“A whole civilisation will be destroyed - what an appalling way for a president to talk. Future generations - if we survive will look back and ask how this president could have remained in office. Either Article 25 or impeachment must be exercised.” (π 339, π 117)
“Textbook definition of a terrorist: If I can’t have my way, then I will blow up stuff.” (π 330, π 99)
“Independent Christian and I am actually ashamed of my vote for Trump at this point. His post are vile, childish and disgraceful at every level. He is a tarnish on our nation. He WILL NEVER BE A Reagan…..” (π 117, π 22)
“That is such a sick thing to say. I voted for him 3x, but making a threat like that is no better than the threats Iran has made. Stooping down to their level is a huge turn off. I’m sick of hearing his rants.” (π 117, π 16)
“We use to believe Maga when they said “Make America Great Again” instead of DRAINING the swamp.. they became the swamp. This sick version of America Is not who we are as a Nation, never was, and never should be.” (π 95, π 13, πΊπΈ 6)
The news article with the comments is here. Unlike with previous “happenings” where supporters showed up in great numbers to downvote the opposition, the above is a representative sample of the most highly ranked posts. Scrolling through β and hand to heart the only time I scroll through Fox News comments is at times like this, so about once every few months β my mind flashed back to mid-January 2020 when I checked out N95 masks available on Amazon and saw that they were all either out of stock or selling for $100+ per pack. Motivated reasoning FTW.