News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

What Biden policies, Joker?? Automotive job creation, for one. Autoworkers to their
credit still vote baby blue, buddy boy, and if Michigan goes Dem with their governor
Gretchen Widmer, that could really tilt the odds come the November Primaries!

In addition, Joe Biden doesn't ignore the middle class, he doesn't focus on all or nothing,
aiming solely at the bottom tier or the top rung of the investor class as does his running mate.

What most Trump supporters forget, if they ever even knew it, is that the bedrock principles
which have guided America for some two-hundred-and-fifty years remain the only bulwark against
dictatorship. Trump, Orban Viktor, Czar Vladimir etc. must learn that they uphold the laws, they
aren't above them, not now, not ever.

Work / Applying for English speaking jobs in Lodz or Warsaw [13]

Why necessarily English speaking, Robin?
Surely any decent job will require that you can at least express yourself in the native language of the country in which you hope to

work and take up legal residence.

Even to be an English teacher in Poland, as with practically anywhere else, one first must have at least some grasp of the students' language!

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

@amiga,
Trump's playing one of the oldest tricks in the book by attempting to elicit
support from those groups he most despises, e.g. gays, blacks, even Jews etc.
merely in order to deceive them into thinking he's their "friend"!

With friends like Trump,...............

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

Ayn Rand though to my mind was the ultimate capitalist, at least if I base this opinion on "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged"!
Perhaps the sole similarity with Trotsky (whose work I haven't read sufficiently) is that both were avowed atheists:-)

News / NATO expansion in northern Europe - great news for Poland [137]

@cms neuf, spot on!

@Rich, Sweden's not parasitic. What gave you that idea?

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

Yes, B.B.I suppose "wokism" is the best way of putting it.

@Johnny, perhaps the post seems pointless because you're too obtuse to grasp the point:-)

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

Problem with most high profile Dems currently in power,
is that they've lost touch with their original voting block/constituents
which for numerous reasons no longer represents the
white electorate of yesteryear!

As I've expatiated here on any number of occasions, the
US has been transformed into a theme-based society,
where the outline of the person supersedes that person's
ability, once far, far less the case than today.

When I was a youngster, oh, some forty-five to fifty years
back, let's conservatively say, around 1965-'68, there was
a middle-aged African-American librarian at our school, Miss Blake, who
seemed to us a font of literary knowledge, No one would have ever hinted
that somehow she got her job as some recipient of "affirmative action" or even
Church favoritism, MERELY because she was black!!!

Fast forward some fifty years into the future, 2024. My wife and I were
at the local library here in Fort Lee, and a youngish African-American woman
seated at the Reference Desk, seeing us together, couldn't figure out why
my other half wasn't named "Mark" on her library card. When we finally resolved
the difference between a common man's name in the United States of America, I
politely inquired where fiction had been relocated, to which the woman responded
that she spoke no foreign languages, as the word "fiction" was not familiar to her.

Need I say more?

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

Hmmm, somehow, I'm not convinced.
Your last post makes no sense, pawian!
Democracy is supposed to function independently
from the dictates of a strongarm government such as
the sort Trump advocates.

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

??? Are you sure you understood what you just wrote? Sounds like you're merely parroting Rich:-)

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

Rescue the country from four more years of a Trump admin, of course!

What do you people have against democracy, Rich? Might it be that you confuse
"democracy" with the much impaired "democratic party"?? Today's Republicans are
not the party of Lincoln, a Republican who probably wouldn't recognize what his party
has morphed into.

News / NATO expansion in northern Europe - great news for Poland [137]

But as a translator, I ought to have been less absent minded.

News / NATO expansion in northern Europe - great news for Poland [137]

How thoughtless of me.
Thanks for the info, I somehow forgot!

Off-Topic / I saw a fly in my yard one day in Canada but it was strange [10]

Maybe it was a fruit fly, or even a tsetse fly.

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

I honestly don't know, Rich! Mitt Romney's not even interested in the job
as he despises Trump as con man and show off par excellence. Romney's name
hasn't come up.

