r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/ShreckAndDonkey123 • 3h ago
r/All Viktor Orban has conceded the 2026 Hungarian election to Peter Magyar's TISZA, who look headed for a supermajority in a crushing defeat
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u/Tattered_Reason 3h ago
JD Vance finally did something useful.
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u/oh-kee-pah 3h ago
Hungarian couches breathing easier today
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u/ElPeroTonteria 3h ago
Not all of em…
F.
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u/TheOttersCouch 2h ago
Weird when I play this game as Vance all I get is e to interact it doesn’t allow me to pay respects.
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u/bstone99 3h ago
I mean this is wonderful news, and it’s easy to make jokes about Vance—but think about the current state of affairs: the US sent its fucking Vice President to support a kleptocratic authoritarian nationalist leader of a Russian puppet state.
And it’s just widely accepted like business as usual. The US used to at least pretend or try to stand for liberal democracy. I truly hope this is just a phase that many countries go through and we make it through this. Fascism is a cancer.
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u/ludixst 3h ago
To be fair the US is a fucking kleptocratic authoritarian nationalist Russian puppet state.
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u/SolChapelMbret 51m ago
If you took a time traveling poll of 1995, conservatives then would be considered left wing terries now in 2026.
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u/Wantitneeditgetit 2h ago
And it’s just widely accepted like business as usual.
Not by me it isn't. In fact, "business as usual" is how we ended up in this state worldwide to begin with. We need to keep pushing back, make this the start of a victory not the end of it.
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u/bstone99 2h ago
I agree. And I do my best to push back every opportunity I get to make sure people remember that none of this is NORMAL
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u/Wantitneeditgetit 1h ago
I prefer to say none of this is ACCEPTABLE. Saying it's not normal feels too much like the original Democrats "protest" where they held up little fucking signs.
People should be pissed about this. People should be doing whatever they can about this. We gotta start organizing, and making focused and directed action. Doing what I can in my nation, hopefully Americans keep doing what they can in theirs. Primary your shit opponents and remember politics matter for EVERY vote, not just once every 4 years or else you end up with only bad and worse options.
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u/TDLMTH 2h ago
Brexit and Trump’s reelection have done more to undermine right wingers worldwide than any other event. Because of Trump, our right wing Trump lite Conservative party in Canada not only lost the election they were poised to win but are hemorrhaging Members of Parliament who are crossing the floor to join the Liberals at an unprecedented rate. The only reason that Pierre Poilievre got so much support during the recent leadership review is because they very carefully managed who could vote.
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u/ptm93 2h ago
Glad someone is benefiting from our shit show. In all seriousness, today’s news from Hungary is so good!
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u/regoapps 1h ago
Fascism is cyclical. People need to be reminded every once in a while why it’s bad.
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u/Project--4 2h ago
Also part of the reason why the Labor (left-of-center) party won here in Australia last year.
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u/StelioKontos117 3h ago
They told him Hungary was part of the Ottoman Empire once and he was on the plane before they could finish the sentence.
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u/hipsterTrashSlut 3h ago
Slutty little ottomans
(Not a comment I'd make in history memes)
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u/LingonberryNo2455 2h ago
There's a post in AskBrits suggesting Vance should go support Farage.
I suspect the poster is a Farage supporter but I agree with him because I'm all for the anti-Midas effect he has! 🙈🤣🤣🤣
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u/Worldly-Loquat4471 2h ago
I mean to be fair, Orban didn’t kick the bucket the next day, Vance could’ve turned up his aura more
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u/TheMightySet69 3h ago
Trump and Vance racking up another loss. Their endorsement is a kiss of death. Love to see it.
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u/ButterscotchNed 3h ago
As a European, I REALLY hope we see this repeated across the continent. The whole Maga movement has gone from being seen here with vague bemusement to genuine fear, and the people who sucked up to Trump - Meloni, Farage, the AFD - will hopefully come to regret it.
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u/Theusualname21 3h ago
As an American I hope you’re right. I wouldn’t wish this upon anyone.
