Eh. Fundamental units are about the unit itself and not the value. Like the second is the fundamental unit of time but you can really have fractions of a second. Or were you thinking of something like Planck units? Those are the smallest theoretical units that make sense given general relativity. So a Planck length is the smallest distance between two points that would be considered two separate points. Any closer and they are effectively the same point.
Maybe the Mooch was the Planck unit and the Zachariah is the quantum unit?
Maybe the Mooch was the Planck unit and the Zachariah is the quantum unit?
Hang on, I think others posted that Mooch was fired before he signed his contract. This would suggest that a Mooch is in superposition existing in both a fired from employment and not yet hired for employment simultaneously. So only observation can collapse the waveform to obtain a singular value of a Mooch for a given moment.
I was thinking smallest theoretical unit. I knew I had made a mistake and couldn’t think of the correct term. And I wondered if anyone was going to correct me. I’m happy you did.
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.
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.
I once won tickets to see a variety show in Vegas, and it had topless women chorus line dancing between acts. If you had asked me before then whether I'd prefer a variety show with topless women or without, I'd have said, "With, please." But that would have been wrong.
I swear, they all had the same desperate fake smile as Katie Zacharia in that picture, and they all were pushing out their chests with their bolt-on tits as hard as they could. I remarked to my date that all of the dancers seemed extremely motivated to display the most fake parts of their bodies, as I'm guessing their teeth were all fake, too.
It was all extremely off-putting, like they were all victims of human trafficking. I admit I couldn't stop looking, either. It was sort of like looking at a car crash if all the victims had their fake tits out.
On the other hand, the variety act itself was extremely entertaining.
But anyways, based on Katie Zacharia's smile in that picture, I can't help but remember that very odd experience. One of the reasons I don't like Vegas.
Not knowing who any of those homunculi are (and I don't want to know), I'd guess pink pants is Natalie Harp holding his nappy bag (diaper bag for the Americans).
That's what I was thinking too. I personally prefer a mooch being 11 days because the ratio becomes 5/11. I know it's not 5/7 as in "a perfect 5 out of 7" but they rhyme and I like that. Also in decimal 5/10 is 0.5 while 5/11 is 0.454545454545. That's some DaVinci Code shit.
Edit: on second thought I would prefer if the ratio was an irrational number. Someone figure that out for me.
I think it depends on when you consider start and stop times. Someone said Mooch hadn't even signed a contract before being let go implying negative days. It's just all crazy.
I came away with that impression too. What vexes me is that she did graduate from Pepperdine Law School. I think that’s probably the USC of law schools but damn dude she graduated from law school? Like how come she can’t read? I didn’t come away thinking that it was just nerves. I think it was an actual lack of ability to follow the text.
What's weird to me is that she still came off like a lightweight when she was talking with Adam Mockler on CNN I think it was, but I didn't think she'd faceplant that hard.
This is the Trump administration. Just have an AI Super American Eagle do the press releases. He can have catchy phrases and wear a red-white-and-blue top hat. And a monocle!
ROFL a chatbot would be hilarious. You know the reporters would figure out how to trick it into fact checking itself and it would then also be fired. Maybe this is how the ai bubble actually pops?
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.
Ms. Zacharia had gotten off to a bumpy start with her first and final press briefing on Tuesday, in which :
1- she largely read off a script and
2- (she) ended questioning after just three queries (were addressed to her).
That was followed by an onslaught of headlines about whether she had misrepresented herself as a lawyer — the president called her “an attorney” — despite failing her bar exam.
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.
I wonder what the insiders would say the reason was? A poor showing in fox news interviews?
There's no way they care about the not-really-a-lawyer thing, is there? Or about just being terrible at the job itself? I would have guessed those were assets.
I kind of suspect they had no idea she wasn't a lawyer. They're embarrassed they believed her BS. Combine that with her inability to perform the unhinged Girlboss routine conservatives love for some reason....they probably feel betrayed.
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.
Welp, I lost this bet. I was for sure she just wouldnt do many of any press hits for a day or two and then maybe a press briefing once a month. I think Hannity or the Fox and Friends interviews did it
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.6 Scaramuchis
I guessed it
Scaramuchi = 11 days, Zachamuchi = 7 days
Zacharia to Scaramuchi: "Look at me. I'm the measurement of incompetence now!"
He apparently said records are made to be broken.
Yeah, he's probably relieved about it.
But we’re still going to use “mooches.”😁😁
he can finally breath a sigh of relief.
Impressive since most thought a Scaramuchi was a fundamental unit
Eh. Fundamental units are about the unit itself and not the value. Like the second is the fundamental unit of time but you can really have fractions of a second. Or were you thinking of something like Planck units? Those are the smallest theoretical units that make sense given general relativity. So a Planck length is the smallest distance between two points that would be considered two separate points. Any closer and they are effectively the same point.
