Some More News - Some More News: Aliens, The X-Files, And How Trump Killed Conspiracy Theories

Episode Date: March 18, 2026

Hi. Today we're looking at aliens. Well, not them specifically, but the idea of them, recently discussed by our former and current presidents. Are they out there? What does our government know? Is it still fun to speculate about them? Why are conspiracy theories all bad now?Hosted by Cody JohnstonExecutive Producer - Katy StollDirected by Will GordhWritten by David Christopher BellProduced by Jonathan HarrisEdited by Gregg MellerPost-Production Supervisor / Motion Graphics & VFX - John ConwayResearcher - Marco Siler-GonzalesGraphics by Clint DeNiscoHead Writer - David Christopher BellPATREON: https://patreon.com/somemorenewsMERCH: https://shop.somemorenews.comYOUTUBE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvlj0IzjSnNoduQF0l3VGng/join#somemorenews #UFOs #ObamaTry Gusto today at https://gusto.com/MORENEWS and get three months free when you run your first payroll.Pluto TV. Stream Now. Pay Never.Slow the growth of greys and get 15% off by using code SMN at https://Arey.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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That's red, but darker and drunker. Where's my panic button? Did I lose my panic button? Quick! Deploy the panic rope! Like this video and subscribe to it! You are watching this and you're gonna like a subscribe check on our Patreon? What are we even talking about? Dear God, someone show a clip!

Are aliens real? Uh, they're real. Stop the clip! Aliens are real! Confirms former President Barack Hussein Obama. It has begun. Get my gun! Get both my guns! The confetti and the T-shirt one.

No need to keep looking into this or play the rest of the clip but for fun let's keep looking into this and play the rest of the clip. They're real but I haven't seen them and and they're not being kept in what is it? Area 51 there's no underground facility unless there's this enormous conspiracy and they they hit it from the president of the United States. Oh never mind about the gun I guess seems like but crap boo-sane Obama is just saying that he thinks aliens are real, but has not seen any official evidence of them during his time as the president,

unless there's a massive cover-up. I suppose you could interpret that as him confirming some evidence he's seen on the matter. Would have been nice if the interviewer followed up there. But ultimately, it's not some big world-slonging news that would warrant a bunch of headlines and posts claiming that Obama confirms that aliens are real, requiring him to later clarify after everyone freaks out. And by everyone, that would include our current president of the country. also freaking out, as much as a dying man can freak out about anything.

Well, he gave classified information. He's not supposed to be doing that. So aliens are real? Well, I don't know if they're real or not, I can tell you. He gave classified information. He's not supposed to be doing that. He made it big mistake. He took it out of class of right information.

No, I don't have an opinion on it. I never talk about it. You heard it from the big man. Obama gave classified information by saying that aliens are real, says Trump. Who doesn't know? know if aliens are real, but that's classified information that he doesn't have an opinion about. Very clear messaging from our dying president, who has now bridged the divide between things he's said and other things he's said by ordering the release of UFO files to get to the

bottom of things. For the record, this little video you are watching isn't really about Trump, nor is it about Obama. Forget him. He's dead to me. He knows why. But this seemed like a good enough reason to ask a larger question that I know everyone is sort of asking themselves sometimes when they're bored or enlightened. Uh, they're real, but I haven't seen them and and they're not being kept in area 51. Hey, what's going on with aliens these days? You know what? This little video isn't even about aliens, or rather whether they exist and have the same holes as us. This is more about the vibe of aliens, or rather the lack of vibe.

Because no one really seems to care much about aliens anymore. Sure, we got Spielberg over there trying to fluff us all up with another close encounters-esque alien adventure, but most of our current alien pop culture boils down to Spider-Man, shooting one into deep space with the help of a sentient Blanky. They're just kind of around and we're at war with them. What I mean is, gone are the days where we think a lot about aliens as these possible real and omnipotent reticulence, stealing people from their beds in the middle of the night. For you youngs, I'm mostly talking about that point in the 90s when people were obsessed with the idea of little green men or women abducting people and visiting Earth and the subsequent shadowy government cover-up.

I guess there's still a little interest, sometimes, such as that Storm Area 51 event a few years back. But even that fizzled out when not enough people did the actual storming part. and the whole thing became a music festival instead. It's like January 6th, but good. And this lack of interest seems strangely in tandem with some of the biggest alien news we've gotten in a while, such as that time the Pentagon released a bunch of videos of UFOs they just had.

