Yesterday inwards the afternoon, along with 348,000 viewers higher upward fifteen years of age, I spent to a greater extent than than 4 hours past times watching the total alive broadcast from the lower bedchamber of the Czech Parliament. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 special session was dedicated to the Stork Nest affair of the finance government minister together with billionaire Mr Andrej Babiš.
To brand the even short, he admitted that he wanted to delight his adult daughters – together with the blood brother of his domestic partner – who have got e'er loved horses. So he created a special farm for them which looked uneconomic. So he transferred the Stork Nest Farm to the anonymous stocks which allowed him to acquire $2 1000000 inwards European Union subsidies (meant to aid small-scale businesses that couldn't fifty-fifty acquire whatever loan). We have got heard that he has lied close the owners during the 5-year-long era of the subsidy because he wanted to protect his kids, every bit his identify unit of measurement is the most precious thing he has, together with every parent should empathise it.
We tin empathise it but our understanding of the motivation, fifty-fifty if it is accurate, doesn't hateful that nosotros think that he's innocent. Even when someone does something criminal or unethical because of his beloved for his children etc., he must live held responsible for these acts. Indeed, if he wants to live praised for something he has done for his spoiled brats together with Mr Herodes, he should also pass those years inwards the prison. In fact, I think that past times this admission, the kids together with the de facto brother-in-law have got been named every bit boyfriend culprits together with it seems reasonable to me to arrest them for several years, too. They applied for a $2 1000000 subsidy claiming to live small-scale enterpreneurs inwards tourist manufacture which was a prevarication – a subsidy-related fraud.
They may have got a long fourth dimension inwards the prison theater to give cheers their daddy who is the actual mastermind of all this stuff.
The resolution that Babiš offered is classify of unsurprising – obviously, he has also stated that everything was legal and/because it was also approved past times many regional politicians from many ordinary democratic parties (he uses expletives for these parties instead). We volition come across whether OLAF, budget fraud investigators inwards the EU, together with the Czech police delineate volition concur close the "technical guilt".
As nosotros classify of knew inwards advance, it was apparently a play a trick on for him to ticker $2 1000000 of some undeserved taxpayer coin for himself together with the people inwards his immediate vicinity, a play a trick on that is for certain unethical together with a classify of a "hole inwards the system" that politicians similar him claim to desire to fill. (In particular, a favorite talking dot that allowed him to live successful inwards politics were his tirades against [now banned] anonymous stocks, a root of economical offense – but he has used the same anonymous stocks at the rattling same fourth dimension to acquire a $2 subsidy for himself or his daughters. If this is non a staggering hypocrisy, what is?) Babiš has admitted non solely that the projection was built for his identify unit of measurement but also that the thought to acquire the subsidies (for small-scale businesses inwards tourist industry) was invented past times economists inwards his Agrofert Holding; together with that without the subsidy, the structure wouldn't live economical.
But every bit I told you, the TV broadcast took 4 hours – much to a greater extent than than 1 infinitesimal y'all needed to larn everything of import close the scandal from the TRF text higher upward – thence y'all may inquire what were the remaining 4 hours about.
The remaining 4 hours were close many other things. And most of Babiš's 90-minute-long speech communication wasn't dedicated to the Stork Nest scandal at all. One could come across some of the cruel differences betwixt Babiš's trend of politics together with the trend of politics every bit represented past times the conventional political parties. And piece my human relationship to ordinary, let's say "center-right" political parties was weakening inwards recent 10 years or so, I must say that what the leaders of the principal centre right parties Prof Fiala (ODS) together with Miroslav Kalousek (TOP 09) together with others said forced me to say "exactly, I just said it myself". They were expressing my thoughts close the logic together with close the broader issues. The principal theme is just a marginal subsidy for a marginal farm (just to live sure, I don't think that it's really the most of import number deciding close the Czech Republic, but it may live the most of import number to learn us something close the graphic symbol of the electrical flow finance minister) but at to the lowest degree something.
