Weekly Skews - S6 Ep20: Weekly Skews – Hungary Like the Wolf

Episode Date: April 15, 2026

There’s a chimpanzee war. Sound dumb? You’ll never guess. Then we get into JD Vance’s global catastrophe of a week, starting with failed low-effort negotiations with Iran while the Secretary of State got drunk in Miami. Then, we talk about the election results in Hungary, where the people basically voted for JD and the rest of the MAGA Dweeb Wing to go eat rocks. It was a campaign with an insane amount of propaganda, meddling, and a pretty weird sex abuse scandal involving the new Prime Minister’s ex-wife. Join us.This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. BetterHelp makes it easy to get matched online with a qualified therapist. Sign up and get 10%  https://www.betterhelp.com/skews This episode is sponsored by ZBiotics. Go to https://www.zbiotics.com/SKEW  now. You'll get 15% off your first order when you use SKEW at checkout

What's up everybody? Welcome back. Happy Scus Day to you. It's April 14th as you're watching this. We're recording this on Monday, April 13th at about 1 p.m. on the left coast roughly. I'm trying. That's Mark. How you doing, Mark? Good, man. We're talking about the Hungarian election today because there's a lot going on that connects back to the United States. and before that I talked about Iran for a little bit but I wanted to mention we talked about religion last week and the weird religious schisms happening within MAGA in the United States

between Protestants and Catholic Church and I don't want to like not only talk about religion on this show because not one of us are experts or even enthusiasts but I don't want to not mention that the Department of Defense

threatened to kidnap the Pope I missed I knew that the I knew there was a Trump Pope standoff happening and that Trump styled himself as Jesus and all that. I saw all that, but I didn't know that the DOD chimed in and had his back. They called like the whatever, I forget the Italian word for it,

but whoever the Vatican's ambassadors to the United States is and to the Department of Defense apparently back in January, and if the Pope didn't fall in line, they vaguely referenced the Avignon papacy, which is when the King of France basically tortured the Pope to death and replaced him. Well, that's alarming. Yeah. So yeah, kiddo the pope is basically if you wrote a Dan Brown novel written by an AI train on Nicholas Cage movies.

So yeah, that's fun. What the, like, the AI Jesus picture, Trump, he took that down, right? And he's lying about it too, saying, oh, no, I thought that, that's me as a doctor. It's not jeans. Because doctors wear Jesus robes and have like halos of light behind them with like oddly demonic, I guess, angel figures. in the sky circling overhead and all this stuff. Classic doctor shit. But my point or my question is like,

that seems out of character for him and to walk anything back really, at least that quickly or like even like subconsciously acknowledged that he ought not done that. And, you know, does that mean something? Like is this like a pretty big misstep? He's probably like,

they about a pushback he got from. even like even open pushback like even like raleigh game and some other like mega pastors and stuff for shutting on him for it like so it is like a little bit different it just it's just evidence that he's the fact that he felt they need to do is like he's obviously you know the people that keeps seeing him as politically uh you know invulnerable or like weird to me but so uh yeah the photo like i look don't trump was like if his defense is like well i half-assed it i'm like obviously right like yeah i'm not i'm not smart that didn't pay that close of that close of attention and I understand and agree with you.

I don't necessarily think you're lying. But the picture, like, he was touching a guy on the forehead and bringing him back to life with the power of, like light was emanating from his hand. Yeah. One thing I thought was funny about that, and I guess this could be covered by just, it's AI, so it was some prompt that generated.

Was it that the guy he brought back to life looked like Jeffrey Epstein? Was that it? No, I mean, that too was also funny. But that it, somebody typed a prompt into an AI thing to generate that image. And you might get this just from being like,

this is for Donald Trump, We need Donald Trump as a messenic figure in the prototypical MAGA landscape, and it might do this on its own. But I wonder if the person who typed it in put all that and then at the bottom, put like dot, dot, dot, dot. Also, no blacks, please. Because of all the people in the background and foreground and everything, it was just all whites, that's all they had on there.

So I just wonder if Stephen Chung specified that when he typed it in the chat, GPT or whatever. I don't, like it's trained off, you know, the data set probably includes a bunch of white Jesus figures,

so I don't know if you even have to ask for it. I know, well, that's why I said, I figure it might automatically do that, which is, you know, a real feature,

not a bug, but it's funny to think about. Yeah. Like, there was racism in our new, in our futureistic utopia is weird. I've started the story

the other day about, like, how like people apply racism to robots. Like if you line up of robots of different colors and ask the person, the robots are identical except for what color

they're painted, but you asked them where about they want to do what tasks, they'll basically choose by skin color. So like this is a bad example, but like for like outdoor labor, you pick the one is brown. For like math tutor, they'd pick the yellow one. Yeah. So yeah, it's like all the old problems still remain

even with their new ones too. So yeah, like he said it did he thought it was a doctor to Red Cross type situation? This doctor was the way the emergency room was clouds. Like it's not, this is so fucking stupid. Like, it's like, this is like, like, if you guys are religious, like, like, one, Trump's generated AI images of himself as a king and himself as the Pope, the new Pope, remember last year when that new Pope was being appointed? Oh, yeah, yeah, yep.

So, Big Jesus himself is like just the next step in the evolutionary chart. He fantasizes about, he's just, he sees himself as a messianic figure. They treat him like one. So why didn't, like, you probably didn't expect to get any sort of backlash. So, honestly, like, like, you probably must be wondering what the fuck is going on. But before we get to the show, we'll talk about a fun story here. The Chimp War. Have you been following the Chimp War, Trey?

