Hungary

So I just want there to be elections.

And I think it's amazing that you've seen young people in Hungary, in Serbia.

We'll see Lula as the incumbent in Brazil, in Israel and in the U.S. We'll see who they vote for.

With the centrists losing, or we could call it here, you know, the establishment weakening, this is not about people saying they really want the far right or they really want the far left.

They've got some pretty nasty views on Kosovo.

I know some people have their doubts about the new sort of administration in Hungary, but they are genuinely more Western and more internationalist, etc.

These guys, there's very little reason to think they are.

Watch this one with caution.

And Dora is so cool.

She grew up in Hungary, studied neuroscience at NYU Abu Dhabi, and later studied human-computer interaction in Sweden.

Woo! She's also a Forbes 30 under 30, Europe honoree, and a TEDx speaker.

Dora, welcome to the AI for Kids podcast.

And I think that is also why maybe this book might speak to kind of migrant experiences in Europe.

I think there were probably quite a few academics in Hungary and Poland who left.

You know, there's a talk about brain drain even after Brexit.

A lot of UK academics left for Europe.

Later in the same century, the Hungarians, under their king Matthias Corvinus, captured Vienna from the Habsburgs.

But this occupation was short-lived, as on the death of the Hungarian king just five years later in the year 1490, the Habsburgs swiftly reclaimed it.

The Ottoman victory against the Hungarians at the Battle of Mohacs in 1526 brought the Ottomans to within 100 miles of Habsburg Vienna.

Vienna would then become the Habsburgs primary defensive bulwark and it would not be long before the Ottomans besieged it under their Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.

Suleiman assembled a substantially sized army, but the strength of the Habsburgs, coupled with some good fortune with the weather and strained supply lines, caused the Ottomans to retreat.

The 16th century was a period of strength for the Ottomans.

The reign of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent from 1520 to 1566 is considered a golden age when the empire reached one of its greatest territorial extents.

In 1521, Suleiman captured the city of Belgrade from the Kingdom of Hungary and then decisively defeated the Hungarians at Mohacs in 1526, leading to the collapse of the medieval Hungarian kingdom.

And then yesterday, Trevor Mallard, who we know is tailing Chippy this election to make sure he sits up straight and, you know, gives Mike Hosking a bit of aggro, tried to vote at the same place in Wainuiomata that he had voted in for the last 19 years.

And when it wasn't open, he told the media that, quote, it is looking like the voter suppression you expect from Trump or in India or Hungary, not here in Aotearoa.

Now, I think it's fair enough for the Labour Party to complain about National's decision to cut off early enrolment because that was always going to drop the vote for the left because the young people who tend to vote left also tend to leave things to the last minute and we're probably going to get caught out by it.

And the decision hasn't actually stood up to scrutiny.

And then yesterday, Trevor Mallard, who we know is tailing Chippy this election to make sure he sits up straight and, you know, gives Mike Hosking a bit of aggro, tried to vote at the same place in Wainuiomata that he had voted in for the last 19 years.

And when it wasn't open, he told the media that, quote, it is looking like the voter suppression you expect from Trump or in India or Hungary, not here in Aotearoa.

Now, I think it's fair enough for the Labour Party to complain about National's decision to cut off early enrolment because that was always going to drop the vote for the left because the young people who tend to vote left also tend to leave things to the last minute and we're probably going to get caught out by it.

And the decision hasn't actually stood up to scrutiny.

Well, and surprisingly so because, you know, it wasn't great in the first part of the season and then we did have that run of rounds where it did look really good.

Hungary and Zandvoort, you think, okay, you know, they're starting to get to grips with this new regulation set and it'll be either stable or the RO will slightly be going up from there.

It does feel that, as you said, the direction of travel is going in the wrong way.

Now, obviously, that's been... and magnified a little bit by the fact that Red Bull's got a little bit better and Verstappen has taken a couple of wins that, you know, it did look for all the world like Red Bull were going to go winless in a season and Verstappen was going to have his first winless season since he went there.

He was just faster.

And this is not a great Piastri track, but it's just not a great McLaren track.

And they've gone from being – I mean, the manner in which Norris – how good he was in Hungary.

It felt like he was bossing everybody in Hungary.

While Donald Trump was in Michigan yesterday trying to convince Americans to fear their own neighbors, people in other parts of the world were showing us what happens when ordinary citizens refuse to be afraid anymore.

In April, Hungary voted out Viktor Orban after 16 years in power, despite Donald Trump and J.D. Vance throwing their support behind him.

I've shared about that before and how hungry I felt when I visited earlier and then in 2019, and how the country I had once fallen in love with seemed to be holding its breath.

Well, in April, it finally exhaled.

With just eight days into the midterms, he is once again telling Americans that they cannot trust their own elections.

But we have seen what happens when people refuse to be intimidated.

the people of Hungary, Brazil, and Serbia have reminded us that no leader is invincible and that the power ultimately belongs to the people.

The strong men who rule through fear want us to believe that nothing we do matters.