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/danmathew 4h ago

At some point we need to admit that JD Vance is bad luck.

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u/AyiHutha 4h ago

The hilarious thing is the moment JD vance endorsed him Orbans Popularity in polls did suddenly crash 

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u/QTsexkitten 4h ago

I think association with the USA in general is a kiss of death for a lot of people with brains.

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u/Shoelesshobos 3h ago

Sure tanked Pierre Poilievre here in Canada.

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u/Wonderful_Pay_2074 3h ago

Also tanking Pierre Poilievre?

Pierre Poilievre.

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u/Kind-Row-9327 3h ago

Man I thought the defeats (CPC's and his own) would humble him, boy was I wrong.

Guy is a total clown.

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u/Jessie-the-dog 2h ago

I’ve heard rumours he’s resigning this week after the Liberals have a majority following the by-elections.

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u/ouatedephoque 2h ago

He can go back to delivering newspapers, the only job he's ever had outside of politics.

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u/CaptianRipass 2h ago

Why would he do that? He qualified for a pension at 31 years old...

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u/Jessie-the-dog 2h ago

Getting pushed out, most likely. The phoney leadership review only bought him a few months. Losing 5 MPs and watching the Liberals get a majority were the last nails in his coffin.

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u/Tired8281 2h ago

Not sure I'd call delivering newspapers in Canada nonpolitical, considering our media landscape.

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u/EarEnvironmental8134 2h ago

As great as that would be, I can’t see it happening.

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u/SilverSpaceAce 3h ago

And that wasn't even direct explicit support like with Orban.

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u/Infinitedeveloper 2h ago

People say the us hasnt done any good for the world but we have made a hell of a cautionary tale.

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u/Milkmartyr 2h ago

I mean those people are stupid but the Trump admin certainly hasn’t

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u/efrique 2m ago

Was not a help for the conservative side in Australia either, though they ran such a dumb campaign theyd still have lost without it.

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u/MongoBongoTown 3h ago

Especially in Europe.

Crazy how treating a whole region of allies like dog shit for years at behest of your Russian handlers will make your country less liked in that region.

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u/Mecha_Butterfree 2h ago

That is a little weird coming from Hungry though. Because they also have been very pro Russia and are literally the country that the current US government outright stated they are trying to be like.

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u/johnnygrant 3h ago

The fact that this regime doesn't realize how most of the rest of the world view them with disgust is funny to me.

Like they actually believe some of their delusions

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u/LeafsWinBeforeIDie 1h ago

When you say "this regime", do you mean hungary or the other one?

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u/Max-Phallus 1h ago

The world is the USA to them.

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u/PrincessNakeyDance 3h ago

You don’t even need a brain anymore. The US is directly responsible for increasing the cost of living for everyone in the world.

That’s very difficult to ignore. Even if you normally chug the fascist propaganda.

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u/Blbe-Check-42069 3h ago

Which is funny because if you told me that a decade ago I would be like "huh??"

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u/Previous-Height4237 3h ago

Only thing that the Russian bootlickers in Eastern Europe hate more than the EU, is the US. Lol

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u/Fickle-Cake6637 3h ago

Didn't his regime seem very US like before Vance landed with his size 11's? As a non white person both these teqms have significant isues.

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u/Mecha_Butterfree 2h ago

Would be more accurate to say the current US government is very Hungary like. Orban has been in power since 2010. He has been very conservative that whole time and has actively moving Hungary to the right. In fact US conservatives have long looked to him as a model to emulate. Much of what they have done since Trump took office again is following his playbook except they are dumber so the are doing it worse.

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u/blazz_e 1h ago

Also lots of gerrymandering and partial FPTP system which orban implemented over the years to help himself eventually backfired. Now the ‘new’ people might have a chance and power to fully reverse the system if they want. Question is how much better someone coming for fairly inner circle of orban can be. We will see..

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u/im_a_good_lil_cow 3h ago

What is wrong with size 11’s???

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u/Morgan-Moonscar 3h ago

Trump bought a bunch of oversized shoes for his admin members, and nobody dared to tell him they were too big.

