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The Madness Of Griffons retweeted
🇵🇱 Polish PM Donald Tusk:
The attack on the Tribunal and its judges is another stage in the process of destroying the rule of law in Poland by PiS and Presidents Duda and Nawrocki.
Together with the parliamentary majority, I made attempts to repair the Tribunal.
No one had any doubt that the Tribunal in the form imposed by PiS was not a real court.
That was the assessment of international institutions, Polish legal authorities and public opinion.
To simplify matters, let me use a comparison. Imagine a situation in which a thief snatches an elderly woman's handbag and runs away.
When he is caught, he starts screaming that violence is being used against him and calls it theft when someone tries to take back his loot.
Meanwhile, some bystanders, the so-called both-sides people, propose that, to calm things down, the thief and the victim should divide the contents of the handbag equally.
For years, there have been organizations and politicians in Poland who want to destroy democracy and the rule of law.
And it is no coincidence that they find support among pro-Russian forces around the world.
And today, in this conflict, they are benefiting from the support of an army of Russian bots on the internet.
They have even received public compliments from the Kremlin's chief ideologue.
The Madness Of Griffons retweeted
If PiS returns to power, it will withdraw Poland from the EU resulting in a steady and inevitable descent towards isolation and poverty, and in a major increase of influence from Russia.
That being said, i do not see any other way but assertive action to fix the damage the PiS did to the rule of law when it was in power, and that now uses as a leverage in the opposition. A European democracy is being preserved and Tusk has taken enormous personal risks to do it
The Madness Of Griffons retweeted
What The Hell Is Happening In Poland? Let Me Explain 🇵🇱🇪🇺
For everyone outside Poland wondering what the hell is going on, especially after seeing all the dramatic posts about a supposed coup, you need to understand something about Polish politics.
I was born in Poland. I remember communism. I remember what Poland was like before it became the country it is today. And watching this political circus unfold is infuriating.
From 2015 to 2023, Poland was governed by Law and Justice (PiS), Jarosław Kaczyński’s national-conservative party. During those eight years, PiS pushed through controversial changes to the judicial system, including the Constitutional Tribunal, Poland’s equivalent of a constitutional court. Those changes triggered years of disputes with the European Union over judicial independence and the rule of law.
In 2023, Polish voters brought a new parliamentary majority to power, led by Donald Tusk. His coalition promised to repair the damage and restore the independence of Poland’s institutions. But there was a problem. PiS had left behind people in powerful judicial positions, and the presidency became another obstacle to those reforms.
Fast-forward to October 30, 2026. A judge announced the suspension of Constitutional Tribunal president Bogdan Święczkowski, a PiS-era appointee who had refused to seat judges elected by the current parliamentary majority. The legality of that suspension is now disputed.
President Karol Nawrocki, a nationalist closely aligned with PiS, interrupted his trip to Africa, returned to Warsaw, and accused the government of attempting a coup. Police were deployed, protesters gathered, and the entire situation exploded across social media.
Now, here’s the part many people outside Poland don’t understand.
This confrontation didn’t suddenly appear out of nowhere. It’s the continuation of a constitutional crisis that began more than a decade ago. The current government says it is trying to restore the rule of law. PiS and Nawrocki say the government is violating it. The courts and legal procedures, not social-media hysteria, must ultimately determine what is lawful.
And then there’s Nawrocki himself.
Just days ago, a former coworker from the Grand Hotel in Sopot testified in court that Nawrocki had suggested she could earn extra money by bringing women to hotel guests. She described an incident that made her suspect he was involved in procuring prostitutes. Nawrocki denies the allegations and has sued the publisher that reported them. No court has established that he engaged in pimping, but the testimony is real, public, and deeply serious.
There have also been controversies surrounding his past involvement in an arranged fight and his acquisition of an apartment.
And while all this is happening, Kaczyński and his political allies are escalating their confrontational rhetoric about the European Union.
Here’s something they should remember: according to a 2026 CBOS survey, 82% of Poles support Poland remaining in the EU.
Eighty-two percent.
Poland has benefited enormously from European integration, investment, infrastructure development, freedom of movement, and access to the European market. Anyone who remembers Poland before 1989 can appreciate just how extraordinary its transformation has been.
Now, I’m not claiming every criticism of the EU means someone wants to leave it. But I am deeply concerned about politicians who repeatedly turn European institutions into enemies while presenting themselves as Poland’s only true patriots.
