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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 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Disco

I did it Kim! I teleported!

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

First thing I thought of!

[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 164 points 2 days ago (5 children)

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

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 51 points 2 days ago

Its shockingly accurate.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Norms in my case.

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[–] gnufuu@infosec.pub 12 points 1 day ago (2 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 5 points 1 day ago

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

Shocking.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Reminds me of the "people evacuated" scene from the Wire.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 111 points 2 days 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 41 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] moondoggie@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But this handwriting doesn’t look like mine at all

[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

We need to talk but he won’t let us.

[–] wesdym@mastodon.social 7 points 2 days 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.

Sure that or quantum mastery, your view skews pessimistic.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

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

[–] dizzle18@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 day 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 4 points 1 day ago

I bet you also time travel into the future

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Through Tequila, all things are possible

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

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

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day 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 3 points 1 day 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.

[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] dizzle18@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

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

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[–] Gathorall@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Not a bit more insane than any religious person.

[–] forrgott@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

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

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Sektor@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

That's the plan.

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

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Tequila Shots are never a good idea

[–] grue@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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 34 points 2 days 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 25 points 2 days 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 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 10 points 2 days 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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[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wow, no exaggerated clickbait here.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 6 points 1 day ago

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

[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"Here comes the disaster... chief."

[–] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 days 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 18 points 2 days 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 17 points 2 days 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 1 day ago

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

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Being John Malkoditch

[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

"American leadership"

[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

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

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Bath salts will also do that

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