Sovereignty or Submission? Poland’s Battle Against the Eurocrats is Everyone’s Battle

Sovereignty or Submission? Poland’s Battle Against the Eurocrats is Everyone’s Battle. By Roger Kimball at American Greatness.

[Following] the attempted coup d’état in Poland Friday night, … who governs? The people or the unelected bureaucrats? It is one of the central political questions of our times, as applicable to Europe, Australia, Canada, and South America as it is to the United States.

Increasingly, it seems, the answer is “the bureaucrats.” Just a week ago, Brazil went through an extremely dodgy election in which a last-minute, illegal extension of voting yielded the Communist Lula da Silva a victory over Flávio Bolsonaro. The EU was pleased by, and perhaps contributed to, the outcome. Or consider what happened in Hungary. In May, Péter Magyar defeated Viktor Orbán. Magyar moved quickly to ban his opponents from ever running again and even started legal proceedings against some. In Germany, the AfD is wildly popular with the people, but not with the ruling party or the commissars in the EU. Hence, it is subject to unending harassment and may be banned altogether. In France, Marine Le Pen was put under house arrest and required to wear an electronic ankle monitor. In Romania, when the “wrong” candidate ran, the election was cancelled, and the winner was banned from running. This is what Ursula von der Leyen, president of the EU, means by “democracy”: submission to the diktats of the European Union.

In Poland, the usual mold may be being broken. As I write, we are still in a fog-of-war situation. Many things have been tossed up into the air. It is not entirely clear where they all will land. …

What happened:

The prime minister since 2023 has been Donald Tusk, an EU poodle and liberal authoritarian. The president since 2025 is Karol Nawrocki, an anti-EU, Poland-first populist who wants Poland to keep its own currency, have control of its borders, and sharply limit immigration.

Here’s what happened. On Friday night, Nawrocki departed on an official trip to Senegal. His plane was over Spain when he received word that Tusk had unilaterally suspended some duly appointed judges and other officials, elevated a judge loyal to him to the chief spot, and called in riot police to surround Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal. …

Dominik Tarczyński:

What is happening right now with the Constitutional Tribunal is that [Tusk and the globalists] want to take it over and fill it with their own people.

Why? Because they want to get rid of the Polish currency, bring us into the eurozone, and eliminate our secure borders. They are being pushed by the Germans, who want to spread the burden of illegal migration and send migrants to Poland.

First of all, the Polish złoty is our constitutionally protected currency. They have to change the Constitution to replace it, and without the Constitutional Tribunal, they cannot do that.

So, number one, they want to get rid of our currency and force us to adopt the euro and join the eurozone. Then they want to take our gold reserves, the largest in the European Union, to Frankfurt, to the European Central Bank, which is a German-based institution.

They also want to open our borders. And they want to make sure that when they lose the next elections, which are coming next year, the Constitutional Tribunal will be unable to do anything to stop their actions or reverse what they have done.

Why now? Brivael Le Pogam:

Because the globalist project is losing its grip.

They lost the media war: people get their information elsewhere, compare, verify, and no longer trust the official line. They lost the trust of the people. And the countries that are bouncing back, the ones finding their energy, their birth rates, their pride again, are precisely the ones that understood that the Brussels machine, as it runs today, is not the cure but the disease. Poles elected Nawrocki against the system’s candidate. The message was clear.

When a system loses trust, it has two options: reform or harden. They chose. All-in. …

The official story is “we are restoring the rule of law.” It’s always the official story. Nobody has ever dismantled a democracy while announcing they were dismantling a democracy.

In Poland it’s about Polish sovereignty and Polish submission to the globalist agenda of the EU. But the same battle is being played out everywhere:

The countries already taken back:

🇺🇸 United States: Trump
🇦🇷 Argentina: Milei
🇸🇻 El Salvador: Bukele
🇨🇴 Colombia: Abelardo de la Espriella, elected in June
🇨🇱 Chile: Kast, in power since March
🇵🇪 Peru: Keiko Fujimori, elected in June
🇪🇨 Ecuador: Noboa
🇧🇴 Bolivia: Rodrigo Paz, after nearly 20 years of MAS
🇭🇳 Honduras: Asfura
🇵🇾 Paraguay: Peña
🇮🇹 Italy: Meloni
🇨🇿 Czech Republic: Babiš
🇸🇰 Slovakia: Fico
🇵🇱 Poland: Nawrocki in the presidency

The countries in the midst of flipping:

🇫🇷 France: RN is polling between 31 and 37% in the first round.