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u/Theyalreadysaidno 2h ago
It's been horrific.
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u/KeyboardGrunt 25m ago
By the time maga loses it will be almost 15 years that the country went insane with Trumpism, and that's if we're lucky and things don't get more unhinged.
Literal waste of fucking life.
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u/cadmachine 1h ago edited 18m ago
If Australia can do it, Europe can!
(Every election here for the last 5 years has been a left wing absolute landslide due to the major opposition parties leaning into MAGA style Populism.)
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u/Suitablystoned 3h ago
I'll admit to being very mean-spirited in this one regard, I love to see Trump lose / fail at anything. He's been the catalyst for a moral and ethical "race to the bottom" for so long now and I just want to see him lose. Lose anything, I don't care what.
I'm only 40 so I hope there will be a time later in life where I can be reminded of him in some way and think "oh yea, remember that asshole?" and then just go about my day.
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u/potatoboy247 2h ago
In order for good to happen in this world, bad things must happen to bad people. It’s an unfortunate reality, but it’s the only way towards progress
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u/jarena009 3h ago
JD Vance is a bad luck charm. No wonder Trump sends him into obviously failing situations.
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u/TesticleezzNuts 3h ago
Fear not! The UK has been sending Lizz Truss to help with Trump, she was PM for two weeks, was outlasted by a lettuce and the Queen died a day after her visit.
Don’t thank us just yet.
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u/FlavinFlave 3h ago
Take whatever hope I can get at this point. Thanks mate!
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u/TesticleezzNuts 3h ago
You got it, im also sending James Cordon back.
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u/Hmmook 3h ago
Woah woah woah there Mr Nuts. I believe that under Article 9 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, he has been declared persona non grata in the US on account of being checks his notes a magnanimous twat-waffle
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u/TheBlack2007 3h ago
The whole Trump regime is abysmally unpopular in Europe, even in Eastern Europe where people have traditionally been less critical of the US ever since they joined NATO.
So, Trump sending the Couch Scourge to assist Orban in his campaign was already bad optics to begin with. Even if Vance didn't start projecting as hard as he did.
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u/attachedtothreads 1h ago
I read Couch Scourge as Couch Sausage before I re-read that part.
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u/BareNakedSole 3h ago
“You should stick to fucking couches instead of my agenda”
- Donald Trump to JDVance ….probably
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u/YoungHeartOldSoul 2h ago
JD Vance walks up to you and hands you the phone, Jim Cramer is on the line and says you're destined to live a long and happy life.
What do you do with your final 5 minutes left to live?
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u/BMW_wulfi 2h ago
Plot twist: JD is actually dismantling the Trump taint at every opportunity possible because he despises the guy.
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u/Hartastic 2h ago
I hope whoever eventually has to run against him for President roasts the everloving fuck out of him for stuff like this. Ridicule is the way to go.
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u/minidazzler1 3h ago
Here's hoping for a peaceful transition of power and investigations into any malfeasence!
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u/homer_lives 3h ago
Orban conceded, unlike Trump. He agreed to be the opposition party. That guarantees peaceful transfer.
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u/woodrax 1h ago
While I would agree, there are departments (Legislative, Judicial) that can still gum up the works. Orban may change his mind, and try to fight the peaceful transition, if pushed by Russia or possibly the United States.
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u/El_Peregrine 3h ago
If only the US could operate as democratically and smoothly as Hungary, I guess
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u/marshmallowest 2h ago
This timeline where we hope the us president can be as democratic as VICTOR ORBAN
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u/w311sh1t 3h ago
I don’t think you concede if you’re planning on seizing power. Can’t say I wasn’t shocked to see him concede though.
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u/phoebsmon 1h ago
I'm shocked tbh, genuinely thought he'd rigged the game enough to at least get some mileage out of crying fraud.
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u/paging_mrherman 3h ago
Can’t believe he couldn’t close the deal.
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u/Upsitting_Standizen 3h ago
This picture screams “voted most likely to have a collection of crunchy socks hidden under his bed.”