Yesterday's special parliamentary session was successfully scheduled past times the opposition parties after the ii non-Babiš coalition parties jumped on the bandwagon together with said that the explanation was needed. Babiš's ANO (Anger of Pissed Off Citizens, Akce nasraných občanů) political party surrendered together with endorsed the session, too. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 vice-chairwoman of the Parliament Ms Jermanová (ANO) managed to convey over the procedural things. So after a serial of votes inwards which the opposition lawmakers were repeatedly crushed, the opposition wasn't allowed to speak at the outset – to explicate what's the rattling usage of this session – together with instead, Mr Babiš (the rattling suspect whose problematic acts have got made this session desirable) gave the initiatory of all monologue. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 90-minute-long one.
For to a greater extent than than an hour, Babiš chaotically spoke mainly close just about 100 different examples of economical offense or accusations of economical offense inwards the recent 25 years, close his amazing wealth, close his wonderful run every bit the finance minister, how the dry ground must live proud close the Stork Nest (the at nowadays official co-owner Mr Herodes has already welcomed 27,398 children to the farm; nosotros weren't told how many boys made it out) together with mainly close all the people who don't similar him together with who desire to harm him. From his perspective – together with sadly, lots of his supporters have got the same optics – it's all close himself. There are no values or full general principles. The proficient people are those who lick his rectum at all times piece the bad ones are those who never did together with especially those who did but who no longer practise so.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 partial alphabetically sorted listing of the explicitly mentioned enemies of politics of Babiš's political party inwards his yesterday's monologue (via the transcript):
Assad, Bakala, Becher, Bém, Benda, Bursík, Christ, Dobeš, Fuksa, Godfathers, Goldman Sachs, Grässle, Hála, Harvard, Háva, Havlík, Jančura, Janeček, Jankovský, Janoušek, Kalousek, Kapsch, Kašák, Kašák's brother-in-law, Klaus, Köppel, Kožený, Kroupa, Kubátová, Kušnierz, Leschtina, Moravec, Mrázek, Nečas, Němcová, Ondračka, Roman, Řebíček, Savov, Schwarzenberg, Slonková, Soukup, Spurný, Šafr, Šarapatka, Šimáně, Šlechtová, Šulc, Topolánek, Wagenknecht (and also 4 principal enemies who hold on undermining Babiš's corking plans: spring, summer, autumn, together with winter)I practise appreciate his employment organisation to some extent – he owns a multi-billion Agrofert asset working inwards agriculture together with nutrient industry. And I practise believe that much of this fiscal success has to live due to some genuine skills together with lots of run much of which was really useful for the consumers together with the nation, too. But holy cow: he's withal just a farmer who depends on rather simple-minded things every bit good every bit subsidies together with who just happened to grow bigger than others together with who devoured many others. People with the typical thinking of a farmer – together with he is 1 – are only non inwards the league of becoming natural leaders for most reasonable voters; together with they are non the right people to command much to a greater extent than full general things than agriculture together with the budget inwards some rattling technical sense.
More importantly, this session isn't close his successes or failures inwards the business. (He also complained that ii needles were flora inwards his smoked meat lately – together with implicitly proposed, without a glimpse of evidence, some conspiracy theories linking the needles to his most well-known political opponents who could live behind the needles.) It was close a particular problem, a subsidy that a farm he invented (I think he was inspired past times the Bird Nest, the Peking Olympic Stadium, if I avoid the term plagiarism) together with that he owns has received a few years agone – together with whether it's a employment for his existence the principal "inspector" who supervises the European Union subsidies inwards the Czech Republic. He was unable or unwilling to focus or analyze whatever of the relevant questions inwards sufficient detail.
A disco remix of Babiš's talk.
I think that many people could guess that he was just unwilling to practise so. It's inwards his involvement to spread the fog close $2 1000000 he has received for his daughters etc. But I really tend to think that he is unable to focus or study problems – including his problems – with some rigor. At the end, I believe that this human has an incredibly depression intelligence, together with thence practise most of his supporters, together with it's this serious mental handicap that has prevented him from making an on-topic speech communication yesterday.
