The funniest part about all of this was that the exit polls were heavily biased against him. Like (last night was hectic so pardon my rounding errors) Nicusor Dan had 55% while this clown had 45% coming out of the exit polls, and yet he STILL claimed he’d won :facepalm:
Then he tried to pull a MAGA stunt and tweeted “I am the president of the romanian people, count the votes correctly!” Before finally conceding victory, all within the span of 3 hours. Needless to say, last night was a bit of a rollercoaster.
For more context, at least how I saw this crapshot of an election, this far-right candidate, Simion, capitalized on the fact that there’s almost 6 million Romanians who’ve left their home country bound for the UK, Italy, Spain, Germany etc. He promised to bring them home, offered 2-room appartments at 35000€ (the Simion Plan he called it), bogus claims, promised to bring back industry into the country etc etc.
Thing is , here in Romania the president has less powers than you might expect. He’s basically responsible for foreign affairs and representation, chief of the millitary and armed forces, and has the power to dissolve Parliment, but that’s about it. So even if he wanted to do the things he claimed he’d do, he couldn’t.
It’s sad to see so many people voted for him. He’s riding off the backs of desperate people, who left families behind because doing, say, construction in Romania barely makes you a living wage. But the cognitive dissonance is what gets me: Simion was mostly voted by Diaspora, or the Romanians living in other countries. How can you, a Romanian living in let’s say Germany, vote for someone who has an isolationist policy, who says “hurr durr EU bad”, while benefitting from all the EU has to offer? It’s simply insane.
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How can you, a Romanian living in let’s say Germany, vote for someone who has an isolationist policy
UK foreign expats living in Spain voted in favour of Brexit, and are now all upset that they have to leave and come back to the UK. They literally voted for this.
The basic problem is that most people don’t actually bother to investigate the policies of the people they vote for, they treat it like a popularity contest and just vote for whoever they personally like. I’m of the opinion that people should be required to prove an understanding of proposed policies before they’re actually allowed to vote, if only to the extent of a quick Google search while standing in the queue to vote.
And their slogan is literally “we didn’t vote for this” when they voted exactly for this. Not a smart bunch, those.
I think he’s taking a page out of trump’s book and is gonna claim stolen election and stuff.
It’s sad to see so many people voted for him. He’s riding off the backs of desperate people, who left families behind because doing, say, construction in Romania barely makes you a living wage.
Is there a party willing to change these things?
Appreciate the insight 👍
Not much of a Chad, is he?
I hear he wants to build a presidential vacation home on the virgin Islands.
No matter what the country is, these far righters are always idiots.
They’re no idiots. They’re calculated authoritarians trying to seize public narrative to usurp power illegally
Little of both
Yay he lost fuck him with a baseball bat
That makes them organized and dangerous idiots to me.
see also the flag of Liberia
Apparently Nicusor Dan won. Disaster avoided, I guess.
😮💨 also this makes the other guy look like even more of a doofus
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Can we talk about how “I am the new president of Romania” in itself is an absolutely stupid phrasing to use when prematurely declaring yourself the winner of an election?
The low hanging fruit is the guy 1. Didn’t actually win the election 2. And he declared himself president of the wrong country
The right wing are such liars that grammatical mistakes are the least of their problems
If there is a single common thread that ties together the modern hard right upsurge is that it is absolutely fueled by the most transparent of idiocies that by convention we are expected to accept as everyday business
Notice how it’s in English as well. That wasn’t meant for the people of Romania, that was aimed at the rest of the EU, presumably as a sort of vague threat.
Well he’s a Chad!
Seriously, I totally agree. It’s dumb, and would have caused more legal problems had he won.
These people are like little belligerent kids that just can’t help themselves not to do exactly the thing adults just said is not OK to do.
This kind of dishonesty should be taken out early. Criminalize it.
He wasn’t be serious, unless he decides he was (remind you of someone?)
They’re extremely similar, Romania has a slightly lighter blue, but they’re both blue, yellow, and red vertical tricolors. Romania used to be more distinct, with a coat of arms in the middle, but that was removed after the fall of communism. Chad has complained, as they had the flag first, but Romania hasn’t done anything. Maybe this will prompt the new president to do something.
Would have confused it with Moldova instead, I suppose.
But yeah, of the MANY things I can throw at this guy, confusing 🇷🇴 with 🇹🇩 when tapping it on your phone is not it.
Mostly because I’m pretty sure I’ve done it myself more than once.
You’re not running for president though, are you?
Not even a little bit. And posting “I am the new president of Chad” is absolutely fricking hilarious and extremely on brand.
It is also horrifying and chilling in light of the actual results, because you know he’s following the MAGA playbook and depending on how close the diaspora made him look in the end he was hoping for a version of the US capitol raid.
But if I’m going to have an opinion about this tweet it’s going to be about that, not the flag thing, for obvious reasons.
These are nearly identical on my display!
I cannot see any difference. (Firefox on Windows.)
Maybe they can pull a Canada and actually come up with a flag design that works so well for them that almost rewrites history.
At a glance, when small, or on a bad monitor, they can also be confused with Belgium, which has black yellow red.
The all seem to share the same level of intelligence
Talk about one orange braincell.
One of those rare cases when I very much approve of A-not-so-I
If I were a person wanting to be a far right leader of a country. Romania is one of the last places I would pick. At least when looking back at how the last dictatorial leader of the country left office.
I would have said the same thing about Israel but look how that turned out.
One tiny victory at a time. Lets hope Poland and Portugal step up to rhe russians, too
Portugal did not and PiS is anti Russian, but also anti democracy. Not exactly a new idea that two nationalist groups hate each other.
Easy bait
https://xcancel.com/georgesimion/status/1924166718122783128#m
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Does xcancel (nice hostname) not show the tweet anymore when it has been deleted on xitter? I assume it has been deleted?
Yeah, it seems to have been deleted.
No, I am the real presidente of Cha- Romania.