And I’m equally concerned about how easily this political confrontation can be exploited by Russian propaganda. Moscow benefits when European societies distrust their democratic institutions, fight among themselves, and turn against European cooperation. That doesn’t prove every inflammatory post is Russian propaganda. It means we should be extremely careful about who is spreading what, and why.
I have absolutely no patience for nationalism dressed up as patriotism, especially in a country that knows what Russian domination looks like.
Poland fought too hard to escape Moscow’s influence and build its place in democratic Europe.
Patriotism is not loyalty to Kaczyński, Nawrocki, Tusk, or any political party. Patriotism is loyalty to Poland, its Constitution, its democratic institutions, and its people.
And no politician should be above the law.
Here is a video of very aggressive Polish President Nawrocki forcing his way into Constitutional Tribunal pushing woman aside. His old instincts of hooliganism and pimp is kicking in.
The Madness Of Griffons retweeted
Rightoids will post Star Wars memes about how based it is to install a dictatorship and then 1 minute later cry about a "coup" in Poland.
The Madness Of Griffons retweeted
Handy guide for events in Poland:
The pro-Russians are in coalition with Nawrocki.
All u need to know.
The Madness Of Griffons retweeted
Poland has witnessed one of the biggest power struggles over a position in years, involving two judges.
The situation is essentially like a member of a board of directors trying to remove the CEO. The CEO, on the one hand, refused to allow new members to join the board, and on the other, deliberately stopped calling board meetings because he knew that, if he did, he would be voted out.
The police are only there to maintain order and prevent any riots or clashes from breaking out.
The Madness Of Griffons retweeted
There is no coup in Poland.
The outgoing President of the Constitutional Tribunal refused to allow the Tribunal’s newly appointed judges to convene, effectively blocking its work.
Another judge then challenged his authority and took over the proceedings.
The police were called primarily because of security concerns and escalating tensions at the Constitutional Tribunal.
The Madness Of Griffons retweeted
What is happening in Poland is actually very simple.
The current administration is cleaning the corruption and foreign interference left behind by the previous authoritarian government. PiS spent years undermining Polish democracy in what was a prolonged coup, packing key institutions, including the Constitutional Tribunal, with loyalists and traitors.
The authoritarian government was ousted in 2023 but democracy isn’t restored overnight. Especially when the damage is so vast. But as the current government promised, they are cleaning out the last remnants of corruption. Their only fault might be not having done it sooner.
This is an objectively democratic and necessary action if Poland wishes to remain free. But as expected, the enemies of Europe and Poland have all come out of their hiding holes. Not to protect democracy, but as a last stand to defend their last footholds in Poland.
Today we see clearly who the enemies of Poland and Europe are. It is Russia, MAGA, the anti-European crowd and their collaborators in Europe, politicians and influencers alike, all united in anything that makes Europe weaker.
The enemies of Europe and Poland will lose. We will protect our democracies. Will will preserve the European dream. We will make Europe stronger. And no amount of lies can stop us.
The Madness Of Griffons retweeted
The word “Nakba” (catastrophe) wasn’t invented by Palestinians to describe Jewish “ethnic cleansing.”
It was coined in 1948 by a Syrian Arab historian, Constantin Zureiq, in his book The Meaning of the Disaster.
He used it to describe the humiliating failure of the Arab world — their leaders’ arrogance, their lies to their own people, their military incompetence, and their refusal to accept a Jewish state.
Zureiq wrote that the Arabs had “imaginary victories” and put their public “to sleep” with boasts — until the real disaster hit: they couldn’t wipe out the Jews.
The original Nakba wasn’t about refugees. That a rebrand from several decades later.
It was about the Arab leaders’ catastrophic decision to launch a war of extermination ... and lose.
They’ve spent 77 years rebranding their own failure as Jewish guilt.
That’s the only real "Nakba" they can’t forgive.
Why are there Palestinian refugees?
In the months before the British abandoned its mandate & Israel declared independence, civil war raged as Arab factions tried to prevent the Jewish state from being born.
Of course, had the Arabs agreed to the UN's partition plan, they would have had yet another state & there would have been no war in 1948.
But their goal was not another Arab state; it was to ensure there would be no Jewish state.
Meanwhile, 5 #Arab armies amassed on the borders & waited for the British to leave so they could push the Jews into the #Mediterranean Sea.
As Secretary-General of the Arab League Azzam Pasha put it on the day of the Arab #invasion:
"This will be a war of extermination & momentous massacre, which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades."
Or as the then war #criminal & fugitive #Nazi Grand Mufti Amin al-Husseini put it during the invasion:
"Murder the #Jews. Murder them all!"
