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To celebrate the up and coming Year of the Rooster



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12 ... ted-china/

A huge statue portraying Donald Trump as a rooster has been erected at a shopping mall in the Chinese city of Taiyuan.

The parodic fowl, which has the president-elect's trademark hair-do and is shown making distinctly Trumpian hand gestures, has been adopted as mascot for the N1 ArtWalk Mall as part of celebrations welcoming the Year of Rooster.

A range of Trump-rooster merchandise is now on sale to the general public, with a 32 foot-tall model priced at around £1,400, and less imposing options starting at a slightly-more-reasonable £47.
Wei Qing, spokesperson for Shenghe Yangtai Business, which is selling the roosters, told CNN: "I think the rooster is very cute and funny, the hairstyle and eyebrows look very much like Donald Trump. I'm sure it will attract a lot of customers."

Oh, man.The next four years are going to be... What means more than a shit show? I'm not even sure. But that's it.

Raw Shark wrote:Oh, man.The next four years are going to be... What means more than a shit show? I'm not even sure. But that's it.

A shit circus? A shit storm? A shit hurricane?

Raw Shark wrote:Oh, man.The next four years are going to be... What means more than a shit show? I'm not even sure. But that's it.

Fucking awesome, like a direct to TV Steven Seagal movie. So fucking bad that it's good.

aerius wrote:

Raw Shark wrote:Oh, man.The next four years are going to be... What means more than a shit show? I'm not even sure. But that's it.

Fucking awesome, like a direct to TV Steven Seagal movie. So fucking bad that it's good.

Yes, I'm glad that the destruction of what little is left of our democracy, the further legitimization of bigotry, the wholesale fucking of American workers, and nuclear policy being conducted by fucking twitter is so amusing to you. Totally worth it.

Edit: The government of the most powerful nation on Earth is not a fucking reality TV show, no matter how much Trump seems to think otherwise.

The Romulan Republic wrote:Yes, I'm glad that the destruction of what little is left of our democracy, the further legitimization of bigotry, the wholesale fucking of American workers, and nuclear policy being conducted by fucking twitter is so amusing to you. Totally worth it.

Edit: The government of the most powerful nation on Earth is not a fucking reality TV show, no matter how much Trump seems to think otherwise.

Do I have to keep explaining shit to you? Trump is a reality, it's going to suck balls. You can either laugh and find the humorous absurdity in it and get on with your life or you can have your non-stop daily rage fits for the next 4 years. Your choice.

Also

Denial
Anger <---you are here
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance <---I am here

The sooner you accept reality, the better it is for you. Just saying.

aerius wrote:

The Romulan Republic wrote:Yes, I'm glad that the destruction of what little is left of our democracy, the further legitimization of bigotry, the wholesale fucking of American workers, and nuclear policy being conducted by fucking twitter is so amusing to you. Totally worth it.

Edit: The government of the most powerful nation on Earth is not a fucking reality TV show, no matter how much Trump seems to think otherwise.

Do I have to keep explaining shit to you? Trump is a reality, it's going to suck balls. You can either laugh and find the humorous absurdity in it and get on with your life or you can have your non-stop daily rage fits for the next 4 years. Your choice.

Also

Denial
Anger <---you are here
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance <---I am here

The sooner you accept reality, the better it is for you. Just saying.

Perhaps I should not have been so hostile, but I can't find much humour in this situation myself.

How about you deal with things your way, and I'll deal with them mine? Fair enough?

Though I do think that "acceptance" is not generally a healthy attitude toward government oppression and corruption. Certainly not in a democracy. Yes, realistically, Trump will be President on the 20th. of January. I have no illusions about that. But that doesn't mean we should start pretending its okay, or stop calling it out for what it is.

Anyway, I suppose this is meant to be a humorous thread, not a serious one, so I'll leave it at that.

aerius wrote:

Raw Shark wrote:Oh, man.The next four years are going to be... What means more than a shit show? I'm not even sure. But that's it.

