{"id":70704,"date":"2026-04-02T11:04:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/jd-vance-thinks-space-aliens-are-demons-who-can-blame-him-dave-schilling\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T11:04:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:04:40","slug":"jd-vance-thinks-space-aliens-are-demons-who-can-blame-him-dave-schilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/jd-vance-thinks-space-aliens-are-demons-who-can-blame-him-dave-schilling\/","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance thinks space aliens are \u2018demons\u2019. Who can blame him? | Dave Schilling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course the vice-president is obsessed with extraterrestrials \u2013 look how bad things have gotten on Earth<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t fault anyone for looking around at the state of things on the planet Earth and pondering the existence of aliens. Who wouldn\u2019t 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/04\/01\/style\/bravo-summer-house-west-wilson-amanda-batula.html\">the cast of Bravo\u2019s Summer House<\/a> is crumbling before our eyes. Unfortunately, for alien observer JD Vance, he\u2019s partially responsible for two of the three. Pretty sure the vice-president isn\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/summer-house-amanda-batula-west-wilson-confirm-relationship-11937782\">hooking up with Amanda Batula<\/a>, so he\u2019s off the hook for that one.<\/p>\n<p>On a recent appearance on The Benny Show, a conservative podcast you\u2019ve never heard of, Vance outlined his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/30\/jd-vance-alien-ufo-are-demons?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1\">\u201cobsession\u201d with UFOs<\/a>. He might not be fully read into the current state of extraterrestrial discourse, but he does have a theory. Vance said: \u201cI don\u2019t think they\u2019re aliens, I think they\u2019re demons anyway, but that\u2019s a longer discussion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dave Schilling is a Los Angeles-based writer and humorist<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/apr\/02\/jd-vance-space-aliens-demons\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course the vice-president is obsessed with extraterrestrials \u2013 look how bad things have gotten on Earth I can\u2019t fault anyone for looking around at the state of things on the planet Earth and pondering the existence of aliens. Who wouldn\u2019t want to hop on the Starship Get-Me-The-Hell-Out-Of-Here right now? It costs me a vital &#8230; <a title=\"JD Vance thinks space aliens are \u2018demons\u2019. Who can blame him? | Dave Schilling\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/jd-vance-thinks-space-aliens-are-demons-who-can-blame-him-dave-schilling\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about JD Vance thinks space aliens are \u2018demons\u2019. Who can blame him? | Dave Schilling\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}