{"id":26552,"date":"2017-03-03T13:32:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=26552"},"modified":"2017-03-03T14:08:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T22:08:10","slug":"friday-fun-can-one-overdose-on-schadenfreude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/03\/friday-fun-can-one-overdose-on-schadenfreude\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun &#8211; Can One Overdose on Schadenfreude?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you noticed that after reading the tons of terrible troubles that the <strong><em>Twitler Klan<\/em><\/strong> is facing these days there&rsquo;s an extra bounce to your step?&nbsp; The corners of your mouth are heading north more often?&nbsp; Foods taste better?&nbsp; Your sex life is &hellip; well, maybe we should stop here.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, the depressing funk from the 11\/8\/16 apocalypse is lifting &ndash; at least is some aspects.&nbsp; And while the <strong><em>RESIST<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>INDIVISIBLE<\/em><\/strong> movements have had a genuine impact on mobilizing us proud Liberals, the downside is that they have also galvanized the <em>Trumpkins<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Twitler<\/em><\/strong> pleaded with his <em>Trumpster-Divers<\/em> to show up in full-force prior to his Joint Session of Congress speech this past Tuesday, and <em>Breitbart<\/em> predicted the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2017\/02\/monday-pro-trump-rallies-a-massive-flop-as-event-photos-show-tiny-crowds\/\" target=\"_blank\">turnout would be &ldquo;massive&rdquo;<\/a>.&nbsp; And it was!&nbsp; They turned out in <s>hundreds of millions<\/s> &hellip; <s>tens of thousands<\/s> &hellip; <em><strong>DOZENS!&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>So let&rsquo;s take a look at what we&rsquo;re up against, since it was <strong>Sun Tzu<\/strong> who advised, in &ldquo;The Art of War&rdquo;, that we should <strong><em>&ldquo;Know your enemy&rdquo;<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#B22222;\"><em><strong>[<u>NOTE<\/u>: You can right-click or scrollwheel-click on most of the photos to open them full-size in a separate window]<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26553\" height=\"178\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_02-300x178.jpg\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_02-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_02-150x89.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_02.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>&nbsp;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26554\" height=\"223\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_03-300x223.jpg\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_03-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_03-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_03.jpg 596w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>&nbsp;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26555\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_04-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_04-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_04-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_04-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_04.jpg 953w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>&nbsp;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_06.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26557\" height=\"226\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_06-300x226.jpg\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_06-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_06-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_06.jpg 593w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>&nbsp;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_07.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26558\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_07-300x169.jpg\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_07-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_07-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_07-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_07.jpg 944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>&nbsp;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_08.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26559\" height=\"227\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_08-300x227.jpg\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_08-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_08-150x114.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_08-768x582.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_08-1024x776.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_08.jpg 1044w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>&nbsp;<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26560\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_11_Atlanta-Fair-300x169.jpg\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_11_Atlanta-Fair-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_11_Atlanta-Fair-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_11_Atlanta-Fair-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_11_Atlanta-Fair-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_11_Atlanta-Fair.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>&nbsp;<em>[That one is Atlanta &#8230; <strong>ATLANTA!<\/strong>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_12_Portland.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26561\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_12_Portland-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_12_Portland-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_12_Portland-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_12_Portland.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>&nbsp;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_13_WA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26562\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_13_WA-300x295.jpg\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_13_WA-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_13_WA-150x148.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_13_WA-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_13_WA-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_13_WA-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_13_WA-64x64.jpg 64w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_13_WA.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And my favorite:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26563\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26563\" alt=\"\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26563 wp-caption alignnone\" height=\"197\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_16_Brea-300x197.jpeg\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_16_Brea-300x197.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_16_Brea-150x99.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_16_Brea.jpeg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-26563\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BREA, CA &#8211; FEBRUARY 27: A supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump sits on a bench next to a cardboard cut out of President Trump during a rally in favor of the &quot;America First&quot; on February 27, 2017 in Brea, California. Dozens of supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump held a rally outside the office of U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) in support of the &quot;America First&quot; agenda that the Trump administration is pushing forward. (Photo by Justin Sullivan\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Of course from Twitler&#39;s point of view &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_Packed_Hopper-Nighthawk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-26564\" height=\"458\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_Packed_Hopper-Nighthawk-1024x675.jpg\" width=\"695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_Packed_Hopper-Nighthawk-1024x675.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_Packed_Hopper-Nighthawk-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_Packed_Hopper-Nighthawk-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_Packed_Hopper-Nighthawk-768x507.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-Rally_Pitiful_Packed_Hopper-Nighthawk.jpg 1134w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So in answer to Twitler&rsquo;s pleading Tweet &hellip;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Maybe the millions of people who voted to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN should have their own rally. It would be the biggest of them all!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/835465719970217984\">February 25, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#B22222;\"><span style=\"font-size:28px;\"><u><em><strong>You already did &hellip;<\/strong><\/em><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Aerial_Inauguration_Compare_Side-by-Side_05_Same-Spot-Time.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26566\" height=\"552\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Aerial_Inauguration_Compare_Side-by-Side_05_Same-Spot-Time.jpg\" width=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Aerial_Inauguration_Compare_Side-by-Side_05_Same-Spot-Time.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Aerial_Inauguration_Compare_Side-by-Side_05_Same-Spot-Time-150x83.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Aerial_Inauguration_Compare_Side-by-Side_05_Same-Spot-Time-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Aerial_Inauguration_Compare_Side-by-Side_05_Same-Spot-Time-768x424.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><span style=\"font-size:28px;\"><u><em><strong>It Wasn&#39;t!<\/strong><\/em><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you noticed that after reading the tons of terrible troubles that the Twitler Klan is facing these days there&rsquo;s an extra bounce to your step?&nbsp; The corners of your mouth are heading north more often?&nbsp; Foods taste better?&nbsp; Your sex life is &hellip; well, maybe we should stop here. At any rate, the depressing <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/03\/friday-fun-can-one-overdose-on-schadenfreude\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}