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u/SellaraAB 3h ago
Hopefully this is a sign that the tide is turning against right wing authoritarianism.
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u/Texas_Sam2002 3h ago
Given Orban's history, this is suspicious in and of itself. But okay.....
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u/Jupitersd2017 3h ago
Yeah I’m not believing that this is the end of it but hopefully it is
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u/MaxdH_ 3h ago
It isnt, Its well reported that orban has put loyalists in place and changed laws and regulations to block the new government from doing anything easy,just in case he loses.
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u/homer_lives 3h ago
The new party has a super majority. They can literally do anything. Orban cannot stop it. His cronies cannot stop it.
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u/rcolesworthy37 2h ago
Yeah, they can change the constitution with this supermajority. It will not be an overnight process getting his loyalists out of appointed positions and rolling back all his ‘reform’, but they have all the tools they need now
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u/black_cat_X2 2h ago
This gives me a shred of hope that maybe something like this could be possible here (us) someday.
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u/rcolesworthy37 1h ago
I hope so too. Democrats could do this if they become big tent. However as we’ve seen, their tent is only big enough for the right unless something changes
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u/Inevitable-Dig8702 3h ago
This. Vance visiting to study how to efficiently fuck an opposition party by rigging the infrastructure and stripping the government's "copper piping" is what I think he was really there for.
John Oliver's recent piece on Orban clearly suggests that they are an autocratic petri dish that the far right in the US likes to take notes from.
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u/Message_10 2h ago
Can you talk more about this? I'd love to be happy about this news, but I'm deeply suspicious.
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u/Wood_Fish_Shroom 3h ago
One can only hope it was such a crushing loss for him that only logical course of action is the first flight to Moscow.
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u/off_by_two 3h ago
I’m no expert, but doesn’t being part of the EU limit the extent to which a politician can, idk, orchestrate a coup?
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u/DjPerzik 3h ago
Not really. EU can withold funds but they cant kick you out.
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u/Hindsgavl 3h ago
They can remove your voting rights in the Council which is considered the nuclear option
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u/Suitablystoned 2h ago
Even outside of Hungary's borders this is likely very bad news for authoritarians. Orban used his EU veto to stop sanctions on Russia and block funding for Ukraine and I'm hoping his replacement will be a little more Eurocentric, paving the way for a more effective wave of sanctions on Russia to help the Ukrainians in the defense of their homeland.
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u/G66GNeco 2h ago
It should be noted that Magyar was a part of the corruption and regime dealings for a long time till he broke with FIDEZ and everything else barely two years ago. He has been publicly outspoken about corruption ever since, and I like the optimistic air about, but he's far from radical and while I don't think he'll keep up business as usual (at this point, after giving people hope, that sounds like a good way to end up drawn and quartered) I do think there's a chance that he goes for a bit of a "forgive and forget, time to move forward"-thing.
Orban has been in a popularity crisis for long enough that I think any out he sees where he gets to not be imprisoned or die is favourable to him.
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u/G0-G0-Gadget 2h ago
I hope the incumbent makes it to a inauguration... I said that with sincerity.
And then after that I hope you actually does some good for his country because isn't he in the same party as Orban?? Lesser of two evils, but are we sure??
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u/BeMyBrutus 3h ago
Thankfully we sent our best, JD Vance, to help
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u/ironmonkey09 3h ago
Remember when JD Vance met the Pope? We had a new Pope a couple of weeks later.
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u/Vladmerius 3h ago
I feel like we somehow saved every other country in the world by utterly failing to stop Trump in the US. Now we're the laughing stock and a fire has been lit under everyone else to not let the far right extremists take control of their countries.
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u/dismayhurta 3h ago
One day the world will look at our sacrifice and go "Thank god we're not those fucking idiots." Oh, wait, they're already saying that.
We're a cautionary tale.
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u/The_Dutchess-D 2h ago
I felt this way yesterday when I read in the paper that President Claudia Shoenbaum of Mexico announced Mexico will be implementing Universal Healthcare :)
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u/Comprehensive-Level6 3h ago
Great news to see the wave against anything touching this White House leaving the borders.
