The New Coffee Room

Trump’s not big on the Burkean conservative governance principle of subsidiarity is he?

Quite a micro manager if you ask me.

@89th

Apparently the deceased was also a widow and mother of a 6 year old.

https://www.startribune.com/she-was-an-amazing-human-being-mother-identifies-woman-shot-killed-by-ice-agent/601559922

Haven’t released any details yet about the deceased. If the deceased doesn’t fit the desired Adminstration prescribed either the illegal alien or “lefitist domestic terrorist” profile the incident is going to grow legs. Long legs.

Saw the clip on TV with Christie Noam spinning her story. My initial reaction was to grab her cowboy hat and pull it down over her face. She’s just as loathsome as Gabbard.

The skim is in.

So if he takes out the Cubans next, does that mean the 5 families get Havana back?

Can’t blame the student, she probably doesn’t know any better. Fault is entirely on the faculty members at Mickey Mouse University - San Antonio campus who not only accepted her into the PhD programme to start but then approved the dissertation proposal itself.

@89th

It’s okay….

If you looked at the map right now, would it make more sense for Greenland to be part of Canada or the USA, or part of a small European country that can’t defend anything..

Not at at all. Collective security is what the NATO Alliance is all about. Greenland falls under the umbrella of NATO.

As is the US already has near to unfettered access to Greenland for the purpose of security. Denmark and Greenland have made that clear to Washington repeatedly. Trump knows (or should know) that as should his minions and lackeys.

It is pure and simple covetous narcissism and imperialist ambition on the part of Trumpigula. There is something there he wants to claim and control all for himself very bigly and muchly.

@89th

Did you find something you wrote 20 years ago in the Piano Forum - Coffee Room and copy it to here just for funsies?

Because that is exactly how you used to think out loud.

@mik

Like Ax I believe Miller’s statement is deliberate. Whether it was wise or thought through is irrelevant. It is what the vile reactionaries in the Administration, like Miller, firmly believe and are prepared to act upon.

@AndyD

Putin for example must have intense and uncomfortable levels of security given the hate he must generate in Russia.

I assure you he does just like every other Russian leader since Lenin. Putin actually has his own mini army.

He doesn’t generate hate among his subjects, but rather envy of his power.

Not a meme but satire all the same:

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1309729444505399/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

@Tom-K said in Maduro might be checking the train schedule:

Love him or hate him Trump taught Putin how a "special military operation" is done correctly.

I am coming to the conclusion that as the story develops it was less a special military operation and more along the lines of a hostile commercial asset appropriation that just falls shy of a mob style racketeering operation.

Here’s Richard Haass’ initial take on Trump’s special military operation:

The operation captures the essence of Trump’s foreign policy. It was unilateral to its core. It paid little heed to legality or international opinion. It emphasized the Western Hemisphere rather than Europe, the Indo-Pacific, or the Middle East. The goal was commercial benefit, in this case access to oil reserves, and to strengthen homeland security, reflecting concerns over drugs and immigration. Military force was used, but in bounded ways.

The biggest downside of the Venezuela operation could be the precedent it sets, affirming the right of great powers to intervene in their backyards against leaders they deem to be illegitimate or a threat. One can only imagine Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is calling for the “de-Nazification” of Ukraine and the removal of President Volodymyr Zelensky, nodding in agreement. Trump’s military operation in Venezuela makes a negotiated end to the Russia-Ukraine war even more remote than it already was.

https://richardhaass.substack.com/p/special-edition-the-trump-doctrina?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true

@kluurs said in Maduro might be checking the train schedule:

Should Mark Carney be worried? Another "major" source of fentanyl ( a pound a year, right?) and has oil.

Carney need not be worried.

Danielle Smith in the other hand should be concerned. Her precious Western Canada Select synthetic crude will soon be worthless on any given global market.

Many factors affecting the rising prices of beef in North America. Not the least of which drought:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/bakx-beef-record-dalhousie-canada-alberta-9.7010883

Right now tidying up the house and listening to an Artie Shaw Band playlist on Qobuz as is the tradition around here on New Years Eve day. In an hour or so take the dog to the off leash then back home to prepare dinner for friends with whom we have gotten together with New Year’s Eve for twenty some years. Will see in the New Year then shut it all down 1 am.

Tomorrow all the Christmas decorations come down and that will be a wrap until next December.

@jon-nyc

That’s well up there on the difficulty scale.

If I recall correctly he was quite an accomplished pianist. He seemed very familiar with some of the more obscure 19 and 20 century repertoire and composers..

No idea who Sanders was/is so I looked him up on Wiki.

Yeah, he would for sure fit the profile.

@Horace

Possibly, although more often than not it’s an attention getting device employed by people, usually males, who are incorrigibly full of themselves.

I didn’t know that.