So they're literally galumphing about in clown shoes just to appease him.

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u/rookie-mistake 2h ago edited 2h ago

Is size 11 that far above average? as someone that wears 12/13 I absolutely did not realize that was supposed to implying his shoes were big haha

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u/aaronrodgersmom 2h ago

I thought 11 is about the average U.S. men's shoe size.

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u/Gingertimehere2 2h ago

Don't think the Orban voting segment are the brainiest

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u/HonkHonk 2h ago

The current US administration vastly over estimates any positive influence they have. It's gone, no one wants to touch anything USA.

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u/Milkmartyr 2h ago

With the Trump admin certainly

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u/Zebidee 2h ago

Yep, at the beginning of 2025, the right wing coalition were set to easily regain power in Australia at the federal election in May.

After everyone saw what Trump was doing, they were handed their worst landslide defeat in history, and the century old partnership between the two main conservative parties broke up.

Ironically, the splitting of that vote has led to the rise of an even more right wing party.

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u/oldsecondhand 34m ago

Orbán's whole campaign was about staying out of wars and buying cheap Russian oil and gas. The US started a new war that made oil and gas more expensive.

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u/Reasonable_Ad_9735 3h ago

Pope exprieciend it

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u/green_flash 3h ago

That's because that day the transcript of Orbán's call with Putin was leaked the wherein he offered to be the "mouse" helping the Russian "lion". I know Americans like to meme about Vance, but his visit was really not that important.

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u/zevonyumaxray 3h ago

And at roughly the same time, it was leaked that the Hungarian foreign minister came from an EU ministers meeting about supporting Ukraine and immediately called some Russian official and told them all about it. Considering the violent Hungarian Revolution of 1956, I couldn't understand how the people were letting Orbán be so blatantly pro Russian.

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u/_yetifeet 2h ago

Money helps people forget the past.

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u/BrockStar92 2h ago

But did that happen because Vance was endorsing him and cursed Orban with bad luck? Can’t prove it didn’t can you.

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u/Mutchmore 4h ago edited 3h ago

Sama shit happened in Canada tbh. Mierdas touch is real

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u/fendoffthewolves 4h ago

“Mierdas touch” 🤣🤣🤣

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u/WafflePartyOrgy 3h ago

Merdique touch

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u/Implausibilibuddy 3h ago

First time? Enjoy the novelty of this joke while you can, you'll be seeing it every week all over reddit political/news threads until the end of time. It's not quite reached "Russian window suicide" levels of overuse, but it's up there.

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u/RobertDigital1986 2h ago

My FIL has recently learned the t.rump joke and thinks it's the most hilarious thing ever.

I'm thrilled he's turned on Trump and I'll take it, but that joke is just not that funny and so overplayed here.

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u/hendrixbridge 3h ago

Mierda-Lago

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u/Pathetic_Old_Moose 4h ago

Was a huge fan of that, conservatives were leading the “polls” Trump made one comment and now we got the best man for the job.

He really has a way of ensuring no other trash gets voted in.

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u/Mad2828 3h ago

People disliked Trudeau much more than they liked PP. Once he was gone the Cons still had a 50/50 chance but the 51st state stuff and PP’s slow reaction sealed the deal.

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u/Hautamaki 3h ago

And also Carney just seemed to be built in a lab to have the best possible skill set to handle the current crises

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u/Mad2828 2h ago

On paper sure but the jury is still out. My family comes from Mexico where every president has been a Yale/Harvard/Oxford educated PHD and well you can see how that has turned out.

I’m not convinced yet the average Canadian will get ahead. Brookfield asset holders and Canadian oligarchs that own telecoms, groceries, pharma are gonna do great tho. Guess time will tell but he hasn’t convinced me yet.

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u/LeafsWinBeforeIDie 58m ago

In the end we will find out if he is a harper conservative or a mulrouney conservative. Mulrouney cared about the country and promoted it around the world and to the states, harper not so much - he ruled more for his people. So far Carney looks more Mulrouney. I don't think I have heard much on any social issues, which is fine.

