@@fat-girl-spelunker don’t disagree, its just that the only alternative is the republican party and they’ll just destroy us faster The best solution to the conundrum is to go with something like rank choice voting instead of the current voting system, at least thats my best bet
This is now gonna make me look up europeans talking about us politics i get do depressed listening to the regular nation news i never thought to listen to other nations talk about it. Im high as fuck and this is about to be a weird vibe high 🤣
@@bricknolty5478 that seems like a really big reaction to the comment being made like way too big like bringing a gun to a nurf battle how about we chill out dog
@@bricknolty5478 Dude, half of your country is possessed by a blonde orange and is openly challenging the democratic system by not accepting a rightful election
Me (from poland): "Oh finally an EU country doing worse things than us" Cody: And what Hungary does wouldn't be possible without Poland! Me: ofcourse yeah checks out
@@sejjhajjrozi3307 As a Brit, I'd like to apologise for some of my compatriots thinly veiled xenophobia towards the Polish. We don't all think negatively of Poland or Europe. Many of the best friends I have made in England are Polish 🇵🇱, and I have loved visiting your country with them. I even married ❤ one of those friends!
"Although the Forrest grew thin the Trees made the Axe their leader. They saw the handle was made of wood and thought it one of them." -Swedish Proverb
As a child, 30ish years ago, I dreamed that Hungary would be in the news all over the world. I should have been more specific with my wish. The innocent hope of a better future got dashed pretty quickly as I started following politics.
@@denverarnold6210 Well, the US will always be in the news, for Hungarians this is like a senpai noticed us moment every time a big American media talks about us.
! I knew Hungary was f-ed up thx to Pick-up-Artists idolizing the S-it out of it an Adam-Something and Hbomberguy covered this and more, but i didnt knew it was this bad.
@@NA-AN I think you are not quite getting the full saying. "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink", meaning that you can give people the tools and information but can't make them listen or understand if they don't want to. And horse tranqs don't make a horse more likely to drink. Perhaps a banana bag or other IV of some sort, but I have no idea what that would be outside of the metaphor.
It is so amazing you know all about Orbán, Lőrinc Mészáros, the Öszöd meeting, the stadiums, all of it. Thank you! Ah, on a side-note, please send help!
@@birocsabal Ez a "please send help" egy internetes mém, arra szokták használni, hogy leírják amikor valaki egy nagyon elbaszott helyzetben van, nem szó szerint kell érteni. Eszem ágába sincs behívni ruszki meg kínai megszállókat, ahogy ezt teszi ez a tetü, hazaáruló kormány.
As a trans Hungarian, it’s been really depressing feeling like I can never go back. Honestly all the political history is trash but it seems so hostile and has most of my life.
I'm a transgender American, I feel your pain. Not as much, but we're all in this together, and I feel for you. My, our, existence is part of a moral panic worldwide. Someone at a political conference said we need to be eliminated from society entirely.
43:23 as someone who works in wood framing/roofing, I gotta say that stadium is the most awe-inspiring manifestation of the rampant corruption within the construction industry.
Yeah, glad they managed to report on Hungary's dire situatiuon, without using it as a mere allegory for the ol' US of A's... oh wait^^ Keep strong and resilient!
Hey Máté, quick question about the imports: you guys are unable to source gas from other countries for the winter or do I have that wrong? Oil is a seperate issue if that's the case? Thanks
Cody saying the Patreon is "ad free" is not a selling point. Watching him and Katy drink that awful green goo is one of the highlights of these videos!
fun fact about the "Hungarian politicians use the word 'woke' inspired by the GOP" thing: that's happening all around Europe. the US are so influential that their politics are often topics for discussion at the dinner table in pretty much any country that speaks English. For example the German far right populist party AfD is very loud about how bad it is to be "woke".
The thing is, I'd argue that Austria actually caused the phenomenon, not the USA. In the 1980s, a man named Jörg Haider took control of the center-right FPÖ and he shifted it hard to the populist right. He was basically Trump 20 years before Trump was Trump. He was the guy who became famous for talking about how the Nazis weren't really all that bad, making Austria an international pariah in the early 2000s when the FPÖ was able to form a coalition with the conservative ÖVP. His populist right-wing rhetoric has become a staple across Europe and the US. Thankfully he died in 2008 when he drunkenly drove his car off a cliff, but the FPÖ still exists and is still a Trump-style right-wing populist party with fascist tendencies (and now the ÖVP is drifting that way too). Yeah that whole "woke" thing is a new evolution but that's what fascism does, it coopts new ideas and creates a new message to oppose. It's not new.
@@soundtrack1405 oh very. Personally I have observed that Germany tends to mirror social trends in the US pretty well, I assume because of high fluency in English. We seem to always lag behind by 2-4 years, but since COVID and the popularisation of the app "telegram" as a news source, that distance has shrunk. When it comes to feminism and gender stuff we are very much still stuck in the phase immediately following gamergate. We also have some societal challenges that the US don't have to deal with, that have become wedge issues. For example our entire language is sexist. Every noun is gendered in German, so it leads to the confusion of "female or male doctor" in literally every profession. Trying to fix this by creating "gender appropriate language" has motivated massive backlash and a huge number of people who decry anything close to it as "woke nonsense". Because of it, reactionaries have even coined a term for progressives that I find hilarious: "gender gaga". (we don't have a word for gender, so we just use yours lol)
@@TheDarthbinky that's interesting. I know close to nothing about European politics in the early 00s, might have to get up to speed there. Language is always fundamentally important for spreading ideas. I guess English just happened to do the trick for fascism huh.
@@st0lf If you've heard of the Ibiza affair a couple years ago, where some Austrian politicians were recorded saying (paraphrasing) that they were cool with accepting bribes from Russian oligarchs.... that was the FPÖ. They were in a coalition government with the ÖVP again at the time, and the Ibiza affair caused the coalition to collapse, and that's why the ÖVP and Greens are in a coalition now. Haider left the FPÖ and created a new party, the BZÖ before he died and his replacement as Party Führer was a former dentist named Heinz-Christian "HC" Strache, and he was Vice Chancellor when he was involved in the Ibiza affair; he and most of the top party leadership resigned in the aftermath (and a lot of them wound up forming a new fascist political party called Allianz für Österreich... because of course they did). (The BZÖ didn't really outlive Haider and barely exists anymore) The FPÖ is still a garbage political party. So is the AfD, of course.
And actually bothers to get things correct on foreign policy. JOliver is a disaster when it comes to foreign policy. But that comes from him being a moderate liberal married to a conservative. Oh and he's a capitalist - that also has a rather sizeable impact on the things he covers, how he covers it, and the potential solutions he offers up. There's a reason so many of his "solutions" is "call your congressperson" or "go vote." Yeah, cuz that works so well. Politicians know what the ppl in their districts think. It's kinda their job and they have staffers whose entire job is monitoring those opinions. But we all know that what ppl want isn't what politicians are there to do. They serve their donors, not their constituents. But all of that runs counter to the average reformist/moderate liberal position of "we just need to get the right ppl in office and everything will be fine."
@@Puddlef1sh Yeah, he covers them from the standard conservative foreign policy position that's embraced by both liberals and conservatives in this country. I question how much of an ally JOliver actually is. But if you're a moderate liberal, yeah - you'd probably see him as an ally as that's exactly what he is. Ofc, I'm not a moderate liberal. I'm a communist and he's a capitalist. He's fundamentally against my political position, although we may occasionally agree on a few issues here and there. But even in his recent discussion of trans rights and how conservatives are attacking trans ppl across the country, he left out there very important fact that Dems in DC have the votes to pass legislation outlawing discrimination against trans ppl and reversing many of the anti-trans legislation. And yet, what have Dems done? Nothing. They've done nothing. They've not even talked about trans rights in any meaningful way. A few candidates here and there, but the party as a whole? "It's not a priority." I can understand to some extent why they don't want a vote on Roe v Wade - they want to keep their anti-choice incumbents from being on the record. But what's the rationale for not even trying to pass any legislation countering the attacks on trans ppl? Hmm, is it a similar reasoning? Do they have a lot of anti-trans ppl in office that they're trying to get reelected? Cuz if that's the case, maybe that's something voters should be aware of (ideally in the primary process as that's when we've got the best chance at kicking them out with minimal harm).
@@SadisticSenpai61 I mean there is only so much you can tackle in a 30-40 minute show that may or may not talk about a variety of topics. And only so many topics you can get away with with all the business daddies who have the power to cancel the show at any moment, I agree with @Rylan May, shitting on allies will only divide us (though I do not think allies are immune to critique). Last week Tonight with John Oliver is a starting point but not the end point.
Holy shit, as a hungarian who've been following your chanel for 2 years, I've been dreaming of this all along. Thank you for your work!!! Edit: Cody, you've got a few bits wrong and I'm here to correct them for you and the rest here. -Hungarian history before the forming of the state is very scetchy, hungarians being under roman rule is definitely historically unbased. -Károlyi's office preceded the office of Kun Béla, not the other way around -WW1 ended with the Treaty of Trianon for Hungary, which meant the lost of two thirds of the country's former territories. This should be considered as a "nationall trauma" which is kept artificially on the surface by nationalists and the country's biased education system. I have to add that hundreds of thousands of hungarians still live on these former territories, and they are often disrespected and were denied some privileges such as education in their native of hungarian. The Treaty of Trianon is the main historical event which can be pointed at by the right as an example of foreign influence, conspiracy and national decline. Many people's lack of trust in the west is due to this event. I remember being in primary school around the year of 10 when they told me about this. "It is as if you had a 100 books and somebody came and took 66 of them". That sure sounded horrible to me and it took some readjustment when I learned that not all of those territories supported a hungarian population. -The anti-gay referendum is actually widely supported. The reason it did not turn out to be supportive is because of the high number of invalid votes (I myself cast one of them) -What I think you didn't emphasize enough is the mentality behind people voting for Orbán. Most of my family votes for Orbán while thinking that free speech and other values are important. They just don't see how and why Orbán's system opposes these ideas. When I told my father about the lies in one of the anti-gay hate campaigns, he simply said "if they are lying, the opposition have all the power to spread a truthful message" Edit2: @personofgirth accused me of shifting the narrative by downplaying the factor of incompetence in the opposition. At the 2022 election, a nigh-collective opposition coalition was formed to gain the upper hand in the election. Every party appointed presidential candidates, and votes were conducted to decide between them. The 5 main candidates were Fekete-Győr András were Jakab Péter (leader of the "Jobbik" or "the Right" party, which funnily and arguably is less right now than Fidesz. He resigned later this year), Dobrev Klára (wife of the "we lied in the day and night" Gyurcsány), Karácsony Gergely (the mayor of Budapest), and Márki-Zay Péter (who was the leader of a smaller party if I'm not mistaken). After a tie with Karácsony and Márki-Zay, Karácsony stepped back in favor of Márki-Zay. By this time me and most of the people I know was certain in Fidesz's fourth victory, and it happened. To be honest, I didn't care enough to follow the events but Fidesz led a successful campaign against the candidates (first against the most likely winner of Karácsony), blaming Márki-Zay with plans to end socialized healthcare, do migration stuff, make utilities more expensive, and lead the country into war (which late was definitely the most hianous lie). As a result, Fidesz once again won with a landslide which in part is due to the coalition failing to put up a fight with a famous and respected candidate.