I'm aware of it. I have not been following it. I know that I've just generally heard before, maybe it's back when I used to watch Joe Rogan or something years ago, but that chimps sometimes have war. It's just a thing that I know happens. I didn't know that there was a new, you know, a spicy new chimp war happening.

I mean, I didn't know that, but I don't know the details, so I'm looking forward to learning it. Yeah, so, yeah, my understanding is chimpanzees the only other species who have organized murderous conflicts like long going. So yeah, this chimp war, for example, has been going on for like eight years,

but the news is about as scientists think they've figured out why it's social mapping and researching how their social dynamics work. But yeah, the backstory here is for 20 years the Nago chimps of Uganda's Kibbali National Park. I'm not sure if I'm saying any of that correctly except for Uganda.

We're living the good life by being together. They helped one another, dominated and killed apes from neighboring groups expanded their territory and boosted their babies chances of survival. Because they're aped together strong, right? But in 2015, tell me how much this starts to sound

familiar to you based upon your experiences as an American human being. But in 2015, the group started splitting into two clusters. Around the same time, a new alpha male rose to dominance and then everything fell apart. So for Baghehrie here, Kabbali Dunstan Park, the only other thing that happened

happens near besides like chimp is like the the economy is based upon except for outside of tourism is based upon wild coffee a bunch of wild coffee grows there so maybe this war is about controlling the flow of wild coffee like it's oil or heroin I don't know but the important thing to know is the Kimbabali National Park does or did receive US aid funding so we are somehow funding both sides of this ape war train so there's been other recorded chip wars before when we described chip where the chip war works and why they describe it as war is like

they have firm territories. Right. And they'll raid the other territory. They'll have like raiding parties and go into the other territories and stuff. They go on like a chimp team six missions and shit like that. Right. Yeah.

It'd be like a squad of like six or eight chants to invade the enemy territory, try to catch one of the enemy, any, any, any male's alone or enemy females with an infant. Usually they prefer a female with an infant and they kill the infant. Right.

But they catch a male alone. They'll also beat the shadow to him and attempt to kill him. So Jane Goodall witnessed the last great trip war. It's where she got her origin starting. Hers was in a different, not in Uganda, a different part of Africa. I forget, but I had watched the interview with her if you got this matter. We used to think it was only humans who waged war, but we find that chimpanzees like humans have this rather unpleasant ability to create an in-group and an out-group.

You sort of broke our hearts, you know. You had to raise our spirits of animals and chimpanzee life. again we shared 98% of our DNA with chimpanzees uh so yeah so eight years ago the two groups split and that the new study this new study is kind of figured out their best guess as to why basically a couple of older chimpanzees who provided like social leadership died uh social bonds frayed then there was a disease outbreak that killed a few more like dominant males a lot of new generation to rise up who were apparently more assertive and radical so then they split into groups and started killing each other for reasons they were basically inexplicable to the uninitiated

And the smaller group is winning because they're more radical and hateful. Does they have the same feeling? You're making me uncomfortable. I was joking this morning about the, about this being a simulation because of Amazon package reasons we won't get into. But this is also seem to back this up. It's like that's like the pilot or beta testing area for the bullshit that, you know, the programs that run in the humanity part is in this little chimp preserve. Uganda because yeah that's all eerily familiar

dude you get like any human conflict you can drape ideologies over stuff we trace it at the beginning of any conflict down it like oh well you know Germany won of the sedaten land so 20 million people died like what's important about the sedate land and like fucking nothing

they just used to have it right well let's continue production match with us as always like I said Mark said we're going to be talking about the outcome of an election in Hungary and the effect that our old friend James David Vance had their own a little bit later, but first,

The Daily Dumbass, Matt, graphic, please. Today's D-D, the potential of nuclear winter for messing with my Roth IRA. So, Mike, let's talk about tonight this deadline that President Trump has sat 8 p.m. has threatened to destroy a civilization. How does an investor process that? Is it a bigger upside risk or downside risk?

All right. Sometimes this mirror being held up to our society as makes me extremely uncomfortable. Like her question, like, this lady is not, like, our country is like this. Yeah, I mean, you know, I mean, conversations like that are happening in boardrooms and stuff around this country all the time.

Like, it's, you know, part of the problem with turning everything into just like numbers on a spreadsheet and stuff like that. Is that you could talk about any manner of, inhumane, wild things without feeling ashamed, I guess, or whatever, because it's just, you know, it's just trends. It's just analytics. It's just, you know, dollar signs or whatever. They have to navigate a world with Donald Trump in it, just like the Iranians do.

And the fact that he's so unpredictable, nobody knows how to handle him is part of the problem. We'll talk about the taco, the Trump always chickens out shit in a few minutes. But like, so after the threat of nuclear winter came a ceasefire, the negotiations of Pakistan over the weekend between Iran. United States. So it's a first face-to-face negotiations between Iran and the United States and, like, I forget however many decades. But like, for context here, Pakistan is desperate for a deal here. They get 85% of their fuel from the 85% of their fuel passes their trade of Hormuz. He also have a huge fertilizer shortage. This comes after a bunch of climate disasters have screwed farmers. So it's a cascading series of fuckeries that are screwing everyone and we're just going

to keep doing it. We're somehow still remained the least impacted by this. But like, Asia's already in the middle of a huge fuel crisis. so but Donald Trump his brain doesn't connect two things to the other but like

in five years we look around that we have no allies and China has all them right this is it um

also like one reason you don't like racist is because they think it'll be so easy to win a war in the Middle East based on nothing more than what they believe

is their superior fucking DNA I've somehow we've forgotten that war propaganda is supposed to be for the plebs and the rabble

but like the professional war makers aren't supposed to think of their enemies as evil respect them as worthy adversaries and treat them as people with a theory of mind and agency. I don't understand how anyone, it, dude, it wasn't even, what was it, two, three years ago that like, you know, we disastrously, I guess it was more than that.

