Tucker Carlson soaking up public money is one thing. But Tucker Carlson pontificating against taking public money while taking public money is a new level entirely. Even for Republicans. Continue reading
Category Archives: Real existing Orbánism
The most Orbánist answer to the surveillance scandal
It didn’t happen But it’s legal Others are doing it, too Are you a foreign agent? Continue reading
Orbánist media announces that Hungarian media is totally free – on 18 identical front pages
Orbán’s farcical efforts to prove that the media is free make him look like an out-of-touch autocrat. Continue reading
Antiquated train push started by passengers
In the land of a thousand state-of-the-art stadiums some less than important pieces of infrastructure have to wait. Such as healthcare and public transport. And pretty much everything that is not football or stuffing the cronies with public money. Continue reading
Innovation in kleptocracy – Corporations can now pay taxes to loyalist foundations and the state has to pay them back
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
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
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