#Jarosław Kaczyński

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Jarosław Kaczyński

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Americans can say "it's Joever"

We can say "it's Jarover"

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The conservative nationalist government of Poland has had a major scandal explode in its face just a month before elections for parliament.

Apparently visas were being sold to migrants who could then use them to travel anywhere in the EU.

The irony is that the ruling Law and Justice Party is very anti-migrant. The party is known in Polish as Prawo i Sprawiedliwość and it often goes by the unfortunate acronym PiS.

The government has released few details but media reports say migrants paid up to $5,000 (£4,000) each to speed up their work visa applications. Seven people have been charged so far but none are public officials. The country's Deputy Foreign Minister Piotr Wawrzyk was sacked last week following the allegations. His dismissal came the same day that Poland's Anti-Corruption Bureau (CBA) carried out a search of the foreign ministry. The director of its legal service has also been fired. The ministry, which is facing an audit in relation to the scandal, said it would terminate all contracts for outsourcing companies handling visa applications since 2011. Opposition MPs said up to 250,000 visas for people from Asia and Africa were issued irregularly by outsourcing companies. The government disagreed with this figure, saying only several hundred were issued. "Anyone who wants to get from Africa to Poland goes to our embassy, ​​buys a stamped visa at a special stand, fills in their details and off they go! PiS [governing party] migration policy," wrote Donald Tusk, the leader of the opposition Civic Platform party, on X (formerly Twitter).

If you check out the Polish media, two words you'll see quite a bit of are "afera wizowa" (visa scandal). The scandal has dominated the news lately.

Journalist and author Anne Applebaum explains afera wizowa in plain English for its effect on the United States.

Apparatchiks in Poland's "anti-immmigration" ruling party were reportedly selling multi-entry Schengen visas to Indians for $25-40k. These can be used to enter Mexico, and from there to attempt entry into the US.

It's at least theoretically possible for a migrant to have bought a Polish visa, flown to Mexico, and then tried to enter the US illegally.

Unlike some countries with conservative nationalist governments, Poland takes a hard line against Russia and has been supportive of Ukraine. Historically, there is no great love for Russia in Poland; Poland has been a target of Russian imperialism for centuries. So Ukrainian refugees have been the one legal exception to the anti-migrant policies of PiS.

This is one on the memes circulating in Poland these days...

^^^ That's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on the left and Jarosław Kaczyński, head of PiS, on the right.

Elections in Poland will take place on Sunday October 15th.

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Widzę Cię w twarzach zupełnie obcych osób.

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Prawda o życiu

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Italy Set to Elect Right-Wing Euroskeptic Prime Minister

OF COURSE NONE OF US HAVE TO BOTHER CARING ANYMORE ABOUT ANYTHING…IF THERE IS A RECIPROCAL LAUNCH OF NUKES…IT’S OVER…AND ALL OVER BLOODY ZELENSKY AND THE UKRAINE…JUST SAYING…

A LOT OF THE HATE IS ANTI-LGBT. POLAND HAS GONE DRACONIAN ON LGBT POPULATION.

EUROPE IS A CONTINENT WITH CENTURIES OF BLOOD ON ITS HANDS.

THIS HATE WILL CANCEL OUT EVERYONE FUCKING WITH POPULIST AGENDAS.

FOREIGN BORN POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, WOKE CULTURES AND CANCEL CULTURES LOOSING GROUND IN EUROPE

OF COURSE NONE OF US HAVE TO BOTHER CARING ANYMORE ABOUT ANYTHING…IF THERE IS A RECIPROCAL LAUNCH OF NUKES…IT’S OVER…AND ALL OVER BLOODY ZELENSKY AND THE UKRAINE…JUST SAYING…