Fuck, time is fucked up. But I'm just saying, Iraq and Afghanistan and the quagmires that they constituted and the disastrous sins that they came to and I was fucking up over the Kurds and all that and where that all ended up going. That ain't been that long ago. Like, I don't know how anyone convinces themselves that this would be like a walk in the park. You know what I mean? Like, we all just lived through that not happening.

It was supposed to be, well, I remember the mission accomplished banner and all that. It was supposed to have been easy 20-something years ago. And then we were there for 20-something years. And it was an abject disaster. And everyone on both sides seems to be pissed off about it by the time it was over. So I don't know how you convince, you know, at yourself that this one will be. Yeah, well, we learned from all that. we're not going to do that again.

We'll nail it this time. When Iran is a much more formidable adversary, you know, aren't they? Like a much larger population and everything, a lot of other factors in their favor. If we were invading Afghanistan, I think here's my way of addressing your question. If we were invading Afghanistan back in 2002 under President Trump, we would not have sent anyone who spoke the language. And that would have been better. Yeah. Right.

So yeah, in these negotiations, Iran set the team of 30, including university professors, scientists, diplomats, and PhDs. And we sent, as far as I can tell, no diplomats, but a relative of Trump, a real estate developer and J.D. Vance, who this is not like, I don't really care about, like, quote, unquote, experience levels when it comes to, like, presidents and vice presidents. I feel like it's an overall sort of thing. But, like, J.D. Vance is literally one of the least experienced people to ever be vice president. He has no high-level experience negotiating anything, much less about nuclear, what I'm going to be vice president. weapons to experts. Yeah.

Was Jared Kushner on that team too? Right. Jared Kushner. Is that Mr. Wonderful over there and Dr. Phil? Are they part of the delegation?

Sylvester Stallone. Yeah. Yeah. Whitcomb, yeah. Let me play this video clip at J.D. Advancement, if you got it. After the negotiations

failed. One out. We've been at it now for 21 hours. and we've had a number of substantive discussions with the Iranians. That's the good news. The bad news is that we have not reached the agreement. All right.

I'm going to go ahead. So we've been out for 21 hours. The JCPODA deal, the law administration finished negotiating after, you know, two successive presidential administrations going back to Georgia Bush took 12 fucking years. J.D. Vance could have put it a solid afternoon, put it a half, took a nap in the middle, and then called it. quits. So we could give back to the war. Well, he's that, he had a busy week, right?

I mean, because he's, was he, did he go to Pakistan after Hungary? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, so while J.D.

Vance was doing all this, the exact same moment, he would, the negotiations would fall apart. President Trump and Secretary of State Rubio were at a sports arena in Miami for UFC 37, watching a video montage of past fights. All right.

Trump walked in, holding hands with Dana White for some reason that no one's ever explained. Play this video of Marco Rubio. Secretary of State. Marco Rubio with us here tonight at UFC. What? Marco Rubio is the goddamn Secretary of State

and the National Security Advisor, and while we're negotiating about nuclear weapons, he's in a fucking UFC fight, broke off his fucking ass. Yeah, right. It's insane. Do you know, what are those, do you know what's he doing with his hands?

What is that? I don't know. It's UFC 37, but he's holding up eight fingers, but is it 305? Is that like a Miami thing? He's from Miami. Is that an area code? 305? I mean, like, I know I'm curious.

Yeah, I know. Well, if he had the one hand turn around the other way, he would have got us both with the little finger symbol there. Yeah, 305 is the Miami Day. We guessed right. 305 is the Miami Day there. No, you guessed right. Good job.

That doesn't take you long at all. But, uh, well, yeah, I know. We talked about when he shut up public enemy lyrics, when he pout of public enemy lyrics, I was like, he's the kind of guy who was the kind of guy who, throw up an area code symbol. It's just like this one of my brain went. Sorry, go ahead. No, yeah. I mean, I was just saying it's like, it's why in this type of situation, like wartime, but like early wartime and there's negotiations at hand and it's like global crises unfolding and stuff like just the shamelessness of attending a UFC fight and, you know,

having a good time in front of everyone is. is insane to me. You're the Secretary of State, dude. Like, it's crazy. You know, Cash Patel got shit all over, rightfully so, for doing, you know, the same thing. Not that he's going to stop either. I mean, none of them give a fuck, I guess, but it's just wild.

Oh. Yeah, so the status of negotiations, basically the last week have gone from, I don't care if they reopen the stray to, we'll destroy your civilization if you don't reopen the stray to, well, if they don't reopen the straight, that we're going to blockade it ourselves.

Yeah. We're blockading the street of our moves now. yeah I'm glad this came up I mean I knew it would so okay tell me if I'm being dumb because I haven't written this is just like what my brain thought initially we're blockading the like Iran's boats right or like the boats that are like

bound for Iran or whatever so it's like oh they've fucked with our oil but we're gonna fuck with ours like from the other side not let them third but we'll let like and I'm doing like air quotes like our but good boats through our blockade, right? But they still would be under the same threat that they've been under from Iran. Nothing really changes for them.

