I watched the news and the Jan 6 hearings yesterday and what struck me most, beyond the sheer outrageousness of some recent events, was the human cost.

1) Rusty Bowers - this guy articulated precisely the way I felt about my service to my country as a federal employee. He and his family suffered for it. He was deeply angered, you could tell, by the way the Trump horde harassed him, his wife, his gravely ill daughter. No one gave a ****, though, not even people he called his friends. People with guns scaring his neighbors, for God's sake. Because he wouldn't knuckle under.

2) Brad Raffensberger - he got the same treatment. Did you notice how careful he was when answering Schiff? Schiff asked a question that relied on Raffensberger knowing what was in Trump's mind and Raffensberger very carefully stuck to what he was qualified to speak about - the disposition of the votes. He and his family became targets of the mob - thousands of text messages, phone messages, pornography sent. Hell, the President even helped by posting Raffensberger's personal phone number. What a ****-heel we had for President. And still I see the Trump 2024 flags in my town.

3) Gabe Sterling - for a Georgia boy, he had no discernible accent. He saw how the lies were whipping people up to violence and called out the President of the United States in a very public way and got the same treatment as the other two.

4) Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman. This made me very upset. These women were specifically targeted by the President of the United States of America and the mob set loose on them. Freeman had the straight of it - she said that the President was supposed to protect Americans, all Americans. Trump pointed the mob at her instead. Just to stay in power. Disgusting.

5) Uvalde. The head of the Texas Public Safety Dept. was visibly emotional when discussing the unfathomable dereliction of duty by Arredondo. All those children, dead because Arredondo was seemingly occupying a job where he could collect a paycheck instead of protect people. I don't know how Arredondo can continue in any capacity in that town. All those parents, demanding answers for their dead children. I cannot imagine the pit of horror they are in and it keeps getting deeper every day as more and more is known. Like someone being tortured and the torture never ends.

Yesterday was a very sad day if you look at the people suffering.