I doubt many people noticed but in December, Poland’s Law and Justice (PiS) government, in power for eight years, was defeated and replaced by a government led by one Donald Tusk, former EU bigwig , which lead to articles like this:

In power since 2015, PiS has been accused of illegally eroding the rule of law, turning state media into propaganda outlets, rolling back minority rights and fomenting feuds with the EU, prompting Brussels to freeze tens of billions of euros of funds.

Tusk, who has promised to mend relations with the bloc and get the money released, is scheduled to address parliament on Tuesday, presenting his cabinet and laying out the government’s plans, before facing the formality of a confidence vote.

Besides rebuilding bridges with Brussels, Tusk’s campaign pledges included promising to allow abortion – subject to a near-total ban under PiS – until 12 weeks, declaring termination, IVF and contraception fundamental rights, and allowing civil partnerships for same-sex couples.

Now I try to ignore the fascist little shit known as Idiot/Savant but there are times when his slithering, drooling hypocrisy is useful to bookmark, as with his post celebrating Tusk’s arrival with the oh-so-clever title, PiS Off, and including this little piece of smug moral superiority in response to the BBC article:

You know, behaving like a normal European country, rather than some authoritarian Catholic theocracy.

Well, guess what Mr Tusk has also done now that he’s in power:

On the morning of December 20th, riot officers armed with pistols and batons surrounded the headquarters of TVP, Poland’s state broadcaster. Metal barricades were erected, staff vehicles were searched and multiple TV channels were taken off the air. Journalists were locked out of their offices while private security forces in plain clothes attempted to coerce managers into signing letters of resignation.

Tusk also has a former intelligence official, one Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz, as his Culture Minister, who is loving this:

Sienkiewicz responded by announcing that he would liquidate the entire network. The same day, TVP World, the English-language news channel, announced that its operations had been suspended. Several high-ranking employees including Filip Styczynski, TVP World’s director, were relieved of their duties, but not sacked. Legally, editors and directors can only be fired by the National Media Council, which was set up by PiS in 2016 and is protected by the powers of the president. Tusk and his three-party coalition Government are trying to circumvent the council, whose term of office runs until 2028.

I’ll wait to see if the Idiot/Savant has any criticism of this to make but given that the EU is suddenly struck dumb on this purging of public media opponents in an EU nation I suspect he will be too – or he’ll rationalise it.

I also invite you to imagine what he and the rest of the NZ Lefty universe would be saying were National to do the same things here to TVNZ and RNZ.

I get the human nature that is ignoring all bad shit until your ox is gored, but surely there should be limits to that when it comes to free speech, censorship, civil liberties and holding back from crude State thugishness.

Apparently not when you’re overbearing authoritarian or even totalitarian cunts, like Donald Tusk.

And Idiot/Savant.