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@amiga500
You're embarrassing yourself. You have no stake in this country. One post you say PiS reduced red tape, the next you say it was incremental. You have likely never stepped foot in Poland. You refuse to even answer the question. Then you post more of the gay stuff. That's PiS best swing for the fences? Gay bashing? Its laughable how weak the whole party is. The platform of give away other peoples money, buy votes, bash gays, and abandon small business owners who actually made the economy what it was. Excellent platform and well executed if you are grading absolute failures.

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@amiga500
Cutting red tape? You clearly have not stepped foot in Poland to do any type of business. It takes a month to set up a SP ZO O in Poland if you are in the fast lane, in USA to set up and LLC or Inc takes 15 minutes. Get tax certification in Poland takes and actual physical visit to your office, in USA its done on line. Poland is the safe haven of red tape. Get your facts straight before you start spouting off. 500+ is not a benefit, it is a burden that somehow has to be paid by people who are actually paying into the system, and now that system has been decimated because PiS cant get the shield money to small business. When was the last time you were in Poland again? Just what I thought, probably never.

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@amiga500
No I am not salivating. I am laughing about how he will respond. It will be a topic that's a guarantee. EU already has USA on the list of three proposed banned countries, Russia and Brazil also included.

You cant go back and forth on accomplishments. Either the shield worked or it didnt. Clearly it didnt. Clearly the money went to big business who didnt need it nearly as much and to PiS cronies as well as PiS members themselves indirectly through family and friends.

If you had a clue about economics you wouldnt think about PiS. Where is it you live again? Exactly what I thought. Not in Poland.

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@amiga500
The economy was booming because of international trade, and as you said in a post earlier, in part because of USA companies generating a lot of cash. The shield is and was a joke, a record number of business have gone under, in the first 30 days alone more companies closed their doors than in the whole previous year. Stimulus bills? From what? EU money? Like all the infrastructure money spent employing thousands that would have come to Poland no matter who was in charge. Get a grip on yourself and use facts not PiS propaganda. Do you even live here? Maybe I should post pictures of all the defaced Duda signs around the country that I have seen?

I still wonder what he says to Trump about a potential travel ban on Americans. Any ideas how long it will take Duda to reply to a sentence in English? My guess is a six word sentence takes about 30 seconds. "PPPPPPP President TTTTTT Trump IIIIII ammmmm your SSSSSSS Servant" The fluent English speaker he likes to brag about himself being.

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I wonder what Duda says to Trump about the EU potentially banning people from USA traveling to Poland? Considering the story broke yesterday, and he is shaking hands with Trump today, I would be pretty sure the subject comes up. Probably around the same time Duda is begging for more American Military in Poland. Trump probably says its not a problem he will just pull all military from Poland. I wonder how this news plays to those who thought the Visa waiver program was actually an accomplishment of PiS, when it had nothing to do with them.

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@amiga500
You should be ashamed of yourself. This administration is a joke. A laughing stock that is an embarrassment to the country. Unified command? Of what the fag patrol? This is what PiS is worried about? Get a clue about what the real, intelligent people want from the country.

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@amiga500
Sorry to disappoint you, I will never join any "party". I am not one of the sheep who need to follow. I vote for who is qualified to do the best job for the most people regardless of party. Religion has no place in my decision making. If I felt Duda was qualified and could do a good job I would say so. The facts are already in on that though. Duda, JK and the PiS movement have done nothing. They are incompetent and have no idea how to move the country forward. If they win, the people in this country that vote for them will get what they deserve, more of nothing.

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If we take the number of older Poles who died since the last election, a majority of them presumed PiS supporters, and subtract them from PiS votes......Then add the 1997 to 2002 birth year first time presidential election voters to anyone but PiS.......I think this demographic profile is completely ignored in polling.

I think the demographic profile of those Poles who came home when the virus hit is also being ignored. Those who want a better economy and not more free money.

Maybe I am off the mark. I just don't see the support for Duda in the countryside that they are counting on. Young people are motivated and mobilized.

