America is spinning quickly in the direction of Hungarian kleptocracy, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social writes. Could Hungarian poverty lie in our future too?
Comments
Log in with your Bluesky account to leave a comment
Spinning!?!? Let’s get serious here. You’re already there! And you’ve been there for a long fucking time! Jesus Christ, when are you guys gonna even develop the vocabulary to deal with what the fuck is going on?
In these darks times, I feel obligated to reminder our American friends fighting the good fight to hold onto your democracy that in the rest of the English speaking world, ‘trump’ is a euphemism for ‘fart’. Just wanted you to know.
The American empire is imploding faster than expected. Rotten and hollowed out from the inside, a destructive Pied Piper can tear it all down with the swipe of a finger.
Well that’s exactly what the kleptocrats seizing power in the U.S. are TRYING to do; driving the mass of citizens into poverty is a feature, not a bug for these corrupt oligarchs. All that money has to come from somewhere (meaning you & me)
Trying? It seems to me that they are doing it already and succeeding.
I don't really see any opposition. The likes of Schumer and old guard of democrats act in a same way than the "system opposition" in Russia.
RINO new meaning, Resistance In Name Only.
The longest running democracy, the worlds largest economy, same playbook that worked on a baby Baltic state in 5 years took 20 years to come to fruition, kudos to kgb, evil mission, great success.
Did you know Marco Rubio is also in charge of #TheNationalArchivesandRecordsAdministrationNARA & the #USAID? Did you know The National Archives & NARA OVERSEES the administration of the ELECTORAL COLLEGE?
Yes. And it’s exactly what the oligarchs want. They want a nation of Serfs to serve them as they sit in their ivory towers with armed guards protecting them.
Authoritarianism and oligarchy means mismanaged economies and scaring talent away. Nothing new there. I remember my first visit to Budapest in 1976. Sort of shabby and police everywhere - but our hosts ensured us they were the richest and freest in Eastern Europe. Not anymore, it seems.
Comments
(No time now, reading later. Thanks)
the stockmarket
the brain drain
the cancelled flights to the US
So yes it will be more poverty, but as always only for those already worse off.
Heartbreaking 😞
But MAGA terrorists are probably happy. They wanted destruction and here it comes.
Hungarian people need to stand up!!
I don't really see any opposition. The likes of Schumer and old guard of democrats act in a same way than the "system opposition" in Russia.
RINO new meaning, Resistance In Name Only.
Oh and Hungary? Isn’t that an adjective for he who needs food. Where is the map!?
--- And 1/3 of eligible voters who didn't care to vote.
250 years: it was a nice run but it's over.