Decent Americans are feeling pummeled by Team MAGA’s relentless cruelty, mendacity, and stupidity. The No Kings demonstrations were well-attended but a series of horrible rulings by SCOTUS have overshadowed the success of those protests.

Repeat after me: This is a battle over public opinion.

Americans aren’t used to autocracy, but Hungarians are. They understand the importance of standing up to the Orbán regime:

Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Budapest in defiance of the Hungarian government’s ban on Pride, heeding a call by the city’s mayor to “come calmly and boldly to stand together for freedom, dignity and equal rights”.

 

Jubilant crowds packed into the city’s streets on Saturday, waving Pride flags and signs that mocked the country’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, as their peaceful procession inched forward at a snail’s pace.”

Crowd estimates range from 100 to 200K. The massive turnout was inspired by this:

After the ruling Fidesz party, led by the rightwing populist Orbán, fast-tracked a law that made it an offence to hold or attend events that involve the “depiction or promotion” of homosexuality to minors, many Hungarians vowed to show their disapproval by attending Pride for the first time.”

A rousing fuck yeah to the Hungarians who protested their government’s bigotry.

A derisive fuck you to Prime Minister Orbán.

Repeat after me: Not everything sucks.

The last word goes to Jethro Tull: