Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán, a key ally of Vladimir Putin and supported by Donald Trump and Elon Musk, has led Hungary to forfeit over €1 billion in EU funds due to its failure to meet EU standards on rule of law and anti-corruption reforms. #spookyconnections www.kyivpost.com/post/44771 - ThreadSky

spookyconnections.bsky.social • 86 days ago

Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán, a key ally of Vladimir Putin and supported by Donald Trump and Elon Musk, has led Hungary to forfeit over €1 billion in EU funds due to its failure to meet EU standards on rule of law and anti-corruption reforms. #spookyconnections

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/44771

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gonzoceo.bsky.social•83 days ago

Orbán, his family, and business contacts are grifters in the extreme.

They have conned and gaslit the electorate for years.

His inner circle get state contracts, planning approvals, and tax breaks.

All the while the country’s money is disappearing into the pockets of his chosen few.

ziltoid1991.bsky.social•83 days ago

It's so bad I knew a Brexit voter, who posted a photo of the Pancho Aréna (soccer stadium built next to Viktor Orbán's house, allegedly from funds that supposed to go into health care) as a reason why he voted leave, and that was almost a decade ago.

gonzoceo.bsky.social•83 days ago

It’s so blatant, how on earth is the guy still in power?

I understand from people I know in Hungary that his daughter Rahel and her husband (mentioned in the Guardian article) continue to be one of the main conduits for the corruption. Talk about hiding in plain sight, everybody fucking knows!

ziltoid1991.bsky.social•83 days ago

- Almost complete control over media, including much of the internet (they're likely bribing Facebook, the most important social media here)
- For very long, the biggest opposition party was Demokratikus Koalíció, led by Ferenc Gyurcsány, the centrist politician who got us into this situation
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ziltoid1991.bsky.social•83 days ago

- Much of the opposition parties are still trying the "centrism" route, doesn't know how to communicate to the average voter, and often throw Romani and LGBTQ+ people under the bus to try to win over moderate Fidesz voters
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gonzoceo.bsky.social•83 days ago

What a shitshow. I hope Orbán’s downfall is swift and long prison sentences follow, for him and his friends.

ziltoid1991.bsky.social•83 days ago

- Fidesz does the bare minimum (raising the minimum wage, some good kind of tax cuts, some bad kind of tax cuts, etc.), and people get fooled by that enough to vote for Fidesz, especially as Fidesz trolls are constantly calling out people for supposedly living with the hard-to-access tax cuts
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mortenpopp.bsky.social•86 days ago

It makes me so happy.

Send the money to Ukraine 🇺🇦 instead.

brownejax2024.bsky.social•82 days ago

fucking traitors these cunts are.

belnot.bsky.social•83 days ago

🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

skarthi64.bsky.social•83 days ago

Fun fact. Orban led the charge on conspiracy theories against George Soros, so much so that he shut down a charity Soros set up to aid Hungarians studying abroad. Orban attended Oxford University using this scheme. 🙄

lukvik.bsky.social•83 days ago

The rich 🤑 toddler, the frog 🐸 that never became a prince and the orange 🍊 Jesus!!! What could go wrong 🤔????

patrickyassine.bsky.social•83 days ago

Que les Hongrois le vire

am3z.bsky.social•83 days ago

Viktor is walking on thin ice right now.

joshea31.bsky.social•83 days ago

At least he is being held accountable for his shitty leadership. DJT hasn’t lost a dime.

frank201.bsky.social•83 days ago

Who needs enemies with friends like that?

maynardgkrebs.bsky.social•83 days ago

That is a dumb and hateful group

ann-marie-83.bsky.social•83 days ago

Of course, he gets/borrows the money from China. As all totalitarian regimes out there, who do not need the rule of law and only the “wisdom” of their supreme leader.

https://www.politico.eu/article/budapest-hungary-took-1-billion-loan-chinese-banks-peter-szijjarto/

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