"The eyes of the world are upon Budapest."---Paul Krugman Election tomorrow..

[Joseph Tracy]

Israel has, according to Lancet studies,  killed 75,000 Gazans with 
180,000 likely total. They shoot children through the head. Gaza is a 
heap of rubble.
They have now. along with the US, murdered thousands in Iran and 
Lebanon. They rape and torture prisoners. Yet you have never mentioned  
Zionist genocide and cross border violence as a source of concern.  The 
US murdered hundreds in Venezuela and seized their President. The US has 
blockaded and threatened Cuba and Greenland with the same goal .  That 
is the front line of Fascism in the world today. So the conservative 
politics of Orban is pretty damn low on my list of threats to the 
world.  I do not see Hungary killing people or attacking neighbors and 
don't care too much who they buy their oil from, or who they approve or 
disapprove of. Other countries should not interfere in Hungarian 
elections by financing candidates they prefer.
   Authoritarian England has been arresting old ladies who publicly 
renounce UK support for genocide. They held Assange for years despite 
all charges being dropped. They support the murderous Al Qaeda thug 
Jolani. Germany is equally bent on supporting Israeli war crimes and 
suppressing dissent, even freezing dissenters bank accounts.

On 4/11/26 5:50 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> I'll bet Kurt Anderson, who writes novels, has read* Shadow Ticket*...
>
> Kurt Andersen
> <https://x.com/KBAndersen>
> @KBAndersen
> <https://x.com/KBAndersen>
> ·
> 3h <https://x.com/KBAndersen/status/2043036445640736916>
> Donald Trump and Viktor Orbán are quantum-entangled fascists 7,000
> kilometers apart— a long-distance bipartite mixed-state spin 
> entanglement.
>
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2026 at 12:13 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> which is why *Shadow Ticket* went there, I suggest. Shadow ticket to
>> America.
>>
>> "It’s not a big place, but it’s symbolic. It is a role model for
>> right-wing authoritarians everywhere. It still formally has the
>> institutions of democracy, but has for the past 16 years been a one 
>> party
>> state — ruled by a right-wing authoritarian ethno-nationalist regime 
>> that
>> enforces its will partly by rigging elections, partly through an 
>> extensive
>> system of crony capitalism that rewards its friends and punishes its
>> enemies.
>>
>> In other words, it’s a MAGA kind of place. It’s what they would like 
>> to do
>> to the United States, although with less sophistication and more 
>> brutality.
>> " _ Krugman....
>>
>> Shadow Ticket, the novel....
>>
>>
>>
>>
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