Looks like they got moved to a different thread. But if someone is talking about Trump, or any R or D public official, the post, even if just a quote, will inevitably have a partisan tone in this politically charged environment. It's just the stupid fucking world we live in. I don't give a shit what he or any other R or D have to say on a fast paced news thread unless it's a flat out statement of facts. A lot of us don't care and actively try to avoid what any of those idiots say as it's fucking irrelevant to the goal of actually becoming educated on any given topic. When I click on a thread like that in DT, I want fact aggregation and expertise aggregation (what has historically made DT great is we have experts on damn near any topic in the community) and then community discussion on same. If I want to bitch about Trump or Kamala or similar I can go to the Cloak Room for that. But inevitably in damn near any thread someone has to chime in on what Trump said, and someone reacts, and off we go. Then yeah, those of us that are actively trying to avoid partisan bullshit end up bitching about the Cloak Roomers which, to your point, further dilutes the discussion.