If you’re having trouble seeing the bright side of Hillary being the nominee instead of Bernie, maybe this will cheer you up a bit: Hillary’s really into the possibility of space aliens.
In fact, some of Hillary’s most genuine moments seem to come when she’s discussing her zest for exploring alien life. At some point a late-night host asked her about UFOs, and she corrected him that the proper term is UAP, for unexplained aerial phenomenon. “That’s the latest nomenclature.” It was a delightfully nerdy moment that could only have been better if she added, “Also, the correct pronunciation of ‘Evangelion’ has a hard ‘g.'”
“There’s enough stories out there that I don’t think everybody is just sitting in their kitchen making them up,” Hillary told a radio show last month. She’s also said she wants to release more information about Area 51, beyond just what we know from such documentaries as Independence Day, and when someone asked her if she believes in UFO (or AUPs or whatever) she said, “I don’t know. I want to see what the information shows.”
That’s a magnificent answer that’s almost Trumpian in its ambiguousness. If you’re a space-alien enthusiast, you could jump for joy at what seems like a signal that Hillary knows there’s proof of alien life and just can’t say so. Or if you’re a skeptic you might smugly nod at her implication that once the government releases its classified data, it’ll turn out that there’s a perfectly reasonable terrestrial explanation for everything.
In other words, she is simultaneously both Mulder and Scully. She wants to believe! But also, let’s be practical. Optimism tempered with pragmatism. That’s her brand when it comes to space aliens, and pretty much everything else.
In fact, during Hillary’s first stay in the White House, advisor John Podesta ran an X-Files fan club and threw a X-Files-themed birthday party. (Oh, God, to have been at that party! How far do you think they took the theme? When they cut into the cake, did it release a noxious green substance containing a retrovirus?)
Podesta’s now Hillary’s campaign chairman, and the New York Times got X-Files creator Chris Carter to confirm that he’ll be supporting Hillary in this election.
Maybe Hillary’s inner circle loves The X-Files because they’re all big space nerds. When she was young, Hillary wanted to become an astronaut and wrote to NASA for advice. They wrote back that she’s a girl, and don’t be silly, girls can’t go to space.
It’s probably worth noting that Donald Trump is not a big believer in space exploration.
“Space is terrific,” he said, but he also said, “Right now, we have bigger problems—you understand that? We’ve got to fix our potholes.” Yes, space is terrific, the best, America has the best space. But I guess for some reason Trump doesn’t believe we can fix potholes and launch shuttles at the same time? I mean, I’m no historian, but I suspect that if you look back, America didn’t need to suspend all pothole-filling in order to land on the moon. If we DID discover extraterrestrial life, Trump’s first order of business would probably be sending them a golden record ordering them to build a wall around space.
Anyway, the point is that if the truth is indeed out there, we can definitely trust Hillary Clinton, noted champion of record-releasing, to finally bring it to light.