Fucking awesome, like a direct to TV Steven Seagal movie. So fucking bad that it's good.

Like this level of awesome
http://heatst.com/entertainment/russia- ... g-russian/

aerius wrote:

Raw Shark wrote:Oh, man.The next four years are going to be... What means more than a shit show? I'm not even sure. But that's it.

Fucking awesome, like a direct to TV Steven Seagal movie. So fucking bad that it's good.

It's all fun and games until Trump decides to invade Canada.

The Romulan Republic wrote:How about you deal with things your way, and I'll deal with them mine? Fair enough?

Though I do think that "acceptance" is not generally a healthy attitude toward government oppression and corruption. Certainly not in a democracy. Yes, realistically, Trump will be President on the 20th. of January. I have no illusions about that. But that doesn't mean we should start pretending its okay, or stop calling it out for what it is.

Here's the thing. This is a board with almost entirely liberal views, none of us here are fans of Trump. You can spend however much time a day writing angry posts on why Trump is a fuckface but what does that accomplish? Pretty much everyone here is on board with that and we're not exactly a social platform for change, posting here does nothing except letting you vent your feelings. Want Trump gone in 4 years? Well, you need to put your energy to use in the real world, not here. Start with your social group, get involved in grassroots politics, contact & engage your politicians & representatives in government, take a page out of the alt-right playbook and go troll the shit out of the opposition.

Dreams ---> Goals ---> Plans ---> Actions ---> Results

When Stephen Harper was elected I didn't sit here writing a dozen angry posts every day for 2 months & counting, I made a couple "fuck this shit" posts the next day and that was pretty much it. After that, back to work on figuring out plans to get him the fuck out of there, putting those plans into action, and eventually the results came. Every minute spent writing a post here is wasted time & effort that would get far more results in the real world.

The Romulan Republic wrote:Edit: The government of the most powerful nation on Earth is not a fucking reality TV show, no matter how much Trump seems to think otherwise.

Have you kept up with an American election over the past 20-30 years? Even this latest one played much more like a reality TV season than the election of the leader of a first-world superpower. American elections have always had more in common with reality TV than anything concerning "issues" or "reality." It's about taglines, bumpers, and rhetoric. It's about charisma and not always positive charisma, but the kind where your detractors hate you so fucking much, they end up giving you all the free air time you want.

Oh and by "American election," you could expand that to be "all elections."

aerius wrote:The sooner you accept reality, the better it is for you. Just saying.

I went straight into the "It's 5' o clock somewhere" step. Is that not an official one? Can we add it to the "Texas Edition: 5 stages of grief"?

U.P. Cinnabar wrote:It's all fun and games until Trump decides to invade Canada.

Ain't happening, Trump is building a wall to keep you guys out of Canada.
https://www.ncscooper.com/trump-i-will- ... ricans-in/

K. A. Pital wrote:Like this level of awesome
http://heatst.com/entertainment/russia- ... g-russian/

That is the best thing I've seen all week. I believe that qualifies as winning.

Yeah well, as I've said elsewhere, I'm putting together an INCH bag, and I know how to use it. When the nukes drop, I will be far away, sleeping under the stars.

TheFeniX wrote:I went straight into the "It's 5' o clock somewhere" step. Is that not an official one? Can we add it to the "Texas Edition: 5 stages of grief"?

I am not a Texan, but I'm on board. I've been straight-on-my-ass off-the-wagon for the last month or so. Not entirely because of Donny Jingles, but it didn't help.

aerius wrote:

U.P. Cinnabar wrote:It's all fun and games until Trump decides to invade Canada.

Ain't happening, Trump is building a wall to keep you guys out of Canada.
https://www.ncscooper.com/trump-i-will- ... ricans-in/

Even the seniors?! Bang goes Canada's pharmaceuticals business.

The Romulan Republic wrote:Edit: The government of the most powerful nation on Earth is not a fucking reality TV show, no matter how much Trump seems to think otherwise.

Wait, what? I would think that they've been reality TV since maybe the eighties.

