The law is very similar to a hungarian law passed about a year prior to the american law. The european commission has urged hungary to repeal the law, but buddhapest says eou efforts to overturn it will be in vain. There's this element of the use of social policy and socially conservative ideas as a means of cracking down on individual liberties. But then afterwards, what's potentially even more striking is that when disney, which is obviously a very big company, in protested desantis, florida decided to retaliate by attempting to strip their special tax privileges. That is classic orbonism - twisting government powers.
The Conservative Political Action Conference, which is like Republican Coachella, is usually held stateside, but this week it's throwing a party in Budapest, Hungary. Noel King got kicked out.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan with Haleema Shah, edited by Jolie Myers and Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Victoria Dominguez, engineered by Paul Mounsey and Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Noel King.
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