Poland sends their regards 🖤 and hopes we don't get a video by Cody, unless it's about a socio-cultural revolution when we abolish patriarchy, capitalism, white supremacy etc. Anyway, hang in there!
psssst.... MeriKKKa is the SCHITHOLE COUNTRY you've heard sooo much about, with SPECIAL THANKS to republicans for the EXTRA SCHITHOLINESS ! MeriKKKa where we ALLOW 60,000+ Americans to DIE Every Year for LACK of healthcare and Medications they CANT Afford and No one cares..... ...MeriKKKa where we have over 40+MILLION with NO HEALTHCARE at all..... MeriKKKa where we have MILLIONS of HOMELESS Nationwide and No One cares... MeriKKKa, where ALL repubs and the Corporate Dems ( not progressives ) passed an $800+BILLION One YR Military Budget... yet we Average citizens get Calls from VET GRPS ask for DONATIONS to HELP their CARE??? WTF is ALL that Gdammed MOney going??? NO ONE Ever asks!? NO ONE!!! .....and Again, No Money for Child Day Care for working Mothers, No Dental, Eyecare, or Hearing aids for seniors..... Merikkkka IS the Certified SCHITHOLE .. .with thanks also, to about 40% of Our Nation of Garbage People, Uninformed Morons , Racist, haters, Bigots....who constantly Vote against their own interests.... so glad I dont have kids and more years behind than ahead
As a Hungarian I am highly impressed how well your video is researched. I haven't lived in Hungary for over 22 years, however my whole family still lives there. It's heartbreaking to see freedom and democracy being taken away from Hungarians along with their future. You are right, everyone should pay attention to what's happening there, because it can and will happen in Europe and America if people will not defend democracy. Its too easy to become complacent.
"Democratic regimes may be defined as those in which, every now and then, the people are being given the illusion of being sovereign, while the true sovereignty in actual fact resides in other forces which are sometimes irresponsible and secret." _Benito Mussolini_ Victor Orbán hasn't invented this shit. He's just better at doing it than others. It's the good old shady technique of exploiting the loopholes in any particular legal system, dialed up to eleven, and even actual dictators (who couldn't really do it fair and square like he does), saw that. Hence the Mussolini quote. That being said, I disagree with Mister Fascismo over there, about equating democracy with what he - and so many others with him - call 'democratic regimes'. It doesn't take long to realize how much of an open secret, bordering on full blown denial, the equivocation of democracy and republic has become throughout the early modern period. And yet, both systems' core institutions are fundamentally different. Broadly speaking, democracies develop regimes in which citizens can seat at the Assembly, participate in lawmaking, discuss, deliberate, and decide which law to pass, and can appoint different functions through either election or sortition, depending on which tool is best suited for said functions. On the other hand, republics develop regimes in which only _politicians_ may receive the aforementioned privileges and prerogatives, depending on how well they perform during their careers. Put simply, republican officials form a political elite who holds the actual legislative power. Now, tell me, which system is your country actually employing? Is it a democracy, really, or is it more like a republic?
yea but it would also be dope to see some news on, for example, South American labor movements and the shitty conditions for average workers in South Korea. We need a bit more internationalism!
I knew Hungary was f-ed up thx to Pick-up-Artists idolizing the S-it out of it an Adam-Something and Hbomberguy covered this and more, but i didnt knew it was this bad.
Some corrections/suggestions for the "Hungarian History Time" segment: 14:17 - "Hungary is a multiethnic modern state": It is most certainly not. 94-97% of Hungary's population considers themselves ethnic Hungarians. It is one of the most ethnically homogenous countries in the world. The on-screen description ("Hungary WAS a multiethnic country") is correct, it was until 1920. "ancient roots involving tribes of magyar people": magyar is just the Hungarian word for Hungarian, it's like saying French people had Français ancestors. "From its inception in the 10th century" - Hungarians moved to the Carpathian basin in 895 around the Battle of Southern Buh. Sources disagree on whether 895 or 896 should be the official date, but it's definitely late 9th century. We celebrate State Foundation Day (Államalapítás Ünnepe) that commemorates the crowning of the first King of Hungary but even that was in the early 11th century (25 December 1000 or 1 January 1001). 14:29 -"with brief periods of independence": Hungary was independent from it's inception in the late 9th century until 1526 with the exception of the Mongol invasion of 1241 to 1242. Over six centuries is hardly a "brief period". 14:33 - "Hungary was an independent kingdom under the Habsburg Monarchy": Hungary was not independent in any sense of the word until 1867. In fact, most demands of the 1848 revolution were about establishing some autonomy. They explicitly asked for an "Independent Hungarian government in Buda-Pest" (12 Pont, 1848). By the way, the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 is arguably more important than the Revolution of 1848, that's when Austria recognized Hungary as co-equal (even the name was changed from Habsburg Empire to Austria-Hungary). 15:35 - "Then this guy (Károlyi Mihály) threw the communist guy (Kun Béla) into jail...": Károlyi was prime minister before Kun Béla, so he definitely didn't do that. In fact, he left the country to flee from the "communist guy" It is probably worth mentioning that Orbán was a somewhat popular figurehead of the 1989 regime change (Rendszerváltás).
so so sad to watch this in my livingroom. In Hungary... Sad but true (such a good song)! Thank you for shining a light on this. I just came back from a US trip, visiting both the rotten west coast (LA) and the redhot Gerogia/Alabama. Kinda loved both, save me a room somewhere for when things get really ugly here
you're always welcome south of the border, in Croatia, my country. you don't have to go across the ocean. i admit, Croatia is not great either, we have our own problems. but hell, we were together in a personal union for almost 1000 years, and that's gotta mean something.
The amount of bad shit that Poland does compiled in a Showdy would give me so much whiplash. Please remove us from the map again I dont want to be a part of this
@@ChristopherSadlowski Maybe the video won't happen before the next year's elections? ...maybe something good will happen in the next year's elections? Possibly? Hopefully? Maybe?
Katy's capitalist villain (redundant, I know) arc has been one of my favorite parts of the Showdy. How far she's come since she was just innocently pushing Cody to eat batteries.
I don't find it "funny", but I guess it's an interesting concept. I _did_ ask for more interesting female villains. Even if they are a filthy capitalist. And the thing about trying to build "Disneyland Hungary" does ring weirdly true.
As someone who plays a fighting game professionally, I approve of Katie's ad and can confirm that a small child crying next to you while their parents watch you beat the shit out of them in a fighting game is indeed the best feeling ever.
Cody's showdy tackling more international news is really nice! Will we see more world news like this of spooky things happening all across the world? I Hope so!
As a history nerd, I'm disappointed that the history of the Magyars wasn't really elaborated on. That shit is _wild._ Also, they didn't migrate into the Pannonian Basin until long after Rome lost that territory, so... yeah.
@@cserpakbalazs6342 Rather the Avars and Langobards after the Huns. But ascribing ethnicity to archaeological cultures is speculation without written evidence.
Thank you for making a video about Hungary. I really hope the US learns from our mistakes. Also, thanks for not making a pun about the country's name. Can really appriciate that.
The awkward moment where Instead of the hero living long enough to see himself become the villain he lives long enough to pay for a young up and coming villain to go to school, grow up, become wealthy and powerful And start a one man war against him. That's rough buddy.jpg.
On the one hand, AG1 looks like a giant scam. On the other hand, I can't imagine anyone seeing these ads and thinking "I should defintely buy that", so I guess it's okay.
It's amazing how they consistently choke that down, heavily implying if not outright stating it tastes like shit, and Athletic Greens is like "Hell yeah more of that please"
I knew Hungary was f-ed up thx to Pick-up-Artists idolizing the S-it out of it an Adam-Something and Hbomberguy covered this and more, but i didnt knew it was this bad.
he didn't pay for the education, that was free, as all higher ed was (and technicly still is) in hungary. He paid some of the upkeep of his fraternity house (that's a closer analogue to what Bibo college is, inside the oldest existing hungarian university, ELTE, that he attanded, for free), but his semester in Oxford was fully financed by Soros. So his English, and his outlook to the world was paid for by the "devil"...
FYI, Switzerland is still refusing to allow Germany and other EU nations to export ammo to Ukraine. They're blocking resupply of Gepard ammo, for example, which Germany has in stock but isn't allowed to forward to another party without Switzerland giving the Go Ahead, because the stuff was manufactured in Switzerland (even if done by a manufacturer seated in Germany, because those particular factories are across the border).
Oh no, so the Swiss dont want to be considered complicit in a proxy war between NATO and Russia, which could potentially turn nuclear, and has a lot of nuance and historical context to how it came to be what it is right now and that clearly has no good side in it, with the exception of the working class people who get murdered and killed in the name of capitalist imperialist oligarchs !? Oh no
Switzerland is a neutral country that takes said neutrality *very* seriously, and this has been incredibly important historically both for Swiss security and global politics more broadly. Having Swiss weapons turn up in a warzone would endanger that, which is not something they're going to risk for the sake of prolonging a war that doesn't benefit them at all.
We sell weapons to the Saudis. Go figure where those are being used. And that is but one example. Switzerland‘s government is struggling with it‘s understanding of neutrality. And then there is always the issue of money, which is why our government needs to pressured into follow sanctions. Nothing to be proud of as a fellow citizen.
As a Hungarian, I feel conflicted about the showdy talking about my home country lol For a while I’ve been treating the news here as a bad kind of medicine. I hate it, it sucks to take it, I feel bad afterwards but I kinda have to. It’s ironic that I feel the worst about watching an episode that concerns me the most. Sooo yeah. I hate it here. Also glad for the video. It’s weird.
Hungarian left is just failing to convince the society that they can do better. That's not Orban's fault. This was lesson 01 for left wing students, who got almost brainwashed by this video, and believe that in Hungary we have dictatoship, just because an overweight hipster tells so in a sarcastic tone. You don't have to thank me!
A Schmitty episode! Huzzah! Can't wait to watch, what I'm sure will be a light, positive episode on how Hungary is not-so-secretly interesting and fascinating! Yup, nothing at all rotten under Orban's rule; I'm sure I'll come out of this episode feeling GREAT!
As a Brit who is being told by their government that the police should be less "woke" and that refugees are "invading"; and whose government are gradually criminalising protest; I'm glad you pointed out the slow, subtle, and gradual switch to fascism.
Oh, french conservatives are also using the english word "woke", i feel like America's right wing is the current inspiration for a lot of European fascist ideas
Not so fun fact, besides the don't say gay thing, Hungary also rolled back legal transgender recognition in 2020. Like it was allowed for 20 years now you can't legally transition.
All the more reason to be casually and loudly pro-trans worldwide, and to kill with extreme prejudice everyone who threatens you in response to you having the audacity to be wholesome. 😘
AS A HUNGARIAN FAN, THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS EPISODE!!! YOU ARE MY FAVOURITE YT CHANNEL AND I WAS HOPING THIS DAY WOULD COME AND TODAY IS THE DAY! SO HAPPY!!!!! I love you very much!
... that feels horrifically accurate... I am now imagining he's there to substitute for a class that has little to nothing to do with history or politics yet we would still learn more from him which would make going to history class later so freaking depressing. Had that happen once with an English teacher substtituing for a science class. I still remember that lesson beter than any other.
Considering Greece's current government is trying it's best to be a combination of Orban and Nixon (Watergate and all) we would appreciate an episode on that!
Thank you for this video, guys. I'm not sure if you realize how empowering it is for me, a Hungarian born in 1989, to hear about these issues on this channel and have our nation represented with such thorough understanding of what's going on.
If youre into 'Criticism-Video-Essays' that Cody specializes in., what about HBomberguy, Adam Something, all Atheist-UA-camrs ever, and Professo Dave? And if we stretch ithe Defintions here a bit, how about Madvocatre covering 'The Flash' and Jay Excis legendary Doctor Who Review?
My grandma is Hungarian and so I've grown up with a little knowledge but this really shows were it is now. She used to talk about going back and showing us around but now she would never. It's sad to see her lose that connection and worry about her friends over there. Thank you for sharing and educating!
i’m a Hungarians who has lived in the USA for 18 years and you should have no reason to fear coming back to your home. I come back twice a year and feel more safe here then I do in Texas.
When I was younger, I always thought Fascism was an ideology relegated to the 40s, which the Allies fought and won against, and we wouldn't be seeing in in the First World ... boy was I wrong. I'm afraid Fascism is always going to be a looming shadow that we must be guarding against constantly.
