Europragmatic hence EU critic, español 🇪🇸 , wokebuster. My pronouns are XY and views are my own.
Budapest, Hungría
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That's how Sanchez campaigns: dancing with his new ( ludicrous) slogan: the power of love.
Desde que Sánchez es presidente:
- El precio de la vivienda ha subido un 74%.
- El precio del alquiler, un 44%.
- Las violaciones han aumentado un 287%.
- Los delitos violentos, un 74%.
- El tráfico de drogas, un 75%.
- La cesta de la compra ha subido casi un 50%.
- La población extranjera ha aumentado un 51% y el 15% está en paro.
- La deuda pública ha aumentado un 46,5%, y ya supera el 100% del PIB.
- La pobreza infantil ha subido un 34%.
- Se han producido 141 subidas de impuestos.
- La recaudación de impuestos ha aumentado un 56%.
Rodrigo Ballester retweeted
Oscar Puente, the “Butcher of Adamuz” after January’s 46 deaths, now faces 68 more victims of his arrogance and negligence. Last week, he was mocking railway failures on TV. The contempt is staggering.
Rodrigo Ballester retweeted
Como todos los días recoges a tus cuatro niños del colegio, el mayor tiene seis años, llevas a dos de ellos cogidos de la mano. Cuando estáis llegando a casa, un terrorista se te acerca por la espalda y te pega un tiro en la cabeza.
No es una película ocurrió de verdad.
Imagina la escena: los niños sobre el cuerpo de su padre gritando "¡Mi aita, mi aita!" llorando horrorizados y abrazándolo, manchándose de su sangre. La madre escucha desde casa el disparo, se asoma y ve a su marido tendido en el suelo. Baja corriendo presa del pánico...
Ocurrió #TalDiaComoHoy de 1986 en #Bilbao, se llamaba JULIO CÉSAR SÁNCHEZ RODRÍGUEZ y era @policia.
#EstoEraETA, tenía 31 años, su mujer Leonor Fuente 29. Trabajaba en el área de inspección de la Jefatura de Bilbao. El mayor de los cuatro niños tenía 8 años.
#Viudacoraje
¿Me ayudas a recordarle difundiendo/leyendo este 🧵? Seguro que nunca habías oído hablar de él. Será nuestro mejor homenaje para lograr que sigan viviendo en nuestra #Memoria. Graciassss 👇🏿
Fuente vídeo: @vctorst2
Rodrigo Ballester retweeted
Ayer fueron masacrados más de sesenta cristianos en Etiopía y unas veinte viviendas quedaron reducidas a cenizas. La prensa anglosajona ha reaccionado con gran conmoción, pero esta tragedia, ocurrida en una de las cunas del cristianismo, ha pasado casi totalmente desapercibida en otras zonas del mundo, incluidas España e Hispanoamérica.
Rodrigo Ballester retweeted
Cuando escribo estas líneas hay casi 70 muertos y nadie sobre el terreno cree que la cifra vaya a quedarse ahí. Hace nueve meses fueron 46 en Adamuz. Escribo con rabia, pero sobre todo con dolor, porque detrás de cada número hay alguien que esta mañana mandó un «ya te aviso cuando llegue» y una familia que lleva horas mirando un teléfono que no suena. A esas familias les debemos dos cosas que el poder siempre pide aplazar. No apartar la vista y no callar.
Y callar sería lo cómodo, porque la hemeroteca es demoledora. El 27 de febrero del año pasado el Gobierno presumía en una nota de prensa de «impulsar la internacionalización de sus empresas con un proyecto ferroviario clave en Marruecos». Apenas dos semanas antes, el Consejo de Ministros había aprobado un crédito de hasta 754,3 millones de euros para que Rabat compre 40 trenes nuevos y los luzca en el Mundial de 2030. No voy a engañar a nadie. Es un préstamo reembolsable y los trenes los fabrica CAF en España, así que el dinero vuelve y el empleo se queda. Lo que retrata a este Gobierno no es el crédito, sino la prioridad. Para la flota marroquí hubo dos semanas entre la aprobación y la firma, con foto y nota de prensa. Para la red por la que viajan cada día cientos de miles de españoles, el ministro de Transportes tenía otra cosa que ofrecer. Hace ocho días, en La Sexta, entre risas con Marc Giró, Óscar Puente lo resumió con una frase que debería perseguirle de por vida: «Necesitamos trenes nuevos y acabar las obras, y mientras tanto vamos a sufrir un poco».