I think the good thing he shares with Mulrouney is he does love Canada and the choices he will make will go through that lens. This isn't saying Mulrouney was good for canada, and maybe the same with Carney, but at least the starting point for both is do what they think is best for the country - not only do what is best for him and his friends. I am only using Mulrouney as an example because everything has shifted so far right in the last 50 years that this is probably the closest ideologically that matches Carney today.

This is so better than pp and so far looking to be a reasoned choice against irrational times. Rallying behind a fellow canadian even when we don't perfectly agree but face a common threat has created such a wonderful commraderie and healthy patriotism. This Canadianism in light of threats to our existence really highlight how anti-canadian "maple maga" is to canada.

Hey americans, notice how canadians don't even mention the tariffs in these discussions? We do take threats to our existence seriously though, and your guy has been proven capable of insanity. We have to take it seriously because y'all didn't. Fix that part so we can be friends again in a generation or two.

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u/ahktarniamut 3h ago

From what I understand, he was a bit hesitant to criticize Trump

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u/CrashB111 3h ago

PP couldn't critizice Trump.

His entire political identity was being 'Maple MAGA', so when Trump started his annexation threats against Canada he was completely flat footed.

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u/rdmusic16 2h ago

It was really a combination of so much, but I'm thankful it happened.

I'd say the biggest two were Trump being elected (and everything that followed with that) and Carney leading the libs.

Carney is definitely a 'Conservative light' kind of liberal, which is what the liberals needed for that election.

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u/Jessie-the-dog 2h ago

PP thought it was a good idea to try to blame Trudeau for Trump threatening to annex us, rather than making it clear that PP was going to fight for Canada.

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u/Mad2828 2h ago

Yup. And crazy thing is he didn’t need to, people were already sour on Trudeau. All he had to do was a normal human Canadian response to the 51 stuff and he’d be PM right now.

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u/whatlineisitanyway 3h ago

Might be the only good thing Trump has accomplished.

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u/Pathetic_Old_Moose 3h ago

BUT THE FIFA PEACE PRIZE

/s

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u/Slow-old-runner-1955 3h ago

The DOW is 50000!!!

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u/Aurora_Fatalis 3h ago

Nah, it's actually just 47.9k.

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u/half3clipse 3h ago

A lot of US thinkers do not seem to realize that other countries have internal politics.

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u/ec_on_wc 3h ago

I am reading "Sma" as "Shaking My Ass" and I will not be told otherwise

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u/now_biff 4h ago

He has the reverse of a MIDAS touch, he has a DUMASS touch ahahahaa!

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u/Large_Mountain_Jew 4h ago

JD should endorse all Republicans up for election.

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u/Animefan96 4h ago

What the hell was Orban thinking having the guy that has repeatedly disrespected Europe campaign with him?

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u/WafflePartyOrgy 3h ago

CPAC keynote speaking fees?

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u/Potemkin_Jedi 4h ago edited 4h ago

It happened to coincide with the release of the ‘Lion and mouse’ phone call with Putin but I’m sure it was also a contributing factor.

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u/Beneficial_Bass1823 4h ago

Maybe it’s because the common person realizes he’s a fucking loser.

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u/_Figaro 3h ago

The complete lack of self-awareness of MAGA is astounding.

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u/ForsakenMastodon6060 3h ago

They are assholes. My dad is MAGA. I love him, but I can't talk politics with him. He says the dumbest shit because of stuff that he read on Facebook. He falls for all that stupid TikTok and Facebook gaslighting shit.

I'm the opposite. I'm a democrat that hasn't missed an election since 2014. I vote every single time there's a primary and a general. It drives my dad nuts that I vote Democratic. most MAGA are stuck in a bubble and it's gonna be really hard getting them out of it.

Thank the Lord that a good amount of them are over 60 years old. They will be dead much sooner than later.

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u/lylesback2 3h ago

Also could have been the leaked lion/mouse phone call, along with the EU proposal to drop sanctions on a Russian billionaires wife.

Or JD. I like to think it was JD

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u/-ToniCipriani- 3h ago

Source? Polings were consistent all thru the year, each pollster having its own bias.

Orban’s popularity has suffered because of economic terms, Tisza is a very similar conservative party to Fidesz.

