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Lyzko   
20 Mar 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [743]

@Joker,
Government is there precisely to help out, if only when her help is needed!
Surely nobody wants a caretaker administration.

What would have happened had FDR taken that tack or if our president
hadn't sent in troops into Georgia to liberate the state from the Klan way back in the early '60's?

Oh sure, too much government is as bad as too little. However there is such
a thing as balance, you know.
Lyzko   
19 Mar 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [743]

Rich & Alien, Reagan came into Office on 11/5/81, the year I graduated college. The States had
come out of a toxic period of exceptional disillusionment with labor unions, which had been growing weaker
by the year. Furthermore, I trust I needn't remind you two about an especially toxic manifestation of the late
'70's, namely "EST" or "Erhard Seminar Training", begun by an Uber-Reaganite code name Werner Erhard.

The latter believed with all his heart and soul (who would lie about this stuff, guys!!) that Roosevelt never had
any place in America, most of all, that all of us are where we are solely by choice. LOL
People ate up this garbage hook, line, and stinker.

This then is what precipitated the rise of the Reagan Era, a deep dissatisfaction with liberal policies of former
President Jimmy Carter, that control freak peanut farmer from the plains of Plains, Georgia.

Reagan wanted to "get government off the backs of the American people...."

This is more or less the sequence of events which lead up to the Reagan Counter Rev. which Donald Trump would
like to bring back with a vengeance. Lord have mercy on us all.
Lyzko   
17 Mar 2024
Work / Applying for English speaking jobs in Lodz or Warsaw [13]

Same here, Robin!
I learned Polish, not only because of its practicality, but because I find many aspects of the culture bewitching,
from the hand kiss, Chopin, and the cuisine, but also Polish cinema.
Lyzko   
17 Mar 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [743]

@Alien & Rich,

A dictatorship is namely a system of government in which the leader declares him or herself sole
and supreme ruler.

Hitler was "elected" democratically, this is true. However, among his first official acts as Fuehrer was
to immediately bring all branches of government in line with his own ideology, known as "Gleichschaltung"! With the
Fuehrer, you people, there was no reaching across the aisles of Congress to work together with the other side.

Trump is a clever salesman in stark contrast with his quasi-predecessor Pat Buchanan way back in the '90's.
On the surface at any rate, Trump skillfully affects the manner of a Jewish-style schmoozer from Queens, who
talks the talk because he also walks the walk. He's almost affable at times, full of easy phrases to lull folks into
a false sense of security, while demonizing the entire left.

Don't be fooled!! Donald John Trump is Ronald Reagan on steroids who wants nothing more than to dismantle
Social Security, abolish Unemployment Compensation, and in essence turn the United States of America into
a self-governing plutocracy, not too dissimilar to the Emirates, in which there's a thin layer of mega rich at the very top
while the rest of the country not clever or immorally ruthless enough to catch up, is left shamelessly behind.

This is a far cry from the Roosevelt Era and the philosophy of "If one American family goes to bed hungry, the rest of the nation is starving!

The latter MUST be our rallying cry, even if most can't do anything substantive about it.
Lyzko   
16 Mar 2024
Work / Applying for English speaking jobs in Lodz or Warsaw [13]

Good for you! Now you're talking sense.
I've known people much as yourself who've ventured off abroad,
thinking that they didn't need to know the local lingo.

In every case, they ended up coming right back home!
Lyzko   
16 Mar 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [743]

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.
Lyzko   
15 Mar 2024
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!
Lyzko   
13 Mar 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [743]

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?
Lyzko   
12 Mar 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [743]

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.
Lyzko   
11 Mar 2024
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!
Lyzko   
10 Mar 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [743]

@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.