President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

I am ready for "I expect the ratings for this flood to be the highest in years..."

 

Where's Obama?

 

Or, "Obama didn't get flood numbers like this, believe me."

 

It's going to be the greatest recovery.

 

How Washington Made Harvey Worse

"Nearly two decades before the storm's historic assault on homes and businesses along the Gulf Coast of Texas this week, the National Wildlife Federation released a groundbreaking report about the United States government’s dysfunctional flood insurance program, demonstrating how it was making catastrophes worse by encouraging Americans to build and rebuild in flood-prone areas. The report, titled “Higher Ground,” crunched federal data to show that just 2 percent of the program’s insured properties were receiving 40 percent of its damage claims. The most egregious example was a home that had flooded 16 times in 18 years, netting its owners more than $800,000 even though it was valued at less than $115,000.


That home was located in Houston, along with more than half of America’s worst “repetitive loss properties” identified in the report."

“The floods have gotten worse, but the politics haven’t gotten better,” says Larry Larson, a senior policy director for the association of floodplain managers."

 

Judge dismisses Sarah Palin's lawsuit against New York Times

 

Trump’s Biggest North Korea Mistake Is Coming

"To put it as bluntly as possible, North Korea will never surrender its nuclear arsenal willingly, under any conditions. For decades, the Kims have been offered everything possible to induce them to do so, and they have cheated on every agreement they have made while steadily building their capability. Now that Kim the younger sees the reality of putting the American homeland at nuclear risk, thereby almost ensuring the permanent safety of his regime, why would he give that up? It simply makes no sense to do so."

"What the president should do is simple, if radical. He should admit the failure of America’s North Korea policy since the 1990s and abandon the fantasy of “complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization.” Instead, he should acknowledge that North Korea is a nuclear weapons-capable state, and that the United States will treat it as such. That means revamping U.S. policy toward explicit containment and deterrence of a nuclear North Korea. That is the only realistic policy toward a problem that has no good solution."

 

Yeah, but Todd just challenged the Ochs Sulzbergers to a family snowmobile race, so this isn't over yet.

 

The English language disagrees with you.