We told you about the lavish homecoming party that was thrown by Pizhou (邳州) in our neighbouring Jiangsu province for its party secretary Li Lianyu (李连玉). John Kennedy of Global Voices Online informs us that Chinese netizens have reacted strongly to the series of pictures we showed you. On one particular forum, 800 comments were received on one single afternoon. Here's a kickass selection of comments that he picked up, followed with his translations:

太牛的场面 让我呕吐了好久
It was too much to watch something like this, kept me vomiting for a long time

21世纪的中国竟如此落后，这些欢迎群众的自主人格在哪里？！
21st century China could actually be this backwards; don't these crowds of welcomers have any independent personality at all?

嗨，终于知道当官有多好，我想当官！！！！！！！！！
Hey, finally I see how good it is to be a civil servant, I want to be one too!!!!!!!!!

一看就知道这SB是个作威作福的“土皇帝”，绝对不会亲民！！
One look and you can see this SOB is a “mud emperor” who rules roughly over his people; you won't see him kissing anyone!!

胡总看看吧！我们的公仆、我们的人民就是这样？！丢人！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！
President Hu, are you seeing this? Is this how our civil servants, our people, really are? So embarrassing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

这些人肯定是下级组织的,可见巴结拍马在那个地方已经相当流行!!
这些人肯定是下级组织的,可见巴结拍马在那个地方已经相当流行!!
还拿五星红旗!还有军队~~~~~~~~~靠!
一定要温总理看看~这个大书记!!
These people must be of lower rank in the Party organization, you can see how popular ass-kissing is in that place!!
These people must be of lower rank in the Party organization, you can see how popular ass-kissing is in that place!!
They even brought the five-star red flag! And there are soldiers there~~~~~~~~damn!
Premier Wen must see this, this great Party secretary!!

浪费国家资源,该杀!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wasting the nation's resources, […] deserves to be killed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

李书记，人民的好书记，我太感动了！上海的习书记上调中央，我代表1800万上海市民欢迎李书记来上海当书记！
Secretary Li, the people's good secretary, I'm so moved! Shanghai's Xi Jinping has been transferred to the Central Government, so I represent the 18 million residents of Shanghai in welcoming Secretary Li to come be Shanghai's Party Secretary!

李书记，怎么看着你就像金正日呢？人民的好书记啊好书记！！！
Secretary Li, why is it that I think you look like Kim Jong-il? The People's Good Secretary aaahh Good Secretary!!!

书记，你是谁啊？
这待遇和小平同志、江主席、胡主席差不多吧？
胡主席去你们县也不会这样吧？
如有疑问请亲自问主席！
Secretary, who are you?!
This is about the same treatment that Comrade Xiaoping, Chairmans Jiang and Hu receive, right?
If Chairman Hu goes to your town, he'd get the same treatment, right?
If you have doubts you can ask the Chairman yourself!

李书记在邳州这么小的一块地方都有这架势
到了中央那还不直接压倒江书记？
他不是一个人的书记！他不是一个县的书记！他不是一个省的书记！
他是一个国家的书记！他是全世界人民的书记！他是银河系的书记！
支持李书记竞选宇宙书记！
If Secretary Li has such muster in such a small place as this
If he went to the Central Government, wouldn't he just push Secretary Jiang Zemin straight out?
He's not a People's Secretary! He's not a township Secretary! He's not a Provincial Secretary!
He's a National Secretary! He's Secretary for all people of the world! He's Secretary of the Milky Way!
I support Secretary Li in running for Secretary of the Universe!

李书记，北京人民欢迎你
快来领导我们吧
Secretary Li, the people of Beijing welcome you
Hurry, come lead us!