Katie Phang

We have sent the vice president of the United States, not we per se, to Hungary to help an autocrat in Viktor Orban achieve his fifth consecutive term as prime minister.

And one of the things that Orban did effectively and at the very beginning of his autocratic reign was he took over media.

OK, he eliminated the independence of the media, the free press, which is very much a page out of the Orban playbook that Trump has been trying to do here with the consolidation and these big merger mergers and these big anti-competition things that we're seeing, including cracking down on journalists like Don Lemon and Georgia Fort and other.

Right.

Like this is kind of a part of the game.

when you actually have the kind of wild wild west of digital media that a lot of us are living in now including tucker megan alex nick fuentes and others when you have to now start trying to curb even that measure of free speech because you know that is exactly where trump is going if trump is not able to bring them back into the fold then he's going to try to silence them like he does to all opposition in this country

and when he starts to do that that's going to become even more him walking down the plank towards his own demise because you're right ultra maga they don't sit there and listen to fox news like maybe you know uncle jim and auntie jane are doing right like they're not the ones that are turning on fox at 6am and turning on off at midnight which is a lot of people

they are sitting there and the thing about digital is you have to make a conscious decision to intentionally choose something yeah the algorithm may pump something to you to recommend something for somebody to watch but you are making the conscious decision to choose to select to listen to a specific voice

That is the power behind Tucker, Meghan, Candace, and others.

And that is really the danger to Trump and his stranglehold on what semblance and small measure of power he still has.

And so, you know what?

Great.

For us, let him focus his ire on them while we continue to build up our numbers and our army here at Independent Media on the right side of history.

Well, and Trump needs the Orbans like he needs the Putins, like he needs the leader of North Korea, right?

Like he needs, I've said that it's just a small group of very, very intellectually stunted men that have big armies, that have powerful weapons, and they want to carve the globe up.

in specific chunks just for themselves and so that is the reason why vance had to go to help boost orban because orban is legitimately going to lose it doesn't mean it's not going to stop him from trying to you know you know declare some pipeline threat so he has to dispatch the military and maybe stop elections i mean it's not going to stop orban from doing all that autocratic insanity but vance and trump understood that orban needed a lift

Here's the thing, on one of the posts that you just put up at the very end of it, it said, somebody put MAGA is no more.

You can see it at the bottom right of the screen.

MAGA is no more.

And so the problem that Trump has is multifold and it's all a self-own.