According to the Euronews report, based on data from the European Central Bank, real wages in Hungary increased by the second-largest amount in Europe, and within the European Union we rank first. Moreover, this favorable trend is set to strengthen further with the new benefits coming into effect in January.
but…
https://www.economx.hu/gazdasag/unios-atlagfizetesek-es-vasarloero.808755.html
https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eur%C3%B3pai_orsz%C3%A1gok_%C3%A1tlagfizet%C3%A9s_alapj%C3%A1n
“Is this guy even normal?!”
I don’t usually “lose my temper,” but as the father of five children, the latest brainwave from Mark Rutte, the NATO Secretary General, really blew a fuse for me! 😡
This fine gentleman says about the Russian–Ukrainian conflict:
“Several European countries have indicated that they would be ready to provide troops if there were a need.
At present, work is underway to determine exactly what this so-called ‘coalition of the willing’ would look like: what a deployment would involve, what would happen on land, at sea, and in the air.
I have no doubt: when the situation turns serious, young people will be ready to take up arms.”
Even if it were about defending against a Russian attack directed at NATO… but these people want to ATTACK Russia! And of course, leading the charge—who else but the Germans! 🤦♂️
Then arm your own children, old man—not ours‼️
But there’s also a typically “Hungarian” criticism here: there is this thing called the RRF, the Recovery and Resilience Facility, where a rather substantial amount — around 900 billion forints — was allocated to healthcare development, and part of it should have been used for hospital renovations. Fifty hospitals and thirty-one ambulance stations were on the list. Yet, as we know, our political opponents are blocking these funds for political reasons.
So I came up with the idea: if the EU doesn’t give us the money from one pocket, then we’ll simply take it from the other pocket of the Brussels bureaucrats. And I brought this proposal to Minister Lantos — to send a little jab — that if we don’t get it from one place, we’ll take it from another. And in this energy-efficiency envelope, which has been opened to Hungarians — thanks to the Prime Minister — we can tap into a sizable EU fund. With that, we will now be able to renovate exactly those 50 hospitals and about 20 ambulance stations that were originally on the list.
In Szombathely, the average waiting time is 73 days — which actually puts the city among the worst in the country. Don’t let them mislead you! They might just be trying to push you into the private sector. Book an appointment with a different doctor or simply go to Csorna — it’s only about a 30-minute drive on Route 86 — and you can get seen within three weeks.
Healthcare is a field where the job is never truly done. There is always a new challenge — just think of the sudden emergence of a global pandemic that we had to respond to and prepare for. I believe Hungary’s healthcare workers and service system performed excellently. There is always a new technology, a new medicine — always another step forward to take.
Of course, we don’t have endless resources, but we are always guided by the determination to address people’s real problems. We are a government that doesn’t sweep issues under the rug or deny them — we identify them, we work out the solutions, we have a vision, we know exactly where we want to go, and we carry out that plan.
Even if we only talk about infrastructure: if I could, I would put our critics — our political opponents — into a time machine and send them back to 2008 to look around Hungarian hospitals, to see the state of the ambulance service back then — the ambulances were more than 13 years old and completely worn out.
And where are we now? Since we came into government, we have renovated — fully or at least partially — 91 hospitals and countless outpatient clinics. Under the Hungarian Village Program alone, we have renovated 625 medical offices. That’s a huge achievement. We have purchased 1,160 ambulances, and by the end of this year we will acquire another hund
There are 111 hospitals in Hungary in 2025.
So if 50 are “blocked”…
well, math clearly isn’t Fidesz’s best friend.
Have you heard that the Tisza candidate in Vác is completely silent? Renáta Simon, the left-wing loan broker, is a member of the Vác Housing Committee. She barely spoke a few times during eleven public meetings — and honestly, everyone is better off when she stays quiet, because even when she did speak, it was about raising rents. She didn’t even consider that this would burden hundreds of families. This is how she would represent the people of Vác. Believe me: if she wants to squeeze families here and now, then if they ever came to power, they would tax everyone — and we cannot allow that.
🧩 1️⃣ “Silent candidate” – character assassination without evidence
“the silent Tisza candidate in Vác”
👉 Technique:
Silence is framed as incompetence.
No criteria:
• what counts as “speaking enough”?
• what topics should she have addressed?
📌 Manipulation:
Political performance is judged not by content, but by a behavioral stigma.
🧩 2️⃣ Labeling: “left-wing loan broker”
👉 Classic pejorative identity tagging:
• “left-wing” → ideological enemy
• “loan broker” → financial interest, suspicious business
📌 Missing:
• any explanation
• conflict of interest
• any specific case or gain
👉 Goal: provoke moral suspicion without facts.
🧩 3️⃣ Misframing committee work
“she barely spoke a few times during eleven public meetings”
👉 Hidden facts:
• committee work is not a speech contest
• number of comments ≠ significance of decisions
• silence often means consensus or prior expert work
📌 Technique:
Quantitative appearance → qualitative judgment.
