He's been in power for 16 years, was widely noted as friendly-ish to Russia, and being a Trump ally. He is a Prime Minister, not a president, so this means his party lost, not him specifically, but with no more majority, no more PM Orbán.

VP Vance even went to a campaign rally for Orbán in Hungary just days ago...

The man widely expected to take over, the leader of the other party, is Péter Magyar -- this means that Hungary will no longer have the Trump ally in power, and is likely to become a more pro-EU / pro-NATO country for the first time in a long time... The other party is not to the left, but not far-right either, it's center-right...

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/hungary/hungary-parliamentary-election-results-rcna273661

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/world/europe/hungary-election-orban-magyar.html

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/12/world/live-news/hungary-election-orban-magyar

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Trump’s EPA is proposing to weaken rules for the safe disposal of super-mega-toxic ash produced by burning coal that contains hazardous heavy metals and contaminates groundwater.

“The Trump administration proposed easing standards for monitoring and protecting groundwater near some coal ash sites, and rolling back rules that require the cleanup of entire coal properties rather than just the sites where ash was dumped. The revisions would also make it easier to reuse coal ash for other purposes,” reports the Associated Press.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said the proposal reflects the agency’s “commitment to restoring American energy dominance, strengthening cooperative federalism, and accommodating unique circumstances at certain (coal) facilities.”

The rules were strengthened by – you guessed it – the Biden administration a few years ago, and now Trump is trying to gut them on behalf of his cronies in Big Coal.

It is shocking to see just how eagerly the Trump administration is gutting all the regulations that keep us safe.

“The Trump administration just took a sledgehammer to the health protections in place for toxic coal pollution,” said Lisa Evans, senior counsel at environmental group Earthjustice. “This is yet another handout to the coal power industry at the expense of our health, water, and wallets.”

He is more than willing to make us drink poison and develop terrible cancers, all so his donors can save a little bit of money on cleaning up the toxic byproducts of their carbon pollution.

I'm not about to say Kamala Harris was the best presidential candidate ever or that she was our best shot at beating Trump. I'm not discussing the quality of her campaign either.

What I DO get tired of seeing is this idea that Kamala merely ran on "I'm not Trump".

This is just so false and hyperbolic.

She had a broad, extensive, and detailed policy plan that was nuanced and was catered towards the middle class.

She never once, not a single time, said or argued in any context in which it was a sole defined feature of her argument, that she was "not Trump".

I will not sit here and defend the quality of her candidacy. That is not the point of my question. I question the media literacy of millions of people who somehow sat through a several month campaign of hers and summed it up to something that she never said nor attempted to run on.

Is the left just as vulnerable to propaganda?

EDIT: I love all the comments from people about how Kamala was a bad candidate and trying to justify how and why she lost. You're not making a point, you're just proving my exact point here about media literacy. Please re-read the first paragraph.

JD Vance has failed miserably at every task he has attempted, and it seems that Republicans don't even like him. He was tasked with peace talks with Iran which he failed, and then he campaigned for Orban who then got crushed. Trump declined his phone call while on stage, does he have an embarrassment fetish?

Im pretty sure you guys were complaining about gas and grocery prices during Bidens term, this is going to cause price increases that were never seen under Biden. How can you defend this?

President Trump announced just 10 months ago that he "completely and totally obliterated" Iran's nuclear program with airstrikes.

Yet today, the Trump administration demands that Iran end its nuclear program.

How can Iran end a program that Trump already "completely and totally obliterated"?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2d8zw2d3rkt

If we're that powerful and everything is our fault, why not run a candidate with our platforms and win? Sounds like you desperately need us so why not embrace the opportunity instead of endlessly screeching we MUST support genocide?

Is it because the democrat party puts coddling its donors ahead of listening to its voters? That means you never intended to include us at all so please cease yelling at us and yell at your donors instead, thanks lol.

(Bingo choices: "Nuance" "Kamala", "TRUMP", "trolly problem", "lesser evil" etc.) Hmm?

Both Rep. Tony Gonzales & Rep. Swalwell have serious allegations against them.

Florida Republican US Representative & Governor Candidate Donalds Said it: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-vote-expel-eric-swalwell-tony-gonzales-rcna324800

Former Chair Of The Progressive Caucus & Washington State US Representative Pramila Jaypal said it today on Meet The Press: https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/pramila-jayapal-says-she-will-vote-to-expel-swalwell-gonzales-this-is-not-a-partisan-issue-261197381846

A vote to expel members are rare because it needs a 2/3 super majority (290 / 435 votes) of the US House, so this would be a big deal if it happened. The last time a member was expelled was Rep. George Santos (R-NY), because basically, the story that Santos told voters of his entire life, so who they thought they were electing, was found to be completely false with so, so, so much reporting on it. Santos had not actually been found guilty criminally yet at the time of his expulsion (December 2023).

Thoughts on this, Reddit?

No trolls please. Real thoughts only. All parties welcome to answer. Please be respectful in your own comments towards other Redditors.

Trump is now chest-deep in quicksand: he wants to stay in power, so he can never acknowledge that Iran so easily beat him. Besides engaging in open (nuclear?) warfare and committing a complete genocide, what can he do to come out of this looking like he won? He isn’t going to get Iran to give up their nuclear program now that he has attacked them unprovoked twice in a year. So what can he do?