Is it me or are people just not that bothered about aliens, compared to in the 90s?

That’s called a coup, and yes you can, provided you can outgun the secret service and military.

About to send a strongly worded letter?

They had [REDACTED] alien children Donald Jessica Trump personally [REDACTED] on an island in [REDACTED].

New crazy conspiracy theory: we're being quietly targeted for extermination by a hostile alien species.

They could wipe us out in an afternoon if they wanted to, but they can't just come right in and bomb us from orbit, as that would cause an interstellar relations incident, maybe mass unrest back home. But they also want us gone. We gotta go because we're an advancing young species, near their territory, and are a potential future problem. We're not dealing with an alien army attacking us; we're dealing with an alien equivalent of the CIA. They're here to do the dirty work quietly.

They know species at our level often run headfirst into environmental catastrophes as their technology becomes great enough to threaten the planet they live on. Instead of helping us, however, they're throwing gasoline on the fire. They've brainwashed/replaced with clones the world's wealthiest and most powerful people. And their behavior was psychologically programmed to maximize the chances of them leading us right into a climate apocalypse. Most species eventually get their shit together and place limits on extraction and pollution, less they all die. But if the right type of crazies are running the place, a species can just slam the accelerator as it drives off a cliff.

And when we eventually do burn ourselves alive in a climate Armageddon, the aliens will run news stories, lamenting the tragic tale of a poor primitive planet that couldn't right its ways in time. No threat of war between great interstellar powers. No mass protests movements back on the homeworld. Just a potential future rival nipped in the bud, no muss, no fuss. Mass murder dressed up as death by natural causes.

Yeah but MAGA apparently have the memory capacity (collectively) of a single gamboozia so it should be new news for them

Back around... 2020 or so we had a release of files that were basically 'There are some weird flying things and we have no clue what they were'. After that we had that some coverage a few years back confirming that all of that led to 'No definite evidence of aliens' but I feel like I remember just last year we had a congressional hearing with some guy who worked for the DoD saying Aliens did exist and we had captured some of those UAPs. However, then again... I do think said guy who was most vocal on those hearings had a book he was trying real hard to sell.

Who wants to take the bet that Trump is going to take a financial interest in some guy selling books on this and prop him up as 'the' expert.