🧩 4️⃣ Rent increase = “extortion” (emotional over-framing)
“she would burden hundreds of families”
👉 Manipulative tools:
• “extortion” → criminal metaphor
No mention of:
• inflation
• operating costs
• municipal legal obligations
📌 Structural issues are turned into personal villainy.
🧩 5️⃣ Slippery future: local issue → national horror scenario
“if she taxes families here now, they’d tax everyone nationwide if they got power”
👉 Classic domino argument:
local committee discussion
→ national tax policy
→ everyone loses
📌 No real connection, just fear-inducing chain.
🧩 6️⃣ “We cannot allow this” – emotional mobilization
👉 Closing panel:
• collective “we”
• sense of immediate danger
• no alternatives, no debate
📌 Function:
Not informing → sounding the alarm.
🧠 Summary — what is actually happening?
This message is:
❌ not program analysis
❌ not policy debate
❌ not accountability
✅ It is a delegitimizing campaign message that:
• attacks the person
• blurs concepts
• projects fear
• avoids evidence completely
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Piroska Szalai
Public Figure
“Let the numbers speak!”
Chief Advisor to the Prime Minister
Expertise in Economy, Competitiveness, Labor Market, Demography, and Family Well-Being
And the reality, however, is…:
https://www.ksh.hu/stadat_files/nep/hu/nep0006.html
They’ve started portraying Hungary as an overachiever — cherry-picking a few numbers and celebrating them as if they were huge victories.
If a statistic was 5 ten years ago and now it’s 10, then suddenly we’re “the best in the world.”
But what’s behind those numbers?
Everyone else sees the full picture and just shakes their head.
Reality doesn’t matter anymore — only that they can squeeze out a round of applause from anything.
And then the Fidesz loyalists can cheer:
“Look how far our sweet homeland has come!”
Meanwhile, everything else… simply doesn’t matter.
Compared to 2010, wages in Hungary have seen the third largest increase in the entire European Union.
There are 13 trillion forints in the retail current and savings accounts.
Hungary has the highest savings rate in the EU relative to income.
In 2010, there were roughly 2.9 million cars in Hungary.
Today, that number has grown to 4.3 million.
Car “success” communication?
The reality tells a different story…
The government proudly highlights:
➡️ 2010: 299 passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
➡️ 2023: 435 passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
🛑 But here’s the catch!
• In 2010, Hungary was the 5th worst in Europe
• In 2023, we are the 6th worst
👉 So we were already at the bottom — and we’ve slipped even further down.
And there’s more:
🚗 The average age of cars in Hungary: 15+ years
→ One of the oldest fleets in all of Europe
→ No modernization — just survival
📌 More cars ≠ better quality of life
📌 More cars ≠ economic success
📌 More cars ≠ better transport policy
If we really wanted something to be proud of, it would be:
✔ safer cars on the roads
✔ a more sustainable transport system
✔ not being stuck at the bottom of the European ranking
Source: KSH – STADAT database (Hungarian Central Statistical Office)
https://www.ksh.hu/stadat_files/sza/hu/sza0048.html
It’s a problem that they live in such a different world. Thankfully, I don’t have many relatives who support Tisza, but the few that do are on such a completely different wavelength that you just can’t have a normal conversation with them. Honestly, they’ll even take a comment like “this schnitzel tastes good” as proof that you’re a Fidesz shill.
🎭 1️⃣ Constructing a Caricature Enemy
“Relatives who support Tisza… they live in a different universe”
👉 The opponent is not a debate partner but a cartoonish figure.
It doesn’t refute concrete arguments — it assigns a mental state (“you literally can’t talk to them”).
Function:
🧠 2️⃣ Normalizing Cognitive Isolation
“Luckily I don’t have many relatives who support Tisza”
👉 Extending political tribal logic into family relationships.
Implicit message:
“Political differences naturally justify social/relationship distancing.”
This is a soft form of dehumanization — packaged as humor.
🍽️ 3️⃣ Absurd Exaggeration = Emotional Credibility
“They even think you’re a Fidesz agent if you say the fried chicken is good”
👉 Deliberate overstatement:
No claim that this literally happened —
the point is:
“The other side is so absurd they misinterpret anything.”
Effect:
🧩 4️⃣ Victim Narrative Without Responsibility
The speaker presents themselves as:
while assigning all responsibility for conflict to the other side.
👉 This is the classic “sensible majority vs. fanatical minority” frame.
🎯 Summary
This statement does not argue — it:
It seems humorous, but it reinforces tribal thinking:
not “people with different opinions”, but “people from another universe.”
Are you under 25 and working? The Tisza Party would tax you too. They want to abolish the tax exemption for young people. That would be unfair, since this is a huge help for everyone at the start of their lives. This exemption means nearly 1 million forints a year for a young person under 25. Fill out the National Consultation and let’s stand up together for the tax exemption of young people in Pesterzsébet!
