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Friday night, Warsaw. Riot police are guarding
the doors of Poland's highest court not to keep
the bad guys out, to keep the chief justice out.
Now who pulled this off? A general with sunglasses
and way too many medals? No, not exactly.
How about a judge? One judge, folks, who flipped
through the rulebook, found nothing that actually let her do it,
and just shrugged anyway.
Oh, and then she promoted herself to boss.
Just vibes and riot police. Poland's president,
Karol Narocki, President Trump's pick, was halfway to Africa.
He spun the plane around
and helped the chief judge climb a fence
to get back into his own building.
Now, other presidents get motorcades.
This guy, he got a chain link workout.
I know, it's crazy. It almost sounds like
we're making it up here, but we're not.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Brussels' former European Council boss,
calls this restoring the rule of law.
Nothing says democracy quite like a SWAT team
doing the hiring. Same Friday, after the markets closed,
Fitch tapped France on the shoulder and
whispered, you're broke.
France spends like a teenager with dad's credit card.
Its hard left wants to fix the debt by burning the receipts.
I wish I'd tried that on my car loan.
Anyway, oh and who's living next door with safe streets,
a booming economy, and more
gold than European Central Bank?
Well, Poland.
Yes, Poland, guys.
Brussels side couldn't beat Narocki at the ballot box,
so now it's the courts.
Coincidence?
I'm pretty sure.
Now, the last time I heard hard left
and radical clerics teamed up on a broke country,
It was Iran back in 1979.
Spoiler alert, it did not end up with a group hug. And Tuesday night,
the same court fight landed right here
with Senators-elect from Minnesota to Texas
eyeing our Supreme Court like it's a buffet.
Good thing President Trump is still guarding the kitchen.
Well, today, guys, we're going to go
ahead and connect the dots that the media tripped over,
the gold, the fence, the fire, and why
America's courts are next.
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Picture this, guys. You come home Friday night.
Your key doesn't work. Somebody changed the locks.
This is odd, right? And your neighbor's standing
in your living room, and they're saying,
I'm the landlord now. What exactly?
October 30th, guys. The sun goes down over Warsaw.
A notice pops up on the website of Poland's top court,
the Constitutional Tribunal. It's
It's their Supreme Court over there.
It decides which laws are allowed.
Now.
The notice says the Chief Judge Bogdan Swarkowski is suspended.
So is his deputy. Wow. So who
signed it? One judge, guys. Anna Corwin-Piotrowska.
She said that she's been a judge the longest,
so she's in charge now. That's it, guys.
This is the legal argument. Seniority.
Kind of like calling shotgun on a country.
And then the riot police showed up. Oh,
did they? That's right, guys.
Poland's President Karol Nawrocki is on a plane to Senegal.
Somebody calls him. He tells the pilot, turn it around.
He lands in Warsaw. It's dark. Riot
police are surrounding the court.
Crowds outside are waving red and white Polish flags. And the
president of Poland walks up
and helps the chief judge climb a fence to get into his own building,
guys. It's outside the top court.
Protesters breaking through a fence
and a president turning his plane around in midair.
Poland is in the middle of a constitutional crisis,
and some are calling it a coup.
But is it? On Friday, October 30,
a judge named Anna Korwin-Piotrowska announced she was suspending
the Constitutional Tribunal's president,
Bogdan Święczkowski, and his deputy for one month. She
said she was taking over the court.
Police were deployed outside to protect judges and staff.
President Karol Nowrocki was on his way to Senegal.
He cut the trip short.
At a moment like this, he wrote, the president must be in Poland.
He argues she was never properly sworn in,
so her claim to run the court has no legal footing.
The tribunal itself called it a coup d'etat.
Its statement said she is not a judge
and that everyone taking part is committing a crime.
Outside, supporters of the opposition Law
and Justice Party chanted, Tusk traitor.
Three people were detained after the court's fence was breached.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk says this is no coup.
He calls it restoring the rule of law
and correcting the lawlessness of past governments.
His argument is that the court was captured by law
and justice during its years in power,
from 2015 to 2023.
This fight has been building for years.
After Tusk won in 2023,
he promised to fix the court and end the standoff with Brussels.
But President Nawrocki has blocked his appointments,
refusing to swear in three of the six judges parliament nominated.
The court has been stuck, and both sides claim legitimacy.
Now, let that sink in, okay?
Now, most presidents, they get a motorcade. This one
somehow managed to get a chain link fence.
Nawrocki called it a forcible takeover of a
constitutional body. Translation, it's a coup in a nice suit.
Oh, and this isn't some faraway
story, guys. Nawrocki is the guy President
Donald Trump proudly endorsed. In fact,
Trump then announced more American troops headed to Poland.
