The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) has released the latest set of its playing card series that feature “ridiculous” quotes from members of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).
The KMT has issued the card sets every two years since 2018 to coincide with local and general elections.
This year’s set includes quotes from the DPP’s mayoral candidates Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) in Taipei, Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) in New Taipei City and Cheng Yun-peng (鄭運鵬) in Taoyuan.
Photo: Fang Pin-chao, Taipei Times
The KMT said that the quotes it gathered for the cards demonstrated that the DPP was “out of touch with the public’s suffering.”
“The DPP doesn’t know what the public is going through, so let’s vote them out of office this year,” KMT Culture and Communications Committee deputy director Lin Chia-hsing (林家興) said.
Lin said that Chen had made the most gaffes over the past year of anyone featured in the cards, and that 10 of the 54 cards featured his quotes.
Therefore, the KMT had dubbed him the “king of nonsense,” he said.
President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) also features prominently as the two of spades, which is the highest-value card in the Chinese card game Big Two, he said.
Aside from Chen as the king of nonsense, the set also includes several “queens of nonsense,” including Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Mei-hua (王美花) and DPP legislators Fan Yun (范雲) and Michelle Lin (林楚茵).
“Chen often said in the past that he has a ‘poker face,’ so we helped him make a set of cards,” said Kang Chin-yu (康晉瑜), spokesman for KMT Taipei mayoral candidate Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安).
“Earlier this year Chen told people to ‘look after themselves’ when they need a COVID-19 test, and then added: ‘I don’t need to line up for a test since I’ve already taken a rapid test,’” Kang said, citing this as an example of Chen’s “nonsense.”
An announcement on how to preorder the cards will be made online on the KMT’s community platform, he said.
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