I have spent a lot of time in hungary within the past 4 years, due to dating a hungarian, and the country is such a sad case. The country itself is beautiful, the food is amazing, the language is incredibly interesting and it has a unique culture that you just don't feel with western European countries. If only it wasn't completely run by fascists and the people (who are suffering) hadn't been super brainwashed. It's such a shame
@@donnadelgado8164 do you like sour cream? Because man do Hungarians love sour cream. I'd personally recommend everyone to try lángos, which is a type of deep fried bread with garlicky sour cream and cheese on top. Look it up, it's really good. Besides that, gulyás is pretty well known around the world, a kind of beef stew. There's also a lot of paprika everywhere. Oh and then there's the desserts, like Somló (something, I forgot how it's fully called) which is like a chocolatey, creamy kinda thing. Food in general is super rich, you won't go hungry in a hungarian kitchen
@@duckbringr personally I can't go without lángos for too long, but I see where you're coming from. They somehow also just have a bunch of stuff in stores you can't buy where I'm from (Germany) so I always go broke in their supermarkets.
the woman in the ad at 29:30 said "I like to bake. I rarely deviate from the recipe and it's a good feeling to know that if I mix given ingredients in the given way, I'll always largely wind up with the same result"
@@weareallbornmad410 I think the message is more, traditional families (one man one woman) work, and they work every time, so why deviate from that with crazy new ideas from the outside world
@@janosd4nuke I never watched that shit. My grandmother had it on for 3 hours a day straight; echo TV, csiga 2, RTL, Duna TV, lánchíd rádió, hír TV, stb but it just drives me insane
...yeah, we kinda do, much as it pains me to admit. This is where European me turns from an observer of "hey the US is really messed up" to confronting some of our own issues. Also, if nothing else, just how much the GOP likes Orban should be an indication something there is very wrong...
as much as im willing to talk about our errors too, Europe has had a lot of complete screw ups as well, berlusconi, as well as the new fascist prime minister, the le pens, geert wilders, even the brexit was basically xenophobia and isolationism forming policy, and australia, how about that pauline hanson?. the u.s. absolutely has screw ups, but Europe can be a bit free to write themselves an excuse to not see how they are like us. and that lets that sort influence more people. its even basically the same people, lower education level older whites who see a changing world and radically react to protect the past that they selectively remember only the good bits from.
@@ryanweible9090 Europe is not a single country nor a cultural monolith. Just had to bring that up since you're comparing one country to a whole continent there.
I have a really close friend who is a queer person living in Hungary and has to remain closeted from basically everyone they know in person because of the pervasive homophobia in their country. It’s absolutely terrifying. Thank you for talking about what’s going on in Hungary but I wish you talked a bit more about how Orban’s policies affect everyday Hungarians.
I'd rather have them keep a consistent quality rather than embarrass themselves like John Oliver does with his wildly ignorant (or deliberately misleading?) reporting on foreign affairs.
As a Hungarian, I can say that we have seen a frighteningly accurate summary of the past 12 years. Foreigners don't even understand how surreal it is to live in this country with one half of the country living in a parallel reality. I have no idea, how we can get rid of Orban, as obviously the elections doesn't work as you see. I can just thank you for making this video and I can just hope, that many people will see it and try to learn from our failures.
It helps me deal with my intense anxiety about learning the news these days when you show real anxiety about it, too. When people talk about this stuff in calm ways it freaks me out because I’m like “WHY ARE YOU NOT FREAKING OUT”? Ya know? Thanks Cody Showdy.
Because half of it is false. They forget to mention that the current horrible government has an alternative of a more horrible opposition who can gather only 40% in total. Everybody knows whats going on and surpressed state media is just an excuse. Its as relevant as if CNN would run a state propanda and being watched by grannies. By readers count not quantity 70% of the media is leftist. Also no one mentions, that until 2005 no television was right wing except a small regional broadcoast (Echo TV) and the only right wingconservative newspaper (Magyar Nemzet) had funding problems. Leftist were not freaking out back then. I advise to watch a footage from Gyurcsány era when police was beating up people without police IDs.
It's worth noting, that alongside the gerrymandering, cheating etc, there is also another big factor in Orbán winning elections. And that's the complete incompetence of their political opposition.
Things are pretty similar here, in Quebec. About 15 years ago, a new nationalist party began scaring people about immigrants by creating a made-up crisis called "crise des accommodements raisonnables" (crisis of the reasonable accomodations). The government back then created a commission to study this "crisis", and it was revealed that in truth, there were no problem - people simply did not know what immigrants looked like, and thus whenever the medias spoke to them about migrants the public got scared. So, it was recommended that we should simply encourage the population to learn that migrants were "normal people", and not some kind of scary monster. No political party liked the conclusions of the commission : the nationalists were disappointed by the findings, and the liberals were not really interested in its results anyway so nothing was done about it. Fast forward a few years, the Liberals gets beaten because of corruption while the nationalists continue to scare people about migrants. In the meantime, the separatists try to pass a law targetting specifically muslim women because they are the migrants that everyone associated with the so-called "crisis of the reasonable accomodations". They get defeated, the Liberals come back, but this time they feel pressured into doing "something", so they pass a bill making it so that you have to not have anything covering your face when receiving any service from the government (because the nationalists scared the public into thinking that muslim women with the "full-face veil" were common, and that they were a national threat since they could hide anything underneath). Then, the Liberals got defeated again and this time, the nationalists who began the whole "crisis" decided to "solve it" by making it so that musim women wearing the hijab could not work for the government - calling it rather explicitely a "nationalist law" and saying that it's goal was to "give something to the majority, the ones that are a little racist and who would not want any muslims in the streets". Then, the provincial PM passed the last 4 years passing bills that similarly target minorities, using the word "woke" to disqualify it's opponents, saying (ironically) that they introduce here concepts from the USA that are foreign to our society, glorifying Duplessis ("le père de la Grande Noirceur", or the "father of the Great Darkness" in English), wanting to build a wall with the USA, saying that immigrants are a threat and that we should rewrite our Charter of Rights and abolish our counter-powers so that we would be able to deal better with the "threat" that they represent.
@@fantuswitt9063 Our last election was rather depressing, too. The new Nationalists got a little less than 40% of the vote, but over 75% of the deputies. This would mean that if they want, nothing stops them from rewriting our Charter of Rights (well, kinda. We would still have the federal one, but we can "opt out" of that one for specific bills and for pretty important rights. So, for exemple, our provincial PM could rewrite our Charter, then pass a bill going against freedom of expression, the right to life or the presumption of innocence and just "opt out" of the federal Charter protecting those rights. The only things that might be able to do anything in such a case would maybe be the judges - what Legault called "The government of the Judges", something that he wants to abolish - and the Governor General, a position mostly symbolic). Those are flaws inherent to our government, but before the Nationalists, every political party had enough good will to not exploit them. Now... It's less obvious.
@@fantuswitt9063 It seems obvious that the "new Nationalists" are feeding a monster, and that they are/might lose control of it. For exemple, they began their last mandate by dismissing every study going against what they were saying regarding migrants as being a "plot from the elites against the population". So, when covid came around and suddenly the PM said that his fans now needed to listen to the experts, they felt betrayed and went full conspiracy theory - to the point where the "anti-covid" party got 15% of the vote (as much as all the other parties that is not the "new Nationalists").
@@GThe-su9klit's nice to see quebecers like me interested in international politics and the rise of fascism! I am often disapointed at how little we manage to analyse our province's situation in relation to world context. This makes it harder to see patterns and correlations, easier to see papa Legault as nothing more than an inneficient manager. He is definitely using weak nationalism to do whatever he wants and they have been more active in their second mandate in their attempts to remake the province to their image. Hard to see where this is going but it definitely empowered some hardcore conservatives to come out.
@@kayfortier9474 I was surprised the other day when I witnessed an old woman yelling at an old English woman, telling her (in French) to speak French or get deported since a "new law was passed". The English woman told her that she was born here, so I told the French one that Bill 96 did not apply like so. I assume that this might be what you're talking about?
When he started talking about Orban allies taking over and shutting down non allied media I couldn't help but think of what we're seeing with Elon and Twitter.
@@akosbarati2239 Even most of the 60+ people i know spend way too much time online. Apart from the people in their 70s, 80s i can not tell an age group that has no smartphone. And they all keep hanging on it. RTL Klub is a private company and almost exclusively after profit. They are selling trash content for the dumb because there is a huge demand for it all over the world. Democracy? Shareholders!
@@Mrac-zz8vh I know this is hard to imagine but you can be for profit and actual transparent competition. The online market in Hungary is small and the society by far and large loves believing what dear leader says, which is why the pro government media can spout the easily disproven lie that German bakeries have to sell bread in the dark. The government goes the extra stupid mile to try and cover up mismanaged policies by blaming the war. The only true thing is that yes, energy costs went higher due to the conflict yet Russia was and remains keen on dicking with anyone to whom they sell oil and gas to if they feel the leadership is "not friendly enough". The hot second Russia closed fossil fuel transport to Ukraine under timoshenko should have alarmed Hungary, and frankly it did. At the time they jumped into nabucco and Kóka talked about buying liquid gas from tankers. 12 years were wasted on not diversifying. There is no press freedom because if you tried to submit a readers letter to state television (which was a custom) detailing how failed and misguided policies lead to Hungary being the only country in Europe with buy limits on food, they would never air it as they can't. State media relies on people and they're plentiful, who only consume content in Hungarian so, of course, they will believe Germany sells bread in the dark as they remember the infamous brownouts and blackouts in Romania.
@@akosbarati2239 Germany just picked up a 200 billion euro loan to pay the energy bill only for this winter. Without any consultation with other EU countries. Simply because the gov had no other choice..about 30% of the population could not afford the market price for energy this winter...therefore the gov would certainly fall..there was nothing to discuss with other EU countries..that was the only way for them to stay in power...now when they pour the 200 billion euros loan on the energy market (at the begining of next year) all of us Europeans will pay for the inflationary effects that it will cause...but we are the lucky ones in Europe...the German gigaloan will allow Germany to outbid all LNG dependent countries on the world market..specially the poorest ones...and they will simply not get any LNG. It will have literally deadly consequences in the 3rd world. Have you seen DW's or other german state financed media channels' reports on it...they are laughably bended. Try to write a letter to them to stick to the facts. Good luck with that.
I live in France and I also see the influence of autorianism on the right wing here so I hope power never goes to them because I see what they would do with it.
Pretty much all of Europe is right-wing and reactionary. Remember what Zhukov said after the war? "We liberated them from fascism, but they will never forgive us for it".
The difference is between Poland and Hungary that Poland is a deeply religious country where the church has a big influence in the society and politics. Hungary is one of the most irreligious countries in Eastern Europe. Orbán is rather a populist leader who use christianity as a tool of staying in power. Meanwhile PiS is really a traditionalist, christian fundamentalist party. That's how i see this from Hungary, but if you polish just correct me.
I just wanted to leave a comment to help your algorithm Cody… Thank you for everything you do I love your show much love from Kennewick Washington Washington state on the mighty Columbia River
Fun fact! Rod Dreher, the dude brought up around 48:00, is a staff writer at the American Conservative magazine, who moved to Hungary because he has a very literal hard-on for Orbán's autocracy.
As a Hungarian I must say that leaving out Trianon is a major mistake in your historical analysis. For many, it s still one of the most decisive historical event in the 20th century.
Me: *quietly watching the Showdy in the kitchen* Cody: "Hungarians have been integrated into all kinds of empires, from the Roman Empire..." My Hungarian wife, from the other side of the flat: "WHAT! WHAT THE FUCK DID HE JUST SAY?? THE FUCKING ROMANS?!?!?" *explodes*
i think because she thought of romanians. the hungarian word for romanian is "román", and for roman is "római", so easy to get it wrong. And theres a negative stereotypization towards romanians in many hungarian households sadly
Technically part of Hungary was under the Ottomans, who thought of themselves as a continuation of the Roman Empire (they called themselves the Sultinate of Rûm initially).
wikipedia says: "The Roman Empire conquered the territory between the Alps and the area west of the Danube River from 16 to 15 BC, the Danube being the frontier of the empire.[43] In 14 BC, Pannonia, the western part of the Carpathian Basin, which includes today's west of Hungary, was recognised by emperor Augustus in the Res Gestae Divi Augusti as part of the Roman Empire.[43] The area south-east of Pannonia was organised as the Roman province Moesia in 6 BC.[43] An area east of the river Tisza became the Roman province of Dacia in 106 AD, which included today's east Hungary. It remained under Roman rule until 271."