People may instinctively object: this guy has to live smart because he's move thence wealthy, together with thence on. Well, I don't think that this reasoning is right. It seems to a greater extent than plausible that fifty-fifty inwards the business, he has move this successful because of a combination of his contacts from the communist era (he was responsible for some exports to exotic countries, too), his immense egotism together with shoulders, with his constant whining together with sympathy he's getting from the most lowly people inwards the nation because they e'er come across that he is similar 1 of them together with he thinks similar 1 of them.
There are many reasons why I think that his IQ is really rattling low. One of them is the extreme narrow-mindedness, superficiality, together with repetitiveness of his talks. For example, during his speech, he repeated almost verbatim what he said close the nascence of the Stork Nest. "I was waiting with my kids to feed the goats inwards the Prague zoo together with and thence I realized that it would live corking to have got a private zoo of a sort." Those who followed this scandal have got heard this even inwards this video. Incidentally, Babiš previously said that those who leaked the video were rattling nasty together with the content was taken out of context together with blah blah. But at nowadays he agreed it was 100% accurate. We're gradually learning that he has lied close pretty much everything – together with he has unjustifiably attacked people just for speaking the truth. What are his other of import lies?
But his consummate inability to bargain with whatever novel ideas or whatever deep or detailed ideas may live seen through the format of his criticisms together with rants. The employment is that a rattling uncomplicated hypothetical algorithm is compatible with everything he has ever said close any scandal or purported scandal:
- Look who is licking his rectum.
- Collect all the bad stories that the most ordinary people have got ever said close the people, together with seat them into special folders (in the same agency that was used past times the communist surreptitious police).
- Cherry-pick together with repeat all the bad stories close all those who weren't lately licking Babiš's rectum.
- Present these stories inwards such a agency that all the losers inwards the nation think that their rectums are perfectly entangled with Babiš's, thence these rectums' existence licked is the most of import thing inwards the world.
He has attacked close 50 different people inwards his chaotic rant – rant that Prof Fiala aptly compared to the legendary comical Summer 1989 "Fencepost speech" [also: transcript] at the Červený Hrádek farm, a utter that the terminal totalitarian boss of the Communist Party gave to his regional comrades inwards a rural suburb of Greater Pilsen 1 mile from my dwelling theater (and, embarrassingly plenty for Jakeš together with his laugh-inducing awkward province of affairs together with stupidity, the sound together with afterwards video leaked). Incidentally, already inwards Summer 1989, earlier communism fell, I pretty much memorized the whole Fencepost speech. (The speech communication is oftentimes referred to every bit the Fencepost speech communication because Jakeš whined that the Central Committee of the Communist Party didn't acquire whatever back upward from others. So you, comrades, have got to back upward us against Havel etc., otherwise nosotros experience similar a lonely fencepost. But he said tons of incorrect or rattling funny things. For example: Take, for example, Ms Hana Zagorová [a top singer]. It's a pretty girl, everything, but she has been receiving over CSK 600 000 every twelvemonth for several years. And other ones, Jandas together with others. Not 600 000, they acquire a million, ii millions. By chance, those didn't protestation [they didn't sign Several Words, a 1989 anti-communist petition past times artists; except that 1 Janda, Petr, did sign it]. But others who alive this well, did protest. And when they utter to them, they don't fifty-fifty know why they signed it together with what they signed.)
And all these people criticized inwards Babiš's speech communication were attacked because they did something that Babiš thought wasn't corking for him personally. I or others could criticize those people for diverse things every bit good – but it would have got nix to practise with the reasons why Babiš assaulted them. In most cases, I don't fifty-fifty realize that those people have got ever interacted with Babiš inwards whatever agency – thence why should I believe that their human relationship to a wealthy bumpkin is the #1 touchstone that determines what form of humans (or professionals) they are? It's just totally insane.
Let me advert a dozen of examples of all the "bad" people inwards the basis whom Babiš attacked inwards his tirade. (Again, I must emphasize that except for the existence of their interactions with Babiš together with his interests, those people have got pretty much nix to practise with each other, allow solitary with the theme that was the argue for the parliamentary session.)
