Did Viktor Orbán Just Play the EU?

Interesting theory:

In a display of political chess so brilliant it borders on the comical, Viktor Orbán sniffed out long ago that the European Union, George Soros, Obama, and the whole globalist club were gunning for him. With no worthwhile left-wing opposition left in Hungary (none of them cracked the laughable 5% electoral threshold), the Hungarian prime minister decided to solve the problem his own way: he took his top ally and right-hand man, Péter Magyar, and sent him out front as a deluxe “opponent.”

The plan was as simple as it was genius: Magyar, who until 2024 was a key piece of the Orbán government, dramatically jumped ship, played the dissident, eagerly accepted funds from the very Eurocrats who despise Orbán, and positioned himself as the great hope for “change.” The European left and their patrons fell into the trap like flies into honey. “At last!” they shouted in Brussels, as they cracked open the checkbook. No one understood a thing, of course, because hardly anyone speaks Hungarian and the headlines in Western media were too flattering to question.

Related: Newly elected Hungarian PM Péter Magyar visits the state broadcaster and shares some truth bombs.

Thursday On Turtle Island

The Democratic Party’s America:    Savanah Hernandez.    Moderate Muslims in NYC.    The next Obama.

China Carney’s Canada:    A Yukon garage.    Panel shames college.    Elbows Up Canadians want to join the EU.

Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s Media Lapdogs:    Go for Jihad.    Gay migrant scam.    Get a dinghy    Naming storms.    Celebrating genocide.

Your morning meme.        Another meme.        A cartoon.

Going Bust

For over a decade, Canadian real estate markets and their lenders have acted like the housing price ratchet could only go one way: up. Now they’re finding out that the price ratchet can go the other way too.

The result was a sudden stampede of buyers who triggered an unprecedented run-up that put the average sale price of a traditional, ranch-style, Brantford bungalow close to $900,000 at the market peak in 2022 compared to a mere $300,000 or so in 2016.

Flash forward, and the average home in Brantford in February sold for $625,135, according to the Canadian Real Estate Association, a 30 per cent drop from 2022 that has saddled homeowners there with an unexpected housing crisis that Canadians…are all too familiar with today.

 

No Country for Young Men

Alexander Brown has written a critically important editorial about Canada’s devolution:

The solution, of course, should be an obvious one: get our house in order; rebuild an immigration standard; send home those on expired and expiring ‘temporary’ status in areas we do not need; borrow from your betters when it comes to layered, nuanced healthcare delivery; reinforce laws, and civilisation itself.

Instead, Pichette went further, doubling down on decline, and arguing for triple the amount of mass immigration, as if millions of potential fast-food workers entering through the TFWP, IMP, or foreign-student stream can replace our problems of top-tier brain drain, and an anemic economy that runs on far too many zombified, unproductive businesses allowed to limp along through subsidisation.

Is Pope Leo Actually Catholic?

Or more akin to a Chicago Democrat?

Related: Follow the Money!

Alarming The Warming

Now that Carney has a majority, expect his government to start taking these fools seriously again.

“It feels to me like this (climate) has been somewhat deprioritized. And that’s why we’re going to, as an industry, keep it at the top of the table,” Rowan Saunders, the CEO of the country’s fourth-largest property and casualty insurer ⁠Definity, said in an interview.

“We’re at a point now in Canada where we can have what used to be a year’s worth of severe weather losses happening in a single day. And ​we don’t have the level of public investment commensurate to that reality right now,” said David Leibl, vice president of sustainability and corporate affairs at Winnipeg-based insurer Wawanesa. “We ​need to close that gap.”

Nites Ov De Rod

@julie_kelly2;

A massive trucking scandal is (again) unfolding in Illinois and you can be sure the Chicago/IL media will go out of its way to ignore it.[…]

The FMCSA (under DOT) in continuing an ongoing audit of IL SOS office related to the issuance of at least 10,000 non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses over the past few years.

These are truck driver’s licenses awarded to non residents–foreigners–including some here illegally.

In 2024 and 2025, the state saw a huge jump in the number of non-domiciled CDL issued by IL SOS. In fact, an industry watchdog group obtained records via FOIA that showed roughly 40% of ALL CDLs issued by IL SOS in 2025 went to foreigners.

FMCSA determined at least 20% of all non-domiciled CDLs issued by IL SOS were done so illegally. Applicants did not furnish federally required paperwork including unexpired passports and IL SOS issued CDLs for a longer period of time than the applicants’ work authorization permitted.

Tuesday On Turtle Island

The Democratic Party’s America:    Trump’s golden age.    More deep state machinations against Trump.    Sleazy Swalwell.    America’s Jamaica Inn.

Conman Carney’s Canada:    Madam Justice.    Blackie goes partying.    Canada votes for a fascist one party state.

Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC:    Staying positive.    Sharia Germany.    Ramadan Chuck.

Your morning meme.        Another meme.

But What If I Catch Their Whiteness?

On efforts to “decolonise” folk singing; on claims of being oppressed by a rapidly shrinking minority; and on rap, the ‘N’ word, and dumb academia:

Having covered quite a few of these “decolonisation” efforts, which generally rely on a fig-leaf of widening access and removing barriers, it’s remarkable just how rarely any meaningful obstacle to access is actually mentioned. Typically, the humdrum is depicted as gruelling and somehow agonising, and motes are inflated to the size of boulders.

We were told, for instance, that racial minorities are being “deterred” from visiting the British countryside “due to deep-rooted, complex barriers.” Barriers such as the fact that rock-climbing instructors are usually white. And apparently this unremarkable state of affairs, in a white-majority country, is something that needs fixing.

Though it occurs to me that if a person with brown skin were being deterred from trying rock climbing by the fact that the instructor is likely to be white, then it seems somewhat unlikely that said person is interested in rock climbing to any significant extent. And a person deterred by such things may also want to reflect on their own racial assumptions. But we’re not supposed to mention those, at least not in an unflattering light.

One of these.

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