Just lying around with all the jars of Sasquatch piss. There's a whole fleet of them, look on the ASA. My gosh. No, going against the wind. The wind's a hundred point a ounce of the west. I don't like that pilots can say dude. That should be illegal. This type of news would have made Agent Fox Mulder splooge through time.

His splooge is what killed the dinosaurs. But these days we've sort of accepted wild alien headlines. This is one more bat-shit thing happening in the vast world of bat-shit things. Here's a congressman from this year claiming that there are underwater UFOs. I guess in that case the F stands for floating? Or maybe he meant submarines. Here's a story from several years ago about a report from the Office of the Director

of National Intelligence acknowledging over 500 different UFO sightings being investigated. Seems kind of big. So why don't we care? I have some guesses. Firstly, we now have a lot of ways to explain UFOs that don't involve extraterrestrials. Because UFO is not synonymous with alien spacecraft.

A UFO is some sort of unidentified anomaly. 500 UFO sightings being investigated isn't 500 alien sightings, but rather 500 times someone was like, what's that? And someone else was like, let's try to find out. In fact, the government doesn't even call them UFOs anymore, but rather unidentified anomalous phenomena. Less fun! The 90s were a unique time when we had the growing ability for the general public to capture video of UFOs, but didn't have technology so advanced that it could have technology so advanced that it could have technology so advanced that it was a new time when we had the growing ability for the general public when we had the growing ability for the general public to capture the general public to, but didn't have technology. could explain the things we're seeing. So for example, those UFO Pentagon videos have been hand-waved by some experts as being a combination of sensor failures or, more obviously, spy drones. A lot of these reports point to Russia or China

as the concerns as opposed to aliens. Or counterpoint, perhaps things like this are easily used by some outlets for propaganda to reinforce adversarial dynamics with specific nations. Or another counterpoint, it's aliens. It could be aliens. They don't know for sure. I think, weirdly, that's the other reason

why people have lost interest in aliens. Because most of us are perfectly happy to accept the idea that, statistically speaking, there's probably life up there. There's lots of space, bound to be some critters in that space. It's kind of what that other president was talking about. Like, yeah, of course there's aliens. We are one planet of nine, give or take other planets,

in a solar system among billions of solar systems, in a galaxy among billions of other galaxies. The very boring truth is that proof of aliens is going to be like some microbe, or a slow collection of scientific evidence. It's probably not going to be a crash landing or an attack. If there's life out there, there's no guarantee that it's multicellular or sentient in the way we understand sentience, or technologically advanced, or more tech. technologically advanced than us. The universe and space are constantly expanding,

meaning we're getting farther and farther away from anything else that's out there. We just don't know. And that's okay, because aliens still definitely exist. And hey, maybe they've zoomed around our planet for kicks, watched us from their cloaked ships while they jacked off, or laughed, or both. Who knows?

Obama agrees. But that knowledge, or speculation hasn't really manifested into any consequence on our lives. Aliens haven't flown down on the White House lawn and announced themselves. Unlike the 90s, just seeing a video of something flying in the air doesn't cut it anymore.

So the possibility of aliens existing and visiting Earth takes the same part of our brain as the possibility that a meteor might hit the planet and kill us all. Maybe, I guess, sure, either happen or just, Don't. I got other stuff to do, so just ideally don't, but happen or don't. And what's even more fascinating, I think our interest in aliens actually goes down the more our government openly talks about them.

Obama going up there and saying aliens exist is kind of like when your cool parents tried to dance at your high school party. Because most people's interest in aliens seems directly tied to the idea that the government is covering it up. Thanks, Obama! You ruined aliens! Although, I'd argue that aliens were ruined long before this point. And after the break, we will talk about exactly why that is. The ads are out there.

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Welcome back to our tiny little video about aliens. Sorry it's tiny, by which I mean still kind of long. Like an alien! Remember those tiny long aliens in Star Wars who lived on the water planet? Just churning out war slaves? And Obi-Wan was like, oh, cool, free war slaves! And no one questioned where all the war slaves came from, except those long thin guys mentioned once

that some government war cleric told them to, and the Jedi never followed up on it, and the guy's name was Saifa Diaz, which sounds suspiciously like Sidious, but it turns out they weren't the same guy. It was just some other random guy, and it was just fine for Yoda to use the terrible authoritarian army that would surely not come back to haunt them.

