Paul Miller
@regattaguru.bsky.social
Sailor, computer programmer, lover of baguettes
To be fair, that’s not the only thing he has achieved. He has also made the US far less trustworthy and therefore far less powerful. In half a year be has undone 100 years of ‘American Exceptionalism’
September 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
To be fair, that’s not the only thing he has achieved. He has also made the US far less trustworthy and therefore far less powerful. In half a year be has undone 100 years of ‘American Exceptionalism’
Well to be fair, that probably is the best they’ve got.
September 1, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Well to be fair, that probably is the best they’ve got.
Okay, so you have a very plausible theory for where we are. What are the American people going to do about it? Just sit back and criticise? Eat popcorn? We are talking about the future of the established international order for f.cks sake.
August 18, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Okay, so you have a very plausible theory for where we are. What are the American people going to do about it? Just sit back and criticise? Eat popcorn? We are talking about the future of the established international order for f.cks sake.
Does it matter? Trump has already proved that the US does not care about treaties and that a US “assurance” is meaningless. The US is no longer to be trusted so their involvement in a treaty organisation is kind of pointless.
August 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Does it matter? Trump has already proved that the US does not care about treaties and that a US “assurance” is meaningless. The US is no longer to be trusted so their involvement in a treaty organisation is kind of pointless.
This is the thinking that has and will continue to keep liberal parties out of power in the US and Eastern Europe for generations. The Overton Window is not moved by insulting the majority population.
July 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM
This is the thinking that has and will continue to keep liberal parties out of power in the US and Eastern Europe for generations. The Overton Window is not moved by insulting the majority population.
A Concorde. There were 20 built 14 of which flew commercially.
July 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
A Concorde. There were 20 built 14 of which flew commercially.
Whoever runs this bot needs to check its set up. Too out of whack to even be believable.
July 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Whoever runs this bot needs to check its set up. Too out of whack to even be believable.
Just like Israel has rejected every peace deal ever offered In the sixty some years of their continuous expansion of their territories through terror and ethnic cleansing. Israel always expands and the Palestinians always die.
July 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Just like Israel has rejected every peace deal ever offered In the sixty some years of their continuous expansion of their territories through terror and ethnic cleansing. Israel always expands and the Palestinians always die.
> We are running out of words to describe it
No, we are not. This is ethnic cleansing and genocide. We have the words, we are just afraid to use them because the oppressors have staked a claim to them.
No, we are not. This is ethnic cleansing and genocide. We have the words, we are just afraid to use them because the oppressors have staked a claim to them.
July 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
> We are running out of words to describe it
No, we are not. This is ethnic cleansing and genocide. We have the words, we are just afraid to use them because the oppressors have staked a claim to them.
No, we are not. This is ethnic cleansing and genocide. We have the words, we are just afraid to use them because the oppressors have staked a claim to them.
How sad that the US Army can’t even march properly.
June 14, 2025 at 11:13 PM
How sad that the US Army can’t even march properly.
FedEx has always been spoke and hub. Memphis was the international hub for years.
June 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
FedEx has always been spoke and hub. Memphis was the international hub for years.
The US has now strayed so far from the key democratic principle of an independent judiciary that I can see no way back. The powers of the executive branch are now so enlarged and unchecked that the US is now for all intents and purposes a functional dictatorship.
June 6, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The US has now strayed so far from the key democratic principle of an independent judiciary that I can see no way back. The powers of the executive branch are now so enlarged and unchecked that the US is now for all intents and purposes a functional dictatorship.
This issue has already gone from the goldfish minds of the American public. They have moved on to some sitcom episode or sports game or other shiny trinket. The loss of American democracy will not be the fault of a tyrannical dictator, but will lie entirely at the feet of a self-obsessed public.
April 27, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This issue has already gone from the goldfish minds of the American public. They have moved on to some sitcom episode or sports game or other shiny trinket. The loss of American democracy will not be the fault of a tyrannical dictator, but will lie entirely at the feet of a self-obsessed public.
Flew EIS <-> SJU with them a few times. Always great.
April 17, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Flew EIS <-> SJU with them a few times. Always great.
I guess mastery of 9D chess does not include the ability to see one step ahead.
April 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I guess mastery of 9D chess does not include the ability to see one step ahead.
Because your Supreme Court gave Trump absolute immunity. Roberts is as culpable as Trump in destroying the US constitution.
April 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Because your Supreme Court gave Trump absolute immunity. Roberts is as culpable as Trump in destroying the US constitution.
The principle goes much further back though, at least to 1924 and the Kellogg-Briande Pact. The fully fledged concept is codified in three 1949 German constitution.
March 25, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The principle goes much further back though, at least to 1924 and the Kellogg-Briande Pact. The fully fledged concept is codified in three 1949 German constitution.
I think you’ll find that the administration’s assertion is that they have absolute and un-reviewable power per se. There is no check on their authority as the president is immune from prosecution and holds the power to pardon anyone. The goose is cooked. The American experiment is over.
March 16, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I think you’ll find that the administration’s assertion is that they have absolute and un-reviewable power per se. There is no check on their authority as the president is immune from prosecution and holds the power to pardon anyone. The goose is cooked. The American experiment is over.
And he will simply ignore them. By the end of the month the administration will be openly ignoring judicial rulings as a matter of course, and given the absolute immunity the SCOTUS gave Trump combined with the pardon powers, there is no comeback. It’s a shame the founders didn’t think about that.
March 16, 2025 at 7:13 PM
And he will simply ignore them. By the end of the month the administration will be openly ignoring judicial rulings as a matter of course, and given the absolute immunity the SCOTUS gave Trump combined with the pardon powers, there is no comeback. It’s a shame the founders didn’t think about that.
Sorry, but I find it alarming that a European moderate liberal democracy has 20% of the population supporting a National Socialist party.
February 24, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Sorry, but I find it alarming that a European moderate liberal democracy has 20% of the population supporting a National Socialist party.