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If it actually mattered, do you think this administration would be talking about it?

Of course not. The whole rationale of the Trump administration has been that Donald Trump is the CEO of the US government, and that he gets to run it in a way that brings him maximum personal and financial benefit so long as he gives conservatives patronage every once in a while. He's at the top. He's accountable to no one. It's the Trump Organization with access to the state's monopoly on violence and tax dollars.

If you have an alien civilization with the abilities you're talking about, particularly faster-than-light travel, he's no longer at the top. He's just another semi-hairless insane ape like the rest of us staring down the barrel of colonization by a technologically-superior civilization.

Also, if this stuff were real, why didn't he release more of it during his first administration? Sure, there have been developments since 2020, but not compared to everything between the 1940s and 2020.

The answer is simple: he needs us distracted now more than he did in the first administration.



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