That's completely unrelated to this video. but it does feel relevant to America. What is related to this video is how Obama, Barack Hussein, talking so openly about aliens, kind of spoils the fun of believing in aliens. Because a big part of our enjoyment of aliens is tied to a government conspiracy covering them up. Roswell, Area 51, the syndicate and X-Files,

those dicks going after ET, and so on. The government cover-up of aliens is a rather vital accessory to alien lore. especially in the 90s. Even a film like Independence Day, where aliens just show up to cause a ruckus included Area 51 lore. And we knew this was part of the appeal. It's not a revelation.

Here's Chris Carter, the creator of the X-Files, and also journalist David Sirota, explaining exactly why the alien craze was so attractive in the 90s. The Berlin Wall had fallen, the Cold War was over, we were without a really good villain. We didn't quite know what to be afraid of. The show that I created sort of capitalized on a general sort of free-floating anxiety. X-Files taps into this idea that there are things out there that the government knows of,

that the government doesn't want us to know about it. It wasn't aliens. It was our need for a villain and a conspiracy. In the 90s, our government filled in that blank, while movies and TV had fun speculating about some always impending alien invasion being hidden from the public. We had fire in the sky, the aforementioned Independence Day, Men in Black, The Arrival, the other one, Stargate, that Fox Alien Autopsy Video, Sphere, contact, species,

and space jam technically counts. And then, as the 2000s approached, we lost steam. Why? Well, apologies, I have to talk about politics now, because for starters, the theory that Washington was covering up some vast alien conspiracy hinged on the idea that our government was capable of doing that. And, you know, I think this started with Bush.

Like, here's a clip from the 1998 X-Files movie in which a character outlines the conspiracy afoot. See if you can spot the error. The president will declare a state of emergency, at which time all government, all federal agencies, will come under the power of the federal emergency management agency. FEMA. Yeah.

I don't think FEMA has the juice to run the world. Sorry, maybe it seemed that way in 1998 before we learned that they can barely handle a hurricane. I mean, these days, I have to assume FEMA is just a single laptop run by a 19 year old who calls himself Gerbil's Gooch. I think from the 90s into the 2000s,

government-slash-aliant conspiracy theories turned into a wish more than an actual belief. The wish that our government was organized and well-funded and run by serious people. But it just got harder and harder to picture that, you know? Fun fact, the original ending to the X-Files was going to involve a reveal that George Bush knew all about Mulder and the alien conspiracy, but it was ultimately cut. I was told this was being handled. The truth is out there now. I don't know the official reason

they cut it, but like, yeah, no. Of course not. It's weird to even pretend like the X-Files takes place in the same timeline as Bush, who is far too busy lying about Iraq, to to lie about aliens. This isn't the only genre that has to do this. Pretty much any political thriller these days has to exist in an alternate world where the president is played by Idris Elba and can like read. So while we can certainly still pretend in our TV shows and movies,

I don't think people fully realized how much our interest in aliens existing was hinged on our assumption, or hope that our government was capable of keeping that elaborate secret. Not just that our agencies were competent enough, but also funded. I think this is why conspiracy theories and UFO interest is still pretty visible in right-wing circles. There's that classic Republican assumption that our government is bloated and overreaching, which fits in perfectly with the fantasy that it is even capable of a massive cover-up like that.

The reality is, of course, the opposite, and has been the opposite for a while, to the point that it was even written into early episodes of The X-Files. A decade-long search by radio telescope scanning 10 million frequencies for any transmission by extraterrestrial intelligence. Less than one year later, first-term Nevada Senator Richard Bryan successfully championed an amendment which terminated the project. That's true. The porn addict is correct! That's a true thing that happened.

In 1993, Democratic Senator Richard Bryan effectively cut funding for SETI, and specifically that big cool golden eye telescope, or if you'd rather, the telescope from the movie Contact, which also featured these budget cuts in its plot. We love that telescope in the 90s. Agent Mulder would have you believe that it's part of a cover-up, which fits the fantasy that our government actually has all this money to spend on UFO retrieval teams

and alien autopsy trains. However, in reality, that is the Aricebo telescope in Puerto Rico, which went on to lose a bunch of funding before fucking collapsing in 2020. Damn it! Sorry, Mulder. Turns out the special Blue Beret UFO cover-up team

wasn't needed after all. It all just freaking fell down instead. See, this is why it's always kind of cute when people talk about the Mars rover finding old alien structures and NASA covering it up. Even during the Obama years, NASA and Mars exploration specifically saw massive budget cuts.

