 or had 2.1 million views as of Monday, although it did not carry one of the hashtags that proliferated around the Internet from Saturday into Sunday. Quote, a presidential candidate got shot in the face, and our collective reaction as a country was to laugh because nothing has ever looked so fake, it said. Now, I don't know a single person whose reaction was to laugh, but then again, I'm not a sociopath, and I don't surround myself with sociopaths.