Posted on 08/25/2023 5:28:55 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Former Navy pilot and Americans for Safe Aerospace founder Ryan Graves called out Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie for laughing off questions about UFOs on Wednesday.
"I get the UFO question?" Christie said at the first Republican primary debate, laughing when asked about what he would do in the White House if he had authority over what the Pentagon now calls unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs.
"I think it's horrible that just because I’m from New Jersey, you asked me about unidentified flying objects and Martians," Christie said to laughter. "We're different, but we're not that different."
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Christie then pivoted to speaking about the importance of truth-telling in the White House. "The job of the President of the United States is to level with the American people about everything," he said. "The job of the President of the United States is to stand for truth," adding that threats to children's education were more significant than UFOs.
Graves fired back at Christie over his comments in a statement to Fox News Digital Thursday.
"When is laughter ever an acceptable response to a national security question?" Graves wrote, referencing Christie's flippant response to the question.
"Advanced UAP present a clear and present national security problem, so I invite Gov. Christie and any presidential candidate to meet with Navy pilots who have witnessed advanced UAP that exceed our tactical jets," Graves added. "Americans deserve answers and transparency, not jokes about aliens that perpetuate stigma and suppresses reporting."
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I thought the question was a perfect wrapup to the debate, so completely off-the-wall, and Christie handled it great. While I do believe that there are aliens, I’m always just dismayed that there’s no real proof, no clear photos, none to introduce to the American public.
Do not enter onto a thread on a topic you don't like just to disrupt, rattle cages, poke sticks, insult the regulars, or engage in trolling activities, etc.
To those who haven't, they will remain either a belief or a joke. That's their problem.
It isn't about aliens at this point. It is about unidentified craft in secured airspace (and beneath the ocean surface).
Christie blew it by trying to be cute.
People as obese as Christie have some sort of emotional defect hence their use of food as a drug.
Ask yourself, why is America plagued with the same politicians for decades and decades?
Here’s the answer:
1) We have not encountered aliens and the odds of us finding any, or them finding us, is pretty much zero.
Even if we detected something, or vice versa, by the time one can visit the other, the civilization being visited would most likely be dead and gone. Cataclysmic volcanic and impact disasters are too frequent.
2) Any info the government has on the most advanced recon capabilities of either us or other countries, including adversaries, is classified.
So, no, you’re not getting squat. The truth is out there but you’re not going to get it.
So you haven't seen the tic-tac videos--admitted as authentic by the DOD--shot from on board F/A-18's that encountered them?
And you haven't heard the testimony of Navy pilots, seamen and officers, and radarmen who were involved in the USS Nimitz and USS Princeton (an Aegis-destroyer BTW) encounters with these tic-tacs. These UFOs (perhaps drones from China or Russia) buzzed our aircraft and nuclear ships with impunity...but this is just silly?
Yes, I have watched the videos, I read all the news on the topic. But at the end of the day, there’s no in your hands proof, no clear videos, just unexplained situations.
Telling as opposed to remaining unaccountably silent on the truth in all its glory would seem to be a good start on that issue.
U.S. Prexy needs to be the advocate of Joe Six Pack and either level with the people ASAP, or otherwise (or on the meantime) remain silent and not engage in or facilitate government propaganda efforts.
Propaganda seemingly being almost all of what FedGov is up to at any given time. Including on this particular issue.
Why do you use the strawman of "aliens"?
This is a question of national security, not aliens.
That's like finding your house has been broken into and declaring "It can't be escaped convicts because the nearest prison is 500 miles away. Therefore, let's just ignore the break-in."
No one (except for a few flakes on FR) is speculating what these UFOs are. They are saying, let's solve the puzzle. Are they Chinese, are they Russian...or something else entirely?
And even if there are, it seems to me that if they were going to annihilate or enslave us, they’d have done it by now…
So when Navy pilots complain of safety issues and national security problems re: what they are encountering, your response is, “I (a Freeper) haven’t seen any proof, so the Navy and DOD should fuggedaboutit”?
Someone or something has certainly invaded the brains of the Democrats in the U.S.
They should have told Cris Crispy Cream ,they would buy him a couple of pizzas ,if he would answer the question. He wouldn’t have been laughing then .
UFO whistleblower had No Pea in his whistle and all we heard was Air
Space aliens attempted to abduct Christie .But the couldn’t get him into the ship.
Space aliens attempted to abduct Christie .But they couldn’t get him into the ship.
Christie's response, "So are we talking pepperoni or anchovies...or both"?
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