🇩🇪 Germany: AfD scored 43.8% in Saxony-Anhalt in September, against 17.2% for the CDU.

Let’s be clear-eyed: they’re still winning some battles. Orbán fell in Hungary in April. Lula took back Brazil a week ago. The system knows how to defend itself. But we need to look at the underlying trend, not the latest match.

Politics has gone fully international. There are the same two sides everywhere now, and everyone knows it. Globalists versus nationalists. Post-modern left and Islam versus everyone else.

Self-government versus bureaucracy, and the rebirth of communism in Poland

Self-government versus bureaucracy, and the rebirth of communism in Poland. By Krzysztof Szczawinski (of Poland).

What is happening in Poland … is about whether nations … can govern themselves, or whether they are all turned into a gray mass that can only be administered until we die out.

Everyone knows what being administered feels like. You have made this phone call. Your case is being processed. The woman on the line is polite, and she can’t decide anything. Neither can her manager. Somewhere there is a rule, and nobody you can reach wrote it. Nobody lied to you. Nobody is responsible. You hang up feeling smaller, and you can’t say who did it.

Now imagine that phone call as a country. Then as a continent. …

Ask who has the last word in Poland, and the answer moves to Luxembourg, Strasbourg and Venice. And a year before Poles could settle it themselves at the ballot box, the argument arrives in riot gear. …

Popper put it most plainly, saying the question is not so much who should rule, but how to remove them without blood. Poles can remove Tusk in 2027 and Nawrocki in 2030. Who removes a judge in Luxembourg? Try it. Call them. Your case is being processed. …

Administered until we die out:

Tocqueville saw it coming, describing a power that doesn’t break the will but softens it, until a nation is a flock of timid, busy animals with the government as its shepherd. Communism needed tanks, and it lost. The new gray needs only forms, and it gets thanked.

Poles know that gray. We lived in it. The difference is that back then, you knew whom to hate.

Why Poland? Because Poland ran the experiment. For 123 years there was no Polish state on any map. Three empires administered the Poles, and they stayed a people, in language, prayer and memory. Then in 1980 the workers built a union … Solidarity. Poland knows from experience that a nation is not its state, and can outlive one.

But Poland isn’t safe. Germany, the land of efficient administration, is just across the border, and it is stronger and richer than us. It doesn’t need to plot anything — the forms do the job. And even to some Poles being administered may sound easier than the responsibility of self-government. …

Bureaucracy or self-government?

So the question is not whether Poland stays in Europe. It is whether anyone in Europe can still say “we”, mean it, and answer for it.

Nations are no longer conquered. They are wound down, in full compliance, with a final report nobody reads.

Donald Tusk and the rebirth of communism in Poland:

Post-communism was born in 1989, of a lie. We were told communism had ended. It had only changed its name. The communists handed over the government and kept the rest. The change was real on the surface and fake underneath.

Every lie needs a charming face. Post-communism found its best one in Donald Tusk, Poland’s Tony Blair: modern, smiling, fluent in the language the West wanted to hear. Brussels loved him, and in time post-communism grew into Euro-communism: the same apparatus, the same contempt for the voter, now speaking the language of “European values”.

 

This week, the face slipped. Riot police kept the Chief Justice out of his own Constitutional Tribunal, and the government called it restoring the rule of law.

A lie that needs the police has stopped persuading anyone. Lies do not die gently. They stand until the day they fall all at once. In 1989, we were told that day had come. It had only been postponed. Now this lie is coming to an end — and this time, the end will be real.

Good luck, Poland.

America Innovates, Europe Regulates

America Innovates, Europe Regulates. By Tetsuo Si.

Europe Formed a Committee (Official Music Video):

 

Chaser:

 

Related:

 

Sarah Hoyt:

It was always a tendency of Europe. Having lost the lead in the race to the future circa the early 20th century, Europe prided itself on being more considerate and careful. But the EU just tied them up in red tape and blindfolded them with stories of how much worse things were in America. (All of them BS.)

via Lawrence Person

Whither patriotism?