This would be just us keeping boats for Iran out of their hands. But some of those boats would be like from China, right? So China has, you know, a Chinese tanker is bound for Iran and they get to our blockade and we're like, well, you can't come through. And they're like, well, we're going to come through. And like, then,

what happens. Like, that seems bad. So they, like, they're threatening to board and seize these ships and take the crew prisoners. So we're talking about seizing a Chinese flag tanker to make, to try to cut off the flow of cash to Iran, right? But it would make the global oil prices worse because these are global markets. Like, like, basically it's like, well, you make our gas go to $5. Well, we'll make our gas go to $6.50. But as far as you can tell the last time, the last year, it's like, you're going to tell the,

logic goes like Iran closed off the straight and won the war. If we close off the straight, we also win the war. It's like, he just, another thing he got from Fox News, because Fox News was suggesting this all weekend. He just took it and claimed to his own. And you, like, just Jesse Waters, man. Jesse Waters is the real national security advisor. So I want to talk about the taco thing for a minute.

So this morning, before the markets opened, there was a story in the Wall Street Journal's website, quoting Barakaravid, who's, I forget what his role is in the Israeli government, but sometime foreign minister type dude. But he was quoting an anonymous U.S. official about how negotiations are ongoing and close to calm the markets. At the same time, the U.S. Navy was threatening to bore and seize Chinese tankers. So they're just trying to calm the markets for one more day before Trump sees the tanker

to increase the odds that Trump sees the tanker, so he doesn't back down because of the fucking markets. Do you know what I'm saying? Right. So I want to play this really funny clip of the Japanese news trying to explain Taco to their audience. Trump always change out. All right.

All right, you're kind of. So the fact that people need to be able to explain how dumb our president is to their audiences is like, oh, you wouldn't always astound me. So to go back to the CNBC clip, we started this segment with. the guy answers her ghouishly phrased question because like I said it is pertinent just not for the reason she's asking it

and he basically is the market is trying to remain balanced till they don't actually believe Donald Trump yeah I was gonna ask that you're talking about like people keep saying all the time about like how the markets are going to respond to this they wait until the market's closed

to do so much shit or whatever and it all comes back to like keeping the markets imbalance and now it just feels like it just keeps like not happening like crazy shit keeps occurring, but the markets keep you know, fucking knock on wood

not wholly bottoming out in the way that like, I've always been led to believe that they just automatically did in moments like this. And it's like, again, I know it's all just made up and shit. But I, so like, that's the explanation for that is that because he's such a, he's so full

of shit and it's so unpredictable, but also, uh, ultimately ineffectual that they're just like, everybody's just kind of holding and like, I don't get it So like to say like a year ago The frog in the boiling water type situation So to say a year ago

Trump threatened a nuke Iran And the market's tanked And then he said no I'm not nuke in Iran And then the market three bound it And he does have three or four more time So eventually the fifth or six times He threats to do something crazy The markets just don't react

Because they assume he's boy who cried wolf situation But they're increasing the chance He does do something crazy and destructive Because they're not reacting Right Right because he only fucking let pay his attention to the markets. Because that's all he cares about.

Right. So if it seems like they're insulated from the shit that he's doing, he won't factor in a possible market crash into his decision making anymore. Right. They're underreacting to such a degree that like there's no... Right. No repercussions. It remains true that the last tankers to go through the Strait of Hormuz before the war started still have not reached Europe.

They're still on their way. so like whenever the straight does open up that's how many time how much time that's been six weeks before tankers get places so like they're still acting like there's not a shortage comment it's very crazy so like everything that's everything Trump is doing is not baked into their their fucking actions we need some patriotic

commodities traders to tank the oil futures market right to save the world from catastrophe but they're just not doing it because they need even the right side of the bet because they can't they don't want to sell off before market rebounds, right? Right.

Is this one of those things were like, I mean, he would still theoretically be the president or whatever, but it would be stretched out longer, the long-term effects of it and it's like hypothetically if there was some sort of like a blue wave or something at the midterms and then then shit goes

bad. Like, and then, you know, everybody starts blaming them again. Like with like with COVID and everything and then how people didn't realize how long-term the effects of that would be on the economy me in inflation and shit like that and that led to you know Joe Biden stickers all over everything all over the place like this could also unfold that way but particularly in the future who's

going to be blamed for what it feels like a fucking mugs game at this point I have no idea because we're going to be talking about the Zelenskyi Vladimir Zavinsky a little bit and Ukraine in the next segment related to Hungary I wanted to mention while we're on the subject of the Middle East war that in Syria Jalani gave Zelensky the full royal treatment and Damascus last week. If you want to play this video, we'll be talking about this minute. Literal red carpet,

fucking band. Like, a Jewish comedian who's like five foot four and depicted himself on live TV playing a piano with his dick is teaming up with a foreign, a former Syrian al-Qaeda commander

to take on Iran. World War III is fucking silly, bro. Do you, like, no, that's crazy. But why? Like, what? why is this happening?

These two specifically. Well, Syria borders Iran and you know, you get your usual Shiai versus Sunni type stuff, but also like Ukraine is a bunch of experience fighting Iranian shahddrams that Russia's been using on them for a long time. So that's the basis of this alliance. So yeah, I just wanted to say that I mentioned that to point out that a Jewish comedian who depicts himself in live TV

playing a piano with his weiner is playing a far larger role and global affairs in the course of human history than I would have anticipated just a few years ago. And, uh, yeah. Well, you know, I mean,

I mean, obviously look who our president is. I don't know. I mean, I don't know if he'd ever played a piano with his wainer, but he got stone called stunnerd and, you know. Ukraine,

they're just like us, I guess, yeah. Yeah. Nothing. He's a person of substance. Like, he's like,

comedians who play the piano with their dick of a right to the same country's future as much as anyone else. It's just like, Just like, just this sentence is fun to say. But it's sort of crazy, the crazy future we live in as a saddode. I want to mention that just this morning, Zelensky announced it for the first time in the history of this war, but in the Russia-Ukraine war. And I assume the first time in human history, an enemy position was taken by Ukraine using only unmanned platforms,

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That's obviously a tough act to follow, but I'm going to do my best because we have got to get Victor Orban reelectors, Prime Minister of Hungary, don't we? So the tough act to follow who is mentioning as he opened his speech by calling Trump on the phone for like a minute and a half of dead air in the middle of which Trump did not pick up the first time.

