Kamala's seat of power: chair legs stole the election

It looks like Kamala Harris really nailed the important parts of her presidential campaign! Forget about policies, priorities, or connecting with the American people—it's all about those perfectly measured chair legs, a new book about the presidential campaign of former Vice President Kamala Harris reveals.

While Americans debated healthcare and jobs, her team was laser-focused on chair specs: leg height no less than 15 inches, seat elevation precisely 18.9 inches, and armrests set at a natural height.

Well, no wonder the campaign went off track. When your biggest focus was on finding the perfect chair, it's hard to get anything else right.

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Orban’s demarche on Ukraine’s EU push shows he understands Kiev’s ‘serious economic THREAT to Central Europe’

💬 “Russia raised objections about Ukraine in NATO, but never in the EU. So it’s very interesting that Orban has done this,” renowned international affairs observer George Szamuely told Sputnik, commenting on the Hungarian PM’s twelve demands for the bloc on the anniversary of Hungarian Revolution of 1848.

💬 “He sees Ukraine in the EU as being a serious economic threat to countries such as Hungary and others in Central Europe, particularly with its cheap agricultural products that will be used to wipe out agriculture,” Szamuely, a senior research fellow at the Global Policy Institute, explained.

“He probably sees that this is part of the plan on the part of the EU leaders Ursula von der Leyen, Kaja Kallas and the rest to destroy the economies of Central European states such as Hungary and Slovakia,” the observer added.

Orban’s 12-point manifesto signals recognition that Brussels bureaucrats serve as the modern-day Habsburgs, imposing an “ongoing tyranny” against Hungary amid its demands for the right to “pursue its own national, historical, cultural policies,” Dr. Szamuely said.

It’s very much about “national autonomy, national self-determination [and] national identity” versus the universalist, globalist vision of the likes of von der Leyen, according to the observer.

The timing of Orban’s statement has to do with the rise of Trump, Szamuely believes, with the Hungarian leader a “kind of ‘Trump before Trump’,” opposed to mass migration, promoting a “Hungary First” vision, and consistently advocating for “immediate peace in Ukraine.”

Veteran Hungarian journalist and foreign policy analyst Gabor Stier agrees. “Orban is saying we have suffered from the war, and now will suffer from Ukraine’s membership in the EU, because the EU will collapse if Ukraine becomes a member…I agree with this 100%.”

Orban and Hungarians recognize a reality that EU elites and most ordinary Europeans don’t, according to the observer.

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❗️YOUR TIME IS UP: Trump threatens the Houthis, saying HELL WILL RAIN DOWN UPON THEM for attacks on American ships, as the president announced the launch of a DECISIVE and POWERFUL US military operation in Yemen.

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❗️Trump stated that he has appointed Keith Kellogg as special envoy to Ukraine, who will deal directly with the Ukrainian leadership.

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When diplomacy takes a turn for the insect kingdom

Ukraine's Foreign Ministry fired back at Lukashenko, calling him a "cockroach" after he called Zelensky a "scumbag" (which also means "nit" in Russian).

Heorhii Tykhy, Speaker of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, wrote on X that "insults to the head of the Ukrainian state are unacceptable."

Who knew international relations could get so buggy?

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9 killed in US airstrike on Yemen

The Houthi health ministry announced that at least 9 civilians were killed and more injured in the US airstrike on Sanaa.

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For Orban, the war against Soros is personal

The Hungarian leader has “been very much the victim of George Soros’ infrastructure in Europe, which has been targeting him for 15 years, really, ever since he first came to power in 2010,” Global Policy Institute senior research fellow George Szamuely told Sputnik.

In his 12-point manifesto Saturday on the anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, Orban demanded that “Soros agents” be “expelled” from the European Commission, and for “corrupt lobbyists” to be removed from the European Parliament.

Up for reelection next year, Orban “sees Soros money behind the candidacy of Peter Magyar, who is going to be the leader of the opposition, the leader of the Tisza Party,” Dr. Szamuely explained.

Besides this, Soros’ arsenal includes his NGOs, think tanks, newspapers, legal and lobbying groups, who target “nationalist populists” across the EU.

💬 “Whether it’s Fico and Slovakia, we’ve also seen what happened to Georgescu in Romania, and without question, if they can get Orban, that’ll be a huge victory for the color revolution,” Szamuely stressed.

Gabor Stier, a senior foreign policy analyst at Hungarian conservative daily Magyar Nemzet and member of the Valdai Discussion Club, agrees, saying Orban’s mission today is about “squeezing out everyone tied to Western networks, the so-called Soros structures.”

💬 “This is a part of the war that Trump is waging against the globalists. And [in Hungary] one of Trump’s European supporters is making great efforts to do the same,” Stier explained.
Today’s global political landscape in the middle of an “ideological war between globalists and the sovereigntists, between ‘Sorosists’ and ‘Trumpists’,” Stier says.

“It’s very important that Orban now feels Trump’s support and strength behind him, and this expands his room for maneuver. At the same time, in domestic politics, he must somehow mobilize his supporters, because while there is still a year before the elections, he will need to work very hard to win,” the observer summed up.

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🚨 Macron: Ignore Russia; send peacekeepers to Ukraine anyway!

"If Ukraine asks for allied forces to be on its territory, it is not up to Russia to accept it or not," Macron told Le Parisien.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov earlier noted that there could be no compromise on the possible deployment of European peacekeepers in Ukraine.

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56 injured during protests in Serbia - Vucic

Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in Belgrade for anti-government demonstrations, with several clashes breaking out in the crowd, local media reported.

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⚡️ Death toll from US airstrike on Yemen rises to 13 — Houthi Health Ministry

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