The 2022 tax bill has been rubberstamped and includes a line that allows corporations to donate into Orbán’s loyalist foundations – and get a 300% state tax credit for it. Continue reading
Category Archives: Real existing Orbánism
The Orbán-family made 15 billion in seven years
Talking of being a salary man with no savings. Continue reading
What do you get for calling the EU “Soros’ gas chamber”? 80 million euros, castles, night clubs and to be your country’s culture tsar
In December 2020 the political appointee at the helm of Petőfi Literary Museum published a combative editorial calling George Soros the “liberal Führer” whose “liber-aryan followers worship him more subserviently than Hitler’s did Hitler”. He called Europe “George Soros’ gas chamber”. Continue reading
Do divisive leaders still represent their nations?
Orbán is aggressively rubbing himself to Katalin Karikó’s reputation. Continue reading
How do you know that a party is only pretending to be in opposition?
We, Hungarians, have weird problems. Like trying to figure out which opposition parties are faking it. Continue reading
70% of Hungarian universities lost even the last remnants of their autonomy
No, universities didn’t become private. They have just lost their autonomy to Orbán. Continue reading
The decorative impulse of Orbánism
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
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
