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Polonius3   
12 Apr 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

PiS

Misiewicz just got the sack. His PiS membership has been suspended. All of PF's chronic PiS-bashers should applaud Jarek for his deicson. The mills of PiS justice grind slowly but inevitably.
Polonius3   
8 Apr 2017
Language / Terms of endearment in Polish [222]

You look nice today

Ładnie dzisiaj wyglądasz. But adding the today (dzisiaj) may suggest that usually she looks rather frumpy but today she's ok.
Polonius3   
8 Apr 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Kaczyński

The latest CBOS preference poll shows PiS with 37% support (the same as in the 2015 election), PO trailing 11 points behind (26%), Kukiz 9% and Petru (the self-declared leader of the opposition) just on the borderline with a mere 5%.

Anyone know how that would translate into parliamentary seats?
Polonius3   
7 Apr 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

talking rubbish

Nobody said talking rubbish was illegal, but it reflects badly on the one who has only rubbish to speak about. Someone hot for the PM's chair should at least present a coherent game plan and not just thrash his politicl opponents. His presntation was chaotic and disjointed just like the codswallop of other POO activists, and it cost the Polish taxpayer 1.3 million złotys.
Polonius3   
7 Apr 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Kaczyński

During today's Schetyna mud-slinging festival which BTW cost the taxpayer 1.3 million zł, the Sejm rejected his motion to become PM and create his own government. But he rambled on for an hour doing what he does best: no programme, no constructive ideas, just pure, unadulterated PiS-bashing.

Kaczyński rightly noted before the vote that Agniezska Holland may be an outstanding film director but not a great politician. He quoted her as saying "I want things to be as they were." That's what all the status quo defenders want -- reversion to post-commie Poland. But a re-run of POO misgovernment is not in the works. And thank goodness for that!

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Polonius3   
7 Apr 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

blocking democracy

No-one is blocking the democratic process more than Warsaw's Witch-Mayor Gronkowiec. Not only has she been responsible for one of the hugest scams in post-commie and POO history, in which her fmaily has directly benefited, but she has placed the blame on underlings, sacked some of them and refuses to testify when summoned. All along shre was either ill or on holiday or just pulleda no-show, much the way her guru Gen Jabberwocky did and managed to evade incarceration right down to the grave. But eventually she will slip up and we shall thankfully see the screechy, nasal-voiced b*tch w pierdlu.
Polonius3   
7 Apr 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

opinion polls

Interesting how you claim opinion polls are inconclusive and not very reliable when the reuslts go against your own preferences, but you eagerly cite them when they indulge your whims. What's the proper term here: bias, one-sidedness, duplicity, hypocrisy? Take your pick!

Macierewicz has been singled out for the most virulent, unrelenting, decades-long villificaton campaign even more so than Kaczyński, and thta has obviously affected poll results. He has been closely associated with the police files which theatend to expose the dirty little secrets of today's opposition who thought they would rule forever. Instead, they have landed in hte dust bin of history from which they will probably never arise.
Polonius3   
7 Apr 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

not a putsch

The key is WHY they did it. Watch "Nocna zmiana" -- it tells the story of conspirators shaking in their boots that their nefarious activities would be exposed and plotting in a back room on how they would nip de-communisation in the bud. And every one of the conspriators had commie-connections to hide: Kuroń, Wałęsa, Moczulski, Kwaśniewski, Pawlak and all the rest.

the minds of РiSS afficionados.

Since you claim to know all about how their minds work, you must be one of them yourself.

minds of РiSS afficionados.

Polonius3   
7 Apr 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

"ministerial kids"

That term applies to those who after 1989 came from good KPP-linked, PZPR, crypto-PZPR or pro-PZPR homes and became part of the roundtable system. That someone doing the PZPR's bidding (demanding Bishop Kaczmarek's conviction on trumped-up espionage charges in a rigged stalinist show trial) could become the head of the first "non-communist" government is incredible. But GW-style propaganda backed by both sides of the PZPR/KOR equation churned out round-the-clock peans extolling and glamourising a Catholic (?) journalist, first post-war non-communidst PM, Solidarity strike adviser, etc. I'll wager you didn't even know of the useful idiot role played by Mazowiecki in the PZPR's bid to frame Kaczmarek or when he travelled to the Vatican with Wielowieyski to snitch on and badmouth Cardinal Wyszyński. BTW Wielowieyjski's daughter is an ambitious careeer journalist, TVN stalwarth and status quo defender, who obviously does not want her dad's ignominious role publicised.

remntcoverentor por-PZ
Polonius3   
7 Apr 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

incompetent and useless

To every patriotic Pole Macierewicz symbolises a Poland free of SB snitches and PZPR holdovers. Wałęsa's 1992 parliamentary putsch was the main cause of today's bipolar Poland. The problem of who is who should have been resolved in the early 90s and be done with. By impeding de-communisation a generation of Poles have been subjected to unproductive mudslinging between status quo defenders like yourself and reformers seeking a clean slate to start over from scratch.