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As someone born and living in Hungary I do think of the country every now and then. 🤷♂️
To get through this without seeing that clip of EU Commission President (sort of like the speaker of your house but...not EU political structures are hard) slapping Orban while saying 'hello dictator' means you guys missed out one of the best moments around Hungarian-EU relations!
Twice in a row now I've been wearing my Some More News T-shirt while watching an episode, completely unplanned. Just a happy accident. Maybe I should change my clothes more often... Already wearing the decal off of this one.
@@zenleeparadise Yeah, I'm going to try extra hard to make sure that is done from now on. I have plenty of other graphic T-shirts and this isn't really a problem with others. Must just be Cody's soft skin is easily rubbed the wrong way. It's still in one piece but you can tell it's breaking down a bit.
@@Jakey4000 Well, hot dog, I'll do it! It's a really comfy shirt anyhow so why not keep it going? That way I'll never be without my pals at Some More News.
@@shadowwarrier4416 Not at all. I just hope the same thing happens that did here in Hungary, where the people came to their senses in 2010 and voted for a proper right wing party that is committed to defending our country and its values. I think the traditional values of Bulgaria are also worth defending.
@@tamasfoldesi2358 I thought he said "sh" but I can have misheard. But even if he said "Pest" with 's' it still is for a foreigner a quite good try, especially for an American.
@@DerIchBinDa Small correction, at first, he mispronunced it, then later in the video, he said it correctly. I just didn't finish the video yet when I posted that comment. But it doesn't matter that he's American. You can easily look up stuff on the internet. He mispronunces every Hungarian name in this video.
If anyone else is interested in further history of Hungary but want it tied to like a video game for some reason FuturaSouns productions has a wonderful history of Hungary in their series discussing Skullface from mgsv
@@paulj6805 the amount of research they must do for even the tiniest details in those games is amazing. Their analysis is thoughtful. It's just a joy to watch because you can tell they loved making those videos. To be honest they sound like they have the same enthusiasm as a child trying to tell you about their favorite Pokémon but with a lot more serious tone
watching this right before going to vote for the next czech president, we're almost neighbors with hungary and it's terrifying what poland and hungary is up to, especially as a queer trans person. very thankful to hear someone talking about this
@@personofgirth7934 If there are people that "envy" Orban's fight against the EU those are people who fall pray to the nationalist waves that are going through Europe. Currently Orban is getting some fallback from the EU because of his open support for Putin and extremely nationalist policies. More than that Orban is financing organizations and politicians that try to make more Maghiar (RomanianHungarians) more extreme in order to destabilize our internal politics and make them ask for "their territory " (Transylvania) back.
@@HDdeiu So, first, Orban is not supporting Putin openly, what is going on is there is no other source of energy other than russia(due to the landlocked nature of the country), Hungary would go through insane recession if the eu puts embargo on russian energy without substitutions. Second, those are Székely's, not "Maghiar"(also spelled Magyar), and no, there is no way the Székely's can take back what the Treaty Of Trianon annexed from them, these are completely fake news because the entire idea is idiotic and impossible and you know it.
Hearing more about WW1 Hungary was really interesting for me on a personal level. My great grandfather fought in the Hungarian army then, was a Russian POW, & on release from there had the option of going back to war or to leave to North America. He chose moving to Canada, where he worked as a farm hand until he could buy his own farm and send for his family
This video has some interesting timing for me. My family is Hungarian and I’m currently in the process of trying to become a Hungarian citizen as a means of obtaining EU citizenship because I’m looking to try to study over in Europe and potentially live there afterward. Learning more and more about how things are going over there makes me discouraged because I don’t even know if a Hungarian citizenship would mean anything outside of the country by the time I’m planning on heading over. Truly love the state of humanity right now. 0/10 please send an asteroid to hit the planet
Come to Germany we now have one of the most left wing governments in our history and one of the weakest right wing partys in the entire EU. We also have great forests for strolling.
@@fantuswitt9063 just a quick fact check for everyone: i’m pretty sure those german forests you speak of are actually teeming with werewolfs , so def be careful out there folks, can b verry scary
Greetings from Hungary.
May we both avoid full on fascism.
Solidarity
I hope Hungary becomes fascist.
Yes, solidarity.
Solidarity from Czechia. Legit loved Budapest.
How about 80% fascism?
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"Florida is our most Hungarian state."
As a Hungarian, that fucking hurt.
És DeSantis 20% fölénnyel nyert. Remélhetőleg ő lesz a következő elnök.
as a floridian that hurt
It can hurt, but that's true... Sometimes reality hurts.
@@BKDziti I am not surprised by the comparison. We even have our own Florida Man. He’s called kőbányai szopófantom.
Then again, we have Miskolc
To summarize for Americans:
If you are not careful, you will end up like us.
Sincerely: a Hungarian
as long as we vote all of the Democrats out-of-office we should be okay🤷🏿♀️
@@fat-girl-spelunker I didn't realize someone brought a clown to the comments, but the entertainment you bring is... cheap and sad, please leave
@@fat-girl-spelunker don’t disagree, its just that the only alternative is the republican party and they’ll just destroy us faster
The best solution to the conundrum is to go with something like rank choice voting instead of the current voting system, at least thats my best bet
Are there still leftists out there?
So, does that mean we'll get universal healthcare?
Hearing Americans talk about European politics the way we Europeans talk about America is such a weird vibe…
This is now gonna make me look up europeans talking about us politics i get do depressed listening to the regular nation news i never thought to listen to other nations talk about it. Im high as fuck and this is about to be a weird vibe high 🤣
Y'all love to throw stones from your fascist filled glass houses
@@bricknolty5478 that seems like a really big reaction to the comment being made like way too big like bringing a gun to a nurf battle how about we chill out dog
To be fair, this is how we speak about Hungarian politics as well, and I think most EU citizens would like it if Hungary had some actual consequences.
@@bricknolty5478 Dude, half of your country is possessed by a blonde orange and is openly challenging the democratic system by not accepting a rightful election
Me (from poland):
"Oh finally an EU country doing worse things than us"
Cody: And what Hungary does wouldn't be possible without Poland!
Me: ofcourse yeah checks out
Just like how Hitler couldn't invade Czechoslovakia without Poland's help.
It's a shame you guys don't have us in the UK to boost you up any more...
I agree, the Polish PiS party has been screwing up Poland for *_far_* too long now.
@@sejjhajjrozi3307 As a Brit, I'd like to apologise for some of my compatriots thinly veiled xenophobia towards the Polish.
We don't all think negatively of Poland or Europe. Many of the best friends I have made in England are Polish 🇵🇱, and I have loved visiting your country with them. I even married ❤ one of those friends!
@@-xirx- after all we owe a lot to Poland for being the unbelievable bad asses they are
"Although the Forrest grew thin the Trees made the Axe their leader. They saw the handle was made of wood and thought it one of them."
-Swedish Proverb
Comments like this is the reason we should always take a glimpse of the comment section
Thank you for posting this timely quote. It quite powerfully sums up the underlying problem in just two sentences.
@@lawyer_with_a_guitar9098 Agreed :)
Chilling and far too relevant to many places in the world.
What would this be in Swedish? I've never heard it before, only English variations.
As a child, 30ish years ago, I dreamed that Hungary would be in the news all over the world. I should have been more specific with my wish. The innocent hope of a better future got dashed pretty quickly as I started following politics.
Always beware the monkey's paw.
@@denverarnold6210 hindsight is 20-20 🤷
@@oxtcn that is all too true here in the US....
@@denverarnold6210 Well, the US will always be in the news, for Hungarians this is like a senpai noticed us moment every time a big American media talks about us.
@@vauiarex4877 oh, I didn't mean to focus that much on the US again, just a dark joke for how far south shit has gone since then.
Wow. That nugget about the college is legitimately astonishing. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a better example of “No good deed goes unpunished”.
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I knew Hungary was f-ed up thx to
Pick-up-Artists idolizing the S-it out of it an Adam-Something and Hbomberguy
covered this and more, but i didnt knew it was this bad.
What a fucked up twist, oh man...
@Blaire Sovereign I believed it too growing up.... Are all the conspiracies just antisemitism?
And if anyone knows, why Soros?
@Blaire Sovereign With enough horse trancs and a can do attitude you can!
@@NA-AN I think you are not quite getting the full saying.
"You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink", meaning that you can give people the tools and information but can't make them listen or understand if they don't want to.
And horse tranqs don't make a horse more likely to drink. Perhaps a banana bag or other IV of some sort, but I have no idea what that would be outside of the metaphor.
"We fucked up, not a little, but a lot" is probably the most memorable quote for hungarians from that öszöd speech.
It is so amazing you know all about Orbán, Lőrinc Mészáros, the Öszöd meeting, the stadiums, all of it. Thank you! Ah, on a side-note, please send help!
Help yourself and God will help you too.
@@barkasz6066 Impressive logic, please tell this to the Ukrains too, if you really mean it
@@barkasz6066 God seems to be invoked by the people I need help from.
Zseniális vagy komám, hívd be a megszálló csapatokat! Rég jártak már erre..
@@birocsabal Ez a "please send help" egy internetes mém, arra szokták használni, hogy leírják amikor valaki egy nagyon elbaszott helyzetben van, nem szó szerint kell érteni. Eszem ágába sincs behívni ruszki meg kínai megszállókat, ahogy ezt teszi ez a tetü, hazaáruló kormány.
As a trans Hungarian, it’s been really depressing feeling like I can never go back. Honestly all the political history is trash but it seems so hostile and has most of my life.
Yea... I feel you, same here... And it doesn't seem lik it'll get any better
Transgender 🏳️⚧️
I'm a transgender American, I feel your pain. Not as much, but we're all in this together, and I feel for you. My, our, existence is part of a moral panic worldwide. Someone at a political conference said we need to be eliminated from society entirely.
Life is never easy for all kinds of disabled people. Self-castrators are not the exception.
@@FangzRomaniai recognize that flag, the country of ugly
43:23 as someone who works in wood framing/roofing, I gotta say that stadium is the most awe-inspiring manifestation of the rampant corruption within the construction industry.
Oh should I mention there's now a separate state secretary for stadiums?
As a Hungarian I'm so thankful that you are using your platform to talk about whats going on over here!
Orban propaganda miatt többet tanultam emiatt a video miatt mint hogy ha probalnek Magyar linkeket keresni...
The Daily Show Klepper (April 2022) covered too.💜✌
Yeah, glad they managed to report on Hungary's dire situatiuon, without using it as a mere allegory for the ol' US of A's... oh wait^^ Keep strong and resilient!
Solidarity fam
Hey Máté, quick question about the imports: you guys are unable to source gas from other countries for the winter or do I have that wrong? Oil is a seperate issue if that's the case? Thanks
Cody saying the Patreon is "ad free" is not a selling point. Watching him and Katy drink that awful green goo is one of the highlights of these videos!
It always looks so forced XD
they should upload JUST the green goop chugging as a compilation on there. so i can watch the episodes ad free, then watch them chug! chug! chug!
fun fact about the "Hungarian politicians use the word 'woke' inspired by the GOP" thing:
that's happening all around Europe. the US are so influential that their politics are often topics for discussion at the dinner table in pretty much any country that speaks English.
For example the German far right populist party AfD is very loud about how bad it is to be "woke".
And is it big thing in Germany to be anti-SJW amongst people or on UA-cam?