Journalist Pavel Šafr. I wrote close 10 articles for his mag some v years agone – together with met him inwards a Prague pub once. He's a rattling skillful editor who knows how to increase sales although the graphic symbol of his magazines seems likewise tabloid-like to me. But Babiš decided that it's all close himself, Babiš. So when he didn't similar something that Šafr wrote, Babiš called Šafr a psychopath. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 calendar week ago, a courtroom decided that it was a libel together with Babiš has to pay $2,000 – that is unlikely to brand his companionship bust LOL. But yesterday, he assaulted the "bastard together with psychopath, what's his name" – without using the call "Šafr". The reason? Šafr co-organized a Walk of the Storks, a funny lawsuit inwards front end of the Parliament with people dressed every bit storks who really wanted to say that they don't desire Czechia to live transformed to a large stork nest. (Babiš claimed that the Walk of Storks was co-organized past times Mr Bursík, an ex-leader of the Green Party together with a political tourist who has been a fellow member of rattling many parties of all colors.) Now, Šafr together with pals are just creatively making fun out of a genuine scandal affecting the finance minister. He for certain finds it inconvenient but that's non a valid excuse for calling Šafr "bastard together with psychopath".
The wealthy manager of TV Barandov Mr Soukup is going after Babiš's neck, too, nosotros were told, together with Babiš is crying because of that. In the instance of Mr Soukup together with many similar cases, Babiš mentions a "deal that didn't run out" together with that soured the relationship, together with that's why all these people are trying to revenge to Babiš now. So Babiš didn't desire to purchase Soukup's TV inwards the past, or something similar that, which is why TV Barandov reporters are allegedly going after Babiš's neck. Simlarly, some individuals weren't hired past times Babiš every bit ministers or directors or something together with they're trying to revenge to Babiš for those things. We heard close 10 examples of that. In Babiš's optics, absolutely everything is personal together with absolutely everything revolves around himself.
You know, this explanation may live right or partially right inwards many or all cases. But fifty-fifty if they are trying to revenge, it shows how Babiš's "big shoulders business" agency of doing things is only unacceptable inwards democratic politics. In business, 1 tin practise things against the contest or task applicants or potential employment organisation partners together with most others that are tough, but if the lawyers observe out that what y'all did was legal, y'all tin live on with that. But every bit a government minister etc., you're supposed to live a retainer of a whole nation, someone who does things that have got a withdraw a opportunity to live understood together with appreciated past times everyone together with that are really understood past times a majority, non just past times your identify unit of measurement or closest people or a clique or a fan club.
If y'all demonstrate your large shoulders to likewise many people or if y'all reject their offers, y'all volition in all probability have got enemies (even though I am convinced that the criticisms against Babiš are far to a greater extent than legitimate, impersonal, together with close the issues than he is willing to acknowledge – or than he is fifty-fifty able to imagine). It's predictable together with there's nix unsurprising or illegal close their sour emotions. In politics, 1 only has to seek to practise things that are proficient for a rattling large fraction of the nation. And the combative trend of someone inwards the employment organisation who tin musical rhythm out 95% of competitors just isn't suitable for politics. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 nation isn't similar a theater because it only doesn't belong to 1 owner. Everyone has enemies but it's obvious that a guy similar Babiš has many enemies. It's rattling unsafe when a mortal similar him becomes powerful inwards politics because he may abuse the political might to harm lots of people just because they're inconvenient for him. Conflicts of interests move unsafe if the mortal has likewise many "other issues" he would similar to "solve", together with if he gets likewise many "new tools" to practise so. When it happens, the tools start to run inwards the involvement of a particular random mixture of issues relevant for (and defining) the unmarried politician, instead of existence the impersonal mechanisms that were designed to solve or improve some problems.