Whither patriotism? By Dan Hannan in The Washington Examiner.

US versus UK:

A new arrival in the U.S., unless he ends up working in a university or for a federal agency, is surrounded by a patriotic and self-confident culture. Even if he gets a government job, he will pass plenty of flagpoles on his way to work. He will be invited to Fourth of July parties. He will watch uplifting movies.

In Britain, the story is a much bleaker one. Our intellectual elites are so self-loathing that flying the national flag feels subversive, almost as if the country were under occupation. Hence the bizarre phenomenon where, in working-class districts, people will fly British or, more often, English flags from lamp-posts, signaling their contempt both for mass immigration and for their governing caste.

This culture makes it much harder for the children of settlers to integrate. All the crimes I listed above were carried out, not by immigrants, but by the products of British schools. Their parents might have felt a sense of pride in their new country, but the authorities of that country soon knocked it out of their children. …

Did you know?

A century ago, Britain was occupying the ancestral homelands of many of its immigrant communities. Yet, in two world wars, their young men enlisted in huge numbers.

The Indian Army formed to fight in World War I was the second-largest volunteer force in the history of the human race. The largest? The Indian Army formed to fight in World War II.

Reading those volunteers’ letters home — there was no conscription outside the U.K. itself — you are struck by the sense they had that they were defending something worth fighting for, that the values of the Anglosphere were preferable to those of the European autocracies. Mahatma Gandhi was explicit in urging his countrymen to join up. “India would be nowhere without Englishmen. If the British do not win, to whom shall we go claiming equal partnership? Shall we go to the victorious German or Turk or Afghan for it?”

Those words would be greeted with jeering incredulity in any British classroom now, so entrenched is the White Man Bad narrative.

French edging towards civil war

French edging towards civil war. By Basil the Great.

People are boarding up their stores and simply writing one word across the front “REMIGRATION”.

 

Rioters in France are now storming private properties. … This is how civilization falls, the Police cannot stop them.

 

Commenters:

Think how much of their hard earned money is being paid in taxes for a police force that won’t protect them or their property. The social contract is broken. Government only has one legitimate purpose: protection of citizens. No protection, no contract. …

You saw it the Ceuta, once the shops are looted they’ll raid the homes. In some cases, even before the shops run dry. …

The civilians don’t have guns, not like in the US.

Racists attack One Nation

Racists attack One Nation. By Lozzy B.

Meaghers Pub in Ballarat, Victoria was attacked last night by leftards just because they support One Nation.

Imagine if those on the Right started targeting businesses that are Greens/ Labor supporters… It would be in the front page on the news.

What’s the bet that every one of the leftist attackers voted for The Voice a couple of years ago? The Voice is about the most quintessentially racist proposal ever, on par with Apartheid in South Africa.

DEI officers cleaned out of the US Federal bureaucracy by Trump on a “DEI watchlist” that makes it hard to get a job. Karma.

DEI officers cleaned out of the US Federal bureaucracy by Trump on a “DEI watchlist” that makes it hard to get a job. Karma. By Hannah Natanson and Andrew Ba Tran at The Washington Post.

Trump campaigned on trimming federal bureaucracy, which he declared was bloated with wasteful, lazy and incompetent workers. Within days of his inauguration, he enlisted billionaire Elon Musk to drive the cuts. Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service slashed across the government, cutting spending and eliminating jobs.

Of the hundreds of thousands who left, 85 percent resigned or retired early through incentive programs offered by the Trump administration, a Washington Post analysis found. Thirty-two thousand full-time workers were fired. Harris was one of them. …

Dia Harris is a 53-year-old former federal employee who served as the first Chief Equity Officer for the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) within the Department of Health and Human Services. Since losing his position, Harris has struggled to find comparable employment, submitting over 560 job applications by October 2026.

Dia, on the far left, was a sought-after HR expert who’d drawn six-figure salaries from Fortune 500 companies.

His job search has been significantly hindered by his inclusion on the “DEI Watchlist,” a public website run by the conservative American Accountability Foundation that profiles former federal employees accused of promoting DEI policies.

