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u/MeridianNL 1d ago
The lettuce wins!
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u/Dodecahedonism_ 1d ago
One Zachariah being exactly one half of a Scaramucci speaks to an elegance of universal constants. It's like an octave of incompetence.
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u/NeptuneOverlord43045 1d ago
Holy fuck that made my day.
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u/5PQR 1d ago
I expect it's based on this...
On 14 October 2022, British tabloid newspaper the Daily Star began a livestream of an iceberg lettuce next to a framed photograph of Liz Truss, who had been appointed prime minister of the United Kingdom the previous month. This act followed an opinion piece in The Economist that compared the expected brevity of Truss's premiership to the shelf life of a head of lettuce, with the October 2022 United Kingdom government crisis occurring weeks into her tenure and leading many political commentators to opine that Truss's resignation was imminent.
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u/nomad5926 1d ago
The lettuce has won twice. Which isn't a lot but weird that its happened twice.
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u/Speedbird14 1d ago
The incompetence! How do you not vet someone when they take a job like that?
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u/Chemical-Cat 1d ago
They do, the vetting process is making sure she's white, blonde and sucks up to trump
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u/Baghdad_Bob20 1d ago
You mean, sucks on trump?
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u/st1802015 1d ago
Imagine the smell
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u/TastySore 1d ago
Pull down the pants, then the diaper, then go to town on that little leaking mushroom.
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u/SignoreBanana 1d ago
Trump puts all the vetting into his female appointees that a porn producer does for his actors.
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u/bigloser42 1d ago
$20 says porn producers put more vetting into their actors than the Trump puts into his female appointees.
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u/akiva23 1d ago
I mean...she isn't actually any less qualified than any of the other press secretaries.
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u/kingwood707 1d ago
Scaramucci no longer holds the record for shortest service to the trump whitehouse....11 days has been broken and Zacharia now owns it at 5 days. And only one 14 minute press briefing did her in. It was a unblievable thing to watch too. She was so far out of her element, even reading the side notes telling her how to say the next statement with "enegry and excitement". Freakin' unreal and entertaining. Makes me miss Sean Spicer.
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u/Mindless-Peak-1687 1d ago
2 zachs to 1 mucci.
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u/rawbdor 1d ago
I believe her stint should be referred to as a halfmooch
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u/Affectionate_Low_948 23h ago
I agree, short time trump appointees all run on the Mooch system. This is unchangeable.
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u/pseudoschizo 1d ago
I remember when they used to measure a staffers tenure in Scaramucci's. It was a different time... same shit, but like 6 years ago.
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u/kingwood707 1d ago
yeah, but now it's like miles vs. kilometers. 5 vs. 11. has any administration hired so many incompetents ever????
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u/Solid_Science4514 1d ago
I’m really upset about this. I watched her first press conference and all I could think was “oh man, the next few months are gonna be hilarious! I can’t wait for the memes!”
I feel like I’ve been robbed.
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u/Kamakahah 1d ago
It's very disappointing. If I have to watch the world burn, I at least want to laugh.
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u/zardoz73 1d ago
Seriously. This firing is a tragedy. This woman would've been a font of cringy schadenfreude on a daily basis. She would've warmed the cockles of the American populace with her complete malfeasance! But nooo, they had to wise up and cover their ass. Thanks, Obama!
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u/kodiak_kid89 22h ago
I love how she doubled down on being lawyer after admitting she didn’t pass the bar. Pretty incredible bout of ignorant arrogance there.
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u/Eastern_Equal_8191 21h ago
Oh, am I a lawyer too? I thought about going to law school once in 2002 when I was twelve.
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u/thatsprettyfunnydude 1d ago
Imagine how embarrassing and incompetent you have to be to get the boot from the most embarrassing and incompetent people in the free world.
That said, I never knew they actually had a line in the sand until now.
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u/okFINEyoufoundme 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/S9p9f9DFudc7MdPQK6
It’s not like the bar set was particularly high. Oooooh wait, she didn’t pass that either…
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u/thatsprettyfunnydude 1d ago
Is it possible that there has been so much daily idiocy, that I totally forgot that this happened?
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u/samanime 1d ago
They've always had a line in the sand.
She made Trump look bad. And Trump has the emotional maturity of a toddler who missed nap time and an ego more fragile than a glass sculpture, so anyone that makes Trump look bad is definitely getting the boot.