If they found life on Mars, they would 100% tell us. Their jobs probably depend on it. Scientists are desperate for money to look at cool things. They would tell us so we would give them more money. The idea of a cover-up isn't just silly, but actually naive when you realize this. And that's what brings us to Trump. Donnie T. the golden pedophile. Turns out that Trump, unsurprisingly, has been even worse.

for NASA and Jet Propulsion Lab funding. And so going back to Trump releasing the UFO files and getting praise from Democrats or whatever the fuck, well, he doesn't actually care about aliens. If he did, his proposed budget for 2026 wouldn't have slashed funding for NASA's science program, which will specifically harm our ability to search for alien life. This UFO file stuff is a performative act

meant to superficially excite his conspiracy base. It's Elon Musk talking about his moon base that he'll never make, or how he's going to sell billions of his robots that are actually just a guy in a costume, so much so that every person on the planet will have two, keeping the ball in the air so that your fans can still pretend like you give a shit. But of course, this isn't the only way

that Trump has made alien conspiracies no fun anymore. Let's dance into the break to break dance, and then come back and finish this tiny long video once enthrall. Running a business can be tough. For years, I paid all my employees exclusively through cash and envelopes taped under public park benches. And while it definitely kept the Ruskies confused,

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Aliens can still be real, mind to you, and likely are. They officially have my permission to exist. You're welcome. And it was fun to pretend that America was hiding them in the 90s. But even with Clinton, it felt a little silly. Then Bush didn't help, what with the Bush of it all. And today, well, it's hard to imagine our current president keeping any secret. About anything, really. Trump just casually tweets classified information like it's a picture of his lunch. He was literally shoving top secret files into his shower. I wouldn't even trust him with a surprise party for a baby,

let alone information about extraterrestrial life. And not only has he not revealed UFO secrets. Trump has, for the most part, said very little about, aliens, or rather extraterrestrials. He's said the word aliens a lot, but you get it. You know why. He actually doesn't seem to believe in them or care. You saw him in that clip about Obama.

Trump is a deeply incurious man who simply doesn't think about it that much. At most, he just kind of shrugs about it. I get that question as much as almost any question. Do you think that we have aliens coming, you know, flying around? or whatever. What do you think? There's no reason not to, I mean, there's no reason not to think that Mars and all these planets don't have life, you know, because...

Well, Mars, we've had probes there and rovers and I don't think there's any life there. Well, maybe it's life that we don't know, but maybe it's... Well, maybe there was life there at one point in time. Wow. Imagine being corrected by Joe Rogan. And to be fair, when Trump said Mars and all these other planets, maybe he didn't mean all the other planets in the solar system, but I actually want to be even more fair to be to the president who is stupid and evil.

But there's a thing he says at the end there. Maybe it's a life that we don't know, maybe a different kind of. And then he trails off and they continue on whatever. But I just want to highlight, he's not wrong. We do not know how life actually began, and we only have a definition of life that we can conceive of based off of our own investigations and experiences and perceptions.

Life requires water and organic compounds and seemingly not extreme temperature. and pressures, et cetera, to us. But for example, tardigrades are little tiny little bear guys who can handle extreme temperatures and radiation and the vacuum of space for long periods of time. There's life at the bottom of the ocean by hydrothermal vents. My point is, there could be life in the oceans of Europa.

There could be evidence of life on Mars. Life is likely, but it could be just a single cell. It could be something we can't imagine. It could be some guy named Brett. I'm just trying to give him a little credit, although I assume the president is sort of talking out of his ass there. So what a stupid president we have. Who sucks?

And I'd argue has ruined alien conspiracies more than any other president. Because Trump is, of course, THE conspiracy president. Ironically, or coincidentally, or perhaps appropriately, despite clearly not caring about this stuff, Trump got his rise by harnessing a huge nest of conspiracy theorists. But not the fun kind of conspiracy theorists who get drunk and built bigfoot traps. The gross kind, who leave pamphlets about George Soros at your cubicle. And I think this made the entire prospect of conspiracy theories sort of icky for everyone.

Because now, if a person said they thought the moon landing was staged, they were inevitably going to follow that up with, and Hillary Clinton feeds children to the Jews or something like that. you actually see this evolution in the X-Files as well. That show once featured the counterculture underground conspiracy theorist called the Lone Gunman in the 90s version. And then in the revival series made Mulder's primary source a slimy, suited Alex Jones analog instead.

Joe McCale plays Tadamalley, who's a conservative talk show host. He is very conservative, but his ideas about conspiracy theories match up exactly with Mulders. What a depressingly accurate idea from the ex-files. And they were right. Conspiracy people weren't surreptitiously passing around zines anymore, but rather screaming about the libs and crisis actors between ads for bottled squid sperm.

