Looks like Trump/Vance/Orban are crashing in Hungary

UPDATE 02:48 pm:

May this be a precursor to 2028.

And congratulations to the Hungarian people!

That idea may have been what took Orban down.

I'm sure you can bet on that on the Polymarket.

UPDATE 06:10 pm:

UPDATE 04/15/2026:  He knows where to start.

Watch and learn

 

Americans could watch and learn

Excellent.  Now do oust tyrranical Trump.

In the recent past we would be cheering these protests against tyrrany.  Now?

And Trump wants to pull out

Maybe he doesn't think quite as highly of Orban now.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Hungary no longer belongs

What do you do when a country turns dictatorial?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 12/19/2023:

Un.Fucking.Believable.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Tucker needed new fascist dictator talking points

It’s part of a larger, four-day long program that also advertises a talk from a representative of one of America’s esteemed conservative institutions of higher education: Dennis Prager of PragerU, which makes up for what it lacks in physical space, accreditation, and discernible curriculum in Facebook virality. Prager will deliver a talk on “media and free speech.”

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Orbán has characterized his approach to governance as “illiberal democracy.” He has both alarmed pro-democracy activists in Europe while also offering American observers of Trump a useful analogue for democratic backsliding. Orbán’s government has used anti-Semitic imagery to demonize George Soros, a native of the country, while also pressuring universities associated with him to close. Orbán has also gone out of his way to clamp down on LGBT rights during his tenure.

  TPM

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

That's a little extreme, Hungary

Hungary’s parliament handed Prime Minister Viktor Orban the right to rule by decree indefinitely, effectively putting the European Union democracy under his sole command for as long as he sees fit.

  Bloomberg

Which will be his lifetime. He's an ultra-right-winger.

Hungary’s ruling party lawmakers overrode the objections of the opposition in a vote on Monday, handing Orban the right to bypass the assembly on any law. The Constitutional Court, which Orban has stacked with loyalists, will be the main body capable of reviewing government actions.

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The legislation’s scope is “limited” and envisions only “necessary and proportionate measures” to fight Covid-19, Justice Minister Judit Varga told journalists on Friday. The cabinet has already been granted emergency powers and the legislation actually gives parliament the right to end that, she said.

Varga asked journalists not to “distort” facts, a crime the legislation makes punishable by as long as five years in jail for anyone deemed hampering the virus fight.

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Orban’s track record indicates he may not give up the powers quickly. His anti-immigrant Fidesz party has continuously renewed a “state of emergency for mass immigration,” announced after the 2015 refugee crisis, even after the number of asylum seekers arriving to Hungary plunged.

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Faith in Orban to exercise restraint is running low. In the past decade, the nationalist leader has used supermajorities in parliament to dismantle checks and balances, build the EU’s largest state propaganda machine and crack down on civil society to silence dissent.

The EU is probing the erosion of the rule-of-law, though it’s lacked the will to rein in Orban as populism flourishes across the bloc. The EU’s executive will review Hungary’s emergency-rule law to see if it’s in line with its norms, Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders said on Twitter.

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“In light of previous experiences with authoritarian dynamics in Hungary, once passed, the enabling act will not be rescinded anytime soon,” said Daniel Hegedus, a fellow at the German Marshall Fund in Berlin.

Don't think it can't happen here.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

WHO??

Was it Putin who traveled the globe telling NATO nations they weren't paying their fair share?  Was it Putin who threatened to withdraw the biggest signatory to the treaty?

Jesus Christ these people.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Gorka wanted in Hungary

Former Trump White House staffer Sebastian Gorka has an active warrant out for his arrest in Hungary, according to the Hungarian police's website.

Gorka, whose exact role in the White House while serving as a deputy assistant to the president was never entirely clear, apparently is in trouble with the law over a charge of "firearm or ammunition abuse." The warrant, first reported in Hungarian online outlet 444, was issued on Sept. 17, 2016, prior to Trump's election.

That means that during the entire seven months Gorka spent in the White House, including when meeting with Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó in Washington last March, an arrest warrant was pending overseas.

  Buzzfeed

And no mainstream team knew this?

Gorka's affinity for guns is well-known. He told Recoil magazine in November that he packs a pistol — along with a knife and tourniquet — every day.

A knife and a tournequet? What's the plan?

The details of Gorka's leaving the White House still remain murky: He claims to have resigned, but reports at the time indicated that he was fired and the Secret Service ordered not to let him into the building.

And what was he doing in Hungary when he got in trouble? (He was born in London.)

 ...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Putin or, Actually, Hitler?

Adrian Weale, who served as a British Intelligence Corps officer in the 1980s, traced how [Sebastian Gorka, President Trump’s top counter-terrorism adviser,] claims to have worked on counter-terror issues for British Military Intelligence in Northern Ireland and on collecting evidence for the war crimes tribunal set up after the collapse of Yugoslavia [but both claims] are unlikely to be true. According to Weale, Gorka “has never been an operational practitioner of counter-terrorism.”

