[OFF TOPIC] Politics Thread

[Grassmarket 3,409]

For our US viewers, who won’t be seeing this kind of article anytime soon.  An explanation of how a Joe Biden press conference works.   Kind of like how a Leonid Brezhnev press conference worked, really.  You too can get 100% in all your exams if you just use this method.

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9404629/Images-taken-President-Joe-Bidens-press-conference-using-cheat-sheets.html

[heywoodu 15,141]

5 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

For our US viewers, who won’t be seeing this kind of article anytime soon.  An explanation of how a Joe Biden press conference works.   Kind of like how a Leonid Brezhnev press conference worked, really.  You too can get 100% in all your exams if you just use this method.

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9404629/Images-taken-President-Joe-Bidens-press-conference-using-cheat-sheets.html

 

Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

[Olympian1010 7,976]

 

[Federer91 2,796]

Macedonia stops at the border a bus with BG books for community centers. What petty people  And we are going to give them free vaccines...  

[Grassmarket 3,409]

Just now, Federer91 said:

Macedonia stops at the border a bus with BG books for community centers. What petty people  And we are going to give them free vaccines...  

if you insist on naming your country after Alexander the Great, you can’t be a bedwetter.  

[Vic Liu 1,682]

 

[Monzanator 4,503]

Looks like some political crisis in Slovakia @hckošice

 

First government collapse in Europe linked directly to COVID stuff?

[hckošice 14,834]

2 hours ago, Monzanator said:

Looks like some political crisis in Slovakia @hckošice

 

First government collapse in Europe linked directly to COVID stuff?

 

I do not really follow politics. Apart our president there nobody worth of.

 

but in short, since it was basically impossible to not hear about the current crisis.

 

The PM bought the famous Sputnik vaccines and with his health minister both welcomed the plane at the airport in front of cameras etc.., the other coalition parties felt betrayed since they were always against, so they refused to continue in the coalition until the prime minister and health minister did not resign. the prime minister had to resign (apparentl did it today ?) so that the parties could eventually return to the coalition (?).

[Makedonas 2,155]

On 27/03/2021 at 14:20, Grassmarket said:

if you insist on naming your country after Alexander the Great, you can’t be a bedwetter.  

Don't get me started...

[Vektor 3,326]

On 28/03/2021 at 23:30, hckošice said:

 

I do not really follow politics. Apart our president there nobody worth of.

 

but in short, since it was basically impossible to not hear about the current crisis.

 

The PM bought the famous Sputnik vaccines and with his health minister both welcomed the plane at the airport in front of cameras etc.., the other coalition parties felt betrayed since they were always against, so they refused to continue in the coalition until the prime minister and health minister did not resign. the prime minister had to resign (apparentl did it today ?) so that the parties could eventually return to the coalition (?).

Meanwhile here the narrative of the ruling conservatives is starting to become that Russia and China saved Hungary with their vaccines while the West failed us. Hungary currently has a higher percentage of vaccination than any other EU member state (other than maybe the smaller ones like Malta?) thanks to that we didn't mess around with Sputnik and the Chinese stuff and accepted their vaccines. Just today we got 250 thousand new Sputnik vaccines. So far we got 1.1 million Russian and 1.1 million Chinese vaccines, so around 2/3 of our vaccines came "from the East". 

 

But at the same time a lot of Hungarians are dying, the situation is worse here than in any of the other EU states. And the conservative politicians are blaming the EU and the West, saying that the shortage of Western vaccines is killing Hungarians.