# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2017, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/162 "2017-12-02T19:33:26Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > A bunch of sore losers from the last election are still so sore about it a year later that they wanted to get together and scream futilely at the sky. Meh. Makes more sense than a sore winner having to bring up his opponent every few hours. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2017, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/163 "2017-12-02T19:58:55Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > A bunch of sore losers from the last election are still so sore about it a year later that they wanted to get together and scream futilely at the sky. “Sore losers” is a term from children’s games. If you believe politics is a child’s game, that might explain your post. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2017, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/164 "2017-12-02T20:31:04Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > A bunch of sore losers from the last election are still so sore about it a year later that they wanted to get together and scream futilely at the sky. It probably wouldn’t be a thing if the incompetent orange buffoon didn’t provide daily justification to make reasonable people want to scream from a deep sense of WTF. Pretty sure the country is at the point where if he were to (mercifully) drop dead, a national collective sigh of relief would be more audible than the occasional screams of frustration. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/165 "2017-12-03T02:09:09Z")
We’re in a thread with the declared purpose of: > [@iiandyiiii](#): > > … so this will serve to bask in the sorrows of either candidate’s supporters, whenever those sorrows begin. … If you don’t think those clowns screaming at the sky qualify, I don’t know what to tell you. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/166 "2017-12-03T13:40:48Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > A bunch of sore losers from the last election are still so sore about it a year later that they wanted to get together and scream futilely at the sky. Are there any other consequences to the nation and its people that have attracted your notice? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/167 "2017-12-03T15:14:47Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > …I don’t know what to tell you. “Goodbye!” leaps to mind. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/168 "2017-12-03T18:36:31Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Are there any other consequences to the nation and its people that have attracted your notice? Effects from the election? Yes, lots of them. Too many to list. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/169 "2017-12-03T21:34:56Z")
But none that can compare to gettin’ the libtards mad. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/170 "2017-12-04T05:30:19Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > But none that can compare to gettin’ the libtards mad. There are a whole lot of things more important / significant than this. Some of them I consider good, and others bad. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/171 "2017-12-04T14:13:54Z")
That it’s even on anyone’s list is … a problem. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/172 "2017-12-04T15:27:08Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > If you don’t think those clowns screaming at the sky qualify, I don’t know what to tell you. I weigh those screaming at the sky in frustration with the Trump administration against those screaming “FAKE NEWS” in their fanatical alternative fact based devotion of the Trump administration. I don’t know what to tell you, but the former doesn’t seem nearly as crazy as the latter. ---
**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:** [September 26, 2019, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/173 "2019-09-26T23:43:47Z")
Bumping this thread. I’m feeling a bit schadenfreude’y the last couple days. ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/174 "2019-09-27T00:10:39Z")
There were a couple of posters who didn’t think Trump would be that bad. Care to weigh in? ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/175 "2019-09-27T00:16:26Z")
Maybe check out a current thread if you want them to weigh in. Bumping this thread was a jackass move. ---
**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:** [September 27, 2019, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/176 "2019-09-27T00:29:15Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > Maybe check out a current thread if you want them to weigh in. Bumping this thread was a jackass move. Why was it a “jackass move” in bumping a 2016 election schadenfreude thread when I’m feeling schadenfreude’y about the outcome of the 2016 election? ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/177 "2019-09-27T00:32:36Z")
Makes sense to me. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/178 "2019-09-27T00:34:43Z")
Because you aren’t feeling schadenfreude about the outcome of the 2016 election. Three years later,you are happy that Trump has proved a disaster so you are trying to redeem this ill conceived thread. ---
**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:** [September 27, 2019, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/179 "2019-09-27T00:38:51Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > Because you aren’t feeling schadenfreude about the outcome of the 2016 election. Three years later,you are happy that Trump has proved a disaster so you are trying to redeem this ill conceived thread. I can kindof see where you are coming from, but I’m not trying to redeem this thread. Guess I should’ve posted elsewhere, but I searched for the term and found one that was specifically about “schadenfreude” related to Trump and posted. If that makes me a jackass, so be it. Mea culpa. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/180 "2019-09-27T00:46:33Z")
Lol, why couldn’t you just start a new Shadenfreud thread? No law against that. Anyway, whatever. I’ll just quietly wait for my warnings for jr modding or personal insults or whatever. ---
**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:** [September 27, 2019, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111/181 "2019-09-27T00:54:13Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > Lol, why couldn’t you just start a new Shadenfreud thread? No law against that. Anyway, whatever. I’ll just quietly wait for my warnings for jr modding or personal insults or whatever. Ha! I was caught up in the full-on schadenfreude rapture that’s gripping the nation. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-election-schadenfreude-thread/771111.md?page=10)