The Late Great Carl Sagan

In his book A Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan made a prediction:

And here we are in 2023, our attention consumed by nonsense about aliens crash-landing at military bases while we argue about whether women can have penises and if men can menstruate. Meanwhile, the WHO is implementing vaccine passports and threatening every nation's sovereignty in the event of another manufactured pandemic. Illegal immigrants from the four corners of the globe are flooding across our southern border, and I'm a racist for noticing. The US military's budget is inching closer and closer to the $1 trillion mark (that's just the Pentagon budget; if you include the bits hidden in the DOE, DHS, black budgets, etc. the total is already around $1.2 trillion). I'm old enough to remember when everyone threw a hissy fit when the entire federal budget hit $1 trillion.

But no, don't pay any attention to any of that stuff. We need to focus on little green men.