Even your comment about "uneducated" boys betrays your love of status quo stagnation. We've got experts so let's stop at that--you seem to be saying. No need to give new candidates any hands-on experience. Let's just keep the same old, tired and worn-out oldboy "specialists" 'cause they know the ropes.

Macierewicz has generated untold fear of exposure and hatred by the GW crowd with family KPP connections as well as the snitcher/PZPR association. It's not surprising that those with things on their conscience wanted bygones to be bygones ASAP but that has only petrified the issue which is living a life of its own 28 years on and will continue for a generaiton or more. And why? To save the backsides of roundtable clique members and their bandwagon stooges.
Polonius3   
6 Apr 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

so blinded

I deal with young adults

Probably "ministerial kids", part of the roundtable bandwagon. The young are generally opposed to all the parties -- the most fed-up with postcommie Poland support Kukiz and Korwin out of spite.

Tusk is far shrewder and craftier than the POO activists in Poland who are so blinded by their hatred for PiS that it as addled their brains. Tusk prudently had them call off the pro-Tusk rally which was to have been held on 10th April not far from the official Smolensk commemoration. If it had gone ahead, it would have amounted to shooting Tusk in the foot, placing him on the opposite side of the barricade to those mourning their loved ones. There's a Polish sayng: Najpierw pomyśl, to nic nie kosztuje. Instead, POO act first and think and lick their wounds later.
Polonius3   
6 Apr 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

loathed by huge segments

Your choice of adjectives is reminisicent of your hyperbolic "countless" ex-commies and TW types you claimed to be in PiS, until it turned out there was only Piotrowicz and later the ambassdor to Germany. The "huge" segments are all in the losers' camp so they don't count for much. Cry-babying and belly-aching plus sour grapes thrown in for good measure!
Polonius3   
6 Apr 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

PO lost their

I was speaking of young Poles not the PO młodzieżówka. Young Poles are not much into party politics and judge people by other criteria. We're talkign those who will don a Wołyń, Polska Walcząca or Żołnierz wyklęty T-shirt, celebrate patriotic occasions, and root themselves hoarse for Biało-Czerwoni at sporting events. The perceived anti-Polishness, globalism and multi-culti cosmopolitanism of PO rubs these people the wrong way, since they can best identify with "Poland for Poles". Whether you like it or not, Macierewicz exudes an aura of unbridled patriotism combined with a touch of mystery and is able to rattle the status quo clique whom the young despise.
Polonius3   
6 Apr 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

oust Tusk

There is no love lost between young Poles and Tusk -- to them he is the symbol of of the system, the outfit, the roundtable clique, the head scamster, one of the reasons a uni grad cannot find work in his field and has to man the check-out, stuff letterboxes with handbills or emigrate. Macierewicz is viewed by many young people as a Polish romantic, a knight crusading for the downtrodden and underprivileged and totally committed to Poland's defence and security. You'll notice I didn't say Kaczyński, because he lacks the charisma,spark and zing of Macierewicz. But he is a great strategist. In PiS everyone is posted where they can do their best for Poland.
Polonius3   
6 Apr 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

botched up over a quarter of a century

First of all POO and their predecessors left the army full of Soviet-trained PZPR-appointed officers. Bur rant all you want, POO is a ghost from the past, a has-been, a joke of history now firmly planted where it belongs -- in its bin. Fortuantely today's young people are by and large opposed to the soft on commies POO, Petru, SLD, PSL, UW, UD... Their heroes are no longer such cosmopolitan scum as MTV, Hendrix, Nirvana or Che Guevara, but the Doomed Soldiers. Poland's cultural community has risen to the occasion by producing feature flms, TV series, books even rock and rap numbers extolling the Żołnierze Wyklęci. Companies selling T-shirts and jackets with Żołnierze Wyklęci, Polska Walcząca, Łupaszka, Wołyń, Katyń, etc. are doing a booming business. So get with it. Get a feel for the new Poland. Stop living in the rotten, decadent past.
Polonius3   
6 Apr 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

severe problems

Ever heard of growing pains? The mess left by the PO requires lots of work to set things straight. Things botched up over a quarter of a century cannot be rectified overnight. Errors may occur, but only he makes no mistakes who does nothing. The number of red brass, SB types and their TW stooges that made it right through from PRL to III RP was staggering. Komorowski's defence of the WSI was highly disconcerting.
Polonius3   
5 Apr 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

would have wanted to join the SS.

