No, this is not a satirical headline from The Onion or me posting this while on crazy pills. This is the kind of people that are now in positions of power in the U.S. Federal Government.
Gregg Phillips, the top official overseeing disaster response at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) with a history of spreading conspiracy theories, insists he was once teleported to a Georgia Waffle House. Phillips asserted that “teleporting is no fun” because “you don’t really know what you’re doing. You don’t really understand it, it’s scary, but yet um – but so real. And you know it’s happening but you can’t do anything about it, and so you just go, you just go with the ride.”
Ok, let me turn on my empathy switch for a moment. Maybe he has a point; I mean I still recall Dr. Leonard McCoy on Star Trek (the original series) angrily retorting that using a transporter is a crazy way to travel, “spreading a man’s molecules all over the universe”. Thinking logically about it, that has got to make anyone feel disjointed before it all gets reassembled (and hopefully in the right order because it would be no fun having your brain relocated to where you butt is located after being teleported elsewhere since that would really suck).
Now I do have this sense of humor which can be sarcastic at times and so I also tried to consider that maybe this was one of those moments. But then I learn we’re being gaslit by a spokesperson that his remarks were made in a jovial manner due to a life circumstance with his health but if you watch the podcast where he is asked about this experience, it’s a serious question being given a serious reply. Okay…
Anyway, there are times I wish I could teleport off this crazy timeline onto the one that is sane. 🤪