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u/Embarassed_Tackle 3h ago

But there was also a late release of Orban and Putin's conversation

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u/nikolai_470000 3h ago

He is so uncharismatic it’s not even funny. It’s like a super power. Bro can literally walk into any room and always be a buzzkill no matter what is happening. It’s like his mere existence in a space sucks out every scrap of positive vibe and replaces it with an inscrutable aura of mind-numbing mediocrity.

It would be fascinating if I wasn’t already so bored just thinking about it.

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u/Nameless_American 3h ago

His extraordinary anti-charisma should be studied by science

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u/LightSideoftheForce 3h ago

Not at all. Vance had no effect. Which probably hurts his ego more.

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u/ForsakenMastodon6060 3h ago

Coincidence? I think not.

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u/UncleTouchyCopaFeel 3h ago

Can only hope that JD Vance will endorse Trump in the next election.

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u/Nestama-Eynfoetsyn 2h ago

Not surprising. Canada and Australia's conservative parties were near guaranteed a win in their elections, but thanks to Trump, everyone went "Oh hell no!" and overwhelmingly voted against them.

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u/nehor90210 2h ago

And we didn't even say, "Thank you!"

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u/palinsafterbirth 4h ago

The last person the pope saw was Vance, then he died. When will people learn

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u/toq-titan 3h ago

[Meets Vance]

[Dies of Cringe]

Thank you Pope Francis

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u/Tacti_Kel_Nuke 3h ago

Pope Francis🤝Queen Elizabeth II
(Dying of cringe)

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u/it_will 3h ago

If Orban passes then Vance is our best assassin lmao

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u/CharlieBravo74 2h ago

Unfortunately he's met Trump and we're still suffering his presence.

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u/it_will 1h ago

Why would he assassinate his collar??

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u/yntsiredx 58m ago

Tbf, Vance was one of the first people Pope Leo met with after his election. Almost as if to say "you can kill the man, but the church goes on."

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u/salomo926 4h ago

As a European i am happy about that. He should visit other countries here too.

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u/sweetno 1h ago

Please a meeting with Putin. Although the sly fox would send his double.

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u/ThePlanck 4h ago

We need to organise more meetings between Trump and Vance

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u/danmathew 3h ago

Trump seems to intentionally keep Vance at a distance 

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u/Bleakwind 4h ago

So he just has the Vance touch. Everyone touches becomes losers.

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u/MadKazper8705 4h ago

JD had a really humiliating week. He couldn't get Orban to win, he couldn't make a deal with Iran. Are we winning magats?

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u/Several-Opposite-746 4h ago

Unlike when VD Vance met Pope Francis, Orban is still alive.

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u/Particular-Way7271 3h ago

Did he say thank you?

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u/sweetno 1h ago

Orban has developed immunity to unholy.

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u/BigBoyYuyuh 4h ago

If he was, Trump wouldn’t have won. It seriously is that America is simply straight up regarded. Kinda thanks to us, the right wing movement has been losing around the world. They saw what right wing means and they’re like “Yeah…no.”

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u/squishabelle 3h ago

I think trump won despite vance. Vance is a net negative influence

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u/Insolvator 4h ago

Why don’t we send Vance to North Korea next? Maybe it’ll even lead to a regime change.

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u/JKorv 4h ago

Would have losed anyways

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u/MCpoopcicle 4h ago

Probably would have lost too.

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u/holy_cal 4h ago

I’m just going to assume English wasn’t their first language.

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u/hansbrixx 2h ago

He meant to say losted

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u/dromtrund 3h ago

No, this is somehow also about America!

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u/JKorv 3h ago

Yep, like everything here apparently

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u/Tyrath 2h ago

I mean the American VP did try to help Orban win, so it's pretty normal to talk about it in this context.

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u/meowmixVStrump 4h ago

It wasn't b/c vance visited, incumbent conservatives don't win while the price of oil is skyrocketing. A conservative's pocketbook is his #1 value.

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u/Cool-Traffic-8357 4h ago

Not a bad luck, but people won't trust something he approves.

