Hungarian Politics

[Tamas]

Brand new students' book (not sure which subject) for 8th grade (13-14 years olds):




"Write under the picture what you think about where [what kind of settlement, village/town/city] these voters are voting and what social class they belong to!"

[Syt]

Top left: Fucking hipsters.

[Admiral Yi]

Bottom right, hottie soccer mom.

[mongers]

Haven't the Russian tanks rolled already? 

[Tamas]

There is a hilariously pathetic contrast between the arrogant sweeping powerplays of the government in internal affairs, and the utter despise they are handled in the foreign arena.

They have been busy doing the "eastern opening" and sucking every bit of juice off Putin's cock, including working on stalling EU actions on the Ukraine business.

As part of this, they have been very vocal and aggressive on any kind of light criticism they get from within the EU, making sure to react immediately with stark words and whatnot (as if anyone cares). Heck, their EU election campaign had the slogan "We demand from Brussels: more respect for Hungarians!" (throwing a tantrum is indeed the surefire way to get some respect for yourself).

However, despite all of this, Hungary has been used by Russia to play up the "EU is helping Ukraine" angle. Using an obscure rightwing website sponsored by Russia (hard to find any other example why a supposedly Hungarian neo-Nazi website deals with almost nothing else than Russian news), they leaked the story of a trainload of Hungarian T-72s making it to Ukraine.

It seems to be false as the private investor buying them has supposedly sent them to the Czech Republic (Czechs do deny this though), but it is hilarious how, after being left out on the sun to rot by the very power they have been busy to bend over backwards, all the Hungarian foreign office has done is a single quiet denial. But when some Swedish nobody utters a single bad word about Orban, they are up in arms yelling.

Sad, so sad.

[Martinus]

This is exactly how the Kaczynski administration behaved in 2005-2007 (sans the sucking of Putin's cock, as they are too Russophobic for that). I'm afraid we may have it again next year if they win the general election. Only that I am not sure whose cock they will be sucking. 

[Tamas]

The Russian-style, slowly escalating attacks against civil organisations have reached a new chapter today, when a big police action descended upon one of the organisations receiving aid from the state of Norway (the whole casus belli against the civilians is that Norway refuses to pay these grants to the Hungarian state to be redistributed as they see fit. We are talking about maybe 20 million dollars here. In the argument over it, they have made Norway cancel 9 times as much grants payed to the Hungarian state for infrastructure projects).

The foundation concentrates on environment issues and gender inequality. The pretext for the police action is embezzlement, because they granted loans to organisations who have won money from them. Or something.

They have been in their office the whole day. 40 minutes ago the organisation's leader was detained, and reports come in that the police have also started searches at the homes of the employees.

[Syt]

To think that the EU put an embargo on Austria when Haider joined the government all those years ago.

[Tamas]

To think that the EU put an embargo on Austria when Haider joined the government all those years ago.

Orban is posing an increasing challenge to what the EU stands for. It is crazy how it is left unattended.

And the example WILL be followed in the region. The leftie Slovakian PM is already saying shit like his country's NATO membership is reminding him of the 1968 happenings.

[frunk]

To think that the EU put an embargo on Austria when Haider joined the government all those years ago.

Orban is posing an increasing challenge to what the EU stands for. It is crazy how it is left unattended.

And the example WILL be followed in the region. The leftie Slovakian PM is already saying shit like his country's NATO membership is reminding him of the 1968 happenings.

If the Slovakians really feel that overburdened please leave.  Idiot.

[The Brain]

To think that the EU put an embargo on Austria when Haider joined the government all those years ago.

Orban is posing an increasing challenge to what the EU stands for.

Bloated graft?

[Tamas]

As it turns out the policemen were interested in data on the other 12 organisations receiving Norwegian grant money, they confiscated documents about that.

So, basically, since there was no legal way for the government to get to these private information, they sent in the police to grab it for them under a ridicoulous  pretence.

[Syt]

Austrian news quotes Hungarian news site Index that apparently there was a huge business with selling Hungarian passports for "Hungarians living abroad". Supposedly agents would do all the bureaucracy for the person interested in a sweet EU passport who never had to show up for anything in person (so they could even retain their original passport, something that Hungarian law forbids). ORF quotes the Index article as saying that a mayor in a small town signed off 200 applications in 20 minutes, receiving EUR 1000 for each.

The government reacts with outrage at Index, calling it a smear campaign by foreign intelligence services. They demand Index serves up proof of the allegations.

[Tamas]

Now the government is making a huge scandal out of the human rights ombudsman being "controlled by TASZ" (which is a human rights organisation). Based on what? The fact that one of his employees had a few e-mail exchanges with an employee of TASZ.

They are really going full Russia now. The EU being silent over this is ridiculous. Oh wait, they haven't been silent: on the issue of 50 riot police descending upon a civil organisation to gather some paperwork they never asked for before (I wrote about it here) was commented by the EU saying it is not about EU grant money (it is about Norwegian), so they can't do a thing.

[Valmy]

And the example WILL be followed in the region. The leftie Slovakian PM is already saying shit like his country's NATO membership is reminding him of the 1968 happenings.

WTF?  First we have Austrians calling USA a great Atheistic destroyer of Pious Christian Euroland and now this.  Is saying things so obviously insane that they just create confusion rather than offense being exported from Russia at an alarming rate or something?