Democratic Rep. Tim Kennedy described Phillips as “wildly unfit for his role as head of FEMA response and recovery,” citing “his violent statements about former President Biden” and “deeply troubling bigoted comments about immigrants.”

Kennedy added: “All of which, to me, makes him wholly disqualified to hold his position on its own — but only to be outdone by his claims of being teleported to a Waffle House.”

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      Everyone has a bad alchohol (or something) expirence, its obvious to everyone that something like that happened and his brain (while on drugs) skipped a track. The emberassing part is that he insists on the sci-fi explanation, rather than the much more mundane normal waffle house expirence.

      Under any other administration we would be like “The head of FEMA used to be a party animal, funny”, but now its just more on the pile of unqualified BS, the issue is that this guy runs the dept that helps people on the worst days of their lives.

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        For the record, plenty of people sleep walk, I like to call it sleep waking but no one else does. While alcohol and drugs.exacerbates it, it happens without it’s help. Only an asshole would claim teleportation in any case.

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      It’s better than getting blackout drunk and driving your car into a pond, killing your passenger, like that other Kennedy…

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        Sure but if he can’t remember getting there he might have killed someone along the way or is conveniently forgetting thinking this is an ironclad alibi.

        Don’t drive intoxicated folks. It can ruin the lives. Just ask Tiger Woods.

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      I mean, plenty of us sleepwalk, someone who isn’t me does, talks, walks, moves around, in a dream but awake and walking. Swim never claimed teleportation because swim (someone who isn’t me) isn’t an asshole.

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    “I was with my boys one time and I was telling them I was gonna go to Waffle House and get Waffle House. And I ended up at a Waffle House – this was in Georgia and I end up at a Waffle House like 50 miles away from where I was,” Phillips said in a January 2025 podcast episode.

    Columbo

    One quick question… was your car teleported to the Waffle House parking lot?

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      Yes, aliens teleported him and his car to waffle house and the bastards also injected him full of Jack Daniels in order to cover up the truth.

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        Not to speak of the lizard-woman dressed as a hooker blowing alien white powder straight up his nose

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    Ah, yes. I believe it was in the Book Of John that Jesus teleported from Jerusalem to a Waffle House in West Virginia. One of the holiest of days 🙏