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@delphiandomine
Anyone know how many Polish citizens would be able to vote for the first time in this election? This number could actually be the number that really matters. No way young people follow Duda or PiS.

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@amiga500
PiS and Duda truly untrustworthy and despicable. Calling any opposition candidate a virus worse than Coronavirus? Really? What kind of dithering idiot says something like that? What kind of idiot comes out talking about unemployment numbers two days before the next set of unemployment numbers comes out? There's only one and he is the current guy in office.

What kind of President doesn't address the number of business closures? Or the declining ZUS collections because of it? Or the declining tax revenue because of people not working and companies closing up shop? Or that the "shield" money never got to small business and billions went to cronies? Or that people who own small business are still waiting for their 5000 pln for months after they applied for it and kept their business open?

There is one group Duda has no chance with and that is people with any level of intelligence.

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Duda talking about unemployment levels BEFORE the pandemic may have pooped the bed yesterday. Considering most experts already peg Poland's unemployment rate at about 8.5% before the actual second quarter numbers come out next month, he may end up looking very stupid right before the second round.

Calling the opposition a "virus" worse than coronavirus may have gotten him in trouble. Has definitely not sat well with others.

I have to say, the Trump approach to attack speech being used by Duda makes PiS look childish. It suits Trump simply because he has accomplished a lot and can get away with it because of that. But PiS and Duda come across as ignorant. Watching him on TV is kind of funny because he says nothing new, its all the same stuff all the time. His turnout in Krakow the other day, not so good, and probably wasted a day here.

But he will be in USA, which is one day there flying, one day on the ground and another day in the air heading back. Three days right before the first round out of the on the ground election cycle is not exactly a genius stroke of planning.

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I think PiS is making these promises because the feel it slipping away from them. The smaller communities are no longer the "stronghold" for PiS that they used to be. Otherwise, they wouldnt need to make these promises for new equipment. Then they alienate themselves further from people in larger cities. I also think PiS knows that the Poles they brought home during the beginning of the virus are not voting for them.

PiS and JK are many things, but they are not stupid political tacticians. This smells of desperation. The big and medium sized cities are clearly lost to them. I am simply baffled at why they haven't come up with one thing to try to generate some cross over votes. The same message over and over to the same audience. Nothing to get to the important segments of voters they have lost, like young professionals and business owners. Nothing that students would be interested in. If new blood is not flowing in a party the party eventually dies. It really is a puzzling strategy.

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@Ironside
Actually there is a troop pullback from Germany that PiS and Duda asked to have transferred to Poland, Trump said no and brought them home. Duda is a pawn for JK and Trump will use him the same way. Any country wanting a puppet for a President is going to get what they deserve, nothing.

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@Ironside
American companies are not making "billions" of dollars in Poland. Maybe millions, but not billions. They are spending money here which saves them from spending money on higher waged employees in the USA. Thats about it. It takes one new level of corporate taxation on foreign income to end everything the USA companies are doing here.

Yes, Poland is a member of NATO. And just who is NATO without the USA? Its not much. There is a reason they are up Trump's a$$ for the military base. Because without it, they have accomplished nothing with the USA. The USA though has said NO to being on the Russian border where Poland wants the base, so this makes PiS look not only stupid, but weak. Does Duda or JK really think Trump or the USA want to antagonize Putin on behalf of Poland? No way.

Its funny to drive through Silesia now, and see only a handful of Duda signs from Opole, Chorzow to Katowice. They are screwed in Silesia, and they totally miscalculated how they handled the coal mines.

Think Konfederacja isn't talking to both sides? Of course they are. They have a lot to gain by aligning with the group who will be flexible and work with them. This sets them up for the future if they play it right.

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@amiga500
I dont care what a politician said. The facts are that small business got nothing. The Shield was like holding wax paper in front of a machine gun. A joke.

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@amiga500
Clearly you dont know American politics. Trump openly compliments Putin as a strong leader. Putin helped get Trump in office.

