FEMA Official Gregg Phillips--the Waffle House Guy--Has Been Saying Even Crazier Stuff Than We Thought

[muriel_volestrangler]

He’s since been quietly sidelined from his post, which is probably for the best.

We have been keeping a weather eye on Gregg Phillips, a top-ranked official of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, who claims he once found himself teleported to a Waffle House. (One hopes the authorities, or perhaps Starfleet Command, are watching him too.) CNN’s redoubtable K-File reports that this is not the only time that Phillips found himself in touch with Forces Beyond.

A dead girlfriend once lifted his car off the road to avoid a crash. Satan once spoke to him while he walked across Spain. After collapsing inside an Indianapolis Lowe’s, he came to in a McDonald’s parking lot across the street with 15,000 steps logged on his health app, a Big Mac in his lap, and little understanding of what had just happened. In telling these stories across various right-wing podcasts, Phillips has said many of the experiences occurred while he was in and out of treatment for metastatic bone cancer. Rather than undergo chemotherapy, Phillips says he chose instead to rely on a self-directed regimen of ivermectin and fenbendazole, antiparasitic drugs commonly used to deworm animals.

I feel for this guy. Honestly, I do. If he truly has cancer, and if he found himself falling into the MAHA rabbit hole, I wish him well—and a real doctor. But, man, we can’t have this guy helping run whatever’s left of FEMA as we come into heat wave, tornado, hurricane, wildfire, and flood seasons.
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Within days of CNN’s report, Phillips was pulled from a scheduled Capitol Hill hearing. He has since been quietly sidelined from parts of FEMA’s operations, according to multiple agency sources. He was also directed to stop posting about teleportation on Truth Social, a source familiar told CNN. Several sources said Phillips was furious—and is now convinced that Trump officials at FEMA and DHS were angling against him. Since then, he has grown increasingly agitated and suspicious, multiple FEMA insiders who work with Phillips told CNN.

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Oh, Lord, Engelbrecht has been a public nuisance going back to Trump I. She was at the heart of the spurious claims of harassment by the IRS because various wing-nut outfits were playing fast and loose with their nonprofit status. She and Phillips have done business together for years. They put together a ruse about a Ukrainian hospital that didn’t exist. They also were jailed for contempt of court when they refused to identify a “confidential FBI informant” who informed them about irregularities in the voting software provided by a company called Konnech, whose CEO, Eugene Yu, ultimately sued the two of them for defamation.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a71017816/fema-official-gregg-phillips-waffle-house-removed-from-post/

[mwmisses4289]

1. Ok, sounds like someone needs to be in a padded room.

[malaise]

2. In other words

an effin lunatic

[Vinca]

3. Maybe this guy could be Don's BFF at the Donald J. Trump Psychiatric Hospital.

Trump could be Jesus and Phillips could be Satan.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. "Sidelined" ??? He needs to be fired, NOW. nt

[303squadron]

5. Scotty is waiting in the transporter room

Gregg is scheduled to be transported into the Klingon ship with the last of the tribbles.

[hunter]

6. I've been teleported twice in my life.

Once was from Tijuana to San Diego after drinking too much cheap tequila. I woke up next to a motorcycle on the floor of an unfamiliar apartment. I was afraid to ask what that border crossing was like.

The second time I was teleported a few hundred miles to Fresno. That's one bad side effect prednisone has on me when I take it for too many consecutive days. It's usually prescribed when my asthma flares up and can't be controlled by my usual meds.

If this guy has got severe medical issues I've got some empathy for him but he should be taking time off to deal with those issues.

It's clear that the owners of the Republican Party want to break the government. One way they do it is by promoting people who, for whatever reason, are not competent. That starts at the top with the criminal blowhard-in-chief.

[Swede]

7. Hold on! Trump only employs the best people.

Just look at his big shod (shoed?) cabinet, a collection of deep thinkers.