News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


What particular crime is he charged with? Daylight raids are to arrest wanted criminals who've been charged. They are categorically not intended for fishing expeditions by neurotic personalities with an ideological axe to grind.

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Oh I'm sure some posters here would be all on board with this...

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Seems? There's no doubt now that they're all about revenge, more revenge and booty (the cash kind, not the buttock kind).

I am curious as to whether Duda and Szydło realized just how marginalized they'd be after the elections that they (and not the toxic demons kept out of public sight) won.


It's not like JK has kids and worries about their future (also see Merkel, another barren destroyer).

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Hate to break it to you, wroneczko*, but neither Poles nor Russians are terribly concerned about what's important to you Serbians.

Sorry 'bout dat.

*Crowie baby

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What has Russia ever done that Poland should trust them? Can you name just one thing? Not being on board with Merkel's mad folly or some EU policies is not nearly enough to make alignment with Russia seem like a good (or even sane) idea.

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BECAUSE THE CODES ARE MEANINGLESS!!!!!!

Also, enforcement seems up to the subjective judgement of the mods which makes the whole point kind of meaningless as well.

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And that does no good whatsoever with no information about which posts got that designation and why. Would it be so hard to PM with a clarification? Apparently yes.

IME not a single request for clarifying information has been honored with an answer, just ambiguous and/or meaningless self-righteousness.

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Not true at all in the case of Germany (which after 2004 insisted on keeping its labor market closed to Polish people as long as possible and wanted extensions).

Germany has been a very poor partner to new member states (not to mention Greece) and has precious little ground to stand on in calling for European solidarity and cooperation.

Sweden is a few steps away from being a failed state and I see no reason to assume that other countries wish to follow its lead.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

No. Poland has a survival sense that is sorely lacking in places like West Germany.

If the refugees were properly vetted closer to Syria then that might be appropriate to help but the hundreds of thousands (soon to be millions) flooding in now are mostly not from countries that are entitled to refugee status and they're causing far more problems than they are worth in the places that have been foolish enough to take them in.

You might not have thought Cologne was any big deal but it's the tip of the iceberg about what's going on.

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It would have been nice to have some distribution in the decision making process. There was none, Germany and Sweden went their own way, got in way over their head and started trying to instill guilt about other countries not helping. They might bully some other countries into compliance but there's no way Poland will feel guilty about not helping more in this case.

We all make the bed we must lie in,
And tuck ourselves into it too.
And if somebody kicks, that will be a young angry Iraqi,
And if someone gets kicked, then that will be a European woman who never knew what hit her...

(apologies to Herr Brecht)

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


any evidence for that claim besides the old 'cashiers wearing pampers' urban legend?

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A comment from an article you linked went (roughly) L Kaczyński liquidated the heads of the armed forces near Smolensk and J Kaczyński wants to finish the job in Poland.

If I didn't know better, I might suspect that the grand master scheme of JK (and bootlicks like AM) is to return Poland to the Russian sphere of influence. Do I know better?

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PiS supporters don't care anything about Polish farmers (who have sometimes voted for PSL instead of them). PiS supporters care about money, money, money and power (to take more money).

All the talk about koryto is pure projection. They can't imagine anyone in the public sector not wanting to raid the public coffers for all they're worth (it's what they want to do after all while spinning glib lies about repolonization or patriotism).

It's almost like a Latin American junta come to power (and so far far worse than most had feared it would be). I think Poland is going to take some huge financial hits that take it back economically at least 10 years....

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In other words, you're a corrupt partisan who cares nothing for the Polish public as long as your enemies are hurt....

Perhaps you're hoping for an appointment you're not qualified for yourself?

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(channeling Polonius3) You mean better! Experience and expertise are a form of theft by the KOD post RT communist elite against the True Poles who are not to blame that they don't have employable skills. They should be promoted to leadership positions so they can gain skills. Entry level positions are for corrupt PO types, PiS knows what really matters is loyalty to party and JK....