About 10,000 US soldiers are already there.
Americans already have skin in the game.
Now, somebody you know still thinks it cannot happen here.
Go ahead and send them this video, guys.
Go ahead and tell them that a president just climbed
a fence just to get back into his
own country's highest court.
Oh, and then ask them how sure they
are that this can't happen here in America.
So, who's behind all this stuff?
Meet Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
Now, before Tusk ran Poland, he ran the European Council in
Brussels, the EU's head office,
so he's not exactly a Poland-first guy. He's more of a
Brussels party of one kind of guy.
Now, President Donald Trump's guy, he is the president. Yes,
Trump's guy is the president. That's right,
Brussels' guy is the prime minister. Guess
whose government runs the riot police?
So Tusk went on national TV and said that the rule of law
must beat the rule of the jungle. Beautiful line.
Put it on a mug, right?
Maybe even on a t-shirt.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has vowed
that the rule of law will prevail over violence
after a confrontation at the Constitutional Tribunal deepened
a decade-long dispute over Poland's top court.
In a televised address on Saturday,
Tusk called Friday's event scandalous.
He said judges elected by parliament had taken their oaths
but were being blocked from taking up their duties.
President Karol Nawrocki had tried to enter
the building as police surrounded it.
The dispute centers on eight new judges Nawrocki did
not formally receive their oaths
while tribunal president Bogdan Siewieczkowski refused
to let them take up their post.
The opposition accuses Tusk's government of a coup.
The government says it is restoring judicial independence.
European Commission said it was closely monitoring the crisis.
It said appointing eight new tribunal members
falls within parliament's constitutional powers
and that Polish authorities must ensure
the court follows the constitution and EU court rulings.
And I will go on.
European Conservatives and Reformists group backed Nawrocki
accusing Tusk's government of violating the rule of law.
Tusk offered no detailed plan to end the standoff,
but pledged to ensure the court
could function independently.
But here's the funny thing about the jungle. In Poland,
it showed up wearing riot gear and holding a fence.
Tusk also said restoring the rule of
law takes decisive action. Decisive.
This is a fancy word for we don't ask.
Straight talk, guys.
The old conservative government law and justice wasn't perfect.
During eight years in power,
they put judges into seats that were already filled. European
courts said this was out of bounds.
Fair enough, right? So what's Tusk's fix?
Break even more rules. The law that judge used Friday?
It was for regular courts,
not the Constitutional Tribunal.
And it doesn't let one judge suspend her own boss.
Even the International Commission of Jurists, not exactly a MAGA rally,
they said this breaks international standards.
This is kind of like fixing a dented car by
setting it on fire. So here's the lesson, guys.
Never compromise your values, not even once.
Because it always comes back to bite you in the arse.
And you can't break the rulebook to save the rulebook.
That's not justice. This is just a
new team holding the pen. So why are Poles so fired up?
Well, go back a few decades, guys.
Up until 1989, Poland lived under communism.
Picture it. Empty store shelves, lines around
the block for bread, for milk, for toilet paper.
We've already personally experienced empty shelves
here in the United States.
You would wait three hours and the guy in front of you got the last loaf of bread
Socialism folks, the only system we're standing
in line is the main event.
How Poland!
The communist era in Poland
was a lot weirder than you probably realize.
Here are three examples.
Number one, you could hire somebody to be in a queue for you.
Hello!
And this wasn't queuing for the latest trainers.
Shop shelves were often so empty that when anything actually appeared,
huge queues would appear out of nowhere.
And if you're in the middle of your shift at the cigarette factory,
what were you going to do?
Hire an old person.
Loads of retired people were suddenly available
as professional standers
and they could pick up that half a kilo of meat for you.
Two, there were vending machines that could make you sick.
There were vending machines that serve fizzy water, flavoured,
and they served it in a single cup.
Yes.
One cup attached to the machine by string.
When it was your turn and you finished,
you would just rinse it out with water
and leave it for the next person to use.
Is it any wonder that the nickname for these machines
was Gruźliczanka, meaning tuberculosis lady.
Three.
They had special shops where all the prices were in dollars,
but you weren't allowed to have dollars.
Pewex was a shop that sold jeans, electronics,
and all sorts of other things that you couldn't get elsewhere,
sometimes toilet paper.
The catch was that you had to pay in dollars,
but at the same time,
Dollars were totally illegal.
You're only allowed the Polish currency as water.
So what did people do? They had to go to the bank to get special bank
checks that they could use at the Pewex shop. How convenient!
For more of this weirdness, check out our article,
10 mind-boggling oddities from Poland under the communist regime.