Sufrir un poco. Sesenta y cuatro familias saben hoy cuánto es un poco. Tras Adamuz, el mismo ministro despachó aquella catástrofe como algo «tremendamente extraño», y desde entonces ha gastado más energía en X que en explicarle al país qué falló y qué se había corregido. Nueve meses y más de cien muertos después, lo extraño sería seguir hablando de mala suerte. Las primeras hipótesis apuntan a un error humano en el centro de control de Atocha, y puede que sea así, pero un sistema ferroviario serio existe precisamente para que un error humano no mate a casi 70 personas. Si falló la persona, hay que explicar dónde estaba la máquina que debía corregirla, y si falló la máquina, quién decidió que ya valía. Esa respuesta no la va a dar una comisión dentro de un año ni un ministro que tuitea desde el centro de control mientras sacan cuerpos de los vagones. En cualquier democracia europea, con dos catástrofes así bajo el mismo responsable, esta tarde habría dimisiones antes que minutos de silencio. Aquí, en cambio, Pedro Sánchez se declara «consternado» en plena campaña y sostiene al ministro que convirtió la seguridad ferroviaria en material de monólogo. Que nadie, empezando por ellos, se atreva a hacer campaña del 29-N sobre estos muertos.
A las familias de Urda y de Adamuz les debemos la verdad entera, con nombres y apellidos, y no van a tenerla si el resto nos conformamos con el duelo oficial y las banderas a media asta. Hoy rezo por los que han muerto y por los que los esperaban, con la certeza de que un día volverán a abrazarse. Mañana, y cada día hasta que alguien responda, seguiré preguntando lo mismo. Por qué este Gobierno saca pecho con trenes nuevos para Rabat y a los españoles les pide que sufran un poco.
Rodrigo Ballester retweeted
For years, Brussels withheld billions in EU funds from the Hungarian people to interfere in elections and remove Viktor Orbán from power.
Now that Orbán has handed over power, the European Parliament’s @EP_Justice delegation has arrived in Budapest to announce a magical improvement in what they call the “rule of law”.
Apparently, they weren't particularly troubled by:
- former government officials jailed without trial
- new legislation counting past parliamentary terms to bar opposition politicians from future elections
- public TV, radio and online services abruptly shut down
- a sitting president removed through a constitutional amendment (whose illegitimate replacement the LIBE delegation readily met.
LIBE came, saw, and looked the other way. We won’t stay silent.
Rodrigo Ballester retweeted
Heartbreaking news from Toledo. My deepest condolences to the families who have lost their loved ones in this terrible tragedy. I pray for the swift recovery of those injured. My thoughts are with the Spanish people during this difficult time.
Rodrigo Ballester retweeted
🚨🇧🇷 CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? A Lula ally stood up in Congress and casually said the Federal Police is about to ARREST a lot of Bolsonaro supporters
Jilmar Tatto told the Chamber he has direct information from the PF that “a lot more people will be arrested” and that the agency already has everything it needs.
He repeated the line while pushing for Jair Bolsonaro to leave house arrest and go back to a regular cell.
And some have the nerve to question why Flávio had to flee the country to be safe? REALLY?!
Writer: Lucas
Rodrigo Ballester retweeted
CRUCIAL FACTS ON THE FLAVIO BOLSONARO MATTER:
It's not just Flavio Bolsonaro who fled Brazil to escape the tyrannical persecution of Alexandre de Moraes and the pro-Lula wing of the Supreme Court. There are dozens of Brazilian exiles who have done the same: dissident journalists, activists, bloggers, and politicians who all fled to avoid certain prison for political opposition.
