kottke.orgWe’re expected to believe that the NY Times is a serious newspaper when they are sending a reporter to talk to dozens of ppl to debunk a claim from a known conspiracy theorist, fascist, and grifter that he’d teleported into a Waffle House?!? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/us/fema-gregg-phillips-waffle-house-teleportation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YFA.u56i.a8rPTNc__Diz
Heliograph@kottke we take absolutely *nothing* serious anymore that comes from the us (or what was formerly known as the us)
Anselm Bühling@kottke It’s definitely a case of both sides making claims which seem to contradict each other. On one hand, he claims to have been teleported to the Waffle House. On the other hand, dozens of people claim they didn’t see him. So we really can’t be sure who is right here, can we? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Space Invader@kottke if someone at the Waffle House was like: “oh yeah, huh, I remember that drunk guy. He was blitzed. Wow.” That trip would have paid off. It’s worth debunking falsehoods. I’m actually in a strange way more curious now what happened. Is this a case of hallucinations vs drunkenness vs outright lying? What possible benefit does lying about random teleportation bring, if it isn’t a cover for something else?
What a world we live in.
Gerard Cunningham ✒️Honest to Crom, are people really unable to see that the point of that article was to take the piss out of Phillips?
Granneman 😡@kottke I thought it was sneaky, completely making fun of him and his idiotic claims.
Hedgewizard 🐈@kottke
When in Rome, teleport as the Romans do
When in Rome, teleport as the Romans do
Martha BridegamContrary to prevalent belief elsewhere, there is such a thing as an American slow-burn sense of irony. I guarantee you, the reporter and interviewees in question do not for one tiny moment believe in teleportation. To use a Britishism, they are winding that weird official guy up. Slowly, methodically, and thoroughly.