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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 believedand could not be convinced otherwisethat 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 doesnt understand that election officials dont 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, Trumps second eldest son became apoplectic as the 45th presidents lead started shrinking in Pennsylvania and other stateson account of election officials insistence that all the votes be countedand, like his father, determined there was no explanation other than fraud.
Per the Post:
Why are they still counting votes? Trump asked. The elections 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. Theyre stealing this from us, Trump said. We have this thing won. I won in a landslide and theyre taking it back. Of course, nobody was taking anything. Election officials were simply doing their duty, counting ballots. But Trump didnt 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 presidents 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
EYESORE 9001
(25,927 posts)Being the quiet one in the dumbndumber 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 dont 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)Trump said it so it must be true. Id think his yes men knew they were just yes men but apparently not.
Hugin
(33,120 posts)
"officials dont just stop counting votes when the candidate he wants to win is ahead."
Damn, I've been doing wrong all along.
The King of Prussia
(737 posts)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)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.
twodogsbarking
(9,732 posts)Casady1
(2,133 posts)So much for these degrees.
Duppers
(28,120 posts)Schools can be bought.
GoCubsGo
(32,079 posts)They don't understand how votes are counted, either. This is part of why those suckers believe The Big Lie.
SKKY
(11,803 posts)Aussie105
(5,380 posts)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.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)ecstatic
(32,682 posts)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.
lastlib
(23,213 posts)doesn't counteract the effect of eating paste.
joetheman
(1,450 posts)samnsara
(17,616 posts)czarjak
(11,266 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Stuart G
(38,416 posts)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)