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JD Vance thinks space aliens are ‘demons’. Who can blame him? | Dave Schilling

Of course the vice-president is obsessed with extraterrestrials – look how bad things have gotten on Earth I can’t fault anyone for looking around at the state of things on the planet Earth and pondering the existence of aliens. Who wouldn’t want to hop on the Starship Get-Me-The-Hell-Out-Of-Here right now? It costs me a vital organ to fill up my gas tank, everyone I know is unemployed and the cast of Bravo’s Summer House is crumbling before our eyes. Unfortunately for alien observer JD Vance, he’s partially responsible for two of the three. Pretty sure the vice-president isn’t hooking up with Amanda Batula, so he’s off the hook for that one. On a recent appearance on The Benny Show, a conservative podcast you’ve never heard of, Vance outlined his “obsession” with UFOs. He might not be fully read into the current state of extraterrestrial discourse, but he does have a theory. Vance said: “I don’t think they’re aliens, I think they’re demons anyway, but that’s a longer discussion.” JD, it’s a podcast. I think you have time to elaborate in between ad reads for Squarespace. And elaborate he did. “Well, look, I think that celestial beings who fly aro

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JD Vance thinks space aliens are ‘demons’. Who can blame him? | Dave Schilling

Of course the vice-president is obsessed with extraterrestrials – look how bad things have gotten on Earth I can’t fault anyone for looking around at the state of things on the planet Earth and pondering the…

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