[MarlonRando]

“The public has a right to know, dadgummit, it’s your tax dollars. Let’s get it out there,” he said

Dadgummit! I want to know!!!

[central_va]

Do extraterrestrials taste good? With Chianti and fava beans?

[Steven Tyler]

They put the aliens in bikinis and cast them in beer commercials. That’s why they are widely accepted members of society.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtnMtrEB1-I

[yesthatjallen]

“I’ve been briefed"

Which means he hasn't seen any evidence; he's just repeating what others have told him. 'A friend of a friend' tall tale.

As I have posted here before, since it's Republicans who are repeating these stories, I suspect someone is feeding them this information to make them look like fools.

[from occupied ga]

Yawn. There aren’t any extraterrestrial aliens visiting from another solar system for the same reason we can’t visit other solar systems. You can’t get there from here and they (if they exist) can’t get here from there. They’re too far away. Nearest star is something like 30 trillion miles away. The Saturn probe took 7 years to get to a planet one billion miles away. The nearest star is 30,000 times that far so 7 years times 30,000 = 210,000 year journey. And that’s just the closest star. We can look, but we can’t touch.

[LukeL]

If aliens could teach Earth they would need to harness the power of their parent star and somehow overcome the issues with near light speed travel. The energy requirements render it impossible.

[chief lee runamok]

Americans would be ‘up at night worrying’ if they knew the truth about alien life,
Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett says

We, the American people, won't walk during daylight as we are
afraid our shadow is following us. No Joke.

[2nd Amendment]

Do they taste good in gumbo?

[RoosterRedux]

LOL. I love this guy, dadgummit. He’s an original.

[escapefromboston]

I doubt it

[Jonty30]

I sleep well.

[rdcbn1]

I think JD Vance had the best take on the subject.

[fireman15]

A large percentage of the public has been raised on a steady diet of sci-fi which has caused them to hold many irrational beliefs. With the decline of organized religion in this country and abroad a vacuum has been created by most peoples’ desire to understand the roots of their existence. This creates an opportunity for politicians who hope to exploit this chasm between reality and widely held belief systems.

Rep. Tim Burchett please save us!

[ifinnegan]

Ok. Burchett is insane.

Or it helps his grift.

[caddie]

“The good news is...”

[BigEdLB]

Human-Alien crossbreed?

[MayflowerMadam]

“alleging knowledge of alien-human hybrid breeding programs”

This makes no sense at all. If Earth humans can cross breed with aliens, that means that both DNAs are compatible with each other. If that’s true, then they aren’t really aliens unless God created a populated planet that it 100% parallel to Earth and those guys travel. Traveling beings = alien ‘cause they’re “not from around here”.

In which case ... they’re humans. Human aliens.

In which case, that might explain the rise in autism and peanut allergies which were practically nonexistent a couple decades ago. The mix of DNA went a bit wonky.

(I need coffee.)

[jerod]

[Wilderness Conservative]

Tim is one of the very few I trust.

[grobdriver]

Typical congress-critter. We're much smarter, much more intelligent, more informed, more sophisticated than you public hicks.

You want the truth? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!

[The Louiswu]

Distractions nothing more. Fear porn. Keep the masses entertained.