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hookaleft

(938 posts)
Thu Jul 15, 2021, 05:16 AM Jul 2021

ERIC TRUMP PULLS AHEAD IN RACE TO DETERMINE DUMBEST TRUMP OFFSPRING

One thing that Trumpologists have known for years but that the rest of the world learned starting in 2016 is that intelligence is not a dominant gene in the Trump family. Obviously, patriarch Donald Trump is not smart at all, a small smattering of evidence being his suggestion that Americans inject household cleaner into their veins; his bright idea to stop hurricanes by dropping nuclear bombs on them; his decision to look directly at a solar eclipse multiple times without protective eyewear; and his claim that one can get cancer from the sound of windmills. But the children, too, are clearly dumber than a bag of bricks. Ivanka Trump reportedly believed—and could not be convinced otherwise—that “libertarian” and “liberal” were the same thing. Donald Trump Jr. was declared too stupid to collude by Robert Mueller. And according to a new account of election night 2020, Eric Trump apparently had no idea how vote counting works, in that he doesn’t understand that election officials don’t just stop counting votes when the candidate he wants to win is ahead.

Yes, according to an excerpt from a new book by Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, Trump’s second eldest son became apoplectic as the 45th president’s lead started shrinking in Pennsylvania and other states—on account of election officials’ insistence that all the votes be counted—and, like his father, determined there was no explanation other than fraud.

Per the Post:

“Why are they still counting votes?” Trump asked. “The election’s closed. Are they counting ballots that came in afterward? What the hell is going on?” Trump, through a spokesman, denied saying this. The president told [Kellyanne] Conway that he thought something nefarious was at play. “They’re stealing this from us,” Trump said. “We have this thing won. I won in a landslide and they’re taking it back.” Of course, nobody was taking anything. Election officials were simply doing their duty, counting ballots. But Trump didn’t see it that way. He seemed to truly believe he had been winning.

Eric Trump, who the night before had predicted to friends that his father would win with 322 electoral college votes, flipped out in the Map Room. “The election is being stolen,” the president’s 36-year-old son said. “Where are these votes coming from? How is this legit?”

The votes, of course, were coming from…the voters. Nevertheless, Eric persisted:

*snip*

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/07/eric-trump-election-night-votes

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ERIC TRUMP PULLS AHEAD IN RACE TO DETERMINE DUMBEST TRUMP OFFSPRING (Original Post) hookaleft Jul 2021 OP
Eric doesn't get nearly enough credit for superlative stoopidin' skills EYESORE 9001 Jul 2021 #1
Ha Goonch Jul 2021 #2
Landslide underpants Jul 2021 #3
It would seem vote counting is like golf scores... Hugin Jul 2021 #9
One thing I've never understood The King of Prussia Jul 2021 #4
Size matters. SergeStorms Jul 2021 #6
The Olympics of Stupid. Competition is fierce. twodogsbarking Jul 2021 #5
the kids went to the Ivy's and Geoergetown Casady1 Jul 2021 #7
Yep, Shrub proved that. Duppers Jul 2021 #10
The scary part is that milions of Trump voters are just as stupid as is Eric. GoCubsGo Jul 2021 #8
If Stupid was people, Eric Trump would be China. SKKY Jul 2021 #11
In the collective mind of the Trump clan Aussie105 Jul 2021 #12
Remember these idiots weren't even register to vote for dumbo.... Historic NY Jul 2021 #13
EVERYONE went into the election knowing that, due to tfg's DISASTROUS ecstatic Jul 2021 #14
Eric is proof that being wealthy.... lastlib Jul 2021 #15
He is a drug addict. Period! joetheman Jul 2021 #16
he even looks stoopid samnsara Jul 2021 #17
How's the Russian financing going, Big Boy? czarjak Jul 2021 #18
He's always been in the lead. MoonRiver Jul 2021 #19
As a member of the famous, "Bag of Bricks Commission" we take issue with this Stuart G Jul 2021 #20