So I wanted to show you this. This is the Polly Market odds of Orban's reelection before and after J.D.'s arrival. Look at those fucking odds. No, surely not. I mean, I knew that everybody's been like, you know, JD goes over there and the fucking, you know, guy gets his ass whipped immediately. Imagine that.

But, you know, I didn't realize it could be illustrated. so starkly by Vegas betting odds or whatever. I got a few more data points for you, Trey. JD conversed Catholicism and it is publicly rebuked by two consecutive popes, one of which died immediately after meeting him. Right. I remember that. He breaks Ohio State's National Championship trophy when they visit the White House,

Ohio State and Vegas home state. He went to Iran negotiations, someone resulted in a blockade of a blockade, and he endorses Orban and immediately ends a 16-year rule. got the touch of the midas touch baby uh they call yeah they call that the um meirds touch i think ah you get yeah meird or i'm sure i'm saying it wrong but it's like french for poop right he's got everything he touches turns to shit you get it yeah uh so i just want to point out here in the united states vance's net approval is tumbled by more than 20 points since early last year he's the least popular vice president at this point in polling history in the united

States. And I don't compare Jadis vibes. He's to this video a guy named Zolt Hegadis, who probably be the next health minister in this upcoming administration celebrating Orban's loss.

You got moves. I don't know. Yeah, I wasn't expecting that. He really took it up a notch right there at the very end. At first I was like, yeah, no, he's having a good time. It's not that crazy. Then he really busted him out. We can't really do the editing like that, but This basically wanted to show you what's him doing the little.

I was like, Yeah. Like for the first 10 seconds, you're like, yeah, he's like an uncle at a wedding. And then he's like, wait a man,

those uncle used to be a fucking B boy or some shit. Right. So the reason, like the Hungarian election results are kind of like a global shockwave because the right, basically the whole international new populist Maga Right was using

Hungary as like their organizing, operating base. I saw somebody call it Chud Wakanda. And I just wanted to like, excuse me. That tickled me.

I had not heard that before. Yeah. I like that. Yeah, is this like a, that might be a stupid comparison, but is this sort of like, potentially like when,

like Brexit happened, you know, a few months before Trump got elected here or whatever? Like, that was kind of a wild result and there were people that me included at the time. It was like, I hope this isn't like a alarming bellwether for,

a harbinger of a particular type of doom or anything. And then I don't. It's like, interesting harbinger. I hope it's not of doom. Yeah, probably. Yeah.

So, yeah, basically for the last, like, based 16 years, the entire time war bonds been in power, the American right,

including Fox News and Trump himself, like, if it spent years, like, idolizing this random post-Sovic kleptocracy with the GDP of less than half the size of Minnesota, it's all,

very fucking weird, but like Orban did a good job of establishing what he called illiberal democracy. Basically a type of like democracy. Orban got voted out because of the landslide, but it was a heavy gerrymandered. It's not even clear what the new government's going to be able to do because he's

stacked the judiciary and rewrote the Constitution, right? Yeah, so see, on that note, I, you know, I'm an American. I don't have a fucking clue what other countries are doing for the most part. So I guess ignorantly, perhaps. I totally just assumed

that Victor Orban's Hungary was the type of place where yeah, they have elections, but they have elections the way that like Vladimir Putin has elections or something. Ben, you just said that he had reshaped everything about their system and all that in advance of this, but he still

lost anyway, just because it was just that much of a landslide or something. Like he tried to stack the deck in his favor, but even that wasn't enough because that's how much he didn't hit for them ultimately. It was incredibly stacked. And I would say the people are saying like, well, this proves you can easily to be

an authoritarianist. Like, no, not easily. 16 years of authority, 16 years of fucking effort organizing. And then on top of that, like, like historical levels of ridiculous corruption on behalf of Russia, which is a country, the Soviet Union they broke off from. And they're now being asked basically marshaled in service of a war against Ukraine. They have no interest in. And on top of that, there was an extremely weird sex abuse scandal.

a little bit because it takes a little bit to explain, but like it took a bunch of stuff at this Lodge Orban. And I don't know if people were like thinking, well, this just means it'll be easy to do here. It's like, but like Orban, I guess could have tried to mobilize with force to hold on the power. He conceded to, you know, to his credit to such a deal with that matters. But like, Hungary is surrounded by NATO countries. Like, like, it would have been like, he lost like, by like 17 points or something. His party did.

