r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 10h ago
No Paywall Scaramucci on Zacharia's reported firing: 'Records are made to be broken'
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6154556-anthony-scaramucci-katie-zacharia-donald-trump-white-house-tenure/amp/520
u/The_Pandamaniacs 10h ago
The Mooch will always be the best Trump Press Secretary.
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u/ArchdukeAlex8 Oregon 10h ago
Fun fact: He was the communications director - the press secretary's boss. Or, should I say, "king of idiot mountain for 11 days."
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u/stonertboner New York 9h ago
Seeing Mario Cantone playing the Mooch on the President Show was comedy gold. Such a shame he was fired so quickly.
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u/GraceMcClellans 8h ago
I miss The Mooch, our time together was so fleeting.
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u/badideas1 7h ago
I mean we had one full Mooch with him…
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u/Wyevez 5h ago
And now just look at what shrinkflation has come to...not even a whole Mooch anymore
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u/ronerychiver 4h ago
I remember back growing up when one idiot could last you a whole term. Nowadays, one idiot won’t get you near as far.
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u/TheGoldenDog 5h ago
He has a podcast, you can still spend time with him three times a week if you really miss him.
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u/2ndprize Florida 4h ago
And the mooch had purpose. He was trying to get an appointment so he could use an IRS loophole for selling stocks to avoid some severe capital gains taxes. It was almost a running gag that he would take almost any job in the administration to get that form.
Zacharia was actually proud of having that job. Sad
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u/yngwiegiles 7h ago
Dancing w the stars Shawn Spicer? (Can’t remember his name) set the tone for all to come
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u/Bangers_n_Mashallah 2h ago
It's amazing that Sean Spicer seems relatively competent given what has followed. Lol.
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u/kevendo 10h ago
I, for one, plan to continue to honor/disparage him by measuring all government employment windows in scaramuccis.
1 zacharia = ~0.5 scaramuccis
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u/tlux95 9h ago
Americans will literally measure in anything but metric.
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u/Show_Me_Your_Cubes 6h ago
Jokes on you because there are no metric system units for time!
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u/445143 Georgia 5h ago
The Truss.
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u/Trubydoor 5h ago
I think we can still incorporate this into the system. 18 Zacharias is 1 Truss, and 2 Trusses is 1 Barnier (just to let the French in on it too!)
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u/MuffinOk7800 9h ago
ZACHAMOOCH!
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u/Queasy-Activity3569 9h ago
Will you do the fandango
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u/MuffinOk7800 9h ago
Thunderbolt and lightning!
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u/DrLophophora 8h ago
Very very frightening!
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u/MuffinOk7800 8h ago
ME!
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u/FalseDmitriy Illinois 7h ago
Galileo?
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u/MuffinOk7800 6h ago
GALILEO!
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u/MuffinOk7800 6h ago
Never did I imagine a fun round of Bohemian Rhapsody would break out today. 😂🤪
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u/Coyote65 Washington 10h ago edited 9h ago
Say what you will about the guy and who he supportsed, but the dude has definitely got wit.
Edit - happy to hear he's now a former supporter.
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u/TwoLongEars 9h ago
It was cringe at the time but the guy had chutzpa and you could see the vision of what the administration was going for. Zachariah was so transparently trying to look like Ivanka that the whole thing is just so, so much more cringe and sad.
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u/JeRazor 9h ago
Scaramucci has been a critic of Trump for years.
I remember watching an interview where he talked about how he got out of all that MAGA stuff and realized how bad the Trump/MAGA stuff is.
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u/DangerousCyclone 8h ago
I think most people realized it back in 2016. I figured it out yet it didn't take me getting hired and then fired by Trump to figure it out.
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u/Size---Queen 9h ago
Yeah I saw some interviews with him he didn't seem like a Maga at all and had some charisma about the whole thing.
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u/Platooimagination Australia 2h ago
He has also learned a lot from his experience, and is kind and supportive to those who experience public humiliation. The Mooch has turned out to be a good man.
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u/Fun_Atmosphere_7212 7h ago
He frequently speaks out against the administration on his podcast The Rest is Politics.
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u/kilgore_trout1 9h ago
He does a UK based podcast called The Rest is Politics US with Katy Kay - he’s very anti-Trump. Personally I find him very engaging and a really interesting perspective on the current administration.
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u/okietarheel 7h ago
Came here to say this. Great listen and it really gives good insight to how that idiot works. 8647
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u/Sufficient-Laundry 7h ago
Highly recommend his podcast The Rest is American Politics. Resolutely anti-Trump with lots of secret anti-Trump R’s as sources.