So Mr Babiš used his speech communication – which was supposed to explicate the ownership of the Stork Nest but became a pre-election get speech communication addressed to the stupidest voters, something that an intelligent viewer had to endure through (I said these things to myself earlier Prof Fiala summarized his impression from Babiš's speech communication inwards the same way) – to onrush lots of "former employment organisation partners" together with potential employment organisation partners. But he has really attacked a rattling large number of people who have got been his supporters upward to rattling recently, too.
Mr Karel Janeček, a mathematician together with billionaire (fast algorithmic trading companionship RSJ) whom I know inwards mortal know, is also a boss of his ain anti-corruption NGO of a sort. I have got e'er considered Janeček's views on politics to live weird together with extremely naive (and I think that his identify unit of measurement background – his manlike mortal parent was a fellow member of the communist province police delineate of a classify – hasn't improved his understanding of how a democratic dry ground tin work, either) but he was closed plenty to Babiš until recently. Largely because of the Stork Nest scandal, Janeček is gradually distancing himself from Babiš.
For this reason, Janeček directly became a target of Babiš's rant, too. What was Janeček's sin? Janeček has used some revenue enhancement heavens inwards some islands or whatever. It's rattling interesting that we've never heard such a electrical charge close Janeček from Babiš's oral cavity at the times when these ii guys were allies inwards the grapple (as they claimed) against economical crimes, corruption, together with revenue enhancement evasion! And Babiš has similarly surprisingly attacked several other "so far allied" anti-corruption NGOs. Suddenly, their principal leaders are hardcore criminals, too.
The possessor of breweries Mr Bernard asked to live erased from Babiš's website every bit his supporter, too. He wasn't mentioned inwards speech, I think. But some other successful businessman, Mr Jančura who runs successful private railways, used to live a supporter of Babiš who denounced the Babiš weeks ago. The argue is non the Stork Nest but Babiš's existence a "lousy politician". Jančura points out that Babiš is only throwing away the coin he collects agency likewise carelessly – at the regional degree etc. I think that this criticism is completely right. Babiš himself claimed that their relationships got bad because Jančura is constantly "terrorizing" Babiš past times his recommendations what to practise with the state-owned railways. Jančura, I think totally justifiably (but also with the self-evident personal motivation), wants to degree the acre inwards the railway manufacture thence that the state-owned railways don't taste likewise many advantages relatively to his much to a greater extent than efficient private companionship (and some other private challenger Leo). Babiš prefers to save socialism inwards most of the railway manufacture which is why the Jančura-Babiš alliance weakened a lot. It's totally understandable – Babiš is a erstwhile communist manager together with in all probability snitch piece Jančura is a genuine pioneer of the novel capitalism. So they have got different ideas close privatization of railways together with related things. But what's strike is that Babiš doesn't introduce this disagreement every bit a conflict of ideas or values at all. He criticized Jančura because he finds Jančura's requests personally inconvenient. For Babiš, it's all close Babiš. And at that spot are lots of voters who must similar this obnoxious whining he presented yesterday – they must think that it's all close Babiš, too. Is a billionaire someone who has the credential to whine at all?
Now, lots of journalists. Ondráčka, Moravec, were insulted, too... Moravec is peradventure the most famous host of "serious" TV give-and-take programs close politics. Sometimes, he looks similar 1 of the Prague Café folks, but I oftentimes think that he's doing a nontrivially proficient job, too. Things are mixed but I think he has a clear talent to utter clearly, culturally, together with inquire relevant questions (even if some of them may human face loaded to me). But when Babiš criticized Moravec, he said that Moravec is getting a decent salary from the taxpayer coin – for certain non the solely 1 – together with he dared to criticized Babiš, anyway. I've watched Moravec rattling many times but I have got never noticed that Moravec would live a chronic critic of Babiš. In fact, I don't realize such I've seen whatever instance of that. But y'all know, it's a portion of the job description of the populace TV (and other) journalists to human face critically at the powerful politicians. In your communist regime, Comrade Babiš, it didn't run inwards this agency but after 1989, it does. So a journalist's not-so-uncritical mental attitude to a powerful political leader is indeed non an "automatic vice" of the journalist – peradventure it's closer to the opposite.
