My greatest nightmare is that the next Trump scandal is going to involve Poland and it will be my own personal Singularity of political stupidity. If you plot the "surely we've got Trump now!" scandals on a map, they are moving inexorably westward to my own disaster of a country
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I'll just remind outside observers that Poland is the country where the Prime Minister and President were identical twins, and when the President died in a plane crash, the Prime Minister pretended to be him when visiting their elderly, hospitalized mother. It is a sitcom country
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The grieving prime minister and advisers even printed a fake newspaper to persuade their skeptical mother of their ruse. This is literally the plot of a famous Communist-era satirical song by Młynarski ("...bowiem się drukuje dla niej osobne pisemko")https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2wsudq
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I've been trying to write about this episode (and the insanity around it) for nine years, and have been consistently thwarted by the sheer level of absurdity around it. My hands refuse to type it. It makes Boris Johnson's recent speech to the UN sound like the Gettysburg Address
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She was very ill, suffering from dementia, and slipping in and out of consciousness. In that delirium state she would sometimes mistake the living brother for his sibling, and he played along
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