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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          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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          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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      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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      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.