Excellent thought; could happen anytime, even tomorrow. Something people often, annoyingly, forget, like in this bit from The Fifth Element:

Certainly, someone was.

The $100k visa fee is *annual* -- up from $215/year.

Trump signs proclamation that adds $100K annual fee to H-1B visas for high-skilled workers

They're labeled, "Good," "Fast," and "Cheap" and whichever one you (re)pick is the ironic one.

Not to worry, all those people apparently died of drug overdoses last year: Trump Claims 300 Million People Died of Drug Overdoses Last Year. -- out of a U.S. population of 340 million, btw. For the record, "there were only 62.4 million deaths globally in 2024" from *all* causes.

Google: trump 300 million died drugs

Noting that individuals eventually die off while the collective lives on. I know Marie Antoinette didn't actually say this, but "Let them eat cake" didn't turn out so well for the actual few with cake when the hungry masses showed up. Caring about everyone includes you and yours...

Not arguing your points, but want to add that MAGA does this too as loyal followers are deemed "not MAGA enough". It's a group of exclusion where the criteria for inclusion is constantly arbitrarily re-decided.

Which, to be clear, is protected here in the U.S. under the First Amendment -- contrary to what A.G. Pam Bondi said (then walked back, but probably still wants to be true even though she seriously should know this), and many on the Right complaining about anyone saying anything against Charlie Kirk (as just recent examples).

Seems to be ignoring that said information is often obtained from someone who shouldn't be releasing it. Journalists aren't stealing this information, it's being given to them. [*cough* Signal *cough*] If that information is new-worthy, especially if it's about the military/administration doing something wrong, illegal or suspect, it's their job to report it. The public casts the votes and pays the bills... This Administration should (try to) remember who serves who.

Just say what you mean.
Democrats are the party of the wealthy now, btw.
https://politicalsciencenow.co...

If by "will go back" you mean "will be deported". If they're even allowed to stay long enough to graduate...

Make it an Xbox game -- try to import things while avoiding / minimizing tariffs.
(Ironically, there will probably be a tariff on the game.)

The Left assumes the Right is just the same sort of Cult of Personality that they themselves are, just on the other side.*

*(Sadly, as an old school conservative, I'm actually just as or more troubled by the what-we-formerly-called-neoCons and activist Republicans who DO act just like Dems just marching behind a different flag, cf the FCC/Kimmel thing I think is a conservative own-goal because it is asinine the US gov't is 'weighing in' on the content of some mid-talent late night show with like 120k viewers. Likewise most of Trump's bombast just gets in the way of what he's trying to do.)

They don't realize the Left and the Right FUNDAMENTALLY see the relationship to power differently, in a different framework, and with an entirely different context.

I know the global climate change strawman is pretty much everywhere. I've been fighting you morons on this for 30 years since IPCC 2. That's back when they left their sources online - eg tree ring data - so I could gophur it, throw the raw data into excel and see there was NO SUCH TREND as discussed.

"Climate is changing" well yes it's always changed
"but now it's warming" yes we're coming out of an interglacial, duh?
"no, HUMANS are causing this" they really aren't; the climb of temperature is basically identical in scope, slope, and timing to the previous 30x-40x spikes we've seen in paleoclimate reconstructions every 120k-ish years for around the last 4 million years. Temp spikes, then settles back to a rough norm.
"(increasingly shrill) THIS TIME IT'S PEOPLE you fascist!" well, now you have to explain a) how you can discern this is different from one of those, b) where the previous usual expected spike went, and c) how the earth's climate systems that responded to the previous repeat events won't do exactly the same thing.
"grr but 97% of climate scientists agree!" that's been debunked so many times I'm not bothering to do it again. How curious that people who make their living and gov't grants from declaring the sky is falling, insist that indeed, the sky is falling.
"fuck you nazi" yeah, right back at you.

The funny thing is I *absolutely* agree that human activity is very likely increasing the warming to some degree, or if not that, it's probable that a longer steady warming over centuries was suppressed by heavy particulate load from the industrial revolution; our SUCCESS at (and economic changes) clearing/reducing particulates has resulted in the system 'rebounding' likely appearing to be sudden warming.
I also agree it's stupid to shit where you eat, and we absolutely need to work on stronger efforts to clean water, clean air, and a cleaner environment wherever possible.

I just think that this whole discussion is a bullshit trend that the ecomarxists and left have barnacled onto and my failing to genuflect to their Catastrophist Creed and Holy CO2 Ghost marks me as an apostate. (shrug) I don't give a shit.

Is that ELI5 for you? I don't expect to change your mind but occasionally I like to lay it out there on the ridiculously small chance someone other than you reads it.

You dumb fuck already complained that "I was only talking about a study of northern cities" so it's a little hard to claim that you don't know precisely what data I was referring to.

Although I will agree you're pretty convincing at playing stupid.