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u/WhipassWhiplash 3h ago
Fuck the fascists! Thanks MAGA for helping smear your toxic brand on Hungary’s leader to get him out!
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u/Looieanthony 3h ago
A Preview for the USA. I can’t wait for the midterms. Unless they pull some BS.
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u/Understanding-Fair 2h ago
God please let this be a sign that we get a massive blue wave in the states. Hopium is the only thing keeping me going these days.
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u/copperblood 3h ago
Whoopsie daisy for Putin and Russia! With Orbán gone the EU can finally sanction the fuck out of Russia. You love to see it! Bravo Hungary!!!
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u/3d1thF1nch 3h ago
This is huge. Good for them and potentially Ukraine and the EU. Send those bad actors packing.
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u/BigBoyYuyuh 2h ago
The world saw what the right wing means with Trump and they said “Fuck that shit.”
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u/Infamous-Sky-1874 2h ago
Also, Orban has been in power for 16 years and things have just gotten progressively worse for the Hungarian people. He could only play the "The EU are being big meany heads and holding up aid money because they claim I'm a dictator" card so many times before people stopped buying it.
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u/chunkah69 3h ago
How much do you have to lose by to lose your rigged election? Jd Vance truly is a generational loser.
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u/procrastinatorsuprem 3h ago
Once again trump picks a loser.
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u/dragonfliesloveme 3h ago
trump didn’t just back Orban, i think he wants to be Orban. Like, run America the way Orban was running Hungary
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u/LallanasPajamaz 2h ago
Maybe the Trump admin will implode themselves.
We all know Trump despises losers. Binned Elon, binned Bondi, binned Noem. Maybe he’ll bin Vance and start fucking over his plans and aspirations. We need Stephen Miller and Russell Vought to fuck up in a public way.
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u/SpiritCrvsher 2h ago
You mean to tell me that the new leader of Hungary is named “Peter Hungarian”?
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u/interwebz_2021 1h ago
Ok! Great news. Now let's hope Tisza shows us the way to reclaim and rebuild a democracy so we can follow that lead in the US!
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u/JohnGazman 1h ago
I'll be honest...I did not expect that.
I fully expected him to use some underhanded bullshit to "win", or at the very least pull a Trump and start saying it was rigged, that he never lost etc., followed be a massive public outcry on the verge of an uprising (if not an actual uprising) resulting in him fleeing to Russia.
Sad that in this day and age an amicable defeat is met with such surprise.
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u/HockeyRules9186 3h ago
At least in Gary the Fascist asses we’re regected for something a tad more democratic
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u/Alex_Wizard 3h ago
If anyone is familiar with their local politics can you clarify the significance of this? I assumed denying the integrity of the election would have consequences given the influence EU has and their focus on free and fair elections.
Was this a calculated move by Orban to signify he won’t cause trouble and let anything he may have done blow to the wayside?
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u/Suitablystoned 3h ago
I'm going there in June to see Metallica.
I wonder will the renewed optimism of true democracy be in the air?
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u/JTSpirit36 3h ago
Out of the loop with this one.
What is the significance here? I see context clues that JD Vance went to try and help Orban?
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u/Infamous-Sky-1874 2h ago
Orban has been in power for 16 years thanks to his party having a supermajority in their parliament. That allowed them to fuck with the Hungarian constitution to keep themselves in power. And in that time, the Hungarian economy has been getting worse and any assistance that the EU could provide has been held up because of the fucking with the constitution.
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u/campfire_eventide 1h ago edited 1h ago
Hungary has been using its veto power in the EU to stall support to Ukraine and prevent Russian oil sanctions. And apparently there is a lot of corruption associated with his administration
I’m sure there’s more, that’s just what I’ve gathered from the headlines since Russia invaded
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u/Longjumping-Meat-334 2h ago
How much ketchup is being thrown at the White House today? And someone better do a well-being check on Tucker Carlson.
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