Quote Originally Posted by Rucker61 View Post
Yeah, there's nothing like wishing 40% of your fellow Americans to die. Through prayer, too. Nice.
Paraphrased from another post:

It's called hyperbole.

hy·per·bo·le

   /haɪˈpɜrbəli/ Show Spelled[hahy-pur-buh-lee] Show IPA
noun Rhetoric . 1. obvious and intentional exaggeration.

2. an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “to wait an eternity.”




It's a new thing, not everybody's heard of it yet.