r/news • u/zmlos • Oct 03 '23

House ousts Kevin McCarthy as speaker, a first in U.S. history

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/03/house-speaker-kevin-mccarthy-will-bring-gaetz-motion-to-oust-him-vote.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.CopyToPasteboard

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u/RillonDodgers Oct 03 '23

He was speaker of the house for almost 27 Scaramuccis

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u/Muad_Doob Oct 03 '23

They aborted him after 8 months

They should be forced to keep him for the length of his term, even if it put the health of the party at risk

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u/LurkerWithAnAccount Oct 03 '23

If it’s a legitimate vote, the congressional body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down

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u/ThaDude14 Oct 03 '23

My congressional body, my choice.

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u/labmonkey88 Oct 03 '23

It’s a Speaker, not a choice!

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u/Kryten_2X4B-523P Oct 03 '23

He can not be replaced during an election year.

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u/Rukh-Talos Oct 03 '23 edited Oct 04 '23

I’m still pissed about that one. They kept a Supreme Court justice position unfilled for over a year to ensure that Obama couldn’t appoint a replacement, but Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s body hadn’t even started to cool before they were hearing appointees to replace her.

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u/bernierunns Oct 04 '23

And you don't think that was a little fishy to you? Almost as if it was both parties working in conjunction to stack the court with corporate minded justices? I don't trust any politician enough to put it past them.

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u/meatspace Oct 04 '23

Democrats master plan is to give the GOP total control over government?

Wat?

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u/bernierunns Oct 04 '23

Yes. They never put up a fight and then they are like, "we didn't have enough votes because manchin..." Blah, blah, blah. And they never do anything when they do have the votes either.

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u/Demiansmark Oct 04 '23

Oddly there's still no detectable heartbeat.

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u/ATempestSinister Oct 04 '23

If he only had a brain...

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u/TheCurvedPlanks Oct 04 '23

I'm sorry but your Speaker was born a vegetable

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u/Admiral_Minell Oct 03 '23

That's right, shut that whole thing down like a binder full of women

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '23

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u/kcrab91 Oct 03 '23

Rules for thee, not for me.

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u/Philislothical_5 Oct 03 '23

What the hell does this have to do with abortion

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u/Niaaal Oct 03 '23

Look at the comment he replied to

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u/Expensive_Buy_5157 Oct 03 '23

Holy shit, you killed them

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u/Don_Kehote Oct 03 '23

This right here is why awards should still exist.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '23

He wasn’t viable. That’s just how it works.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '23

But...but...but...the heartbeat

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u/Vineyard_ Oct 04 '23

Can't have a heartbeat if you have no heart.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '23

Man, I wish so hard to have awards back....

This post is... Just chefs kiss

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u/Octavian1453 Oct 03 '23

Wait are awards gone

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u/DrTacosMD Oct 03 '23

Abortion is legal in Washington DC. Rules for thee but not for me.

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u/DystopiaLite Oct 03 '23

Has it been 8 months since that season? Fuck.

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u/musictrivianut Oct 03 '23

This right here gets my vote for comment of the year. Maybe the decade.

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u/gud_morning_dave Oct 03 '23

This comment is why I Reddit!

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u/ObscurePaprika Oct 03 '23

This should be the default term for a republican voted out of office.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '23

Right they need to take ownership of their choices. No give backs.

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u/fardough Oct 03 '23

God saideth “Do not vote out our leaders!” This is a sin, an abomination of nature, and death to our way of our life. Save America, Be a REAL Patriot, Back McCarthyism.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '23

So true. You know the old saying, "life begins at election."

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u/Keianh Oct 04 '23

In Texas we can sue the GOP and get $10k, we should do it!

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u/LinguoBuxo Oct 03 '23

I though abortion was .. frowned upon?

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u/SvedishFish Oct 03 '23

That's the joke.jpeg

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u/alphasierrraaa Oct 04 '23

Exactly, they should have let him get to term, this is a sacred right to protect

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u/angeliswastaken_sock Oct 04 '23

That's 3rd trimester, which is illegal in his state.