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u/eskimospy212 9h ago
He’s definitely not above criticism but I agree he’s a funny guy and at least now he’s on the right side of things.
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u/EmpoleonNorton Georgia 7h ago
Trump wishes he was 1 100th as charismatic and witty as Scaramucci. He's not always been on the right side of things but he is undeniably an engaging personality.
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u/simAlity 4h ago
His 10 days in the Trump Administration was something of an epiphany for him. Afterwards, he spoke out against Trump with a convert's zeal.
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u/dilbodog 10h ago
One Scaramucci X 0.5 = one Zacharia
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u/No-Lion-3475 10h ago
I wish it were 0.1 so 'millimooch' was a thing. Then again, MAGA isn't known for their math skills, so maybe it'll catch on.
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u/banksy_h8r New York 9h ago edited 6h ago
Milli would be .0001, not .1.
MAGA isn't known for their math skills
...yeah.
Edit: holy shit I’m a moron!! It’s .001. Obviously. Upvotes for everyone who corrected me.
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u/porkbellies37 8h ago
Wouldn't it be 0.001?
Mooch = Mooch
Decimooch = 0.1 Mooch
Centimooch = 0.01 Mooch
Millimooch = 0.001 Mooch
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u/Terence_McKenna 8h ago
How long did it take you to get that master's in Moochin'?
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u/chowderbags American Expat 1h ago
A millimooch is around 15 minutes.
A centimooch is about 2 hours and 40 minutes.
A decimooch is about 1 day 2 hours and 20 minutes.
Useful units, all.
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u/soulofmyshoe 9h ago
0.001 actually, 1/1000th. I'm guessing you knew that and it was just a typo, but want to make sure anyone who's actually learning what milli- means here gets it right.
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u/ColorlessChesspiece 10h ago
She lasted about... what was it, 400 millimooches?
400 or 500 depending on the source.
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u/kilgore_trout1 9h ago
I think a demimooch would work.
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u/FalseDmitriy Illinois 6h ago
Tired: it should be finished tomorrow afternoon.
Inspired: it should be finished in about a hemisemidemimooch.
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u/iamaredditboy 8h ago
We still like the scaramucci unit better as a unit of measure. Has a better ring to it.
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u/JustMeshinAround 7h ago
Just a simple unit conversion. 1 Mucci is 2 Zacharias.
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u/cc3142857 8h ago
Like the banana, I don't think the mooch will be replaced as a unit of measurement.
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u/arizonadirtbag12 4h ago
Also as I recall he was more…interesting. This woman did nothing to earn herself a unit of measure, failure alone isn’t enough. I’ll measure her time in Mooch’s.
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u/themattboard Tennessee 10h ago
Be on the lookout for a candidate with the last name Planck. The acceleration curve should get us there by 2028
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u/Severe_Intention_480 9h ago
Yeah but she was probably on steroids, so she's the Barry Bonds of failed press secretaries, while Scaramucci is the Hank Aaron of failed press secretaries.
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u/GCoughlin 7h ago
Since she only lasted approximately 45.45% of a Mooch, we may need to rename this to a "Zacharia".
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u/GCoughlin 6h ago
Looks like someone has already added to the Wikipedia entry for "List of Humorous Units of Measurement"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_measurement#:\~:text=high%2Dspeed%20playing.-,Zacharia,-A%20Zacharia%20(or
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u/Creative-Package6213 Pennsylvania 6h ago
God damn it...Scaramucci is a piece of shit, but I'll be damned if he isn't hilarious!
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u/KrookedDoesStuff 8h ago
We gonna call it a Zacharia instead of a Scaramucci now?
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u/No-Shelter-4208 6h ago
We can have both. It's like inches and centimetres. We might even need a conversion table.
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u/ConstantKooky3329 9h ago
I find him despicable, but he does have a sense of humor about his disastrous stint as press secretary
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u/forthewatch39 9h ago
I got a couple hours to kill and an old blonde halloween wig. I’ll give it a shot.
edit: Never mind. I realize what is needed to do to get that job. I’m not THAT sick and depraved.
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u/NefariousnessFun2501 4h ago
Bet he feels relieved like Bush after Trump was elected - no longer worst!
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u/shakedangle 8h ago edited 8h ago
Brutal and funny. But Mooch, I wouldn't overstay your welcome.
Edit: I guess I didn't know much about the guy, I'll give his podcast a listen.
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u/SufficientState0 6h ago
I was thinking, had her husband and four children completed the move to DC? That would suck to move to DC from CA for a job only to be fired 5 days later.
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u/IntotheBroadwayWoods 8h ago
I wish I could get fired that fast on the new team I got thrown onto at work lol
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