Whoa now. That is some prejudiced and elitest reporting. How dare anyone acknowledge the problems in florida, the sunshine state that is perfect.
In all seriousness: It sounds like this is being a bit over reported, but the extent to which they are pulling out remains to be seen. And it is going to REALLY suck for florida as people are stuck holding mortgages for condemned and washed away houses.
But it also sets a really concerning precedent. California has already seen issues (but, being a functioning government, are setting up government programs to protect people from wildfires). But more and more of the country/world are going to become uninhabitable over the next few decades and insurance companies are likely to pull out of risky areas and just raise premiums elsewhere.
Texas is always at a high risk of someone plugging their phone charger into the wrong outlet and taking out the grid for the entire state. They are a special kind of stupid
Arizona is interesting. They definitely have massive drought issues. But wildfire wise, they tend to be pretty okay. I assume because there isn’t enough moisture to actually grow trees to burn but I am sure it is more complex than that.
Which isn’t something insurance covers and thus not applicable here.
You can’t (easily) file a claim because “it is hot as balls outside”. You can (generally) file a claim for “my house burned down”.
The planet becoming more and more inhospitable is one side of this hell. But the issue with insurance companies pulling out is that it leaves the owners holding the bag. The bag, in this case, being a massive mortgage on a condemned plot of land.
“Hot as balls” raises workers’ comp. and health insurance payouts, people getting heat exhaustion and heat stroke, even heart and respiratory diseases can be brought on or worsened by heat.
The risk in CA is that they have built so many communities in areas that are prone to wild fires (and in some cases are even part of the natural eco system) that is inevitable that if they rebuild that it will burn down again. They also have high material costs, higher labor costs, and more stringent building codes (rebuilding to code can get really expensive). Lastly CA has a more highly regulated insurance market which protects consumers, but makes it less profitable for insurance companies. While IMO this is a good thing it has ripple effects on whether or not the private market wants to participate.
florida as people are stuck holding mortgages for condemned and washed away houses.
I mean what is the issue with just not paying them? For a big enough hurricane there will be too many delinquent mortgages, so it might be easy to hide or just tell the bank that the free market is harsh mistress and sucks their risk didn’t pay off.
How is this not considered attempted manslaughter at the very least? Even non-citizens have rights under our own laws. Whoever issued those orders should be dishonorably discharged and jailed. Seems pretty cut and dried to me.
Well the stolen documents were taken from DC, and yet the case was brought before the Florida Southern District Court, so why not give the stolen documents case to a DC circuit? Not trying to argue, just trying to make sense of it.
Those charges aren’t really about taking documents. They are about refusing to return them, lying about whether they had all been returned, and possibly showing them to unauthorized individuals. The documents were in Mar-a-lago when this was going on.
The taking of the documents is the least important of the charges. In fact, they didn’t charge him with taking documents. They charged him under the espionage act where he hid defense secrets, obstructed, lied, and conspired, shared those secrets, after numerous attempts by the authorities to retrieve them. And that all took place in Florida. Had they charged him in DC it would have delayed* the trial. The venue was a calculated decision of time vs judge/jury pool.
There’s also a good chance he’ll be charged in NJ for separate crimes regarding those documents since some of them were moved there. Separate case though.
Exactly. And so if anyone ever asks “Why weren’t Biden or Pence indicted?”, you’ll know the answer. They didn’t lie about their documents and they didn’t get in the way when the government took them back.
In case anyone is wondering, “Why was nobody charged for taking them?”, the answer is probably intent. Trump, Biden, and Pence could all claim that they weren’t responsible for removing the documents. But of those three, only one of them is on tape saying something like, “Yeah, I’ve still got these secret documents that I probably should have given back”. He’s the one they indicted.
Newsworthy because this means an indictment decision is near. We already knew he was a potential person of interest, that is why the Special Counsel got appointed in the first place.
No, newsworthy because Trump is using his public profile to mess with this investigation again. We have no way of knowing whether or not he actually received a target letter because he lies about things constantly and could be lying about this as well.
I have a pet theory that he knows it’s in the future but not as imminent as he suggests (like the docs case) but if he says it’s imminent now he can spin yarns about their case being in tatters and delays being due to mistakes, etc like he tried to spin for the docs case.
I just don’t see a real motive for that 3D chess move stuff. Last time he said he got a target letter it was because he did, and he got indicted a week or two later. Simplest explanation is that he’s trying to deflate the power of the coming indictment by making it no longer a surprise.
Personally I’d be shocked if he lied about something that made him look so bad from every angle. There’s no rhetorical advantage he gets from being indicted 3 times that he wouldn’t get from 2. You’re saying it would “mess with the investigation” but the people directly involved in the investigation are exactly the people who know the truth of the matter, it’s the public he’s interfacing with here.
Right, and when he opens his mouth it's often completely false. Like when he claimed he was going to be arrested by the end of day and NY police said no such thing was happening.
So again, why are we believing him as a primary source?
I don’t see what saying that to me is going to accomplish…
If anything, it does the opposite by making this post more visible, which drives more clicks to the website, and makes the website write more about what trump says
So if you really want to do something about it, don’t reply.
Sorry, but whether we like it or not, the guy is still the leading GOP candidate for President and de-facto leader of the party. What he says could influence the nation’s future. So yeah, it is newsworthy.
Because prosecutors and judges are too scared of him to throw the gag order at him he’s earned a dozen times over with all the threats he’s made and violence that’s happened around him and more reliable sources are refusing to make any comments or give an off the record confirmation or denial, so he’s the only source of information we have about this. It’s an extremely frustrating situation.
I think there’s also an element of not doing gag orders on him unless vital as he’d likely break them anyway and use any enforcement action as a call to action to his supporters to say that he’s being ‘silenced by the Biden administration’ and fuel the very fires that lead to things like Jan 6th.
He does also do a very good job in giving prosecutors evidence against him when they just let him talk.
I think there’s also an element of not doing gag orders on him unless vital as he’d likely break them anyway
Imagine if we handled bank robberies this way, “Oh, they’re just gonna keep trying to take the money, you should just give it to them”
use any enforcement action as a call to action to his supporters
He’s already been issuing that call since before he was indicted. The obvious answer is to throw him in a jail cell and limit his communications to just his attorneys. We do this to suspected criminals every day and it’s absolutely warranted here.
Also, he should draw a charge for intimidating witnesses for all of this.
He does also do a very good job in giving prosecutors evidence against him when they just let him talk.
I guess we just have to hope that evidence isn’t the dead body of some poor person Trump convinces one of his idiot followers to kill, huh?
I didn’t say I agreed with the no gag order tactics. Just speculating why. I agree with you wholeheartedly on the dangers of letting him sling his angry mob at people.
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