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Torq   
7 Jun 2025
News / Karol Nawrocki - the New President of Poland [381]

A week has passed, I am still a bit angry that Nawrocki is our new president; mostly at Kaczyński for backing this marionette instead of a decent candidate like Jurek, Ryszka or Nowak and for Tusk for not forcing Sikorski as the democratic candidate, but it was more than that... promises broken, the same old PiS-style corruption (despite swearing that it will change), idiotic attacks at the Church. Tusk has to step aside, he f*cked up big time and now has to pay for it.

As for Nawrocki's great victory - he should thank 1 million of voters of Trzecia Droga and Lewica who stayed at home last Sunday. Their voices would give Trzaskowski a comfortable victory (he lost by 370k votes). And let's not forget those leftist 1st round voters of Senszyn (almost 20%), Zandberg, Hołownia and Biejat who voted for Nawrocki in the 2nd round. Perhaps Gajewska's antics with the bag of potatoes pissed them off? Perhaps it was the unashamed kissing the butts of real estate developers by the current government and local authorities?

Oh, well... maybe it's all for the better. Tusk and KO learnt the hard way that stupidity has its price. Maybe it will force them to change their ways. If not, f*ck 'em - it's an old cliché but it's really patria not partia that counts.
Torq   
4 Jun 2025
News / Karol Nawrocki - the New President of Poland [381]

what excites you most about Nawrocki's campaign pledges? Why do you think these things will be good for Poland?

Nawrocki won't send Polish army to Ukraine. So, unless Russia invades Poland, there will be no Russian-Polish war anytime soon. That's good for Poland, I suppose.

The German press announced

Who gives a toss about the German press? Not me.

voting for those creatures?

Never voted for Tusk. The reason I voted for Trzaskowski is that Nawrocki is a bloody embarrassment and nobody will convince me otherwise. The elderly fraud afair - very well documented - would be enough to disqualify him as a person suitable to be the Polish president, and you know very well that there's much more than that. Anywhere N. goes to represent Poland, his hosts will receive a full dossier on him and every time it will be a stain on Poland's honour.

Go to the Zoo and watch pelicans.

I'd rather go to PF and watch plastic Poles in their natural habitat. Much more amusing.
Torq   
4 Jun 2025
News / Karol Nawrocki - the New President of Poland [381]

Bodnar and company will be in jail for breaking the constitution

Ha, ha - PiS mob is wearing "Konstytucja" t-shirts all of a sudden. In the words of a classic: nie zesraj się. :)

You're hanging on by a thread in a few areas of life

LOL
Torq   
4 Jun 2025
News / Karol Nawrocki - the New President of Poland [381]

@Amiga

People who are patriotic-nationalistic, right of PiS etc., don't dabble in usury, pandering and elderly fraud. Or perhaps we have different definitions of what being a patriot means.

Kaczyński was convinced precisely because he later realised that he will be able to manipulate Nawrocki with all the kompromat on him. The entire secret of Kaczyński's political longevity is his security cabinet where he holds 'haki' on all his men.

Anyways... *yaaaaawn* ... what happened will not unhappen, so there's no use crying over spilt milk. People who voted for Nawrocki voted for permanent conflict instead of normal, peaceful development. The irony of their choice is that it is they who will suffer, not those who voted for Trzaskowski. We will be quite all right, no matter who the president happens to be.
Torq   
4 Jun 2025
News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [177]

Well done, Novi.

If you posted only in the abortion thread and gave up all your activity in the Russian invasion one, you would be one of my favourite posters. :)
Torq   
4 Jun 2025
News / Karol Nawrocki - the New President of Poland [381]

Proffessor Nowak is Narowckis mentor and sponsor.

Certainly not in the academic sense. Nawrocki's PhD mentor was Grzegorz Berendt, and Dudek and Polak his reviewing committee.

a lot more independent than you think

As independent as a puppet on a string.

Why do you think Kaczyński chose N. as his candidate? Precisely because he has such 'haki' on him that Onet's revelations pale in comparison. He will be yet another Kaczynski's ballpen.
Torq   
3 Jun 2025
News / Karol Nawrocki - the New President of Poland [381]

in a few years after he wins the process with Onet

Pigs will fly sooner than that happens.

