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      He did do this during the first term. There wasn’t anything interesting, but it did distract the conspiracy folks.

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      Honestly, if there were alien craft zipping around, I can imagine why no government would want to disclose them. It would basically be an announcement of, “these damn craft are flying around the atmosphere and the space around Earth. They’re utterly beyond anything we’re capable of. We’re not sure if they’re aliens, time travelers, beings from another dimension, literal angels or demons, or something even stranger. But we are utterly at their mercy. They’re spying on us constantly, for purposes unknown. Oh, and occasionally they’ll just abduct people and carry them off for God-knows-what reason. I’m sorry, but there is literally nothing we or any human being can do about this. They’re basically gods to us, and we know next to nothing about them, where they come from, or why they’re here.”

      What leader would ever want to give that speech? I don’t consider it likely we are being visited by non-human intelligences. But if we were, it wouldn’t be anything like Roswell and Area 51. We wouldn’t have a base full of downed or crashed alien craft. They simply wouldn’t crash, and we would have no ability to shoot them down. A real announcement of alien visitors wouldn’t be the reveal of some vast secret government project, a revealing of secret strength. It would be us saying, “we’ve been working on this problem for nearly a century, and we’ve learned nothing. All we know is that they’re there, and we can’t do a damn thing about it.” It would a confession of weakness and utter helplessness, a government openly admitting it’s completely powerless to protect its people from an unknown outside threat. Can you imagine a president telling the public, “yeah, you might get abducted by aliens. Sorry, that just happens sometimes. There’s nothing we can do about it.”

      It would represent a complete shattering of our species’ sense of value and security. And voters tend not to like politicians who tell them the unvarnished truth.

      • we are utterly at their mercy. They’re spying on us constantly, for purposes unknown. Oh, and occasionally they’ll just abduct people and carry them off for God-knows-what reason.

        Sounds like the sort of thing this administration would be proud of. It’s what their supporters voted for!

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    As was said before, this is why the aliens roll up their windows and drive faster when they pass our planet.

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      He was abducted on to one of their ships, and immediately started molesting them, mistaking their small forms for human children.

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        Causing an intergalactic incident. Donald Trump threatened by the Aliens response has made a freedom pact with The Borg.

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            He’s not healthy enough to survive being plugged in, and his incontinence issues make him an impossibly bad candidate.

            Imagine the entire hive mind smelling what the green coat lady smelled earlier this month.

            green coat lady can't stand the smell after Trump defecates himself in the oval office

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      Here we are, poised to enter intergalactic war, all because the US president raped some alien babies. The guy just can’t help himself!

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    And then those files will only be half released and full of redactions because it turns that Trump and the other billionaires have been fucking alien kids too.

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    I’m calling it here: Trump did not just rape a child. Everyone already knows that and he’s still trying to hide the Epstein files.

    Trump murdered a child and then raped her corpse.

    Or there’s a video of him having sex with Bill Clinton. Republicans would consider that equally bad.

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    At this point I don’t think we even need to discuss whether the president of the United States of America raped children.

    No one who hasn’t raped children puts this much effort into hiding files implicating child rapists.

    Logically the only other explanation possible is that he’s being blackmailed by people who did rape children and if what they have on him isn’t child rape, it must be something else pretty bad.

    So he either raped children or something else pretty fucking sketchy.

    REMOVE THIS TRAITOR!!!

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    A significant chunk of American pop culture of the past decades is based on the premise that The Government is Hiding Something.

    Trump’s going to throw a big wrench in that by releasing fucking everything. Except a few things. A few great secrets.

    I swear American pop culture in the coming century or so is just going to be The Government is Hiding The Epstein Files, over and over and over.

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      Within the next few years America is going to start importing most of its pop culture. The American media industry is dying. Good riddance.

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      All the future super spy movies will be about government pedo rings… ugh get ready to have nonstop PTSD

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      Well who can forget ‘’ Roswell Case Closed’’ https://media.defense.gov/2010/Oct/27/2001330219/-1/-1/0/AFD-101027-030.pdf If this is the level of truth we are going to get…who can blame us for remaining skeptical of the Government…

      Chronological Anachronism: The report attributes “alien bodies” to anthropomorphic dummies used in Project High Dive, which did not begin until 1953. Skeptics argue it is a fallacy to use events from the mid-1950s to explain a widely reported incident that occurred in July 1947.

      The “Memory Consolidation” Fallacy: The USAF proposed that witnesses merged memories of different events (Project Mogul in 1947, dummy drops in the 1950s, and a 1956 KC-97 crash) into a single 1947 narrative. Critics argue this dismisses firsthand testimony by assuming a collective, decades-long memory failure among numerous unrelated witnesses.

      False Equivalence of Physical Descriptions: The report suggests that “alien” features, such as bulbous heads, were actually injured airmen like Capt. Dan D. Fulgham, who suffered severe swelling after a 1959 balloon accident. Critics point out that describing a human officer as an “alien” is a logical stretch, especially when the timing is over a decade off.

      The “Moving Goalposts” Argument: Some researchers claim the USAF has changed its official explanation four times (crashed disc, weather balloon, Project Mogul, and finally dummies), which they view as a pattern of circular reasoning or shifting narratives to maintain a cover-up. Selective Evidence: The report identifies “hieroglyphics” on the debris as poorly stenciled labels or flowered tape from the Project Mogul balloon. Critics argue this selectively ignores witness descriptions of indestructible, metallic debris that could not be cut or burned.

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    Never seen more definitive proof that there’s “no there there” then when this fucking asshole acts like this is a big deal.

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      Is it me or are people just not that bothered about aliens, compared to in the 90s?

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        That’s because we all started carrying around cameras, but didn’t get a bunch of credible alien videos.

        If this was the 90’s, then everyone would’ve believed the government stories about Alex Pretti and Rene Good.

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      Because Republicans in Congress and every single conservative voter have chosen to shield him from the consequences of his actions.

      They are ALL traitors to our nation.

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    This is because he felt challenged by Obama. He has a pathological complex of inferiority against Obama.

    Obama talks about classified files? Trump one-ups and gives the classified files.

    Now Obama should need to talk about those Trump-Epstein files…

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      Hell yeah, power moves. He could be dumb enough to fall for it.

      You should be a political strategist.

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        Obama: “You know, I care a lot about children and I think they deserve to be loved.”

        Trump: “OH, YOU LOVE CHILDREN?! NOBODY LOVES CHILDREN MORE THAN I DO. THE EPSTEIN FILES PROVE THAT I, DONALD J. TRUMP AM THE BIGGEST LOVER OF CHILDREN.”

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    This only adds another layer of reinforcement to my firm belief that he’s done something that means that he should go to not only jail, but some kind of super-hell when he dies.

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    I mean his base is dumb enough to fall for this trick, so it will work perfect.

    I really hate how the dept of education has been destroyed over the decades and now over 70% of the country is dumb as bricks.

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      As a Californian, it’s not just the DoE, especially on a scale of decades. My girlfriend went to public school in Texas and had shit like iPads and a lunch cafeteria with actual restaurants. I went to public school in California, mostly (entirely?) after it was gutted by the Governator, and had shit like textbooks shared across classes with swastikas and 8=D drawn all over the pages and a lunch cafeteria that served frozen pizzas microwaved in the plastic and frozen milk that still had ice-chunks in it.

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    there arent any aliens visiting earth. this is another fucking trump scam / distraction / bullshit opportunity. somehow he can make it ultimately about trashing the democrats, or just distracting people from his crimes and economic destruction.