The list, which features his photo, salary, and employment history, has reportedly made him “unhirable” to prospective employers. Harris currently works part-time filling grocery orders at a Harris Teeter in Maryland for $16 an hour and has been drawing on his 401(k) to pay his mortgage.

The mass embrace of DEI programs felt to Harris like the capstone of his professional life, despite growing opposition from many on the political right who portrayed DEI efforts as reverse racism that disadvantaged White people.

Harris’s job search was made harder by his membership in an even smaller group: He’d been named, with 92 others — two-thirds of them Black — on a public website called the “DEI Watchlist.” …

Harris had been out of government for more than a year, but the site was still the first result when anyone Googled his name. One prospective employer confided to him that the watch list made him unhirable. Harris often checked with friends and colleagues also named on the list, and most of them were still out of work, too.

Now for a comment from the type of person to whom the media never gives a voice:

Sarah Braasch:

This thrills me to no end. I’m probably going to make $30K this year, because of what the Woke DEI Industry did to me (perpetrated an obviously asinine BLM race hoax against me, followed up by a global vilification campaign). This includes Yale, the NYT, and the Washington Post. I am struggling to stay housed.

While I’m thrilled that the Trump Admin is purging these Woke KKK Monsters, I just wish this banishment of Shaun King style race hustlers included Academia and the Press and the Democrats, as well as more of private industry. No one who perpetrated this anti-white racist monstrosity at Yale has been fired. There are thousands of Jason Ardays in Academia who must be fired, if not imprisoned, for SPLC style fraud and under the KKK Act. The Democrats, including AOC and Obama, are still, simultaneously, pretending Woke 1 was Crazy and trying to perpetrate new BLM race hoaxes (white people are lynching black children).

Commenter on the WaPo article:

What I love most about this article is how they try to glaze this guy as some sort of mythical champion of the downtrodden, when in reality he’s just another communist bureaucrat who was correctly purged from society’s power structure.

They think they’re writing a sympathetic puff piece for a “fallen hero”, when in truth they’re showing us that our side can actually do to them what he did to us and ours for his entire career.

Good riddance.

Diversity is when white men are excluded

Diversity is when white men are excluded.

Here is the female Governor of the US state of Virginia, a Democrat, boasting that her cabinet is the most diverse ever:

Commenters:

By “diverse” you just mean zero White men right? …

You have an 86% black cabinet in a state that’s only 19% black. You have a 0% white male cabinet in a state than 32% white male. This may be the one of the least gender/race representative cabinets in Virginia’s modern history. …

“Diversity” is just a code word for antiwhite. For example, the Left would consider a 100% black organization to be “diverse.”

Not so diverse. Missing a Latino and an Asian, at least.

Elon Musk (via Eric Daugherty):

You are utterly racist and sexist regarding White men. Shame on you!

Commenters:

The core of Leftist ideology is feminine resentment, ingratitude, and entitlement. Truth is not their priority. Feelings are their priority. …

Color of skin is meaningless except to racists. We had it sane in the 70s. Some of the 80s. Then the democrats had to bring back race because they had no platform or good ideas for America. Its not just old. It is very much in the way.

What’s the best way to stack $7 million in 2 years besides winning the lottery? Be a left wing mouthpiece paid by Anthony Albanese.

What’s the best way to stack $7 million in 2 years besides winning the lottery? Be a left wing mouthpiece paid by Anthony Albanese. By Crashman.

 

Commenters:

Like clockwork they trot out the young brainwashed female leftwing extremist to lecture us on what we’re allowed to see on social media…

Our tax dollars weaponized against us. …

Taxpayer money going that direction is appalling. If Labor wants to pay influencers, go for it, find a donor willing to fund it. Get your paws off our money and stop using our money to throw propaganda.

Chanel Contos, 2023 NSW Young Woman of the Year, is encouraging Albanese to censor views she doesn’t like:

Chanel Contos, founder of the advocacy group Teach Us Consent, has urged the Australia federal government to mandate an opt-in model for social media algorithms, arguing this is the only way to prevent tech giants from circumventing reforms that protect young people from harmful manosphere content.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has stopped short of endorsing Contos’s specific active-consent proposal, with draft digital duty of care laws expected to be released later in 2026. …

She holds a first-class master’s degree in Gender, Education and International Development from University College London, based on research into “how elite schooling in Australia upholds power structures that enable sexual assault”

hat-tip Stephen Neil

Two worlds met in Paris last week

Two worlds met in Paris last week. By Douglas Murray in The Spectator.

