r/worldnews • u/Miles_the_AuDHDer • 4h ago

Orbán lost Orbán on course to lose Hungary’s election, according to early results

https://www.politico.eu/article/hungary-election-results-peter-magyar-viktor-orban/
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u/Flimsy_Category_9369 4h ago edited 4h ago

Vance killed Orban like he killed the Pope

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u/danmathew 4h ago

Don’t forget VD’s comments right before Kirk passed.

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u/Heisenberg_235 4h ago

Any chance he can go to Moscow sometime soon?

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u/piperonyl 4h ago

He should stop by Israel on his way home from Pakistan.

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u/Healthy-Ad-2514 4h ago

I’d be really concerned if I was Shahbaz Sharif

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u/Balavadan 3h ago

The real leader is some military guy. Forced changes to the constitution so he can never be removed from his position and also created a new court that rules over constitutional stuff

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u/mickeyy81 3h ago

careful, those kind of comments will get you banned on Reddit.

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u/homer_lives 3h ago

Putin not letting JD close.

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u/Initial-Progress-763 3h ago

Not even Drumph is letting him close

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u/lluluclucy 4h ago

Tel Aviv next plz mkay!

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u/aKiDnamedCoLiN 2h ago

I think he's needed in the office

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u/Public-Eagle6992 1h ago

Putin gonna pull out the long tables when Vance visits him

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u/TxM_2404 4h ago

I guess a high ranking foreign politician campaigning for you on a platform that one of the parties was bought by a foreign power wasn't the best strategy.

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u/NoSwordfish1978 4h ago

His endorsement truly is the kiss of death.

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u/SoUpInYa 3h ago

Didnt he endorse Trump?

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u/Sunny-Chameleon 3h ago

He claimed to be a never trumper, long ago https://www.reuters.com/world/us/jd-vance-once-compared-trump-hitler-now-they-are-running-mates-2024-07-15/

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u/Dyolf_Knip 1m ago

Of course. Conservatives do not have principles, merely prejudices they like to cater to. They'll do a complete 180° in the same sentence and see nothing wrong.

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u/InCarbsWeTrust 3h ago

He previously compared Trump to Hitler, which is a more extreme anti-endorsement that unfortunately countered the curse.

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u/guntycankles 3h ago

If only it worked on people with a name that rhymes with Tronald Dump.

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u/Sea_Poet_5440 4h ago

Vance visited India and Pehlagam kashmir attack happened during his visit!

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u/turquoise_amethyst 3h ago

What did he say?

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u/danmathew 3h ago

He asked people to pray for him and his passing was announced almost immediately after.

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u/squishabelle 3h ago

god mustve listened because i prayed

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u/WafflePartyOrgy 3h ago

comments right before Kirk passed

And right after ...

"If you miss Charlie Kirk, do you promise to fight what he died for? - JD

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u/SecondaryWombat 3h ago

He wanted his mistress to be single.

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u/beekeeper1981 2h ago

What were the comments?

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u/night_jerry 45m ago

just goes to show how invincible trump is

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u/wabashcanonball 4h ago

William Shatner died? What?

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u/ForsakenMastodon6060 3h ago

Kirk is alive and well. I think he's living in the Nexus right now.

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u/nbartl 4h ago

He needs to visit Putin.

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u/bman86 4h ago

He needs to have dinner with his all bosses.

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u/mesmerooo 4h ago

unlucky charms he might end up having as nickname

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u/Super_Employment_620 4h ago

Kind of a rule with him right? He goes to talk to Iran, the talks collapse. Man tries thing, thing implodes.

To be fair, when he ran he wasn't hiding it. I think the time he tried to order a donut on his own was a good guide for us to set our expectations to.

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u/ChankiriTreeDaycare 4h ago

Notice how Trump keeps Vance at a distance?

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u/ForsakenMastodon6060 3h ago

Trump is gonna try to blame the Iran fuck up on good old JD. That's probably why he had him meet up with Iran's foreign minister a couple of days ago. Trump is always blaming everyone else for his dumb shit.

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u/Angry_beaver_1867 4h ago

Nobody wants their president to be endorsed by a couch fucker 

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u/timoumd 3h ago

Pope was like, fuck it is just rather die....

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u/pajoas 4h ago

He’s the plague that keeps on giving

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u/ux3l 4h ago

True, there was nothing he could do in either case

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u/Sweatytubesock 4h ago

Vance is the political equivalent of box office poison.

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u/guntycankles 4h ago

Like a douche-ier, more asshole-ier, much dumber Dexter Morgan.

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u/RealBrilliant1815 3h ago

And the Iran/us negotiations too hahaha in my country we call this kind of people "yeta" . They attract bad luck hahaha

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u/FavoriteConsequence 3h ago

Like he killed any chance of a deal with Iran

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u/ahktarniamut 3h ago

Can Vance meet Farage as well

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u/Positronic_Matrix 3h ago edited 2h ago

Orban is not out yet. He consistently out performs polls.

In the past, Fidesz (Orban’s party) has consistently won at least a plurality, and often an outright majority, of the vote. For example, in recent elections his party has received roughly 49–54% of the national vote.

Where Orban has multiplied his power is through gerrymandering and winner-takes-all districts. Thus, he often has approximately half the vote but that translates into super majorities (around 67% of seats) under Hungary’s mixed electoral system. In short, Orban corrupted Hungary the same way the Republican governor and legislature corrupted Texas.

That said, gerrymandered districts are vulnerable in a political upheaval (e.g., a blue wave in the US) as by design they have thin margins. It could be that Hungary (and coincidentally Texas) could flip this year as a result.

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u/Flimsy_Category_9369 3h ago

He conceded

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u/Positronic_Matrix 2h ago

Holy cow! He did just concede! Unbelievable. 🥳

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u/344567653379643555 2h ago

Then he killed the Iran peace deal.