Maybe the Mooch was the Planck unit and the Zachariah is the quantum unit?
Hang on, I think others posted that Mooch was fired before he signed his contract. This would suggest that a Mooch is in superposition existing in both a fired from employment and not yet hired for employment simultaneously. So only observation can collapse the waveform to obtain a singular value of a Mooch for a given moment.
I was thinking smallest theoretical unit. I knew I had made a mistake and couldn’t think of the correct term. And I wondered if anyone was going to correct me. I’m happy you did.
Ironically the name, "second," implies that it's not fundamental.
I thought a Scaramucci was 10 or 11 days, depending on whether you use the metric or imperial Scaramucci.
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.
Tony really had one hell of a fuckin week huh!?
I'd watch that movie.
It's called: The Hangover 5
At least he isn't Steve Bannon, he isn't trying to suck his own cock
Depends. Was it a leap year? Also, did it span a daylight savings time change?
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
Wait, they're the 9/11 unit? yikes
No, 7-11
Bananamooch for scale
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.
and some are a strong, but this one? this one, she is a week
(sorry, couldn't resist)
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
How did you get 9 days out of those dates? I get 7, 8 at best
Counting is hard. It's 7
I love that you made the plural muchies.
Americans will measure with anything but the Metric system…
She was press secretary for 0.3 hamburgers. That's like less than a one hundredth of a monster truck.
1/100 Monster Truck ≈ 72 deflated footballs.
.8 Scramuchis = 1 Paramuchi.
Zachamichi
I was way off:
https://lemmy.world/comment/26319724
The headline says 5 days... that's less than half a scaramuchi...
Five days since her first press conference, but she started serving as press secretary on the 9th, two days earlier.
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.
Not sure if she's capable of understanding any of this if you factor in the Dunning–Kruger effect.
As Jimmy Kimmel said: what do Pete Hegseth and Katie Zacharia have in common? Neither of them can pass the bar.
At this rate they are going end up with Stephen Miller in a blond wig and huge tits.
LOL. Dear god.
I still cannot believe the before and after pictures of her, though. Hooooooly shit.
This is a masterpiece
Him losing the lipstick in the 4th panel and getting it back in the 5th fucked me up NGL.
That motherfucker should have never been let out of that cave!
He could get some bimbofication tips from Kristi Noem's husband!
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That's what he & Kash look like off camera most of the time.
I wish, he's so repulsive he might wake some of them up
Creepy MAGA is creepy.
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.
I once won tickets to see a variety show in Vegas, and it had topless women chorus line dancing between acts. If you had asked me before then whether I'd prefer a variety show with topless women or without, I'd have said, "With, please." But that would have been wrong.
I swear, they all had the same desperate fake smile as Katie Zacharia in that picture, and they all were pushing out their chests with their bolt-on tits as hard as they could. I remarked to my date that all of the dancers seemed extremely motivated to display the most fake parts of their bodies, as I'm guessing their teeth were all fake, too.
It was all extremely off-putting, like they were all victims of human trafficking. I admit I couldn't stop looking, either. It was sort of like looking at a car crash if all the victims had their fake tits out.
On the other hand, the variety act itself was extremely entertaining.
But anyways, based on Katie Zacharia's smile in that picture, I can't help but remember that very odd experience. One of the reasons I don't like Vegas.
Who is in the pink pants?
Not knowing who any of those homunculi are (and I don't want to know), I'd guess pink pants is Natalie Harp holding his nappy bag (diaper bag for the Americans).
Natalie Harp is the blonde one in the back that looks like she’s cumming.
I seriously thought that was Ivanka
So does donnie.
you know it smell crazy in there
A single well tossed grenade would have been so satisfying.
In Minecraft 😅
Just when I thought nobody could break The Mooch's record, we get a new unit of measurement for White House tenure.
What are we calling this new unit? A Zachariah? A Zack? KZ? Conversion is simple enough. 2 Zacks equal 1 Mooch.
Or almost 1 mooch? I though a mooch was 11 days
That's what I was thinking too. I personally prefer a mooch being 11 days because the ratio becomes 5/11. I know it's not 5/7 as in "a perfect 5 out of 7" but they rhyme and I like that. Also in decimal 5/10 is 0.5 while 5/11 is 0.454545454545. That's some DaVinci Code shit.
Edit: on second thought I would prefer if the ratio was an irrational number. Someone figure that out for me.
I'll get right on it boss
I think it depends on when you consider start and stop times. Someone said Mooch hadn't even signed a contract before being let go implying negative days. It's just all crazy.
