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lemmylump@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 5 hours ago

Lettuce wins! Katie Zacharia is fired after 5 days

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Lettuce wins! Katie Zacharia is fired after 5 days

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lemmylump@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 5 hours ago
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    As a paragraph in itself, around the middle when it started getting into the weeds of why she is gone:

    She was not a deft communicator.

    The outsized understatement is still smoking. Never change, NYT.

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    Just when I thought nobody could break The Mooch’s record, we get a new unit of measurement for White House tenure.

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      What are we calling this new unit? A Zachariah? A Zack? KZ? Conversion is simple enough. 2 Zacks equal 1 Mooch.

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    Creepy MAGA is creepy.

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      Looks like he has two of those real dolls set up in there. Maybe too much teeth, though.

      Wait a minute, all those promises of sex bots being made? Is the primary audience donnie? He loves Grok, too. It would make so much sense.

    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.social
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      Who is in the pink pants?

    • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca
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      A single well tossed crema would have been so satisfying.

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    As Jimmy Kimmel said: what do Pete Hegseth and Katie Zacharia have in common? Neither of them can pass the bar.

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    She was so excited at that press conference, saying how happy she was to be working for Trump.

    I’m so pleased that this probably broke her heart. For the rest of her scummy life, she’ll always be remembered for being one of the most incompetent people among the the most incompetent people ever in the history of the US government.

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      Not sure if she’s capable of understanding any of this if you factor in the Dunning–Kruger effect.

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    .6 Scaramuchis

    I guessed it

    Scaramuchi = 11 days, Zachamuchi = 7 days

    • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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      Zacharia to Scaramuchi: “Look at me. I’m the measurement of incompetence now!”

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        He apparently said records are made to be broken.

        • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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          Yeah, he’s probably relieved about it.

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            But we’re still going to use “mooches.”😁😁

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      I thought a Scaramucci was 10 or 11 days, depending on whether you use the metric or imperial Scaramucci.

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        The Scaramucci is a complex number, because while he might have worked 11 days, he got fired before his contract started, so his total days of employment is weirdly negative.

        Also he missed the birth of one of his children and got served divorce papers in those same days.

        I think we can all learn something important from the amazing fuck up that Scaramucci achieved in such short time: Don’t do coke.

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        Depends. Was it a leap year? Also, did it span a daylight savings time change?

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        Yes, 11 days. But she was Press Secretary for 9 days, from the 9th to the 16th. 9/11 = .81

        Edit: 9th to 16th is 7 days, not 9. So I guess my prediction of .6 scaramuchis was correct

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          Wait, they’re the 9/11 unit? yikes

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        Bananamooch for scale

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      Impressive since most thought a Scaramuchi was a fundamental unit

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      .8 Scramuchis = 1 Paramuchi.

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        Zachamichi

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      I was way off:

      https://lemmy.world/comment/26319724

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      deleted by creator

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      What is the exact number? Im getting 5ish days, some are a week. I do not know how scientific we can get when attempting to measure micro-muchies.

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        According to Wikipedia she served as press secretary from October 9 until her termination on October 16.

        So 9 days Edit 7 days, math is hard

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          How did you get 9 days out of those dates? I get 7, 8 at best

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            Counting is hard. It’s 7

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        some are a week.

        and some are a strong, but this one? this one, she is a week

        (sorry, couldn’t resist)

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        I love that you made the plural muchies.

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    The question now is who is the next Trump bimbo to get the job? Why not Ivanka? What she’s doing these days?

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      Stephanie Miller will be the next press secretary

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      When the conditions are right the bimbos just emerge, as if coalesced from the ether.

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    Can someone drop the text so we don’t have to deal with the paywall or login wall or whatever? I want to know why she was ousted.

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      Here you go: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/us/politics/katie-zacharia-fired-press-secretary.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JFE.rbSv.gA3BELWW9yy

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      President Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, was fired Friday, after less than a week on the job, according to three people familiar with the matter.

      Neither the White House nor Ms. Zacharia responded to requests for comment.

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    “This story is free to read.”

    If I have to log in to view it, it’s not “free” from you helping yourself to my personal info! 🖕 The New York Times.

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      God I love the “Bypass Paywalls Clean” extension. NYTimes always thinks I’m a bot.

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    At this rate they are going end up with Stephen Miller in a blond wig and huge tits.

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        This is a masterpiece

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        Him losing the lipstick in the 4th panel and getting it back in the 5th fucked me up NGL.

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        LOL. Dear god.

        I still cannot believe the before and after pictures of her, though. Hooooooly shit.

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      He could get some bimbofication tips from Kristi Noem’s husband!

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      That motherfucker should have never been let out of that cave!

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      Kristi Noem’s divorce attorney has entered the chat

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      I wish, he’s so repulsive he might wake some of them up

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      That’s what he & Kash look like off camera most of the time.

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    Gee i wonder what the next fascist spokesbarbie’s gonna look like.

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      Well, we all know what she’s gonna look like… he certainly has a type.

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    That was quick.

    Are we only counting business days? That would be about ~.45 muchies.

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    Looks like the lettuce won.

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    Can we all just stop reacting to the intentional distraction cycle?

    I wish the press would just refuse to cover the unprofessional nonsense, treat the administration like a toddler breaking things just to get attention.

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