The thing is, I'd argue that Austria actually caused the phenomenon, not the USA. In the 1980s, a man named Jörg Haider took control of the center-right FPÖ and he shifted it hard to the populist right. He was basically Trump 20 years before Trump was Trump. He was the guy who became famous for talking about how the Nazis weren't really all that bad, making Austria an international pariah in the early 2000s when the FPÖ was able to form a coalition with the conservative ÖVP. His populist right-wing rhetoric has become a staple across Europe and the US. Thankfully he died in 2008 when he drunkenly drove his car off a cliff, but the FPÖ still exists and is still a Trump-style right-wing populist party with fascist tendencies (and now the ÖVP is drifting that way too).
Yeah that whole "woke" thing is a new evolution but that's what fascism does, it coopts new ideas and creates a new message to oppose. It's not new.
@@soundtrack1405 oh very.
Personally I have observed that Germany tends to mirror social trends in the US pretty well, I assume because of high fluency in English. We seem to always lag behind by 2-4 years, but since COVID and the popularisation of the app "telegram" as a news source, that distance has shrunk.
When it comes to feminism and gender stuff we are very much still stuck in the phase immediately following gamergate.
We also have some societal challenges that the US don't have to deal with, that have become wedge issues. For example our entire language is sexist. Every noun is gendered in German, so it leads to the confusion of "female or male doctor" in literally every profession. Trying to fix this by creating "gender appropriate language" has motivated massive backlash and a huge number of people who decry anything close to it as "woke nonsense".
Because of it, reactionaries have even coined a term for progressives that I find hilarious: "gender gaga". (we don't have a word for gender, so we just use yours lol)
@@TheDarthbinky that's interesting. I know close to nothing about European politics in the early 00s, might have to get up to speed there.
Language is always fundamentally important for spreading ideas. I guess English just happened to do the trick for fascism huh.
@@st0lf If you've heard of the Ibiza affair a couple years ago, where some Austrian politicians were recorded saying (paraphrasing) that they were cool with accepting bribes from Russian oligarchs.... that was the FPÖ. They were in a coalition government with the ÖVP again at the time, and the Ibiza affair caused the coalition to collapse, and that's why the ÖVP and Greens are in a coalition now. Haider left the FPÖ and created a new party, the BZÖ before he died and his replacement as Party Führer was a former dentist named Heinz-Christian "HC" Strache, and he was Vice Chancellor when he was involved in the Ibiza affair; he and most of the top party leadership resigned in the aftermath (and a lot of them wound up forming a new fascist political party called Allianz für Österreich... because of course they did). (The BZÖ didn't really outlive Haider and barely exists anymore)
The FPÖ is still a garbage political party. So is the AfD, of course.
Your show is kinda like if John Oliver was borderline insane and nobody would stop him rabbling. I love it.
And actually bothers to get things correct on foreign policy. JOliver is a disaster when it comes to foreign policy. But that comes from him being a moderate liberal married to a conservative. Oh and he's a capitalist - that also has a rather sizeable impact on the things he covers, how he covers it, and the potential solutions he offers up.
There's a reason so many of his "solutions" is "call your congressperson" or "go vote." Yeah, cuz that works so well. Politicians know what the ppl in their districts think. It's kinda their job and they have staffers whose entire job is monitoring those opinions. But we all know that what ppl want isn't what politicians are there to do. They serve their donors, not their constituents.
But all of that runs counter to the average reformist/moderate liberal position of "we just need to get the right ppl in office and everything will be fine."
@@SadisticSenpai61 don't forget british...
@@SadisticSenpai61 What about the dozens of segments on foreign policy? I agree on some of that, but shitting on allies isn't very smart.
@@Puddlef1sh Yeah, he covers them from the standard conservative foreign policy position that's embraced by both liberals and conservatives in this country.
I question how much of an ally JOliver actually is. But if you're a moderate liberal, yeah - you'd probably see him as an ally as that's exactly what he is.
Ofc, I'm not a moderate liberal. I'm a communist and he's a capitalist. He's fundamentally against my political position, although we may occasionally agree on a few issues here and there.
But even in his recent discussion of trans rights and how conservatives are attacking trans ppl across the country, he left out there very important fact that Dems in DC have the votes to pass legislation outlawing discrimination against trans ppl and reversing many of the anti-trans legislation. And yet, what have Dems done? Nothing. They've done nothing. They've not even talked about trans rights in any meaningful way. A few candidates here and there, but the party as a whole? "It's not a priority."
I can understand to some extent why they don't want a vote on Roe v Wade - they want to keep their anti-choice incumbents from being on the record. But what's the rationale for not even trying to pass any legislation countering the attacks on trans ppl? Hmm, is it a similar reasoning? Do they have a lot of anti-trans ppl in office that they're trying to get reelected? Cuz if that's the case, maybe that's something voters should be aware of (ideally in the primary process as that's when we've got the best chance at kicking them out with minimal harm).
@@SadisticSenpai61 I mean there is only so much you can tackle in a 30-40 minute show that may or may not talk about a variety of topics. And only so many topics you can get away with with all the business daddies who have the power to cancel the show at any moment, I agree with @Rylan May, shitting on allies will only divide us (though I do not think allies are immune to critique). Last week Tonight with John Oliver is a starting point but not the end point.
Holy shit, as a hungarian who've been following your chanel for 2 years, I've been dreaming of this all along. Thank you for your work!!!
Edit: Cody, you've got a few bits wrong and I'm here to correct them for you and the rest here.
-Hungarian history before the forming of the state is very scetchy, hungarians being under roman rule is definitely historically unbased.
-Károlyi's office preceded the office of Kun Béla, not the other way around
-WW1 ended with the Treaty of Trianon for Hungary, which meant the lost of two thirds of the country's former territories. This should be considered as a "nationall trauma" which is kept artificially on the surface by nationalists and the country's biased education system. I have to add that hundreds of thousands of hungarians still live on these former territories, and they are often disrespected and were denied some privileges such as education in their native of hungarian. The Treaty of Trianon is the main historical event which can be pointed at by the right as an example of foreign influence, conspiracy and national decline. Many people's lack of trust in the west is due to this event.
I remember being in primary school around the year of 10 when they told me about this. "It is as if you had a 100 books and somebody came and took 66 of them". That sure sounded horrible to me and it took some readjustment when I learned that not all of those territories supported a hungarian population.
-The anti-gay referendum is actually widely supported. The reason it did not turn out to be supportive is because of the high number of invalid votes (I myself cast one of them)
-What I think you didn't emphasize enough is the mentality behind people voting for Orbán. Most of my family votes for Orbán while thinking that free speech and other values are important. They just don't see how and why Orbán's system opposes these ideas. When I told my father about the lies in one of the anti-gay hate campaigns, he simply said "if they are lying, the opposition have all the power to spread a truthful message"
Edit2: @personofgirth accused me of shifting the narrative by downplaying the factor of incompetence in the opposition. At the 2022 election, a nigh-collective opposition coalition was formed to gain the upper hand in the election. Every party appointed presidential candidates, and votes were conducted to decide between them. The 5 main candidates were Fekete-Győr András were Jakab Péter (leader of the "Jobbik" or "the Right" party, which funnily and arguably is less right now than Fidesz. He resigned later this year), Dobrev Klára (wife of the "we lied in the day and night" Gyurcsány), Karácsony Gergely (the mayor of Budapest), and Márki-Zay Péter (who was the leader of a smaller party if I'm not mistaken). After a tie with Karácsony and Márki-Zay, Karácsony stepped back in favor of Márki-Zay. By this time me and most of the people I know was certain in Fidesz's fourth victory, and it happened. To be honest, I didn't care enough to follow the events but Fidesz led a successful campaign against the candidates (first against the most likely winner of Karácsony), blaming Márki-Zay with plans to end socialized healthcare, do migration stuff, make utilities more expensive, and lead the country into war (which late was definitely the most hianous lie). As a result, Fidesz once again won with a landslide which in part is due to the coalition failing to put up a fight with a famous and respected candidate.
Bojler eladó
Poland sends their regards 🖤 and hopes we don't get a video by Cody, unless it's about a socio-cultural revolution when we abolish patriarchy, capitalism, white supremacy etc. Anyway, hang in there!
Same here!
psssst.... MeriKKKa is the SCHITHOLE COUNTRY you've heard sooo much about, with SPECIAL THANKS to republicans for the EXTRA SCHITHOLINESS ! MeriKKKa where we ALLOW 60,000+ Americans to DIE Every Year for LACK of healthcare and Medications they CANT Afford and No one cares..... ...MeriKKKa where we have over 40+MILLION with NO HEALTHCARE at all..... MeriKKKa where we have MILLIONS of HOMELESS Nationwide and No One cares... MeriKKKa, where ALL repubs and the Corporate Dems ( not progressives ) passed an $800+BILLION One YR Military Budget... yet we Average citizens get Calls from VET GRPS ask for DONATIONS to HELP their CARE??? WTF is ALL that Gdammed MOney going??? NO ONE Ever asks!? NO ONE!!! .....and Again, No Money for Child Day Care for working Mothers, No Dental, Eyecare, or Hearing aids for seniors..... Merikkkka IS the Certified SCHITHOLE .. .with thanks also, to about 40% of Our Nation of Garbage People, Uninformed Morons , Racist, haters, Bigots....who constantly Vote against their own interests.... so glad I dont have kids and more years behind than ahead
As a hungarian who also follows this channel, Im so so so very ashamed that this episode had to be made... :(
As a Hungarian I am highly impressed how well your video is researched. I haven't lived in Hungary for over 22 years, however my whole family still lives there. It's heartbreaking to see freedom and democracy being taken away from Hungarians along with their future. You are right, everyone should pay attention to what's happening there, because it can and will happen in Europe and America if people will not defend democracy. Its too easy to become complacent.
Meanwhile, your beloved ancestral homeland is deep in Mongolia.
What are you talking about. There were elections in 2022. Where do you live?
On Mars?
@@zalanemeseNorth Korea has elections as well
"Democratic regimes may be defined as those in which, every now and then, the people are being given the illusion of being sovereign, while the true sovereignty in actual fact resides in other forces which are sometimes irresponsible and secret."
_Benito Mussolini_
Victor Orbán hasn't invented this shit. He's just better at doing it than others. It's the good old shady technique of exploiting the loopholes in any particular legal system, dialed up to eleven, and even actual dictators (who couldn't really do it fair and square like he does), saw that. Hence the Mussolini quote.
That being said, I disagree with Mister Fascismo over there, about equating democracy with what he - and so many others with him - call 'democratic regimes'.
It doesn't take long to realize how much of an open secret, bordering on full blown denial, the equivocation of democracy and republic has become throughout the early modern period. And yet, both systems' core institutions are fundamentally different.
Broadly speaking, democracies develop regimes in which citizens can seat at the Assembly, participate in lawmaking, discuss, deliberate, and decide which law to pass, and can appoint different functions through either election or sortition, depending on which tool is best suited for said functions.
On the other hand, republics develop regimes in which only _politicians_ may receive the aforementioned privileges and prerogatives, depending on how well they perform during their careers. Put simply, republican officials form a political elite who holds the actual legislative power. Now, tell me, which system is your country actually employing? Is it a democracy, really, or is it more like a republic?
Wow a whole hour about Hungary? Would love to see Some More European News. From the Showdy :)
TIRED of europe the world only talks about europe
@@maaxrenn and the US
@@MinoriGaming that's simply not true...
@@MinoriGaming more so the English fluency in Europe/North America compared to he rest of the world I would say. And the money of course
yea but it would also be dope to see some news on, for example, South American labor movements and the shitty conditions for average workers in South Korea. We need a bit more internationalism!
Thank you for recognizing Scotland & Ireland's progress, it's so great to see
I knew Hungary was f-ed up thx to
Pick-up-Artists idolizing the S-it out of it an Adam-Something and Hbomberguy
covered this and more, but i didnt knew it was this bad.
England is Hungary
@@kierenbuckley370 Much as the UK has issues it needs to address it isn’t in the same league as Hungary.
Can't bring back the women who died before these laws...