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u/Sunnyday1775 1d ago
If everyone made Trump look bad maybe he would say enough naughty things that congress would get off their ass and actually impeach him this time
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u/samanime 1d ago
Of course they wouldn't... because that'd make Trump look bad, and that's the only rule. =S
He could murder a bunch of babies on live TV and they'd still cheer.
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u/aberfoyle496 1d ago
To be too incompetent for this administration is a hell of a feat.
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u/PhamilyTrickster 1d ago
To be too incompetent to read prepared statements and answer a couple questions is astonishing
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u/ignatious__reilly 1d ago
This is such an embarrassment all around.
Those morons never vetted her, nothing. And those idiots always talk about DEI hires.
Trump is a fucking disgrace.
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u/thewalkindude368 1d ago
Well, you see, she's hot, blonde and white. That's about all the qualifications Trump needs to promote someone in his administration.
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u/Gumbo_Ya-Ya 1d ago
Thing is
She's not hot, she's not blonde, she's got a Maralago face thats only going to get worse.
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u/thewalkindude368 1d ago edited 22h ago
Being in Trump's inner circle automatically makes her ugly in my book, but she's hot from Trump's perspective.
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u/CR_Eatmeat 1d ago
The hot-part is debateable. So is the blonde-part. And about the white… oh well, what the surgeon left maybe.
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u/Ok_String_1698 1d ago edited 1d ago
She is not hot and I am quite the admirer of hot women
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u/Harkoncito 1d ago
Oh, they vetted her in their own particular way
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u/Crafty-Help-4633 1d ago
Well, DEI does get in the way of Nepo-Hires and Croneyism. So I can see why MAGA would hate it.
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u/No-Algae-7437 1d ago
Except DEI is intended to give qualified candidates a shot with the goal of having a QUALIFIED, yet diverse, inclusive, & equitable staff.
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u/Crafty-Help-4633 1d ago
Yeah, that's why MAGA hates it. Nepo-Hires and Croneys pretty much precludes being actually qualified, whereas the DEI hires would be.
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u/RedditAccountFox 1d ago
I can understand the pressure and anxiety over being the press secretary and doing it for the first time. However, she spoke like three very basic introductory sentences like it was the first time she’d seen them and she had a gun to her head.
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u/SnakePlissken1980 1d ago
And the three questions she took were only from MAGA-friendly outlets, so it's not like she had to face down the opposition.
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u/EconomyDoctor3287 1d ago
Nah, her main mistake was admiting she faked her credentials.
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u/FirstCircleLimbo 1d ago edited 1d ago
How would she know that is wrong?
She is not an attorney.
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u/LoveMeSomeSand 1d ago
Didn’t even get a chance to call her Ally McSteal or anything 😭
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u/AtomicShart9000 1d ago
Whoa whoa whoa dude she got her lawyership in China
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u/AriaTheTransgressor 1d ago
Turns out, the company that hired her thought she had been working as a general counsel and now China is opening an investigation into what she was doing in the country.
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u/badtex66 1d ago
She just plays one on TV
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u/TheMonkeyInCharge 1d ago
I do not understand why Trump - The largest of all the MAGAs - does not simply eat the other MAGAs.
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u/SkyKnight3 1d ago
Ironically you don’t need to even do that in this job. The press secretary doesn’t need to be a bar certified lawyer so she gained nothing from keeping up that lie. You could be a plumber and get the Press Sec job. This was ego and vanity
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u/towerfella 1d ago
“Never admit it” — GOP mantra.
She broke the mantra. Had to go. She was too truthful.
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u/SnakePlissken1980 1d ago
Yeah, you just call it "Fake News". Melissa Howard doubled down and posed in a picture with her mother and a fake degree and called it all Fake News but then the college was like... she never graduated from here.
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u/Dudeincar434 1d ago
Thrre was no reason to fake them either. Nobody would have blinked an eye. Oh look Donald hired a fake tan fake blond woman again.
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u/MarionberryPlus8474 1d ago
Like being thrown out of Guns ‘n’ Roses for excessive drug use.
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u/Haunted_Voyager 1d ago
A true MAGA goat. She’s just built different.
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u/volumetricdusk 1d ago
Five day tenure sets a wild new standard for political self sabotage and incompetence
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u/Friendly-World-5273 1d ago
Not in a million years will I believe this. She refused to change diapers or get down or some other extracurricular job duties.
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u/BenShumard 1d ago
I just find it crazy that they only gave her one shot. You would have thought hey this is her first time let her do one more at least.
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u/Elinor_Caskey_ 1d ago
She doesn't seem to be able to read a sentence. I'm not all that surprised.