In most of these cases, Moraes has demanded the extradition of those who fled and whom he wants to imprison back in Brazil. But Moraes' extradition requests have been repeatedly denied by multiple countries and institutions on the grounds that these prosecutions are politically motivated or otherwise corrupted. Among those concluing this: Spain, Italy, INTERPOL, and even the US under Biden.
Just today, Italy refused Brazil's demand to extradite a person named @edutagli, who was once a top aide to Moraes, but then fled to Italy after Moraes accused him of having been my source in a huge leak from Moraes' office that I obtained for reporting I did with @Folha in 2024. That massive leak enabled us to publish roughly 20 articles proving systemic abuses of power by Moraes against his political enemies: exactly the reason so many Brazilians, including Bolsonaro, know they can't get a fair trial in Brazil.
Italy today refused to extradite the person accused of being our source on the grounds that the proceedings would be a farce because Moraes — as he so often does — wants to act as the supposed victim, investigator, and judge, and thus his demand falls well outside of Italy's extradition standards. Again, multiple countries have concluded the same, showing what a farce Brazil's once-respected judicial system has become under the Lula/Moraes regime.
Moraes has overseen a system of political persecution masquerading as criminal justice that has been recognized as a sham by multiple countries that are not exactly Bolsonaro allies. Nobody in their right mind who is a political enemy of Moraes would remain in Brazil once if it is clear that he intends to imprison you, since he has proven that guilt is a foregone conclusion and he operates with no legal or constitutional limits of any kind.
That is why asylum under international law exists: to protect those who cannot obtain justice in their own country because the justice system has been corrupted and commandeered for political persecution. Many people, such as Julian Assange, have needed that protection (which Lula cheered). Now people need it from Moraes in Brazil. That is sadly one of the main legacies of both Lula and Moraes over the last six years.
Itália nega extradição de Eduardo Tagliaferro, ex-assessor de Alexandre de Moraes
www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/…
Rodrigo Ballester retweeted
The President of the European Commission calls it "democracy" #Brazil
Rodrigo Ballester retweeted
@FlavioBolsonaro registered 0 votes in 106 polling booths where Lula received 15,000 votes, literally 100% of the votes, according to @folha.
In other words, in 106 polling booths Flavio received 0% and Lula 100%. The details are just barely starting to emerge….
Now, seriously, @LulaOficial for the good of Brazil you have to allow an independent examination with international observers of what happened during the Zanin Window. Refusing to do so will forever taint the reputation of Brazilian democracy. You shouldn’t let that happen.
Straight up political persecution. The man celebrated by the Western establishment is nothing but an extreme left tyrant. But since he confronts Trump, he will get support and a blank check. In the name of democracy and "European values" if need be.
Rodrigo Ballester retweeted
Qualquer pessoa que esteja em segurança num país democrático e que respeita a liberdade de expressão deve falar sobre o ocorrido ontem no Brasil.
Os brasileiros já não têm liberdade para fazê-lo. Represente-os.
Compelling and courageous letter of Minister Balazs Hankó from jail3, read3ny his wife on 23 October.
A must read.
🚨 The wife of a former minister in Viktor Orbán’s government reads aloud a letter he wrote from prison, where he remains incarcerated without a final, legally binding court judgment:
Dear Compatriots!
To all those who hold the freedom of their nation sacred: do not be afraid!
"Do not be afraid!" This was the call issued by Saint Pope John Paul II in October 1978, upon his election to the papacy. Those who are heirs to the legacy of 1956 [the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 against Soviet-backed communist rule] do not merely repeat these words; they feel and understand their true meaning.
They understand because arbitrary rule has always been inherent in dictatorship, whose purpose is to keep people in fear. So it was seventy years ago, and so it is today.
We have become political prisoners because we stood up for our nation and our Christian culture. Yet even from behind prison walls, we continue our struggle for freedom, for you and alongside you.
The struggle is eternal.
Five hundred and seventy years ago, on October 23, Saint John of Capistrano died. Together with John Hunyadi, he defended Christianity at Nándorfehérvár [present-day Belgrade, where Christian forces defeated the Ottoman army in the historic siege of 1456].