Some corrections/suggestions for the "Hungarian History Time" segment:
14:17 - "Hungary is a multiethnic modern state": It is most certainly not. 94-97% of Hungary's population considers themselves ethnic Hungarians. It is one of the most ethnically homogenous countries in the world. The on-screen description ("Hungary WAS a multiethnic country") is correct, it was until 1920.
"ancient roots involving tribes of magyar people": magyar is just the Hungarian word for Hungarian, it's like saying French people had Français ancestors.
"From its inception in the 10th century" - Hungarians moved to the Carpathian basin in 895 around the Battle of Southern Buh. Sources disagree on whether 895 or 896 should be the official date, but it's definitely late 9th century. We celebrate State Foundation Day (Államalapítás Ünnepe) that commemorates the crowning of the first King of Hungary but even that was in the early 11th century (25 December 1000 or 1 January 1001).
14:29 -"with brief periods of independence": Hungary was independent from it's inception in the late 9th century until 1526 with the exception of the Mongol invasion of 1241 to 1242. Over six centuries is hardly a "brief period".
14:33 - "Hungary was an independent kingdom under the Habsburg Monarchy": Hungary was not independent in any sense of the word until 1867. In fact, most demands of the 1848 revolution were about establishing some autonomy. They explicitly asked for an "Independent Hungarian government in Buda-Pest" (12 Pont, 1848).
By the way, the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 is arguably more important than the Revolution of 1848, that's when Austria recognized Hungary as co-equal (even the name was changed from Habsburg Empire to Austria-Hungary).
15:35 - "Then this guy (Károlyi Mihály) threw the communist guy (Kun Béla) into jail...": Károlyi was prime minister before Kun Béla, so he definitely didn't do that. In fact, he left the country to flee from the "communist guy"
It is probably worth mentioning that Orbán was a somewhat popular figurehead of the 1989 regime change (Rendszerváltás).
Károlyi was before Béla Kun, not after him. It was First Republic -> Soviet Republic -> Romanian Occupation -> Horthy Era
Like this
Correction: 98% of dictators think that 98% is a reasonable result from an "independent" pole especially if the result is in their favor.
That's a lot of responsibility to put on a single Pole.
@@drsnova7313 i mean most people live closer to one of the poles than do to the other so it isnt that much responsibility
so so sad to watch this in my livingroom. In Hungary... Sad but true (such a good song)! Thank you for shining a light on this. I just came back from a US trip, visiting both the rotten west coast (LA) and the redhot Gerogia/Alabama. Kinda loved both, save me a room somewhere for when things get really ugly here
It's already pretty ugly in USA, you might want to look for a room elsewhere.
you're always welcome south of the border, in Croatia, my country. you don't have to go across the ocean. i admit, Croatia is not great either, we have our own problems. but hell, we were together in a personal union for almost 1000 years, and that's gotta mean something.
Now, I can only dream to get a video on Poland...
Amazing work as always!
The amount of bad shit that Poland does compiled in a Showdy would give me so much whiplash. Please remove us from the map again I dont want to be a part of this
As a Pole, this makes me cringe right into the afterlife thinking about a video on Poland...because it's going to be not good.
@@ChristopherSadlowski We know one thing for sure. They are going to take the PIS!
Yeah, kinda obvious. But someone had to say it.
@@ChristopherSadlowski Maybe the video won't happen before the next year's elections? ...maybe something good will happen in the next year's elections? Possibly? Hopefully? Maybe?
@@ChristopherSadlowski me too
Katy's capitalist villain (redundant, I know) arc has been one of my favorite parts of the Showdy. How far she's come since she was just innocently pushing Cody to eat batteries.
and eggs! dont forget all those eggs!
@@jacoboconnell7518 How could I forget! 🥚🥚🥚🥚
I don't find it "funny", but I guess it's an interesting concept. I _did_ ask for more interesting female villains. Even if they are a filthy capitalist. And the thing about trying to build "Disneyland Hungary" does ring weirdly true.
Ohh yeah I forgot that this channel and its viewers are economically illiterate. Luckily, the main point of the video is not that.
@@jacoboconnell7518 I came here just to yell eat the eggs! 😹
🧡🦇
As someone who plays a fighting game professionally, I approve of Katie's ad and can confirm that a small child crying next to you while their parents watch you beat the shit out of them in a fighting game is indeed the best feeling ever.
As a half Hungarian it's really nice to hear you talk about this. It's not good over there at all.
@Adam Jacobs He is too ashamed of his other half because the daddy left the household.
Do you live here? If no, then you can't really know.
The fact that he got such a warm reception at C-Pac is chilling.
Tucker Carlson took a whole trip over there just to blow the guy to prove how not gay he is
The fact that he got invited is scary by itself.
@@Viktory57 I'm pretty sure he wasn't, I remember hearing that he paid to be allowed to give a speech there.
Guilt by association is bad, but one should most *definitely* judge a person's character by the company they keep.
As a Hungarian, I am sooo greatful to you guys for pronouncing it as HungAry, and NOT Hungry!
Cody's showdy tackling more international news is really nice! Will we see more world news like this of spooky things happening all across the world? I Hope so!
Second this
Katy is perfectly embodying the average landlord in this video
I tried to give her my money because she was so convincing.
that's because she's an Elizabeth Warren supporter
As a history nerd, I'm disappointed that the history of the Magyars wasn't really elaborated on. That shit is _wild._
Also, they didn't migrate into the Pannonian Basin until long after Rome lost that territory, so... yeah.
They were there they beet the Romans several times.
@@belaadorian3370 Pretty sure that territory was held by the Bulgarians before the Magyars settled there
@@0th_Law It was bulgarian territory, we even call the capital of Serbia as "Nándorfehérvár" which means bulgarian white castle
@@belaadorian3370 you mean the huns?
@@cserpakbalazs6342 Rather the Avars and Langobards after the Huns.
But ascribing ethnicity to archaeological cultures is speculation without written evidence.
Thank you for making a video about Hungary. I really hope the US learns from our mistakes. Also, thanks for not making a pun about the country's name. Can really appriciate that.
I too was worried about such a pun appearing, and im not even hungarian
I’m really Hungary for some Turkey Greece!
@@politicaltroll8920 These Hungary puns are leaving me starved for new material.
@@denverarnold6210 maybe you will fine some other interesting papricording to listen to.
It takes a lot of work for America to learn from its mistakes; there are entire industries to keep fiascos going inside the US.
12:32 Ends first ad break
27:57 Ends second ad break
Gods work
The awkward moment where
Instead of the hero living long enough to see himself become the villain
he lives long enough to pay for a young up and coming villain to go to school, grow up, become wealthy and powerful
And start a one man war against him.
That's rough buddy.jpg.
I can't believe you didn't include the clip of Jean-Claude Juncker greeting Orban in front of the press as a dictator. That clip is so iconic
And that's also a fucking lie.
I can bet Cody and Katy fight about who has to chug that AG1 every show
On the one hand, AG1 looks like a giant scam. On the other hand, I can't imagine anyone seeing these ads and thinking "I should defintely buy that", so I guess it's okay.
It's amazing how they consistently choke that down, heavily implying if not outright stating it tastes like shit, and Athletic Greens is like "Hell yeah more of that please"
"Ideas spread now due to Internet."
Always thankful for the in-depth explanations for how the world does things.
Thank you for mentioning that George S. payed for Victor O's higher education, that little factoid has been buggin' me for years now.
I knew Hungary was f-ed up thx to Pick-up-Artists idolizing the S-it out of it an Adam-Something and Hbomberguy covered this and more, but i didnt knew it was this bad.
he didn't pay for the education, that was free, as all higher ed was (and technicly still is) in hungary. He paid some of the upkeep of his fraternity house (that's a closer analogue to what Bibo college is, inside the oldest existing hungarian university, ELTE, that he attanded, for free), but his semester in Oxford was fully financed by Soros. So his English, and his outlook to the world was paid for by the "devil"...
@@Helga7850 ??
No, he didn't pay for his higher education, don't lie. His higher education was payed by the Hungarian state
@@adamm025
Fact: Soros paid for Orban's Oxford education.
FYI, Switzerland is still refusing to allow Germany and other EU nations to export ammo to Ukraine. They're blocking resupply of Gepard ammo, for example, which Germany has in stock but isn't allowed to forward to another party without Switzerland giving the Go Ahead, because the stuff was manufactured in Switzerland (even if done by a manufacturer seated in Germany, because those particular factories are across the border).
Good
Oh no, so the Swiss dont want to be considered complicit in a proxy war between NATO and Russia, which could potentially turn nuclear, and has a lot of nuance and historical context to how it came to be what it is right now and that clearly has no good side in it, with the exception of the working class people who get murdered and killed in the name of capitalist imperialist oligarchs !? Oh no
@@thodkats okay keep talking like that and I'm gonna have to offer you a foot rub and back massage.
Switzerland is a neutral country that takes said neutrality *very* seriously, and this has been incredibly important historically both for Swiss security and global politics more broadly. Having Swiss weapons turn up in a warzone would endanger that, which is not something they're going to risk for the sake of prolonging a war that doesn't benefit them at all.
We sell weapons to the Saudis. Go figure where those are being used. And that is but one example.
Switzerland‘s government is struggling with it‘s understanding of neutrality. And then there is always the issue of money, which is why our government needs to pressured into follow sanctions.
Nothing to be proud of as a fellow citizen.
As a Hungarian, I feel conflicted about the showdy talking about my home country lol
For a while I’ve been treating the news here as a bad kind of medicine. I hate it, it sucks to take it, I feel bad afterwards but I kinda have to. It’s ironic that I feel the worst about watching an episode that concerns me the most.
Sooo yeah. I hate it here. Also glad for the video. It’s weird.
I’m glad Cody can pronounce Budapest correctly!
Thanks! I wish more right-leaning folks would watch this and realize what is happening here in the US. Love you guys ❤️
And I wish more left-leaning folks would watch Tucker Carlson and realize what is happening here.
@@CowMaster9001 lol. lmao even
@@CowMaster9001 Tucker Carlson is a disgrace. He doesn't do good journalism and subtly endorses white supremacy. So yeah no thanks.
Oh, Tucker is a fire-stoker and a wimp.
Go tan your balls, before the lesbians steal them from you; sounds like something Tucker would say. 🤣🤣🤣
Hungarian left is just failing to convince the society that they can do better. That's not Orban's fault. This was lesson 01 for left wing students, who got almost brainwashed by this video, and believe that in Hungary we have dictatoship, just because an overweight hipster tells so in a sarcastic tone. You don't have to thank me!
A Schmitty episode! Huzzah! Can't wait to watch, what I'm sure will be a light, positive episode on how Hungary is not-so-secretly interesting and fascinating! Yup, nothing at all rotten under Orban's rule; I'm sure I'll come out of this episode feeling GREAT!
As a Brit who is being told by their government that the police should be less "woke" and that refugees are "invading"; and whose government are gradually criminalising protest; I'm glad you pointed out the slow, subtle, and gradual switch to fascism.
🤔 something doesn't add up here...
Oh, french conservatives are also using the english word "woke", i feel like America's right wing is the current inspiration for a lot of European fascist ideas
Germanys conservatives too
always has been
American media is VERY influential. Not just the right wing, but the whole of their media.
Not so fun fact, besides the don't say gay thing, Hungary also rolled back legal transgender recognition in 2020. Like it was allowed for 20 years now you can't legally transition.
It should've been done sooner, but at least we got around to it.
All the more reason to be casually and loudly pro-trans worldwide, and to kill with extreme prejudice everyone who threatens you in response to you having the audacity to be wholesome. 😘
AS A HUNGARIAN FAN, THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS EPISODE!!! YOU ARE MY FAVOURITE YT CHANNEL AND I WAS HOPING THIS DAY WOULD COME AND TODAY IS THE DAY! SO HAPPY!!!!!
I love you very much!
What is a “Hungarian fan”
@@Bread-nx9fo it could be someone who is Hungarian that is a fan of the show.
