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Wonkette photo operative “Jamie” sends this scan of your friendly neighborhood WaPo. “Spectators at a morning flag-raising ceremony at Tiananmen Square in Beijing shout slogans in praise of China, whose residents are reveling in national pride,” reads the caption. So what’s up with the gal in the middle there? Was she kidnapped from Ted Stevens’ press conference? [Washington Post]
shout slogans
It is my hope that ‘capitalist running dogs’ can only run fast enough to win a gold.
That looks like me everyday at work.
The bill for the bullet that just went through the back of her head is now on its way to her family…
We know who’s going to Room 101.
Also, I’m sure she just has that expression because they don’t use underarm deoderant in China. Well, that’s what I *heard*. She’s ‘in the pits’ as ’twere.
Man, when I saw that photo this a.m. I had the same thought. That girl suddenly realized: “hey, I am living in a country with an oppressive government that shoots people who dissent and am being used as a propaganda tool. But wait, if I don’t look happy, they will throw me into a prison cell with only skinny Chinese roaches to eat. What do I do?”
Or, she just realized she left the stove on.
It’s becasue the guy in the red has smelly pits. Look at the woman in green on the other side of him.
China’s disabled population, estimated at 83 million, is roughly equivalent to the entire population of Germany.
Around 12 million people in China are blind, giving the country the largest visually impaired population in the world.
Or she has hypnotized herself with the flag.
…perfect contrast to the 2 plain clothes police officers to her right and left.
She’s thinking, “Do I really have to listen to Bush give us another lecture about human rights?”
She missed the daily meth hand out.
The barbecued beetles are apparently coming back up.
How did these nutso Paultards get into the Olympic stadium? Lax security, China. Very lax. Mao would be so disappointed.
It’s time to bring out the over-weight, drunken Wonketteer brown shirts to smash this rowdy Paulista demo. Works for us.
It’s not just the girl, actually - most of the people in this picture are pretty even-keeled. It’s really just the two guys in front who are excited.
What’s the demonstration sport this year? Team collective farming?
trophy(forparticipation)wife: What is Germany’s disabled population equivalent equivalent to? Texas?
Jewdishoowary Square: WaPo can’t pay everyone, you know. Times are hard.
In so many ways China reminds me of the US– I mean in terms of how nationalism works. I know how this lady feels!
trophy(forparticipation)wife: I think you’re right. She appears to be gazing deeply into her own eyes.
Probably can’t see the laser targeting dot moving around her chest to ‘inspire’ her to greater celebration.
The other thing that’s funny are all of these articles that sort-of make fun of China for being so paranoid and nationalistic– it’s funny because those articles are being published in the UNITED STATES.
“Hello, Pot? This is Kettle…”
WonderWomyn: Did they pledge allegiance?
Is that Angry Pakistani guy there, like the rainbow wig John 3:16 dude?
OK, the soundtrack just came out so we can hear what they are saying.
The red-shirted guy on the left is saying, “Free Leonard Peltier!”
The guy on the right is saying, “Free Mumia Abu-Jamal!”
NotUrEvryDayWEzl: Why won’t the Chinese say the pledge at their games???!?
“Well at least I’m not Tibetan.”
…WoW, I cant wait to go home and watch it! Naaaaaaaaah, just kidding I really just wanna go home and have a drink or 12.
The guy to the left may look like he’s screaming a nationalistic slogan of his own volition, but that’s just because the authorities made the photographer creatively crop out the soldier crouching behind him shoving a cattle prod up his ass.
Harmonious society, indeed. NASHONARISM!
mookworthjwilson: & ManchuCandidate: Great minds. Way to make me almost spew my coffee on to my laptop guys. THANKS
WONKETTE ES EATING ITS WHEATIES.
S.Luggo:
6.9 million severely handicapped persons lived in Germany.
In the U.S., the combined federal, state and local adult correctional population is almost 6.9 million.
WonderWomyn: I like Bush criticizing (sort of) China for human rights violations; that is a riot. Hello, Mr. Bush, your gov’t is the one who is talking about locking up Hamdan in perpetuity now? The one who says waterboarding is A-OK, and in fact, the people being waterboarded love it! It cleans their sinuses! Oh, and yeah, you can talk about Civil Rights, Mr. 4th-Amendment-is-Optional Bush.
