How the Chinese describe lame Donald Duck

[soothsayer]

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Michael McFaul
@McFaul
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Nov 13, 2020
Is “lame duck” a pejorative or simply a descriptive term? (Looking for a new but respectful term to describe the incumbent in the White House)

Kaiser Kuo
@KaiserKuo
The best phrase I've seen is how Chinese have described him: 钉子户 (d̄ingzi hù – a homeowner who refuses to vacate his home).

[liberalla]

1. He's not the homeowner! (though he acts like he is)

maybe a home dweller?

[onetexan]

4. He's a squatter

[magicarpet]

9. trDumpie is a squatter,... that ran out of toilet paper long ago.

Now he is just stinking up the place real bad.

Time for him to leave so we can disinfect and fumigate the People's White House.

[beastie boy]

12. Trespasser may be more accurate

[liberalla]

13. I like this description - trespasser

[Pantagruel]

2. Maybe

"Lame duck a l'orange"

[soothsayer]

3. Lame Donald Duck a l'orange

[Midnightwalk]

8. Donald schmuck a l'orange

[soothsayer]

11. Like it

[mopinko]

5. flaming duck a l'orange?

too much to hope for?

[dalton99a]

6. Kick

[soothsayer]

7. That's awesome

[Silent3]

14. Considering the authoritarian nature of the Chinese government...

...and that, from what I've heard, Chinese culture is much more communal than our very individualistic American culture, I'm very surprised that people can simply refuse to leave their homes, and the authorities would go out of their way to build around these obstructive houses.

[ansible]

17. One of the first things Mao did after seizing power was executing landlords

It made him quite popular.

[dalton99a]

18. They just go around the stubborn old farts

[TheBlackAdder]

19. Like the old lady who refused to let Trump's destroy her home for the Trump Plaza Hotel parking.

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Coking house at 127 S Columbia Pl, between the steel framework of the planned Penthouse Casino; photographed by Jack Boucher for Historic American Buildings Survey, c.1991

Trump turned to a government agency – the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority (CRDA) – to take Coking’s property. CRDA offered her $250,000 for the property – one-fourth of what another hotel builder had offered her a decade earlier. When she turned that down, the agency went into court to claim her property under eminent domain so that Trump could pave it and put up a parking lot.

Peter Banin and his brother owned another building on the block. A few months after they paid $500,000 to purchase the building for a pawn shop, CRDA offered them $174,000 and told them to leave the property. A Russian immigrant, Banin said: “I knew they could do this in Russia, but not here. I would understand if they needed it for an airport runway, but for a casino?”

Ms Coking and her neighbors spent several years in court, but eventually with the assistance of the Institute for Justice they won on July 20, 1998. A state judge rejected the agency’s demand on the narrow grounds that there was no guarantee that Trump would use the land for the specified purpose. “TRUMPED!” blared the front page of the tabloid New York Post.

It wasn’t the only time Trump tried to benefit from eminent domain. In 1994, Trump incongruously promised to turn Bridgeport, Connecticut, into “a national tourist destination” by building a $350m office and entertainment complex on the waterfront. The Hartford Courant reported: “At a press conference during which almost every statement contained the term ‘world class,’ Trump and Mayor Joseph Ganim lavished praise on one another and the development project and spoke of restoring Bridgeport to its glory days.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/19/donald-trumps-eminent-domain-nearly-cost-widow-house

But, in good news, one of the assholes who owns some of Trump's debt finally bought it, and the rest is history:

In the 1970s, Penthouse magazine publisher Bob Guccione offered Coking $1 million ($3.5 million in 2018)[2] for her property in order to build the Penthouse Boardwalk Hotel and Casino. She declined the offer, and Guccione started construction of the hotel-casino in 1978 around the Coking house, but ran out of money in 1980 and construction stopped. The steel framework structure was finally torn down in 1993.[3]

In 1993, Donald Trump bought several lots around his Atlantic City casino and hotel, intending to build a parking lot designed for limousines.[4] Coking, who had lived in her house at that time for 32 years, refused to sell. As a result, the city condemned her house, using the power of eminent domain. She was offered $251,000,[5] a quarter of what she was offered by Guccione 10 years earlier.

With the assistance of the Institute for Justice, Coking fought the local authorities and eventually prevailed.[6] Superior Court Judge Richard Williams ruled that because there were "no limits" on what Trump could do with the property, the plan to take Coking's property did not meet the test of law. But Williams' ruling did not reject the practice of using eminent domain to take private property from one individual and transferring it to another, which would eventually be upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States in Kelo v. City of New London.
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The property was finally sold for $583,000 in an auction on July 31, 2014.[10] The buyer was Carl Icahn, who held the debt on Trump Entertainment, owner of Trump Plaza. He subsequently demolished the house on November 19, 2014.[11] Neither the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority nor the owners of Trump Plaza expressed any interest in the auction.[1]

The adjacent Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, the property for which Trump wanted Coking's property to begin with, closed in September 2014, due to lack of business.[12]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Coking

She fought off both Guccione and Trump. Eventually selling to Ichan and then the house was torn down in 2014.

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[Lady Freedom Returns]

15. I don't see a way to get to or get out of that property.

I guess the homeowner is stuck in there?

[Cha]

16. Boom.. Squatter lame donald duck.

The Chinese have congratulated Joe Biden.. maybe they're not so supoortive of the Puppet after all.

Not sure why "respectful" should be anywhere near lame duck donald. Who will do everything he can to tear down America in his last 2 months.