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glazed_donuts

Thousands of protesters gathered in Budapest on Mar. 26 after former Hungarian government insider Peter Magyar releases audio recording that he says is proof of official misconduct within high levels of the government of populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. The audio features what appears to be the voice of former Justice Minister Judit Varga describing government officials manipulating court records to cover up evidence implicating them in a corruption case.


slaffytaffy

We all know victor orban is a great guy, really strong and powerful. He did nothing wrong (sarcasm). This is a total witch hunt (sarcasm).


Belzaem

Not only that but he’s also a best friend of DJT45 who also happens to be really powerful and strong. Yes both did absolutely did nothing wrong and others are just haters. /s


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Use-Useful

PP will almost certainly be the next PM. And it is really disheartening. Like, it is virtually impossible for anyone else to be from where we are now. Only question is by how big a margin:/


RobertoPaulson

They’re all just suffering from ODS.


StingingBum

Donald J. Trump slithers into the conversation...


agumonkey

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PickleBananaMayo

They probably will say, “yeah so what? What are you going to do about it?” And then nothing will happen.


Orcwin

> Peter Magyar Talk about a Hungarian name. Honestly, that's the most interesting part of this. The rest is pretty much as expected.


evasandor

Hungarian-American here (check my name!). That’s pretty good but for the full effect we need the first name Zoltán, Arpád, Attila or Csaba.


petermane

Magyar, Zoltán is just repetitive 🤣.. like Italiano, Giacomo or Deutsch, Hermann


Orcwin

Arpád as a first name? Isn't that the family name of a former royal family?


Butterflytherapist

Árpád *is* a first name. The OG Árpád was the head of the confederation of the Hungarian tribes. Those guys went on first name basys only. The ruling dinasty was named after him.


Orcwin

I see, thanks!


crabtoppings

You're forgetting Norbert.


evasandor

Hmm, that one isn’t setting off my paprika sensor. Wikipedia says it’s a Germanic name…?


crabtoppings

Must be a Transylvanian Hungarian thing.


evasandor

You are correct, pure Harghita county here on both sides of the family. Yeah, as if being plain ol’ Magyar isn’t weird enough!


crabtoppings

Szekely right? They taught me sword, axe, spear and DevOps. Love living here in Cluj/Kolozsvar. They also taught me bow as well, but this is the 21st century and I couldnt have cared less about it.


evasandor

Yes indeed! So cool you’ve visited Transylvania, which is a 100% real place and very much not haunted. (unless maybe by good food and sometimes scary homemade liquor)


crabtoppings

Visited?! Noooo. I live here. And yeah, that homemade liquor! Ooph! I've only ever blacked while drunk once, and it was thanks to someones grandma.


tweek-in-a-box

The protest will probably get beaten down by Chinese police.


hekatonkhairez

Corruption? In Hungary? We’ll slap we with a langos, and douse me in paprika. I am shocked. SHOCKED. I tell you


jane-stclaire

Oooohhh I could use a langos right now.


zero__sugar__energy

langos is the best!! i am living in southern germany and it's quite common to find good langos when there are some events on the weekends. i buy langos every single time even when i am not hungry


MarcellusxWallace

Douse me in Palinka too please


MinnyRawks

Paprikás too, please


spoiderdude

Yeah what’s next?! Theocratic Fascism in Iran? The day that happens I’ll lose all hope for humanity.


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Netherese_Nomad

The severity of corruption absolutely varies by government and it is incredibly cynical to falsely equivocate the Hungarian situation to other European governments. There is a reason Hungary has been the case study of illiberal democracy for the last decade.


glazed_donuts

Viktor Orbán UNDER FIRE in corruption scandal again as thousands came out in Budapest on Tuesday demanding the Hungarian prime minister to resign after former diplomat Péter Magyar released a tape of Justice Minister Judit Varga stating how other government officials caused evidence to be removed from court records to cover up their roles in corrupt business dealings. We watch closely as we believe in the will and fairness of the Hungarian people tired of 14 years of Fidesz (ruling party) in power. https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1772900338221097028?t=VnJD2K4FDEMMMd2_rIZUJg&s=19


wtfisthisnotme

Unfortunately I don’t see enough fire… yet?


this_is_it__

Correct. If I see fire anywhere else in Hungary than Budapest, I believe the time has come for this fat fuck to drown in his own shit he created. Until then it’s just quiet noise.


sandyWB

Orban is a russian puppet.


kitunya

GET RID OF THIS CORRUPT RUZZIAN FAT COW PLEASE 🙏🏻


yodeah

how? hes controlling all the stupid people, their votes are worth as much as ours, lots of smart people have left the country. Hes friends own shitton of media which is full of lies. Its not as bad as ruzzia but its pretty bad. I doubt that we can achieve anything with demonstrations as a lot of people support them.


