# schadenfreude motherfucker **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 7, 2012, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205 "2012-11-07T12:45:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/61 "2012-11-07T23:25:55Z")
> [@Pitchmeister](#): > > Not to rain on anyone’s parade or anything, but didn’t half the electorate still vote for Romney? Don’t get me wrong, I’m as happy about the outcome as the next European, but a couple of thousand votes, strategically placed, could have turned this thing around. It’s not a landslide by any stretch of the imagination. Likewise, if Romney had won, half the country would still have voted for Obama. Just sayin’… I doubt that a couple thousand votes would have been enough to change the outcome, although the popular vote certainly was close as you say. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/62 "2012-11-07T23:31:41Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > If you’re an Obama voter and having difficulty bringing the Schadenfreude - or should you care for a deliberate overdose - listen in to [Shelly on YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLoqti0lzAw&has_verified=1). > > NSFW language, mostly black screen. Woah. What a silly bitch. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2012, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/63 "2012-11-07T23:45:46Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > If you’re an Obama voter and having difficulty bringing the Schadenfreude - or should you care for a deliberate overdose - listen in to [Shelly on YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLoqti0lzAw&has_verified=1). Now that’s a meltdown. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/64 "2012-11-07T23:46:55Z")
Gives me kind of a warm glow, but then, I’m not a very nice person. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/65 "2012-11-07T23:53:08Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > If you’re an Obama voter and having difficulty bringing the Schadenfreude - or should you care for a deliberate overdose - listen in to [Shelly on YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLoqti0lzAw&has_verified=1). > > NSFW language, mostly black screen. I cannot thank you enough for this video. I am ever in your debt. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/66 "2012-11-07T23:57:18Z")
The only thing crazier than that lady is someone who would sit through that entire irritating screed on purpose. Hell’s bells … I zoned out after about the 54th “fuck” or so. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2012, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/67 "2012-11-08T00:00:47Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > The only think crazier than that lady is someone who would sit through that entire irritating screed on purpose. Hell’s bells … I zoned out after about the 54th “fuck” or so. I was gonna see if I could chart the exact time of each transition; you know “denial-\>anger, 0:45”, something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/68 "2012-11-08T00:03:24Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > The only think crazier than that lady is someone who would sit through that entire irritating screed on purpose. Hell’s bells … I zoned out after about the 54th “fuck” or so. I could listen to this all day. I could memorize this and sing it like a pop song. I have it on as muzack as I do my messageboarding. I. Love. This. Video. Hahaaa! My favorite part is when she gets mad at watching the Obama wins footage and she swings the camera around at the screen and says, “Look! _Loooooookkkkkk_!” ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/69 "2012-11-08T00:11:44Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > If you’re an Obama voter and having difficulty bringing the Schadenfreude - or should you care for a deliberate overdose - listen in to [Shelly on YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLoqti0lzAw&has_verified=1). > > NSFW language, mostly black screen. Thank you for that, this is what schadenfreude is about. That woman probably is hostile to the rights and dignity of gays, non-whites, the poor, foreigners, etc. Her being pissed is justice as far as I’m concerned. Her railing against health reform (which has helped thousands of people, including me, and will eventually help millions) is good evidence of this. A woman bitches that people are able to see a doctor when they are sick because their security and well being violates her failed ideology. Too bad. But hahaha, about her thinking if people would’ve forwarded more of her emails and facebook posts that that somehow would’ve changed the election. Dumbass will probably never figure out that treating people like shit is why Romney couldn’t get 51% of the vote. ‘We treated gays, women, non-whites, non-christians and the poor like shit and we didn’t win the election. I don’t get it’ ---
**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:** [November 8, 2012, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/70 "2012-11-08T00:25:41Z")
Clearly Romney failed to fully win over the namby-pamby pussy vote. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/71 "2012-11-08T01:05:39Z")
> [@xanthous](#): > > A high school classmate of mine who has been regurgitating tea party crap on her Facebook page for the last 6 months is despondent. She’s in nursing school, and now feels like her education and her investment in her education has been a waste of money. So she has announced that she’s going to move to Norway. > > HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Hahahahahahaha!!! ::wipes tears:: > [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > When my husband was getting ready for work this morning, I handed him a tissue and told him that he’d need it when he turned on the news. > > He’s muttering that he’s going to gather up his guns and move to CANADA. This stunned me for a second, and then I started giggling and couldn’t stop for a good half minute. I thank my lucky stars my husband and I share the same politics. 🆒 > [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Well, that’s exactly what Obama did. > > Yeah, the left wing billionaires were the ones to drown everyone out this time around. > > Obama spend about 100 million more than Romney. > > [The 2012 Money Race: Compare the Candidates - NYTimes.com](http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/campaign-finance) Dude. You know what site this is, right? The Straight Dope? Next time you’re responding about the effects on political spending of Citizen’s United: 1.) Find a source that doesn’t mix candidate spending with outside spending. 2.) At least try to bother to find a source that includes _all_ the SuperPacs and not just a single one (for each side). 