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Latest Millward Brown polls on party support

PO - 31
PiS - 29
Kukis - 10
SLD - 6
Nowoczesna - 5

All others less than 5

The probable reason for loss of support is JK's jihad against Donald Tusk, a personal grudge that he seems willing to burn electoral bridges to pursue.

Calling Tusk in to testify seems to have backfired (as did their attempt to oust him from Brussels).

Will DT be the next president?

source: wiadomosci.onet.pl/kraj/sondaz-millward-brown-dla-faktow-tvn-po-wyprzedza-pis

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Yes, both sides on this are prone to exaggeration and distortion. Kaczyński is't "first secretary" as that title no longer exists. But he is the party leader (indisputably) and the most powerful person in the country (without any of that pesky responsibility that others face). That is a PRL model.

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Like you?

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Do you live in a garden shed or something? No honest observer can look at what's happened over the last 25 years and claim that some shadowy elite was "milking the country for what it was worth". Maybe those formed in the PRL (and thus prone to see the world through a prism of victimhood) without marketable skills or the mental acuity or agility to thrive in a capitalist system would think that because they suddenly expected German style prosperity without actually having to do anything.

There are plenty of countries that fit your description but... Poland is not one of them (for starters no where close to one fourth of the population thrives in such places).

Of course there were mistakes and wrong turns in the process, those are a normal part of any political evolution, but I am _so_ sick of people who blame their own unhappy lives or failures on some weird idea of a shadowy cabal (with no real, verifiable evidence of its existence). Why don't they just stam "I'm a big fat loser!" on their foreheads and spare the rest of us their drama?

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So tragic that a parliamentary system worked.... if only they hadn't abandoned the PRL principle of rule by party leader!

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The Czech city is Praha (or Prague or Prag if you wanna be Deutsch about it)

It's clear he's referring to Warsaw east of the Wisła.

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The ends justify the means..... who was it who said that?

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There often is when sane people are dealing with mentally unbalanced ones....


You don't believe in rule of law (preferring rule by party leader) and now you're in favor of violence to prevent the normal functioning of parliament?

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It's people like Macierewicz who have always weakened Poland enough so that Russia could get their hooks in. He'd sell the country in a heartbeat for the security of eternal victimhood.

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You think JK or AM want to "solve" the case? That's hilarious!

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I, sir, am from the South and would never call myself a "yank" (a British and not American word anyway). The correct term is "(Damn) Yankee"

Don't complain about pollack if you insist on using kraut and frog - they're roughly the same level of insults.

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Can you write about any nationality without using slurs? Apparently not. How do you square your supposed Christianity with your seeming need to demain other ethnicicites at every opportunity?

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So.... as a PιSS enthusiast, you don't mind a little collateral sexual abuse as long as it doesn't muss up the big picture good change? Is that the official ΡiSS fan's position?

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You write about them so much you must be a PO lover!


So, it's a fantasy! Okay, but why take it so seriously then?

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All 26% of the population? Why are there so few patriotic Poles? As a non-Pole yourself, how do you account for the over 70 % of the population that is not patriotic?

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For a supposed supporter of the Polish people you sure do despise an awful lot of Poles. Why is that? And no, they're definitely not "ministerial kids" like the JK was at their age.


Please, mourning loved ones is the farthest thing from the minds of РiSS afficionados.

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I deal with young adults all the time and if you think most of them are following the РiSS party, then you're really mistaken.

Especially, the spectacular failure of PıSS in its addlebrained scheme to oust Tusk was seen as a major embarrassment to the country internationally.

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Let me try again,


Yes that's accurate now.

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You're a **** supporter who supports ideas like the rule of law or democracy only when it suits the **** leadership.

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So... no justification for Legionowo? Waiting for Jarek to tell you what to think?

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Roundtable! Michnik's a dirty Jew! SB! Wałęsa and the boat! (sorry I was just channeling polly and wondering what mental gymnastics he would use to justify this.... nah, he'll just ignore it and go on about his usual bogeymen).

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Isn't that what the Church said when it was persecuting Galileo?

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If there were "legions" of them then Poland never would have exited communism peacefully.


no one says the transfer was handled perfectly, but most of the assets sold were sinking in debt and could not be made to be profitable


Anything goes is a founding principal of western civilization (it's at the heart of it and science and technology would be impossible without it). Would you prefer the tender ministrations of Russia instead?


The same ones that "supported socialism" back in the day?

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It's my gift...... and my burden.... (lowers head and stares at floor).

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A very free (and Americanized) version

All the folks round my place, they need a New Deal
And the future looks bright with Kaczynski behind the wheel,
For every kid you make, he gives a hundred bucks a pop,
And as for smokes and booze he's made the taxes stop!
It's the land of lard and vodka, under Jaroslaw the Great,
That's what they're all a' sayin' around my garden gate

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Horrible, horrible democracy. How you must hate it!


What about purple flying unicorns? Or the tooth fairy union? As long as we're talking about made up fantasy creatures.


I'll say it again. Any growing business goes through a phase where there's too much work for the founder(s) but not enough to justify hiring people. Many businesses fail to break through that and either fail or limit their operations to stay at manageable size.

A national economy is similar, there will come a time (during growth) where old salaries aren't enough but businesses cannot realistically pay more. It's frustrating but rather than find a way to work through it and get ot a stage where salaries can be increased pay many Polish people (and some non-Poles like you) have decided to retreat into PRL ghettoization and blame their problems on non-existent bogeymen. So sad.

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Exactly what PiS is doing through nepotism and the appointment of unqualified dolts. Remember Pride of Poland? It took PiS one year to destroy three quarters of its previous value.

Good change?!?

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In the US "polka music" doesn't refer only to the rhythm known as 'polka' but is colloquially used to describe any music from Germany/Czech/Poland with any kind of traditional elements, especially if it's a dance rhythm and has an accordeon in there somewhere.

It's also used to describe music from North Mexico/Southern Texas with similar features (adopted from 19th century German immigrants).

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No. You really hate the law when it's not on your side. Laws that the Sejm passes that violate the constituion ARE NOT CONSTITUTIONAL!

At present Poland has no constitution because the commie-style party leader never intended to follow any law that restricts his power to hand out goodies to his toadies. I just hope that whatever he's handing out to you is worth it.

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Deceptive language! I'm no fan of PiS (massive, massive understatement) but having an electoral threshhold is a good thing. Completely proportional representation was a party gift of the communists that clogged up the first few post commie governments. Comparisons with the Netherlands are not apt.

There may be a time to elminate the threshhold but now is not it.