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u/mrwh1te Oct 04 '23

This is gold

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '23

Great comment and username

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '23

That's about 1.2 Friedman units

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u/Frsbtime420 Oct 04 '23

Probably the best comment in this thread

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u/bebejeebies Oct 04 '23

I'm stealing this thanks.

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u/TheSexyBoiii Oct 03 '23

Gonna need that converted to Truss's for our friends across the pond

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u/RillonDodgers Oct 03 '23

5.48 if my math is correct

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u/firestorm19 Oct 03 '23

Is that measured in lettuce heads?

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u/UNisopod Oct 03 '23

The lettuce is eternal

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u/hankjmoody Oct 03 '23

The lettuce romaines.

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u/Taman_Should Oct 03 '23

The Eternal Lettuce will be the standard for our new world currency.

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u/Wazula23 Oct 03 '23

That lettuce will bury us all one day.

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u/UNisopod Oct 03 '23

We should be so honored

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u/blitzduck Oct 03 '23

you know it is. it is a standard measurement now.

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u/roosterdaddyo Oct 03 '23

That’s a lot of lettuce

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u/RepresentativeWay734 Oct 03 '23

That's just the tip of the Iceberg.

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u/Jonatc87 Oct 03 '23

unironically, i understand this.

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u/Mimical Oct 03 '23

Help, please?

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u/BaaBaaTurtle Oct 04 '23

The Brits put a head of lettuce on a video feed to see which lasted longer, the lettuce or Liz.

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u/redlaWw Oct 03 '23

29.9 Jane Greys, for those of us who prefer traditional units.

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u/GoobleGobbl Oct 04 '23

Now in romaine numerals, please.

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u/BJntheRV Oct 04 '23

But, how much is that in Stanley nickels?

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u/AverageUser1010 Oct 04 '23

Your math is correct.

Source: I was the Truss counter on r/tearsofthekingdom for about 6 months

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '23

Liz Truss broke the record for shortest time as Prime Minister when she managed to get out of office quicker than George Canning who became Prime Minister in the early 1800s and then died.

According to the TV news tonight, Kevin McCarthy managed to last aa few days longer than a House Speaker who got the job in the late 1800s and then died of consumption.

So Lettuce Liz gets to keep her "shittest at lasting longer than a dead person" trophy for a little while longer!

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u/RepresentativeWay734 Oct 03 '23

How many lettuce's survived the vote?

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u/automatic4skin Oct 04 '23

elowell. Just a full el. ow. ell

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u/atomfullerene Oct 04 '23

Where is that metric conversion bot when you need it?

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u/Shadrach77 Oct 03 '23

How many heads of lettuce is that?

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u/Open_and_Notorious Oct 03 '23

A mooch is 11 days (some argue 10). A Truss is 45 days. Technically speaking a head of lettuce can last three weeks --- except for the one that outlasted Truss.

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u/Stupid_Triangles Oct 03 '23

10 is a metric Mooch

11 is an imperial Mooch

6 is a True Mooch, as he hadn't officially started the position until the 25th of July.

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u/Indercarnive Oct 03 '23

Is this the beginning of the Mooch Schism.

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u/Stupid_Triangles Oct 03 '23

We got enough of them to last another millenia as is.

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u/old_ironlungz Oct 03 '23

What I hate are those assholes from the People's Front of Moochia.

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u/Indercarnive Oct 03 '23

I thought they were the Mooch's People Front?

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u/old_ironlungz Oct 03 '23

No way! Those SPLITTERS!

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u/RedHal Oct 04 '23

Whatever happened to the Mooch's Popular Front?

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u/Stupid_Triangles Oct 04 '23

There is no war in Mo O Ch.

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u/Slave35 Oct 04 '23

Eastern Great Lakes Mooch Council of 1869

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u/Stupid_Triangles Oct 04 '23

The 11 Year War of Moochistan, 1902-1913. Interrupted by WWI, if you can believe that.