Who am I kidding? he won't address the substance of any of these at all (because they are indefensible) but simply keep invoking misdeeds by PO (without ever getting into any specific cases).

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The term Yank to refer to Americans is deeply offensive to those of us who are not Yankees.

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Hey, you go with what you know. If your'e a sneaky paranoid figure you see conspiracies everywhere and that's what you give priority to...

And I'm sure there are plenty of PiS cronies ready to take their place. What's military know how and experience compared to party loyalty? Nothing! That's what! (Polonius will tell you)

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And if they can't find any... they'll make stuff up! It's the PiS way!

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Hey, they're just as guilty as he is in my book. Stand up and be counted. Which is more important, apolitical expertise or party loyalty?

Poland isn't Hungary or Russia and JK's attempt to follow the Orban/Putin road will not end well.

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In other words, you can't defend the firing of apolitical world renowned experts in favor of party cronies with no relevant experience.

For someone who claims to care about the Polish brand you're awfully cavalier about this potentially devastating blow to one of the most iconic Polish brands.

Party loyalty uber alles?

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Indeed. Many who did not especially work against the communists felt embarassed and ashamed after the transition and so to soothe their conscience they have to tear down those who were on the front lines.... (I forget if there's a name for this but it's common after a country emerges from some kind of totalitarianism).

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I tought I taw a Duda-cat



I did! I did taw a Duda-cat!

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As my good deed of the day, I will answer in Polonius's name so that he can rest for a minute or so. His response is as follows:

PO bad! PiS good! KOD bad! Michnik bad traitor! Michnik non-gentile! 1992 Bolek! Nocna zmniana! Treason! True Poles! Catholics! Bolek! Traitors! Patriots! Jews! PiS! Jarosław Kaczyński! Donald Tusk! shreeekkklsll lshhhehrlrlleelelkwkwlllll (brain meltdown)

I'm sure his eventual response will not be one bit more coherent.

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Just what are Marek Trela and Jerzy Białobok guilty of that it's necessary to replace them with party loyalists? How exactly does this help build up the Polish brand?


I would claim no such thing. I'm not a zealot. But so far PiS is giving every indication of being worse and have the potential of undoing years of progress and returning Poland to the early 90s economically (they want to do a reset of 1992 but the only way to do that is destroy all the progress made since then).

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Is this a Brit term for a stud farm? I was kind of confused because in my dialect a stud is an uncastrated male horse (same as stallion though implies breeding usage more) and not a place.


So.... political qualifications are important? Another bit of the PRL making a come back?

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With his possible appointments as the president of a marine agricultural station, helicopter squadron or army hospital still up in the air? Be reasonable!

News / The dossier of TW "Bolek" - Poland's IPN assisted by police enters the home of the late general Kiszczak [306]

It's worse than that, they can't help themselves from trying to destroy the past and make it as awful as possible (being addicted to perpetual victimhood)

News / The dossier of TW "Bolek" - Poland's IPN assisted by police enters the home of the late general Kiszczak [306]


Except for JK himself....

News / The dossier of TW "Bolek" - Poland's IPN assisted by police enters the home of the late general Kiszczak [306]


hmmmmm this actually makes my "help engineer a failed attempt at 'decommunization' that can be used to create a political base among the naive" hypothesis seem more likely. The more ridiculous the list the more likely to fail. And with a lot of the details being forgotten - the idea that the komuchy are still pulling all the strings is kept front and center to keep the angry have nots all riled up.

News / The dossier of TW "Bolek" - Poland's IPN assisted by police enters the home of the late general Kiszczak [306]


Thinking out loud..... maybe that was the plan all along? In retrospect, it seems that Kaczyński clearly wanted a cause celebre and helping engineer the collapse of a doomed government would help create a mythology about frustrated decommunization..... that he could ride to new heights.....

Interesting thoughts....