But before the invasion began, & starting as early as Dec 1947, Arab officers began ordering Arab residents of specific villages to flee.
Their reasoning? Arab citizens not involved in active fighting could only: (1) "treacherously" abide the creation of a the Jewish state &/or even become citizens of same; or (2) be in the way of Arab #military deployments & potentially get caught in the crossfire.
And so, for example, on this day (March 8) in 1948, the Arab Higher Committee ordered all Arab women, children & elderly to leave Jerusalem. The order continued, "Any opposition to this order ... is an obstacle to the holy war ... & will hamper the operations of the fighters in these districts.”
In fact, the Arab Higher Committee ordered the evacuation of dozens of Arab villages between April & July of 1948 (see photo of Arab citizens fleeing below).
Meanwhile, on April 19, 1948, Jewish forces secured Tiberias, which had a population of ~6,000 #Arabs - all of whom chose to leave. In fact, they left under British military supervision.
The Jewish Community Council immediately issued a statement regarding Tiberias' Arabs:
"We did not dispossess them; they themselves chose this course ... Let no citizen touch their property."
At around this same time, in early & mid-April of 1948, an Arab faction led by Fawzi al-Qawukji was attacking Haifa & attempting to take the city. Then, rumors spread among Haifa's Arab community that Arab air forces were about to bomb the city & ~25,000 of Haifa's Arabs fled.
As U.S. Consul-General in Haifa Aubrey Lippincott noted on April 22, 1948: "local mufti-dominated Arab leaders ... [urged] all Arabs to leave the city, & large numbers did so."
On April 23, 1948, however, #Jewish forces fought back the Arab attack & retook Haifa.
Three days later, on April 26, 1948, a British police report from Haifa noted:
"[E]very effort is being made by the Jews to persuade the Arab populace to stay and carry on with their normal lives, to get their shops and businesses open and to be assured that their lives and interests will be safe."
What were some of those "efforts?"
Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, sent future Prime Minister Golda Meir to Haifa with the direct instructions to "persuade the Arabs to stay."
Ms. Meir was unsuccessful, however, as Haifa's Arabs told her they feared that if they stayed, they would be branded "#traitors."
And so, another ~25,000 of Haifa's Arabs fled.
Stop me if you've heard this one before, but despite facts on the ground, Arab leaders at the #UN began demanding the end to a fake "#massacre."
Specifically, #Syria's UN Ambassador Faris al-Kouri, said the Jewish victory at Haifa was a "massacre" that provided "evidence that the '#Zionist program' is to annihilate Arabs within the Jewish state if partition is effected."
The #British were still on the ground, however, & the British Ambassador to the UN, Sir Alexander Cadogan, told the UN the very next day both that the fighting in Haifa had only begun as a result of "continuous attacks by Arabs against Jews" & that the "reports of massacres & deportations [were] erroneous."
Meanwhile, after Israel declared its independence & was invaded by five Arab armies, the newly established #IDF issued an Order on July 6, 1948, making it clear that non-combatant Arab civilians were not to be harassed or expelled, nor their villages touched.
But the Arabs were being given a very different message.
#Iraqi #PrimeMinister Nuri Said announced:
"We will smash the country with our guns & obliterate every place the Jews seek shelter in. The Arabs should conduct their wives & children to safe areas until the fighting has died down."
This used to be known. In fact, Arab leaders for years after the war had no qualms about repeating it.
For example, Syrian Prime Minister Haled al Azm later wrote:
"Since 1948, we have been demanding the return of the #refugees to their homes. But we ourselves are the ones who encouraged them to leave. Only a few months separated our call to them to leave & our appeal to the UN to resolve on their return."
Similarly, #Jordan's King Abdullah wrote:
"The tragedy of the #Palestinians was that most of their leaders had paralyzed them with false & unsubstantiated promises that they were not alone; that 80 million Arabs & 400 million #Muslims would instantly & miraculously come to their rescue."
Similarly, Edward Atiyah, Secretary of the Arab League Office in #London wrote:
"This wholesale #exodus was due partly to the belief of the Arabs, encouraged by the boastings of an unrealistic #Arabic press & the irresponsible utterances of some of the Arab leaders that it could be only a matter of weeks before the Jews were defeated by the armies of the Arab States & the #Palestinian Arabs enabled to reenter & retake possession of their country.”
Even as the war still raged on Aug 16, 1948, the Arab #Greek Orthodox Catholic Bishop of the Galilee told #Beirut newspaper Sada al-Janub:
“The refugees were confident their absence would not last long, & that they would return within a week or two ... Their leaders had promised them that the Arab Armies would crush the ’Zionist gangs’ very quickly & that there was no need for panic or fear of a long exile.”
