’m just a good man. > _(chuckle)_ Well, I’m alright… I see what you did there. Well done! > [@Smapti](#): > > “The sin of empathy”? > > This isn’t Christianity at all. This is some kind of new religion altogether. I shouldn’t be surprised but I am. I don’t know how they can write things like that, see it, and think, yep, that’s right. Thanks for the discussion. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2025, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/155 "2025-01-25T20:41:44Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > > [@Atamasama](#): > > > > Look, real Tough Guys don’t show you how tough they are, they **tell** you, loudly and often, usually while whining about some minor grievance. > > Indeed. I’m not sure how often an actual, bona-fide tough person (as opposed to a Trumpian “Tough GuyTM”) **would continually use the term “unfair” in describing how others treat them.** Well, not after age 7, anyway. (my bolding) > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > [Trump's inauguration is a ratings bust](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/1/22/2298475/-Trump-s-inauguration-is-a-ratings-bust) Glad to see this. You know it has to be hardening his arteries. (I had on some eps of _Night Court_.) ---
**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 25, 2025, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/156 "2025-01-25T20:45:31Z")
> **[Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is now America's largest in recorded history](https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/politics/government/2025/01/24/kansas-tuberculosis-outbreak-is-largest-in-recorded-history-in-u-s/77881467007/)** > > Kansas public health officials say the state's ongoing tuberculosis outbreak is the largest since the CDC started reporting TB cases in the 1950s. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2025, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/157 "2025-01-25T20:48:20Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is largest in recorded history in U.S.](https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/politics/government/2025/01/24/kansas-tuberculosis-outbreak-is-largest-in-recorded-history-in-u-s/77881467007/) Of course we know about this outbreak only because KANSAS officials decided to report it. Trump has stopped _federal_ officials from reporting such things. > **[Trump Administration Halts Health Communications, Freezes Research Grants -...](https://healthpolicy-watch.news/trump-administration-halts-health-communications-freezes-research-grants/)** > > US President Donald Trump faced criticism in his first term when he contradicted and often undermined CDC publications. Several prominent Trump officials, ---
**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:** [January 26, 2025, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/158 "2025-01-26T00:46:00Z")
Well, if you’re the only Federal official talking, and have given orders to make sure you _stay_ that way, you don’t have to worry about other Federal officials contradicting you with pesky things like “the truth.” Or “timely calls to action” or “urgent warnings,” for that matter… ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2025, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/159 "2025-01-26T12:02:05Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Of course we know about this outbreak only because KANSAS officials decided to report it. > > Trump has stopped _federal_ officials from reporting such things. What I wonder is how Trump can he stop them from reporting? I mean any office drone with a computer or smart phone should be able to anonymously get the word out. ---
**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 26, 2025, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/160 "2025-01-26T12:04:52Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > What I wonder is how Trump can he stop them from reporting? Threats and informers. IIRC they are going that route already, telling people to report on one another and threatening anyone who won’t. [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=7) [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=9)