Gandalf wrote:Wait, what? I would think that they've been reality TV since maybe the eighties.

It all went to Hell when we voted out Jimmy Carter for a movie star. It's all been a slow-motion car wreck after that. Even his drunk-ass half-retarded brother Billy would make a better president than the Donald. At least he could grow peanuts and got a shitty brand of beer right.

Raw Shark wrote:

Gandalf wrote:Wait, what? I would think that they've been reality TV since maybe the eighties.

It all went to Hell when we voted out Jimmy Carter for a movie star. It's all been a slow-motion car wreck after that. Even his drunk-ass half-retarded brother Billy would make a better president than the Donald. At least he could grow peanuts and got a shitty brand of beer right.

I'm surprised that parties don't run better media training for presidential candidates.

At the very least, Gore/Bush should have been a huge lesson that it doesn't matter how much you know if you aren't impressive on TV. Maybe if someone taught Clinton's campaign how to use media better she might be headed to the big chair.

Gandalf wrote:
At the very least, Gore/Bush should have been a huge lesson that it doesn't matter how much you know if you aren't impressive on TV. Maybe if someone taught Clinton's campaign how to use media better she might be headed to the big chair.

Hubris thy name is Clinton

That and her strategy for scandals was "wait until it's a giant media shit show then seriously respond"

Back on giant cock-topic however the next four years are going to be amazing than we are headed towards huge changes for the world, most of them bad but unlike RR I think all of them are survivable.

Gandalf wrote:

The Romulan Republic wrote:Edit: The government of the most powerful nation on Earth is not a fucking reality TV show, no matter how much Trump seems to think otherwise.

Wait, what? I would think that they've been reality TV since maybe the eighties.

Well, I guess what I'm saying is that it shouldn't be that way, and people shouldn't accept that it is that way, because in the end, its not just crass entertainment- its crass entertainment with literally life and death consequences for huge numbers of people.

If you ask me, the fact that Trump is widely regarded as entertainment rather than the fucking monster that he is is a big part of why we now have a groping bigoted demagogue as President.

The Romulan Republic wrote:Well, I guess what I'm saying is that it shouldn't be that way, and people shouldn't accept that it is that way, because in the end, its not just crass entertainment- its crass entertainment with literally life and death consequences for huge numbers of people.

Of course it shouldn't be like that. But evidently the voters like it enough to keep it going.

If you ask me, the fact that Trump is widely regarded as entertainment rather than the fucking monster that he is is a big part of why we now have a groping bigoted demagogue as President.

Do you know why foreigners like myself look at Trump as entertainment? Because we have no other choice. We can't vote in the elections. We can't really participate in the dialogue. What we can do is be affected by US actions on the world stage. Sometimes this works out for us, sometimes it doesn't. With no real way to affect outcomes, what choice is there to laugh at the absurdity of the whole thing?

I can get that. But it frustrates me, because Trump's been treated by many as a joke from the start, and he has capitalized on that.

The Romulan Republic wrote:I can get that. But it frustrates me, because Trump's been treated by many as a joke from the start, and he has capitalized on that.

He was a joke. He is a joke. He will be a joke. However, he was a joke that about a quarter of the US electorate thought was worth putting in the big chair near the big red buttons, and half apparently just decided fuck it and stayed home. Under the hilarious system put in place for antiquated reasons, this was enough to create a clear winner.

Well, if Trump is a joke, he's very dark comedy indeed.

And while I take some slight comfort in the fact that Trump didn't actually win the popular vote, I share your low opinion of the stay-at-homes. Just a couple hundred thousand more of those assholes in the right states getting off their asses, and we wouldn't be in this mess. Ditto third partiers, though at least they stood for something, even if it was stupid and counterproductive.

Don't even get me started on the Electoral College, because I could rant all night.

More Trump rooster goodness. Now we're having inflatables. I really want one.

But don't tell Trump about this. He might start a trade war with China for hurting his ego.

http://shanghaiist.com/2017/01/10/trump_rooster.php