There's thousands of people in the street that were saying, we are the champions by Queen. Is he going to shoot all those people? like like the if you if you try to maintain power by force and you lose the stakes are apocalyptic for you you're going to be living in exile and disgrace if you lose at a minimum if not being dragged to be straight if not being in prison and executed yeah hung up by your toes right so like you've got to be like plus he's already succeeded he was he was a prime minister for a long fucking time he's rejiggered the system and benefit of his political movement there's like what like what he's he has been a successful model that's like

Let me quote here from this New York Times piece about how much conservatives love American conservatives, popularist conservatives love Hungary. In 2022, Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation said, quote, modern Hungary is not just a model for conservative statecraft, but the model. Under Fides, which is Orban's party, Budapest, should I say Budapest. I'm trying to say it, Budapest, has become a sort of dizzling land for reactionaries disenchanted with their own governments. American and British conservatives are constantly passing through the city on government funded, fellowships. Orban made a guy named Gladden Pappen. Gladden Pappen, who is a MAGA influencer who's very close to J.D. Vance, who doesn't even speak Hungarian. He made him head of the Hungarian

Institute of International Affairs, which is like a wing of their version of the State Department. Right. So condolences to Gladden Pappen on having to get a real fucking job. Get a real night. Get a real fucking name while you're at it. Go back to the candy store. Right. Nazis should not have that whimsical the name, in my opinion. gladden papin. Orban's like economic mismanagement also can't be understated here. It's not, the Russian war did, the war between Russian, Ukraine didn't exactly help him. But like, like, they had high unemployment, no growth, no growth, threadbare social services.

And like, like, basically his entire campaign revolved around the like crazy claim that his center-right opponent, Peter Magyar was going to drag Hungary to war in Ukraine. To the degree, like, Hungary's capital was blanketed with posters of side-by-side, mugshot style photos of Magyar and Vladimir Zelensky with the words, they are dangerous. Stop them. Throw up the picture of these posters, Matt.

So, yeah, after JD's visit, the election was a wipeout. Like I said, Maggaras Party, is called Tizza, got a legislative super majority. Fadez got wiped out after turnout of upwards of

78%, which is the highest turnout in national elections since the end of the end of communism. And the middle of the election is pretty funny. Orban literally posted on Twitter. Too many people are voting. Stop the count. Yeah. So basically,

JD-Avance is less popular in Hungary than beating back the KGB was in 1992 if you did by turnout. The main takeaway of this thing is anti-corruption is a pretty powerful message. Who the fuck knew? Magar's platform is basing anti-corruption and fuck Russia, i.e. fuck foreign influence

corrupting our government. Those are the main themes of anybody here wants to learn any lessons from it. And talking about corruption. This morning, Magiard, every morning airtime. Magar had a press conference, and he announced that the outgoing foreign minister had barricade himself in his office

to shred documents connected to Russia. Yeah. So it was pretty striking that we did mention that Russia and the White House, both wanted the same guy reelected precisely because he was corrupted in both of their pockets. Yeah. The main immediate impact of Megger's election

related to the rest of Europe is he's promised to repair relations with the European Union and unblocking $90 billion EU loan that's headed to Ukraine. So you can tell why Russia was meddling in this. There was $90 billion straight to the front lines to blow up their guys. But I do want to take here and enjoy,

I take a moment here to enjoy the list of people upset by this who have been told to fuck off by the Hungarian people besides Victor Orban and J.D. Vance and Vladimir Putin. We're talking about Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and BB India and Yahoo. So the worst dinner party in fucking human history. right yeah no again hopefully this is uh you know this is indicative of a larger trend or whatever

going forward because it's like you've been wanting and hoping for a long time that all these people you know they successfully get the popular you know right wing populace to get people on board with these messages about the other the enemy that's what you know what I mean othering out groups and stuff and making people afraid and culture war shit and all that stuff and we've been over here yelling the whole time it's like right but they but they suck it, all the rest of it too. Like they make everyone's lives worse, right? They fuck things up for people.

And it's like eventually, when does your life get bad enough or you get pissed off enough that you stop being as worried about Mexicans or for them, Ukrainians or whatever the fuck, gay people everywhere, I assume. And, you know, realize fuck y'all for the way my life is or the way our country is, you know what I mean?

And it's been a long time. with right wing populism at this point and it hasn't been happening but it's this lately it started to feel like it potentially might be you know that there's cracks showing or whatever now and so this result in Hungary you know is yeah perhaps a hopeful one in that regard like I just push people too far eventually and when and when you push too many people too far it still doesn't matter how rich and otherwise powerful that you are like those dudes you just named you know like they wield immense amounts

of wealth and influence but if you piss enough people you know off enough then right and I'll still take you down before we get too far at this I do need to notice like Maggar is not some lib or lefty he was a member of of Orban's party until about a year and a half ago

basically it's just the economy's gotten so bad Orban got so corrupt the left to start his own thing. Let me quote here talking about his general politics. During campaign stopover in Bisk, Magyar claimed that Filipino workers at a Samsung battery factory

have been eating ducks and goldfish they captured from the Budapest Zoo. Okay. It's the same inward. But he's less... That feels less incendiary. I mean, you know, hell, people eat ducks and fish. You know what I mean?

Like JD said, were eating dogs and cats. That's fair. In America. You know what I mean? Like, I, fuck, I ate ducks. Yeah. Ducks hit to eat.

You shouldn't take them from the zoo. Budapest, that doesn't sound like the best zoo to me. If ducks are a headliner, are that ducks and goldfish? Come on, dog. You couldn't get one red panda, a couple seals or something? We've got to get the pandas back fucking so we can send something to Budapest. It's like their school children and can visit something besides goldfish.

So, but yeah, what you're talking about, like, racism is like, like, like, you might think there's some high level reason that would bond together like BB Nanyahu and Donald Trump and Victor Orban this global right movement. And then like J.D. Vance just says it. It's just fucking racism.

Listen to this speech here. They declare they're never going to have kids lest they increase their carbon footprint. We, of course, we see something different. my friends, we defend our borders because we know that it's the most vulnerable among us who suffer when our streets are given over the chaos and violence. Some of them call themselves feminists pretending they care about women, yet it is their policies that have seen an explosion of migrant crime and sexual assault against a free...