As my husband said last night,(when we were noting that the gov’t has spent YEARS trying to convict Hamdan, calling him a huge terrorist evildoer who wants to kill our children, had every possible advantage, including making up the rules of the game, depriving the defense of evidence, torturing him, etc, and he still gets essentially 5 months for being a loser bit player who didn’t do anything of substance) the Bush Admin has an ability to constantly top the way it can humiliate itself.
One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn’t belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?
trophy(forparticipation)wife: The 6.9 million number in Germany was somewhat decreased during the period 1937 - 1945.
Hmmm. Seems like she was stunned into submission by the sight of this guy. As well she should be.
My sister called this mawn, cracka dawn from Hong Kong, screaming, “Did you watch the opening ceremony!!!!!?”
I could just picture her in Olympic ring sunglasses drinking lychee martinis and waiting for an 8 ball delivery.
S.Luggo: Thanks. That changes everything.
I’d hit it.
In a “Naughty Asian” kind of way.
We could get kinky:
I could dress up as General Cash My Check, and she could pretend to be “The People.”
(But I’d have to “attack from the behind the border,” If You Know What I Mean And I Think You Do . . . .
But the IBM punchcards . . .
S.Luggo: Well just imagine how bad that number would be today if they hadn’t instituted such good reforms then!
7.4 magnitude earthquake in 4…..3…..2…..
Tiananmen Square…Tiananmen Square?
didn’t something happen there once? something…
oh…i’ve got it.
no…lost it. shoot. what was it?
She looks mesmerized by the little flag she’s holding, as if that was the first time she’d seen the color red…which is quite possible, given the reduced visibility and gray-ish tinge of the normally Dickens-esque, soot-filled air.
The logo on the banner in the upper left: definitely stolen from the Les Ballet Trocadero de Monte Carlo. Or maybe its an abstraction of Charle Crist during his college playing days.
Tra-la-lee, tra-la-la.
S.Luggo: PHYSICALLY disabled, not mentally.
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tsunami: Well if you cared to read the official history books handed out by Great Leader, you’d see some kids once threw great party there and after binge-drinking like capitalist American pigs in smutty movies, one fell off balcony of forbidden city. JUST ONE! That killed buzz for all and all went home. THE END.
tsunami: They sell shopping bags and tanks there.
Give her a break… she looks like a Paultard
that just realized she’s at the wrong rally!
CED: my long lost nigerian cousin is at again, dammit
lilblackcorvette: Wow, they must be really getting desperate if now they’re trying to appeal to reason instead of greed.
TGY: Before they’re served with rice?
loudmouthredhead:
Not_So_Much:
tanks a lot for your smart-assed answers.
you wiseguys have crushed my inquisitive spirit.
tsunami: You take Kent State and multiply it by 200 or so.
And where were you at the beach with Ron and Nancy post down below when we needed you to make a big tidal wave?
Doglessliberal: …well irony is lost on these evolutionary throwbacks. I couldnt believe that he had the balls to criticize China’s humans rights record. This is the reason why I couldnt be a politician, because my response to this would have been the following:
“That son of bitch said what? Well when he decides to follow his own countries laws then come talk to me. Until then tell him to go suck a fat dikk!”
loudmouthredhead: at first i thought you said he was screaming a nationalistic slogan of his own voltron…I wish I had my own Voltron…he’d get shit done…
very cunning, those linguists.
CED:
oh my…you’ve really done it now…and you seem like such a
nice young lady.
perhaps, though, just perhaps, you’ve come to the wrong website.
maybe you should have spent a month or so reading this stuff before
you put your foot in it.
btw…if we saw you in the american apparel ad, would you be the hottest one?
Mistress, may I have another please?
mookworthjwilson: I’m STILL pissed at Peter Jennings for reporting (in 1985-86?) that two of my robot lions had lead paint in them, prompting my parents to take them away. The day I could no longer form Voltron is the day I lost my innocence and faith in humanity…
CED: One hyphenated word: ass-fucking.
…the guy on the left is screaming “KAAAAAAAAAAAHN!!!” and the guy on the right is shouting “Black Power!!!”
TGY: Oh be nice
CED: We’re really not ALL malcontents on this site…well, maybe just 95% of the time.