Seventy years ago, a nation declared: enough is enough.
The boys and girls of Pest [the young men and women who fought in the streets of Budapest during the 1956 Revolution] dealt a mortal blow to the communist dictatorship. What followed was retaliation, death, imprisonment, surveillance, informers, and the persecution of the Church.
The heroes resisted, the courageous passed on the flame, but there were also those who collaborated.
Then, as fifty years later in 2006, when I myself was there, there were two sides to the barricades [a reference to the anti-government protests and violent clashes in Budapest in 2006, on the fiftieth anniversary of the 1956 Revolution].
Let us not forget: there were two sides.
They believed that the wound inflicted in 1956 had healed. But it had not. For thanks to the passing on of that flame, to Pope John Paul II, and to the sacrifice of the lives of so many others, they were ultimately brought down for good.
Today, we are confronted by globalism and the network of those it sustains.
Much like communism, it seeks to erase our identities rooted in our nation, our faith, our communities, and our God-given nature.
In the face of this, we have said yes to our culture, founded upon the order of the created world; yes to our traditions and to our civic, Christian, conservative communities. We say yes to our nation and to our sovereignty.
In response, they have now fabricated a political case against us, following the new Polish model, a case that has resulted in our imprisonment.
Those who have now seized control of politics and culture are none other than the very people who filed the complaints against us.
The accusers have become the leaders.
It is not enough for them that, from now on, they can support their own allies and those with whom they share common interests. To further their objectives, they have even amended the Child Protection Act.
To them, the commemorative years honoring Márai and Jókai [two of Hungary's most celebrated literary figures], the exhibition dedicated to John Paul II, Edda, Miklós Varga [Edda is a well-known Hungarian rock band, while Miklós Varga is a prominent Hungarian singer], operetta or traditional Romani music, Gyula Deák "Bill" — may God rest his soul — [a celebrated Hungarian blues and rock singer], or the thousands of cultural programs held across the country, all constitute financial loss.
And we have been thrown into prison so that our communities may be intimidated and eradicated, under the banner of collective guilt.
They operate on political orders, according to a script written in advance. Global organizations support them, while those seeking to ingratiate themselves with the new authorities eagerly do their bidding.
They pass judgment without even examining the publicly stated cultural purposes of these programs.
First, my former colleagues became victims. Then they began pointing fingers at people who had no responsibility whatsoever in this field.
Mothers, wives, fathers, and men were dragged away and imprisoned, while they wait, and wait, for confirmation of the political case they themselves have fabricated.
They have seized not only the servers, but human beings as well — unlawfully.
These are the so-called methods of the rule of law practiced by communism and globalism, applauded and cheered on by international organizations and countless human rights advocates.
We, however, will fight for the truth, for the truth of our community.
We will stand firm, but we ask you to stand up for us.
We ask you to help ensure that the truth reaches as many people as possible.
Neither we nor you are guilty.
Do not be afraid!
As a symbol of unity, let us wear red, white, and green bracelets on our wrists [the national colors of Hungary, symbolizing national identity and solidarity], and let us join our hands in prayer every evening at nine o'clock.
We shall persevere, sustained by the power of love and the bonds that unite us.
Go Hungary! Go Hungarians!
Rodrigo Ballester retweeted
Lewacko-liberalne reżimy pod kuratelą Brukseli pokazują, do czego są zdolne. „Demokracja walcząca” ma z demokracją tyle wspólnego, co demokracja ludowa spod sierpa i młota. Przeciwnik polityczny siedzi bez wyroku, a jego dzieci słuchają, jak matka czyta list z celi. W 70. rocznicę 1956 roku Węgrzy znów muszą sobie powtarzać „Nie lękajcie się!”. Tylko że tym razem kuratela nie siedzi w Moskwie, lecz w Brukseli.
🚨 The wife of a former minister in Viktor Orbán’s government reads aloud a letter he wrote from prison, where he remains incarcerated without a final, legally binding court judgment:
Dear Compatriots!
To all those who hold the freedom of their nation sacred: do not be afraid!