Unless, of course, PiS comes back to power and takes over the judiciary, then anything is possible.
Torq   
3 Jun 2025
News / Karol Nawrocki - the New President of Poland [381]

Again, the fact that a guy like Nawrocki will be Poland's president is a major embarrassment and a slap in the face of every decent Pole. Of course, Warsaw's Szambelan wouldn't be perfect either but at least somewhat less embarrassing.

Why are Tusk and Kaczyński such twats? We could have a presidential race between Sikorski and Marek Jurek, Andrzej Nowak or Czesław Ryszka (real Catholics and patriots) and I would vote for any of the three in the second round, but K. and T. had to choose two muppets for their candidates, and the worse muppet won. Horrible.
Torq   
3 Jun 2025
News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [177]

Embryo? (...) Fetus?

Anything to avoid calling it a child? It's evil to kill a child but it's OK to dispose of "embryo" or "foetus", right? Nice nazi thinking. Mass murdering people is also horrible but if, instead of 'people', you call them "Untermenschen" or "Ungezifer"...

Perhaps you spent too much time in Germany, Alien.
Torq   
2 Jun 2025
News / Karol Nawrocki - the New President of Poland [381]

And who would become PM?

Kosiniak-Kamysz or, even better, Sikorski. Tusk is finished. He f*cked up big time with the elections and the consequences for Poland will be disastrous.
Torq   
2 Jun 2025
News / Karol Nawrocki - the New President of Poland [381]

PiS would have lost if not for 11 candidates on the fvcking ballot.

That and the fact that hundreds of thousands of leftists decided to vote for Nawrocki rather than Trzaskowski: about 20% of 1st round Senyszyn voters, 16% of Zandberg, 14% of Hołownia and 10% of Biejat! This tipped the scales to Nawrocki's side (he only won by 370 thousand votes). Go figure - leftists voting for Nawrocki like proverbial chickens voting for Colonel Sanders.

Also, it should have been Sikorski from the start, not Trzaskowski who already lost one elections to Duda and is a president of Warsaw (a capital city is rarely liked by people in other regions), but Tusk wanted someone more easily influenced, so in the end he got what he deserved. It's a shame and embarassment for Poland, so if Tusk has a bit of honour, he should now resign as PM.
Torq   
2 Jun 2025
News / Karol Nawrocki - the New President of Poland [381]

you will be like America - where everybody hates everybody

Your USA-Poland analogy is almost perfect. Almost.

You are wrong in the part that I highlighted. The progressive and the conservative side may indeed consider each other "irredeemable idiots" but in Poland there is no real hatred between them.

Do you think Ironside hates me? Do you think I hate Korvinus? Think again. This is Poland. We can argue and fight between one another but should a foreigner raise his hand against one of us, 40 million will strike him back. Sure, Podkarpacie are a bunch of hillbilly rednecks but try to hurt them and Pomeranian troops will be all over you like a honey badger on a cobra. Deploy a landing force on the coast of Gdańsk, which those hillbillies consider a modern version of Babylon lol, and Podkarpacie riflemen will give you hell like in 1920. So, if Владимир Владимирович is counting on one day invading a divided Poland, he'll be sorely disappointed.

EDIT:

Why is the election thread closed? I wanted to brag about the results in my beloved city...

Gdańsk

... Gdańsk forever! :)
Torq   
2 Jun 2025
News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]

Okay, bad joke

:)

Sense of humour is important.

If you don't know how and what to think about Poland's new president, just imagine that Kaczynski is the new president now (Nawrocki is only his marionette).
Torq   
2 Jun 2025
News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]

One person is certainly happy with the elections' result. I'll give you a hint - he likes three things: botox, ice hockey, and bare-chest horseback riding.

Those who voted for Nawrocki can wear their onucas with pride and apply to Novichok for the membership in Putin's fan club.
Torq   
2 Jun 2025
News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]

It's a semi-joke

Not funny.

I can't be sure about anything you claim here.

I am probably the only 100% pro-Polish consistent poster here, always for the best interest of Poland. Of that you can be sure.
Torq   
2 Jun 2025
News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]

I wouldn't be surprised if Torq's wife happened to be a man.

I used to respect you, Iron, but with this one sentence you just earned your place in the same league with Strzelec. Well done.

look for corruption scandals

Plus more thugs in the presidential palace and state-run institutions, presidential pardons for PiS crooks and thieves, and of course Nawrocki himself is beyond the reach of the law now. President can only be judged by the Constitutional Tribunal, and it's not going to happen. Again - a sad day for Poland. We are moving away from the European mainstream and closer to Belarus and Hungary.

