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Hello everyone welcome to another DailyJim It is Wednesday january, january, Wednesday june 29th 2022 I was feeling so confident I was gonna say the date, I didn't have to look at it and I messed it up Today. I wanted to talk about kind of what I was talking about yesterday and whether people understand the law or not and I think there really are two conversations happening. I think there's a conversation happening in legal context in the US and I think there's a conversation that's happening on television or on the internet in kind of the public square. And what came out recently was there was the testimony I think it was yesterday. Yeah the testimony where Cassidy Hutchinson talked about things that trump did while in office, On January six and before and today many people came out oh she's lying, that never happened. I never asked for a pardon. He never trump, never attacked the driver. And the thing that overwhelmingly speaks to me is that Cassidy Hutchinson was under oath in the legal in the legal process. I mean she was under oath so she wasn't in a court of law but she was in front of the U. S. Congress. So under oath is still under oath, it would still be perjury in some way. And but somebody speaking on twitter, or facebook or Fox news or frankly I mean cBS or NBC or Washington post or new york times or any of these channels can lie and there's no penalty for lying and I think what. I think this is a challenge that we face in that.
So many of the conversations are happening in the public square. It's it's I relate it back to the sports metaphor. It's like no, we won the game. No, no, no, but the refs say we lost the game. No, no, but we actually won. They cheated. The refs cheated us and the other players cheated. We won. But if the refs say you did not win, you did not win the game because the refs make the official, I mean they're called officials. In many sports, they're called officials. They make the official ruling whether you won or you lost the game. Now if you think you got cheated. Yes, there's a formal process, I imagine that you can go through with the league to see if you won or if the other team won. But at some point there is a formal process to follow and if that formal process says you didn't win, then you did not win. And I think.
What frustrates me is that Mhm people still say no, no, we won. But maybe in the the emotionally, you thought you won, maybe spiritually, you thought you won. Maybe uh maybe your your anger and fear or what, who knows? Who knows? And maybe maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe not in this specific case because I don't strongly believe, but in many in some situations, maybe you actually did win, but it's not about whether somebody, it's about whether somebody won according to the rules, and the rules are enforced by a specific set of people who we give the power to enforce those rules. I don't know, you can tell probably by my voice that I'm incredibly frustrated by this. I guess maybe it's growing up and playing so many team sports, there were so many games we lost where, you know, the ref made a bad call or oh, we thought the ref, you know, had a home field advantage and they were, they were making decisions on behalf of the team, You know, we're the visiting team and they were giving the advantage to the home field, the home team. You know, so many games where I felt frustrated with how the refs called the game, but at the end of the day we won or lost. And the refs are the ones who make that decision, if I disagree with it. There are processes to follow to get rid of those refs too. And there are rules, there are rules on how to change the rules.
One of the rules, at least in the United States. From my understanding is that you are not allowed to interrupt an official proceeding of Congress official proceeding. I think that's the word, You're not allowed to interrupt an official meeting or official session of Congress. And that's not the way to change the rules. To change rules as a process of taking to the courts and voting and writing in laws and, taking it up followed up to the top of the Supreme Court and uh protesting and protesting, not going inside the building because going inside the building is not allowed, especially Congress when they're in session. And many of the things, so it's just I think what frustrates me is that There seems to be two parallel conversations happening. One people, 11 set of people and I'd say I care about this more paying attention to what's happening legally. Did people follow the rules and what was the ruling? What was the judgment and if we don't like the judgment, how do we change the rules, man? I gotta stop doing this with the timing, I'm sure you can hear my clock going crazy. Music.
Um Yeah, well you get to see that I'm human struggling with the chimes. Um So two parallel conversations, you know, if if I don't like the ruling, we can change the rules, but we have to go by the rules to change the rules at least, you know, mostly by, you know, um but.
There seems to be another conversation where people don't either understand the rules or don't care about the rules and care more about whether we thought we won or we thought we lost or we thought it was fair, we thought.
I don't know if if people don't believe in the rules, we don't have a kunches. We don't have a government let me say because we could still have a nation of people. But even then culturally there are rules and formal rules that we abide by to interact with people. And I don't know, I'm just I'm rambling at some point because I'm just so I'm frustrated when somebody comes on and says, oh no, she didn't say that. I'm like okay fine. If you have the courage to also get in front of 20 million people watching or however many watched and put yourself under oath live on television in front of the U. S. Congress members of the U. S. Congress go for it. I will trust you when you put some skin in the game. When you when you say under oath the penalty of perjury for lying. The same thing that you're saying to a reporter behind the scenes. So I don't know, it's just I really wish people would just tell the truth. You know how many problems would go away if we just honestly said how what we're thinking and how we're feeling. Oh goodness. Now that's a whole maybe another conversation for another day and how our justice system dis incentivizes people to say how we're actually thinking and feeling. Because if we say it then we'll get punished, we'll get thrown in jail and we don't have much incentive to admit guilt, to admit remorse, to admit actions that we have. Uh, we think we have done that have caused harm to others, but that's a conversation for another day. I'm way past time and I'm going to slow down after I just sped up and try to get some sleep. So talk to you soon.
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