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Adolf Hitler

Joseph Stalin

Francisco Franco

OF COURSE NONE OF US HAVE TO BOTHER CARING ANYMORE ABOUT ANYTHING…IF THERE IS A RECIPROCAL LAUNCH OF NUKES…IT’S OVER…AND ALL OVER BLOODY ZELENSKY AND THE UKRAINE…JUST SAYING…

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Giorgia Meloni

Viktor Orbán

Jarosław Kaczyński

Marine Le Pen

Jimmie Åkesson

Santiago Abascal

Geert Wilders

OF COURSE NONE OF US HAVE TO BOTHER CARING ANYMORE ABOUT ANYTHING…IF THERE IS A RECIPROCAL LAUNCH OF NUKES…IT’S OVER…AND ALL OVER BLOODY ZELENSKY AND THE UKRAINE…JUST SAYING…

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Okazałych w PiS najwięcej

Poszło o to z grubsza, że wzór przystojnego bezdyskusyjnie Polaka, prezes Kaczyński Jarosław mianowicie, w radiu bez twarzy, co najwyżej ze szpetnym ryjem, powiedział, że jego kandydat na prezydenta (jego w sensie PiSu), to powinien być po pierwsze facet (kobiety niechaj skupią się na garach), a po drugie taki facet musi być młody, wysoki, okazały i przystojny. Musi też mieć rodzinę, oraz znać…

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Kaczyński refuses to participate in election debate in Poland

Jarosław Kaczyński, head of the Law and Justice (PiS) and Poland’s de facto ruler, who has devoted his re-election campaign to political attacks on his opponent Donald Tusk, refused to attend the debate.

The debate, to which the leaders of all major parties have been invited, will take place next Monday on TVP, Poland’s main state channel.

Kaczyński’s right-wing party is seeking an unprecedented third term and the debate might be the only confrontation between the long-time rivals ahead of the 15 October election.

Kaczyński stated he would not attend, citing scheduling issues, while Civic Platform leader Donald Tusk confirmed he would attend despite moving the debate from prime time to an early evening slot.

I hope Mr. Kaczyński can hear me. Jarosław Kaczyński, maybe you have the courage to at least come to your television, under the wing of your functionaries … to stand up and debate with me. I’ll be there on TV at 6 p.m

Read more HERE

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La Costituzione in mano alla reazione

Poche parole, rivolte con umiltà ai nostri giovani, ai ragazzi e alle ragazze che potrebbero non sapere, perché ormai le loro scuole e le loro università sono state piegate alla logica del profitto; poche parole a una gioventù che, quando prende parole e protesta perché non c’è chi l’ascolti, rischia la galera. Se vi sembreranno inutili, perdonate un vecchio maestro elementare che, giunto al…

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I had a dream last night: my mother and I entered a large hall full of people. Everyone was waiting for something. Suddenly Kaczyński entered- he was supposed to speak to the people. I decided to record it. Some people started leaving when they saw who had entered. The hall was emptied by at least half the people. Those who left were mostly women.

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OH?

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This Christmas my only real family are my two mongrels, my yorkie, my cat and an almost empty bottle of wine stolen from my brother's wedding gifts hidden behind my bed.

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[Notes From Poland receives funding from the NED]

A large anti-government protest has taken place in Warsaw organised by the national-conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, which was removed from office last month after eight years in power.

PiS figures claimed 300,000 people attended amid cold winter temperatures. However, city hall, which is controlled by the centrist Civic Platform (PO), the largest party in Poland’s new ruling coalition, announced that it estimated the figure to be 35,000.

Speaking to the crowd, PiS chairman Jarosław Kaczyński declared that the new government, led by PO leader Donald Tusk, is implementing a “European plan” to “liquidate our homeland as a state” and “subordinate” it.

“We are defending Poland against the return of German imperialism and against this ideological misery,” he continued.[...]

“There was supposed to be the rule of law, and there is lawlessness,” said Mateusz Morawiecki, who served as PiS prime minister until last month. “There was supposed to be Europe, and there is Belarus.”

11 Jan 24