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Katie Zacharia Just Gave A Bonkers Excuse For Why She Calls Herself A Lawyer Despite Failing Bar Exam—And Yikes
Posobiec said to Zacharia:
"'Wall Street Journal' did a huge piece about this question about, of course, everyone wants to know your legal background, your legal resume."
"I read the piece, talked about how you had graduated from Pepperdine, sat for the bar, didn’t go your way, but then, instead of sitting again, you went and moved to China."
"Walk us through that whole story."
Zacharia explained she had been in a long distance relationship with the son of one of her Pepperdine professors. After marriage, she knew she would join her husband where he was working in Beijing, China.
In a rambling diatribe, she told Posobiec:
"And I was obviously incredibly, I know, distracted and overwhelmed and excited for finally being married to someone who had been long distance from for at least a year, a year-and-a-half, when you include the engagement. And we just said, let’s take this time and I’ll take the bar and see what happens."
After excusing her poor performance on the only bar exam she ever sat for in any state or country, Zacharia added:
"The results are somewhat inconsequential, because I knew I wouldn’t need the bar in China, and we left shortly thereafter. And after moving to China, I think, I didn’t really think much of the bar results or consider that something that I needed to focus on, and I was offered a job at an International practice division of a Chinese law firm…"
"And the International practice were associates under a senior partner, and we worked the International side, the English language side, and we had a Chinese counterpart that was there."
"There’s no Chinese bar. I had enough credentials, which was my law degree, to be able to do this practice."
You can see a clip of Zacharia's comments here:
After telling Posobiec she never again sat for the bar after moving back to the United States because she "had four kids in six years,” Zacharia then claimed it was all a matter of semantics.
She claimed:
"A lot of the misinformation, miscommunication, Jack, is around the fact that I labeled myself 'lawyer.' And I consulted for a very long time many people in the field, 'Is it okay and acceptable if I label myself lawyer, not attorney-at-law, not Katie Zacharia, esquire, but lawyer, and provide legal analysis, not legal advice?'"
"And they said, 'Absolutely, absolutely across the board you can call yourself a lawyer, you have a J.D. and to buffer that, you have International legal experience and transactional law, which gives you the ability to analyze it, not necessarily give advice.'"
Interesting that Trump's new spokesmodel is saying "many people said..." to justify something.
You can see her full comments on calling herself a lawyer here:
Zacharia continued:
"And so, that’s where a lot of this discussion has come from. And you know, it’s unfortunate that people dub this as some kind of conspiracy or want to put me into a camp. The truth is, I was very careful how I executed this."
Apparently not carefully enough, as multiple sources shared examples of Zacharia repeatedly calling herself a lawyer or attorney.
Others pointed out that there's no difference between "lawyer" and "attorney" as Zacharia claimed.
People also called out Pepperdine for posting a congratulatory message to Zacharia on X.
Zacharia's resume includes job titles that by definition require passing the bar exam.
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After laying the groundwork on MAGA propaganda machine Real America's Voice, Zacharia went on to Fox News, where she didn't fare nearly as well.
Sean Hannity managed several "gotcha" moments.
Zacharia's explanation tour is not going well.
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People wonder how long Zacharia will keep her new job. But with her ability to spin "alternative facts," she might be the perfect fit.
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Woman Shares 5 Exercises She Credits With Helping Her Get Over Her Ex—And We're Taking Notes
In a multi-part photo reel on TikTok, Lilly shared "Five Weird Hacks My Therapist Gave Me to Move On After My Breakup."
The first tip was to write a goodbye letter to the future.
"She made me write a goodbye letter to the future. to him. to the life I thought we'd have."
"The wedding, home, kids wed [sic] already named, all of it"
"Then she made me write a new one."
"For the future that was still mine."
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The second exercise was to separate the love from the withdrawal.
"She made me say it out loud, 'This is withdrawal, not love.'"
"Everytime i missed him. naming it took away so much of its power and helped me process it for what it is."
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The third exercise was exploring what might have happened if she had stayed.
"She made me write what staying would have cost me."
"not just now. in a year. in five years."
"I wrote it all out in detail."
