Anna Wellisz

Paging @GrayConnolly. I’m curious if I missed your always sobering welcome to all the newly minted experts and PhDs, this time on Hungary. So many cropped up after last Sunday.

@IngrahamAngle Don’t be fooled by Magyar’s “conservative” rebranding. He is just another “moderate” governor of Virginia.

This is one for the ages.

Complete confusion. Magyar is as conservative as the Governor of Virginia is moderate. He already demanded that the President of the Republic and the head of the Constitutional Court resign—gangster tactics, not to mention illegal. He also told the CEO of a listed Hungarian energy company to withhold the dividend payments of a shareholder the incoming PM politically detests—a Bolshevik move. Don’t be fooled by Magyar’s “I am conservative” rebranding. This isn’t a course correction. This is a coup that follows a mysteriously funded and spectacularly successful digital election campaign by the global Left targeting the last safe haven for conservatives in Europe: Victor Orban’s Hungary. It’s no accident that Mr Obama, Mrs Clinton, and Mrs Von der Leyen were the first to congratulate the Hungarian people on choosing democracy. They were in that fight—and won. x.com/glennbeck/stat…

@magyarpeterMP @MOL_Group @MCC_Budapest What legal grounds, if any, allow a public official to express preferences or “wishes” concerning dividends paid by public companies to their shareholders? It sounds link market abuse under EU standards.

Viktor Orban didn’t cancel any elections and never arrested people for social media posts. He also stepped down after his election loss and is partaking in a peaceful transfer of power. But, don’t forget, he was a dictator. Keir Starmer attempted to cancel about 1,000 local council elections next month and arrests about 12,000 people a year for social media posts. He also refused to let a rival run for a seat in a by-election because he was worried it would be a threat to his leadership. But, don’t forget, he’s a democratic leader.

@BarackObama If candidate A wins, it’s a victory for democracy. If candidate B wins, it’s not a victory for democracy. Democracy wins only when the outcome is the one that I support. Otherwise, it’s Nazism. @BarackObama is a true hero.

To recap: 1. The EU Council blocked $40 billion to Hungary because it wouldn't give NGOs control over its courts. 2. The EU Court blocked Hungary from passing a FARA law to see whether NGOs there were funded by the EU. 3. The EU Council announced it would centralize voting power on EU accession to block Hungary from having a vote in the future if Orban won the election. 4. The EU flooded Hungary with political NGOs to back Magyar's campaign to oust Orban from power so Hungary would bend to the EU on Ukraine accession, mass immigration, MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+, etc. 5. Magyar wins, the EU immediately imposes a 27-point conditions list for Hungary to unblock the funds, including on Ukraine accession, mass immigration, MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+, etc. 6. The EU Commissioner comes out and says she's actually going to centralize voting power to cut out EU members like Hungary anyway.

@JackKinoffe @BRICSinfo hahahaha

JUST IN: 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran accuses the US of committing "piracy" by blocking the Strait of Hormuz.

Obserwuję wybory na Węgrzech, kierując misją ponad 80 ekspertów z 14 krajów, 4 kontynentów. Za nami spotkania z administracją wyborczą, z Trybunałem Konstytucyjnym i Sądem Najwyższym, z partiami i organizacjami społecznymi, z mediami i dziennikarzami… Wiemy więcej niż jakikolwiek zagraniczny korespondent. I są to ustalenia mocno udokumentowane. A jedno wiemy na pewno: nie ma wiarygodnych sondaży. Te publikowane są (nawet przy założeniu najlepszej woli twórców) statystycznie bardzo niedokładne. Wszystko okaże się jutro.

This is right up @herandrews' alley

@TheMagelk @NASAAdmin Or man

Artemis II has reached its maximum distance from Earth. On the far side of the Moon, 252,756 miles away, Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy have now traveled farther from Earth than any humans in history and now begin their journey home. Before they left, they said they hoped this mission would be forgotten, but it will be remembered as the moment people started to believe that America can once again do the near-impossible and change the world. Congratulations to this incredible crew and the entire NASA team, our international and commercial partners, but this mission isn’t over until they’re under safe parachutes, splashing down into the Pacific.