@Lenka
Family values is the anti or not supportive LGBTQ rhetoric, I get it, and dont care if they get support or not. I prefer to not make it an issue because its a personal issue not political. I like the PiS views and stance on immigration. It was very difficult as an American to get residency and I have money. Why should Poland be forced to accept third world people? They shouldnt.

But PiS has zero economic clout, and have pissed all over small business. They have no clue what they are doing and will drive Poland into a depression not seen since the Russians left.

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@Lenka
While I am neither right or left, I am a centrist, most feminist I know end up divorced and alone. This is true around the world. PiS has a lot wrong with it, but the family values and traditional family structure is not one of them. If they could only get it together on economic issues, and other common sense issues I would support them. But they waste too much time and too much money on BS.

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@Spike31
I expect two rounds for sure. But a late June photo op isnt going to help him nearly 3 weeks later in July. Poorly timed for real effect.

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As for Duda's photo op with Trump on the 24th, it will be too little too late. By the time it hits news cycles here in Poland it will be the middle of the evening if not late at night. Voters minds will be made up before then. It would have been much better timing if it happened between the first and second rounds of voting. I suspect thats why Trump wouldn't schedule it around the 4th of July holiday. It would paint a much more powerful picture for Duda then.

Cant wait to pay on the wager if Duda is re-elected as president, almost as much as I cant wait to collect. If the IPSOS poll is accurate its going to be a fun July.

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@Spike31
LOL and Duda needs to know his. He bowed to Trump, and PiS will lick the boots of America because they are so weak. They are dependent on the American military presence and begging to build Fort Trump. Only the USA doesn't want to pay for it, and Poland is too busy giving money to TVP to afford it.

The fact that this woman, who is doing an excellent job for her country, can because Trump told her to, control the rhetoric from Duda and PiS tells everyone everything they need to know. She controlled Duda and PiS with their big "platform" in less than 72 hours from his homophobic rant. Thats the President of Poland.

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@amiga500
My company wouldn't qualify, we make too much. Thanks though. I have never complained about my corporate taxes. I saved 14% just by moving my company to Poland from the USA. CIT is very friendly compared to CIT when adding the state and federal levels together in USA. My personal situation isn't effected by PiS. I can leave if I dont like it, no problem. But it effects everyone I know and do business with here, and they are struggling.

You know nothing of economics. Workers not paying income tax at all is a completely economically retarded policy. It does not create growth. It created a consumerism purchasing mentality and no one prepared for the future that's why they are all broke now. How about those 20 something couples with 4 kids getting 2000 a month plus an extra 1000 a month to mom for not working, plus unemployment to dad who lost his job? Lots of motivation to go back to working a 15 pln per hour job? Women are popping out babies like crazy for cash now, living in very low standard housing, and turning into welfare families. What happens when the 500 plus stopps and all the kids are gone from the house? Disaster.

PiS is robbing ZUS to give away money. If it were tried in the USA with social security? They wouldnt last a day.

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The whole airport investment is really funny. Especially after the chinavirus. Every major airline and investment indicator around the world see's a minimum of two years before airlines, and shipping internationally by air rebounds to pre virus levels. Poland should be spending that money on small business. Programs based on gross sales volumes below say 500 thousand per company getting a grant to develop business and hire new people. That would have a national impact immediately. Give each company in that range who qualifies something like 100K to develop business, and you have people getting back to work and more money flowing pretty quickly. Then if you want to long term plan for a new airport you will have the tax base to do it without killing the people already paying taxes.

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@Ziemowit
WOW such stupidity. More bribery for votes. So everyone pays again for this bumbling idiot and his crew to continue the destruction of the economy in Poland. Any idiot buying into this actually deserves the ruin that Duda will bring on Poland and the joke that PiS will make of the country to the rest of the world. Simply remarkable how this can happen in a modern informed world. Simply remarkable that people would sell out their countrymen for 500 pln. That is honestly sick.

