2025 PM “‘I’m not the finance minister’”

VS

2019 PM “‘‘I don’t hold a hose, mate’”

Different government, same shite. #Straya / #AusPol / #labor / #Grayndler / #Cook / #PM / #parliament / #PrimeMinister / #leadership

Belgium's #PM said using $160 bln of frozen #Russian assets for a #Ukraine loan is “fundamentally wrong” and says it may threaten a peace deal.

#Belgium has resisted this scheme, despite other EU leaders backing the plan. This comes as #Ukraine's budget deficit threatens IMF support.

reuters.com/business/finance/b…

Revealed: how #BorisJohnson traded #PM contacts for global business deals | Boris Johnson | The Guardian

Well, who’d have thought that the laziest and most corrupt prime minister of recent times was doing shady deals to enrich himself while in office?

theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/s…

#UK #Politics #Corruption #Tories

Revealed: how Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals

Exclusive: Leak exposes how former leader has used publicly subsidised office to manage commercial interests

^{Harry Davies (The Guardian)}

A few centuries ago, everyone wanted to be a King. Nowadays, every PM, President, & the Head of State of any government avoids being called 'King'. 👑

#mastodon #opinion #quote #truth #reality #reflection #fediverse #thought #discover #explore #WritingCommunity #analysis #writing #commentary #author #journal #view #reflections #psychology #HumanNature #philosophy #king #pm #president #headofstate #leader #politics

this is literally my life right now
✨ new project energy > unfinished everything

#Relatable #Project #ProjectManagement #PM #Procrastination #Projects #Meme #MemeLife #ADHD #Dev #DevOps #Development #Developer #Developers #Programmer #Programmers #Programming #Coding #IT #Tech #Technology

4/4 "In 2021, historian Mathieu Segers called him "the Don Draper of Dutch politics," recalling the equally tragic character played by Jon Hamm in the series Mad Men, due to Rutte's prodigious ability to appeal to a segment of the electorate that, despite being very broad, was defined by a logic of exclusion."

👇 ❗ (Essay by Mathieu Segers, in Dutch)
groene.nl/artikel/kroniek-van-… #MarkRutte #Rutte #NAVO #NATO #PM #NL #VVD

Kroniek van een jeune premier

Dat het in de toeslagenaffaire zo langdurig fout heeft kunnen gaan heeft alles te maken met de politieke moraal van de minister-president. Mark Rutte’s rol moet dan ook centraal staan in het dringend nodige vervolgonderzoek.

^{De Groene Amsterdammer}

3/3 "Rutte sought to represent an entrepreneurial pragmatism—the favorite disguise of neoliberalism—for which moral or political principles are nothing more than a cumbersome burden when it comes to “solving people's problems.” His advisors tailored a public image for him, as a practical, modest, and normal person : Rutte used to arrive at work by bicycle, his white shirt sleeves rolled up, eating an apple. "

#MarkRutte #Rutte #NAVO #NATO #VVD #PM

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“My pipe.”

Vespa took the pipe out of his coat and tossed it to me.

I caught it with my left hand.

“And my right arm?”

“I ate it. After all, I had to survive by any means.”

#project-moon #pm #distortion-detective #uwm.jpeg