# 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:** 84
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1661 "2025-09-04T21:37:29Z")
If he’s still breathing, he’s not trying very hard. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2025, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1662 "2025-09-04T21:37:47Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Nah, even if he thinks he might die someday - and he may not - he figures either he’s already a shoo-in or he can “make a deal” and negotiate them into letting him run the place without giving anything in return. He’s a “master negotiator”; St. Peter will be eating out of his hand. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2025, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1663 "2025-09-04T21:41:42Z")
Now they’re making me root for James O’Keefe. > Joseph Schnitt, an Acting Deputy Chief in the Department of Justice, was caught divulging the information by a woman he met on the Hinge dating app, not realizing she was an undercover operative for the O’Keefe Media Group. > > In a video posted online on Thursday, Schnitt is recorded telling the woman that the department would “redact every Republican or conservative person in those files, leave all the liberal, Democratic people in those files, and have a very slanted version of it come out.” > **[DOJ Posts Embarrassing Apology Over Official Caught In Honeypot Trap](https://www.thedailybeast.com/doj-posts-embarrassing-apology-over-official-caught-in-honeypot-trap/)** > > The undercover sting came amid the ongoing firestorm over Jeffrey Epstein. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1664 "2025-09-04T22:42:15Z")
I have a differing view on Trump’s likelihood of getting into Heaven (pretty high!), but since it involves a rather _radical_ and upsetting re-interpretation of the origins of Christianity, I’ll just leave it for the PM’s in case anyone cares. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1665 "2025-09-04T22:59:52Z")
He could always try [Mathew 19-21](https://biblehub.com/matthew/19-21.htm). Jesus said to him, “If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.” ---
**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:** [September 4, 2025, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1666 "2025-09-04T23:26:02Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > I have a differing view on Trump’s likelihood of getting into Heaven I got no problem with him getting in. I just want him to get in _today._ ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1667 "2025-09-04T23:33:57Z")
And what if he takes over the place? And actually takes influence on the world, unlike the guy before him? God help us all… ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1668 "2025-09-04T23:39:06Z")
Can Heaven file for bankruptcy? ---
**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:** [September 4, 2025, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1669 "2025-09-04T23:42:29Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Now they’re making me root for James O’Keefe. The most damaging part of this is an admission that the Epstein Files are being redacted to make Republicans look good and Democrats look bad (or at least there’s an effort to do so). Even MAGA won’t like that. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2025, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1670 "2025-09-04T23:49:19Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Even MAGA won’t like that. MAGA fucking morons would quote that report like it was handed down on stone tablets. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2025, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1671 "2025-09-05T02:02:21Z")
> [@dougrb](#): > > Can Heaven file for bankruptcy? Can Heaven afford to take Trump’s lawsuit against God all the way to a verdict or will they settle? ---
**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:** [September 5, 2025, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1672 "2025-09-05T10:51:45Z")
Why would O’Keefe make this public? Doesn’t he support Trump? ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1673 "2025-09-05T13:03:55Z")
Maybe O’Keefe has reached his limit in regards to Trump? Though given what we know about Trump’s character, why now? Perhaps he sees something bad on the horizon for Trump/MAGA and wants to be the first one off the sinking ship. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1674 "2025-09-05T14:47:26Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > Maybe O’Keefe has reached his limit in regards to Trump? Reached his limit in regards to the Epstein files - and knows that’s what his followers are clamoring for. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1675 "2025-09-05T16:24:57Z")
O’Keefe was fired by Project Veritas (which he founded) in 2023, reportedly because he treated staff there like shit and misappropriated funds (basically spent organizational money on himself). He formed a new organization, the O’Keefe Media Group, and then was sued by Project Veritas (because part of the money he stole was used to help start the new group while he was still working for the old one, also he went after PV donors to help fund the new one before being fired). I wonder if the split from the old group also meant a focus away from being a Trump supporter. The only other “operation” I’ve seen his new group do was targeting the Washington Commanders football team, and media he published ended with the team firing one of their VPs. There doesn’t seem to be a lot going on that’s trying to favor the Republican agenda or Trump in particular. I’m not sure how much of an ideologue O’Keefe ever was anyway. I always got the impression that he was an opportunist who wanted money and fame, and found success with right wing causes, but despite the fact that he’s been called a “political activist” in the past, I think it was always a means to an end. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1676 "2025-09-05T19:58:42Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I always got the impression that he was an opportunist who wanted money and fame, and found success with right wing causes, but despite the fact that he’s been called a “political activist” in the past, I think it was always a means to an end. Agreed. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2025, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1677 "2025-09-07T03:56:03Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > The farmer and the cowman should be friends…and unite against the government. “Farmers should raise less corn and more hell!” - Mother Jones > [@SunUp](#): > > > [@Gyrate](#): > > > > > [@OldOlds](#): > > > > > > You are as responsible for this as anyone. > > > > Moreso than many, given what he did to rig the justice system (all the way to SCOTUS) in the Republicans’ favor. > > And even more than that, since it was his decision to not whip the Republican senators for removal & disqualification that meant Trump could return again in 2024. _Absofreakin’lutely!_ I would forgive practically everything else he did in the Senate if he’d done that. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1678 "2025-09-07T19:56:40Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > Maybe O’Keefe has reached his limit in regards to Trump? Maybe he finally wants an expose that won’t hilariously fall apart at the first even slightly skeptical analysis? ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1679 "2025-09-07T20:08:00Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Maybe he finally wants an expose that won’t hilariously fall apart at the first even slightly skeptical analysis?- Hahaha! You’re joking, right? ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1680 "2025-09-07T20:11:03Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > You’re joking, right? I mean, if you’re looking for real scandals, the Republicans are a much better target than the Democrats. It’s possible this clown has decided he’s been laughed at enough, and wants to become a lion tamer. Of course, it remains to be seen if he’s going to tame the lion, or be eaten by it. [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=83) [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=85)