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@amiga500
You couldn't be more incorrect in your opinion. Having been to the Middle East myself, I can say that seeing an American of Canadian there who isn't in the Military or Oil business simply isn't happening. I know a few, very few Poles who went there, but it was to work. Both countries are crazy expensive to visit and not worth the money. Oil is the only draw for the west. And you think that Dubai and Abu Dhabi seriously want to promote Poland who outright says they don't want people of color? Wow talk about grasping at straws.

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@Ziemowit
LMAO because the Catholic church, and a retired Priest know what's best for all of Poland? This is hilarious. Isn't it our current Pope who said that the church must be more tolerant and accepting of all people? Thank god that when everyone loses their jobs those gays will be out on the street with everyone else. LOL

@cms neuf
Excellent points cms. Not only are their rules internally for bond purchases but looking at the Polish economy after this quarter results are in will make people hesitate anyway. People think they understand the investment business, and economic issues when they really dont.

Anyone thinking the international business community wont turn their backs on Poland over this PiS crap isn't too smart. You never know who has a family member or a child that may belong to the alphabet soup group of movements. And you never know how influenced they are by that person in their family. People can think and feel how they want on these issues. Too express them, politicize and thus monetize the issue on a national level is simply the act of a moron.

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@Ironside
Dunce? I stopped name calling in grade school. I prefer to point out idiotic and antiquated ideology. Duda is simply moronic. He is bad for the country, so is PiS. Without foreign money, Poland is still stuck in 1991. Without EU money nothing PiS has done would be possible. The administration is nothing but cronyism and the country should be embarrassed. Making an issue out of gays? Stupid.

Whats the plan for economic recovery? Whats the plan for foreign policy? Who is going to pay for Ft. Trump? It sure wont be the USA, and where is that money going to come from? With USA taking troops out of Germany, the threat of Russia becomes greater. Trust PiS to deal with Putin? Yep, thats like sending the president to Russia with the whole cabinet and expecting everything to be ok. Wait a minute, that already happened.

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@Spike31
WOW I wonder how many priests knew that quote?

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@Ironside
Clearly you have no clue how important foreign policy is and how other countries use it to determine trade deals. You have no clue and follow antiquated principals proven not to help anyone advance society. Duda is so stupid to think that this ranting to the same people who will support him anyway will win new voters? Undecided voters dont give a damn about the anti gay or other movements. They care about their finances and how the rest of the world views Poland. But hey while PiS is at it maybe they should talk about some priests? You know because so much of their activity was simply a mistake right? Or it didnt happen? Oh wait, it did and Rome admitted it. The obsession with gays is really telling.

@kondzior
You're funny. Degenerate activity? Maybe education is a degenerate activity too? Perhaps we should all grab a hammer and sickle get down into the coal mines and out into the fields? Clearly this was a successful economic and societal plan that worked so well. Maybe everyone just needs to go back to eating kapusta, potatoes, and smoked meats? Who needs dishwashers, clothes washers, cable TV and internet?

You cant live in the modern world with a stone age mentality. Eventually people who try this end up left behind.

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@Spike31
Your business education is from where? If not for small business Poland is still a third world former Soviet economy and in the same condition as Ukraine. Three month, not two, and it will take another 18 months before recovery actually begins. Unemployment will be someplace in the 15 to 20% range when the numbers come out. Something not seen since the Russians left.

This is what PiS, and yes the rest of the world, did to the economy. Its why Trump and others wont likely be re-elected. Szumowski is just another PiS crooked politician caught with his hand in the cookie jar time after time.

Intelligent people, whether they are left or right, pay attention to what others think. No one wants to stand next to an idiot. People who do are also perceived as idiots. Idiots don't get strong business partners, and left or right, if you have money, you want to associate it with people who are smart. Trump doesnt care if someone is a Democrat if they are buying property from him, and he doesnt care if its a Democrat who gets small business money because he knows without small business, economies collapse. Duda and PiS dont even understand the simplest economic principals.

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@Spike31
He is preaching to his own choir. No boost will come. When the employment and economic numbers start coming out PiS should be done. This topic will last about 5 minutes in the debates. Duda will look like a complete incompetent when pressed on the economy.