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.
I will tell you the answer but you aren’t going to like it:
The VAST majority of people do not operate rationally. What I mean by this is that they do not evaluate their mental responses to see if they align with rational values. Note I do not just say repugnicans. Nearly everyone is like this
They operate by post-hoc justification.
This is why cheetolini won, he tells people “You’ve been screwed over and I’m here to help, all the fancy elites ignore you but I won’t”
He’s lying, of course, but it’s what the people want to hear.
Dems shout facts ‘The economy is better here than almost anywhere else in the world right now’, and ‘lowest inflation in 10 years’, but people don’t FEEL like they are doing well so they say “Oh those dems always spouting bullshit, not like Drumpf who KNOWS what’s on my mind”
And that’s how he won, through lies and a self-satisfied justification seeking voterbase.