So we had Trump, this outsider, rising to power with an army of anti-vaxers and birthers and truthers backing him up. And once he became the president, he didn't end up exposing any vast government conspiracy. But he did do a lot of other stuff instead. You know this stuff. Getting Americans killed in a pandemic,

putting kids in cages, stealing lots and lots of money, trying to overthrow the government, allowing a Nazi billionaire to raid our agencies, threatening to invade Greenland, ordering masked thugs to walk the streets, starting a war with Iran, and probably some other stuff I'm forgetting. Oh, the pedophile stuff, with all the pedophiles.

And I think all that stuff rammed yet another nail into the alien sarcophagus. For one, I think a lot of conspiracy weirdos have realized that Trump has had plenty of times to bring down the deep state and instead use his power to get rich and hurt people. Even the QAnon shaman is disillusioned, but mainly for regular folk, there's a much simpler reason why no one really cares about aliens and conspiracies anymore. We just don't have time for it right now. I'm speculating, but looking at major moments in which Americans were amped for

Alf, it always kind of happened in between major wars or political events. Roswell, the Spielberg Close Encounters era, the 90s, periods when our government was testing new technology and everyone had time to look for a new villain, as Chris Carter pointed out with the end of the Cold War. Alien conspiracies are a luxury for people during times of perceived calm, which is why we largely stopped talking about them

somewhere around like, I don't know, like September-ish of 2001. Chasing conspiracies is like an indoor cat chasing a laser pointer, which is fine. That can be a lot of fun for the cat, especially on catnip. Don't use laser pointers for dogs, though. It will give them anxiety and obsessive compulsive behaviors. But it's fine for us, the humans on human catnip,

looking for UFOs, going camping, firing a rifle at the clouds at 3 a.m., and so on. But right now, we don't really need to pretend like our government is secretly trying to hurt us because they're actively walking down the streets and masks hurting us. Nor do we need to imagine a grand, shadowy conspiracy because we all just learned that there was,

or is, this weird cabal of pedophiles who all email each other about a new world order. This treasure trove of rich deviance mashing their keyboards into the dumbest confessions possible. And it's all facilitated by a government, quite ironically run or supported by the people who were spewing about conspiracy theories and tyranny not too long ago. The realization being that the far right used these other conspiracy theories about aliens

and lizard people and, yes, a pedophile cabal, to sort of dazzle a bunch of dupes into electing them into power. That is the Democrats you see, and only them behind all the actions of the deep state. And they are still trying to do it. Like even now, with everything we know about Epstein and his relationship, to Trump, they are still asking Hillary Clinton about Pizza Gate. In past public statements, as in 2017 speeches and interviews, you described Pizza Gate as a baseless conspiracy theory alleging you and others ran a child sex trafficking

ring from a Washington pizzeria basement. Have you reviewed any 2025, 2026 Epstein files that were released that you believe reference or relate to those? specific 2016 claims regarding the Podesta emails comet ping pong pizza used as code possibly I'm sorry you're asking her about whether she's reviewed emails in the Epstein files was related to the wacky Pizza Gate scampart you could characterize it however you want I just would like to know if she's familiar with any of them if you're wondering because I was wondering there's no mention of Pizza Gate in the Epstein files that confirms it was a real thing it does get mentioned as a conspiracy

theory that exists and mainly from lawyers and mainly after Epstein was arrested or after he faked his death. However, and this is true, the word pizza is used a lot. Like too much in a way that you could consider kind of suspicious. But that doesn't appear to have anything to do with Hillary Clinton, who as far as we can tell never met Epstein, unlike her husband and also the current President Trump, who was Epstein's best friend and shared weird little pedophile notes with him, and has a long history of sexual assault, including openly bragging about doing sexual assault. Because the reality is just so painfully obvious that both Trump and Bill Clinton are, it sure seems, pedophiles and rapists who hung out with the same sex trafficker and possibly with each other.

It wasn't Republicans or Democrats, but a bipartisan collection of power. people doing unspeakable things, except for Elon Musk, who was not invited, but super wanted to be. Like really, really wanted to go to that island. But MAGA is so desperately trying to implicate Clinton without implicating Trump, in turn, taking a very real and provable conspiracy and being forced to weave it into this weird, made-up conspiracy around a single pizza place where it's magically only the people they don't like, who are the bad ones.

