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The Glorious Schadenfreude Of The FBI Raiding Mar-A-Lago
Just as we were getting into a Dark Brandon Summer in honor of falling gas prices, Biden killing al Qaeda’s Ayman al-Zawahri, and Democrats passing this Congressional term’s legislative capstone Inflation Reduction Act amidst rising poll numbers in the upcoming midterm elections party-wide for Democrats boosted by Republicans’ abortion insanity, the FBI raided Donald Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago in service of the investigation into his illegal hoarding of classified documents.
Fox News’s hosts and guests immediately began to complain and jeer that Democrats and liberals on Twitter were finding the FBI raid hilarious, and they were right. It’s the funniest, most entertaining, most anticipated event of they year. The Schadenfreude I feel is spectacular, and I laughed all night at Trump’s misfortunes. For once I wasn’t doomscrolling on Twitter, I was gleescrolling.
It’s even funnier replaying the greatest hits of Republican slogans and talking points criticizing Hillary Clinton for her mishaps with classified documents. Remember the endless chants of “Lock her up!” and the wild speculative guesses on where her lost email server might be hidden? You’d think the crowds of Trump supporters screaming their concern for mishandled classified files would be similarly upset at Trump. They did spend a lot of time publishing op-eds that…
