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If we lived in a simply world, our actuality would look exponentially totally different. Beyoncé would’ve received 2023 Album of the Yr, everybody would depart Rachel Zegler alone, and the U.S. would cease deporting folks with out due course of. In case you’ve acquired an ethical compass, it’s sufficient to fill you with an endless effectively of despair. However, typically, no matter greater energy above takes pity on us and offers us a fleeting second of karmic justice.
This weekend, Division of Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem (you understand, the one who killed her household canine and went full glam to a detention heart) had her purse stolen at a restaurant in D.C. In response to CNN, digital camera footage exhibits a “white male sporting a medical masks” making off with Noem’s bag, which had “Noem’s driver’s license, medicine, residence keys, passport, DHS entry badge, make-up bag, clean checks, and about $3,000 in money.” I do not know who carries that a lot money round or why they’d want a lot readily available, however the DHS advised Newsweek by way of e-mail that the large wad of cash was meant to “deal with her household to dinner, actions, and Easter items.” Apparently Noem has by no means heard of a debit card or Venmo.
Whereas we don’t condone stealing, it’s a must to admit there’s one thing borderline cosmic about somebody who’s taken a lot away from so many individuals — dignity from the detained, household from the unjustly arrested, compassion from the wrongfully deported — to have one thing taken from her. Fortunately for her, Noem’s gadgets are simply and rapidly replaceable. That’s greater than we will say for these she’s condemned to detention in El Salvador.
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