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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 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Disco

I did it Kim! I teleported!

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 20 hours ago

First thing I thought of!

[–] 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 23 hours 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 18 hours ago

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

[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 169 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 53 points 1 day ago

Its shockingly accurate.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 8 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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[–] 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 23 hours ago

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

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Tequila Shots are never a good idea

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 115 points 1 day 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 43 points 1 day 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 23 hours ago

We need to talk but he won’t let us.

Sure that or quantum mastery, your view skews pessimistic.

[–] wesdym@mastodon.social 7 points 1 day 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.

[–] 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 23 hours 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 23 hours ago

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

[–] 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

[–] grue@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 35 points 1 day 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 26 points 1 day 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 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 10 points 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day 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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[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

"American leadership"

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day 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 1 day 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

[–] 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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