make the rules

But in response, Verstappen said: "It's how the rules are written. I don't make the rules. I just follow the rules as much as I can. I just implement the rules and play with them."

And so, at the State Department, the leadership talks about a “rules-based order,” which all too often actually means: “We make the rules, we break the rules.”

“As long as America was the unchallenged global superpower ... we were like a teenage bully on a playground of third-graders. We could make the rules for everyone else,” he said.

“You’re in my home. I make the rules. There is no escaping, little one. You, your brother, and your friend belong to me. But maybe...”

The city has the ability to remove money from the cards or to permanently turn off a card, Coaxum said, and the city is working with supermarkets and bodegas to make the rules clear.