He divided all such hosts on TV to proficient ones together with bad ones according to their personal human relationship to himself. So Ms Jílková, the host of reality-show-like 3-on-3 debates with alive audiences, is a "good one" because she invited him together with allowed him to promote himself, piece someone who criticized her computer program automatically becomes a "bad guy". He wants to polarize the whole society together with every employee of whatever companionship together with organisation to the proficient ones who lick his rectum together with the bad ones who don't. Is that really what our dry ground should trim down to? I would never attention close some rich farmer together with erstwhile communist. Why are his personal interests presented every bit the top political number of my whole country?
But the most far-reaching attacks are those against the Parliamentary democracy. Like Hitler together with many similar people, Babiš absolutely hates the Parliamentary democracy. For him, the Parliament is just a "place to blather". He just sacrificed himself when he went to politics, he says inwards 20% of his sentences. Imagine how incredibly hypocritical this description of the Parliament is after Babiš's 90-minute speech communication inwards which he blathered close 100 different conspiracy theories (and insulted a hundred of people) that had absolutely nix to practise with the number he was supposed to solve. Lawmakers sometimes blather but Babiš is undoubtedly alongside the worst offenders inwards this respect. It's crazy to plough him into a "warrior against blathering inwards the Parliament" because he is a top violator. It's also insane to plough him into the "top supervisor over leaks of taxpayer's money" because he's at to the lowest degree a suspect of existence a top thief who is stealing from the populace funds.
His principal political enemy is his predecessor, ex-finance government minister Miroslav Kalousek. (I had a brief Twitter telephone substitution with Kalousek yesterday, 1 close a joke on Babiš's horses together with strawmen.) Kalousek has been named the best finance government minister of the basis once, together with thence on, together with Babiš just can't stand upward him. So Babiš has used Kalousek's call (as good every bit the term "corrupt ODS" for the center-right political party founded past times Klaus) close xxx times inwards the utter although the thing has nix to practise with Kalousek. Can't he only usage the normal curt names of the parties? Is at that spot really a demand alongside his stupid voters for hearing the word "corrupt" everytime earlier the acronym ODS appears? Numerous politicians were named together with attacked past times Babiš inwards mortal together with Babiš also showed a banner with the photographs of some politicians with borderline obscene comments. The vice-chairwoman of the Parliament from his ain political party repeatedly had to inquire him to avoid personal insults. She tin move the side past times side target because she wasn't licking his rectum mindlessly enough.
(Babiš has also insulted a woman mortal High German European Union political leader Ingeborg Grässle – a boss of a commission inwards the European Union Parliament or what is she – who lately said that the conflict of involvement around Babiš has e'er been a employment together with the Stork Nest seems to live a particular one, too. As far every bit I tin see, this CDU political leader didn't say anything controversial but nosotros learned that he has met her together with "she does these things because she dislikes the Czech Republic", maybe because "Czech informants are coming to her portion to say bad things close us". He presented no evidence for this "explanation" together with it seems clear that it's the cheapest possible agency to reply to an inconvenient assertion past times a High German that may live flora sufficient past times the cheapest Czech voters. The criticism came from Deutschland thence it must live because of some Czech-German disharmony. Give me a intermission with this garbage, Comrade Babiš. Hours after Babiš's speech, the High German political leader correctly said that Babiš's words were an "unnecessary attack". Again, she encouraged the Czech lawmakers to modify the rules thence that influential businessmen aren't politicians at the same moment. She also diplomatically pointed out that Czechia was really her #1 tourist finish inwards recent years together with she respects Babiš for his business.)
There are lots of politicians – people whom I could telephone remember "my representatives" together with the representatives of millions of Czechs – whom Babiš has assaulted together with offended with no conceivable justification. But I must pick an onrush that I viewed every bit a especially disgusting one, 1 against Mr Marek Benda, because this onrush clearly shows what form of a clear reversal of Parliamentary republic towards the totalitarian era the rising of Mr Babiš represents (or may stand upward for if it continues).