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u/Apprehensive_Door249 1d ago
Well neither can trump. I guess the President is the only person in the cabinet who is allowed to be illiterate
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u/Worried_Quarter469 1d ago
She went on Fox News after and it was a worse disaster
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u/Androoboodro 1d ago
lol no that was all anyone needed to see. Trump finding out on live tv that her law degree was from China of all places was absolute comedy haha
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u/fang_xianfu 1d ago
Her law degree wasn't from China, it is from Pepperdine. The issue isn't whether she has a law degree, she does, it's whether she passed the bar exam, which she hasn't. She definitely didn't do that in China because you can only take the Chinese equivalent of the bar if you're a Chinese national.
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u/iaintkd 1d ago
Having seen her speak and also seen her taken apart on TV debates I have a hard time believing she passed a law degree never mind sat the bar
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u/Bad_Repute 1d ago
Pepperdine is a legit law school for people that take it seriously but there's a running joke about law schools and once you're accepted, the school has every incentive to make sure you graduate and it's incredibly hard to fail as long as you show up. But getting pushed through to keep graduation stats up doesn't mean you'll be prepared or able to pass the bar if you didn't actually take the program seriously.
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u/prefusernametaken 1d ago
She didn't suck enough or she sucked too much. I am confused
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u/antoniv1 1d ago
She also blew an interview with Sean Hannity. That was probably her nail in the coffin. If she couldn’t handle softball questions, she couldn’t handle press secretary.
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u/ResponsibilityOk2173 1d ago
Only cardinal sin for Trump is not performing well on TV
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u/skulldouggary 1d ago
Her getting fired has absolutely nothing to do with her qualifications and everything to do with how she made Trump look.
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u/Sad_Maximum6583 1d ago
Imagine getting fired by an administration that is full of people who are not qualified for their own roles.
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u/im4lonerdottie4rebel 1d ago
Had me googling what Spiceys been up to since he left
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u/Jackson_Cook 1d ago
Zacharia is officially halfamucci
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u/No-Gas5342 1d ago
Beginning to understand how the imperial system got its measurements.
“But mom WHY is a Scaramucci two Zacharias????? Why not just ten???”
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u/RedSix2447 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/l0ExayQDzrI2xOb8A
My only reaction at this point. The GOP is on fire and an absolute shit show.
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u/Dubiousjinn 1d ago
...and in control of all three branches of government plus the 4th branch of tech oligarchs
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u/SlightlyConfuscated 1d ago
Can we just make two new parties and start fresh? Asking for George Washington
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u/Tall-Communication34 1d ago
Goeorge Washington warned against political parties.
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u/Gelenor369 1d ago
Only lasted half a Mooch, which I believe is a legitimate measure of time in the Trump Administration
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u/TheMonkeyInCharge 1d ago
If only she knew a good lawyer.
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u/BurnieTheBrony 1d ago
They asked me if I had a degree in theoretical law
I said I had a theoretical degree in law
They said welcome aboard
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u/bala_means_bullet 1d ago
Damn she beat Scaramucci's record of 10 days. She'll have another job somewhere in Mar a lago.
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u/FuzzeWuzze 1d ago
She's probably already on the plane as the replacement Ambassador for Greece.
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u/mitkase 1d ago
Yeah, but it's 500,000,000,000 picoScaramucci's. Kind of impressive, really.
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u/extra_croutons 1d ago
Damn how many scarmuccis is that?
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u/peepee2tiny 1d ago
1 Zacharia = .45 Scarmuccis
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u/bruce_lees_ghost 1d ago
I’ve always been a little envious of countries that embrace the term “fortnight” instead of saying “two weeks.” Just has an air of sophistication. Can we make “zacharia” and “scarmucci” a thing in the US, to mean “five days” and “eleven days,” respectively?
As a software engineer, I see them as a potential substitute for story points. “How long will it take you to build this new feature?” “Normally a few scaramuccis, but with Claude, probably a fortzacharia. Maybe less.”
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u/CrazyHorrsee 1d ago
Think they vetted her at all?
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u/sketchahedron 1d ago
They showed Trump a bunch of photos of various blonde women and he chose her.
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u/Freezerpill 1d ago
I think she was the winner of one of his beauty pageants years ago
I doubt she sounded intelligent there either
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u/DeadCheckR1775 1d ago
Crazy to think how they could just put someone so vapid and out of touch up there. Wait, it's the Trump administration, not crazy.