Most of the jump-on-the-bandwagon and get ahead types now with PO, Petru and Kijowski might do, becuase their only ideal is me, myself and I", But with the KOR-GW faction that would be a problem. Your speculation as what wold be if Germanyhad won is assinine and in the LL mode, If the Gemrans had won the war they surely would not have changed their ideology to accept Jews and Slavs as equals.
Polonius3   
5 Apr 2017
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never would have exited communism peacefully.

Communism had become bankrupt and there was no reforming it. The leadership of the PZPR and their two million stooges saw the writing on the wall and struck a deal: impunity despite their crimes and a free hand in the economy for the commie side and a free hand in politics for the leftist disssidents. Naturally it was prettied up with an attarctive narration: Polish workers and intellectuals joined forces to carry out the peaceful overthrow of communism.
Polonius3   
5 Apr 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

ignore democracy

POO certianly did when they illegally occupied the Sejm for a month and tried to prevent officials from despatching their duties, breaking laws and parliamentary regulations alike.
Polonius3   
4 Apr 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Not even a cursory attempt

Maybe you have nothing better to do or you're a POO spy paid to closely follow every government word and provide Schetyna with more PiS-bashing ammo. Frankly I do not follow every local incident that comes along and the Legionowo business is one of them. When POO was ignoring dozens of TK rulings I do not recall a single incident making GW headlines as in: POO ignores yet another TK ruling. As a matter of fact, no-one recalls you ever attacking POO for some infraction or blunder and over 8 years there were plenty of them.
Polonius3   
4 Apr 2017
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he Polish state

You mean the post-commie state aka the roundtable clique. Yes, PiS want to dismantle the hand-washes-hand conspiracy of the roundtablers and their stooges who jumped on the bandwagon and milked the country for all it was worth. Isn't it high time to start thinking about the majority that lost out on transformation because the KOR/PZPR gang had taken all the goodies for themselves?
Polonius3   
4 Apr 2017
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turned into PiS supporters, isn't it?

Is that why POO has more ex-commies and TW snitches in their ranks than any party except SLD?
Polonius3   
4 Apr 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Anything goes

Anything goes means no morals, no ethics, no restraint, no right and wrong, only money talks, might makes right, the survival of the fittest and a dog eat dog world.
Polonius3   
4 Apr 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

non-existent bogeymen

--The legions of non-lustrated SB types that got above-average salaries for a quarter-century while their erstwhile victims sffered poverty;
--Michnik and other with KPP family roots and various supportive wannabes (Lis, Kraśko, Żakowski, etc.) calling the shots and serving as "enlghtened" pundits for a quarter-century;

--Selling off domestic assets and creating an economic dictatorship of foreign banks, retails chains, phamaceutical firms, etc. in exchnage for hefty kickbacks;
--A judiciary indulgent and lenient towards scams and indiviudal conmen robbing the country of millions whilst jailing someone who threw a cream torte to protest against leniency towards the commie gestapo;

--Purveyors of anarcho-porno-libertine ("anything goes"), anti-Catholic lifestyles alien to the traditonal Polish way of life;
--The liberal-leftist media monopoly passed all the above off as proper, modern, pluralistic, global, etc., etc., called the post-commie roundtable clique III RP and for 25 years convinced much of society that this is how things had to be....until many Poles finally realised they were living in a foreign country and rebelled at the polls in 2015.

These are not bogeymen but the one-quarter of Polish society who have benefited from transformation.
Polonius3   
4 Apr 2017
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glad to be rid

Poland will be glad to be rid of Kwaśniewski's post-commie constitution which was adotped in a referendum when no-one (except the movers nad shakers of III RP) had any idea of how it would operate in practice. Now it is onbvious that it has petrified the round-table clique and served no more than about one-fourth of hte nation. For the rest it has meant a de-polonised economy with dead-end jobs at home or menial labour abroad for non-clique members -- the vast majority of Poles.
Polonius3   
4 Apr 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

can even survive 4 years

Poll resutls have absoltuely no bearing on parliamentary arithmetic. As long as PiS, usually with Kukiz support have a majority, all is well and the good changes can proceed apace,
Polonius3   
3 Apr 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Tribunal

PO failed to impelment 48 TK rulings. But they got hold of clever, well-paid lawyers who alleged there was no absolute imperative to implement the TK's rulings nor does the t spell out any time-frane by which they are to be followed.
Polonius3   
3 Apr 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

by the Constitutional Tribunal

The Tribunal led by ex-commie Rzepliński who sought to entrench the post-communist status quo. Not surprisng, since he was one of its chief beneficiaries.