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51 minutes ago, Vektor said:

Jobbik went from far-right to center-right when Fidesz radicalized itself so much that there wasn't any point to being on the far-right anymore if you actually had any aspirations of winning the election, which Jobbik certainly during the 2010s. 

 

And now we got a new far-right party instead of Jobbik, outside of the united opposition, but they don't have the same large voter base. Jobbik had 20% of the votes for two elections (and maybe even 30% at some point between the elections), the current far-right party got 6%. 

 

Anyway, maybe the opposition learned its lesson this time: change comes from the left, not from the right. Hungary needs a healthy left-wing that can stand on its own, without parties like Jobbik. As long as the left-wing is a shadow of its former self, without any new leaders and new ideas, Orbán will never have a real opponent in Hungary. 

At the end of the day Orban placed himself as the lesser evil to Jobbik and won long-term big time. I'm shocked Jobbik has been dissolved yet since I don't believe anyone would buy into their re-branding. It never works in politics.

Left-wing parties are hard to win out in former communist states. The Polish left-wing side is more or less dead since 2005, they tried to re-brand some old communists since then and the current "social democratic" left-wing party is led by a former head of the Communist student organization The old commrades are unwilling to let go. No wonder nobody votes for left-wing in Poland since basically 17 years.

Well, I still remember the days when Jobbik was called neo-Nazi & anti-semitic party. And now they are supposed to be the lesser evil to Fidesz? No wonder the opposition failed, this was just a power-grab coalition. Those kind of deals hardly work out.

Magdalena Frech scored her first WTA Top 50 win ever - via Petra Kvitova's retirement in Charleston R1.

It's not like Czech tennis has to rely on Kvitova anymore. (WC) Linda Fruhvirtova beat Ana Konjuh earlier today and has moved ahead of Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva in the rankings so she has nobody younger than her ranked higher.

More retirements from women's ski jumping: Kaori Iwabuchi, Misaki Shigeno, Nina Lussi

For matches left in the regular season and LA Lakers aka the oldest team in the league is four games behind SA Spurs for the last play-in spot I wonder if Jennie Buss has the audacity to blow this pensioners house up after the season? Anthony Davis is injured for like the 12th time this season and Russell Westbrook has been terrible. The fomer triple double king is nothing more than a bench player this season.

We could see a Bucks vs Suns finals repeat this season again IMO.

Carlos Alcaraz wins the Miami Open. Well, everyone knows he's the next Nadal so buckle up for the next 15 years

Somkiat Chantra won the Moto2 race in Indonesia two weeks ago so the Asian Talent Cup has something to be proud of. He finished 2nd in Rio Hondo today.

Aleix Espargaro won the MotoGP race - his first win in all of Grand Prix racing in 284th race! Also first premier class win for Aprilia ever.

Only for the third time ever World Cup opening match will not feature either the host nation or the defending champion.

The only two other WC where that happened was 1930 ( vs ) and 1938 ( vs ). Even when multiple opening games started at the same time (last time in 1962) either the host or defending champion was playing. In 1934 all eight R16 matches started on the same day at the same time.

vs will be the 2022 WC opening match.

Start times for matches:

November 22nd (Tuesday) 17:00 CET vs

November 26th (Saturday) 14:00 CET vs

November 30th (Wednesday) 20:00 CET vs

The Latin American teams, that would be 11am local in Mexico and 2pm local in Argentina (DST included)?

Iga Swiatek blasted Naomi Osaka 6-4 6-0 in the Miami final. Your WTA #1 slaying!

It's snowing for two days in Poland This global warming thing isn't quite working this year

6 minutes ago, LDOG said:

 

I can perfectly see Canada upsetting Morocco and Croatia. 

Yeah, Croatia has aged since 2018. It's a perfect script for a send-off flop to the Modric-Mandzukic generation (the latter of whom has retired already). I'd say Canada has a reasonable chance to pull off the upset.

@MHSNprediction skills

Just now, LDOG said:

With all respect, I think this was literally the easiest group we could possibly get.

Yes, I know. Argentina has nothing to be worried about Mexico vs Poland opening match looms like a battle for 2nd place already.

and in Group G.

This means:

and in Group F

and

  in Group H.

UEFA play-off winner to and Group B.

and in Group C

and in Group A.

into and

goes to and . Boom! Worst from the five possible choices!

gets the and Group A.

There it is. goes to and

and

and

That limits Poland to five groups. and looms as the worst possible.

and in Group E. Ouch.

with   Also very lucky for them.

gets group!