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This is now normal...

He just can’t shut up

Posted on March, 2021 by MwBp • Leave a comment

Orbán called young doctors servants, children “public goods” and Katalin Karikó, the inventor of the mRNA vaccines “a Hungarian housewife”. And that’s just last week. Continue reading →

This is now normal...

When a car part dealership knows the law before it is published

Posted on March, 2021 by MwBp • Leave a comment

Just a little thing but a microcosm of what is wrong. Continue reading →

The last non-Orbánist radio channel is shut down
This is now normal...

The last non-Orbánist radio channel is shut down

Posted on February, 2021 by MwBp • Leave a comment

Klubrádió has been the last radio that did not belong to the Orbánist media stable. It has been shut down. Continue reading →

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MPs got 786% richer under Orbán

Posted on February, 2021 by MwBp • Leave a comment

One of the sickest things in Hungary is that people regard it as normal that politicians get rich, that they are rich, and that they become politicians exactly because they want to get rich. Continue reading →

Punk is not dead – but it is censored and beaten up in a dark alleyway
Real existing Orbánism / This is now normal...

Punk is not dead – but it is censored and beaten up in a dark alleyway

Posted on January, 2021 by MwBp • Leave a comment

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 →

This is now normal...

I think it’s a pattern

Posted on December, 2020 by MwBp • Leave a comment

Just take December 2020. The month started with the political appointee at the helm of Petőfi Literary Museum publishing 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 →

This is now normal...

Covid emergency spending: Sport, sport, church, sport, church, sport, sport…

Posted on December, 2020 by MwBp • Leave a comment

…and a few radically overpriced respirators from friendly companies Continue reading →

Real existing Orbánism / This is now normal...

“We don’t think about the criminal law. We don’t report each other.”

Posted on December, 2020 by MwBp • Leave a comment

The creepiest quote of the Szájer-scandal (so far) Continue reading →

Editor-in-chief fired for publishing a public photo of the Orbán family
Orbánist Cancel Culture / This is now normal...

Editor-in-chief fired for publishing a public photo of the Orbán family

Posted on September, 2020 by MwBp • Leave a comment

Not censorship at all… Continue reading →

This is now normal...

ECJ to Hungary: Foreign agent law against fundamental rights – Minister to us: ECJ said Hungary is right

Posted on June, 2020 by MwBp • Leave a comment

Just another day of government communication Continue reading →

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