• Murse@slrpnk.net
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    No of course not, gunshot wounds to the ear heal up completely with no scar tissue in like 48 hours all the time. One of the ER techs asked Grok.

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      And the bow shock will totally mangle cartilage beyond that “I squirted ketchup” effect. And he’d be deaf, right? So many problems in this, another cheap caricature of a real thing.

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        And he’d be deaf, right?

        you can sustain a tremendous amount of mangling on the exterior of the ear and still hear. I don’t disagree it’d be mangled tho, not this slight nick. I think he grabbed glass and cut his own ear.

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            shockwave damage

            well, that’s the thing… these kind of pressure waves do tremendous damage IN tissue. outside of tissue, small arms caliber? ehhh… I don’t think there’s enough transfer from one medium to another - from the air to flesh. It’s def something I’d love to see tested.

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      So Trump lied about the bullet hitting his ear. There absolutely was a shooter and a bullet - just because Trump lied about his ear, it doesn’t mean you can just ignore the dead firefighter bystander, and pretend there were no shooter or bullet.

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        No one said there wasn’t a shooter or bullet - would you put Trump above sacrificing a pawn for a photo op?

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            Few reasons:

            • It played out like a cheesey action movie. Gunshot goes off, everyone dives down behind the podium for a sec where the cameras aren’t pointed, just long enough to pull a fake blood packet out of a pocket and also it onto his face. They emerge immediately after, everyone sporting an over-the-top expression of panic, except for stone cold badass Mr prez, who just pops up with a triumphant fist pump. (reminder, this is the same guy whose life flashed before his eyes as he was recoiling away from a bird on his desk that pecked in his direction)

            • We never saw damage to the ear tissue, just blood streaked on the skin.

            • Dude just casually climbs up to an extremely obvious vantage point with a long gun a stone’s throw away from someone under Secret Service protection, during an extremely public showing of an extremely controversial figure, and is allowed time to set up the shot.

            • Days later the bandages came off to reveal there wasn’t so much as a scab, it was just magically healed up completely.

            • So how would you make something like that look semi plausible? Kill someone in the audience. Trump doesn’t give a shit about his supporters or anyone else under his power. Firefighter? People fucking love firefighters - they’ll be real mad about that.

            So… It smells enough like bullshit that I’m calling it bullshit. Could have been something like the gunman was an impressionable dipshit that they knew could be easily radicalized, convinced him to take the shot, and sent him up with a fake bullet. An actual sniper nearby, possibly inside that same building, had his gun trained square onto the firefighter from an angle that didn’t put Trump at any risk, and assassinated the pawn. Cheesey action movie scene plays out, dude on the roof gets killed by responding agents, and bam: Trump is a living martyr. Would only take a few key people to be in on it.

            Outlandish? Absolutely, but less so than the official bullshit we were fed, and way more in character for Trump.

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              Except for stone cold badass Mr prez, who just pops up with a triumphant fist pump.

              Trump (like Reagan) was literally an actor, before becoming President. It is not that surprising that Trump can “act” when given an opportunity which arises.

              We never saw damage to the ear tissue, just blood streaked on the skin.

              Ear wounds bleed like crazy. It could be just a little nick.

              Dude just casually climbs up to an extremely obvious vantage point with a long gun a stone’s throw away from someone under Secret Service protection, during an extremely public showing of an extremely controversial figure, and is allowed time to set up the shot.

              Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

              Also if not incompetence, it would require a lot of people in on the conspiracy - random officers. That sort of thing leaks, unless everybody are really competent. And team Trump is simply not that competent.

              It would also require the shooter to more-or-less agree to be murdered.

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                Trump (like Reagan) was literally an actor, before becoming President. It is not that surprising that Trump can “act” when given an opportunity which arises.

                Well yeah… it looked like acting.

                Ear wounds bleed like crazy. It could be just a little nick.

                Little nicks still produce a scab. His ear was back to 100% in like 2 days. A fucking zit takes longer to heal than that.

                Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

                That rule absolutely does not apply to world leaders. He has mastered getting away with evil shit by playing the village idiot so people just brush it off as stupid.

                It would also require the shooter to more-or-less agree to be murdered.

                It would require him to agree to make an assassination attempt, fully expecting to take the shot and probably some elaborate escape plan – all without knowing his real instruction is to sit pretty while responding agents proceed to kill him. Again, outlandish and probably not how it actually went down, just an example of the kind of shit that’s less implausible than the official story, which is in direct conflict with what we saw plainly on national TV. ‘Ignore your eyes and ears’ and such.

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      Your “ask Grok” comment is particularly relevant because this day seems to be the turning point researchers cite for when Musk decided to fully support Trump.

      I could only speculate as to whether it was staged and Musk was involved in that, or if it was Musk’s genuine response, or what exactly, but its highly suspicious.