Babiš has spent close v minutes past times personally talking close Mr Marek Benda who represents all the "rotten politics" where nix is ever done. What's Benda's sin? "Benda the legend", every bit Babiš said (it rhymes inwards Czech), has been a lawmaker for 24 years now. What a terrible sin together with incredible patience to live a professional person lawmaker, Babiš suggests, together with the dingy rabble that votes for him oftentimes shares this sentiment. All these comments human face similar carbon copies of some speeches past times Hitler inwards the 1920s.
What Babiš didn't say is that earlier the early on 1990s, Benda together with his identify unit of measurement weren't working inwards official politics. In fact, Benda is a guy from a major dissident family. His manlike mortal parent Mr Václav Benda was a top (Catholic) dissident, non much less of import than e.g. Havel. Benda Sr spent the years 1979-1983 inwards a communist prison. I would hear Mr Václav Benda's call on Radio Free Europe all the fourth dimension but earlier together with after the autumn of communism, I admired Benda Sr for many other reasons. They were living inwards really tough weather – together with it was cheers to communists (and in all probability snitches) such every bit Babiš.
In the early on 1990s, Marek Benda joined his manlike mortal parent inwards politics (the manlike mortal parent died 10 years after the Velvet Revolution). He co-organized the Velvet Revolution every bit a pupil leader of a classify (not the most of import one) together with became a professional person political leader shortly after the revolution. It's natural. He's been introduce when the transformation of the totalitarian communist Czechoslovakia or Czechia into a modern parliamentary democratic capitalist dry ground was taking place. He has worked on many of these laws that made this possible. Even though he's a guy without charisma, he is really a political veteran today. Meanwhile, Babiš spent the same 25 years past times "applying" the novel opportunities that folks similar Benda created, together with past times filling his pockets with billions of dollars. And now, Babiš - a erstwhile communist together with in all probability erstwhile communist snitch who was ruining the dissident families' lives for 42 years – comes to the Parliament together with presents Mr Benda – a canonical instance of a dissident whose identify unit of measurement was suppressed for these 42 years – every bit the ultimate loser for his existence a veteran political leader (for rattling long 24 years – compare 24 together with 42) who was active inwards this critical epoch of the Czechoslovak together with Czech history?
It's just disgusting. Mr Marek Benda has nix to live ashamed of. Mr Babiš is a giant super-arrogant communist aßhole together with the people who back upward him inwards these disgusting attacks against the Parliamentary republic together with liberty of the Czechia are despicable scum. You can't hold off me non to abhor Babiš when he insults people who are alongside my rather natural representatives inwards the Parliament inwards this agency – and, fifty-fifty to a greater extent than importantly, the values they have got been working to defend for decades. He presents the whole post-Velvet-Revolution era – something I am immensely proud of – every bit an era of theft, despite the fact that the thieves were a relatively marginal number together with he is in all probability closest to this group. What classify of human garbage may convey these pro-totalitarian, anti-democracy tirades seriously?
But my championship was optimistic together with I wanted to halt on an optimistic note, too. I carefully listened to all the statements done past times the center-right ODS together with TOP 09 parties. At diverse points, Klaus-founded ODS together with especially TOP 09 defined themselves with some form of a political correctness that was presented every bit an opposition to Klaus together with his ideas together with heritage (market economic scheme without adjectives together with thence on). I have got never liked it much because this anti-Klaus political correctness was both unfair together with strongly correlated with other kinds of political correctness that were gradually turning these parties into ideologically directionless, nominally right-wing but de facto left-wing clones of some other centrist together with left-wing parties.
What these parties are maxim close Babiš, his political style, his proposed policies (like the outrageous novel bureaucracy he has prepared for all the other entrepreneurs), together with at nowadays close the methods he deals with his scandal is spot on. What they said wasn't identical to my spider web log transportation service higher upward but the overlap inwards the ideas was immense. I have got e'er voted together with with 1 exception of a vote for Mach (whom nosotros sent to the European Parliament), I've e'er voted for ODS (when parties were competing). For a decade or so, my "excitement" close that selection was rattling limited. But it's back. If the elections took identify tomorrow, I would in all probability vote for ODS together with would practise thence rattling happily again. ODS doesn't have got everything that I admired inwards Klaus's ODS etc. but it has plenty of the things I attention about.