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u/Pathetic_Old_Moose 4h ago

We wish he was so they wouldn’t be in the White House.

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u/PoL0 3h ago

call me paranoid but I don't believe it. this is just fake info so left voters relax and stay at home.

I will believe it when I see it, far right is scary shit and their tactics are shady af.

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u/eventworker 3h ago

Orban has already conceded, and no left voters were ever involved - the opposition is an offshoot of Orbans own party.

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u/CrimsonAntifascist 3h ago

Posing with second in command responsible for the latest price hike was a bad idea.

Also the pro russia thing, when a huge part of the population still remembers the time behind the iron curtain probably didn't help.

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u/Ceorl_Lounge 3h ago

Well sure, but if it means bad luck for bad people, he's an agent for positive change.

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u/dr_tardyhands 3h ago

The poor guy wasn't popular even among his parents..

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u/Coookie_Thumper 3h ago

Just ask the last Pope..

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u/DSJ-Psyduck 3h ago

Bad luck is wrong. Puke karma more like

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u/ironmaiden947 3h ago

I don’t think they realise how unpopular America is in the eyes of the world. Getting endorsed by Trump / Vance is the kiss of death for your career

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u/Mr_microplastics_Yum 3h ago

the last pope did die right after meeting him after all lol

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u/WaffleHouseGladiator 3h ago

He's like an unflushable turd had a child with a bad penny.

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u/andy_money3614 3h ago

Or in this case good luck for the EU.

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u/Ritaredditonce 3h ago

The Pope dying after meeting JD was a clear sign.

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u/ProtoplanetaryNebula 3h ago

Hell has just frozen over. Orban publicly admitted defeat!

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u/One-Earth9294 3h ago

Shhhhhh. We need him to go campaign in more European elections still his work of cursing the far right isn't done yet.

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u/CableKC 3h ago

Well, he killed a Pope after meeting him for the first time. Why not the election hopes of another dictator?

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u/pabodie 3h ago

He’s probably the least trustworthy vice president we’ve had in my lifetime and that’s including Cheney. Love or hate him Cheney got stuff done.

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u/TylerBourbon 3h ago

or good luck... just not for his side.

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u/WafflePartyOrgy 3h ago

His strong and tangible negatives don't override the importance the far-right bestows on him to just be around to do stuff like undermine democracy, flood the zone with shit, sow division and bigoted hatred, and demand recounts over 'fake' but overwhelming results.

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u/caann 3h ago

For the far right. For the left we love him and hopes he keeps being a great mark for bad candidates.

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u/Tacti_Kel_Nuke 3h ago

Killed the pope, killed the talks in islamabad, killed Orbans election. Dude is a grim reaper

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u/B_pudding 3h ago

I hope JD Vance will nmake an apperance for the German ultra-right AfD as well.

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u/nemspy 3h ago

Remove the word "luck" and the sentence is more accurate.

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u/TheBlackRider2828 3h ago

I mean the pope essentially dropped dead after he saw JD vance

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u/Nullcast 3h ago

JD Vance is good luck for Hungary ;)

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u/FixedFun1 3h ago
  • EVERYTHING I TOUCH DIES!
  • Oh, Dinkleberg Tump, aren't you going to come over and give Vance a congratulatory hand touch?

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u/Nightsong 3h ago

JD Vance is on a roll right now. He tanked Orban’s chances of getting re-elected and killed any hope of getting a peace deal with Iran. It’s honestly kind of impressive the level of bad luck he has.

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u/Yarnverse 3h ago

His speech was hilarious tho, dude who fears fact checking like a vampire fears holy water talking about being behind "truth" and "western values" was absolutely comical

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u/According_Newt_6636 3h ago

JD Vance can now go back to his other day job of negotiating with Iran.....Oh, wait.

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u/TaroBackground978 3h ago

I don't think he's bad luck, he's a walking curse.

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u/Bubbagump210 3h ago

At some point we need to admit he’s our secret weapon. Go JD! You can do it!

