CURRENT EVENTS - April

[Icky Mettle]

Unfortunately this election in Hungary is sort of like replacing the Trump administration with the Reagan administration.

 

[Calheel]

Unfortunately this election in Hungary is sort of like replacing the Trump administration with the Reagan administration.

That would be huge improvement right now.

 

[pspsps]

Unfortunately this election in Hungary is sort of like replacing the Trump administration with the Reagan administration.

Right wing centrist vs Putin puppet shouldnt be lamented today.

 

[finesse]

Hard to imagine too dramatic a change of course after so long under Orban.

 

[Icky Mettle]

Hard to imagine too dramatic a change of course after so long under Orban.

And when the problems are not fixed fast enough, the population will swing back to the right. In this case from the center right back to the far right. We see it time and time again. The right breaks things. A party to the left of thatright-wing party is elected to fix what’s been broken. They begin fixing things but not as fast as or to the extent that the people want. So the people then bring back the party to the right to erase all the progress and then do additional damage. It’s two steps backwards, one step forward, three steps backwards.

 

[Bigs23]

Unfortunately this election in Hungary is sort of like replacing the Trump administration with the Reagan administration.

Still an upgrade.

 

[lawtig02]

Unfortunately this election in Hungary is sort of like replacing the Trump administration with the Reagan administration.

Reagan : Trump = a modest house in a middle class suburb : sleeping off a bender in the Food Lion dumpster

 

[wmheel1287]

Unfortunately this election in Hungary is sort of like replacing the Trump administration with the Reagan administration.

Lol, which would still be like replacing John Bunting with Mack Brown part 1.

 

[Bigs23]

And when the problems are not fixed fast enough, the population will swing back to the right. In this case from the center right back to the far right. We see it time and time again. The right breaks things. A party to the left of thatright-wing party is elected to fix what’s been broken. They begin fixing things but not as fast as or to the extent that the people want. So the people then bring back the party to the right to erase all the progress and then do additional damage. It’s two steps backwards, one step forward, three steps backwards.

That's sounds vaguely familiar.

 

[nycfan]

Unfortunately this election in Hungary is sort of like replacing the Trump administration with the Reagan administration.

True but also way better — even if they try Iran-Contra 2.0

 

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[1moretimeagain]

Trump and Orban aren’t exactly the same.

 

[nycfan]

 

[lawtig02]

Trump and Orban aren’t exactly the same.

Trump is the pathetic incompetent whiner version of Orban.

 

[Mulberry Heel]

Sounds like even Orban is a more honorable person than Trump. Super low bar, but still.

I doubt he's all that honorable - his opposition got over two-thirds of the vote, and between that and the fact that Hungary is a member of the EU and NATO it probably led him to realize that trying to stay in power wasn't feasible or realistic. If the election had been closer I suspect he would have challenged the results and cried fraud just like Trump did.

Having said that, I'm glad that he chose to give up without a fight, and unlike Trump he did at least face the inevitable with some dignity.

 

[nycfan]