WWWW-WHAT?!??!??! FINALLY
now there no putin pain in europe
now there no dictators in EU
now putin cant go money through hungary for his friends
i hope some day it also happen in russia
PUTIN FUCK YOU
i feel dopamine in my head, im really happy that orban failed
because it also support putin’s regime in my country
and he putin friend so there no putin and friends money flow to EU
Don’t forget about Slovakia tho
really? didnt know bad things about them
So shines a ray of light in this otherwise dreary world…
We need to be sending JD Vance to every country in the world. He visited the Pope, the Pope immediately died of cringe and was replaced by an even woker Pope. Then he visits Hungary and topples an authoritarian strongman who’d been holding onto power for 16 years. Can he campaign for Putin next?
Can he meet with Netanyahu?
I will say Thank You after a Vance-Vovka meeting results in an autodefenestration.
Maybe we can get “JD” “Vance” to endorse lots of Republican candidates all across the country in the coming election…
I fear Us-americans have been macrodosing on cringe for so long , they might ve build up a resistance
Nobody does CRINGE like us. Nobody. The Fake News Media says our cringe is “embarrassing”, WRONG! Our cringe is BEAUTIFUL, it’s POWERFUL, and frankly, it’s the greatest cringe anyone has ever seen. Other countries are calling me and saying “Sir, how do you have such incredible cringe?” We have the BEST cringe. It’s not even close. Sleepy Joe couldn’t cringe like this if he tried (and he tries, believe me, SAD!).
🇺🇸 THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
Didn’t they do that already in some states’ special elections?
This is why I think maga will collapse with just JD and no orange
Canda:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g2y7969gyo
Mark Carney’s Liberals have won Canada’s federal election - riding a backlash of anti-Trump sentiment to form the next government.
It is a stunning political turnaround for a party who were widely considered dead and buried just a few months ago.
- Trump’s threats became the defining issue
There is no doubt the US president’s tariff threats and comments undermining Canada’s sovereignty played an outsized role in this election, suddenly making leadership and the country’s economic survival the defining issues of the campaign.
Mark Carney used it to his advantage, running as much against Trump as he did against his main opposition rival, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre.
Australia:
Donald Trump’s stinging trade tariffs may have helped Australia’s left-leaning prime minister snatch a resounding election victory on Saturday, analysts say.
Unlike Canada’s Trump-swayed vote three days earlier, the US president was far from the biggest concern for voters who backed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, academics said.
But some said Trump nevertheless appeared to have a significant impact on the governing Labor Party’s late turnaround in the opinion polls, and the emphatic election result.
Then there’s the elevated fuel prices reducing carbon emissions…
JD Vance handshake of death 🤣
Can he visit Putin next?
Viktor Orbán has consolidated control over approximately 80% of Hungarian media, alongside capturing the Supreme Court, lower courts, and key government agencies. He has enriched himself and his family while creating a network of loyal oligarchs, most notably his childhood friend, a former gas industry worker now worth over €5 billion through the redirection of EU funds.
Breaking this entrenched system will be a challenge for Magyar.
It is amazing what parliamentary control can do if the party in control is willing to use that power. I hope Magyar actually bothers to exploit his victory.
Magyar used to be part of Orban’s party. Won’t it just be a new set of oligarks?
He was also a long time critic of Orbán, and he was apparently known for it in the party.
Not really, there is no oligarch base behind him to speak of, and his party is very heterogenous. Imagine LGBT activists and hardline nationalists together. It would be a miracle - not of the good kind - if he was able to get away with not enacting the anticorruption agenda he got elected on.
A heterogenous party usually means it’s more difficult to accomplish things.
That’s my point, the only easy thing to do is the platform they have the mandate for. They have basically unlimited power to do so.
Usually a heterogenous party is achieved by diluting your message and doing “big tent” and making conflicting promises. Tisza did the opposite, they sharpened their message and made barely any promises, taking great care to limit them to what the whole electorate actually 100% agrees on.
Which includes wealth taxes for the richest and anti-corruption.
Possibly. The only major policy differences I can see from my distance here in Australia is a general disgust with the corruption and mismanagement under Orban, and a distinct hostility towards Putin. Pursuing both of those will give Magyar plenty to do even if he remains right-wing and a friend of the wealthy.
Possibly. All you can do is step in the best direction you can see and hope for a better journey.
A good day for Hungary a good day for Europe. Putin’s most valuable asset in the EU is losing power, Hungary’s descent into autocracy is at least taking a brake if not having a chance of getting reversed.
