Day eleven cont: 🥇🏆🏅

In the #LNP world, everyone expects and gets a gold medal for turning up.

#AusPol / #Liberal / #LNP / #hubris / #entitlement <https://theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/09/election-leaders-debate-winner-albanese-social-media-posts-congratulate-peter-dutton>

"DOGE’s approach to the #Pentagon is unlikely to produce significant savings long-term. Those require a pivot away from the US grand strategy of global military dominance and the #hubris that comes with it. President #Trump seems to have some understanding that the Pentagon budget is overkill. Only a month ago he expressed interest in arms control agreements with #China and #Russia...

But then..."

"#DOGE wants to cut the Pentagon — by 0.07%" 🤣🤭🤡

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/doge-pentagon-2671396652/ #diplomacy #

“The Empire Self-Destructs”

by Chris Hedges in The Chris Hedges Report on Substack

“We share the pathologies of all dying empires with their mixture of buffoonery, rampant corruption, military fiascos, economic collapse and savage state repression”

https://open.substack.com/pub/chrishedges/p/the-empire-self-destructs?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios

#Press #US #Empire #SelfDestruction #Trump #GOP #Fascism #WhiteSupremacy #ChristianNationalism #Coup #Corruption #Totalitarianism #Hubris #Israel #Palestine #Genocide #Ukraine #PermanentWar

Many thanks to the CJR's Jake Lahut for revealing the self-serving and clueless nature of the White House Press Corps. Billy Wilder's great movie ACE IN THE HOLE was intended as a bitter warning about everything wrong with media, about not viewing the subjects impacted by your story as people. But these arrogant attention whores can't and never will.

https://www.cjr.org/political_press/white-house-press-corps-gears-up-second-trump-term-lahut.php

Cc: @jeffjarvis

#journalism #media #Trump #attention #hubris