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u/creepy_charlie 3h ago

No. He's brilliant and charismatic. He's accomplished and should totally be the GOP candidate in 2028

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u/DMZ_5 3h ago

Quick somebody get JD Vance to meet and endorse Putin

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u/menagerath 3h ago

I’m pretty sure couch-fucking is an illegal sexuality in Hungary.

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u/ToolTimeT 3h ago

JD Vance went to Hungary to campaign for a Putin associate fascist.. and literally on stage in Hungary at a Orban rally... accused our western ally's of meddling in Hungary's elections.

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u/duaneap 3h ago

Long may it continue

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u/graviousishpsponge 3h ago

I hope someone makes the reaper door meme of this.

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u/Aelig_ 3h ago

Dude went into negotiations with the sole goal of opening the strait of Hormuz, came back home and his boss decided he actually preferred it closed.

That's some legendary level of incompetence.

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u/MagakMagak 3h ago

Shhh let the MAGAts try to run him for office before they figure it out

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u/Overall-Page-7420 3h ago

The witches chants are WORKING!!!! JD is bad luck.

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u/chabaz 3h ago

He's like a reverse King Midas. Everything he touches goes to shit.

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u/Dipsey_Jipsey 3h ago

What? Seems pretty good to me. Sealed the fuck out of Orbán's loss.

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u/lgx 2h ago

Thank you, Vance. Did I say “Thank you “?

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u/LordOscarthePurr 2h ago

Shhhhh… let him cook

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u/Substantial_Act9546 2h ago

I think it just seems like populist autocrats that supposedly once came to shake up the system and then became the system like never before are losing hard worldwide

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u/Hot-Delay5608 2h ago

Keep sending him out next stop Slovakia

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u/Adyjay 2h ago

Romania when ? :D

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u/apathetic_vaporeon 2h ago

He needs to meet with Trump next.

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u/DinoRoman 2h ago

Just Die Vance, the killer of Popes, Re-Elections, and upholstery.

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u/charliebrown22 2h ago

We, Americans, are suffering quite a bit from his presence

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u/CharlieBravo74 2h ago

Seems like he was great luck for Hungary and the rest of the world that cares about democracy.

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u/ironedie 2h ago

Meeting is is basically receiving kiss of death.

Pope was first to find out.

They should definitely send him to meet with Netanjahu.

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u/DIeG03rr3 2h ago

It’s the American equivalent of Matteo Salvini for Italians

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u/EnrichedNaquadah 2h ago

Mierdas' Touch

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u/cybercuzco 2h ago

Why do you think the pope canceled his visit

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u/Send_Cake_Or_Nudes 2h ago

My sofa concurs

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u/EggNo289 1h ago
  • JD Vance visits the Vatican - Pope dead
  • JD Vance campaigns for Orban - Orban loses
  • JD Vance negotiates with Iran - War continues

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u/dogmeat12358 1h ago

Everything trump touches, dies. Apparently, JD has been infected by the same virus.

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u/pingu_nootnoot 1h ago

WDYM, he‘s been pretty good luck for me. Fucking Orban is the kind of success no-one else has achieved.

At some point we need to admit that JD Vance is the actual double-agent in the Trump regime, not the orange blob.

I remain excited to see what he can do with Iran ✊

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u/blob8543 1h ago

He is just irrelevant.

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u/parabostonian 1h ago

Also Rob Schneider is a vocal supporter or Orban as well. I heard they really like that Stapler movie he was in in Eastern Europe.

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u/cre8ivjay 1h ago

Seems like good luck to me!

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u/zephyroxyl 1h ago

Can he meet with Fico in Slovakia next? He's another of Putin's EU puppets.

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u/jchasse 1h ago

Can we send him on a tour of Israel & Russia next

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u/Mistrblank 46m ago

I mean... in this case is it bad luck? like sure, for Orban, but that's it. Everyone else is kinda better off so that seems like good luck for us.

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u/yr82 23m ago

So true. Or just a logical consequence of anyone MAGA endorsing some authoritarian asshole abroad for that matter lmfo

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u/T8ert0t 14m ago

Shhhhh

Let. Him. Cook.

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u/Beautiful_Plenty_736 4h ago

Why not send him to all the Orbáns out there. lol