Bernardo de La Paz
Bernardo de La Paz's JournalDo the gedanken (thought) experiment
1. Bullet flies by, one millimetre outside of ear. No damage.
2. Bullet path is now 2 mm closer. Thus one mm of the ear will be damaged (blown away). Not more than that because the ear is knocked out of the way.
If you think one mm would blow off the whole ear, then do the thought experiment at 1/2 mm deep or 1/10 mm deep.
The point is that there will be some deepness that yields the damage photographed. There is no jump transition in deepness where one depth does almost no damage and some fraction of mm totally blows the ear away. It is going to be an increasing graph of damage, gradually increasing as the depth gets deeper.
Thus there is some depth that will make the damage photographed.
Ear closeup. You can see a bit of white cartilage and two wounds, consistent with the trajectory of the bullet
Nope. Here's a bullet wound that didn't "take the ear away", nor blow the head like an apple
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324749000_Telescopic_removal_of_bullet_in_a_challenging_case_of_gunshot_injury
Their messaging is all cotton candy as to policy plus "take my country back" from the Other they hate
So our messaging should call them out and contrast our policy specifics vs their lies. Contrast who we love versus who they hate.
They are afraid of exposure of the specifics of Project 2025 and they have nothing to pivot to from who they hate.
Key false assumption Johnson et al don't want you to observe:
The false assumption Johnson and others want unquestioned as they "flood the zone with shit" (Bannon strategy) is the assumption that Biden is quitting from incompetence.
No. He is not resigning. He is not incompetent. He won't even be incompetent four years from now.
Biden is quitting the campaign because sufficient Democrats believe that sufficient quantities of voters believe that Biden is either incompetent now or will become incompetent sometime in the next four years.
Not because of voters' confirmed opinions.
Because of some Democrats opinions of opinions. Very derivative, very much only conjecture. But what is done is done.
Johnson can just fuck off and go check up on his porn-protected son.
We should not spend much time on this, because Johnson and others are doing this just to distract and consume oxygen in the room. Dismiss it and move on to other topics, like Biden/Harris accomplishments.
Like you'd put yourself in sights of a high powered rifle w troubled man behind it. Not even tRump would. .nt
And that has the same weight as Constitutional eligibility for President long forms?
In the final analysis:
If it was a shard, tRump was lucky to avoid assassination. Because he was shot at.
If it was a bullet, tRump was lucky to avoid assassination. Because he was shot at.
Essentially no difference of any consequence.
It is a fact that the teleprompters are intact, but you ignore that fact because you already decided
You already decided it was either like a head on shot to a watermelon or a teleprompter shard because his head didn't explode like a watermelon explodes from a direct hit. You wrote 'I'm in the "nicked by a piece of the teleprompter" camp' and post a watermelon head on shot as if to prove it wasn't a bullet.
You ignore abundant evidence that it was NOT a teleprompter shard.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bullet-glass-trump-wound/
Big fundamental errors people make, exemplified by your post
The watermelon shot is head on. The bullet penetrates the hard unyielding shell of the watermelon and as it does so, the shock waves have to go somewhere. But the shell is unyielding, so the shock waves ripple around and where the shell is thinner and weaker it breaks up. In the mean time, the bullet is penetrating into the interior which is also solid, inflexible, though it is deliciously crunchable. But the waves travelling through the interior also set up stresses that get resolved at weak points. Overall result is that the watermelon absorbs a lot of the energy of the bullet and explodes.
The ear shot is NOT head on. The ear sticks out and is barely nicked by the bullet. It is like the difference between shooting a 4 mm thick leaf and shooting a watermelon.
The ear is not brittle like watermelon or a head. It is based on flexible cartilage. Challenge it, and it gets knocked aside. The flexibility means that the energy is absorbed by the movement of the ear and not transmitted. Plus the shot was front to back, so the ear easily moves. The other way there would have been more damage but definitely nothing like an exploding skull.
The ear shot transfers very little energy into a nick. It takes a chunk out because it does have energy, but that chunk is not pushed deeper into the watermelon or head transferring energy as it goes. The earlobe is thin, like about 4 millimeters.
There is not much "there" there in an earlobe. Only idiots and hagiographers believe he was shot in the face. To post an exploding watermelon is to accept the "shot in the face" narrative.
1) Trump was not shot in the face on like the watermelon video.
2) Ears are flexible unlike watermelons.
3) Ears are thin unlike watermelons or heads behind faces.
4) The bullet was photographed in flight after it nicked his ear.
It is necessary to analyze these things more deeply than just a "oh head shots make heads explode" first take.
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