In June, Rep. Eric Burlison, a Missouri Republican serving on the House Oversight Committee, appeared on BlazeTV’s Prime Time with Alex Stein, where he discussed his belief that giants once existed. Burlison told Stein he was scheduled to be at “NephCon 2025,” a conference focused on fringe topics including the biblical Nephilim —figures in Genesis that some interpret as the giant offspring of angels and human women.

He credited Timothy Alberino’s podcast with sending him “far down the rabbit hole,” eventually reaching claims that the Smithsonian Institution is hiding evidence, the bones of past giants that lived on the Earth. Burlison suggested that, as a member of the Oversight Committee, he could investigate the Smithsonian.

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    In America the left lost due to two things:

    An industrial and computer revolution that redistributed most of the population over two generations. This broke the grassroots movement mechanism the civil rights and later efforts depended on. Internet chat rooms were not a replacement.

    Allowing the people in power to count votes and decide who won elections over 30 years

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      No, not even close. When do you think the Industrial Revolution happened in America that you feel it is somehow within the last 40 years?

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        Most of the population moved and changed careers. Not just in America but worldwide

        The reason it impacted Americans more than other countries was there was more land area to move. While there was as much changing jobs in France, Germany, Japan, Canada during the period. There was less distance moved, and more social connections were kept.