President Trump keeps warning America will never
be a socialist country.
Well, Poland can clearly tell you why.
And if you complained, well, the secret police, they came knocking.
Then two men changed everything.
A shipyard electrician named Lech Wałęsa started a movement
called Solidarity. And a Polish Pope, John Paul II,
came home to millions of Poles carrying the
message he preached from day one. Do not be afraid.
Oh, and they weren't. Communism fell.
So when Poles see police deciding who runs their courts,
they don't see the future. They see their grandparents' past.
It is 40 years since St. John Paul II first visited Poland between June
the 2nd to the 10th in 1979.
It was an historic moment as the country was ruled
by the oppressive regime of the Soviet Union.
The Polish ambassador
to the Holy See remembers fondly Pope John Paul II's visit to Poland.
He recalls the hope this Pope brought to the many people
who despairingly believed the Soviet Union would last forever.
Right in the middle of Warsaw was about a million of Poles.
And we were listening.
With tears in our eyes, to the words of Polish Pope,
he treated us seriously.
He was saying that you must do that and that.
You mustn't be afraid.
You are Catholics.
You are Poles.
You are young people.
The future belongs to you.
He notes how the Pope's visit helped bring about peaceful change
and, ultimately, the collapse of communism.
This is because soon after his visit,
millions of Polish people formed the Solidarity Trade Union.
The Communist Party was always saying to us,
yes, we are for you, we are for the workers, for the poor people.
And now those people, they said no.
It was a kind of a revolution.
It was absolutely peaceful, absolutely peaceful.
People were praying with the rosaries.
And on the gate of the Gdańsk shipyard there
was a great portrait of John Paul II.
One of the reasons John Paul II wanted to visit Poland
was to mark the millennium of the baptism of Poland.
In 1966, the communists had not permitted Pope Paul VI to visit
to celebrate this important occasion for Catholicism in Poland.
According to the Polish ambassador,
the Soviet government warned John Paul II not to visit,
and afterwards sought ways
to destroy solidarity among the Polish people.
The first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party,
Leonid Brezhnev, said before the visit
of John Paul II to Poland.
He said it to Gierek,
to Polish First Secretary of the Communist Party.
Oh, we know that Wojtyla is such a wise man.
Tell him he must announce that he is sick.
It will be better for him not to come to Poland.
They tried.
During the martial law, Jaruzelski was trying to destroy
our solidarity, our liberty.
He says it is important people do not forget John Paul II,
who strongly stood against the violation of human rights and life.
Now, let's go ahead and fast forward to today, folks.
Poland did everything right. Safe streets,
you walk around Warsaw at midnight with your wallet hanging out.
Try doing that in Paris.
Actually, don't do that. A strong economy.
It's kept its own money. The Zloty, instead of handing
the keys to Brussels,
and then Brussels sent over its migrant relocation pact. Basically,
here are some migrants. Make some room. You're welcome.
So Poland said, no, thanks.
Does any of this sound familiar, guys? It's the Trump border
playbook, Polish style.
President Narocki, he wrote straight to Ursula von der Leyen.
He said the overwhelming majority of Poles from all political leanings,
they opposed the forced relocation of migrants. Even Tusk said no.
So Poland is the kid who did his homework
while the rest of the class just set the classroom on
fire. And now the teacher wants to grade his paper
with a flamethrower. You see where we're
going with this, guys?
Now, if we look back to 2019, Poland pulled off a heist on itself.
The National Bank of Poland quietly flew 100 tons
of its own gold out of vaults in London,
and they brought it home to Warsaw. Just
Trucks, planes, and a whole lot of trust issues.
In 1996, Poland had 14 tons of gold. Today,
about 648 tons. This is more than the European Central Bank has.
In fact, the European Central
Bank is the bank that runs money for the whole Eurozone.
Oh, and the bank boss, Adam Glapiński,
he wants 700. He says it'll put Poland on the world's top 10.
Poland's gold purchasing spree shows no sign of slowing down.
On Thursday, Governor Glapinski proudly announced
that the National Bank of Poland has increased
its holdings to 700 tons.
Poland has established its position.
Poland has cemented its position among the 10 countries
with the largest gold reserves in the world.
I don't need to explain what this means
for a country in our geographical position
with its own currency, the złoty.
It greatly strengthens the stability of our financial system
and boosts confidence in Poland, its economy and public finances.
Expanding Poland's gold reserves has been Glapinski's hallmark policy,
and it appears to be paying off.
The country's 700 tonnes of gold
are now worth roughly 81 billion euros,
while unrealised gains,
or the difference between their current value and purchase cost,
have reached an impressive 30 billion.
