In June, Rep. Eric Burlison, a Missouri Republican serving on the House Oversight Committee, appeared on BlazeTV’s Prime Time with Alex Stein, where he discussed his belief that giants once existed. Burlison told Stein he was scheduled to be at “NephCon 2025,” a conference focused on fringe topics including the biblical Nephilim —figures in Genesis that some interpret as the giant offspring of angels and human women.

He credited Timothy Alberino’s podcast with sending him “far down the rabbit hole,” eventually reaching claims that the Smithsonian Institution is hiding evidence, the bones of past giants that lived on the Earth. Burlison suggested that, as a member of the Oversight Committee, he could investigate the Smithsonian.

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    And Rep. Anna Paulina Luna was just on Joe Rogan saying she recently saw proof of non-human UFOs. And that UFOs are from interdimensional beings.

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      The alien shit makes me wanna vomit. It clearly is a planned future attack by our government or a foreign government that they want to blame on aliens. MAGA think the aliens are their friends and will save them. It’s really not good and I hope that plan never reaches fruition.

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        Yeah, there is a strong apocalyptic tint to everything that has been growing in the last few years in UFO discourse. And Thiel is interested in that discourse. And he has his own anti-Christ ideas.

        Both Thiel and a woman who goes around talking about aliens/ufos in the context of religion have been on the same NYT podcast recently. The podcast is about the current right wing control of the country, and about documenting their views on things.

        It’s all very weird. And it’s a whole lot of smoke. I’m not sure what the fire is yet, apart from it being the right wing pandering to people for their support. Maybe it’s more than that.

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          I am a proDomme/Dominatrix and often meet wealthy people. I was texting with a guy for like a year in like 2022 who turned out to be a very very wealthy Nazi, as in, he had no job, not even managing his own wealth, and his family had a big trust that he gets paid from. They own massive amounts of commercial real estate. He also had several adopted siblings from Russia.

          And when he finally unmasked as a real self described neoNazi, again after a year of texting otherwise normal stuff, he believed in the alien stuff. He did not believe in Christianity but called Christians “useful fools” that the wealthy need for their plans. And he was ADAMENT that the aliens would “come to save us.”

          After the discussion I had with him, I am fully convinced the aliens are some kind of drone attack or other military attack to support the genocidal goals of Putin to take over the US. It is not like the earth is flat stuff or the dinosaurs aren’t real stuff - relatively harmless and stupid - but more akin to the ivermectin eating, vaccines are bad, don’t wear masks psyops meant to genuinely kill people.

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            The drone stuff that happened at the end of the year musta been really interesting for you then. That’s wild.

            Rather recently in an interview Trump said he would love to tell us what the drones were and then said “but it’s not up… it’s not a big deal.” It really seemed like he almost said “it’s not up to me.” Trump says a lot of batshit stuff, but afaik he doesn’t make this sort of slip often. He says other nonsense.

            There’s definitely weird smoke.

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              I was not happy with the drone stuff but every flight I saw was recorded on Flightradar, never saw anything bad or weird. I do live by a few nuclear interests and we had extra Blackhawks flying around then also.

              Trump also said he had to get permission from Marco Rubio to decorate and move a clock around during a recent cabinet meeting or press conference (can’t remember the nature of the talk but it was in the Whitehouse).

              Does not sound like he’s in control at all, and I think as his slips continue/dementia worsens it’ll be interesting to see what he says for sure.

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      Tbf, they’re kinda not actually denying it anymore since the pentagon released the tic tac video (among others) and actually admitted “yeah this is real and we have no fucking clue what it is.” They’re just called UAPs now instead of UFOs.

      And the interdimensional theory isn’t a fabrication of her mind, it’s one of the leading theories, along with “actual aliens” and “us from the future.” It’s not even the wildest theory thrown around, some think the crafts themselves are alive, and the biological looking things we call aliens are the drones. Of course, all just theories.

      Now does she “have proof” of any of that beyond what the pentagon has already admitted? Likely not, but someone probably does have some more info than we know, she just ain’t in the club.

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        She is a Russian asset. She is not credible.

        https://floridapolitics.com/archives/751710-anna-paulina-luna-says-kgb-documents-will-help-congress-find-truth-about-jfk-assassination/

        They are saying weird shit about aliens for other plots, like bombing Seattle and San Francisco and blaming it on aliens coming out of the ocean. The aliens are people. They aren’t real. Please, please, let go of the notion that there is any kind of sky daddy coming to save you. There’s no god, no religious figure, no celebrity, no politician, no aliens who care about you or us or want to save us. There’s just you wanting to take care of you, and yeah it would be a relief to not have to do that and struggle, but that’s not happening. Let go of sky daddy.

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          let go of the notion that there is any kind of sky daddy coming to save you.

          And you prefer the equally improbable idea of “we’re entirely alone in the universe?” While also discounting the possibility that there could be anything but benevolence (like malevolence, or indifference, even fully autonomous and devoid of the will necessary to ascribe them any of these attributes)?

          I prefer the Robert Anton Wilson approach of agnosticism to most things (in life, not just this): “I don’t know, and you don’t either.”

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            Genuinely, WHAT

            I never said aliens in the universe don’t exist! Read again! I never gave any statement on the existence of life outside this planet, or of aliens as a scientific concept.

            I am saying this specific “spaceship” coming for us that contains “aliens”, the entire idea of these “aliens” MAGA and billionaire fascists are talking about, is NOT real. THOSE aliens are fake. THOSE people are genocidal liars. That’s why they are the only ones talking about it.

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              Alright then:

              Genuinely, WHAT

              I never said what she said was the absolute truth! Read again! I never gave any statement on this specific “spaceship” coming for us that contains “aliens” that MAGA and billionaire fascists are talking about.

              Sorry to “chopped and screwed” your comment, but same same. I never said this bitch was some alien ambassador, I said you can’t entirely discount the existence of UAPs anymore like people have been since (well, actually before, but) 1947.

              Go project your political bullshit on someone else, this conversation is about the potential existence of UAPs. And they’re NOT the only ones talking about it.

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                I said you can’t entirely discount the existence of UAPs anymore like people have been since (well, actually before, but) 1947.

                I AM NOT DOING THAT, that’s a strawman! That’s my point.

                Rep Luna and all the GOP are LIARS working for a foreign government, this is substantially supported with evidence. You cannot take their word in good faith at all. The lies about the “aliens” coming are lies.

                Whether OTHERS in the alien community are ALSO liars is another conversation. This conversation was never about proving if UAPs exist or existed lol, read again, it is about whether this administration is acting in good faith about these claims (answer: absolutely not).

                This entire thread started off political - look at the title of the OP, genius. Look at the person cited (Rep Luna). If you don’t like politics, don’t go into a political thread and reference a politician.

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                  And your strawman is that I support some specific lady I’ve never heard of so I guess we’re at a stalemate. Was this fun for you, or?..

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                    Where did I say that?

                    I said quite clearly and specifically that she is lying along w other MAGA about these specific aliens. Your original claim was that her theories were plausible because they’ve been talked about by others - I say, no, and further, nothing she says is reliable because she is literally a mouthpiece for Putin. Everything she says is propaganda. If you don’t know who she is and blindly ran interference for her talking points, that’s on you.

                    Just like how Candace Owens will bitch about carbon dating and isotope dating and will go into the weeds about it to make it seem like dinosaurs weren’t real and never existed. These people will co-opt information to make their points seem valid when the whole thing was an elaborate lie to begin with. She is lying.