Do you know the difference between Ján Budaj and Milan Marurek? There is none. Both are extremists. Both are crazy. Extremist = crazy.
While Milan Mazurek is a right-wing extremist, Ján Budaj is a left-wing extremist. I have also published enough evidence that Ján Budaj has surrounded himself with very dangerous people who are corrupt and left-wing extremists. Fools who are convinced that the greatest evil that foresters do is planting trees, fools who think that only a dead forest eaten by bark beetles is the only right choice. Rational discussion with such people makes no sense. They are like a religiously fanatical sect.
To put national parks in the hands of such madmen is a reprehensible suicide. But unfortunately, this is really happening. And with the support of the media.
Milan Mazurek and Ján Budaj also have in common that they are equally vulgar in their manner of communication. For example, Ján Budaj called foresters-ecologists, his critics who have dedicated their entire lives to nature-friendly forest management, wood-eaters, and he called hunters mafia.
If Milan Mazurek were to become a minister, I can’t imagine that they would be as uncritical of him as they are of Budaj, even though both are equally dangerous.
The media can be very critical of Igor Matovič, but also of Richard Sulík. They even published minor corruption scandals about Sulík.
It remains a mystery why the media is not and has not been equally critical of Ján Budaj. So far, no journalist has explained these strange double standards to me.
What I have to appreciate about the media is that when I explicitly asked the media not to spread a particular hoax in their department, they listened. However, I am only commenting on a very small part of the hoaxes. It is not in my power to question all the hoaxes. I would have to send emails to journalists every day. Also, to prevent the spread of hoaxes in the media, you have to react extremely quickly and promptly. You have to do it before the disinformation is published in the media.
Sorry, my journalist friends, but unlike you, I do my anti-corruption activism purely on a voluntary basis, and I don’t have the capacity for this.
It is very strange that despite the fact that journalists have a lot of information and evidence that Ján Budaj is a notorious liar, there are still many influential journalists who uncritically take over the press releases of Budaj and the ministry without critically verifying the information or giving space to experts as opponents. It seems incredibly irrational and absurd to me.
That person has deceived you a hundred times, spat in your face a hundred times, so do you think they will tell you the truth the hundred and first time?
It seems as absurd to me as the so-called pro-Russian desolate people who believe in Kremlin-funded disinformation media. These people don’t mind at all that they were deceived; when one hoax is debunked, a new hoax emerges, which they fall for, and this repeats endlessly. For example, topics like COVID or the war in Ukraine.
A large part of journalists have a similar approach. They think that if Budaj deceived them 10 times, he will not deceive them the eleventh time. Incredible human stupidity and naivety. And he did not lie only about the topic of nature protection but also about the crazy lies with which he defended his case of cooperation with the State Security.
Despite clear evidence that Budaj has surrounded himself with fools, that he is a characterless motor liar, the media invite Budaj to the show as the most frequent guest, and often without asking him critical questions, without asking him about his lies and corruption scandals, as in the case of the interview with Peter Hanák and Monika Tódová.
From historical experience, we know that many ministers have resigned due to media pressure. This is not the case with Budaj. Even when the media publishes criticism against him, it is usually very politically correct and very diplomatic criticism in kid gloves. Why the media protects Budaj like no other politician has not been explained to us.
And just as a little tidbit at the end, Denník N was inspired by my videos regarding text-to-speech conversion. They used the same voice synthesizer and even a strikingly similar introduction as in my videos. I sent emails with such TTS videos to the editor-in-chief of Denník N and co-owner, Matúš Kostolný. Well, if only they were inspired by me in the fight against corruption and greater criticism of Budaj. That would please me more.