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Hello everyone welcome to another DailyJim It is the episode for thursday june 9th 2022 I say it's the episode four because I'm a couple hours late. I was watching the January six Committee hearing tonight and I think that's what I want to talk about. I'm not really sure what about it, I want to say some thinking maybe you'll appreciate you're just saying how I was feeling while it was happening. I'm trying to articulate that and maybe pull into a bigger conclusion at the end. So it was about two hours long and I felt engaged most of the time I think I looked at my phone just a few times and really was paying attention, and I remember there were a few moments where I felt quite shocked, and then they showed film of the events in the attacks and the breaching of the capitol building etcetera etcetera. And I was seething, I was seething with anger and I haven't felt that in a long time.
And just seeing people break into the building, seeing people attack cops, seeing people walk through the hall seeing people go through the crypt and some of the more sacred parts of the capitol building that I've seen a couple of years ago, and yeah just seething with anger, and then when some of the testimony was going on especially from the officer who got hurt um I heard I mean got knocked unconscious, came out of that and then still was helping people, and then we're still fighting and then got hurt again and there was still fighting it it brought tears to my eyes at different points, and.
I think cash would sounds 2022 June, so this is about 5, 17 months ago that this happened.
I think it's easy for me to forget just how large the event was. Just how many people were there and how many people, broke into the building, not only broke into the building, broke past the police security lines and then broke onto the property and then broke into the building and what they did inside the building. And.
I think I forgot how traumatic that day was just watching here on television. And I can only imagine how traumatic it was for people there, for the police officers, for the members of congress, for other people who worked in the government.
And I think the other thing I was trying to pay attention to while the hearing was going, was I was trying to almost look at it from a skeptical perspective, not because, I don't believe it, or didn't believe what was happening or what the people were saying in the committee hearing, but I know that there are many people out there who don't and I was trying to figure out what are the loopholes that they're going to find.
Yeah, and I think the problem is people can find loopholes and anything that they want to find loopholes and they can spin almost any story to make it look like people are lying. Um, and make it look like people have an evil intention or trying to harm. Now, I think sometimes it's harder to do that, but I think almost anything can be manipulated. Um, so I don't really know what the answer is.
I sit here and I trust the people on the committee that they're following the rules and that they're doing everything according to the rules, and I trust that they are following the law, and I trust that they have good intentions, basically, I'd say, overall, I trust the vast majority of people are trying their best.
Um, I believe others don't see it that way. I believe there are a lot of people out there who think the vast majority of people are trying to hurt me or don't care about me, and only maybe a few really care about me. But even sometimes they doubt that. I don't know how we reconcile some of this stuff. I just kept watching. And I, you know, I think the main conclusion I had at the end was there are so many people out there who don't believe that their government officials care about them. They think that they're lying and cheating and and doing everything they possibly can. And but they believe a handful of people who tell them don't believe other people, and I just.
I worry, I worry I see this in my personal life too and I have friends and family outside of politics who I think that people around them were going to try to hurt them. Um So they're afraid of strangers or they're afraid to open up and ask help to their friends and family because they think their friends and family are just going to make fun of them or you know, humiliate them.
I don't I don't know what the answer is.
It's.
I think so many of us are going through emotional challenges, anger, fear, grief, um from so many different sources and we just don't talk about it, and, I don't know, seeing what happened on January 6, 2021 like I said, brings up so many emotions for me and I don't want that to happen again in this country, I want to have the peaceful transition of power. I want people to play the game and when one side loses say you know what we lost. But we played fair, we tried our best and that's how it goes. But when somebody loses and says, well no that's no the game was rigged. Like the refs were cheating. The refs were uh the refs were against me, the refs were corrupt. And so what we're gonna do is we're just gonna take this game by force. No, that's not how the game works. So if people and I can feel myself getting angry again, ah I don't know the answer is I'm gonna think about it more and we'll talk about it more because we're running out of time here and It's about seven minutes. I don't know what the answer is. I just I think so many of us.
So many of us don't know the answer.
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