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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsViktor Orbn concedes defeat after 'painful' Hungary election result...It's a good speech, I was surpised
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Viktor Orbn concedes defeat after 'painful' Hungary election result...It's a good speech, I was surpised (Original Post)
mysteryowl
17 hrs ago
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FadedMullet
(956 posts)1. Wow, if his speech can be characterized as "good" it means that Hungary's nut-job, right wing, crazy leader is a ......
..better, more articulate public speaker than our own nut- job, right wing, crazy leader.
B.See
(8,572 posts)4. NOT to mention that he DIDN'T
-try to proclaim the election "stolen"
-sue to have the votes thrown out
-round up a bunch of fake electors with fraudulent documents
-invite an armed hoard to the nation's seat of government, then
-incite a riotous attempted COUP whose treasonous participants planted pipe bombs and stormed the nation's Capitol looking to hang the vice president.
Just goes to show how low America's sleaze sob really is, I think.
FadedMullet
(956 posts)6. You have summed it all up rather beautifully.
OAITW r.2.0
(32,276 posts)2. He was good in defeat....
unlike Trump/Putin.
dalton99a
(94,512 posts)3. He didn't want pissed-off Hungarians to attack his palace.

The palace of Hatvanpuszta, which is in Orbans fathers name, has undergone a 30 million renovation. Hadhazy Akos/Facebook
mysteryowl
(9,329 posts)5. Wow! Thanks for posting.
niyad
(132,874 posts)7. Damn, that thing is ugly. I can't decide whether it looks like a bunker,
railroad cars, or a design by someone in an alternate space. What is with the building hat looks like it has a driveway on top?
mysteryowl
(9,329 posts)8. It looks like a prison/concentration camp!