democrats have passed single-handedly without any help from the republicans. something that is changing about how people are going to vote in the midterms and that s with this is all about. it s not about facts anymore, and i long for a time when we could at least return to the facts and just look at what are the facts. as you said, we are not gonna have 87,000 people in the irs carrying guns. most of them are going to be auditors, and the funds are gonna be used to audit the wealthy. it will not be going to anybody at the lower end, even the middle, even the upper middle class aren t going to get audited with this new money. as somebody said, at least someone s gonna start answering the phone so if you have a question you ll get unanswered. it s what we need to get out there, are the facts and the positive nature of the inflation reduction act and all the other accomplishments in the last few weeks. ben, do the facts matter to
to kill you, or at least that is the conspiracy du jour receiving wall-to-wall coverage of the conservative news media this week. ostensibly as a ploy to distract from the search of trump s own, republicans and their allies at fox have started hyperventilating about a provision in the inflation reduction act that provides a boost in funding to the irs. what will the irs be doing without funding boosts they want to know? making sure won t wealthy people pay their share in taxes may be a start, but if you asked the republican media, they will be using that funds to buy guns and ammo and should appear house of course. to discuss with this me this is terry s my son in a crowd panel. how in the world did the irs become the shadow army of the u.s. government going after conservatives here? i want to break down how stupid this is. even in my world it s very
this group of people, those that have latched on to this 87,000 irs number? they say that s the number of armed agency irs is about to hire, but of course it s not true. we know it s not true. sitting members of congress are now tweeting at this number of 87,000 as some sort of secret code to its base. does it overlap or is it quite remnant reminiscent of the qanon world? it s all a meme right? that s all it is. it starts with a hatred of government and you can fill in whatever mid or big fairytale that you want to personal spaces, as long as they attacked the same character. this time it s another federal government agency. the the fbi, the irs it filtered nicely, next week it ll be the atf, we ll find a new federal agency to attack next week. that s the thing, if you can find a big target it really helps this time were not attacking specific agents, like
dumb. here s the deal. they found, they were going they found a job listening in the irs s website saying you should be comfortable with a firearm, for one specific job on the irs website, not for 87,000 people. however, the way the right wing gristle works is if it s on one thing it has to be everything. the great flattening of information occurred. that s how they started to believe there was a stand-in army coming in for joe biden to come in and take our guns, from the irs of all places. this is pretty symbiotic with the anger at the fbi at the moment, or searching mar-a-lago. there is a conflation of those two big ideas there, but it really is very stupid. at the end of the day, it came from a guy on the internet who