And if they really want to, they will do that. Trump has already insisted that he's exonerated by the Epstein files, despite super not being that. And also, I thought it was like a hoax or something. And QAnon is claiming victory. Because it was all the Clintons or something. And Obama, why not? And you know what?

Let's throw those aliens back in the mix for good measure. When your husband was president, it was Lawrence Rockefeller had an effort to try to discuss. UFOs, UAPs. When you were running for president, John Podesta publicly stated that you would disclose these files if given the chance if you had been president.

Are you pleased to see that these files may be disclosed finally? I am pleased. As I say, I think they have to be carefully scrutinized so that no national security information is disclosed. Yeah, what do you think, Clinton? Unlike your husband. Trump finally released those files. Go read those files. No, not those files.

No, the ones about the aliens that Trump doesn't really believe in. I bet that's a juicy read with lots of compelling evidence that our president clearly wasn't impressed by. The same president who has massively cut NASA funding, eliminating any effort to seek out extraterrestrial life. He's totally gonna be the guy to expose it all. Is anyone falling for this?

Probably. Probably, right? Guessing there's at least one sad little lamb on X the Everything app talking about how Trump is being framed by Epstein's ghost to cover up the real truth about aliens. Because, no offense, but also some offense, MAGA conspiracy theory people are some of the most naive and gullible people ever. And here's what I'd argue is the final and biggest hit against modern conspiracy theorists. None of them seem to realize that they are playing right into the hands of the people in power. Like the thing about Agent Mulder and that 90s alien conspiracy craze is that it was framed as bringing truth to power. This big government or shadowy syndicate that we, the little guy, or I guess an FBI agent, are fighting.

But with QAnon and Maga and Trump, it's all conspiracy theories in service of the people in power. Often, and quite ironically, in the form of fantasies designed to hide an actual conspiracy. And I'd argue that most modern conspiracy theories have had this problem starting all the way with 9-11 truthorism. Believing that George Bush did 9-11 sure sounds cynical and underground until you realize that it perfectly distracts from the actual lie they did to invade Iraq. Trump and his administration would much rather people say that COVID was a lab-borne attack or that Fauci knew about it instead of thinking about how shittily his administration handled it. Or the close ties between our healthcare system and the pharmaceutical industry

Or how many people were sacrificed to keep our economy going? It's performative conspiracy theories designed to protect the most powerful and corrupt people The president of the goddamn United States telling people that the deep state is out to get him While publicly telling his own deep state to go after his enemies the literal world's richest man Pushing election conspiracies. How is that not the most obvious grift and It's Nick Shirley, bravely saving the world from clerical errors he stupidly thinks is election fraud, while doing ads for fucking Polymarket. And what's concerning about this is right now in Polymarket, Gavin Newsom is also setting the stage to become the next Democrat nominee for the 2028 election.

Meanwhile, there's massive voter fraud taking place. Coca-Cola presents. The government is out to get you! How stupid are these people? Don't answer that. Side note, Polymarket is now partnering with Palanty-Ton. I'm sure that'll be good. You know, Palantir, the Big Brother surveillance apparatus

that MAGA doesn't care about because it's brought to us by the vice president's handler. And to be fair, to people. I think for most of us, after all the Epstein and QAnon stuff, the entire idea of conspiracies and aliens is kind of gross right now, you know? Unfortunate, because that doesn't mean there are no conspiracies. But it's like we snuck into that secret Pentagon room

filled with boxes, opened one up, and it was just filled with jar, of the cigarette smoking man's cum. I mean, I'd take a jar for my records, but it feels very stupid and futile to be like, oh, maybe there are aliens when we're literally grappling with an authoritarian criminal government. That's like telling someone your local library is haunted

while it's also on fire, or rather being closed down because a billionaire fired everyone. Our government is, it turns out, not covering up aliens, but rather a pedophiles. Man, would have been real weird if we made a bunch of people.

of invasion movies based around that. Close encounters of the fucking kill yourself kind. So yeah, I guess that's what's going on with aliens? Not to get all Trump derangement syndrome on you, but it's one more thing he ruined. Like Home Alone 2 or saying the word schlong, it was him, that's why. Little gray guys gotta wait in line

while we deal with this other grocer situation. I think he might have gray scale. I'm sorry, I'd ask them to help us out, but they don't seem to be in there They didn't even stop Bush from lying about WMDs in order to boost his painting career. Think about it. You can't paint a bunch of war veterans if you don't start a war first. Like and subscribe.

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