Qob10h ago
Randahl Fink

This morning, JD Vance arrives in Budapest, Hungary, in an attempt to save Viktor Orbán from the Hungarian people voting him out of office on sunday.

I doubt this will work. No European leader is as corrupt as Orbán, and the polls show the Hungarians have had it.

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Show threadIDKFQ15h ago
@randahl This is obvious ingerence in another country politics, it shall not be tolerated.
Show threadSamson - tief In Berlin15h ago
@randahl
Viktor Orbán is history, and not a good one.
Show threadSilkester15h ago
@randahl fingers crossed, he is voted out with a wide margin and no option other than to concede.🤞
Show threadSamson - tief In Berlin15h ago
@randahl
Viktor Orban should serve as a lesson for the Germans regarding their AfD.
Show threadcaoimhín o'cuilleain15h ago
@randahl Hungarian: “The Hillbilly Elegy guy? Coming here? Fuck that guy.”
Show threadGrassroots Joe15h ago

@randahl

Agree that Vance will have if anything a negative impact on Orban's electoral success.

That said, we here in the US need to pay close attention to whatever fuckery Orban, his Party and core supporters attempt in order to hold onto power as it is near certain Trump and his cult will do the same and more/worse come November and beyond.

Show threadMichal Bryxí15h ago
@randahl Do you think he will give up if he loses?
Show thread@iveyline14h ago
@randahl Let's hope so.
Show threadLstn2urmama 🇨🇦14h ago
@randahl YEAH !
Show threadBLURST OF TIMES14h ago
@randahl Hungary lock up your furniture stores!!
Show threadChris11h ago
@blustoftimes @randahl lock up your daughters, lock up your wives, lock up your sofa and run for your life!
Show threadMichael Wyman14h ago
@randahl may it be the start of the authoritarians getting the boot everywhere!
Show threadMarc14h ago
@randahl I hope it does not work, but the europeans did proof the last years, that they vote as stupid a the US
Show threadNiels Nielsen, geographer14h ago
@randahl I'm not aware of any European country, where Vance is popular. Perhaps in Hungary?
Show threadRandahl Fink13h ago
@nichni No.
Show threadXCondE47m ago
@nichni is JD popular even in his own country?
Show threadacb14h ago
@randahl surely if the Trump administration wanted to help Orban and had a clue about it, they’d loudly, effusively praise his opponents and thus attempt to slime them by association
Show threadJ$13h ago
@randahl The very idea that adding Jud! Vance to the mix somehow would increase Orbáns luck (yes, polularity polls are games of chance) baffles me. More like a nail in the coffin kinda guy.
Show threadVirginicus3h ago
@js @randahl Maybe the idea is for Orbán to look good by comparison?
Show threadToni Aittoniemi13h ago
@randahl Hah. If Orban wanted to lose he couldn’t have picked better: He’s got Russia AND Vance, the two most unpopular characters on the European political scene! 🙂
Show threadConny Nasch13h ago
@gimulnautti 🤔 😂 @randahl
Show threadHenrik Pauli8h ago
@gimulnautti @randahl His alignment to Russia and other bloody-handed dictators has never been a deterrent for his fans.
Show threadxs4me213h ago

@randahl

Shameless… this will further lower the trust of Europeans in the USA…

Bunch of backstabbing traitors.

Despicable!

Show threadLinda Sgoluppi Artist13h ago
@randahl Very good example of how corrupt US politics are.
Show thread🔏 Matthias Wiesmann13h ago
@randahl I think there is also a big misalignment, even if Orbán positions himself as a defender of Christianity, the “Catholicism” JD Vance is peddling is very foreign in Europe.
Show threadJack Yan (甄爵恩)12h ago
@randahl So the deputy of the guy everyone hates is going to Hungary to help the guy most Hungarians hate. That should work.
Show threadMcWabbit 🇺🇦🍋🌻🍉11h ago
@randahl Waking up post election days in the past two decades or so, I have been disappointed in the state of the world. So I am pessimistic.
Polls do not mean much if the incumbent dictator has his henchmen on every institution to help him win. People are being heavily influenced by media, which he and his family and friends own. And if he loses, he can still declare, with his media outlets, that the election is stolen.
What will happen next is more important: Will the people accept this and will any protest amount to insignificance and fizzle out? Like russia or the us?
Or will they follow the example of past revolutions?
Show threadPeet Tetteroo11h ago

@randahl

Out #OrbanExit EU wide the extreme rights are loosing and their populists speech is no longer believed see NL and Denmark..

Show threadNoBorg10h ago

@randahl

Is Vance popular in Hungary? I mean, he behaves as if he thinks so.

Show threadPomegranate_Stew8h ago
@hadon @randahl
Vance strikes me as one of those people who’s never been popular, but desperately wants to be, which is why it was so easy for Peter Thiel to manipulate him.
Show threadBart Allen9h ago
@randahl If things are so bad for you that you believe Mr Furniture Fucker is going to save you, then guess what else is about to get fucked #fuckfascism #fuckjdvance #fucktrump
Show threadMichael9h ago
@randahl Famously, Europeans LOVE american politicians telling them what to do...
Show threadHenrik Pauli8h ago
@implementcontrols @randahl Oh they do the moment the Dear Leader tells them to.
Show threadC.S.Strowbridge9h ago

@randahl

Does anyone in Hungary like JD Vance who wasn't already going to vote for Orbán?

Show threaddecapitae8h ago
@randahl Maybe instead, they'll talk some sense into vance-the-void?
Show threadP_______X6h ago
@randahl doubt Shady Vance has a lot of extra appeal for Hungarians. People who are low-info-enough to vote FiDeSz hardly know who he is.