A few months later, on Feb 19, 1949, the Jordanian newspaper Filastin confirmed:
"The Arab States encouraged the Palestine Arabs to leave their homes temporarily in order to be out of the way of the Arab invasion armies."
Even many of the Palestinian Arab refugees themselves admitted their reasons for leaving.
For example, on June 8, 1951, Habib Issa admitted to #NewYork Lebanese newspaper Al Hoda:
"Azzam Pasha assured the Arab peoples that the #occupation of Palestine & #TelAviv would be ... simple ... He pointed out that they were already on the frontiers & that all the millions the Jews had spent on land & economic development would be easy booty, for it would be a simple matter to throw Jews into the Mediterranean ... Arabs of Palestine [were told] to leave their land, homes & property & to stay temporarily in neighboring fraternal states, lest the guns of the invading Arab armies mow them down.”
Similarly, Asmaa Jabir Balasimah recalled being told by Arab leaders to "evacuate the village & return after the battle is over," & that she & others in her village left all their possessions behind "based on the assumption that we would return after a few hours."
Again, however (& most importantly), had the Arabs agreed to Partition or even agreed to negotiate different borders with Zionist leaders who begged Azzam Pasha to make any counteroffer instead of invading with #genocidal intent, there would never have been a single Palestinian #refugee.
#Education #Israel #Palestine
The Madness Of Griffons retweeted
Likely a new record by Ukraine's Armed Forces in terms of multiple strikes on one Russian infrastructure target this morning at Russia's massive Novokuybyshevsk refinery, with 11(!) areas of the facility currently burning.
The Madness Of Griffons retweeted
💫 Great news! Russia has lost yet another state-of-the-art Su-57 fighter jet
According to OSINT channels, the aircraft, valued at between $50 million and $100 million, was completely destroyed by fire.
In addition, an Iskander-M ballistic missile launcher was struck in Russia's Kursk region. This has already been officially confirmed by the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The Madness Of Griffons retweeted
#JFFWWI
Assembly phase complete 👍, painting underway, with the first stage of weathering !
The Madness Of Griffons retweeted
The Czech Republic has officially criminalized the promotion of communist movements that suppress human rights, placing them on the same legal footing as Nazi movements.
The amendment, signed by President Petr Pavel, explicitly targets anyone who establishes, supports or promotes Nazi, communist or other movements seeking to suppress fundamental freedoms or incite racial, ethnic, religious, national or class hatred.
Offenders face prison sentences ranging from one to five years, with additional provisions addressing the distribution of extremist propaganda and symbols.
The legislation follows decades of debate over the country's communist past. Czechoslovakia endured more than four decades of communist one-party rule, beginning in 1948 and ending with the peaceful Velvet Revolution in 1989.
Supporters, including historians from the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, argued that communist totalitarianism should be treated as seriously as Nazism under criminal law.
The Madness Of Griffons retweeted
⚡️🛩️BREAKING: Two Russian Su-34 fighter-bombers were destroyed in a strike on Marinovka military airfield in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, on October 29, according to Dossier Shpiona.
The airfield is used by Russia’s 11th Composite Aviation Regiment.
Two Russian servicemen were killed and two others wounded in the attack, according to the same source.
The Madness Of Griffons retweeted
The wounded are being evacuated from Dnipro railway station to hospitals.
My account on X appears to be throttled, so please share this. People need to see this blatant attack on civilians.
I’m heading down there shortly.
The Madness Of Griffons retweeted
This is what Russia is doing while some are getting high on ketamine and staging a disgraceful circus by cutting off communications for Ukrainian drone defenses, and others are practically drooling over promises of lining their pockets with the Kremlin's blood money.
The Madness Of Griffons retweeted
White slaves. 🏴🇬🇧
For three hundred years, pirates from Algiers sailed to Britain and Ireland, came ashore at night, and took people from their beds.
Baltimore, 1631. A hundred and seven people gone in one night. At most three ever came home.
Over a million Europeans ended up in chains in North Africa. Nobody bought them. They were stolen.
The kings of Europe paid ransom. For centuries.
In 1816, Britain stopped paying.
Lord Exmouth. Twenty British ships, six Dutch, against one of the strongest fortresses on earth. 27 August 1816. Nine hours. Fifty thousand cannonballs. 128 British sailors killed.
The next day the Dey signed. Every Christian slave freed. 1,083 people walked out of Algiers in one afternoon.
Nobody came for them... Until we did. ⚓🇬🇧💪