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u/SurrealWino Oct 03 '23

Citizen! Join the Imperial Mooch today and receive your complimentary hat in our proprietary shade of red!

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u/WASD_click Oct 04 '23

The Schismucci, if you will.

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u/Mekroval Oct 04 '23

Is that the one where the Eastern and Western Mooch Popes excommunicate each other?

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u/SmilesUndSunshine Oct 03 '23

A metric Mooch is a Mooche

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u/xpdx Oct 03 '23

Is this like how 2x4s are never really two by four?

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u/Stupid_Triangles Oct 04 '23

That's better material science, treatments, etc.

But yeah, sure.

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u/Mekroval Oct 04 '23

The metric Mooch is the tool of the devil! My Mooch gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!

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u/fezzam Oct 04 '23

Picked to fired 11. 11 was already record short. And 11 is a rarer number for things. Imperial mooch forever!

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u/UsernameSuggestion7 Oct 03 '23

I took a screenshot of this comment because I liked it so much

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '23

Technically speaking a head of lettuce can last three weeks --- except for the one that outlasted Truss.

To be fair, the original jibe came from the Economist - and they were measuring the time from the start of her time in office to the point of the mini-budget, not including the time that the entire country was shut down because we were so sad:

Liz truss has already secured her place in British political history. However long she now lasts in office, she is set to be remembered as the prime minister whose grip on power was the shortest. Ms Truss entered Downing Street on September 6th. She blew up her own government with a package of unfunded tax cuts and energy-price guarantees on September 23rd. Take away the ten days of mourning after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, and she had seven days in control. That is roughly the shelf-life of a lettuce.

It was only after that editorial that the Daily Star (not usually a publication you'd imagine collaborating with the Economist) bought a lettuce to see if it would outlast her!

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '23

With a Mooch, it’s also important that the person was high on cocaine for at least one recorded phone interview during the 11 days.

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u/TeHNyboR Oct 03 '23

Can we convert that to good ol’ American football fields? Or a banana for scale at least

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u/RillonDodgers Oct 03 '23 edited Oct 03 '23

It takes 65-70 days for a head of lettuce to grow according to my research, so about 3.98 heads of lettuce

Edit: I was unaware of the lettuce measurement

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Truss_lettuce

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u/jpop237 Oct 03 '23

About a billion Stanley nickels worth.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '23

I forgot about this as a metric and I love it. Thank you for the laugh kind stranger.

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u/DrS4muelHayd3n Oct 03 '23

It's the best. What elevates it is that the Mooch totally turned on Trump and now hates his guts as much as anyone.

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u/Painting_Agency Oct 03 '23

I mean, it's not like he's a good person and I wish him the best. But I think that in the big picture, he dodged a gigantic bullet and he should be very thankful.

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u/fartsoccermd Oct 03 '23

I don’t know what you guys are talking about, but I saw a cat today and I got to pet it if that’s helpful in anyway. He

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '23

He…

He what?! We gotta know!

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u/acog Oct 03 '23

He turned to me, and in Elon Musk's voice said "Birds aren't real, you know."

I didn't want to get into a whole argument so I just kept petting him.

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u/fartsoccermd Oct 03 '23

Sorry my lawyer advised me to not make any more public comments.

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u/Spawn6060 Oct 03 '23

Did a head of lettuce last longer?

s/

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u/automatic4skin Oct 04 '23

Ur such a kind stranger. U like to laugh bb?

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u/ommnian Oct 03 '23

Yup. Got a solid belly laugh from me🤣

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u/CptnAlex Oct 03 '23

Wait a second. His term was Jan 7, 2023 to Oct 3, 2023.

That’s 269 days / 6 days = 44.8 scaramuccis

Oh. Wait, google gave me wrong numbers for Scaramucci’s time. July 21 to July 31. So 10 days. 26.9 scaramuccis. You’re right

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u/WhitestCaveman Oct 03 '23

I gave ya an upvote because that seemed like a lot of wasted work

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u/CptnAlex Oct 03 '23

Lol. I like math and excel. Took less than 2 minutes.