So, yeah, we've got to protect the virtue of our white women against the invading brown hordes. that's it it's the same as the plot the plot of like birth of a nation right never fucking stops um so yeah uh maygara was able to win uh in this environment

there's a lot of fucking rat fuckery and I want to quote here from this article at a publication called the insider which is a Russian expat investigatory journalism outfit and the headlines Matroshoca enters the fray Kremlin and GRU are spreading disinformation

Hungary ahead of its pivotal parliamentary election. Matroshoca refers to a nested model of Russian deception. It's a Russian nesting doll, but it's a nickname they use for hybrid tactics for disinformation. Fun language, Russia's guy. You know, like, Ask one who has a thousand words for snow. Russian has a thousand words for government

line. Espionage, tradecraft and stuff. Yeah. I do hit at it. So, I'd be quoted. In the run to Hungary's parliamentary elections, Moscow's pulled out all the styles, mobilizing its propaganda and disinformation apparatus in support of incumbent prime minister of Victor Orban. The Kremlin

strategists intended not only to help Oregon gain support, but also stoke the score between Hungary and Ukraine. Do I normal stuff you expect, which is networks and bots publishing fake news looking for reality, but this part made me laugh. Another area of focus for the team is memes.

The team devises ways to package his desired narratives using already well-known and popular memes, then distributes them on social media, hoping they will go viral or be reposted a popular account with a large audience. particularly successful in cases, for example, if a meme was reposted

by Elon Musk who reported at meetings in the presidential administration. So, Elon retweets a meme. Right. Great success. And Vladimir Putin

has to hear about it at a fucking cabinet meeting. It's like, Khammeda Putin. We report much success. Elon Musk has retweeted

the pig poop balls jiff with the balls labeled as the West. The poop is Islam and the pig is George Soros. Yeah. I mean, dude, it's ridiculous and everything, but, like, I'm not, no, that surprises me at all.

That shit, like, fucking works, you know. People love memes, dude. Everybody, right racist, too. They love their memes. They're not, their memes usually don't hit, in my opinion, but they sure do eat them up, though. The, yeah, so, the, you know, we were talking about why I didn't try to use, uh, stay in power by force or aubon, but like, you do, The smart way to do is do the election fuckery on the front end. You rig the systems.

You rigged the media, which he had done. A lot of his allies owned the media. It didn't work. You read the universities. You fire all the professors who were woke and gay. Right. You're rid of them. They even tried to, like, let me quote here,

in March news broke of a scandal involving claims that Fidez attempted to buy votes from Hungary's rural minority. They even tried to scheme with the gypsies, Drag. Even a gypsy curse didn't work. That's when you know you're desperate. Yeah. Over there. Even the gypsies can't save you.

So I want to play this clip here because they don't want to do stuff on the front end. They did a false flag attempt that didn't. They tended a false flag attempt. They didn't even follow through on if you got this clip, Matt. Blockade prevents anyone from approaching. This after two backpacks with explosives were found near an important energy pipeline in Serbia, which carries Russian gas to the region. Hungary's Prime Minister, Victor Orbit, implied that Ukraine,

could have played a role in the incident, although others have raised doubts as to its authenticity. For years, Ukraine has been working to cut Europe off from Russian energy. The Russian sector of Turkstream is also under continuous military attack. So they tried to frame Ukraine for planning explosives under an oil pipeline that didn't go off, and if they had went off, wouldn't have been enough to damage it. Right. And they're surprised that this didn't sway anyone. So, like, so anyway, this kind of campaign, which is all scandal, all disinformation, all

blackmail and psychological operations, heading uphill against the electoral system is rigged against you is what is awaiting us if we're not already there, right? So I want to tell about Peter Maggot for a second here, because his origin story for politics is a scandal where he was framed as the good guy in it. Like I mentioned before, he was in the same part. as Orvon until like 2023, 2024. He wasn't a politician.

He worked in like the foreign policy, I think. He's worked for the government. The story, the real story involves an orphanage near Budapest where the director of the orphanage was basically trading,

you know, forcing the kids to give him blow jobs in exchange for whatever you get at an orphanage, more poorly or whatever. Jesus, bro. Right. Good Lord.

That's that fucking Eastern European misery right there. Yeah. You know, I mean, priest molested kids in this country too and stuff. But, you know. Yeah. Yeah. So every society basically has its own flavor of Jeffrey Epstein, I guess is one way to put it. But then in 2023, 24, there was a case where an underling who worked for the guy who ran the orphanage was prosecuted and convicted for trying to

pressure the kids for not reporting his malfeasance, right? This is a guy who worked there, not accusing me sexual impropriety himself, but had like, you know, tried to cover it up. The president at the time, the Orbán's a prime minister. The president was a woman. I forget a name. It doesn't matter. The president signed a pardon.

Their system, the justice minister has to sign a pardon to. So this guy, they were in the process of pardon to this guy when the story broke. And it caused a huge outrage because Hungarians, they're just like us. They don't like child sex abuse being funded by their taxpayer dollars. Um, Magyar quit in a huff, the government, calling out Orban for corruption and also, uh, released a recording of the justice minister, uh, confessing to the scheme to, uh, acquire this corrupt pardon on behalf of this guy who worked at the orphanage. Magar's recording blew up for the Fedezza party's reputation around upholding children's safety and family values. Remember they're the right wing Christian family values party. Right.

Um, I saw one Hungarian person. Flayson as like the moral degradation of a moralizing party, right? Here's the plot twist here. The justice minister who confessed to Magyar for conspiring to get this pardon. Her name is Judith Varga. That was Magyar's ex-wife. All right. So Maggare wore a wire on his own ex-wife and ruined her career.

