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Is Kamala Harris’ Staff a Powder-Keg?
Yes.
To understand the world we live in today, here is a clarifying video:
See the grinning, ill-advised woman holding the sign at 0:54? She was unhurt in the serious accident she caused, which could not be said of all the riders.
The sign-holder immediately fled the country and was subsequently arrested in Germany. The Tour de France intends to sue her. Tour de France officials are, as is anyone else viewing that video, irritated beyond endurance at what some people are willing to do for attention.
To get on television, this spectator placed herself and all the riders of the Tour in mortal peril.
She is hardly alone.
The world over, what some people will do to get on tv, from daredevil stunts to “The Bachelor”, should shock us. Occasionally, it does.
The Darwin Awards are mean. It’s ghoulish, gallows humor. Everyone makes mistakes. The victims of terrible accidents, and their loved ones, deserve better than to be told by a bunch of internet strangers that stupid…