Always gotta drop everything for the Cody Showdy.
Can't get enough Warmbo either! I wish Warmbo and Ho Chi Sock could have there own thingy together...
Including children we may be holding.
@@tomasinacovell4293 I've had too much puppet and want the nightmare to end before I end it by force.
Thanks
Cody is the cool, funny substitute teacher who teaches you more history in an hour than you've learned all semester.
... that feels horrifically accurate... I am now imagining he's there to substitute for a class that has little to nothing to do with history or politics yet we would still learn more from him which would make going to history class later so freaking depressing. Had that happen once with an English teacher substtituing for a science class. I still remember that lesson beter than any other.
Your acting/perfomance is top-notch as always!
also thanks for the news
Köszönöm. As a Hungarian beating the warning drum since 2016, it is just... you know. That.
Ok so:
1. You're a man pretending to be a woman
2. You're a furry
Whatever it is you're warning us about I hope it will come to pass
@@A_Takacs So... You wish Putin's Russia in Hungary? Pack your bags and go to Krasnoyarsk then.
Considering Greece's current government is trying it's best to be a combination of Orban and Nixon (Watergate and all) we would appreciate an episode on that!
Yes. And also the pushbacks that some of us will be ashamed of forever.
@@lawyer_with_a_guitar9098 that started before this government came to power
Thank you for this video, guys. I'm not sure if you realize how empowering it is for me, a Hungarian born in 1989, to hear about these issues on this channel and have our nation represented with such thorough understanding of what's going on.
If youre into 'Criticism-Video-Essays' that Cody
specializes in., what about HBomberguy, Adam Something, all Atheist-UA-camrs ever,
and Professo Dave?
And if we stretch ithe Defintions here a bit, how about
Madvocatre covering 'The Flash' and Jay Excis legendary Doctor Who Review?
My grandma is Hungarian and so I've grown up with a little knowledge but this really shows were it is now. She used to talk about going back and showing us around but now she would never. It's sad to see her lose that connection and worry about her friends over there. Thank you for sharing and educating!
Tell your grandma to visit Hungary she will be more safe than anywhere else.
i’m a Hungarians who has lived in the USA for 18 years and you should have no reason to fear coming back to your home. I come back twice a year and feel more safe here then I do in Texas.
Nyugodtan visszajöhet a nagymamád ez egy békés biztonságos száp ország.
As a civ 6 play Hungary takes up more space in my mind than most other Americans
Matthias and his beautiful head of hair ❤
Funny how everything he said about Hungary and the US can be said about Brazil. It's "almost" like there's an wave of fascism rising globally
When I was younger, I always thought Fascism was an ideology relegated to the 40s, which the Allies fought and won against, and we wouldn't be seeing in in the First World ... boy was I wrong. I'm afraid Fascism is always going to be a looming shadow that we must be guarding against constantly.
@@names_are_useless Since the US create facist and terror stated, because they need to be in war, or their economy will collapse.
Amazing job,learnt a lot from last half hour and i am hungarian,lived there till i was 25
woah, as a student living here most of my life this is so refreshing to see from a mostly american political channel.
I have spent a lot of time in hungary within the past 4 years, due to dating a hungarian, and the country is such a sad case. The country itself is beautiful, the food is amazing, the language is incredibly interesting and it has a unique culture that you just don't feel with western European countries. If only it wasn't completely run by fascists and the people (who are suffering) hadn't been super brainwashed. It's such a shame
Same boat, ex husband is hungarian. I miss goose liver paste and wasabi lays
Just curious... whats the food like??
@@donnadelgado8164 do you like sour cream? Because man do Hungarians love sour cream. I'd personally recommend everyone to try lángos, which is a type of deep fried bread with garlicky sour cream and cheese on top. Look it up, it's really good. Besides that, gulyás is pretty well known around the world, a kind of beef stew. There's also a lot of paprika everywhere. Oh and then there's the desserts, like Somló (something, I forgot how it's fully called) which is like a chocolatey, creamy kinda thing. Food in general is super rich, you won't go hungry in a hungarian kitchen
@@duckbringr personally I can't go without lángos for too long, but I see where you're coming from. They somehow also just have a bunch of stuff in stores you can't buy where I'm from (Germany) so I always go broke in their supermarkets.
@@randomdeutsch5489 It's called Somlói galuska.
Will Smith dancing to Drake in Hungary aged like milk in a hot car.
Can't wait for the video about Poland that's definitely coming out in the near future
I hope not... 😣 Fingers crossed we have a huge cultural change after next year's elections.
Please no. I don't need my country here.
@闘将ダイモス Never have seen one of these in my life. See tons of LGBTQ+ flags in Warsaw. Tons of gay couples. No one ever gets bothered.
@@SicYennefer: Hoping for that as well, but when it happens, that need not preclude SMN from making that vid on Poland.
@@SicYennefer Everyone besides babcie hate PiS. Culture is fine besides old people who didn't learn anything from PRL.
Man, hearing the history of Hungary as someone from Georgia (the country) made me concerned. It feels too similiar.
Been to your neighbor to the south (Armenia) and thought it was great. Would love to go to Georgia someday
He got a few historical facts utterly mixed up though.
The already got EU sanctions for not being a liberal democracy, and we are talking here about billions of bucks.
"History does not repeat, but it often rhymes."
I wonder if it's sheer coincidence that Hungary's anti feminist propaganda could pass for a PragerU video.
the woman in the ad at 29:30 said "I like to bake. I rarely deviate from the recipe and it's a good feeling to know that if I mix given ingredients in the given way, I'll always largely wind up with the same result"
currently Orban-appointed president of Hungary
...and THAT'S an ad telling women not to work?
@@weareallbornmad410 I think the message is more, traditional families (one man one woman) work, and they work every time, so why deviate from that with crazy new ideas from the outside world
What was crazy AF is me as a hungarian first time seeing said ad. Granted I basically banned TV from my household 8ish years ago
@@janosd4nuke I never watched that shit. My grandmother had it on for 3 hours a day straight; echo TV, csiga 2, RTL, Duna TV, lánchíd rádió, hír TV, stb but it just drives me insane
...yeah, we kinda do, much as it pains me to admit. This is where European me turns from an observer of "hey the US is really messed up" to confronting some of our own issues. Also, if nothing else, just how much the GOP likes Orban should be an indication something there is very wrong...
as much as im willing to talk about our errors too, Europe has had a lot of complete screw ups as well, berlusconi, as well as the new fascist prime minister, the le pens, geert wilders, even the brexit was basically xenophobia and isolationism forming policy, and australia, how about that pauline hanson?. the u.s. absolutely has screw ups, but Europe can be a bit free to write themselves an excuse to not see how they are like us. and that lets that sort influence more people. its even basically the same people, lower education level older whites who see a changing world and radically react to protect the past that they selectively remember only the good bits from.
@@ryanweible9090 you know what's even worse? Sometimes it's literally the same people, at least as strategists and financial support.
@@ryanweible9090 Europe is not a single country nor a cultural monolith. Just had to bring that up since you're comparing one country to a whole continent there.
Okay, but like do the ag1 people even know what these ad spots are like???
I have a really close friend who is a queer person living in Hungary and has to remain closeted from basically everyone they know in person because of the pervasive homophobia in their country. It’s absolutely terrifying. Thank you for talking about what’s going on in Hungary but I wish you talked a bit more about how Orban’s policies affect everyday Hungarians.
Hungary is one of the least bigot and and most open-minded society in europe. Homophobia, really?? Come and see
What is queer?
Please more videos concerning countries outside US!
How many of those are there????
I'd rather have them keep a consistent quality rather than embarrass themselves like John Oliver does with his wildly ignorant (or deliberately misleading?) reporting on foreign affairs.
@@InTrancedState At least 2. Hungry and Turkey.
@闘将ダイモス It's really not. Barely anyone here is Catholic or religious.
Turkey? palestine?
As a Hungarian, I can say that we have seen a frighteningly accurate summary of the past 12 years. Foreigners don't even understand how surreal it is to live in this country with one half of the country living in a parallel reality. I have no idea, how we can get rid of Orban, as obviously the elections doesn't work as you see. I can just thank you for making this video and I can just hope, that many people will see it and try to learn from our failures.
Felvilágosíthatnád az amerikai átlagnézőt, hogy mi olyan borzalmas ebben az országban! Te szegény
It helps me deal with my intense anxiety about learning the news these days when you show real anxiety about it, too. When people talk about this stuff in calm ways it freaks me out because I’m like “WHY ARE YOU NOT FREAKING OUT”? Ya know? Thanks Cody Showdy.
If it is any consolation I fully agree that we should all freak out way more. Also I’m Hungarian. Apologies.
Because half of it is false. They forget to mention that the current horrible government has an alternative of a more horrible opposition who can gather only 40% in total. Everybody knows whats going on and surpressed state media is just an excuse. Its as relevant as if CNN would run a state propanda and being watched by grannies. By readers count not quantity 70% of the media is leftist. Also no one mentions, that until 2005 no television was right wing except a small regional broadcoast (Echo TV) and the only right wingconservative newspaper (Magyar Nemzet) had funding problems. Leftist were not freaking out back then. I advise to watch a footage from Gyurcsány era when police was beating up people without police IDs.
I paused the video to get my history grease out and everything!!! DAMN YOU KATY
It's worth noting, that alongside the gerrymandering, cheating etc, there is also another big factor in Orbán winning elections. And that's the complete incompetence of their political opposition.
Things are pretty similar here, in Quebec. About 15 years ago, a new nationalist party began scaring people about immigrants by creating a made-up crisis called "crise des accommodements raisonnables" (crisis of the reasonable accomodations). The government back then created a commission to study this "crisis", and it was revealed that in truth, there were no problem - people simply did not know what immigrants looked like, and thus whenever the medias spoke to them about migrants the public got scared. So, it was recommended that we should simply encourage the population to learn that migrants were "normal people", and not some kind of scary monster.
No political party liked the conclusions of the commission : the nationalists were disappointed by the findings, and the liberals were not really interested in its results anyway so nothing was done about it. Fast forward a few years, the Liberals gets beaten because of corruption while the nationalists continue to scare people about migrants. In the meantime, the separatists try to pass a law targetting specifically muslim women because they are the migrants that everyone associated with the so-called "crisis of the reasonable accomodations". They get defeated, the Liberals come back, but this time they feel pressured into doing "something", so they pass a bill making it so that you have to not have anything covering your face when receiving any service from the government (because the nationalists scared the public into thinking that muslim women with the "full-face veil" were common, and that they were a national threat since they could hide anything underneath). Then, the Liberals got defeated again and this time, the nationalists who began the whole "crisis" decided to "solve it" by making it so that musim women wearing the hijab could not work for the government - calling it rather explicitely a "nationalist law" and saying that it's goal was to "give something to the majority, the ones that are a little racist and who would not want any muslims in the streets".
Then, the provincial PM passed the last 4 years passing bills that similarly target minorities, using the word "woke" to disqualify it's opponents, saying (ironically) that they introduce here concepts from the USA that are foreign to our society, glorifying Duplessis ("le père de la Grande Noirceur", or the "father of the Great Darkness" in English), wanting to build a wall with the USA, saying that immigrants are a threat and that we should rewrite our Charter of Rights and abolish our counter-powers so that we would be able to deal better with the "threat" that they represent.
Holy Shit
@@fantuswitt9063 Our last election was rather depressing, too. The new Nationalists got a little less than 40% of the vote, but over 75% of the deputies. This would mean that if they want, nothing stops them from rewriting our Charter of Rights (well, kinda. We would still have the federal one, but we can "opt out" of that one for specific bills and for pretty important rights. So, for exemple, our provincial PM could rewrite our Charter, then pass a bill going against freedom of expression, the right to life or the presumption of innocence and just "opt out" of the federal Charter protecting those rights. The only things that might be able to do anything in such a case would maybe be the judges - what Legault called "The government of the Judges", something that he wants to abolish - and the Governor General, a position mostly symbolic).