I don't hold it against Braun and Mentzen voters that they voted for Nawrocki (93% and 90% respectively). It was easy to predict. However, the 10% of Biejat voters, 14% of Hołownia's, 16% of Zandberg's and 19% of Senyszyn's 1st round voters might have problems looking into the mirror in the coming years.
Torq   
2 Jun 2025
News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]

A very sad day for Poland.

PO is the party of

Listen, teddy bear. "Middle-aged city dwelling dandies" will be quite all right, no matter who happens to be the president. As for the rest of you... your primitive prejudices, hatred, resentment and envy have just made Poland weaker and more vulnerable. Hope you're proud of yourselves.
Torq   
1 Jun 2025
News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]

Trzaskbaum

What is that supposed to mean? :)

Did you really vote for Narwocki? It means that you think the missing letters here...

2

... are PRO.

Congratulations. Hopefully you and your ilk are in minority.

@jon357

Sometimes the count is quicker in certain comissions in large cities, there's no rule really. The USA, however, is surely already counted and they definitely voted for Nawrocki. It will probably swing to Nawrocki, then back to Trzaskowski and will stay there. I'd say 51,5% for the Warsaw's president.
Torq   
31 May 2025
News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [177]

Abortion is a medical procedure protected and co-financed by the state.

In godless countries perhaps. They will all receive their reward, in the lake of fire, where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.
Torq   
31 May 2025
News / 2011 Stats: 80% of Poles happy [60]

You are just describing the European Union.

:)

That's the plan, Alien. That's the plan. That's why we have to stay as a fully integrated part of the core EU to change this Marxist-ridden union into something better one day.
Torq   
31 May 2025
News / 2011 Stats: 80% of Poles happy [60]

So what is your choice, your preference?

Ordoliberalism, with families - as building block of every healthy society - heavily subsidised by the state built on traditional values and Catholic Church's social teaching.
Torq   
30 May 2025
News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]

the bigger the fuss, the better...*shrugs*

Hmm, so they were the real rebels and we were 'good boys' swallowing official state propaganda? Well I never...

But maybe you're onto something. This and the desire to shock the older generations. Good thinking, BB. :)
Torq   
30 May 2025
News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]

Hmm....doesn't sound so strange

Not to Crow I bet! I can imagine him being a Slavic-pagan skinhead in 1990s Novi Sad. :)

But Nazi-Poles, yes...that is strange...

Incomprehensible. Especially that we were raised on Polish and Soviet war films in which nazis were always legendarily black characters. Oh, well... human mind is a great mystery.
Torq   
30 May 2025
News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]

So I don't know what kind of views Kania had at that time...

Let me, therefore, explain.

In the 90s skinheads in Poland were divided into three groups (well, three main groups anyway). Nationalist-Catholic - my bunch, we listened to Legion and were Polish nationalists without any ubermenschen, Arian, nazi nonsense; national-socialist (what one would call neo-nazi), they listened to Blood and Honour and they somehow managed in their heads to reconcile being Polish and nazi lol. These two groups didn't exactly love each other (to put it mildly). There was also a third group, Slavic-pagan (Tejkowski and Sztorm 68), and some of them evolved into weird leftist communist skinheads - a strange minority.

Did I go to football games, fight police and opposing teams' fans? Sure. And today, when I look back, I am neither proud nor ashamed of it. It was testosterone mixed with a healthy dose of youthful stupidity. Also, years of watching war movies and playing war in the playground played their part too. Children are raised a bit differently nowadays.

One thing that I have to say though is that my skinhead pals were the best comrades one could ever hope to have, and two of them are still in my closest circle of friends. They both have higher education (one of them received a ministerial award for his MA thesis) families and good jobs, and don't have any criminal record apart from a few short detentions before or after football games. In case of Nawrocki it's different; his pals were/are(?) regular gansters, criminals and pimps, and he seems to be not only proud of it but also still unhealthily fascinated with his former(?) mates.

A lot of skinheads/punks were/are famously straight edge. They take zero drugs,

Exactly. Baranki Boże, a funny skinhead band from Słupsk, even had a song poetically entitled 'Narkomańskie ścierwo'. :)