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this guy? www.reuters.com/business/hun...

And we (the US) are on the same path.

Eventually nature will do the job even if Americans won’t.

And Orban is still walking free? 🤔

How much has Donald’s graft cost America?

Large boulder the size of a small boulder? :) people do make odd comparisons.

Yeah, I think it works out to stealing about 4% of GDP per year for 16 years. Plausible, I suppose.

You'd need American bougies to drop their fear of becoming Poor(tm), first.

They are not cavalier. They are uninformed. A majority of Americans are too busy trying to survive a daily existence to have more than vague understanding of current events. Multiple complicit news sources ignore the corruption The Dems need to make it a story and relevant to people’s struggles

On the plus side. Downside is world war. #tRumpisANazi

"Cavalier" seems at odds with Trump's approval rating being so low and seemingly unimprovable that he's started even dipping below the Crazies Baseline.

(2nd video is from Nov. 2022, in the aftermath of Orban winning that year's election, so it follows an opposition rally as they claim "word on the street" suggests things will change now only for the riot police to crush them all. Shows how long Majka's been at it.) P.S. Bonus Birdman-style clip!

Pardoning pedos also unpopular it turns out.

Basically zero media discussion about how almost all our government programs and services have been erased, while taxes for regular people went up (thanks in part to the stupid illegal tariffs). So where's the money going?🤔 At least this would be a normal journalistic inquiry.

There's not enough clarity on how this corruption effects our lives

corruption is like the #1 issue of the era, people on all sides are deeply opposed to it, yet it's only discussed seriously by the fringes of elected officials. facts that are bound to make you conspiratorial

I dunno, he's not hitting this kinds of numbers, right?

It makes no difference when so little is being done to stop it

it is helpful that we are getting basically the stupidest possible people trying to do it

It was also a glass house situation, at least during the war. Between price controls and vast amounts of contractors, they had to make Truman VP to shut him up.

The difference is that 6% is something that feels possible, as opposed to, like, "everything requires bribes or inflated bids on the order of four times the cost of the transaction."

Hungary has ~10 million people *today* after all of it, it's like if someone was stealing that much out of London or New Jersey

(Yes, above post is sardonic)

Right-wing Duvalier ("Papa Doc" and "Baby Doc") regime in Haiti at one point spent half the national budget on secret police alone. (A reminder that in the eyes of multiple US administrations, this did NOT warrant either another Bay of Pigs or all the assassination plans they cooked up for Castro.)

Not the level of Putin, who Donald most models himself like. What makes matters worse, despite Donald's ineptitude, is that he has many hands assisting him. We've seen big time grift and theft from American taxpayers, and the selling of America, you have to wonder what's happening outside of view.

That’s insane. We’re talking an Eastern European country with the GDP of Mississippi. It doesn’t even sound mathematically possible to squander that much money

US will be so much worse!

I bet the #FourthReichGOP and the #OrangeFuhrer top that ten fold.

We’re rapidly accelerating towards similar percentages here

Hmm. What will the Trump Era corruption total be, covering 2015-2029? I'd start the wager at >$20,000,000,000,000 (20 trillion).

our domestic technofascist billionaires

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I shudder to think how much of the USA's GDP will have been stolen from the Grifter & Felon in Chief alongside his co-conspirator spawns

Well, this in particular had about $1.7 billion pumped into it, and I believe that was the central hub paying orgs employing people like Dreher.

Thats one day of trump

ok you're right. I'm very sorry for arguably sort of exaggerating the scale of Victor Orban's wholesale looting of the Hungarian people (?)

Too bad the right wing grift was franchised to the US

How much of that flowed into shady U.S. right wing groups’ coffers I wonder.

Everybody wants to be immiserated if they get to be crushed beneath a goose-stepping boot heel while they are being robbed, but eventually the model becomes financially unsustainable.

Don't know if it's in this article, but what they promise in short is 1) remove Orban era chief prosecutor 2) strengthen transparency laws & join EU Prosecutor's Office 3) roll back laws & institutions that enabled graft 4) try to claw back some of the money via targeted taxes & prosecution

Now do this for Trumpdom