Democratic congressional staffers — grown adults drawing a government paycheck funded by you and me — spent the entire 2026 Congressional Baseball Game taunting and heckling a group of conservative high school students who committed the unforgivable crime of watching a baseball game while right-of-center. The annual charity event took place on June 10 at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., and apparently the party of "tolerance" couldn't tolerate teenagers existing in their general vicinity for a single evening.

Imagine being a salaried adult and deciding that your big move for the night is picking a fight with minors. At a charity event. For two hours.

Matt Hurtt, director of the Leadership Institute — a conservative nonprofit that educates young students on civic engagement — documented the entire fiasco on X. According to Hurtt, the Democratic staffers verbally berated the group of high schoolers for a full two hours as reported by the Daily Caller. Video posted by Hurtt shows the staffers shouting "stay in school" at the kids. The high schoolers, to their credit, fired back by reminding the oh-so-mature government employees that they had a curfew.

The teenagers were more composed than the congressional staffers.

The Congressional Baseball Game is supposed to be the one night a year where both sides put down the swords and play a friendly game for charity. It raises money for the Boys & Girls Club, the Washington Literacy Center, and the Capitol Police Memorial Fund. It exists specifically to show the American people that their elected officials — and by extension, their staffs — can behave like functioning adults for nine innings.

Democrat staffers couldn't make it through the first pitch at 7:05 p.m. before turning it into a political harassment session against kids.

And here's the kicker — they weren't even winning. Republicans crushed the Democrats 11-2, marking the GOP's sixth consecutive victory in the annual contest. So while their bosses were getting shellacked on the diamond, these staffers decided to take out their frustrations on the nearest available target: high school students.

Now play the "imagine if Republicans did this" game. Imagine a group of GOP staffers spending an entire charity baseball game screaming at a bunch of liberal high schoolers. CNN would run it for 72 hours straight. There would be congressional hearings. Someone would write a book about it.

But when Democrats do it? Crickets from the mainstream press.

These aren't random people on the street. These are congressional staffers — people who work in the halls of power, process legislation, and interact with constituents on behalf of sitting members of Congress. They are paid with taxpayer dollars. And they spent those taxpayer-funded hours of their evening bullying children for wearing the wrong political jersey.

Is it a job requirement in Democrat circles to be the most obnoxious and insufferable people imaginable? Because they're certainly hiring for it.

The Leadership Institute brings these students to D.C. to learn about government, civic engagement, and the political process. What those kids learned on June 10 is that the people who work for the Democratic Party will target you — even if you're a minor, even if you're at a charity event, even if all you're doing is sitting in the stands watching a baseball game. Not the Bee put it best: grown adults on a government payroll, heckling teenagers at a bipartisan charity game.

Remember this the next time a Democrat lectures you about civility, bullying, or "protecting the children." They can't even let kids watch a ball game in peace.