because everywhere there are nazis, martians and conspiracy theories. really referring there to this kind of alternate reality that putin appears to be presenting. he accused the ukrainian government of being responsible for destroying the economy, destroying the lives of its citizens. he accused them of being responsible for starting the war. he accused them of paying more attention to the interests of the west than to the interests of their own ukrainian people. really reflecting a sort of startling take on the actual events that we have seen transpire on the ground in the last year. he said, quote, talking about the ukrainian government again, they unleashed the war and we continue to use force to stop it. this kind of thinking, this sort of alternative reality, in-ri think really underscores why it is that the ukrainian government
people from the other party that they don t want on the committees. howard: you know, jim, you have this sort of alternative reality between democrats and republicans and the media. so the republicans have now voted to strip away $80 billion from past biden legislation to pay for what they say is 87,000 irs agents. they say we re protecting small business, we re protecting working families. but all these fact checkers washington post, politifact, fact check.org say that s not true, most of the money wasn t going to agents and no one under $400,000ing a year will be audited, but conservatives, of course, don t necessarily believe it. yeah, look, there s a question of this is what the money s been allocated for and what it s intended to do and what the internal revenue service will actually do. republicans have a relatively easy case to the are public howard: everybody hates the irs. they re fine human beings and everyone should respect hem and they re terrific. [laughter] havi
, a strongman, something besides these institutions should be running the country. if we get with the institutions, we get the strong hand. that logic is on display here in the u.s., but also classic logic. likewise, a lie, an alternative reality. strong belief among a lot of people is, what happened is not what happened, we did not really lose the vote, we really won the vote. that is common with respect to january 8th, but also a big 21st-century phenomenon. big lies which capture lots of people. with the recent twist, i think presumably in the u.s., it s social media bubbles which allow this to happen, i think it is an odd way in which people are storming these buildings, emerging from alternative reality, into real reality, as they do it. they are sure they are right, because they are not hearing any other voices in the social media reality where they live. in terms of contending with the tactical power of those things you are describing, in
50 minutes after the hour. for one what horrific crime story to another. local officials a neighbor on the father of three killed by a stray bill in a hotel lobby. our slimy new york soft on crime policy. paul was martyred while visiting his son during marist college and family weekend. officials say that the suspects had outstanding felony charges. as should have been in bars blind bars. policymakers and others who live in some sort of alternative reality, where they either don t want to admit or accept failure for policies that are making us less safe and more dangerous. or they are ignorant to understand the violence. neves, remember him as an kind and loving father. at least 75 people are dead and over 300,000 still without power in florida and it s been almost a week after hurricane ian slammed this day. first responders are searching for survivors, 25 is a day. and i could continue next week.