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Yes. You are right! "Putin has no off ramp". As you correctly point out, only Russia has the off ramp. Will they take it? I will go back and Correct my post. Thank you.

That's a clever point but not a very good one. You are arguing that losing the confidence of the public is worse than being consistently reviled!

Putin has created a situation where he is left with no off ramp.* Russia has one however via objections of the Russian People and the Oligarchs who are losing their Western Held Assets. Ordinary Russians may rally and force Putin out. But it will take way more than a few thousand protestors...

I meant his trouble with speech does not seem to me to have spilled over into his reasoning ability. He is clearly not senile.

In our ideal world we would achieve all of the things you and I would like to see come to pass. Biden has to operate in the real world of U.S. politics as it is, not as we would want it to be. In this real world, we can be absolutely convinced that our views are correct and even reflect a...

He is an old man. He has always had trouble with speech from the time he was a child. Then he had a stroke (brain aneurysm) in the 1980s. What we need to recognize is that he is a thoroughly moral man. His mental faculties seem intact.

Only Trump's were lower at this point.

He's a tottering old man; a moral leader, just what the Country needed after the criminal Trump presidency. You are wrong to attribute failures to Biden. The failures are entirely due to Republican obstructionism with the help of only two Democrats.

Even if Putin destroys Ukraine he will end up losing.

Probably the results will be just the opposite of what you expect. It seems invading your neighboring independent country claiming they rightfully belong to you is no longer being tolerated.

I hope you're right. Even if Putin somehow manages to set up a puppet government over all of Ukraine, he can not succeed in the long run without both support of the Russian people and cooperation of Ukrainian citizens. It seems he is in the process of losing the former, and he'll never gain...

Actually 2/3rds got it right. Putin is the one who got it wrong! Now he is fucked. This is the beginning of the end for him.

What run on the banks?

U.S. Treasuries, including TIPS, are safer and nearly as liquid as U.S. dollars. The only risk they bear is inflation, but they are significantly less risky than cash in that regard.

It might be a difficult exercise to logically connect the right to vote to income sufficient enough to qualify for income taxes, but nonetheless I'd be interested in any attempt you might make. Everyone pays taxes, even those on welfare! But some people don't pay income taxes because they have...

Will you guys ever stop acting like gullible idiots? The Jan. 6yh Committee has already interviewed Epps. You could have easily turned up the real facts, as opposed to the alternative ones, had you taken a brief moment to google. Why do you keep posting this crap on ET? This juvenile stuff...

Congratulations. You are an exception, and I wish there were many more of you. Best of luck to you. You deserve it! To hear you say that everyone is capable of doing what you have done, does not convince me however. You seem to suggest the problem, for most anyway, is laziness. My...

Well, that's not true. It is good for some people. Namely those whose incomes keep up with inflation and who's interest payments are fixed. For these folks the real cost of debt declines with inflation. They can, in time, find themselves paying back to their creditors dollars worth less in...

I like to show you that, but I'll have a hard time finding a person with a strong work ethic and good money management "with only a GED". These folks are comparatively rare, it seems. I will have much better luck looking for a strong work ethic and good money management among college graduates...