# The 2012 Election Schadenfreude thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 6, 2012, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2012-election-schadenfreude-thread/640156 "2012-11-06T23:31:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2012-election-schadenfreude-thread/640156/81 "2012-11-08T16:45:03Z")
No, no, you’re all wrong. God let this happen because God hates Mormons more than he hates fags and abortions. No, seriously, [that was the guy’s conclusion](http://davidteis.wordpress.com/2012/11/08/40/): > [@](#): > > …It may be that God hates the Theology of Mormonism more than the ungodly lifestyle of the homosexual and the murder of unborn children. It was the worship of false god’s _[sic]_ that brought every other form of wickedness to the nation of Israel. It was this false worship that brought the ultimate judgment of God on the nation of Israel and its ultimate demise… > > …I pled to God that He would allow this man (who believes he will be a god one day) to be elected. I argued he would be better that President Obama but obviously God didn’t agree. A facebook friend earnestly linked this blog post yesterday because she found it so thought-provoking. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2012-election-schadenfreude-thread/640156/82 "2012-11-08T16:50:19Z")
Well, it is thought provoking. Its just that the thoughts it provokes are kinda ugly. ---
**Author:** ![sticky\_seava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@sticky\_seava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sticky_seava)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2012-election-schadenfreude-thread/640156/83 "2012-11-08T16:56:42Z")
I have been trying to find this info for myself. As I understand it Colorado is slightly above average in that 28% of the population vote. But this would mean that important things. Like who is president are determined by just over one eighth of the people. It seems everyone has an opinion on things political. Therefore it is hard for me to believe this to be the case. Can they be that adamant in their argument but too lazy to vote. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2012-election-schadenfreude-thread/640156/84 "2012-11-08T17:01:28Z")
Oh, about ancient Israel and the various prophets. The ancient Hebrew had the misfortune of occupying a section of territory easily conquered by whoever was on top at the time. The Egyptians a couple times, Babylonians, Persians, Romans. The people were told they were God’s favorites and they asked “So howcome we keep getting our asses kicked, if God loves us so much?” Because God is very fussy, and very jealous. If you don’t do everything just so, you piss God off, and he hands you over to barbarians for punishment. Again. And again. Once more, just to rub it in. And every time, it was because God was punishing the Hebrews for insufficient righteousness. By handing them over to people with no righteousness whatsoever. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2012-election-schadenfreude-thread/640156/85 "2012-11-08T17:22:32Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Here’s a little appetizer of schadenfreude from [Free Republic](http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2956071/posts). Dude, that was a five-course meal! ---
**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, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2012-election-schadenfreude-thread/640156/86 "2012-11-08T18:11:21Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#): > > Dude, that was a five-course meal! I don’t think anything there will top this post: > [@Freeper](#): > > Where can we go where we can love freedom? China? Somalia? Yep, try China. They’re very big on personal freedom and non-intrusive government. Dumbass. ---
**Author:** ![malden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@malden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malden)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2012-election-schadenfreude-thread/640156/87 "2012-11-08T18:18:04Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#): > > Dude, that was a five-course meal! And here’s your dessert: [Romney campaign obtained a permit for an election-night fireworks display in Boston](http://www.boston.com/politicalintelligence/2012/11/08/mitt-romney-planned-boston-harbor-fireworks-show-that-was-scotched-election-loss/qmgtVKPq4zNnDyb9FbLWeJ/story.html) > [@](#): > > A permit filed with the City of Boston said the detonation could occur any time between 7 p.m. Tuesday, just after the first polls closed, and 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, which ended up being just before Romney conceded the race. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2012-election-schadenfreude-thread/640156/88 "2012-11-08T18:19:05Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Yep, try China. They’re very big on personal freedom and non-intrusive government. I remember somebody posting a year or so ago that the reason China was doing so well compared to us was because the American government had gone too far to the left. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2012-election-schadenfreude-thread/640156/89 "2012-11-08T18:28:53Z")
> [@malden](#): > > And here’s your dessert: > > [Romney campaign obtained a permit for an election-night fireworks display in Boston](http://www.boston.com/politicalintelligence/2012/11/08/mitt-romney-planned-boston-harbor-fireworks-show-that-was-scotched-election-loss/qmgtVKPq4zNnDyb9FbLWeJ/story.html) It’s almost mind-boggling- his campaign really thought they were going to win. I wonder what Romney himself thought? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2012-election-schadenfreude-thread/640156/90 "2012-11-08T18:52:15Z")