Je crois qu'on ne mesure pas ce qu'Elon Musk est en train de construire avec X. Tous les médias de l'histoire ont été couplés à une culture, une langue, une bulle géographique. Le Monde parle aux Français. Le NYT parle aux Américains. NHK parle aux Japonais. Chaque média filtre le réel à travers le prisme de sa culture locale. X est en train de devenir le premier média de l'humanité. Pas d'un pays. De l'espèce. Je le vis en temps réel. Mes posts en français se font RT par des Japonais, répondre par des Brésiliens, citer par des Américains. Des conversations qui n'auraient jamais existé il y a 5 ans. Un libertarien français qui débat avec un ingénieur de Tokyo et un entrepreneur de Sao Paulo sous le même tweet. Pas traduit par un éditeur. Traduit instantanément par l'IA, en un clic. Les bulles de filtre culturelles sont en train d'exploser. Et je pense qu'on sous-estime massivement les effets composés de ça. Quand une idée peut traverser un océan en 3 secondes, quand un argument sourcé posté à Paris peut être vérifié par un économiste à Singapour et amplifié par un développeur à Austin dans la même heure, le coût de propagation d'une bonne idée tend vers zéro. Et c'est catastrophique pour un type d'acteur très précis : les médias qui ont construit leur business model sur le monopole de l'information locale. Ceux qui pouvaient raconter n'importe quoi sur "ce qui se passe ailleurs" parce que personne ne pouvait vérifier. Quand un journaliste français écrit que "le modèle américain ne marche pas", maintenant il y a 50 Américains dans les réponses avec des sources. Quand un éditorialiste dit que "le Danemark prouve que le socialisme fonctionne", il y a un Danois qui explique que le Danemark est 10e en liberté économique mondiale. Le fact-checking n'est plus un département. C'est un effet réseau. Les médias honnêtes n'ont rien à craindre de ça. Les médias qui vendaient une narration protégée par l'ignorance géographique de leur audience vont avoir un problème existentiel. Parce qu'on ne peut plus mentir à l'échelle locale quand le monde entier regarde.

In the autumn of 1942, a slight, 32-year-old Polish social worker named Irena Sendler passed through the gates of the Warsaw Ghetto with a carpenter’s toolbox in her arms. Beneath the hammers and nails lay a drugged six-month-old infant, breathing softly, utterly silent. One cry would have meant instant death for both of them. Irena smiled at the guards; they waved her through. They never suspected that this quiet woman would repeat the journey 2,499 more times. The ghetto was a slow-motion extermination. Starvation, disease, and random murder stalked every street. Jewish parents faced a choice no human being should ever have to make: keep their child and watch them waste away, or hand them to a stranger who promised a chance—however thin—at life. Irena came officially to inspect for typhus. In reality, she came to steal children from death. Babies left in toolboxes or ambulances under false bottoms. Toddlers sedated and tucked into potato sacks. Older children led by the hand through the stinking, lightless sewers while German boots marched overhead. “Not a sound,” she whispered as rats scurried past their feet. She knew that the rescued children would be given new names, new religions, new families. Their pasts would vanish unless someone remembered. So, on fragile scraps of tissue paper, Irena wrote each child’s real name, their parents’ names, and their new hiding place. She rolled the papers tight, slipped them into glass jars, and buried them beneath an apple tree in a neighbor’s garden. If she were caught and killed, the truth might still survive. She was caught. On October 20, 1943, the Gestapo kicked in her door. They took her to Pawiak Prison and demanded the list. When she refused, they smashed both her legs with iron bars. Then her feet. Then her arms. For weeks the beatings continued. She never spoke. They scheduled her execution. On the appointed morning, guards dragged the broken woman from her cell. Instead of a firing squad, she found herself outside the prison walls—alive. The Polish underground council Żegota had bribed a guard to mark her file “shot while trying to escape.” Officially dead, Irena Sendler limped back into the shadows to keep working.When the war finally ended, the first thing she did was dig up the jars under the apple tree. She spent years trying to return the children—now scattered across convents, farms, and foster homes—to whatever family might remain. Almost no parents had survived. But the children had. Because of her, 2,500 Jewish boys and girls lived to grow up, to marry, to have children and grandchildren of their own—an entire secret branch of the human family tree that the Nazis never managed to cut down.For decades her story stayed buried deeper than the jars themselves. Then, in 1999, four high-school girls in rural Kansas stumbled across a brief mention of her name. They found the old woman still living quietly in Warsaw and brought her courage back into the light. Journalists called her the greatest rescuer of the Holocaust. Irena only shook her head.“I could have saved more,” she said. “That regret follows me to the grave.”Irena Sendler—armed with nothing but a ghetto work permit, a toolbox, and a refusal to look away—proved that even in the heart of the worst evil humanity has ever devised, one determined person can still keep the darkness from winning completely.

