The On-Crack Ass Clown for July, 2022

This month is one of two in this year (December will be the other) in which the alternation of Fridays between Great Moments in Editing and Signage and Ass Clown Awards results in the ability to recognize ignorance and despicable behavior by awarding a third award for ass-clownery - the On-Crack Ass Clown*. Given the rate at which ass clowns are rising to the challenge of demonstrating their qualifications, I could present these awards weekly ... but will stick to the alternating-week schedule in order not to overwhelm my readers with depression at the state of humanity.

And so it is that I use the third opportunity of the month to present the award for

The On-Crack Ass Clown for July, 2022

to

Viktor Orban

Hungarian President Viktor Orban has made himself a darling of hard-core European nationalists with his strident anti-immigrant policies and authoritarian rhetoric. In a speech delivered last week, Orban railed against immigration from non-European countries, saying

“There is a world in which European peoples are mixed together with those arriving from outside Europe ... Now, that is a mixed-race world.”

He went on to say that in "our world" (by which he means white and "Christian")

“people from within Europe mix with one another. This is why we have always fought: we are willing to mix with one another, but we do not want to become peoples of mixed-race.” 

Orban's rhetoric has become so extreme that after this speech, one of his closest associates resigned, stating in a stinging resignation letter that his comments were unacceptable even by the standards of “the most bloodthirsty racist,” and adding, “I don’t know how you didn’t notice that you were presenting a pure Nazi text worthy of Goebbels.”

Orban is also approvingly viewed by European nationalists and far-right American conservative activists for his authoritarian rule and condemnation of liberal democracy. Fox News announcer Tucker Carlson broadcast his show from Hungary last year in an admiring show of support for Orban's governing policies, and the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) held its first European conference in Hungary this year because it views Hungary under Orban as "one of the bastions of the conservative resistance to the ultraprogressive 'woke' revolution."

Ladies and gentlemen, Dear Readers, the On-Crack Ass Clown for July, 2022, is Hungarian President Viktor Orban - a man so intolerant that even one of his closest supporters for more than 20 years has abandoned him, even as he is idolized by American conservatives terrified of the threat posed by those who have the gall to look, live, and worship differently from them. 

Have a good day. More thoughts tomorrow, when we try once again to lift your spirits with Cartoon Saturday. See you then!

Bilbo

* Thanks to my friend John for suggesting this name for the third award presented in a single month!