# The 2016 Election Schadenfreude thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 8, 2016, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111 "2016-11-08T22:08:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/101 "2017-01-20T03:53:10Z")
This article is the most depressing analysis of the Democrats I’ve ever seen. And when I say depressing I mean, “Wildly entertaining”: [http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/democrats-trump-administration-wilderness-comeback-revival-214650](http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/democrats-trump-administration-wilderness-comeback-revival-214650) > [@](#): > > But all that took decades, and Democrats have no time. What are they going to do next? There hasn’t been an American political party in worse shape in living memory. And there may never have been a party less ready to confront it. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/103 "2017-02-06T17:55:32Z")
This was worthy of recording here for posterity. Fuck you, Bill Maher: > **[Bill Maher: 'Hey Tom Brady, F--k You'](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/bill-maher-hey-tom-brady-f-k-you-127780/)** > > “\[Donald Trump\] has made me love the Atlanta Falcons,” host says on ‘Real Time’ FWIW, I wasn’t a Patriots fan until it got all political. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/104 "2017-02-06T18:17:51Z")
[http://i.imgur.com/HrM4Mgi.jpg](http://i.imgur.com/HrM4Mgi.jpg) is what makes the Pats amazing comeback victory some sweet, sweet schadenfreude ---
**Author:** ![Pearl\_Clutching\_Provocateur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pearl\_Clutching\_Provocateur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pearl_Clutching_Provocateur)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/105 "2017-02-09T03:42:48Z")
Who would have thunk? 92% of left-wing activists live with their parents and one in three is unemployed, study of Berlin protesters finds > **[92% of left-wing activists live with their parents, Berlin study finds](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4200272/92-Berlin-left-wing-activists-live-parents.html)** > > The vast majority of left-wing protesters arrested on suspicion of politically-fuelled offences in Berlin are young men who live with their parents, a new report found. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/106 "2017-02-09T12:14:27Z")
Actually, the genuine report noted only that 92% of those arrested for violence in demonstrations lived with their parents. In fact, all the statistics presented referred only to those arrested. Now, if one wishes to conclude that young left-wing demonstrators tend to be violent and live with their parents, (in specific situations in Berlin), one is free to do so. Presenting a misleading (and erroneous) headline as if it referred to all left-wing protestors as a “fact” is something I would expect from Spicer or Conway. ---
**Author:** ![Spit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@Spit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spit)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2017, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/107 "2017-02-10T20:56:40Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > [Imgur: The magic of the Internet](http://i.imgur.com/HrM4Mgi.jpg) is what makes the Pats amazing comeback victory some sweet, sweet schadenfreude The Patriots are white supremacists?? ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2017, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/108 "2017-02-10T21:23:42Z")
> [@Spit](#): > > The Patriots are white supremacists?? No, that some (very dumb) people think they are. ETA: “very dumb” was directed at the people raging on Twitter, not **Spit** ---
**Author:** ![sleestak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@sleestak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleestak)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2017, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/109 "2017-02-10T22:18:57Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Actually, the genuine report noted only that 92% of those arrested for violence in demonstrations lived with their parents. In fact, all the statistics presented referred only to those arrested. > Now, if one wishes to conclude that young left-wing demonstrators tend to be violent and live with their parents, (in specific situations in Berlin), one is free to do so. > Presenting a misleading (and erroneous) headline as if it referred to all left-wing protestors as a “fact” is something I would expect from Spicer or Conway. Yet all Trump supporters are routinely described as racists/homophobes/ignorant on this board but no one says a thing… Odd, isn’t it? Slee ---
**Author:** ![Spit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@Spit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spit)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2017, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/110 "2017-02-11T02:26:31Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > No, that some (very dumb) people think they are. Have they not seen the racial makeup of the team? My first thought would not be, “White Supremacist”. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2017, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/111 "2017-10-25T21:14:37Z")
Okay, be honest here. Who is going to [the Sky Scream in a couple of weeks](http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/10/25/liberals-plan-scream-helplessly-sky-election-anniversary)? ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2017, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/112 "2017-10-26T12:02:15Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > Okay, be honest here. Who is going to [the Sky Scream in a couple of weeks](http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/10/25/liberals-plan-scream-helplessly-sky-election-anniversary)? And this will be different from every other day since the election - how, exactly? 🙂 Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2017, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/113 "2017-10-26T13:50:12Z")
Just what is it that you think you’ve won? How is the country and the world better off for it? Is it more than getting the libruls mad, or was that really the entire point, as the last couple of posts make it appear? ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2017, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/114 "2017-10-26T15:19:48Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > Okay, be honest here. Who is going to [the Sky Scream in a couple of weeks](http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/10/25/liberals-plan-scream-helplessly-sky-election-anniversary)? I hurt inside when I saw that. Then I realized how hugely superior to white nationalist marches it would be and I remembered that at the lowest of our lows we are leagues above the highest of your highs. And that’s schadenfreude. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2017, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/115 "2017-10-26T16:36:34Z")
Certainly more exciting and interesting. A “tacky torch” actually _burns_, sorta kinda. How does that compare with the flashlight on a smartphone, carried about on a selfie-stick? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2017, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/116 "2017-10-26T16:47:40Z")
The sale of tiki torches actually creates jobs at Pier One. The sanes already own their selfie sticks. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2017, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/117 "2017-10-27T03:35:36Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > I hurt inside when I saw that. > > Then I realized how hugely superior to white nationalist marches it would be and I remembered that at the lowest of our lows we are leagues above the highest of your highs. > > And that’s schadenfreude. LOL! Yeah, your side has done a bang-up job embodying the “when they go low, we go high” ideal since the election. I’m sure Steve Scalise has no complaints about the lowest of your lows. \ ETA: the kind of self-delusion needed to write something like “at the lowest of our lows we are leagues above the highest of your highs” is truly impressive. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2017, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/118 "2017-10-27T04:08:46Z")
You people elected Donald Trump. So maybe your low is pretty fucking low. Like, really really really really low. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2017, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/119 "2017-10-27T04:13:40Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > You people elected Donald Trump. So maybe your low is pretty fucking low. Like, really really really really low. Perhaps, but Exapno Mapcase wasn’t talking about our low. He was talking about our high. Reading comprehension: it’s not for everyone, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2017, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/120 "2017-10-27T07:10:26Z")
> [@sleestak](#): > > Yet all Trump supporters are routinely described as racists/homophobes/ignorant on this board but no one says a thing… > Odd, isn’t it? > > Slee It’s very odd. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2017, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/121 "2017-10-27T07:49:07Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Certainly more exciting and interesting. A “tacky torch” actually _burns_, sorta kinda. How does that compare with the flashlight on a smartphone, carried about on a selfie-stick? Quite favourably. It’s hard to light a cross with a smartphone on a stick. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111.md?page=7)