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'My god, 3.5 hours': Xi gives marathon speech, China listens
AFP ^
| October 18, 2017
| Becky Davis and Joanna Chiu
Posted on 10/18/2017 8:32:49 AM PDT by C19fan
As Chinese leader Xi Jinping delivered his three-plus-hour speech at the Communist Party congress, delegates ranging from men in suits to military officers and former presidents dutifully turned every page as they read and listened to his words.
On the internet, government bureaus peppered social media with their favourite phrases from Xi's speech, while photos circulated of children watching Wednesday's congress in classrooms.
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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: china; chinacongress; chinagovernment; xispeech
Do the delegates get to go to the bathroom or did adult diapers sell out in Beijing? I am sure there were video cameras scanning the delegates seeing any any of them were falling asleep; off to Xinjiang.
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posted on
10/18/2017 8:32:50 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
And I thought Bill Clinton gave long speeches.
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posted on
10/18/2017 8:33:17 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: C19fan
American Evangelists during the Great Awakenings would routinely speak this long.
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posted on
10/18/2017 8:36:33 AM PDT
by
fwdude
(The perverted left-bound train is always accusing the train station of "moving right.")
To: fwdude
Who was the first to sit after the standing ovation? I hope that his family receives earnest condolences from The Party.
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posted on
10/18/2017 8:38:02 AM PDT
by
alstewartfan
(We have no money but we stay afloat. The Jellyfishes don't scare us. Al Stewart from Red Toupee)
To: C19fan
Bad sign for the people in Red China. When the top guy going full Castro.
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posted on
10/18/2017 8:40:05 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: alstewartfan
I am sure Xi just like Stalin has a buzzer saying it is ok to stop clapping and sit down.
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posted on
10/18/2017 8:40:30 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
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posted on
10/18/2017 8:43:23 AM PDT
by
fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: fwdude
As would American politicians of the 19th Century and speakers at Chautauqua's.
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posted on
10/18/2017 8:49:56 AM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
IIRC Edward Everett spoke for two hours at Gettysburg before Lincoln. Who remembers Edward Everett?
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posted on
10/18/2017 8:54:04 AM PDT
by
jalisco555
("In a Time of Universal Deceit Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act" - George Orwell)
To: C19fan
What kind of sadist would ramble on for 3 1/2 hours?
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posted on
10/18/2017 8:55:47 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: fishtank
To: C19fan
Communists are fond of long speeches.
I remember Gorbachev’s first trip to America. Networks enthusiastically carried his speech ... which went on ... and on ... and on ... and they finally, with a palatable sense of pained boredom, cut away to regular mundane programming.
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posted on
10/18/2017 9:03:49 AM PDT
by
ctdonath2
(It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
To: ctdonath2
Remember Clinton’s speech at the 88 DNC convention, the loudest applause he got was when he said, “And in conclusion.....”
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posted on
10/18/2017 9:04:40 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: C19fan
We have only two television channels.
What is on Channel 1?
Chairman Xi giving a speech.
What is on Channel 2?
State Security agent with a gun saying “Turn back to Channel 1!”
To: jalisco555
Who remembers Edward Everett?
Wasn't he the guy who played the Medicine Man on F-Troop?
To: Buckeye McFrog
Also the narrator on Fractured Fairytales.
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posted on
10/18/2017 10:54:49 AM PDT
by
jalisco555
("In a Time of Universal Deceit Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act" - George Orwell)
To: C19fan
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posted on
10/18/2017 6:23:41 PM PDT
by
Libloather
(Trivial Pursuit question - name the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
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