EYESORE 9001

(25,927 posts)
1. Eric doesn't get nearly enough credit for superlative stoopidin' skills
Thu Jul 15, 2021, 05:32 AM
Jul 2021

Being the ‘quiet one’ in the dumb’n’dumber duo formed with his brother, his preposterous prattle often gets eclipsed by the manic, coke booger-flinging hysteria from jr. To paraphrase the adage, people don’t get to appreciate just how stoopid you really are unless you get in front of a camera and microphone to let it fly.

underpants

(182,769 posts)
3. Landslide
Thu Jul 15, 2021, 06:25 AM
Jul 2021

Trump said it so it must be true. I’d think his yes men knew they were just yes men but apparently not.

Hugin

(33,120 posts)
9. It would seem vote counting is like golf scores...
Thu Jul 15, 2021, 07:56 AM
Jul 2021

"officials don’t just stop counting votes when the candidate he wants to win is ahead."



Damn, I've been doing wrong all along.
4. One thing I've never understood
Thu Jul 15, 2021, 06:32 AM
Jul 2021

Is why running tallies are published in the US. Here (UK) all the votes are counted then the result is given.

SergeStorms

(19,193 posts)
6. Size matters.
Thu Jul 15, 2021, 07:46 AM
Jul 2021

With all due respect (my Dad's side of the family hails from the U.K.) the United States is so much bigger than the U.K. there's no fair comparison.

Your elections take place in one time zone, while elections in mainland U.S. take three hours, and when counting Alaska and Hawaii expands to seven hours.

Sorry to say, "size matters" when comparing elections.

GoCubsGo

(32,079 posts)
8. The scary part is that milions of Trump voters are just as stupid as is Eric.
Thu Jul 15, 2021, 07:54 AM
Jul 2021

They don't understand how votes are counted, either. This is part of why those suckers believe The Big Lie.

Aussie105

(5,380 posts)
12. In the collective mind of the Trump clan
Thu Jul 15, 2021, 08:02 AM
Jul 2021

only they were real, and others in America but vague shadows easily bent to the collective Trump Borg mind.

The Trump clan wrote the election script, the dumb voters would just fill in the blanks, as directed by the Borg collective, and give the Trump clan the win they deserved, the win they had written into the script.

Like the stage director who melts into sweaty, teary hysteria when he sees the actors on stage not perform the way he had imagined it, they just fell apart when the true voting picture evolved before their eyes.

The collective Trump Borg mind had somehow failed, and the logical explanation? There were some devious and corrupt forces at play during the election process.

But Junior would be the most worried, after all, rumor has it he has some expensive habits to maintain.

As an outsider, it is not hard to see where the Trump delusional thinking came from, and why the more sane members of the family went along with it, but one question remains:

Why did millions of supposedly sane and fully functional Americans buy into the delusion as well?

It's a point of major concern for people around the world.







ecstatic

(32,682 posts)
14. EVERYONE went into the election knowing that, due to tfg's DISASTROUS
Thu Jul 15, 2021, 08:12 AM
Jul 2021

handling of the coronavirus, the results of the election would take days if not weeks to come in. Why? Because people didn't want to vote in person and risk getting covid. Even TFG whined about it prior to the election, although his dumbass said it would take "years" to count the vote. Then the evil clown pivoted to undermining mail-in voting and the US postal service.

I've come to the conclusion that Eric and Junior are equally dumb, it's just that Junior is also intoxicated/high most of the time.

Stuart G

(38,416 posts)
20. As a member of the famous, "Bag of Bricks Commission" we take issue with this
Thu Jul 15, 2021, 02:10 PM
Jul 2021

horrific post...

....Comparing Erick Trump to a "bag of bricks" inflicts pain and distress on our favorite building materials.
We should talk with respect and dignity with some of our famous construction friends. To insult bricks
by comparing them to Eric Trump goes way beyond the necessary. You know that bricks have what
is known as "respect" and Erick Trump has none of that, and he will forever be known as ...
.......stupider than a tree stump..(apologies to trees and tree stumps everywhere)

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