So Varga, for her part, tried to turn around and accuse Magyar being an abusive husband, which I don't know the truth about it or not. She said, Magar locked her in a room without her consent, pushed her against the door while she was pregnant, walked around there, their shared residence brandishing a knife. She also said he once faked suicide by basically he laid down in a bed next to a bottle, an empty bottle of pills, and acted like he was dead when she came home.

This is what she says. And, like, then when she tried to call him an ambulance to come getting, he's like, no, no, I'm fine. He went outside and sat in his car in a pajamas while they took the ambulance left. Now, I have no idea the truth of this. I think it's probably lying. This is again talking about the black male and sciops and bullshit misinformation, right? And Maggiore for his part also had to be a B-rabbit a sex tape.

The sex tape was never released, but I want to let this reporter from Euro News sum it up talking like Count Dracula. This happened one and a half years ago when they visited a party in Central Budapest in an apartment, and Peter Maggiard said that they engaged in a consensual sex. And he said also that this was a honey trap. He has been lured into this. He also talked about drugs have been used at this party, but he never touched any drugs. Now the big question is whether or not this will impact the Hungarian electoral campaign. Everyone is talking.

So he said that Russia had his ex-girlfriend, lured him to a drug party where he had sex in the coterie or whatever. But this is all like, he didn't, he didn't do anything wrong as far as I can tell. They just filmed him fucking in order to ruin his life. So, yeah. But it didn't. No. He won anyway. Yeah, because

Who cares of Peter Megger or sex in the coat room in a party? I don't, do you? Right. So, yeah,

like I said, uh, Orban's regime isn't just like a Trump ally. Like I said, he's the model for Trump's regime. Like, so if you wonder how hard it might be for a Democrat to win in 2020,

we might have to overlook a honey pat, honey trap scheme involving a cocaine party and sex in the coat room. Um, I didn't know Eric Swalwell was going to be the president. He definitely would fall for it. we don't have time talking about him today dog but I guess we have to talk about him

with a bonus episode because we unfortunately had him on her show and we don't have to talk about that so Orban like his closeness to BB Nanyahu is fucking weird I guess it's worth mention that George Soros is Hungarian

so Orban's one of the leaders of pioneering being a huge anti-Semite while loving Israel and it's worth noting that Bibi Netanyahu's son splits his time between Miami and Budapest but yeah Orban was involved in the kind of anti- like a kind of Holocaust denial,

but basically had the state-run museums remove any mention of Hungarian complicity in the final solution while also blaming communism on the Jews. So I want to talk real quick about all the Americans who've lost their paychecks because fucking Orban lost. The Danube Institute is like a think tank in Budapest that's government funded

indirectly. The director is a British guy who worked for Boris Johnson. Rod Dreher, who's an American conservative columnist who had moved to Budapest to get away from his wife after she left him. to write columns about it should have been illegal for her to leave him. I was already announced he's moving from Budapest to Austria, and don't worry, Bari Weiss already gave him a gig writing for the free press. Danube Institute's funded through a secretive white ring organization,

which is named Bithjani Lajos Foundation. I Googled it and couldn't find much except for a resolution commending the foundation passed by the Tennessee State Legislature in 2023. Of course. It checks out in how nonsensical. but also shitty it is. Like, what are they? I can't even forget what they're about.

Tennessee state legislature have to do with the fucking... Bathianni Lathios Foundation. Yeah. Fucking, yeah. I did found... Public school just closed again or whatever. So I did find a video that the Biazianni Lajos Foundation funded where they promoted Austrian artists.

And I know one failed Austrian artists are probably big fans of. Yeah, that's what they're devoted to. Trying to identify the next Hitler and focusing on the art part. Yeah. The failed art part. Yeah. So, the ideas I can tell, like, this foundation is basically their version of USA,

except instead of delivering food and medicine to hungry and sick people to win hearts and binds, deliver cheese and booze to fat conservatives to get them to write op-eds to help you win hearts and minds. And also hand them envelopes of cash, man. The fucking conservative, like, welfare gravy train is amazing. Dude, tell me about it. Yeah. I know. Chris Rufel.

I meant it all the time. Again, they always always say, it's like, I, you know, well, I don't know when George Soros is going to call finally. But it's like, he can't, he's the only one, you know, and he ain't got around to me and us yet, Mark. But, you know, he will eventually. But that, like, we get, you know, you get propped up by being a leftist. Like, no, I do all this propaganda for free. It's even worse, you know. Yeah.

But, yeah, but then fucking, but meanwhile, Russia buys fucking Timpola Bugatti for, you know, to talk of shit about trans swimmers or whatever. it fucking sucks. And people you never even heard of, like the gaddy, smiley, whatever earlier. Gladden Pippin? Yeah. Glad and Pippin?

Yeah. Like got some sweet-ass, like no show, whatever fucking job that probably paid him a crazy amount. I had no idea who was like that guy.

I never even heard of it. Chris Rufo, let me read here. Chris Rufo got $35,000 from the Danube Foundation for taking a three-week vacation to Budapest. And now he has a

It's an equivalent made up fake job doing jobs for Florida colleges because of fucking Ron DeSantis. Yeah. It's maddening. But, you know, that's the order of the day, as we say, often around here. But anyway, hey, fucking dude lost, so that hits.

J.D. got humiliated again. It's even more. So at least there's that. We'll take it. My God. Thanks for watching. We appreciate it. We'll see you. Oh, wait. Sorry. Sorry. because I didn't do it up top. Go to Treycrouter.com and check out my upcoming tour dates.

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