On the monetary policy front,
the bank's council decided to leave interest rates unchanged.
After inflation cooled to 3.5% in October,
placing it within the NBP's target range.
To dobra wiadomość, szczególnie...
Somewhat unexpectedly, and we are very pleased about that.
Unfortunately, however, this does not mean the period
of elevated inflation is already behind us.
We are still dealing with high commodity prices,
mainly linked to the conflict in the Middle East.
Glapiński warned that prolonged high energy
prices could push inflation higher,
raising the prospect of an interest rate hike early next year.
Now, Poland isn't stacking gold. It's building a bunker.
So ask yourself this. Why would Brussels
care so much about who controls Poland's courts?
Do the math, folks. The same Friday night. Here
we are in Paris, right? The stock market's closed.
The lights go out. And Fitch, one of the big three
credit ratings, they do something that it almost never does.
Fitch, guys. Fitch skips its own
Fitch slaps France with a negative outlook.
So, you walk into a bank for a big ol' loan,
and they say, sorry, you're a 600 now. France's
economy just shrank. Its debt is headed to 124%
of everything the country makes, and unlike us,
France cannot print its own money.
So, Finance Minister Roland Lescure says the fix is a
responsible budget. In France. Good luck with that.
Yeah, seriously, good luck with that.
And Moody's, oh man, Moody's?
Moody's is betting the streets of Paris calm down. That's a bold move.
No wonder President Trump keeps on telling Europe to pay its own bills.
So here's the thing about broke cousins, they always find the rich one.
Since September, France has been on fire.
Yes, France is on fire. Cars are burning in the streets,
high schools are blockaded,
a quarter of a million people marching in a single day,
the yellow vests are back.
Kind of like a bad sequel that nobody asked for.
Oh, and the man cheering the loudest,
the boss of the hard left party, France Unbowed.
He's running for president, guys. Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
That's right, guys. His plan? Lower
the retirement age. Bigger checks for everybody.
Paid for how? I'm glad you asked. Well, France's
own central bank owns about 600 billion euros of French debt.
So Mélenchon, he wants to just go
ahead and cancel it, tear up the IOUs and burn up all the receipts.
Can we do that with the IRS?
Asking for 300 million friends? Just curious.
France tried printing its own way out once
before. During the French Revolution,
it ended with worthless paper money and a whole lot of
people losing their heads. Marine Le Pen leads the polls.
She promises 140 billion euros in savings.
Her plan counts on getting money back from Brussels.
Brussels doesn't give money back.
Brussels is more like a vending machine that only takes.
So whoever wins has to cut.
And the loser screams betrayal and fills the streets.
You see how this works, guys?
Waiting there are two crowds.
The red, the hard left, and the green,
which is the Islamist networks that France's own
government warned about in its report on the Muslim Brotherhood.
One of Mélenchon's members of the European Parliament,
Rima Hassan, once said that Hamas
took legitimate action.
Trump's America calls Hamas what it is.
It's a terrorist group.
Prosecutors, they want her convicted
of glorifying terrorism over a separate post.
Verdict?
November 30th.
They don't agree on what to build, just on what has to burn.
We've already seen this movie before, Iran,
1978, the Shah spent an oil fortune building
a modern country.
Then the bill came due, prices shot up,
spending got cut, thousands of young men stood around
with nothing to do.
Two groups found them, the Marxists
and the Mullahs. They hated each other,
but they hated the Shah even more.
September 1978, martial law. Soldiers fire on a crowd in a
Tehran square. All of a sudden,
the Shah is the fascist and everybody's in the street. Within
months, he was gone. Now, look at Paris, folks.
You see what I'm saying here? Now, look here.
In Brazil, judges, they went after conservative ex-president
Jair Bolsonaro, President Trump sanctioned the lead judge,
Alexandre de Moraes.
Treasury Secretary Scott Pasznite called it a witch hunt.
Then, Tuesday night, Democrats took the House and the Senate.
And guess what is on the menu?
The court where President Trump appointed three justices.
Minnesota's Peggy Flanagan wants more seats on the Supreme Court.
Texas' James Talarico wants an overhaul.
Illinois' Julianna Stratton says all options
are on the table. Michigan's Abdul El-Sayed calls
the court an impediment to democracy.
Kamala Harris wants a baker's dozen, 13 justices,
because nothing says justice quite like a box of
donuts. Now, one thing stands in the way,
folks, President Donald Trump's veto pen,
and the republic the founders built
so no mob could ever vote away your rights.
Poland's president had to climb a fence, ours has a veto pen.
Well folks, Poland has Narocki, and Narocki is standing strong.
We have President Donald J. Trump,
folks, so now it's your turn to stand.
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