Thanks to the presence of Art Basel, some of the world’s most valuable art that wasn’t already in the city was shipped there. It arrived just in time for Paris to go up in flames. Most of the art fair went ahead as planned at the Grand Palais, but the final weekend was cancelled.

Parisian friends and those who were visiting the city described scenes of Dada-esque absurdity. They navigated streets filled with burning bins and rioting ‘youths’ in balaclavas, before slipping into champagne receptions.

Some who attempted to get out of the city spoke of Mogadishu-like scenes at Gare du Nord, where the country’s newest net-contributors were busily assaulting any available police and stealing the luggage of any tourist they could find.

 

Inside:

 

Outside:

 

Islam rules left wing government in Berlin through fear.

Islam rules left wing government in Berlin through fear. By Karina Mariani.

The winner of the BERLIN elections, from the far-left party Die Linke, accidentally confesses that Hamas controls her party and fears for her life.

 

Elif Eralp, Die Linke’s leading candidate for Berlin governing mayor, openly acknowledged that she and her family live in fear of Hamas supporters within her party. Ynet News.

 

Fearful in private:

The magazine Der Spiegel … has brought to light an internal document proving how Die Linke has been hijacked by Islamism.

Its candidate to govern Berlin, Elif Eralp, accidentally sent the newsroom her private notes from an interview where she confesses to being coerced and terrified by Hamas operatives within her own party.

It turns out that after an interview, the candidate’s team reviewed the transcript. During this process, Eralp made internal comments that were meant to remain in the strictest confidentiality. However, the document with the un-erased annotations was sent back to the journalists.

The content of those notes is dynamite. When Der Spiegel asked her about Ibrahim Ibrahim — a pro-Palestinian Hamas sympathizer who celebrated the October 7 massacre — the public response was going to be evasive. But in the margin of the leaked document, Eralp wrote the truth: “There is a PROBLEM. […] my husband no, and neither do I, want to name specific names, he is afraid of these people and so am I.”

The leak exposes the raw reality of Islamo-leftism in Germany: Eralp even went so far as to compare the threat level of these pro-Palestinian militants to that of Organized Crime and implores to abort the publication: “I can’t put myself and my family in danger for Der SPIEGEL. What do we do now? Do we scrap the whole interview?”

Lying to the public:

The biggest joke of the entire situation, however, was captured in one of the phrases that Eralp did want to publish. In a display of utter disconnection, the candidate states in the interview: “What I can say with total clarity is that, as governing mayor, I will ensure the safety of all Berlin women and all Berlin men.”

A promise that rings utterly ridiculous coming from a leader who, in the same document, secretly admits that she can’t even protect her own family from the rank-and-file of her party. …

Berlin’s radical left believed it could politically capitalize on Islamic extremism; today, the documents prove that it’s the extremism holding them hostage.

The Islam-Left alliance will only end one way. The left are crazy for making this alliance. But like with communism, the left have to be shown over and over that it fails because they refuse to question anything that helps them into power.

Feelings replacing thought in public discussion

Feelings replacing thought in public discussion. By Abstractruth.

There used to be a time … when people began sentences with “I think,” “I submit,” “I propose,” and similar statements. True, I understand that this suggested — however optimistically — that some actual thought went into the statement. Now, with “I feel,” we have reduced modern utterances to the intellectual content of a bowel movement.

There are reasons for presenting statements in this manner.

  • Feelings are perceived to be beyond the reach of judgment.
  • Feelings are “authentic.”
  • If you make a statement with actual content, you can be contradicted, argued with, and presented with evidence against it.
  • But “I feel” now creates a scenario in which your subjective feeling has objective relevance.

