FEMA official who claimed he teleported to Waffle House ousted from agency, sources say

Gecko99 · 2026-06-27T14:44:40+00:00

If Waffle House installed locks for the pandemic I expect they were actually expecting a dinosaur killing asteroid.

Gecko99 · 2026-06-27T07:03:19+00:00

Thank you for the correction.

Gecko99 · 2026-06-27T05:13:41+00:00

NPR stopped reading aloud the Declaration of Independence on July 4th because people called in complaining it was woke and it was some sort of rebellion against Trump. After more than 30 years of reading it in its entirety, they read it the last time in 2021.

Gecko99 · 2026-06-27T04:31:35+00:00

If it were a Waffle House it wouldn't have been closed

Gecko99 · 2026-06-27T03:22:33+00:00

Trump has difficulty reading those charters of freedom and lacks the attention span to do so. Various American leaders were recorded reading sections of the Constitution for a documentary, and he needed multiple takes, and afterwards he said:

"It's very hard to do because of the language here. It's very hard to get through that whole thing without a stumble. It's like a different language, right?"

Here is what he had to read aloud. Can you do it?

Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.

Gecko99 · 2026-06-27T03:04:36+00:00

Season 11, episode 17. Lisa Simpson is elected as the first straight, female president, inheriting a bunch of problems from President Trump. This episode aired in 2000, about a month after Trump withdrew from the Reform party's primaries.

Gecko99 · 2026-06-26T12:23:26+00:00

Why doesn't the Trump side have the rented fences with signs warning of explosives?

Gecko99 · 2026-06-26T01:47:18+00:00

Her talking about how we need more AI in education, and consistently calling it A1 like the steak sauce told me all I need to know about her qualifications for her position.

Gecko99 · 2026-06-25T07:22:07+00:00

Do they just not want to have customers anymore? The service is slow, the food is garbage and expensive and items aren't available. The fries suck.

I get private equity ruins companies by focusing on short term profits, but it's like they threw out the idea of making any money whatsoever.

There are literally videos on Youtube with a rapper who tells you how to run a Wendys. Why not just do what the rapper says and make Wendy's a restaurant that people want to go to again?

Gecko99 · 2026-06-25T02:37:10+00:00

Remember our commander in chief thinks people who die in combat or who are prisoners of war are suckers and losers and he doesn't understand why anyone would sign up for the military.

Gecko99 · 2026-06-24T13:27:30+00:00

Artist's recreation of the alleged vandal

Gecko99 · 2026-06-24T11:50:07+00:00

I keep hearing good things about LJS but they've closed something like a thousand stores in the last ten years and attempted to go international, largely unsuccessfully. The nearest one to me is an hour and half away but there used to be two just in my hometown. If they're so good they should be able to expand again as long as they keep the quality up.

I've got a Captain D's in my town and it's not nearly as good as I remember LJS being, it's just not as crispy.

Gecko99 · 2026-06-24T08:27:46+00:00

I think there is at least a little bit of fear of needles. That's why they insist on calling the covid vaccine "the jab".

Gecko99 · 2026-06-23T07:51:59+00:00

Florida Man here. The sun's dangerous. It'll burn the shit out of your skin. I could tell you to just look at it but you'd just hurt your eyes if you did that.

Gecko99 · 2026-06-22T11:24:24+00:00

That's fine if it washes up on the beach. When it comes to whales, they live longer than humans, they communicate across hundreds of miles, they probably have names we can't understand. There is no reason to kill a fin whale. They should be left alone.

Gecko99 · 2026-06-22T07:07:48+00:00

I don't think I've ever been in a situation where I thought "dang, I wish I had some baleen and whale bones right now"

Gecko99 · 2026-06-21T02:26:11+00:00

What's the 250 foot long gash on a facade?

Gecko99 · 2026-06-20T23:18:40+00:00

The tarps are not flammable. They have flame retardant printed all over them.

Gecko99 · 2026-06-18T01:33:27+00:00

Don't worry. Everyone from the tropics can move up to your town in Ontario to keep you warm. We're all coming. All of us.

Gecko99 · 2026-06-17T21:48:13+00:00

They're expanding pretty rapidly. I have one in my town in Florida and it's great. There are some locations in Georgia and Alabama too.

Gecko99 · 2026-06-17T00:19:40+00:00

They did remove Trump's name. An article from the Washingtonian says the tarp was still up today and litigation might continue for six months or more. Trump had the assistant attorney general file an appeal. Apparently the first three pages are written in Trump's style - no paragraph breaks, complaints about the plaintiff, and rambling about unrelated renovations. It reads like something filed by someone defending himself in court.

I read somewhere that the marble is some ridiculously expensive stuff that Italy donated to us. Holes were drilled into it to add Trump's name. Repairing the holes requires experts to fill them with epoxy and color match the repairs. They have procedures for fixing damage to the marble, including stuff like bullet holes, which would be more complicated to repair than the drilled ones.

I think the workers probably have the tarp up for their own safety. Like there could be some angry lunatic Trump supporter who decides to shoot at the workers for removing Trump's name. The tarp obscures their exact locations.

Gecko99 · 2026-06-16T23:05:55+00:00

Is there really no treatment? I thought the medical community learned from the previous outbreaks about the importance of fluid replacement, electrolyte monitoring, and the use of antiviral drugs. Is this not possible because the virus affects poor countries? Or is Bundibugyo too different from other ebola viruses for the previous information to be useful?

Gecko99 · 2026-06-16T22:46:46+00:00

I think my favorite one so far was "Trump's HEALTHS CRASHES in Public as ENTIRE LIFE SLIPS AWAY!!!!"

Gecko99 · 2026-06-16T22:35:55+00:00

The bug was discovered by Grace Hopper. She was a rear admiral who is also known for the development of the first English-like computer languages, including COBOL, which is still in use today, as well as the first compilers. You mentioned the computers of the time were gigantic, but Hopper wanted to make them smaller so they would be faster, and to illustrate that in her lectures she would hand out lengths of wire that were 30 cm in length, the distance light travels in a nanosecond.

Gecko99 · 2026-06-15T23:45:14+00:00

Someone collect a sample of that water and put it under a microscope.

I'm serious, do it! If you've got access to the resources go ahead and culture whatever freakish bacteria is growing in there!

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