It's also prissy to come across TOP 09 every bit a political party I could support. Just to live sure, it's a self-described center-right political party but the argue why it exists was partly some form of an anti-Klaus sentiment, likewise (and some other generation of the parties describing themselves every bit warriors against corruption etc.). In the 2013 presidential elections, TOP 09's Schwarzenberg ran for the president together with I became sure that Zeman was a amend selection for me. Schwarzenberg is a decent guy etc. but the times have got changed together with the politics seems to live inwards a post-Klaus together with also post-Schwarzenberg era of a classify (despite the fact that Klaus would live to a greater extent than than create together with strong plenty to live employed inwards v top political jobs now). Especially inwards the instance of Klaus, it's a loss of a sort, but it's refreshing, too.
One tin come across that many of the animosities were partially personal inwards character. ODS together with TOP 09 are rattling closed to each other these days – their novel large mutual enemy, Babiš, is apparently a major argue for that – together with every bit far every bit I could say, they could merge into 1 political party now, too. Some defragmentation of the political landscape could live logical. The drift has worked inwards such a agency that the gap separating them has move an anachronism, a thing of the past. And the chairmen of the ii parties Fiala together with Kalousek agreed to refer to each other every bit "my rattling distinguished colleague" which I observe classify of elegant together with funny, especially because they chose almost the same words.
Needless to say, piece this re-emerging thought that the mainstream right-wing parties are create to stand upward for something of import for me together with articulate ideas clearly is a silvery lining, this optimistic observation happens on the background of a large deterioration of the overall picture. While I may imagine that I vote for ODS if non TOP 09 rather happily (although their excessive hostility towards Russia, likewise mindless mental attitude to electrical flow United States of America unusual policy, together with a few other topics acquire a No from me), the employment is that both of these parties seem to live below 10%, thence below 20% (estimates for elections) inwards total. This is rattling weak because both social republic together with Babiš's political party would score higher upward 20% inwards elections if they took identify tomorrow.
When the coalition of Babiš's ANO, social democrats, together with the Christian democrats (smallest party) was getting started 2 years ago, I thought that Babiš would live the most natural "silver lining" inwards the coalition regime (well, maybe after the Christian democrats). He is a rich human of affairs at nowadays thence he must live pro-business, together with thence on. But right now, I practise think that Babiš together with his political party (and the political trend it represents etc.) is really the greatest problem. Social democrats may live to a greater extent than left-wing than Babiš inwards some issues but they're much to a greater extent than probable to save the Parliamentary republic together with capitalism every bit nosotros knew them – against the attempts to transform the dry ground into an "effective together with just because Babiš says so" dictatorial system. The incompatibility of Babiš with the democratic scheme – together with a scheme where people taste the basic protection whether or non they despise the electrical flow finance government minister etc. – together with its values is thence deep together with visceral that I would live grateful fifty-fifty for a grand left-right coalition that would eliminate Babiš from politics again.
Too many voters seem to live likewise stupid to practise that thence it may live the police delineate that may practise the badly needed task of eliminating this primitive, dangerous, egotist private from politics – together with especially reducing the might of the low-quality people who observe his trend together with goals attractive. If the OLAF investigators inwards the European Union observe that the subsidy was wrong, the Czech taxpayers volition have got to fund the ($2 million?) fine from their wallet. The European Union can't direct arrest Babiš together with his relatives but they may provide the Czech police delineate with the evidence needed to act. In that case, it would live a query of sovereign Czech institutions whether Babiš could halt inwards the prison theater or non etc. It's classify of refreshing to come across an instance of a get when I could prefer less sovereignty of Czechia because I practise think that Babiš would live to a greater extent than probable to live punished according to some Western European judges.
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