“I bring quadruple diversity to the Senate,” Hirono said at a rally earlier in the campaign. “I’m a woman. I’ll be the first Asian woman ever to be elected to the U.S. Senate. I am an immigrant. I am a Buddhist. When I said this at one of my gatherings, they said, ‘Yes, but are you gay?’ and I said, ‘Nobody’s perfect.’” Newly elected Senator from Hawaii, Rep. Mazie Hirono > **[Hawaii sends nation’s first Asian American woman to Senate](https://www.mercurynews.com/2012/11/07/hawaii-sends-nations-first-asian-american-woman-to-senate/)** > > Hawaii sends nation’s first Asian American woman to Senate ---
**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:** [November 8, 2012, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2012-election-schadenfreude-thread/640156/91 "2012-11-08T20:17:10Z")
[QUOTE=Freeper] Am I naive? Stupid? Why is this all so unclear and wrong to me? [/QUOTE] Hahahahaha. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2012-election-schadenfreude-thread/640156/92 "2012-11-08T20:37:36Z")
And this just in…Florida! Link, shmink its all over the place. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2012-election-schadenfreude-thread/640156/93 "2012-11-08T20:57:16Z")
If that isn’t just the icing on the cake. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2012-election-schadenfreude-thread/640156/94 "2012-11-08T20:58:47Z")
OK, so I’ll say “peninsula” again. Instead of “penisula”. Just that kind of guy, very forgiving… ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2012-election-schadenfreude-thread/640156/95 "2012-11-09T00:16:59Z")
> [@malden](#): > > And here’s your dessert: > > [Romney campaign obtained a permit for an election-night fireworks display in Boston](http://www.boston.com/politicalintelligence/2012/11/08/mitt-romney-planned-boston-harbor-fireworks-show-that-was-scotched-election-loss/qmgtVKPq4zNnDyb9FbLWeJ/story.html) As a Bostonian, I’m pretty sure that would have brought mobs with pitchforks down to the Convention Center. We’re not exactly Romney fans in this city. Here’s another [little piece of schadenfreude](http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/08/15024793-the-last-days-of-romneyland?lite): > [@](#): > > From the moment Mitt Romney stepped off stage Tuesday night, having just delivered a brief concession speech he wrote only that evening, the massive infrastructure surrounding his campaign quickly began to disassemble itself. > > Aides taking cabs home late that night got rude awakenings when they found the credit cards linked to the campaign no longer worked. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2012-election-schadenfreude-thread/640156/96 "2012-11-09T00:28:48Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > Looks like Akin and Mourdock both lost. > > I can see Karl Rove or somebody taking the future Republican candidates aside in a big room someplace and saying “Dammit, guys, _stop talking about rape!_ Talk about jobs, talk about the economy, talk about Benghazi–Don’t use the damned R-word!” > > I mean, geeze, the morons lost _Richard Lugar’s_ seat. Anyone who ever takes Karl Rove’s advice in the future is a fucking idiot and deserves to lose whatever election he or she (probably he) is running in. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2012-election-schadenfreude-thread/640156/97 "2012-11-09T00:30:51Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Here’s a little appetizer of schadenfreude from [Free Republic](http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2956071/posts). OK, this entry made me laugh out loud. > [@](#): > > Drudge is calling Wisconsin for Romney… ---
**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 9, 2012, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2012-election-schadenfreude-thread/640156/98 "2012-11-09T11:18:29Z")
[And the award for Most Well-Deserved Schadenfreude goes to…](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md5i9zOg0p1rg6wzxo1_1280.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![antechinus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@antechinus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antechinus)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2012-election-schadenfreude-thread/640156/99 "2012-11-09T11:47:56Z")
I opened this forum to specifically ask for some election shadenfreude material. Unfortunately I couldn’t get Fox on the night - had to watch BBC which was incredibly professional compared to the videos posted here. I cant believe that woman went down the corridor to ‘interrogate’ the statisticians. That is brilliant. Now I can bask in your reflective shadenfreude, thanks to YouTube. Anyone else with some good clips showing Fox fear, sadness and denial - please post them. ---
**Author:** ![antechinus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@antechinus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antechinus)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2012-election-schadenfreude-thread/640156/100 "2012-11-09T11:58:47Z")
Love this one - [Fox calling Obama win.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpoMWrW01h4) Billions of dollars couldn’t buy Romney the election. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2012-election-schadenfreude-thread/640156.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2012-election-schadenfreude-thread/640156.md?page=6)