Those are flaws inherent to our government, but before the Nationalists, every political party had enough good will to not exploit them. Now... It's less obvious.
@@fantuswitt9063 It seems obvious that the "new Nationalists" are feeding a monster, and that they are/might lose control of it.
For exemple, they began their last mandate by dismissing every study going against what they were saying regarding migrants as being a "plot from the elites against the population". So, when covid came around and suddenly the PM said that his fans now needed to listen to the experts, they felt betrayed and went full conspiracy theory - to the point where the "anti-covid" party got 15% of the vote (as much as all the other parties that is not the "new Nationalists").
@@GThe-su9klit's nice to see quebecers like me interested in international politics and the rise of fascism! I am often disapointed at how little we manage to analyse our province's situation in relation to world context. This makes it harder to see patterns and correlations, easier to see papa Legault as nothing more than an inneficient manager. He is definitely using weak nationalism to do whatever he wants and they have been more active in their second mandate in their attempts to remake the province to their image. Hard to see where this is going but it definitely empowered some hardcore conservatives to come out.
@@kayfortier9474 I was surprised the other day when I witnessed an old woman yelling at an old English woman, telling her (in French) to speak French or get deported since a "new law was passed". The English woman told her that she was born here, so I told the French one that Bill 96 did not apply like so. I assume that this might be what you're talking about?
When he started talking about Orban allies taking over and shutting down non allied media I couldn't help but think of what we're seeing with Elon and Twitter.
The most viewd tv channel is anti government in Hungary. The opposition is also dominant online.
@@Mrac-zz8vh Which would matter if there would be internet culture in Hungary. RTL is pro democracy, there's a difference.
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Even most of the 60+ people i know spend way too much time online.
Apart from the people in their 70s, 80s i can not tell an age group that has no smartphone. And they all keep hanging on it.
RTL Klub is a private company and almost exclusively after profit. They are selling trash content for the dumb because there is a huge demand for it all over the world. Democracy? Shareholders!
@@Mrac-zz8vh I know this is hard to imagine but you can be for profit and actual transparent competition.
The online market in Hungary is small and the society by far and large loves believing what dear leader says, which is why the pro government media can spout the easily disproven lie that German bakeries have to sell bread in the dark.
The government goes the extra stupid mile to try and cover up mismanaged policies by blaming the war. The only true thing is that yes, energy costs went higher due to the conflict yet Russia was and remains keen on dicking with anyone to whom they sell oil and gas to if they feel the leadership is "not friendly enough".
The hot second Russia closed fossil fuel transport to Ukraine under timoshenko should have alarmed Hungary, and frankly it did. At the time they jumped into nabucco and Kóka talked about buying liquid gas from tankers. 12 years were wasted on not diversifying.
There is no press freedom because if you tried to submit a readers letter to state television (which was a custom) detailing how failed and misguided policies lead to Hungary being the only country in Europe with buy limits on food, they would never air it as they can't.
State media relies on people and they're plentiful, who only consume content in Hungarian so, of course, they will believe Germany sells bread in the dark as they remember the infamous brownouts and blackouts in Romania.
@@akosbarati2239
Germany just picked up a 200 billion euro loan to pay the energy bill only for this winter. Without any consultation with other EU countries. Simply because the gov had no other choice..about 30% of the population could not afford the market price for energy this winter...therefore the gov would certainly fall..there was nothing to discuss with other EU countries..that was the only way for them to stay in power...now when they pour the 200 billion euros loan on the energy market (at the begining of next year) all of us Europeans will pay for the inflationary effects that it will cause...but we are the lucky ones in Europe...the German gigaloan will allow Germany to outbid all LNG dependent countries on the world market..specially the poorest ones...and they will simply not get any LNG. It will have literally deadly consequences in the 3rd world.
Have you seen DW's or other german state financed media channels' reports on it...they are laughably bended.
Try to write a letter to them to stick to the facts. Good luck with that.
Cody’s disdain for advertising soothes my soul
I live in France and I also see the influence of autorianism on the right wing here so I hope power never goes to them because I see what they would do with it.
Hang on. Since when was Macron left wing?
I hope France becomes fascist and safe for the native French. Also, I really wish for the sub-saharans and other Africans to leave France.
The fact Poland also has a right-wing, reactionary government shouldn't be overlooked
Pretty much all of Europe is right-wing and reactionary. Remember what Zhukov said after the war?
"We liberated them from fascism, but they will never forgive us for it".
The difference is between Poland and Hungary that Poland is a deeply religious country where the church has a big influence in the society and politics. Hungary is one of the most irreligious countries in Eastern Europe. Orbán is rather a populist leader who use christianity as a tool of staying in power. Meanwhile PiS is really a traditionalist, christian fundamentalist party. That's how i see this from Hungary, but if you polish just correct me.
Amusing that anyone still uses the phrase "European values" as though it means something.
I just wanted to leave a comment to help your algorithm Cody… Thank you for everything you do I love your show much love from Kennewick Washington Washington state on the mighty Columbia River
Fun fact! Rod Dreher, the dude brought up around 48:00, is a staff writer at the American Conservative magazine, who moved to Hungary because he has a very literal hard-on for Orbán's autocracy.
As a Hungarian I must say that leaving out Trianon is a major mistake in your historical analysis. For many, it s still one of the most decisive historical event in the 20th century.
Me: *quietly watching the Showdy in the kitchen*
Cody: "Hungarians have been integrated into all kinds of empires, from the Roman Empire..."
My Hungarian wife, from the other side of the flat: "WHAT! WHAT THE FUCK DID HE JUST SAY?? THE FUCKING ROMANS?!?!?" *explodes*
Yeah that wasn't quite right. Its an interesting example of how a "nation" is both a people and a place.
he only said the territory was incorporated into the Roman empire...
i think because she thought of romanians. the hungarian word for romanian is "román", and for roman is "római", so easy to get it wrong. And theres a negative stereotypization towards romanians in many hungarian households sadly
Technically part of Hungary was under the Ottomans, who thought of themselves as a continuation of the Roman Empire (they called themselves the Sultinate of Rûm initially).
wikipedia says: "The Roman Empire conquered the territory between the Alps and the area west of the Danube River from 16 to 15 BC, the Danube being the frontier of the empire.[43] In 14 BC, Pannonia, the western part of the Carpathian Basin, which includes today's west of Hungary, was recognised by emperor Augustus in the Res Gestae Divi Augusti as part of the Roman Empire.[43] The area south-east of Pannonia was organised as the Roman province Moesia in 6 BC.[43] An area east of the river Tisza became the Roman province of Dacia in 106 AD, which included today's east Hungary. It remained under Roman rule until 271."
As someone born and living in Hungary I do think of the country every now and then. 🤷♂️
To get through this without seeing that clip of EU Commission President (sort of like the speaker of your house but...not EU political structures are hard) slapping Orban while saying 'hello dictator' means you guys missed out one of the best moments around Hungarian-EU relations!
Twice in a row now I've been wearing my Some More News T-shirt while watching an episode, completely unplanned. Just a happy accident. Maybe I should change my clothes more often... Already wearing the decal off of this one.
Turn it inside out before washing and wash in cold water if you wanna get more life out of a graphic t-shirt!
Never take it off, never wash it. The shirt may be filthy but the news will always be fresh daily.
Gross
@@zenleeparadise Yeah, I'm going to try extra hard to make sure that is done from now on. I have plenty of other graphic T-shirts and this isn't really a problem with others. Must just be Cody's soft skin is easily rubbed the wrong way. It's still in one piece but you can tell it's breaking down a bit.
@@Jakey4000 Well, hot dog, I'll do it! It's a really comfy shirt anyhow so why not keep it going? That way I'll never be without my pals at Some More News.
Hungarian Democracy is a seriously underrated GNR album.
I feel like an Illiberal Democracy is what we're headed towards in America. A democracy on paper but not in practice.
Cheers from Bulgaria or as I "love" to call it: The Next Hungary
For your sake, I hope it will be
@@A_Takacs What is wrong with you
@@shadowwarrier4416 Why would there be anything wrong with me?
@@A_Takacs You said that you hope for my sake that my fucked up country loses the last remains of its democracy
@@shadowwarrier4416 Not at all. I just hope the same thing happens that did here in Hungary, where the people came to their senses in 2010 and voted for a proper right wing party that is committed to defending our country and its values. I think the traditional values of Bulgaria are also worth defending.
I studied math in Hungary as part of a study abroad program and I miss those thermal pools 😭
I just want to give a shoutout to Katie and what an amazing cartoon villain she plays. It's just so good!
Really proud of you that you pronounced "Budapest" correctly!
He pronounced it with an 's' sound, not an 'sh' lol. That's not the correct pronunciation...
@@tamasfoldesi2358 I thought he said "sh" but I can have misheard.
But even if he said "Pest" with 's' it still is for a foreigner a quite good try, especially for an American.
@@DerIchBinDa Small correction, at first, he mispronunced it, then later in the video, he said it correctly. I just didn't finish the video yet when I posted that comment. But it doesn't matter that he's American. You can easily look up stuff on the internet. He mispronunces every Hungarian name in this video.
If anyone else is interested in further history of Hungary but want it tied to like a video game for some reason FuturaSouns productions has a wonderful history of Hungary in their series discussing Skullface from mgsv
That dude is an absolute content machine. Great channel.
@@paulj6805 the amount of research they must do for even the tiniest details in those games is amazing. Their analysis is thoughtful. It's just a joy to watch because you can tell they loved making those videos. To be honest they sound like they have the same enthusiasm as a child trying to tell you about their favorite Pokémon but with a lot more serious tone
watching this right before going to vote for the next czech president, we're almost neighbors with hungary and it's terrifying what poland and hungary is up to, especially as a queer trans person. very thankful to hear someone talking about this
I as a Romanian and especially as a Transylvanian I think allot about Hungary, just sain' :D
Slovak here :p 👋
In what way? I heard Romanians kinda envy Orban's fight against the EU
@@personofgirth7934 If there are people that "envy" Orban's fight against the EU those are people who fall pray to the nationalist waves that are going through Europe. Currently Orban is getting some fallback from the EU because of his open support for Putin and extremely nationalist policies.
More than that Orban is financing organizations and politicians that try to make more Maghiar (RomanianHungarians) more extreme in order to destabilize our internal politics and make them ask for "their territory " (Transylvania) back.
@@HDdeiu So, first, Orban is not supporting Putin openly, what is going on is there is no other source of energy other than russia(due to the landlocked nature of the country), Hungary would go through insane recession if the eu puts embargo on russian energy without substitutions. Second, those are Székely's, not "Maghiar"(also spelled Magyar), and no, there is no way the Székely's can take back what the Treaty Of Trianon annexed from them, these are completely fake news because the entire idea is idiotic and impossible and you know it.
Hearing more about WW1 Hungary was really interesting for me on a personal level. My great grandfather fought in the Hungarian army then, was a Russian POW, & on release from there had the option of going back to war or to leave to North America. He chose moving to Canada, where he worked as a farm hand until he could buy his own farm and send for his family
concerned european here, thanks for this video. keep em coming
This video has some interesting timing for me. My family is Hungarian and I’m currently in the process of trying to become a Hungarian citizen as a means of obtaining EU citizenship because I’m looking to try to study over in Europe and potentially live there afterward. Learning more and more about how things are going over there makes me discouraged because I don’t even know if a Hungarian citizenship would mean anything outside of the country by the time I’m planning on heading over.
Truly love the state of humanity right now. 0/10 please send an asteroid to hit the planet
As someone trying to get an Italian citizenship for the same reason: big same
Come to Germany we now have one of the most left wing governments in our history and one of the weakest right wing partys in the entire EU. We also have great forests for strolling.
@@fantuswitt9063 just a quick fact check for everyone: i’m pretty sure those german forests you speak of are actually teeming with werewolfs , so def be careful out there folks, can b verry scary
@@severalwolves There wolf. There castle.
get that extra passport if you can fr if I had a realistic way to get another I'd be all over it