state of play: 06/01/2026

STATE OF PLAY: Skolim Slams Artists Demanding Pensions While Children Need Fundraisers; Długosz: 'Old Donald' is Deep Asleep, Tusk's Team Headed for Defeat

Łukasz Mężyk

-- JANUSZ KORWIN-MIKKE CONGRATULATED PAWEL KOWAL ON THE UKRAINIAN TEAM'S VICTORY:
https://x.com/JkmMikke/status/2061140755314356295?s=20

-- DURING THE EXHUMATION, KOWAL INTRODUCED CENSORSHIP - A DIPLOMAT QUOTED IN ZBIGNIEW PARAFIANOWICZ'S LATEST BOOK: https://x.com/krzysztofbosak/status/2061016494419427725?s=20

-- A GLIMPSE AT UKRAINIAN ONLINE DISCUSSIONS LEAVES NO DOUBT: REACTING TO POLES' ANGER, UKRAINIANS FIRMLY STAND WITH ZELENSKY. THIS IS WHAT HE WANTED WHEN HE NAMED A MILITARY UNIT 'HEROES OF THE UPA' - WOJCIECH KONOŃCZUK IN TYGODNIK POWSZECHNY: “Zelensky, who is currently in a difficult internal situation and needs to somehow 'cover up' corruption scandals in his inner circle, decided he was willing to pay the price for deteriorating relations with Poland. This is a secondary issue for him compared to the benefits he gains from the expected great mobilization of Ukrainian society 'around the flag' in a situation where his decision met a wave of genuine anger in Poland. These benefits are already visible.”

-- THEY HAVE LEARNED TO INSTRUMENTALIZE THE ISSUE OF RELATIONS WITH POLAND FOR THEIR INTERNAL POLITICAL GOALS - KONOŃCZUK CONTINUES: “It is not the first time that Ukrainian politicians disregard Polish sensitivities or demonstratively ignore them. It is increasingly evident that they have learned to instrumentalize the issue of relations with Poland for their internal political goals.”
https://www.tygodnikpowszechny.pl/bohaterowie-upa-zelenski-celowo-wywolal-furie-polakow-po-co-193756

-- LUBLIN REACTS TO ZELENSKY'S DECISION. UKRAINIAN FLAG REMOVED FROM CITY HALL - RZ: “One of the Lublin councillors also requested the removal of the flag from the city hall building. – Many residents asked me about it. I explained to them that there is a war and we support Ukraine. However, four years after the start of the conflict, Ukrainian flags are still hanging on Polish government buildings, while more and more Banderite flags are appearing on official buildings in Ukraine – said Lublin councillor Piotr Gawryszczak (PiS).”
https://www.rp.pl/polityka/art44516831-lublin-reaguje-na-decyzje-zelenskiego-ukrainska-flaga-usunieta-z-ratusza

-- THEY DEMAND PENSIONS WHILE CHILDREN ARE WAITING FOR FUNDRAISERS. THE POLISH STATE HAS NO MONEY FOR FUNDRAISERS. ARTISTS, EITHER THE OLD ONES HAVE WASTED THEIR ENTIRE CAREERS, SMOKED IT AWAY, OR THE YOUNG ONES MAKE SUCH SHIT MUSIC OR ART THAT NO ONE WANTS TO WATCH IT - SINGER SKOLIM: “Today I went live about these whores, the artists. They demand pensions, and children are waiting for fundraisers. The Polish state has no money for fundraisers. Artists, either the old ones have wasted their entire careers, smoked it away, or the young ones make such shit music or art that no one wants to watch it, and they demand our money. There is no justification for that. If our money is to be spent, let it be on children, on roads, not on some whores and junkies. Am I speaking well? Very well. I will never allow it.”

-- OUR POLISH CHILDREN, OUR PENSIONERS AND DISABLED INDIVIDUALS SHOULD HAVE THE BEST. AND LET'S TOAST TO THAT, GENTLEMEN - SKOLIM CONTINUED: “I perform five hundred and three concerts a year all over Poland. I entertain people, I cheer them up with various music. People make dance music, less danceable, but you can't reach out for money that isn't deserved, because children need fundraisers. Damn, children are sick with cancer. We support everyone. That money must stay here in Poland. (...) I won't give a single grosz for it to go abroad, but our Polish children, our pensioners and disabled individuals should have the best. And let's toast to that, gentlemen.”
https://www.pudelek.pl/skolim-odpala-sie-na-artystow-przy-kielbasie-z-grilla-nasze-pieniadze-maja-isc-na-dzieci-a-nie-na-jakies-ku-wy-i-cpu-ow-wideo-7291843326318816a

