Having just returned from a delightful and low-key Christmas visit to my Mom’s in Illinois, this one will be brief.
While Donald may strut the world-stage thinking he’s cock of the walk (well, he is a dick – so there’s that), China has taken a different approach to his impending presidency disaster. They’ve decided to mock and ridicule him with a 23-foot tall statute of a cock. (23-feet? Right … with those tiny fingers? In your dreams, Donald!)
Since the coming January 28th Chinese Lunar New Year will be the “Year of the Rooster”, the company that owns a shopping mall in the Chinese city of Taiyuan (in the northern province of Shanxi) commissioned a giant statue of one to stand outside welcoming shoppers to their complex.
But this rooster comes complete not only with Donald’s peculiarly curious coif, but also his overgrown bushy eyebrows and strange semaphore hand gestures. (And you don’t have to be familiar with American Sign Language to know that Trump’s hands signal he’s a schmuck.)
So while Trump in just the short time from his “election” has managed to ruffle the feathers of China, they’ve managed to make money by mocking him. You can buy replicas of the Trump cock rooster being sold by the Shenghe Yangtai Business for anywhere from $57 up to $1,739 for one standing 32-feet tall.
And it’s not the first time the Chinese have enjoyed mocking Trump. Back in November a visitor to the zoo in Hangzhou noticed a golden pheasant had a striking resemblance to Donald.
Meet the pheasant-elect: Bird sporting 'Donald Trump's hairstyle' soars to internet fame in China https://t.co/qYUbMcDYmV pic.twitter.com/VTPlDcaBcp
— People's Daily,China (@PDChina) November 14, 2016
My PSA of a Personal Note:
This was brief because, as I mentioned, I just got back from my Christmas visit, and spent this morning paying my county’s Personal and Real Property taxes, and doing my year-end charity donations online.
From my own experience, for those of you interested in taking advantage of your tax-deductible donations, it may not be common knowledge that while some organizations are fully designated as 501(c)(3) [for me, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, Doctors Without Borders, Southern Poverty Law Center] – others that you may want to give to [like ACLU and Planned Parenthood] are not.
SO to work around that obstacle and get a tax deduction, you can instead donate to the ACLU FOUNDATION (both national and state ones) and the Planned Parenthood FEDERATION of AMERICA, Inc. Those are 501(c)(3) and fully tax-deductible.
Oh and don’t forget our duty for the next four years is to …
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Cross posted to Care2 at http://www.care2.com/news/member/101612212/4028880
Glad your visit was enjoyable! Not that I had any doubts. Kittycat all settled in again?
Oh, those Chinese, what a sense of humor. The "Year of the Rooster" becomes the "Year of the Cock" which morphs again into "Year of the Prick." A real knee-slapper. (But cute. If overpriced.) How do you think they will sell in Russia?
To add a smidgin to your PSA – by all means check out the standard deduction. It can be surprisingly difficult to benefit from using Schedule A, and you can't deduct anything but the standard deduction without it. Even when I was working I never had enough qualifying expenses to make Schedule A worth while. Even with a mortgage.
Good to hear you had a delightful Christmas at your Mom's and still found time to treat us to this marvelous Chines cock-up of Drumpf, Nameless 😀
There's nothing Drumpf hates more than being ridiculed, so I hope a lot of Chinese vendors in America got their orders for this beauty in with Shenghe Yangtai Business and some 32-feet schmucks will arise in China towns across the country to celebrate the Chines New Year. I don't know what the Chinese are customary to do with these effigies after the New Year, but perhaps a new American/Chinese custom could be introduced by filling it with fire crackers and letting this tiny handed rooster go out with a big bang.
A dumb cluck! How long before the US dumb cluck sues China for mocking him? I love it!
Glad you had a good trip and are safe at home now. How did kitty fair?
The critter is getting better at starting out trips. I only had to crawl under the bed and then the dresser once to corral him.
As I've said, he travels great – it's just getting him caged. And he's very happy at Mom's apartment. He's learned how to get on TOP of the kitchen cabinets, so he's got a safe spot that he can keep an eye on things. (Although he and I were taking our usual post-prandial afternoon nap together when one of the aides came in to empty the trash. But when she was swinging the bag a little too close to the cat, he snarled and hissed at her. She screamed, and I have NEVER seen an aide move that fast high-tailing it out of the apartment!)
Great pictures of DT. I hope that the golden pheasant will stay safe, and away from the thumpthinskin.
The resemblance is remarkable.
Glad that you had a good visit, and a safe trip.
Thanks, Nameless, and Joanne for cross posting.
Glad you had a great trip my friend!!
Dang!! What an ugly Republican Rectum Rooster!