"Do not be afraid!" This was the call issued by Saint Pope John Paul II in October 1978, upon his election to the papacy. Those who are heirs to the legacy of 1956 [the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 against Soviet-backed communist rule] do not merely repeat these words; they feel and understand their true meaning.
They understand because arbitrary rule has always been inherent in dictatorship, whose purpose is to keep people in fear. So it was seventy years ago, and so it is today.
We have become political prisoners because we stood up for our nation and our Christian culture. Yet even from behind prison walls, we continue our struggle for freedom, for you and alongside you.
The struggle is eternal.
Five hundred and seventy years ago, on October 23, Saint John of Capistrano died. Together with John Hunyadi, he defended Christianity at Nándorfehérvár [present-day Belgrade, where Christian forces defeated the Ottoman army in the historic siege of 1456].
Seventy years ago, a nation declared: enough is enough.
The boys and girls of Pest [the young men and women who fought in the streets of Budapest during the 1956 Revolution] dealt a mortal blow to the communist dictatorship. What followed was retaliation, death, imprisonment, surveillance, informers, and the persecution of the Church.
The heroes resisted, the courageous passed on the flame, but there were also those who collaborated.
Then, as fifty years later in 2006, when I myself was there, there were two sides to the barricades [a reference to the anti-government protests and violent clashes in Budapest in 2006, on the fiftieth anniversary of the 1956 Revolution].
Let us not forget: there were two sides.
They believed that the wound inflicted in 1956 had healed. But it had not. For thanks to the passing on of that flame, to Pope John Paul II, and to the sacrifice of the lives of so many others, they were ultimately brought down for good.
Today, we are confronted by globalism and the network of those it sustains.
Much like communism, it seeks to erase our identities rooted in our nation, our faith, our communities, and our God-given nature.
In the face of this, we have said yes to our culture, founded upon the order of the created world; yes to our traditions and to our civic, Christian, conservative communities. We say yes to our nation and to our sovereignty.
In response, they have now fabricated a political case against us, following the new Polish model, a case that has resulted in our imprisonment.
Those who have now seized control of politics and culture are none other than the very people who filed the complaints against us.
The accusers have become the leaders.
It is not enough for them that, from now on, they can support their own allies and those with whom they share common interests. To further their objectives, they have even amended the Child Protection Act.
To them, the commemorative years honoring Márai and Jókai [two of Hungary's most celebrated literary figures], the exhibition dedicated to John Paul II, Edda, Miklós Varga [Edda is a well-known Hungarian rock band, while Miklós Varga is a prominent Hungarian singer], operetta or traditional Romani music, Gyula Deák "Bill" — may God rest his soul — [a celebrated Hungarian blues and rock singer], or the thousands of cultural programs held across the country, all constitute financial loss.
And we have been thrown into prison so that our communities may be intimidated and eradicated, under the banner of collective guilt.
They operate on political orders, according to a script written in advance. Global organizations support them, while those seeking to ingratiate themselves with the new authorities eagerly do their bidding.
They pass judgment without even examining the publicly stated cultural purposes of these programs.
First, my former colleagues became victims. Then they began pointing fingers at people who had no responsibility whatsoever in this field.
Mothers, wives, fathers, and men were dragged away and imprisoned, while they wait, and wait, for confirmation of the political case they themselves have fabricated.
They have seized not only the servers, but human beings as well — unlawfully.
These are the so-called methods of the rule of law practiced by communism and globalism, applauded and cheered on by international organizations and countless human rights advocates.
We, however, will fight for the truth, for the truth of our community.
We will stand firm, but we ask you to stand up for us.
We ask you to help ensure that the truth reaches as many people as possible.
Neither we nor you are guilty.
Do not be afraid!
As a symbol of unity, let us wear red, white, and green bracelets on our wrists [the national colors of Hungary, symbolizing national identity and solidarity], and let us join our hands in prayer every evening at nine o'clock.
We shall persevere, sustained by the power of love and the bonds that unite us.
Go Hungary! Go Hungarians!
THIS IS A GENOCIDE.