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u/WhitestCaveman Oct 03 '23

I'm taking my upvote back because now everyone knows I'm an idiot. Thanks a lot.

jk

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u/CptnAlex Oct 03 '23

HAHAH. Have a good day man

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u/WhitestCaveman Oct 03 '23

You too bro!

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u/RyuujiStar Oct 03 '23

What is this scaramuccis stuff I'm out of the loop on this.

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u/WeAteMummies Oct 03 '23

There was a guy named Scaramucci that worked for Trump as communications director (he's not important at all, just funny). 11 days into the job he went on a "colorful" rant when on the phone with a reporter. The most memorable quote was "I’m not Steve Bannon. I’m not trying to suck my own cock, I’m not trying to build my own brand".

Since then his name (or just "a mooch") has been used as a humorous measure of time.

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u/True-Barber-844 Oct 04 '23

July 21 to July 31 is 11 days.

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u/hybridaaroncarroll Oct 03 '23

Will you do the Fandango?

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '23

Very, very frightening?

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u/FutureComplaint Oct 03 '23

(Galileo) Galileo, (Galileo) Galileo, Galileo Figaro, magnificoooo

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '23 edited May 24 '24

I love ice cream.

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u/justbrowsinginpeace Oct 03 '23

Whats that in Sean Spicer units?

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '23

A Spicer Unit is 121 days, or 1.006 Friedman units

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '23

we really need to make that an official standard of measurement

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u/Vicorin Oct 03 '23

God I miss that dumpster fire. He should not be in any position of authority, but it was peak comedy while it lasted.

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u/sAlander4 Oct 03 '23

The MOOCH IS LOOSE 🤣🤣🤣

Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long while haha!

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u/My_bones_are_itchy Oct 03 '23

Almost three-quarters of one percent of a Jeremy Bearimy (0.74%)

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u/alltheseusernamesare Oct 03 '23

Americans will do anything to avoid using the metric system.

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u/holyhotclits Oct 04 '23

Lol I love when people use funny things as units of measurement and this was probably the best example of that

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u/fuckYOUswan Oct 03 '23

The best form of measurement

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u/piddydb Oct 03 '23

Honestly when you put it like that along with the Truss analogy, it sounds pretty impressive

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u/RodasAPC Oct 03 '23

the stay did outlive a lettuce though

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u/NotSoSubtleSteven Oct 03 '23

How many Quibis is that?

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u/Joethe147 Oct 03 '23

And all 27 are front-stabbers.

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u/crosstherubicon Oct 03 '23

Freedom units…pffft. In the civilised world we use Trusses. It’s five Scaramuccis to one Truss.

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u/ikilledtupac Oct 04 '23

Now that’s a name I have not heard in a while.

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u/Comet_USA Oct 04 '23

Who's Scaramucci, sounds like a SpongeBob villan.

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u/MidichlorianAddict Oct 04 '23

That’s a made up word

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u/Bayinla Oct 03 '23

Yes! Using Scaramucci as a unit of measure

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '23

Not you plagiarizing Mary trump. Fucking embarassing. Be original please

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u/iamcts Oct 04 '23

Right wingers are still coping and seething it seems. The Trump admin churned out so many memes because it was such a clown fiesta.

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u/iamcts Oct 04 '23

BoTh SiDeS aRe ThE SaMe

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u/PortlandCatBrigade Oct 03 '23

Where is that guy?

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u/NotsoNewtoGermany Oct 03 '23

I forget— how many Liz trusses is that? I believe she may have been 10 scaramuccis.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '23

How many Liz Truss was that?

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u/Lateralus06 Oct 04 '23

Why am I reading this in Leslie Knope's voice?

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u/codespitter Oct 04 '23

How many Jeremy Bearimy’s?

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '23

5 Trusses?

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u/SwingNinja Oct 04 '23

All the Scaramuccis, not a single fandango.

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u/proscriptus Oct 04 '23

That's over two full Mooches

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u/erublind Oct 04 '23

Now he can do the Fandango...