At the same time, Gorka’s credentials as an academic expert in terrorism have been widely questioned. His doctoral dissertation has been dissected by various academics who say he is not an expert in their field, has never lived in a Muslim-majority country, does not speak Arabic and has avoided publishing any serious, peer-reviewed academic research.

  Forward

But that's not all...

Gorka, who worked in Hungary’s Ministry of Defense and served in the British military, became a U.S. citizen only five years ago.

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[He] is a formal member of a Hungarian far-right group that is listed by the U.S. State Department as having been “under the direction of the Nazi Government of Germany” during World War II.

There are now two organizations in Hungary that claim to be the heirs of the original Vitézi Rend, with Gorka, according to fellow members, belonging to the so-called “Historical Vitézi Rend.” Though it is not known to engage in violence, the Historical Vitézi Rend upholds all the nationalist and oftentimes racial principles of the original group.

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Gorka’s membership in the organization — if these Vitézi Rend leaders are correct, and if Gorka did not disclose this when he entered the United States as an immigrant — could have implications for his immigration status.

No, it won't.

The Vitézi Rend, which was established in 1920 [...], is listed by the State Department as one of many groups in Germany and the countries it occupied as collaborationist “criminal organizations” with the Nazis as determined by the post-war International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.Dissolved in Hungary after World War II under the terms of the Allies’ armistice with Hungary, it was reconstituted by veterans’ groups in exile. [...] It was re-established inside Hungary after communism’s collapse in 1989.

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The group’s mission emphasized not only loyalty to Hungary and nationalist ideas, but also an ideology of racial superiority. One of the original aims of the Vitézi Rend was to “ensure such might to the Hungarian race, which with tremendous power strikes every subversive state and anti-national movement.”

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As historian Eva S. Balogh notes, the organization’s formal slogan — “I believe in one God, I believe in one country, I believe in the divine everlasting truth, I believe in the resurrection of Hungary” — advocates a return to Hungary’s pre-World War I borders; a territory that includes parts of modern-day Romania, Ukraine, Slovakia and Serbia.

Today, the organization presents itself as a “conservative, right-wing” group independent of party politics.

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The State Department’s Foreign Affairs Manual specifies that members of the Vitézi Rend “are presumed to be inadmissible” to the country under the Immigration and Nationality Act.

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According to State Department guidelines, while Vitézi Rend membership “does not automatically render the alien ineligible for a visa, the applicant has the burden of establishing that, despite being a member of a designated criminal organization, he or she did not participate in activities that would fall within the purview of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

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No statute of limitations exists for such violations.

Anything goes now. Anything goes. We're on the path to full out fascism.  Racism is our national passtime.

Gorka, who is a deputy assistant to the president, first provoked questions about his relationship to the Vitézi Rend after he publicly brandished its medal on his lapel at a presidential inauguration ball January 20. When questions were raised about this in February on the news website Lobelog and elsewhere, he explained it as a gesture of honor to his late father.

“In 1979 my father was awarded a declaration for his resistance to a dictatorship,” he told Breitbart News then. “Although he passed away 14 years ago, I wear that medal in remembrance of what my family went through and what it represents today, to me, as an American.”

I am not understanding how that would be a mitigation. I think he figured no one would notice or know what the medal was but fellow Nazi sympathizers.

Several commentators also noted that in his 2008 doctoral dissertation at Hungary’s Corvinus University, Gorka presented his name as Sebastian L. v. Gorka. The “v.” is an initial used by members of the Vitézi Rend.

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In June 2011, Gorka testified in front of the House Armed Services Committee. His official testimony did not list his name as Sebastian L. Gorka, but rather as Dr. Sebastian L. v. Gorka.

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If correct, Gorka’s membership in the order is notable because, as Pintér and other members explained, affiliation is possible only via a solemn initiation rite in which new members take an oath swearing undying allegiance to the Hungarian nation and the Vitézi Rend’s goals.

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Gorka [...] did not respond to multiple emails sent to his work and personal accounts, asking whether he is a member of the Vitézi Rend and, if so, whether he disclosed this on his immigration application and on his application to be naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 2012. The White House also did not respond to a request for comment.

What a surprise.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 3/23:  Gorka's slight change of tune.

We're Not the Only Idiots on the Planet

In a bid to counter illegal migrant-crossings Hungary erected a fence with barbed wire on a border with Serbia last year.

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On Friday, Human Rights Watch director Andrew Stroehlein condemned the placement of vegetable-made masks on border fences in an alleged attempt to scare off refugees. The images of creepy-looking heads which were said to be carved from sugar beets emerged online last week.

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Hungarian politician Gyorgy Schopflin who represents the ruling Fidesz party in the European Parliament [countered] that “pig’s head would deter more effectively.”

  RT

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.