A Perfectly Reasonable Amount of Schadenfreude about Things Happening to Trump & His Enablers (Part 3)

The thing with plastic surgery is that you can’t always predict how you will heal. When you heal well, you can look fantastic, like you haven’t had anything done (see Jane Fonda, possibly Martha Stewart, Christy Brinkley) but no matter how much money you spend if you heal badly you look terrible (Meg Ryan, Melanie Griffith).

As to the new Press Secretary’s wobbly start, the Mooch weighs in:

Since she has the ‘look’ trump likes, I’m going to predict he gives her a bit more of a chance and she lasts at least 2 Scaramuccis, maybe 3.

In other news, RE: the recent ‘Mar-a-Lago face’ discussion in the thread, this just in:

Or not.

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So, only about 2/3 of a Scaramucci, eh? Yep, bad call on my part :man_shrugging:

I guess, despite looking the part, she was too dum for even trump to tolerate.

I hear that “Ambassador to the Shield of the Americas” job is available now…

Actually, slightly less than half. A Scaramucci is 11 days, while a Zacharia is only 5 days.

Both of these are in the appropriate Wikipedia article. The latter unit was evidently just added.

It’s even got a nickname already:

:musical_notes:
I see, a little less than half of the man
Scaramucc, Scaramucc, she didn’t last a half-oh
Said she was a lawyer, but she was a liar, sheesh
Zacharia trump did fire ya, Zacharia trump did fire ya, she had to go-oh-oh

Well played

No big deal, he can just go over to Fox News and pick another one off the rack.

I think she was just getting too much press. Good, bad, doesn’t matter. So much press that Trump felt left out, so out she goes.

Somebody at Wikipedia is very on top of things. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

A fortnight is just 1 day shy of 3 zachs, and 3 days longer than a scaramucci.

I think I’m starting to catch onto this!

Much easier than the metric system.

It’s surely related, but what Susan Dell seems to have is almost the opposite: she looks in a mirror and thinks she looks attractive.

Not meaning to be unkind, but whatever she’s starting out with (after bad plastic surgery) she’s still making choices about her makeup and overly-youthful wig that do her no favors. The same might be said of all the Mar-a-Lago Face sufferers discussed earlier in the thread: they look in the mirror and think they look BETTER than they did before the surgery. Yet few of their fellow-human beings would agree.

It’s some kind of delusional thinking (as with the body-dysmorphia sufferers). It’s a shame to see it being encouraged by those now in power in the USA—that can’t be doing these people any good.

And of course this isn’t something confined to women. Some men are obsessed with it, to the point of getting cosmetic surgery, or taking steroids or whatever. There is a young man who is a social media influencer who claimed to have smashed his facial bones with a hammer to improve bone structure (though I’m skeptical that he really did so).

Absolutely. I’d bet that due to the way society is, and the way women are disproportionately targeted for their looks that it’s more prevalent among women, but it obviously is not exclusive to women. There are many Laura Loomers in the world, but also Matt Gaetzes.

Close a polling place? This is what you get:

Wow - thanks for sharing.

A great way to increase the vote is to piss people off, especially college students. That’s probably going to generate more votes than otherwise.