We need a new word.

[Keith&Co.]

I mean, i like shadenfreude, "I am entertained by watching your predictable and deserved suffering." But that's no longer enough.

A capitol rioter, Brandon Fellows, who allegedly smoked weed in a congressman's office, defended himself in court. Federal court. After the judge tried to tell him, you hadn't ought'ta do that.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/brand...court-accidentally-admits-to-two-new-felonies

He was steadfast thow, and on the stand admitted:

One-he gained access to the Capitol through a broken window. A felony he had not been charged with up to then.

Two-he tried to get a previous judge removed from the case using the judge’s wife’s contact information. Another surprise felony gifted to the prosecution.

Strangely, he was not released from custody after that.

So, yeah, we need something to sum 'shadenfreude' with an element of "My expectations were low, man, but JESUS!!"

 

[Rhea]

What’s the Scottish word for “laughing at the one who smiles while eating his own shit”?

 

[jonatha]

"The magatude of your folly astounds me."

 

[funinspace]

Magatfreude?

 

[gmbteach]

Space cadet? Something along those lines.

 

[Bronzeage]

There is "epicaricacy" derived from classical Greek. It's basically the same thing a shadenfreude, but with a Greek root.

What we need is a word which expresses "the certainty that the person stupid enough to have created the observed situation cannot be smart enough to prevent it getting worse."

 

[gmbteach]

There is "epicaricacy" derived from classical Greek. It's basically the same thing a shadenfreude, but with a Greek root.

What we need is a word which expresses "the certainty that the person stupid enough to have created the observed situation cannot be smart enough to prevent it getting worse."

Space cadet.

 

[Ford]

I don't even know if one word can encapsulate "I traveled to the Capitol to 'Stop the Steal,' got wrapped up in the heat of the moment, tried to actually overthrow the government, had a reality check when slapped with federal charges, and then figured I was smart enough to get out of it by defending myself."

Idiocracy?

 

[jonatha]

There is "epicaricacy" derived from classical Greek. It's basically the same thing a shadenfreude, but with a Greek root.

What we need is a word which expresses "the certainty that the person stupid enough to have created the observed situation cannot be smart enough to prevent it getting worse."

Republican?

 

[marc]

One of the most insulting lines from a cartoon:

"You! You idiot you! You....YOU you!"


So bad the person couldn't think of a worse insult that being YOU.

 

[Keith&Co.]

One of the most insulting lines from a cartoon:

"You! You idiot you! You....YOU you!"


So bad the person couldn't think of a worse insult that being YOU.

Well, there was Happy Days, with Malf telling Potsy, "You're such a potsy!"

 

[ideologyhunter]

Post-sanity rightist.
Applies to the anti-vaxxers, the woman telling the FL school board that putting masks on kids is pedophilia, the climate collapse deniers, anyone who believes Trump won last year in a landslide (or at all), anyone who believes that there can be a super-power with low taxes.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Potential a new definition for the word doping​.

 

[Gun Nut]

I mean, i like shadenfreude, "I am entertained by watching your predictable and deserved suffering." But that's no longer enough.

A capitol rioter, Brandon Fellows, who allegedly smoked weed in a congressman's office, defended himself in court. Federal court. After the judge tried to tell him, you hadn't ought'ta do that.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/brand...court-accidentally-admits-to-two-new-felonies

He was steadfast thow, and on the stand admitted:

One-he gained access to the Capitol through a broken window. A felony he had not been charged with up to then.

Two-he tried to get a previous judge removed from the case using the judge’s wife’s contact information. Another surprise felony gifted to the prosecution.

Strangely, he was not released from custody after that.

So, yeah, we need something to sum 'shadenfreude' with an element of "My expectations were low, man, but JESUS!!"

The word stems from German. Shaden - Damage, Freude - Joy. So, "Damage-Joy". To add unexpectedness to it, use "Surprise" - Wunder. So your new word can be, "Wundershadenfreude" - Surprise-Damage-Joy
It rolls off the tongue nicely too... phonetically, "vunder-shaaden-fraud-eh"

"When I first heard the outcome of the trial, I felt a strong sense of shadenfreude, but then I heard what the judge sentenced him to and I felt wundershadenfreude.

 

[Keith&Co.]

"When I first heard the outcome of the trial, I felt a strong sense of shadenfreude, but then I heard what the judge sentenced him to and I felt wundershadenfreude.

I like that.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

link

Last month, Fellows asked McFadden to allow him to represent himself pro se in his case – saying he had spent the previous two weeks in the D.C. Jail’s law library and determined that was what he wanted. Despite warning him, repeatedly, of the possible consequences of going it alone with no formal law training, McFadden ultimately granted Fellows’ request.

Jebus! That is like "I did some research on the vaccine..." type stupid.

 

[JohnG]

This is verging on Dunning-Kruger. No?

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

This is verging on Dunning-Kruger. No?

Maybe need a new category for Darwin Awards... like a Legal Darwin, but there is probably a better term.

 

[funinspace]

This is verging on Dunning-Kruger. No?

Maybe need a new category for Darwin Awards... like a Legal Darwin, but there is probably a better term.

Legally Darwin!

But I'd say 'wundershadenfreude' is the winner.

 

[Patooka]

This is verging on Dunning-Kruger. No?

Maybe need a new category for Darwin Awards... like a Legal Darwin, but there is probably a better term.

Legally Darwin!

But I'd say 'wundershadenfreude' is the winner.

The fact that it has more syllables than the average Trumper uses is just gravy. Nice one, Gun Nut.