NPR only gets about 11% of their budget from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. If Trump yanked federal funding, that could be made up in minutes from private donations.
This is encouraging:
The cover-up of attacks by immigrants in Germany was indeed true. But a quick Google shows that terror attacks are not being covered up, at least over here and reported in the American press (example). Are they being covered on American TV?
What makes you think Google isn’t a part of the conspiracy? How would you find out about the other 75% of the attacks if Google is filtering them out of the results? What if it is Fake News all the way down?
It’s the contrails. Evil reptilian government guys are secretly using commercial air planes to spew experimental goo (the contrails) on all of us, to turn us all into gay frogs :eek:
I think that more accurately, adversity and pressure reveals the true character of the man. In some cases it can be a side of them we weren’t aware of but in others it merely confirms what we all suspected.
Right, because he’s never been able to handle criticism, stress and long work hours. Seriously I suggest you read a book on Trump’s life or at least watch a documentary on it.
I grew up in New York. I know how he is and has always been. People from HIS home town think he is a lying, conniving scumbag. Even the real author of “his” book thinks he is a scumbag.
It’s pretty much established fact at this point that one of the major causes of the Great Depression was fear of the Great Depression, right? The stock market fell because people thought the stock market was going to fall and the banks all went under because people thought the banks would all go under.
It wouldn’t have been anywhere near as bad as it was if people didn’t turn it into a self-fulfilling prophecy by unloading all their stock before the market crashed and running on the banks before they went under.
When enough people think the economy is about to do something & act accordingly, they can make the economy do that thing. Heck, that’s basically a simplified explanation of the stock market–fluctuations are generally caused by people anticipating fluctuations and acting accordingly.
He will not quit unless he can do it in a way that does not lable him a loser. IOW, it will have to be someone else’s fault, and that someone else will have to be someone WEAKER. He will quit if he can make quitting seem like a personal victory. Like he is so strong, smart, capable, and brilliant that he had to leave to accomplish some greater <whatever>.
(That should have been “label.” Posting on kindle while eating lunch… :rolleyes:)
If people can settle lawsuits where one side is clearly at fault, even with loss of lives, with “no admission of wrongdoing,” I don’t see why not.
I believe this is the only way it can happen. He will never permit himself to be driven out of office-- not that the Republicans would ever banish their organ-grinder’s monkey. When attacked, he attacks back twice as hard. He is a bully who will not be bullied. But if he could find an escape clause where he comes out, if not lily-white, then at least some kind of hero, I think in about a year, he’d be more than ready to bail. Maybe if Congress decides to award him the Medal of Honor or something. Or maybe Putin will give him some kind of Russian Legion of Whatever Emeritus Blahblahblah.
If he can go out in a blaze of glory, I believe he might do it, but short of that, he will go down with the ship (of state).