Tentative, qualified, un-schadenfreude.

Well, since you asked, yes, I am pleased to see that notable two-time popular vote runner up Donald Trump is being indicted for uh, wait, hang on, uh, right, the hush money he paid to an adult film star with whom he had an affair. He claims it was to keep her from spreading false allegations, but I mean, literally no one in the world believes that. No one. 

Everyone is innocent until proven guilty, but innocent people don't typically
find themselves others for their silence. Also, he's totally guilty. Like, c'mon.

A bigger crime in the way Jupiter is bigger
than Saturn, but they're both goddamn huge.

I would have preferred he was being charged with trying to pressure Georgia election officials to do him a solid and pretend he won, because that seems like a bigger crime. Or maybe one of the many, many women who have accused him of sexual assault would get to see him, you know, face consequences. But whatever, sure, fine, let's do the hush money thing. At this point I'll take what we can get. What I'm less thrilled about is the number of people who aren't thrilled. Outraged even that prosecutors would have the temerity to prosecute him.

Does he...does he not remember when
Trump's angry mob wanted to hang him?
Like, actually hang him at the Capitol?

Here's what Mike Pence had to say:

"Well, I think the unprecedented indictment of a former president of the United States on a campaign finance issue is an outrage. And it appears to millions of Americans to be little more than a political prosecution..."

-a guy who should be numb 

to outrage by this point

God I wish these people were
smart enough to appreciate irony.

According to NPR, 56% of Americans feel that investigating the former...president? God, it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth to remember that he was actually--never mind. They feel that investigating the former president is fair. And it is. But 41% don't. They think it's a politically motivated witch hunt which is firstly unfair to witches, and secondly what? Really? He committed tons of crimes. Tons. Like, the dude tried to do a coup. Like, an actual coup, right in front of us. D'état, no less. And everything he did was politically motivated.

Both. It's both. They're affectionally 
hate-filled, with a dash of rabid-foam,
bat-shit, off-their-rockers lunacy.

Remember that time he tried to withhold Federal aide from California during the 2019 wildfires because he didn't like that Governor Newsom called him out for his terrible environmental policies? Or the administration's entire handling of the pandemic? Or the time he--you know what? I'm preaching to the choir here, I'll stop. The point is that I'd be a lot happier if there weren't so many people out there willing to look past all the terrible shit he did out of what? Affection? Blind hatred of the Left?

Anyway, yes, like I said, I'm pleased. Thrilled perhaps. But I'm also realistic. And cynical. Because if the track record of the criminal justice system is any indication, a straight, white, wealthy, cis-dude is not likely to face any actual consequences for his actions. In fact, he'll probably get to run for President again. And an alarming number of people will vote for him. Not enough to elect him, but that's never stopped him before.

Consequences? Pfft, he's a white guy who tried to end democracy in America, 
not a Black mother who lied on a form to get her kid into a decent school.