A cutting reflection from Cardinal Ratzinger, Good Friday 2005: "Pilate is not utterly evil. He knows that the condemned man is innocent, and he looks for a way to free him. But his heart is divided. And in the end he lets his own position, his own self-interest, prevail over what is right. Nor are the men who are shouting and demanding the death of Jesus utterly evil. Many of them, on the day of Pentecost, will feel "cut to the heart," when Peter will say to them: "Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God... you crucified and killed by the hands of those outside the law." But at that moment they are caught up in the crowd. They are shouting because everyone else is shouting, and they are shouting the same thing that everyone else is shouting. And in this way, justice is trampled underfoot by weakness, cowardice and fear of the diktat of the ruling mindset. The quiet voice of conscience is drowned out by the cries of the crowd. Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think."

The EU is essentially concocting another Steele dossier, this time for Victor Orban—so-called “intelligence” and so-called “report”

Form matters

Sophisticated drones attacked the US base where we store the nuclear bombers… The drones: * Had non-commercial signals * Were resistant to jamming * Came in waves of 12-15 * Swept over sensitive areas of the base * Had long range control links * Were more advanced than anything seen in Ukraine (Russian drones) * Beyond Iranian capabilities Over the multiple days of incursion, local residents heard explosions which Barksdale claimed was “weapons testing” This is the second base incursion of a sensitive site IN THE US in the last 2 weeks.

@DonPrudenteFL Except disability or travel. Could he be traveling in DC?

You’re such a jackass maybe he was busy at the White House and couldn’t fly down to Florida to vote in person used the brain God gave you Democrats are so fucking stupid.

@exjon Hahahaha

Next she’ll fly to Rome and ask to see the manager.

@ZiobroPL @Michael_F_OShea It makes all the difference that Hungary is still a sovereign nation state and controls its own monetary policy by staying out of the Euro

Brussels is panicking in fear of Viktor Orbán. Because Prime Minister Orbán is proving that a nation can still say a loud and firm “NO”. No to mass migration. No to the ideological corruption of children. No to green madness. No to the building of a centralized European state. Donald Tusk is attacking Viktor Orbán because he is serving exactly the same Brussels establishment that the Hungarian Prime Minister opposes. It is the very same establishment that Tusk - repeatedly breaking the law - wants to subordinate Poland to as well. And in Hungary, the role of the Polish Tusk is now supposed to be played by a pathetic figure: Péter Magyar. Meanwhile, Poland and Hungary share one common, fundamental interest: not to allow anyone to decide about us over our heads ever again. Prime Minister Orbán is a tough, reliable ally in this fight. That is exactly why hysteria has erupted in the Polish mainstream media around his meeting with President Karol Nawrocki. Tusk, his cronies, and their Brussels masters are mortally afraid of such a Polish-Hungarian alliance. That’s why we’re seeing this incitement, these fabricated intrigues, and this smear campaign. They know perfectly well that Poland and Hungary, led by courageous leaders, are capable of blocking their plan to centralize the European Union and truly change the fate of the entire continent. That is why - not only because of our beautiful shared history - so many Poles wish Viktor Orbán victory. 🇵🇱🇭🇺