Bringing Viktor Orban a bucket of warm piss
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With nothing else important going on that would require JD Vance to provide any input, he was dispatched to Budapest to try to being his no-juice campaigning to a beloved Trump ally:
Vice President JD Vance repeatedly said he didn’t come to Hungary to tell people how to vote in their looming election.
That changed during the barnstorming finale of his speech in Budapest late Tuesday.
“Will you stand for sovereignty and democracy, for truth and for the God of our forefathers?” Vance asked the Hungarian voters, cheered on by a standing ovation and whoops reverberating around the city’s MTK Sportpark arena. “Then, my friends, go to the polls this weekend, stand with Viktor Orbán, because he stands for you, and he stands for all these things.”
Vance flew to Hungary ostensibly to celebrate a “Hungarian-American friendship day.” In effect, he was the star attraction at a rally for Orbán, the Hungarian prime minister and a MAGA favorite, who is trailing in the polls days before Sunday’s nationwide election.
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“We have got to get Viktor Orbán reelected as prime minister of Hungary, don’t we?” Vance asked. Earlier, he had accused the European Union of “foreign election interference,” referring to the E.U.’s freezing of billions of euros in funding over Hungary’s democratic backsliding.
The irony was not lost on some observers.
“He is so openly campaigning for Orbán at this point that it cannot be seen as a regular state visit,” said Samuel Barczy, 27, one of a handful of protesters outside Vance’s speech.
“As you can see there’s not many demonstrators,” he told NBC News near Sandor Palace, the neoclassical presidential residence where Vance and Orbán held their earlier news conference. “But that’s because not many Hungarians know who Vance is.”
The truth hurts!
Even leaving aside the silly idea that Peter Theil’s smarmy fake-Appalachian messenger boy is going to persuade anyone in Hungary to change their vote, the while enterprise is deeply sordid and pathetic:
no offense to the hungarian people but i’m sorry, the idea that hungary is some last bastion of “western civilization” is absurd. can’t overstate how much this post-liberal, national conservative nonsense makes you sound like a putz
[image or embed]— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) Apr 7, 2026 at 9:38 AM
While he was there, Vance also decided to offer some elucidation of the Art of the Deal:
JD Vance: "You know what? My wife has the right to skydive, but she doesn't jump out of an airplane because she and I have an agreement she's not gonna do that, because I don't want my wife jumping out of an airplane."
[image or embed]— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) Apr 8, 2026 at 12:52 PM
If I were married to JD Vance, I would also spend a lot of time contemplating jumping from high spaces.