"seeing it written down changed everything"
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The fourth exercise made her explore how she'd guide a friend through this.
"She made me write what I'd tell my best friend. if she came to me with everything I was going through."
"I was giving everyone else the advice I refused to give myself."
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The fifth and final exercise was to prepare for her stages of grief.
"She made me make a plan for each grief stage."
"denial, anger, bargaining, all of it."
"a specific action for each one so when it hit I knew exactly what to do instead of crashing out"
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Perhaps most importantly, the TikToker shared what she'd learned on her journey so far.
"Just keep going. it will get better."
"the love you've always needed it out there waiting for a healed you."
"heal so you can find it."
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Fellow TikTokers were grateful for the tips and taking notes.
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It's so easy to assume that we've let go of a relationship that was still worth saving, and that the cost of losing it and its future are too high, at least until we do exercises like this and explore the costs we'd pay if we were to stay.
Being honest with ourselves can be really hard, so having exercises like this, which allow us to approach being honest from a new angle, are invaluable.
Former Grocery Store Employee Details 'Profound' Interaction With 88-Year-Old Woman—And We're Sobbing
During one of her shifts, a pair of elderly women came in together to grocery shop, and when they were done, they had separate transactions. One paid her payment without an issue, while the other realized that her purse was nowhere to be found.
The second woman became incredibly upset, between her missing purse, being an hour and half away from her home, not being able to buy her groceries and also not wanting to hold up the line.
She thought she'd have to ask the cashier to put all of her items back, but that's when the TikToker decided to help her. The woman's transaction was a little over $27, and with only $40 to her name, the TikToker paid it with a swipe of her personal card.
The TikToker assumed that was the end of it, but the woman reappeared at the store weeks later, looking for her.
The woman thanked the TikToker again for helping her and explained that because of her age and health issues, she rarely got to go out, so going out with her friend was the one time she could go grocery shopping. Because of the TikToker, she'd been able to eat that week.
To thank her, the woman had gone shopping with her friend again, this time in search of a special gift for the TikToker. She spent a long time looking for the "perfect gift" for her before she found an angel statue, which she felt was perfect, because she felt like the cashier was an "angel sent from heaven" just for her that day.
Though the TikToker could no longer remember the woman's name, and assumed she might not still be with us based on her physical state at the age of 88 in 2013, she still kept the angel statue and remembered the woman, and her gratitude, as one of the most profound experiences of her life.
You can watch the video here:
Fellow TikTokers' hearts were warmed by the story.
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It was a big deal for the TikToker to spend $27 on a stranger when she only had $40 to her name, but she'd impacted the elderly woman's life more than she even could have realized by helping her in that moment.
More importantly, in some small way, she's keeping the woman's memory alive by sharing their story, and that's all that many of us could ask for.
Single Man Who Just Got Out Of Long-Term Relationship Sparks Debate After Calling Out Today's 'Odd' Dating Scene
Stepping back into the dating scene after a very long-term relationship, the TikToker has been struggling to have startup conversations or go on first dates—let alone make meaningful connections—with possible partners.
The TikToker observed that people treat it as "cringe" to ask questions, have introductory conversations, or to share vulnerable information with someone new, making it impossible to start a meaningful relationship with someone or even get to know them.
He could hardly tell if he liked any of these people enough to go on a first date with them because they were so reluctant to volunteer any information about themselves, so he couldn't get to know them.
The TikToker called the dating scene "weird" and "odd" before admitting:
“I don’t even know what flirting is nowadays… Everyone’s, like, speaking in these riddles to each other. And nobody knows what the other person is saying, and nobody really knows what they’re saying.”
He also felt people were far more concerned about preserving an aesthetic than sharing anything authentic.
“I don’t know what it is… I feel like people are super hyper-aware and hyper-fixated on their self-image… In a way that, like, nothing really feels natural and authentic anymore."
You can watch the video here:
Fellow TikTokers wholeheartedly agreed with the troubles he was having.
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The pandemic undeniably changed a lot of things for us, from how we work and go to school, to how we make new friends and date.
But one thing is for certain: if we cannot share anything real and true about ourselves, it'll be impossible for us to do anything more than talk about the weather with the people around us.
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