Nope, I'm as stumped as you are.

News / NATO expansion in northern Europe - great news for Poland [137]

Sweden's the latest European member. Will Finland be next?

Love / How do Polish men feel about gender equality? [780]

Look who's talking. Name me just one thing I've posted which is "toxic", I dare ya.
"Cuz you disagree with a person's point of view, you label it toxic??!
And you call me a troll. That's rich!

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

If need be, there'll probably be some moderate Republican out there
who'll jump in at the eleventh hour to rescue the country!

Among the Dems, Newsome's a no hoper and Kamala doesn't have a prayer,
I'm afraid.

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

@PolAmKrakow,

It's blatantly clear to anyone with a functioning brain that Donald J. Trump cares NOTHING for anyone or anything
but Donald J. Trump!

The American public deserves what it gets it their dumb enough to support him for a second run....even if from jail
which is where he belongs. I'm sure there are plenty of folks down South who'd vote him back in a heart beat.

People just don't learn until they have their noses rubbed in it. And even then.

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

Biden at least has the guts to remain a proud pro-choice Catholic even in the
face of such outright closed-minded ideologues as Comey Barrett and Cavanaugh!

Trump most certainly did pack his Congress, Rich!! Whaddya call Bannon, Spicer and the rest of that bunch?

Love / How do Polish men feel about gender equality? [780]

Can YOU, Ironside, that's the question here!

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

Just remember, folks, among the first things Hitler did when he seized power (albeit democratically elected!!!) was to
abolish all trade unions aka workers' rights protection, pack the court system with his own people, and bring into line the
wheels of government to fit exclusively HIS beliefs and his alone. He neither brooked opposition or criticism of his ideals.

Sound familiar?

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

The two do tend to overlap, you know:-)

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

Yo, Rich! Sleepy Joe did pretty spiffy last night, pal!!
He's alive and in control...ready, willing, and able to trounce Trump back to Queens where he belongs:-)

Biden's nepotism pales before Trump's misdeeds. If ya pay off the Feds, anything's goes.
What Biden did takes place every day of the week, in and out of the Oval Office.
Some former presidents were simply better at covering their tracks.

Love / How do Polish men feel about gender equality? [780]

What's the matter there, Ironside? Afraid ya might learn something if you read it?
Would you understand what you're reading?

Love / How do Polish men feel about gender equality? [780]

Read an article in today's NYT about that retired football player, Kelce's his name, I think, who
openly wept when he announced his retirement the other day.

I was reminded how openly Polish men whom I've known, completely straight men built like linebackers,
will cry at the drop of a kapelusz, if their history or identity is impugned, particularly by the foreign press!
Other nationalities such as the French, Germans or Italians, will react to such ignominy with anger, perhaps
even violence, sometimes with irony and dismissive laughter. Only the Poles whom I've experienced will respond
unabashedly with tears.

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

Clearly relations would worsen, perhaps irreparably so, Alien!

What a cruel irony (Treppenwitz) indeed that the single nation which successfully defeated
Faschism and Nazism might decide to "elect" a man who doesn't even believe in or understand
the same Democracy for which his fellow Americans fought and died.

Trump doesn't care about checks and balances; he believes only in an Executive Office in
which the Chief Executive answers to nobody but himself.

Biden still has a fighting chance. Never heard anyone complain about Trump's ramblings, have you?

Genealogy / What are common Polish character traits? [425]

At work, we often have many younger visitors, both from the UK
as well as the Continent and those from Great Britain in particular
tell me that the capital has become so multicultural there's practically
little to any trace of the past in terms of what Americans especially
consider "typically English":-)

I do try to keep myself updated as to what's au current in Europe
these days.

Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]

Had you been there, Ironside, you would have been on my side.

Language / Polish language test, NATO Stanag 6001 format. [8]

Much appreciated, jon.

Off-Topic / How to get some smoke [16]

Thanks, you guys!