Koch and Soros Shill

Agreed with 90% of the piece but doubts crept in with this passage. Not sure a regime can erode basic state and economic capacity with few consequences

These problems can destabilise a regime over time or generate civil conflict if succession is botched once the leader is gone

I cannot overstate how insanely funny this particular backstab is.

Are there numbers for PPC supporters?

the markets have spoken and they're woke and gay

Hungary is not an Autarchic Sovereignist closed economy!

If they copy Orban then they are copying a vibe and empty slogans without any relation to reality

The Hu economic 'Nationalism' was fed by infinite subsidies from Brussels. There is nothing to replicate here outside sloganeering vibes

The economy in HU is in the shithole now precisely because its effectively the sole EU state not to receive the COVID recovery funds due to Orban being a thief

Maybe Elon was angry at the falling stock prices of his companies so he decided to nuke it

"In this house, we believe" lawn sign format with the message: "*Tariffs Impose Immense Economic Costs * But also fail to achieve their primary policy aims * And foster political dysfunction along the way"

Lawn-sign ready (via @scottlincicome.bsky.social).

The Romanian Deep State is so powerful its taking down Twitter now to stop the Georgescu stans

You can put the link directly in the post, this is not the elonsite

The woke far-left anti-family feminist agenda of feminist harpies hopping from man to man hundreds of times a year must have Hungary on an ironclad grip I assume

These “chess masters of the great game” twats are nearly always fucking American or Russian something.

There’s no place for Ireland or Estonia or Palestine in how these people see the world.

My entire reaction to that way of thinking is basically just “die imperialist scum”. I demand better sorry.

Idk if it’s just being from a small country that was only part of someone else’s empire, but the neo-realist framing that Russia gets a veto on any country other than Russia joining the EU because it’s a former imperial territory and “great power” dynamics must be respected is just revolting to me.

we’re all trying to find the guy who did this

BTW, USR (Elena Lasconi's party) isn't necessary for the formation of the coalition government. The new government will probably be at least a bit better, and their entry is probably a part of a deal where PSD endorses Lasconi, but the deal still deprives voters a non-extremist alternative.

On the other hand, the far-right parties (AUR, SOS and POT) would be the only alternative to the grand pro-EU coalition government. I hope the new coalition government doesn't screw up.

Russia bombs hospitals on two different continents and yet we still get a deluge of "imagine if Russia did this" guys whenever someone else does a war crime

I have long had zero patience with Americans who furiously post about how cool and fun a bloody leftist revolution would be, because that is the stupid shit you say when you don’t know very much about how those revolutions tend to go for people who aren’t rich and powerful

Tariffs were another area of policy continuity between Biden and Trump that were, on the whole, bad. I understand the rationale for some strategic things especially against China specifically, but it was definitely broader than that.

CHP would at least be less bad afaik, they won the last local elections and they're leading in the opinion polls