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Of course it was a waffle house he "teleported" to. Seems you never end up at one by choice.

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[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 hour ago

Disco

I did it Kim! I teleported!

[–] gnufuu@infosec.pub 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Phillips, a conservative activist who spread voter fraud conspiracies

Nobody spreads conspiracies. One either takes part in conspiracies or spreads conspiracy theories. Those are very different things.

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Wait. You're saying that The Mirror, noted bastion of low-quality tabloid reporting, has stated something incorrectly?

Shocking.

[–] Gathorall@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Not a bit more insane than any religious person.

[–] forrgott@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

Religion is insane, yes, but not all of it's victims are...

[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

"American leadership"

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

ugh of course he's that lame and uncreative. i can levitate and fart showtunes (i mean it depends on how gurgly you want them to get i pitch correct in the tub) but you don't see me bragging when i haven't got a tony

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 10 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Sektor@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

That's the plan.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 23 points 9 hours ago

Just when I thought this season of America had jumped the shark, they introduce a brilliant new comic relief character.

[–] dizzle18@lemmy.zip 21 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

I too have figured out teleportation. All it takes is for me to consume a bottle of tequila, and I wake up some time later in a dumpster outside of a Wal Mart. Two things I have yet to figure out; why is it always a dumpster outside Wal Mart? And why do I always lose my pants when passing through the quantum realm? Who, or what, is stealing my pants?

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

I bet you also time travel into the future

[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] dizzle18@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

Nah, couldn’t be him. He got cancelled.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Through Tequila, all things are possible

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 hours ago

Ooh, aren't you posh? Mezcal or GTFO. Extra points for gusano ingestion.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Aliens!! Tequila also must summon Aliens...
See, I once was out drinking tequila in the town with my mates then, in a blink of an eye, it was the next day and I was in my bed. I think I was abducted by Alienssss.

Whisky too.
There's been a few times when drinking whisky that I've either teleported to a completely different place. Or lost large swathes of time but stayed in the same place.
Also those aliens would sometimes puke on me, or strip me and leave me in my bath then shit on me. Those quirky filthy bastards!!

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 hours ago

It was tequila that caused another mysterious event. I was on a binge and this attractive woman took me back to her place. Then the blackout. The very next morning, she still had a pretty face but had gained 40 pounds overnight. Inexplicable.

[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 152 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

I think "teleporting to Waffle House" is a new favorite euphemism for getting totally shitfaced

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 48 points 17 hours ago

Its shockingly accurate.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I've teleported to many a Waffle House after a long night.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago

Norms in my case.

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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 103 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

Previously, he oddly claimed that he involuntarily teleported to a Waffle House in Georgia that was 50 miles away.

Umn.. Aren't blackouts like that typically a sign of alcoholism or other substance abuse?

[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 38 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] moondoggie@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

But this handwriting doesn’t look like mine at all

[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 hour ago

We need to talk but he won’t let us.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 5 points 14 hours ago

Sure that or quantum mastery, your view skews pessimistic.

[–] wesdym@mastodon.social 7 points 17 hours ago

@atzanteol Yeah, I don't think it's all that uncommon for bearded old guys in the South to find themselves at WH unexpectedly.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 13 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Wow, no exaggerated clickbait here.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 6 points 11 hours ago

Oh, yeah, this one is fun cause the whole article still feels like eating the onion.

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Bath salts will also do that

[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 hours ago

Oh my god the artifact actually works, I've gotta inform the high command

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago

Being John Malkoditch

[–] grue@lemmy.world 29 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

The destination Waffle House was apparently in Rome, GA. I wonder where the origin "50 miles away" was?

Not because I believe he actually teleported, mind you, but because he was obviously driving while blackout drunk and I want him to stay the Hell away from me.

[–] schwim@piefed.zip 32 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

I'm no longer phased by any new confirmations that we're in the "circus" alternate reality of the one we thought we inhabited.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 24 points 17 hours ago

The people at FEMA praise him cause at least it seems like he actually wants to help after disasters unlike anyone else in government right now... That is where we are at somehow. We are just happy the illegitimate leader nutsos aren't against all help.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

You mean we all died and ended up in the Amazing Digital Circus?

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 10 points 17 hours ago

Amazing Digital Circus is just retelling I have No Mouth, and I must Scream, so that would mean we all died but 5-6 of us and this is just torture for them.

Please not that.

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[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 22 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I guess being a walking disaster is now considered "experience" for disaster management.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

"Here comes the disaster... chief."

[–] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 20 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Lmao, blacked out and went to a waffle house then woke up in a ditch. Huh, must have teleported here by accident.

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[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 17 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

However, after a weeks in the role, several FEMA officials said they came around to Phillips after seeing his initiative during the January storm response.

“Gregg Phillips is FEMA’s best hope at this moment. I can’t believe I’m saying that,” one high-ranking FEMA official told CNN at the time.

Same, unnamed FEMA official, same.

[–] wesdym@mastodon.social 16 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

@wjrii I would word it more as, "He's obviously terrible and clearly insane, but probably the best we can hope for from this regime for now."

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago

Just not actively trying to destroy the department puts him in the upper echelon of competence for this administration.

[–] Atropos@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

With shoulder pads like that, I am a believer. This man can do anything.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I thought he was wearing some crazy shoulder pads for a minute.

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