This is episode 157 of the Baehr and Curadh podcast. We are going to talk about truthiness.
Miller: immigrants didn’t build empire state building
Donald Trump’s senior White House aide Stephen Miller pushed a bonkers, racist claim after he suggested that he could spot someone’s immigration status just by looking at a picture of them. And then he said, "if you look at photos of the Empire State Building being constructed you know what you don’t see there? Any illegal aliens," Miller told Fox News.
If you are gay, and you leave the country, you could have trouble coming home again
The superintendent of a Vermont school district says he was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents while re-entering the country with his husband, an experience he described as "the definition of psychological terror."
Gays debate the age-old question of who should pay on the first date
Despite the sensibility of an even split, respondents who advocate for a strict egalitarian approach are in the minority. There are many nuances at play, including common courtesy. If one person orders an expensive steak and the other nibbles on appetizers, splitting the check doesn’t seem so fair.
Maga evangelical leader who warned of "sexually deviant" queers pleads guilty to child porn charges
Former My Faith Votes CEO Jason Yates, a prominent conservative Christian activist, has pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography, months after his arrest. Yates pleaded guilty to two of the eight felony counts of possession of child pornography that he had been charged with last year, in return for the dismissal of the other six counts. Each charge carries a punishment of as much as 10 years in prison.
When MAGA mentions Epstein, Trump brings up Obama
Because he knows his followers are racists.
Trump is working on an Epstein escape plan
"The whole thing is a hoax. If they had something, they would have released. Now they can easily put something in the files that’s a phony. Like, as an example, Christopher Steele wrote a dossier. We call it the fake dossier. And the whole thing was a fake. They can put things in the file that are fake."
– Trump
I just felt like I needed to tell you, I’m sorry I was a damn jerk back in school
"The reason I wanted to tell you all this is that I’ve got a son now. He’s 15 and he told me he’s gay. Man, all I thought about when he told me that was I hope people are nicer to him than I was to you. It makes me feel proud to be his dad, and hopefully that makes up for something."
Pentagon to disable hurricane satellites
The U.S. Navy will permanently cut its stream of data from three weather satellites essential to hurricane forecasters, with the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season just weeks away.
Kids don’t need college, they have YouTube
"You can also get the same wisdom and the same teaching free and accessible online, listening to podcasts, listening to long YouTube form videos. In fact, I believe that if you listen to Joe Rogan’s podcast with some of the historians, if you listen to some of the deep dives that some of these top thinkers do, you’re going to actually learn a lot more about Roman history. You’re going to learn a lot more about Western civilization than if otherwise, if you were stuck in some sort of sociology class."
– Charlie Kirk
Trump claims he’ll personally pay for 200 million dollar ballroom
President Trump says he would be willing to cut the check to pay for a new White House ballroom. If he sticks with his usual routine, he will "pay for it" by hiring the work done and then stiffing the contractors on the bill.
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