This is how you deal with misbehaving children. Define a boundary (don’t do X), establish consequences (If you do X, I will do Y), and then follow through consistently, exactly as you described.

Ideally you don’t have to treat world leaders like they’re children, but these are the times we find ourselves in.

This is more like Stalin’s Great Purge

And so was Jan6. And here we are.

I don’t think even the most annoyingly fake- progressive Democrat is gonna vote to abolish the FDIC. I’m not even convinced that every republican would do so.

I was gonna say, that sounds like the modus operandi at his one company that’s legitimately successful underneath the hype.

Patent No. 7545191

• [Patent application date: July 30, 2024]
• [Patent registration date: August 27, 2024]
• Relates to a player character throwing an item at a character in the field, which triggers combat.

Patent No. 7493117

• [Patent application date: February 26, 2024]
• [Patent registration date: May 22, 2024]
• Basically an extension of the above, relating to being able to capture Pokémon in the wild rather than just in combat like previous generations.

Patent No. 7528390

• [Patent application date: March 5, 2024]
• [Patent registration date: July 26, 2024]
• Relating to being able to ride creatures in the open world.

Note that every single one of these patents was filed after palworld was released, and they’re all awfully vague about what they actually cover.

At Beetlejuice the Musical

Man, you know what really gets me going? A corny zombie hit man singing showtunes.