And worse still, your perfectly ordinary disagreement with me now becomes an act of aggression — because you are invalidating my feelings. If I feel disrespected, that is enough to convict you of disrespecting me. If I feel that I am a man wearing women’s clothing, then who are you to tell me that I should not bring my 6’7” frame into a high school girls’ basketball game and express my femininity by elbowing a 5’11” female forward in the throat? …

With a majority female electorate, it was bound to happen:

Society has become feminized. There is no patriarchy; that’s ridiculous. The entire vocabulary of daily life has become feminine. All the traditionally feminine qualities — selective empathy, emotional expression, sensitivity — dominate our thinking and have become the required principles of moral judgment. Rational thinking is now hopelessly patriarchal and oppressive. Feelings are now a superior form of knowledge, or gnosis.

It is a tidy little trick wherein, because feelings are authentic, the proposition attached to them is therefore also true and incontrovertible. This view is illogical, annoying, and most of all cowardly. …

 

 

Rationality and smarts are “oppressive” and therefore illegitimate:

Anything that will turn reality on its head is lauded, and anything that reeks of logic or rationality is degraded as oppressive. …

The blue hair, the nose rings, the obesity, the clothes purchased from Goodwill are not intended to express creativity but to provoke a reaction, so that anyone who reacts can be called a colonist and oppressor …

There is no way to build a stable civilization on feeling, and that is precisely the point. Because this absurd impulse comes from that anti-civilizational place. …

Educational farce:

Because a student feels uncomfortable with an argument, however factual, that feeling now becomes the barometer of truth, or even of what can be said. A professor could challenge a cherished falsehood, and now someone demands an apology.

Education was once a place to correct false assumptions, test our limitations, improve logic, and prepare one to live in a civilized society — if not to reach certain conclusions about the nature of existence. Now, rather than challenge students to improve their skills or prepare children to be good citizens, schools ask teachers who would otherwise challenge them to be better to protect them from the inconvenience of correction.

The university was once a place where feelings and raw emotion were developed into disciplined science and logic, where false feelings and prejudices were challenged and interrogated. It has developed into luxury room service for the petulant and clueless.

That’s progress, some say.

A trick leftists use to deceive you

A trick leftists use to deceive you. By William Meijer.

The trick leftists use to deceive you (and, most importantly, themselves) is to focus solely on proximal causes rather than intermediate and distal causes. Leftists do so because proximal causes look plausibly environmental, and the solution to environmental problems is more power to themselves.

Proximal = Closer to the point of attachment or origin of a structure. E.g. institutions are a proximal cause of societal wealth.

Distal = Farther from the point of attachment or origin of a structure. E.g. human capital is a more distal cause of human wealth, and genetics yet more distal.

In truth, the modern environment is strongly influenced by genetics. It is one of the most replicable within-country findings in behavioral genetics. It is also what the between-country economic data show from 500 years of human migration. …

 

 

The truth is that populations with the biopsychological traits conducive to large-scale cooperation, such as honesty toward strangers, cognitive ability, and patience, tend to be better at developing strong institutions and thus richer.

It used to be that we could tell the truth in academia, but leftist capture means we now need to post on X.

Perhaps the leftist strategy is more simply to switch back and forth between proximate, intermediate, and distal causes in order to blame white males, especially if they are successful, straight, and western.

Of course, leftists hate genetic explanations because genetic truths upend their narratives of why they are deserving of more stuff and more power. Genetic explanations are always the most distal.

Western misreading of failure of Israeli election to oust Netanyahu

Western misreading of failure of Israeli election to oust Netanyahu. By Cameron Stewart in The Australian.

Security fears have driven Israelis decisively to the right since October 7 …

You can almost hear the wails of disbelief in Western capitals, ­including in Canberra, that ­Israel’s hard-line leader Benjamin Netanyahu was not swept away in a tsunami-like protest vote.

Why, they ask, would so many Israelis continue to vote for a ­leader whose misjudgements led to October 7 and whose policies since then have killed some 70,000 people in Gaza and promoted perpetual war against ­Israel’s neighbours while ruining its reputation on the inter­national stage?

The reason is simple — Israelis … have much more immediate concerns — like survival against enemies on all sides who, if given half a chance, would kill them. …

Netanyahu’s main opponent, Gadi Eisenkot, was heavily critical of Bibi on character grounds. But on the issues of Gaza, Lebanon, Iran and the unpopular two-state solution there was barely any difference of opinion between the two main leaders and it certainly was not a feature of the election campaign.

Duh. If only the left could see past its own bigotry.