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as long as Alexander stays far away and doesn't communicate

I honestly think this was the most proud Worf has ever been of Alexander. The next panel was probably Worf putting him on a small shuttle and warping it to a distant planet.

I know people who did, but I did not. I suspect I know a bunch of people who voted for him.

Officials urged residents to avoid anti-Trump protests while they hunt for the gunman

FUCK THAT NOISE

THE PEOPLE NEED TO STAND TOGETHER IN PUBLIC

F U C K

who doesn't open the door to a cop at 2AM or 3:30AM... especially when you are a public official

the plains of Wyoming

thats where Yellowstone National Park is, and people do flock to that. But I get what you are saying

being a kid and discovering your friends parents grow closet...

one of my favorite "omg it just occurred to me" memories is being a young boy and my mom had friends that lived 20 minutes outside of town in a little hippy village. Their house was one of those super old houses that had a wash room but didnt actually have a toilet in the house, because it was so old and those hippies didn't want to update it (this is probably the late 1970s or maybe very early 1980s). So you had to go to the outhouse out back if you needed to do that type of business. So I remember one day before breakfast, going to the outhouse and coming back thinking that there was a skunk somewhere because oh boy did it smell!

so I come in and announce to everyone in the kitchen that I think there is a skunk out back. They all had a good laugh at me. Years later my sister was telling me that "oh yeah those friends of mom's, they smoked a lot of weed. They even had huge bushes growing out in their back yard near the outhouse"

I still remember the way they all laughed, and it took me some time but I had a good laugh about that too

here ya go

President Trump bristled on Thursday at the mention of a series of “No Kings” protests against his administration scheduled for the day of his planned military parade in Washington — coinciding with his 79th birthday.

“I don’t feel like a king, I have to go through hell to get stuff approved,” Mr. Trump said to laughter from an audience of Republican lawmakers and political allies in the White House, arguing in essence that the opposition he faces from Democrats proves that he is not able to rule like a king.

He continued, “A king would say ‘I’m not going to get this.’ A king wouldn’t even have the California mandate to even be talking,” referring to the joint resolutions of Congress that he had just signed blocking California’s effort to phase out gasoline-powered vehicles.

“No, no. We’re not a king,” Mr. Trump said. “We’re not a king at all, thank you very much.”

In February, Mr. Trump likened himself to a king in another fight with Democrats in a blue state. As Mr. Trump sought to end congestion pricing for vehicles in New York City, the president declared on social media “CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!”

The official White House account on X, the social media website, amplified the message with an illustration of Mr. Trump wearing a crown. A federal judge later blocked Mr. Trump from attempting to end congestion pricing while the courts weighed in — demonstrating one of the constitutional checks to presidential power.

"CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!"
–President Donald J. Trump pic.twitter.com/IMr4tq0sMB
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) February 19, 2025

Mr. Trump’s effort to distance himself from his own suggestions of royal prerogative come as he has plowed forward with a maximalist view of presidential power in his second term, and has at times hosted official White House events that featured royal flourishes and monarchical claims to religious legitimacy.

He has issued sweeping pardons to rioters convicted of violent crimes that occurred during the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in addition to many other pardons of political allies who had been convicted of felonies.

He has also issued more than 150 executive orders, some of which attempted actions that courts ultimately found beyond his power. He has purged the government of officials perceived as his political enemies — and bragged about it to his supporters. He has run roughshod over federal agencies in ways that judges have said exceed his authority and frozen funds that Congress had already appropriated. While taking those actions, Mr. Trump has declared dubious national emergencies to invoke powers rarely sought by his predecessors.

And Mr. Trump has attacked and sought to undermine the counterweights to his own authority in government, actions that critics have particularly focused on when accusing Mr. Trump of pursuing an autocratic or monarchical style of power.

He has relentlessly attacked judges who have ruled against him, sidelined Congress’s role in making decisions about taxes and spending, steamrolled internal limits on the executive branch and used the levers of government to try to force outside centers of power like law firms and universities to submit to his will.

And the military parade scheduled for Saturday is the latest example of Mr. Trump’s desire to flex military might in openly political displays and surround himself in the pageantry of the armed forces. On Tuesday, Mr. Trump said that any protesters who assembled during the parade would be met with “very big force,” making no distinction between violent confrontations and constitutionally protected peaceful demonstrations.

The organizers of the “No Kings” marches have said that they intentionally had not scheduled demonstrations in Washington, D.C., on Saturday to order to avoid the military parade, instead encouraging demonstrators in the area to join their flagship march in Philadelphia.

I thought the cat wanted to be pet— it did not.

I bet it did want to be petted but its a cat... so those things change pretty quickly and most of the time your gonna be the last to know

I don't have kids, so I have a few hours a week for the video games. Oblivion remaster is consuming all of that time currently. I fucking love the original and this new one is just so beautiful

in the 90s I worked at a grocery store and one of the baggage clerks was a guy in his 50s with Down's. He was always polite and kind. He clearly liked the young ladies that worked with us but he was never inappropriate. One day he and I were in the back cleaning up and I looked in his backpack lol dude had a bunch of new porn tapes in there. I was laughing when he noticed I saw it and poor guy was so embarrassed until I told him it's fine. He then went on to tell me about his 1000+ tape collection!

lol I'll never forget you Greg. One of a kind!