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In reply to the discussion: The president need not be a trained herpetologist. [View all]Wiz Imp
(8,762 posts)44. I talked about this in a previous post
It was in response to this:
He said he won every county in Texas along the border. That is false. Harris won 2 counties along the border including the one with by far the largest population (El Paso County which Harris won by 15%). Most of those border counties are very low population counties. There were only 3 counties along the border (in addition to El Paso) which had as many as 16,000 votes. Trump won those by 2%, 2.9% & 5.8%. Hardly landslide victories.
He also told a rambling story about a snake in Peru. I honestly didn't pay much attention to what he said there, but I did hear him say this snake was the most venomous in the world.
In reality, non of the 12 most evnomous snakes can be found anywhere in South America (or anywhere else in the Western Hemisphere) so the snake his story was about wasn't anywhere near the most venomous snake in the world. Most of the most venomous snakes in the world are found in Australia, a fact that I'm sure Trump has no clue about.
He also said 28,000 people die each year in Peru of snake bites. In reality, there's only about 2,150 total snake bites each year in Peru, and of those, only 10 people die.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/sweaty-trump-rambles-about-snakes-and-thirsts-over-ivanka-lookalike/
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Confused w/Venezuela ? Not at all beyond possibility -- in fact, quite probable.
eppur_se_muova
Dec 16
#7
This is arguable since there are snakes that have a good chance of being poisonous.
PurgedVoter
Dec 17
#53
I have seen a fer-de-lance in Costa Rica. My gardener killed one 2 weeks ago and brought to the house to show me!
sinkingfeeling
Dec 16
#42
He said it started to flee when he encountered it within 20 feet of my pool, but then
sinkingfeeling
Dec 17
#50
His brain is undergoing frontotemporal dementia - on top of the malignant narcissistic personality disorder
summer_in_TX
Dec 16
#49
most blather out of oompa's hamburger hole is bullshit. if he was poor at a bar, he's be a crank.
pansypoo53219
Dec 17
#52