The Paramount-Skydance saga "reeks of Orbanism." That's the assessment of @gscheiring.bsky.social, who experienced Viktor Orbán's autocratic power plays in Hungary firsthand as a member of the Hungarian parliament. 🧵
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Hungary doesn't have South Park, Comedy Central. HBO & Stephen Colbert! Only a matter of time before we link tech bros to Epstein Island...
jul 25, 2025, 5:03 pm • 1 0 • view
The racism and the greed is real
jul 25, 2025, 8:55 pm • 0 0 • view
The rapid approval was INTENTIONAL to demonstrate that the Felon47 administration most certainly was Bribed and they do not care who knows. “Our way or the highway, suckers.”
jul 25, 2025, 5:49 pm • 2 0 • view
📌
jul 30, 2025, 10:10 pm • 0 0 • view
I was furious about what happened to Colbert, but thanks to South Park I can now sleep contentedly.
jul 25, 2025, 4:17 pm • 4 0 • view
So...there were thousands of Epstein/Maxwell child victims of sexual assault, and only 2 prosecutions??? This is government corruption for the purpose of supporting human sexual trafficking!!! The DOinJ is burying evidence, handing out immunity from prosecution, and further traumatizing victims!
jul 26, 2025, 9:07 pm • 0 0 • view
It would be really great if we still had any uncorrupted law enforcement agencies to give this clearly criminal deal the investigation it so richly deserves. But thanks to MAGA and the spineless SCOTUS and Congress, it will move forward unexamined. 🤬
jul 25, 2025, 5:34 pm • 0 0 • view
It also reeks of Ellison as fascist oligarch Larry gets his billionaire hands on Paramount media for more manipulation. bsky.app/profile/bria...
jul 25, 2025, 4:07 pm • 4 0 • view
Extortion works.
jul 25, 2025, 3:29 pm • 4 0 • view
When they talk about this time in history they will equate the evil of Hitler with the evil of Trump and Orban.
jul 25, 2025, 4:53 pm • 0 0 • view
sorry but "Orbanism" is just not an effective adjective. PLEASE find more effective adjectives to state your case!!
jul 25, 2025, 3:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Astute observation.
jul 25, 2025, 3:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Orban has been openly advising these folks for years; no surprise.
jul 25, 2025, 5:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Odd. Orban visited Trump at Mar a Lago in March, July and December, 2024.
jul 25, 2025, 4:44 pm • 7 1 • view
Project fascism Freedom of speech Brendan Carr is fulla shit Follow the money .
jul 25, 2025, 3:48 pm • 0 0 • view
P2025, the only plan they have been following the entire time, is heavily influenced by Orbán's Hungary. The HF, GOP, and Orbán have been collaborating for years. Orbán was a speaker at CPAC in 2022. The same year they declared themselves domestic terrorists.
jul 25, 2025, 6:09 pm • 1 0 • view
congrats!..you finally got something right...
jul 25, 2025, 5:14 pm • 1 0 • view
We should be singling out and attacking the billionare nepo baby scumbags responsible for this- Shari Redstone and David Ellison - the billionaires are the enemy. They need to be broken and destroyed.
jul 25, 2025, 6:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Duh
jul 25, 2025, 6:48 pm • 1 0 • view
When the FCC approved Skydance's takeover last night, I wanted to hear Scheiring's take. Last fall, in an essay for Politico Mag, he described how Orbán "consolidated media control through centralized propaganda, market pressure and loyal billionaires:"
jul 25, 2025, 3:14 pm • 27 11 • view
"Orbanism" should be a part of the public conversation in the US. I brought it up on CNN's "The Source" last night. America is a very different country than Hungary, but the democratic backsliding in Hungary was partly achieved through media capture and control of culture.
jul 25, 2025, 3:14 pm • 167 44 • view
"Orbanism". right. because that's really going to stick in people's heads; because Americans really understand or care about what happens in western Europe, let alone eastern Europe. And people wonder why the Dems get so little traction. 😩
jul 25, 2025, 3:53 pm • 0 0 • view
And CNN has changed...
jul 25, 2025, 4:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Fuck you, Brian. You gaslighting cunt. You are your sorry ass ‘journalism’ brought helped bring us to this moment and this nightmare. Save your pandering for some rubes that actually think you’re an honest person who cares about democracy. You care about clicks. Fuck off.
jul 25, 2025, 3:39 pm • 3 0 • view
Like.... Mussolinism Hitlerism Stalinism Castroism Kimism PolPotism ... this is a long list. TLDR
jul 26, 2025, 2:36 am • 1 0 • view
So here's what @gscheiring.bsky.social told me. "Most of Orban's tactical weapons to take over the media resemble the moves that led to Colbert's cancellation," he said:
jul 25, 2025, 3:14 pm • 37 18 • view
In Hungary, he said, Orbán weakened public broadcasting, muzzled independent news coverage through "autocratic carrots and sticks," and incentivized media owners to fall in line.
jul 25, 2025, 3:14 pm • 51 11 • view
Scheiring: "A key underlying story is that media owners, both foreign and domestic, largely capitulated individually rather than mounting collective resistance, which enabled Orbán's systematic capture strategy." /end
jul 25, 2025, 3:14 pm • 52 13 • view
I was going to repost something but there’s too much- to get context do a search for “orban florida trump”.
jul 25, 2025, 3:32 pm • 0 0 • view
So, when Democrats win the House, Senate and presidency, they can do to Fox what Fat Ankles and lapdog Carr has done to ABC, CBS, CBS, etc al? That’s only fair if we go by Carr’s definition of fair.
jul 25, 2025, 3:17 pm • 2 0 • view
Which is exactly what’s happening here… there is power in numbers…
jul 25, 2025, 3:32 pm • 0 0 • view
😞😥
jul 25, 2025, 3:19 pm • 4 0 • view
#IDU members. Go figure.
jul 25, 2025, 9:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Of course it does Authoritarianism 101 Control the media and control the narrative One by one media companies are falling into line The media oligarchs want to protect their profits and capitulate to threats They will learn, it’s a one way relationship with a dictator
jul 25, 2025, 4:57 pm • 0 0 • view
People who think that Alligator Alcatraz t-shirts are funny also say that Stephen Colbert and South Park are not funny. #writingcommunity
jul 25, 2025, 3:49 pm • 1 0 • view
It really does. We can all retire the shibboleth that capital is more powerful than politicians.
jul 25, 2025, 3:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Project 2025, the IDU, and Orban's plans are the same. They are all part of the global takeover of governments for the far-right fake religious and international crime syndicate pretending to be governments.
jul 25, 2025, 11:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Why do you think Orban came to CPAC to pass out cookies? In just two years, they're building concentration camps in Texas. www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...
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