This is an achievement of the Hungarian people that did not fall for the increasingly desperate disinformation by the largely Fidesz controlled media and to a a small extend also to JD Vance’s support for the Tisza campaign … by interfering into the Hungarian election and backing the Fidesz regime, like Russian propaganda was doing as well.
Anyone know anything about the new guy? It’s almost surprising that Orbán was willing to concede.
It’s actually a good question, he wants wealth taxes and term limits, but waves Hungarian flags around and quotes Reagan.
He’s a hardline pro-EU nationalist who likes socialist policies and hates rich people.
Still conservative, but EU-favorable instead of deliberately obstructionist. It’s definitely a heavy blow to Putin, because this might pave the way for meaningful long-term support (or goodness, perhaps even future EU membership) to reach Ukraine.
Edit: Tangential, but this election has me wondering why I haven’t seen much online discourse trying to shame voters for supporting Tisza when they could have voted for the Workers’ Party, DK, or the Greens.
On your tangent: it’s easy. All the “true” opposition were united against Fidesz, and only vote-sucking Fidesz-collaborationists were running additionally.
The FPTP system put in place 16 years ago demanded this. Hungary will do better after a long overdue electoral reform.
From the Guardian
I know that this sounds crazy, considering how world leaders usually behave nowadays, but it is possible that he was just kind of tired of being in charge and thinks that Magyar (who does share the vast majority of Orban’s values) is a decent enough replacement who won’t start any corruption court cases against him.
Magyar confirmed in his victory speech that he will in fact start those cases.
Or rather the independent juicidary and the new “National Wealth Reclamation Agency” will.
My money is on a nominal sentence of very flexible house arrest. Or Orban bounces and retires happily to some other country where they don’t care to chase him.
If he does that, he will lose the support of his whole party. We’ve done that once before, that’s how we ended up in this mess.
“What else was I supposed to do short of assasinating the guy?”
Not enough high windows to go fully Russian
At least he knows when he’s beaten, that’s worth some credit.
Some people never accept it.
He has belonged to the same nationalistic party as Orban, but he’s more friendly towards EU rather than Russia. It’s an improvement for the European alliance at least.
He is a bit more moderate, not a huge difference.
I don’t trust him either but he is from what it appears a lot less of a puppet for Putin and less anti-EU. He is also a right populist, maybe a bit more moderate in general, but we will see soon enough what he will really be like. So far he only had to promise things.
He made promises of dragging them all through the justice system for corruption and embezzlement. People voted for him because they want to see consequences. I hope it happens.
The new minister president is called Magyar? Well done as always, Kojima…
The new Prime Minister but yes, well done Kojima.
Even after “JD” “Vance” went to bat for him?
Aw, sad.
It’s a good thing Vance went. I don’t think I could have handled an Orban win, so I’m grateful for Vance’s contribution.
Vance really fucked the couch on this one.
Cletus Bowman, his birth name amirite?
He went through quite a few names apparently, but these days he identifies as “JD” “Vance”.
It’d be hilarious if he had difficulties voting under the bullshit laws these assfucks want to create for Americans to squelch the vote.
his birth name is James Donald Bowman.
(courtesy of frongt)
No, his birth name is James Donald Bowman.
How much damage did he do while in?
putin’s money transit in EU
corruption
faking prev elections(as im know)
LGBTQIA repressions
ignoring EU
anti ukraine
First Iran, now this? Couch fucker is on a streak right now.
🎵 this is the youth of a Nation 🎶
many more should followI don’t know why I think this, but this man looks a bit like he could be a garbage pail kid… ?
What does this even mean
My cynical prediction is that the new government will struggle to hold anyone accountable, will soon have their own corruption scandals and will be out of power before they can fix anything. As we have seen in US and Poland voters are pretty stupid and if they voted for a crook once they will most likely vote for a crook again. There’s also a crisis coming, a crisis that will be blamed entirely on the government. I really hope the new government will prove to be extremely effective at prosecuting Orban and his cronies, will fix the system, people will love them and they will govern for the next 16 years but I’m yet to see government like that.
If we’re lucky this will help EU send aid to Ukraine and approve new sanctions on Russia. If we’re unlucky this will get blocked somehow anyway.
iirc the eu funds impounded due to democratic backsliding are worth more than the oil crisis, not to mention they can actually pass the wealth tax immediately with their new supermajority unlike biden’s plan and the divided senate