That was quick.
Are we only counting business days? That would be about ~.45 muchies.
"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.
God I love the "Bypass Paywalls Clean" extension. NYTimes always thinks I'm a bot.
Gee i wonder what the next fascist spokesbarbie’s gonna look like.
Well, we all know what she's gonna look like... he certainly has a type.
You cannot do a whole-ass head of lettuce with this administration. Pre-chopped bags from the recall left open on the counter is the only fair fight.
So diarrhea lettuce.
Her only press conference was about 15 minutes long. It sounds like she burned up all of her allotted 15 minutes of fame in one go.
Seemed like she could barely read.
I came away with that impression too. What vexes me is that she did graduate from Pepperdine Law School. I think that’s probably the USC of law schools but damn dude she graduated from law school? Like how come she can’t read? I didn’t come away thinking that it was just nerves. I think it was an actual lack of ability to follow the text.
Probably relied heavily on ChatGTP and cheating to get through law school.
She's in her 40s, she graduated in like 2007. ChatGPT wasn't even a twinkle in Sam Altman's eye then
So just cheating then.
Yeah, she likely had to rely on nepotism. Just like in the good, ol' days.
And the now ol' days.
What's weird to me is that she still came off like a lightweight when she was talking with Adam Mockler on CNN I think it was, but I didn't think she'd faceplant that hard.
Only redeeming feature is she looked like a former striper. Pretty hot
As a paragraph in itself, around the middle when it started getting into the weeds of why she is gone:
The outsized understatement is still smoking. Never change, NYT.
I've lost track, is this number four?
This is the Trump administration. Just have an AI Super American Eagle do the press releases. He can have catchy phrases and wear a red-white-and-blue top hat. And a monocle!
Nailed it, I win mods close thread
Nope. Said AI instead of SI. ICE is already surrounding your location.
1 Mooch = 2 Zacharias
1 quarter = 2 bits.
2 bit operation sounds about right.
And here I thought a mooch was an atomic unit. But no, they were able to do worse.
Good.
Although, ima kinda gonna miss those buttons. The British Airways flight attendant look was a banger of an outfit.
Not gonna miss anything else. Wonder if he'll just use an LLM chatbot to replace her now.
ROFL a chatbot would be hilarious. You know the reporters would figure out how to trick it into fact checking itself and it would then also be fired. Maybe this is how the ai bubble actually pops?
Would most likely be Grok. Wonder how long it would take for some journalist to make it call Trump a fascist.
Elon Musk delivers the new press secretary to the Whitehouse.
Lettuce?
After her disastrous press briefing recently, someone asked if she'd last longer than a head of lettuce (in reference to the Liz Truss lettuce).
Referring to the lettuce that outlasted Liz Truss's position as Prime Minister https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Truss_lettuce
A head of lettuce last longer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Truss_lettuce
The question now is who is the next Trump bimbo to get the job? Why not Ivanka? What she’s doing these days?
Stephanie Miller will be the next press secretary
When the conditions are right the bimbos just emerge, as if coalesced from the ether.
She’s accidentally sparking revolution in Albania
She didn’t even last half a Scaramucci.
in short :
It's really hard to distinguish your incompetence surrounded by really incompetent people.
What a joke.
They should fire the person who approved this hire. That's the person to blame.
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.
Mission accomplish.
Nothing not funny about this.
I'm sure they'll find someone with the highest standards and preeminent qualifications for the job.
/s
https://archive.is/gIIUc
Looks like the lettuce won.
Scientists now have defined the microMooch, or uMch. She lasted 5 uMch.
I wonder what the insiders would say the reason was? A poor showing in fox news interviews?
There's no way they care about the not-really-a-lawyer thing, is there? Or about just being terrible at the job itself? I would have guessed those were assets.
I kind of suspect they had no idea she wasn't a lawyer. They're embarrassed they believed her BS. Combine that with her inability to perform the unhinged Girlboss routine conservatives love for some reason....they probably feel betrayed.
The job needs someone who can read without her lips moving.
Nasty scum
Paywalled. Can someone post the text of the article?
Edit: nm, found it elsewhere https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/16/katie-zacharia-fired-press-secretary
The comment about chinese squat toilets probably didn’t help.
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.
That's anticlimactic lol
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
Still needs me to log in. I got the gist, thank you
LOL
Six days too late.
I was least speculating how long she would last.
My money was on less than one scaramucci
Welp, I lost this bet. I was for sure she just wouldnt do many of any press hits for a day or two and then maybe a press briefing once a month. I think Hannity or the Fox and Friends interviews did it
Back to playing Russian Roulette with the press secretaries, huh?
Propaganda Barbie v2.0 didn't last very long.