Every time Cheng Xiaoshi doesn't listen to Lu Guang and changes something in the past:
The inspiration was a Polish meme with President Andrzej Duda (under the cut), which I randomly remembered and I HAD TO make a Shiguang version
English translation:
"Andrzej, what the fuck have you done?"
"I don't know, I meant well…"
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
"Everything's fucked up. Throw the whole country away*"
(*It hurts me so much that there is no perfect equivalent of "do wyjebania" in English, because "throw away" does not contain the power of cuss word as in Polish 😭😭😭)
"When a guest is in the house, the God Himself is in the house." - With this Polish proverb I'd like to greet in Kyiv our guest, friend and brother, President of Poland Andrzej Duda. This folk wisdom says that guests are blessing from God. And by following this worldview, since the beginning of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine, Poles give shelter to millions of our citizens. To women, to children, to the elderly and to everyone else to whose doors knocked on 24th of February completely different guests. A guests we never wanted to host, and who have different proverbs and different folk wisdom.
The ruling PiS (Law and Justice Party) did not win enough seats in the Sejm in October's national election to form another government.
Poland's PiS President Andrzej Duda tried to slow down the departure of his Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki by dragging out the transfer of power. Duda even asked Morawiecki to try to form a new government despite the obvious mathematical impossibility of doing so.
But time ran out for PiS. Morawiecki lost a vote of confidence in a 10+ hour meeting of the Sejm on Monday. With 456 members voting and 229 needed for a governing majority, Morawiecki lost by a margin of 266 to 190.
After that fiasco, a three party pro-democracy coalition led by former Prime Minister Donald Tusk won a vote of confidence by 248 to 201.
After nine years out of power, Donald Tusk is back — securing the support of the Polish parliament on Monday evening to head a new government.
The vote was 248 in favor and 201 against, cementing his return nearly two months after a coalition of opposition parties led by the former European Council president delivered a surprising win in the October 15 national election.
“I want to thank the Polish people,” Tusk told cheering MPs. “Thank you Poland, this is a great day, not for me, but for all those who for these long years deeply believed that it will still be better, that we will chase away the darkness, chase away the evil.”
The new coalition government officially takes power on Wednesday.
I don't understand much Polish, but went out of my way to see Barbara Nowacka's speech in the debate leading to the votes. She had no qualms about calling out members of the outgoing government by name.
The PiS losers could only listen grimly as she excoriated them and compared them with the autocratic Viktor Orbán régime in Hungary.
Pani Nowacka will likely be the new Minister of Education in Poland.
After the first part of the eleventh part of Picrew Animated Portraits of World Politicians collection, I made the second part of it with a same student image maker on Picrew.
Tony Blair (left), Nick Clegg (middle) & David Cameron (right)
Ulf Kristersson (left), Isaac "Bougie" Herzog (middle) & Benjamin Netanyahu (right)
Pedro Sánchez (left), Andrzej Duda (middle) & Volodymyr Zelenskyy (right)
Rishi Sunak (left), Jesse Klaver (middle) & Rob Jetten (right)