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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    “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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    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 🙏

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      Let he who has not been teleported to a Waffle House throw the first stone. Did you know most people at a Waffle house at 3am cannot tell you exactly how they got there? Coincidence or Conspiracy? Chug this handle of Goldschläger(teleport fuel) and we shall conduct an experiment!

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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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          I’m the exception. I love waffle house but never go there drunk. I go in the morning, for breakfast. It is fast, better quality (fight me) than fast food, and less expensive.

          I don’t go often but I enjoy the Waffle House experience. Vastly different in the morning than say 2AM when this guy shows up.

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          Yeah, but when you move away from their range you start to miss waffle houses. There’s something about 1am and the folks you’ve been drinking with deciding to finish sobering up over some hash browns next to some truckers, a high school sports team, and some people who are clearly coming down from a far more exciting night than you had…

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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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    Why? Why is this nutjob even being considered? Because he’s a yes-man? This country used to have integrity and ethics…all of which got flushed after 2016. I want serious inquiry into what happened to this fucking timeline.

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      Spoiler alert: This country had roughly the same amount of integrity and ethics prior to 2016. The only difference is that Trump gave everyone who gave lip service to integrity and ethics permission to unmask and expose their hypocrisy. To those people, ethics was just a weapon to tie the hands of the few people who actually had strong values.

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      The worst part is he’s been described by FEMA officials as their best shot. He was brought in to destroy the organization, but upon coming in he listened to the people who worked there and has become a strong defender of the org.

      So yeah, he’s completely insane, violently unhinged, and quite possibly the most responsible person Trump has put in charge of a government agency in this administration. It’s a real shitshow

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        The man that believes he has teleportation powers is the most responsible person in this admin?

        Thank god pot is legal in my state.