🤪 Whew. I see the hardcore sectarian crowd is very frustrated. Sure enough, the bile-filled comments are pouring in — usually from the same people: the now demonstrably incapable-of-thinking, mostly faceless, anonymous little “Szamuelys” desperately hunting for red points in the Tisza App. And then there are those few frustrated, lizard-shouldered guys who are routinely sent to my page to tell me how ugly I am without makeup, and then proceed to slander me with every baseless lie imaginable — starting with the claim that I’m not even a journalist, and so on. Just the usual.
But honestly, if we look inward for a moment, I think somewhere deep down we all understand the pathological frustration of these people. Just look at today.
The Prime Minister began the day with a 2.5-hour press conference, answering questions from more than 60 journalists and outlining the tasks and challenges facing the government. You see, these are matters that don’t play out on social media, but in real life — in the country itself, in Parliament, in Brussels, Strasbourg, Kyiv, Moscow, and Washington.
You don’t have to agree with Orbán or with Fidesz on everything, but you can listen, you can think about why they do what they do, and you can clearly see the direction. In my view, that’s the most important thing in politics: a clearly defined direction and firm ideas — ones you may agree with or not, but at least you can think about them. Not blind fandom, but thoughts and plans that provoke reflection. That’s what’s on one side.
On the other side stands the blonde copycat, who — lacking original thoughts, coherent plans, or any consistent direction — can’t even manage a so-called “press conference” without robotically reading out frothing Facebook comments, while humiliating to the ground the female journalist who dared to ask a question of the would-be savior. What a beautiful new world it will be, where only those deemed worthy by the messiah are allowed to ask questions. Say, for example, the journalist from a “portal” created by his own brother — who surely won’t ask pre-arranged questions of the comment-section prime minister, like how well he slept the night before.
Then there’s that extremely awkward issue as well: it’s getting harder and harder for the Tisza crowd to deny good old Uncle Laci Kéri — whom even Radnai the chief bootlicker called “the first Tisza member,” and who is obviously only dropping by the Tisza headquarters for the excellent coffee. Who knows, maybe it’ll even turn out that the so-called Tisza package has something to do with the minds standing behind Péter and his circle. Oh dear — let’s hope not.
Of course, none of this will make the reality-denying fans or the idiots commenting under my posts think twice. But I don’t think that’s anyone’s goal anymore. It’s a mission impossible. The good news, though, is that they’re still a minority — otherwise they wouldn’t be this aggressive and bloodthirsty. Frustration brings out the worst in people.
No worries. I thank them as well: thanks to them, we’ve already doubled this month and generated 2.2 MILLION reach on this little page.
Full speed ahead.
1️⃣ Enemy Construction and Dehumanization
Key terms: “sectarian hardcore,” “incapable of thinking,” “little Szamuelys,” “lizard-shouldered guys”
This is classic dehumanizing language.
The opponent is not a debate partner but a mentally defective, inferior being.
Function: to invalidate criticism in advance.
👉 Technique: character assassination + out-group dehumanization
2️⃣ Victim Posture + Moral Superiority
“they slander me… just the usual”
The speaker presents herself as a persecuted truth-teller.
The critic cannot be acting in good faith — they are merely “frustrated.”
This immunizes the speaker against all criticism.
👉 Technique: victim framing
3️⃣ Pseudo-Professionalism and Imported Authority
The lengthy description of the Prime Minister’s press conference:
“2.5 hours,” “60 journalists,” “Parliament–Brussels–Washington”
Quantity is falsely equated with quality.
There is not a single concrete, contestable claim.
Orbán Viktor appears not as content, but as authority.
👉 Technique: authority framing
4️⃣ False Dichotomy: “Reality” vs. “Facebook Politics”
“these things don’t happen on social media, but in reality”
As if public accountability were not part of reality.
A self-contradiction: explaining in a Facebook post what is not Facebook politics.
👉 Technique: false dichotomy
5️⃣ Open Hostility Toward Journalism
“humiliates the female journalist who dared to ask a question”
Questioning is framed not as a right, but as something that requires permission.
Only those deemed “worthy” are allowed to ask.
This reflects an authoritarian concept of the press.
👉 Technique: media delegitimization
6️⃣ Evidence-Free Conspiracy Suggestion
“Uncle Laci Kéri… surely just drops by for the coffee”
The name László Kéri is introduced through insinuation:
- no data
- no evidence
- only “everyone knows”–style suggestion
👉 Technique: conspiracy insinuation
7️⃣ Majority–Minority Myth
“they are still in the minority”
A classic propaganda paradox:
- if they are a minority → why are they dangerous?
- if they are dangerous → why are they a minority?
The term “bloodthirsty” again dehumanizes.
👉 Technique: majority illusion
8️⃣ Reach Fetishism as a Substitute for Truth
“2.2 MILLION reach”
Reach is not truth.
This is not argumentation, but a marketing metric.
“Success = we are right.”
👉 Technique: popularity fallacy
🔴 Summary
This post is not journalism, but:
- political tribal incitement
- personalized character assassination
- an authoritarian view of the press
- authority worship without content
📌 Essence in one sentence:
Those who ask questions are enemies.
Those who do not applaud are frustrated.
Those who argue are incapable of thinking.