-- SZCZEFERNAKER ON NAWROCKI'S VICTORY A YEAR AGO: IT WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE NEXT STAGE. WE CONTINUE TO FIGHT - 300LIVE: https://300polityka.pl/pl/live/2026-06-01/

-- FORMER SEJM MARSHAL MAREK JUREK HAS JOINED PORTAL ZERO.PL. HIS COLUMNS WILL BE PUBLISHED CYCLICALLY:
https://rozrywka.dorzeczy.pl/film-i-telewizja/894880/marek-jurek-w-mediach-stanowskiego-cykl-z-prawej-strony.html

-- ŻUREK DRAWS UP FURTHER VARIANTS OF HIS CONTINGENCY PLANS, WITHOUT ADDRESSING THEIR EFFECTIVENESS AT ALL. PERHAPS THE LETTERS ARE ENOUGH FOR HIM - PIOTR MGŁOSIEK, JUDGE OF THE DISTRICT COURT FOR WROCŁAW-KRZYKI IN RZ: “Waldemar Żurek draws up further variants of his contingency plans, without addressing their effectiveness at all. Perhaps the letters in our considerable native alphabet are enough for him, but he must remember that it does have its quantitative limitations.”

-- THE UNTIRINGLY ANNOUNCED 'PLAN B'S', THEN IMPLEMENTED WITH GREAT PROPAGANDISTIC EFFORT, DO NOT BRING US CLOSER TO THE REAL HEALING OF THE JUDICIARY. THEY ARE MERELY POLITICAL PERFORMANCES - PIOTR MGŁOSIEK CONTINUES IN RZ: “The 'Plan B's', tirelessly announced and then implemented with great propagandistic effort, do not bring us closer to the real healing of the judiciary. They are merely political performances, only feigning the restoration of the rule of law. Their purpose is to gain political support in view of the upcoming elections. One has the bitter impression that both the Minister of Justice and the judicial association delegates closely cooperating with him have been focused for months solely on personalities, concentrating their forces and resources mainly on recapturing institutions previously seized by environmental competitors without any ideas for their proper reform.”

-- THE PERIOD AFTER OCTOBER 2023 HAS BEEN LARGELY WASTED DUE TO THE LACK OF CONCRETE STRUCTURAL REFORM PROPOSALS; REGAINING CONTROL OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL TRIBUNAL OR THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE JUDICIARY WILL NOT SPEED UP THE MILLIONS OF CASES IN COURTS - PIOTR MGŁOSIEK FURTHER IN RZ: “The period after October 2023 has been largely wasted due to the lack of concrete structural reform proposals, which have been discussed in various legal circles for years. Let's face the truth. Recapturing the Constitutional Tribunal or the National Council of the Judiciary will not speed up the millions of cases in the courts. Supplying the judiciary with more judges will be of little use, given the almost geometric increase in cases reaching the courts. Neither Adam Bodnar nor Waldemar Żurek have even attempted to address the pressing issue of changing the court structure and narrowing their jurisdiction.”
https://www.rp.pl/opinie-prawne/art44454301-piotr-mglosiek-wszystkie-plany-b-ministra-zurka

-- KO REMAINS THE LEADER WITH 32.98 PERCENT, BUT LOSES ALMOST 3 PERCENTAGE POINTS, AND PIS DROPS MINIMALLY TO 26.66 PERCENT - POLLSTER FOR SE.

-- BOTH CONFEDERATIONS (BY APPROX. 1.5 P.P.) AND LEWICA ARE GROWING STRONGLY: “The largest increases are noted by the Confederations: Mentzen's formation grows to 13.29% (+1.55 p.p.), and Braun's party to 7.03% (+1.5 p.p.). In fourth place is Nowa Lewica with 7.76% support, which means an increase of 0.58 p.p.”
https://polityka.se.pl/wiadomosci/spadlo-poparcie-dla-ko-i-pis-duzy-wzrost-odnotowaly-inne-ugrupowania-aa-Dbey-pg8P-p5J1.html

-- OLD DONALD IS DEEPLY ASLEEP. DONALD TUSK'S TEAM IS ON THE PATH TO DEFEAT. "THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND THE VOTERS' DREAMS" - TITLE OF DOMINIKA DŁUGOSZ'S ARTICLE IN NEWSWEEK.

-- DONALD TUSK'S TEAM IS ON THE PATH TO DEFEAT - DOMINIKA DŁUGOSZ IN NEWSWEEK: “All our interlocutors agree that neither Tusk nor anyone else in the party has any idea how to awaken Poles' electoral enthusiasm, since the sole objective is to stay in power under the immortal anti-PiS slogan.”

