Dictators love to adorn public (and not so public) places with their own image. They also tend to distribute in some form the leaders’ little thoughts. Orbán managed to combine the two. Continue reading
Category Archives: Real existing Orbánism
Mass resignations in hospitals
Orbán chose the pandemic to suppress healthcare workers. Their deadline to succumb passed last midnight. Continue reading
Punk is not dead – but it is censored and beaten up in a dark alleyway
A punk band’s concert video was censored to remove all Orbán-critical content and a band member was allegedly beaten by unknown henchmen outside his home, days after the concert. Continue reading
Orbán’s new top judge doesn’t believe in courts
In 2020, Orbán seems to have completed the Orbanization of the courts Continue reading
Budapest voted against Orbán. Budapest must die.
Orbán’s reaction to the 2019 local election defeat became clear early on: revenge and punishment of renitent cities. And the pandemic lent him an excuse. The worst hit city, and the one getting the full force of Orbán’s wrath, is Budapest. Continue reading
Orbán punishes opposition cities
A village of 3900 people received EU funds equivalent of half of Budapest’s annual budget (population 1.7 million) as a gift for loyalty to Orbán. Continue reading
Should a constitutional supermajority even be allowed?
What was Janez Janša thinking? Continue reading
“We don’t think about the criminal law. We don’t report each other.”
The creepiest quote of the Szájer-scandal (so far) Continue reading
Government listing journalists’ foreign travel because “it’s usually Soros”
So they believe their own propaganda and paranoia is now proudly admitted official policy Continue reading
Can someone please explain to me what these things are doing in school textbooks?
These two examples come from elementary school textbooks and making the rounds on social media – one more inexplicable than the next. Continue reading