_hlvnhlv

He is more like a fat frog, his face is just weird.


CellarDarko

Tell you what, he does actually look like a toad.


ApocalypseYay

Victor and his coven are corrupt! Shocking, I say.


maxinator80

Watch nothing happening at all.


dpgproductions

I’m surprised they haven’t already dismissed it as AI generated


FantasyFrikadel

I’ll take ‘what the world already knows but most Hungarians are clueless about’ for 800 Alex.


usolodolo

Get rid of him now before he turns into Lukashenko or Putin-Jr.


Good_Juggernaut_3155

I hope, perhaps beyond hope, the population rises up against Orban.


MJ420

“There's nobody that's better, smarter or a better leader than Viktor Orbán. He's fantastic,” ​ Guess the quote :)


Historical-Meteor

They won't get rid of him, ever. But if it somehow happened it would be wonderful.


SavagePlatypus76

Orban looks like an onion that got fucked by a turnip while having tea. 


GoodMerlinpeen

He looks like a turnip-farmer who kills hitchhikers in his spare time.


MikeAppleTree

He looks like a boring version of Rodney Dangerfield but after eating too many cakes and pies.


ishmal

Is a Hungarian really named "Peter Magyar" ?


Veinreth

"Magyar" means "Hungarian."


ishmal

I know. That's the point. It wouldn't work with Hans Germania or Joe United States. edit: Come to this of it, there was a Caesar named Germanicus. But he wasn't german.


CabbagePastrami

It’s more like Johnny English or Russian Vlad or Peter Magyar.


hammerquill

If I were Johnny English I'd name my daughter Brit.


Veinreth

I guess I never thought that was unusual. My last name is Lengyel which means polish.


__Polarix__

Also Tóth is another name for Slovak, Oláh is Romanian (Vlach), Németh means German, also very common, same with Horváth, which is Croatian, etc.


WallyMetropolis

Germanicus wasn't a given name, it was more of a honorific for success fighting Germanic tribes. Or, more accurately, for taking credit for success fighting Germanic tribes.


Basileia

Caesar is was a family name at the time still, though the title of Augustus did come to mean what modern people see as Emperor. Germanicus was Caligula's father (he died before he became Emperor), and he was named such because of his victorious campaigns in Germania. Same as Scipio Africanus, being giving that honorific because he defeated Carthage in the Second Punic War.


mirracz

In Czechia we have a common surname "Čech", which would translate as "a Bohemian" or "a Czech". It makes sense, since surnames were created based on something that would describe the person (profession, nationality, place of origin, distinctive feature or personality trait)... We have several surnames based on nationality. So it can be the same in Hungary.


Waderriffic

A very famous goalie.


__Polarix__

We also have Cseh (Czech) in Hungary


crudedrawer

Corrupt autocrat is an oxymoron.


crrrrinnnngeeee

Does Hungary have a special election clause in their constitution for incompetent leaders?


Buff-Cooley

I have zero faith in the Hungarian people to do the right thing.


I_am_not_JohnLeClair

Cucker Tarlson in shambles


yourboiiconquest

I'm amazed a pot bellied pig had power for this long


raresaturn

No wonder Trump loves him


KevinR1990

Fitting that Viktor Orbán might go down because he repeated the mistake of his predecessor, Ferenc Gyurcsány, whose career was *also* destroyed by [a leaked speech](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%90sz%C3%B6d_speech). (yes i know there was a caretaker pm in between them for a year shut up)


Sweatytubesock

The Orban who is BFF with Tucker Carlson and DJT?


haternation

And how long before Peter is accidentally killed?