-- FRANKLY SPEAKING, WE ARE LATE - SAYS ONE OF THE GOVERNMENT MEMBERS QUOTED BY DŁUGOSZ IN NEWSWEEK: “Frankly speaking, we are late. We should have made several very difficult decisions at the beginning of our term, cleaned up in a few sensitive areas, like the National Health Fund, and then explained the rationale behind these moves to people, and a year before the elections, allocated 15-20 billion PLN for a well-targeted, socially needed and attractive cause for millions of Poles – says one of the government members. – I fear that now the Prime Minister will want to catch up and will make some radical decisions in the coming months, and people will consider it a result of electoral panic and incompetence. That would be the worst.”
https://www.onet.pl/informacje/newsweek/donald-tusk-nie-rozumie-klasy-sredniej-ko-moze-przegrac-wybory/rmff4pj,452ad802

-- THE UNTIRING MICHAŁ SZUŁDRZYŃSKI BELIEVES THAT DONALD TUSK IS THE FAVORITE TO REMAIN IN POWER: “A year after Karol Nawrocki's victory, it is Donald Tusk who is the favorite to remain in power before next year's elections, not the increasingly divided right-wing.”
https://www.rp.pl/publicystyka/art44515261-michal-szuldrzynski-rok-nawrockiego-rok-zmartwien-kaczynskiego-i-tuska

-- MINISTER KIERWIŃSKI'S WIFE EARNED AT KOLEJE MAZOWIECKIE - JAROSŁAW OSSOWSKI IN GW: “I mention the name of Agnieszka Gierzyńska-Kierwińska, Director of Strategy and Development. – She has been working there for a long time, but there are more of 'ours' there – smiles a Civic Platform activist and suggests one of the new names in the company's management. This is Rafał Krzemień, CFO of Koleje Mazowieckie since December 2025.”

-- A PLEIADE OF WARSAW COUNCILLORS IN THE MARSHAL'S OFFICE COMPANIES - OSSOWSKI CONTINUES: “Currently, in the structures of the Marshal's Office or in its subordinate units, companies, and supervisory boards, we find a pleiad of Civic Platform councillors from Warsaw, including:
Sylwia Krajewska (Zespół Pieśni i Tańca "Mazowsze"),
Dorota Lutomirska (Main Library of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship),
Beata Michalec (Museum of Literature),
Piotr Wertenstein-Żuławski (Mazovia Development Agency),
Iwona Wujastyk (Mazovian Musical Theatre),
Jarosław Jóźwiak (Mazovian Regional Tourist Organization),
Tomasz Sieradz from Ursynów (Provincial Labour Office).”
https://warszawa.wyborcza.pl/warszawa/7,54420,32813003,ministrowa-kierwinska-z-duza-podwyzka-w-kolejach-mazowieckich.html

-- MINISTER'S WIFE AT KOLEJE MAZOWIECKIE. EARNS MORE THAN THE PRESIDENT OF WARSAW - HEADLINE IN ONEŁET
https://www.onet.pl/informacje/onetwiadomosci/zona-ministra-w-kolejach-mazowieckich-zarabia-wiecej-niz-prezydent-warszawy/f2yxh2j,79cfc278

-- REAL SUCCESS MAY ACCIDENTALLY GO TO EITHER THE CANDIDATE SUPPORTED BY KO OR ŁUKASZ GIBALA. WITH THE RIGHT-WING PLAYING THE ROLE OF STATISTS. LET'S WATCH THIS SPECTACLE CAREFULLY, BECAUSE IT IS A WARNING OF WHAT MAY HAPPEN AFTER THE 2027 SEJM ELECTIONS - PIOTR SEMKA IN DO RZECZY: “Let's hope that some talks will still take place, but a disturbing fear does not leave me. The Krakow elections as an example of independent runs by quarreling right-wing candidates, each of whom will achieve a mini-result, and the real success may go to either the candidate supported by KO or Łukasz Gibala. With the right-wing playing the role of statists, watching others win. Let's watch this spectacle carefully, because it is a warning of what may happen after the 2027 Sejm elections.”
https://dorzeczy.pl/kraj/893923/odwolanie-miszalskiego-prawica-ma-szanse-zdobyc-krakow.html

-- BIRTHDAYS: Kamila Baranowska, Wiesław Szczepański, Grzegorz Pietruczuk, Tosia Kamińska.
 


Łukasz Mężyk