• paraphrand@lemmy.world
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    The UFO community has been wanting Trump to and suggesting Trump would do this for years. And at least on Reddit, they can’t stand anyone pointing out that it’s all just to garner attention and support from a fringe base. And to sow distrust in government institutions. (they won’t tell you the truth, but I will etc)

    I was banned for pointing this out because it was “off topic”.

    I hope this at least brings real proper reporting and debunking to the subject. Fringe online media, and conservative mainstream media already cover this just to placate their base. And they can’t call it bullshit, or offer balanced reporting on it because they will offend the people they are trying to rope in.

    And hey, if it turns out the US really does know stuff they have tried to keep from the public, that would be cool. But after following this during the pandemic era, like many people did, I came to the conclusion that most of it is rehashed bullshit and circular reporting and grifters telling stories for attention. It’s also clear that the topic is exploited for ulterior motives by governments. Someone elsewhere in this thread listed a few concrete examples. And this looks like this will be the largest such exploitation of the topic ever.

    Also, I love how the slug for this story is just “trump” with a long string of numbers. It really represents the news cycles of our time.

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      “Listen, so I raped and killed a few kids on video. Can’t we all just move on? It wasn’t even that many, just the odd 40 or 50 children that no one, other than their parents, would ever miss!”

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    Given the timing of Trump’s UFO announcement – issued as the Trump administration has mobilized a colossal military force near Iran, with an all-out war possibly imminent – journalist and author Max Blumenthal bemoaned what he suggested was Trump’s tactic to draw attention away from the potentially catastrophic consequences of a wider regional war. [Iran]

    From a tweet just below that

    CIA planning docs show when they overthrew the Guatemalan president in 1954, they plotted planting “flying saucer” stories to distract the media.

    Another declassified study shows the Air Force misled the public in the 1950s about UFOs to conceal the CIA’s spy plane testing.

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    Wow, that may distract from the Trump Files Featuring Jeffry Epstein (TFFJE) for maybe a minute

    Ok, minutes over. Hand over the UNREDACTED files!

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      That’s what we already see. Is there something even worse that this is meant to be a distraction from? Eating children? Raping puppies? Some other horrible third thing?

      Just when you think he’s reached the bottom and nobody could possibly be any worse, he sinks lower. Every time. There is actually nothing redeemable about him.

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        It’s rumored Trump used his child pageant business to supply epstein with suitable victims, implying he wasn’t just a client but a full blown partner so to say.

        No idea if the files validate that but he seems to fear the files intensely.

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          “I’m not only the Child Rape Club for Men President, but I’m also a client!”

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    Can we ask the aliens to abduct Trump, never to be seen again? I’ve always said he isn’t good for anything. But now that I think of it, dissecting his brain would be a great study on the extremes of human narcissism and degenerate behavior. I’m sure the alien scientists would love to study such a odd case.

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    In Mexico, the chupacabra started showing up everywhere but my backyard after somebody assassinated Luis Donaldo Colosio. The civil unrest was short lived. Just putting this out there.

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    it would be kind of rad if aliens showed up solely because they were like, “we want the Epstein files so we know who to vaporize.” Id fw that

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    Anybody who knows anything about science knows that an announcement of alien life would not be a bombshell press conference by any one nation or organization.

    It would be a slow series of scientific papers over the course of years as confidence in the findings slowly increases. Starting with “there’s something interesting going on in the atmosphere of this exoplanet” until we finally get to “we’re 95% confident that this is a biological process, but this exoplanet is 50 light years away so we can’t really do anything else with this information right now.”