News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [301]

You mean then he is entitled to lie or distort the truth with impunity, is that it?
@Joker, at least under FDR, you'd have had a bed in which to hear the stories:-)
Ck. out Art Buchwald's "The Republican Twenty-Third Psalm:

Nixon is my shepherd
I shall always want.
He maketh me to lie down on park benches,
He leadeth me beside the still factories,
He restoreth my doubt in the Republican Party.
Yea, poverty and misery shall follow me all the days of my life,
And I shall live in the rented house forever.

Two thousand years ago, Moses said
"Bring your camel, take your shovel, mount your ass
And I shall lead you to the Promised Land!"

Two thousand years later, Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed
"Leave your camel, put down your shovel, sit on your ass
This is the Promised Land!"

Nixon will steal your camel, sell your shovel, kick you in the ass
and tell you there is no Promised Land!!

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@PolAmKrakow,
Have you read Charlie Kirk's remarks on George Floyd?

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [301]

Point is, Kirk was belittling the murder of a black man by a white police officer
who bloody well deserved to have the book thrown at him in spades, no pun intended here.

Furthermore, it's not mature behavior to let drip from one's mouth or pen every little ignorant
thought one has in their head.

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Handing Trump the Nobel Prize would be ludicrous.

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [301]

Charlie made disparaging remarks about Jews, non-Christians, above all, nasty assertions
about George Floyd, relating to the fact that he was African-American.

The fact that he was black had nothing to do with his value as a human being!
He showed more sympathy for Officer Chauvin than he did for the Floyd, who,
a la Eric Garner, was placed in an unauthorized choke hold!!

Pity that the police stick together, often at the expense of doing the right thing.
"You people don't know how tough it is being a cop!"

Yes, there is truth in such an assertion. However, is this not merely an excuse
for some racist policeman to justify placing a choke hold on a man whose sole
misdemeanor was, stealing a friggin' pack of cigarettes??

Many professionals are similar. Lawyers too feel themselves a band of brothers
who would never criticize a fellow attorney, same with school teachers etc.

This is unfair and folks out there shouldn't be surprised that there's so much
violence in America.

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I figured that. Vilified in life, martyred in death.
We deserved better! His hateful rhetoric didn't merit nearly the attention it received.

On the other hand, Kimmel's flip comments were shameful and he should have been censured.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 17 [329]

At least verbal diarrhea doesn't smell as bad as socio-political halitosisLOL

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Your rear end is the repository of toxic waste.
Jon thinks and usually makes sense.

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'Been asking myself the same question.
Bizarre? Downright foul!!

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@PolAmKrakow.

Trump wants to eventually repeal the Affordable Care Act, dubbing
it "wasteful", along with a string of other even less favorable adjectives!
He also wants to control what is taught in schools, what passes for appropriate
entertainment media. That qualifies as a dictatorship, not a democracy.

In the US, as elsewhere, society punishes the average person, the everyday citizen, for
speeding, stealing, tax evasion, rape, of course murder. Who though punishes the Trumps,
corporate giants, those who deem themselves no longer subject to the same laws as the rest of us?

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In her own words, Kirk's widow "forgives" that Robertson bloke.
I can understand her views as the religious utterance of those who seek
some sort of spiritual redemption. Perhaps it's true or merely publicity seeking.

If somebody murdered my wife, child(ren) or close family member, I hope
that I would be as forgiving! Probably not, yet I can only pray.

Apropos President Trump, he claims he IS the law, in doing so, behaves as though
he were ABOVE the very law which he is charged with upholding.

Only he feels that he is immune from the slings and arrows of outrageous ignominy,
such as selectively poor medical and legal services, run-away inflation etc. simply because he is president
and we're not.

The Constitution?? A la Chico Marx in "A Night at the Opera", "Ahh, I no lika that one, get rid of it!"
LOL Yet the joke's on us, the American citizenry, most of whom, with only some exceptions, voted for the guy.

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Immediately!!

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I couldn't agree more!