3.) Then if your allegation is about a specific subset of campaign donors, say, billionaires, try to find an actual list of, you know, _billionaires_ from each side as opposed to just a subtotal of some of the spending with no indication of who the monies came from. :rolleyes: Oddly, I’m not feeling very schadenfreudy today. I’m just fucking relieved that Mitt Romney and the lunatic fringe are far, far away from any influence on Federal judgeships and the Supreme Court. ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/72 "2012-11-08T02:28:46Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > All I could do as I drove past was sing out _“SCHAY-DEN-FROOD!”_ 😃 That just gave me _weltzschmerz_ in the _zugzwang_. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/73 "2012-11-08T02:33:07Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > [Shelly] probably is hostile to the rights and dignity of gays, non-whites, the poor, foreigners, etc. She ain’t too hot on her _own_ dignity, as far as that goes. ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/74 "2012-11-08T02:35:57Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > I could listen to this all day. I could memorize this and sing it like a pop song. I have it on as muzack as I do my messageboarding. I. Love. This. Video. > > Hahaaa! My favorite part is when she gets mad at watching the Obama wins footage and she swings the camera around at the screen and says, “Look! _Loooooookkkkkk_!” It really cries out for a DJ Shadow mix. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/75 "2012-11-08T03:06:31Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > If you’re an Obama voter and having difficulty bringing the Schadenfreude - or should you care for a deliberate overdose - listen in to [Shelly on YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLoqti0lzAw&has_verified=1). > > NSFW language, mostly black screen. Funny how she’s spending so much of her anger on the CTers. Birthers, Muslimers, Chemtrailers. _“Obama is not a Muslim. If anything, he’s probably a Black Liberation Theologian.”_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/76 "2012-11-08T03:57:20Z")
> [@Pitchmeister](#): > > Not to rain on anyone’s parade or anything, but didn’t half the electorate still vote for Romney? Don’t get me wrong, I’m as happy about the outcome as the next European, but a couple of thousand votes, strategically placed, could have turned this thing around. It’s not a landslide by any stretch of the imagination. Likewise, if Romney had won, half the country would still have voted for Obama. Just sayin’… This. Since yesterday I’ve been reading pundit after pundit talking about how this election is some sort of resounding rejection of the GOP’s tactics, platform and indeed very being. And now in this thread I’m reading about how the election is a triumph of the common man’s astute ability to reject spin and bullshit. What horseshit: Obama’s victory was like that of a marathon runner who wins by a couple of seconds. Sure he won. He’s the champion, no question. But the result is far more a vindication of the runner up’s tactics etc than a condemnation. The more telling headline here isn’t “_Obama Won!_” it’s “_Romney Nearly Won Despite Being an Smarmy Wanker!_”. > [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > They do not know much about the world around them. They have not the remotest idea what those countries are like. I don’t know if you’ve heard about this particular [anecdotal support](http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/technology/technology-news/confused-so-was-kristen-neel-20121108-28zhi.html)for how right you are but it is beyond hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/77 "2012-11-08T04:07:53Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > The more telling headline here isn’t “_Obama Won!_” it’s “_Romney Nearly Won Despite Being an Smarmy Wanker!_” Meh, who cares? Any Republican could nearly win. Run the cryogenically frozen body of Dick Clark under the Republican flag and it would nearly win. There are enough partisans out there who will vote for anyone with an R beside their name that it’s not really an achievement to get a little less than half the vote, particularly if you’re running against a Black Muslim Socialist who is going to Cancel Religious Freedom and Steal Your Guns. More impressive would be if Romney had actually won, but, he didn’t. Bye bye, Romney. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2012, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/78 "2012-11-08T04:19:25Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Well, that’s exactly what Obama did. > > Yeah, the left wing billionaires were the ones to drown everyone out this time around. > > Obama spend about 100 million more than Romney. But that was mostly from small contributors, _not_ billionaires. Which I understand (from a discussion on another board) entitled him to something called the “lowest unit rate” and meant he got much better prices for TV time. Romney got much more of his money from SuperPACs and large checks from the wealthy, money that didn’t qualify for that low rate, and so was charged a _much_ higher price by TV stations. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/79 "2012-11-08T04:23:46Z")
**MsWhatsit** , 1/ I’m not an expert, but I don’t think what you are saying is accurate. According to [this page](http://pewresearch.org/databank/dailynumber/?NumberID=1491) there have been, over the years, typically more “certain democrat” than “certain republican” voters (though there isn’t much difference) and the swing vote is very substantial at an average of about maybe 25% over the last couple of decades. I haven’t seen the latest figures but last I did this election was very close to 50/50, which means that Romney did almost as well if not better than Obama at getting swing voters to vote for him. And the partisans would only have got him about 37%. 2/ Even if you were right, that wouldn’t much detract from my point. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/80 "2012-11-08T04:30:55Z")
I guess my gut feeling, which I will freely admit is not backed by any actual data, is that even for those 25% of undecideds, there’s a certain percentage who are going to be swayed either by reacting against Obama or by something that attracts them to the Republican philosophy. In neither of those cases is it specifically Mitt Romney that’s pulling them to the R side. I will grant you that in any case, it’s important to remember that a little less than half of voters wanted the other outcome, so yeah, it’s not a crushing decisive landslide victory or whatever. I’m just not all that impressed that Romney got to 48%, is all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205.md?page=5)