JD Vance, the vice-president of the United States, said this weekend that he considers aliens to be “demons”.

As the war in Iran continues, petrol and grocery prices soar and chaos continues at US airports as a partial government shutdown endures, Vance appeared on the conservative Benny Show podcast, released Saturday, to promise that he would spend time looking into what he called his “obsession” with UFOs and extraterrestrial visitors.

Johnson, who bills his show as the place for “cutting, behind-the-scenes insight into the global conflict for freedom”, wondered if Vance, who has been noticeably quiet about Donald Trump’s war in the Middle East that he is said to oppose, had yet looked at any of the files about unidentified flying objects – known these days as unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) – which the president has promised to release.

“I actually haven’t,” Vance replied, mustering significantly more enthusiasm than for any previous question about the US-Israel military strikes on Iran.

“I have not been able to spend enough time on this, but I am going to. Trust me, I’m obsessed with this.”

The God-fearing vice-president’s fixation, it was further revealed, extended to the question of the existence of extraplanetary beings, and where they might fit into a wider conversation about religion.

“I don’t think they’re aliens, I think they’re demons anyway, but that’s a longer discussion,” he said.

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    13 hours ago

    The entire and sole reason they say dumb shit like this, is because they know useful idiots will spread it and suck up everyone’s bandwidth for political news.

    Everyone that pays attention to this obvious distraction, has less fucks and time to give about important shit.

    The media at least has the excuse of being owned by billionaires with a financial incentive to spread it…

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      7 hours ago

      we should call this out as engagement bait. the media gets ad revenue and these posts are rage comedy identification depending on your politics. No actual journalism here.

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        7 hours ago

        Try telling OP that…

        They do it constantly and likely have blocked me for trying to explain things to them already.

        Replying to someone to say “this” tho…

        Almost always useless, go tell someone else that doesn’t know if you think it’s a good idea

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          7 hours ago

          yeah meant no negativity. i upvoted and agreed with you cause i feel the exact way after seeing enough of these posts.