According to the German press, e.g. ZEIT, SPIEGEL, FAZ, many German
communities are terribly concerned that the increased presence of the children of non-German-
speaking foreigners in the elementary school classroom, typically children of migrants, is gradually
lowering the level of education in order to accomodate the migrants, apparently to the disadvantage
of native German pupils.

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Hey, Rich!
The only sewer here is coming from your keypad.
A true Trump supporter.
He has no respect for the English language either:

"Folks, I think we're doin' fantastic! I mean, really,
fantastic, isn't it? You see, the Left is evil, folks, really,
the country's fantastic, our GDP's fantastic....."

Yep, that's the Donald.

(time for the ol' barf bag)

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It's as I just posted in #36; there's got to be a pan-European solution or none at all.
Trump couldn't care less about Europe's problems anyway.
A typical "Don't do, delegate!" executive type.

Polonia / What do Poles think of how they are treated in Germany, in comparison to the Muslim migrants [181]

The lure of cheap labor, as I've already stated umpteen times.

News / Germany's Socio-Political Climate and Its Impact on Poland [109]

Obviously, no one EU-country can "solve" the migration issue.
EU-Commission head Ursula von der Leyen has stressed on more than
one occasion that it is NOT up to The Federal Republic alone to determine
migrant policy in Europe; every member nation must bear equal burden!

Trite as all this sounds, Macron and Starmer keep pointing fingers at Merz
who keeps trying to deflect blame and so it all seems like just another never-
ending blame game.

Polonia / What do Poles think of how they are treated in Germany, in comparison to the Muslim migrants [181]

@Rich,
That's the point, they don't!
It's all a question of importing cheap labor,
much as it is in the US. Only difference is that
we can absorb them better because of our size:-)

News / Germany's Socio-Political Climate and Its Impact on Poland [109]

Always pushing the envelope, aren't you Rich.
We can all see you're playing the eternal Devil's Advocate.
Who but a misguided moron would vote AfD?

Polonia / What do Poles think of how they are treated in Germany, in comparison to the Muslim migrants [181]

Considering what Germany went through, directly after the war and well into the late '70's following the
notorious Auschwitz Trials of the Camp guards, functionaries etc. small wonder the Federal Gov't reacts
to things tainted with Faschism as it does!

News / Germany's Socio-Political Climate and Its Impact on Poland [109]

Solid point, Tacitus.
I certainly can't, nor would I, argue with your last statement.
Along with Filbinger, the likes of Luebke, Kiesinger, even Karl Karstens,
clearly left a lot to be desired, pointing once again to the deeply divided
nature of post-war German politics!

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Adenauer though, while effective as a manager, had numerous blind spots,
not the very least of which was the appointment to various government posts
of former top Nazis, among them of course, Dr. Theodor Oberlaender, above all,
one of the drafters of the Nueremberg Laws, Dr. Hans Globke!

His defense of course, was that as most of those competent to lead Germany had been killed
during the war, any able-minded, experienced professional, needed to be called in
to serve in the West German government, no matter what.

As I recall reading as well as having spoken with historians of the period, e.g. the late Andreas
Hillgruber, Adenauer typically would brook no opposition to his policies.

However, Jews were immensely fond of Adenauer, looking at him as a sort of German
FDR, who met with Ben Gurion when no other German leader would, as well as appointing
the first post-war German ambassador to Israel, Dr. Rolf Pauls.

A deeply flawed, but highly clever man, Konrad Adenauer.

Classifieds / ı want to make commarence abt zyn [24]

Ahemm, what makes you think I'm European?
In fact, I'm from the States!

Classifieds / ı want to make commarence abt zyn [24]

A pleasure!
Language aside, do heed jon's advice as well:-)
Poor English won't land you in jail, breaking the law as a non-EU visitor without citizenship status..??
That's another story.

@Lyzko
Hahaha, why are you European guys always like that, always trying to stay in the zone of rules? I've done this with an Italian guy - it was hard to give him some confidence.