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u/let-it-rain-sunshine 1d ago edited 1d ago
She probably refused to give the President a hand job on the helicopter
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u/Bullythecows 1d ago
Being vapid, incompetent and out of touch is being incredibly over-qualified to be a part of the Trump administration
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u/GarthZorn 1d ago
OMG. This is the STUPIDEST Presidency in history.
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u/Sunnyday1775 1d ago
That Mike judge movie was a documentary
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u/magicwombat5 1d ago
No, it was optimistic. At least Camacho looked for someone smarter and then listened. Apparently the real timeline is way too depressing for fiction.
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u/PromiscuousScoliosis 1d ago
Not even a full week is hilarious
I wonder how much time it takes to select and onboard someone to get them launched within that role. Surely more than 5 days, although with how QC has been maybe not lololol
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u/LeastPineapple5056 1d ago
She said in a podcast interview that she got a call last week and interviewed last Friday. She got to dc on Monday and had the press briefing in Tuesday. Lol. Somebody must have bailed on them last week
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u/lordvitamin 1d ago
How will they ever find another Republican blonde trophy wife with abundant free time to replace her?!
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u/Prestigious-Bus2107 1d ago
turns out stating you passed the bar in China isnt the stellar legal credential the vetting team thought it was.
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u/peepee2tiny 1d ago edited 1d ago
I bought banana's on the weekend that outlasted this womens entire white house career
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u/TheBestintheWest11 1d ago
she moved with her family and everything just to get fired 😭😭
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u/sexyUnderwriter 1d ago
My only hope is that her comments about being a lawyer don’t just get resolved by her being fired. She should still face consequences for that in California where the complaint was made
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u/Don_Reuter 1d ago
Good that the administration is not doing diversity hires.
Only the best people.
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u/John_Gouldson 1d ago
The question now is how many Zacharia's did Scaramucci last?
The math has been turned on its head!
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u/Classic_Kangaroo4312 1d ago
"We're just gonna hire a Press Secretary for you...anddddd she's gone!"
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u/robertmachine 1d ago
Hopefully she didn’t relocate her family to washington yet lol
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u/Iess7 1d ago
How amusing that where we are as a country is that there were legitimate questions about the White House Press Secretary being able to frickin read.
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u/Such_Season374 1d ago
At least she can spend more time with her President and kids that she loves so much.
Edit. Husband not President
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u/Buckholio 1d ago
Zacharia as a unit of time does not have the same ring to it.
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u/Fievels_good_trouble 1d ago edited 1d ago
1 zh = 0.45 Mch
I think this is a good system of measurement we’re getting. Maybe that’ll be his legacy. Replacing Imperial with something dumber.
Edit: I’m not a smart man
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u/M2deC 1d ago
The entire Galaxy are watching these midterms, the ultimate IQ test for Western Civilization
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u/Some_guy_in_WI 1d ago
lol, I didn’t think we’d see someone speedrun their tenure so quickly that they beat Scaramucci’s record, but here we are.
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u/This-Respect1625 1d ago
thats unfortunate, we will all remember the time when she......
or that other time when she......
but mostly that time when she......
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u/let-it-rain-sunshine 1d ago
She’s not gonna pass the bar. She’s gonna go into it and drink her sorrows away.
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u/Lieutenant_0bvious 1d ago
She struggled to read some pretty basic sentences. I guess the hiring process must've involved some other skillset she has.
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u/DanLed17 1d ago
Honestly, who hired and thought she would be a good fit?
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u/plaidpixel 1d ago
Trump saw her on TV pointed said I want her to be my press secretary and someone had to make it happen or there were gonna be ketchup stains all over the walls.
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u/shittycomputerguy 1d ago
Same admin that started a war and raised the price of all our groceries to draw attention away from the Diddler Don files.
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u/korodic 1d ago
Same administration who hired RFK and Patel. Same admin who gave jobs to Kushner and Trumps children. They’re all fucking incompetent.
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u/Jurgis-Rudkis 1d ago
Okay, who's the next blonde bimbo that'll be stepping up to the podium?
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u/Ornery-Variety569 1d ago
It’s easier to get a job in that administration than a McDonalds
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u/KNGootch 1d ago
lol, she can't even put that she was employed by the president on her resume...5 days isn't enough to even collect a paycheck.
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u/Brief_Following2021 1d ago edited 1d ago
I don't get it. Everyone that Trump hires is always licking his ball* when they are initially hired. For what? He doesn't give a shit about you.
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