WonderWomyn: USA! USA! USA! USA!
AngryBlakGuy: you mean “Brak Powah!!!”
trophy(forparticipation)wife: Well, they’re not called ‘chows’ for nothing.
These Chinese aren’t really excited about the Olympics. It’s just that the Chinese government gives them Rewards Points in order to act like they’re excited. Kind of like how the McCain campaign offers McCain Miles™ to copy and paste pro-McCain canned messages all over the internet.
That guy in the red shirt, screaming, looks like he’s just a few points away from a new iPod.
loudmouthredhead: win
loudmouthredhead:
right…somewhere in the back of my mind a female voice is cooing…
be gentle with me.
unfortunately, [for ced], this is a site for rough love.
that email address is a biiiig mistake…hopefully we’ll all have the
sense not to use it.
AngryBlakGuy: You have to wonder how they cannot burst out laughing at some of the crap spewing from their own mouths.
Along that line, this is a real winner from another person with his head up his butt (first story):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/07/AR2008080703085.html
tsunami: ru roh………
loudmouthredhead: I *was* being nice. It’s merely that Wonkette::political discourse as Truck nutz::precision automotive design features.
Hm. This has given me an idea for a political blog where all comments have to be in iambic pentameter or ionic pentaoxygen or somesuch.
CED:
You may want to brace yourself.
loudmouthredhead:
So bad.
tsunami: Yes, the email addy *is* unfortunate. Fortunately, I have willpower and so forth.
Doglessliberal: That was great. That same guy will later say that black phlegm makes a great moisturizer.
“National pride” (air quotes) = the guys in front have been tased.
TGY: please use lots of onomatopoias. O.K?
TGY: Good for you.
We should go back to harassing the posters for the McDonalds boycott who posted their emails. I bet there’s even some more who left their home addys.
Servo: I couldn’t resist, I mean, c’mon.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/6054726.stm
loudmouthredhead: wait, it doesn’t? I was ready to spend $200 per oz for the special new Chinese face cream “Creme de la Emphesema”.
But to return to the original topic:
“Here, I’m waving this fucking flag. Well, holding it. Happy now?”
It’s like those monumental, concrete commie sculptures came to life.
She looks alienated from the means of production. Sexy.
TGY: Not ten seconds later, she went berserker on everyone’s ass, pulling out a replica of the ancestral sword of Mulan, carving up everybody into bite-sized morsels, and serving their remains as part of a massive puu-puu platter.
queeraselvis v 2.0: Now *that’s* olympic entertainment. They can keep all this curling crap.
“叫醒人!”
“WAKE UP PEOPLE!”
CED:
I think some of us elitists already have dissertations underway or already defended on our participant observation on this blog. I checked my library’s database and found these:
“To Know or to Wonk: Palindromic Participation in anti-Paultardian Discourse,” Rhetoric Dept., University of Alabama, 2006
“Pu-bey, or not Pubey? The Snarkeology of Knowledge in the Wonkettic Pubic Sphere,” Political Science Dept., Fargo Free University, 2007
“Bush Policy Debated: A Comprehensive Survey with a Brazilian Interviewees,” Latin American Studies, Texas A&M, 2008.
Darehead:
You missed “Lubricating Exchanges: Performativity, Misspelling, and the Capitalization of deh BUTTSECS”
Darehead:
You forgot:
“Wonkette or Assholette? Is Buttsecs a Ceremonial or Cultural Phenomenon in Cyberspace?”
RuperttheBear: jinks!
Actual caption: Chinese spectators react to news that China has already won gold, silver and bronze medals in Shitty Air competition. They expect to sweep the Shitty Water events too. President Bush will personally present the medals to Chinese nation. Or China will stop buying our debt. Yep, it’s already time for that first Jim Beam.
RuperttheBear: I like your title better. Sorry sati demise:
RuperttheBear: Man, Judith Butler is going to be pissed that you infringed on her territory.
queeraselvis v 2.0:
Ah, she’s a blog slut:
“Raised Sex-pectations and the Universality of Butlersecks in Contemporary Blogography: Case Study, Wonkette, 2008-2009″
I do not think war with China is likely at all but if it were to happen, we would be fucked. I saw some Chinese exchange students at a pro-Olympics rally, that’s some scary shit…