🧩 1️⃣ Targeted address → identification trap
“Are you under 25 and working?”
👉 Technically micro-targeting:
specific age
specific status (you are employed)
The audience instantly feels personally affected before any evidence is presented.
🧩 2️⃣ Conditional future presented as fact
“The opposition would tax you too.”
👉 Manipulation:
no if, no maybe
no law, no date, no source
A hypothetical political intention is framed as a confirmed fact.
➡️ This is classic loss framing.
🧩 3️⃣ Abstract “they” → demonized enemy
“They want to abolish it…”
👉 Unspecified:
who
when
where
in what form
“They” is a vague threat — you can only react emotionally, not rationally.
🧩 4️⃣ Moral closure that blocks debate
“That would be unfair.”
👉 Not an argument, a moral verdict:
no counter-argument possible
no alternatives mentioned
Function:
👉 if you disagree, you are unfair.
🧩 5️⃣ Inflated number → fear anchor
“Nearly 1 million forints per year.”
👉 Classic number-mysticism:
gross amount impact
no context (average? maximum? under what conditions?)
The number cannot be verified, but it shocks emotionally.
🧩 6️⃣ Fake participation (“National Consultation”)
“Fill it out too…”
👉 This is not real decision-making, but:
political loyalty check
data collection
narrative reinforcement
The consultation collects agreement, not opinions.
🧩 7️⃣ Localization = identity lock-in
“young people of Pesterzsébet”
👉 National issue reframed into local identity:
“our people”
vs. “the others”
This reduces nationwide thinking and raises emotional bonding.
🎯 What is actually happening?
✔️ Not policy debate
✔️ Not legal analysis
✔️ Not economic reasoning
👉 It’s fear activation + loyalty mobilization targeting a specific age group.
🧠 In one sentence:
This message is not about what will happen —
but about
👉 what you should fear
👉 who you should blame
👉 what you should sign.
Dear Tisza supporters, your beloved country will cost you even the shirts off your backs — and even if you don’t believe it, it will still happen. Just trust your own eyes already.
For example, here’s little Gábor, and here’s Vaszilij. Because of the two of them, we would have to pay 36,000 forints a year in taxes if Tisza’s grand economic plan came to life. But that’s not even the worst part. Let’s stick to the most ordinary concerns of everyday people: when you’re sad because Tisza is turning this into a shitty country, how will you get drunk at home in silence if booze becomes so expensive that you won’t even be able to buy a bottle of La Fiesta?
Of course, the comment-prime-minister’s marketing agent has already stated that this is all lies, none of it is true — but soon you will experience on your own skin that they’ll strip not only the country, but every single Hungarian down to the bone. It’s written down, black and white.
Naturally, we all knew what the official explanation of the Savior would be: that the Fidesz actually wrote and leaked this, and that this economic plan doesn’t even exist. But the truth is: this economic plan does exist — and it will ruin your lives.
You can sling mud at us as much as you like — we still won’t let them turn this wonderful country into a poor, slum-ridden Hungary.
1️⃣ Vision of Total Impoverishment
“…you’ll even lose the shirt on your back…”
It predicts absolute, irreversible disaster.
There is no condition, no “if,” no alternative.
👉 Goal: paralyzing fear, not rational evaluation.
2️⃣ Fictional Example (“Gáborka and Vaszilij”)
“…36,000 forints in taxes per year after the two of them…”
A number that looks precise → illusion of credibility.
No source, no law, no calculation shown.
👉 Technique: number-mysticism + relatable characters = “this will happen to you.”
3️⃣ Lifestyle Humiliation
“…how will you get drunk at home…”
The voter is infantilized and reduced to an alcoholic caricature.
Not economic policy — cultural contempt.
👉 Message: “You are not a citizen, you are driven by primitive impulses.”
4️⃣ Pre-emptive Neutralization of Fact-Checking
“…the marketing agent PM will say it’s a lie…”
Any rebuttal is discredited in advance.
Whatever comes later automatically becomes “excuse.”
👉 One of propaganda’s strongest shields.
5️⃣ “Written Black and White” — Without a Source
Classic mythical-document rhetoric:
no page
no title
no link
👉 The narrative of a “secret but absolutely real paper.”
6️⃣ Messianic Framing
“…the official explanation of The Saviour…”
Religious metaphor → cult-like logic.
Dissent = lack of faith, not a rational stance.
👉 Polarization: “We are the enlightened ones.”
7️⃣ Moral Self-Absolution & Hero Posturing
“…we still won’t let it happen…”
Our side = heroic, morally superior.
Other side = “slum Hungary.”
👉 Moral blackmail: if you’re not with us, you’re against the country.
🧠 Overall Picture
This is not journalism. It’s:
The goal isn’t persuasion — it’s triggering reflexes:
Anger. Shame. Fear.
And ultimately, obedience/loyalty.