If the government’s spending power supports something/someone that does things the government is forbidden from doing per our rights, isn’t that the same exact thing as the government violating our rights?
I giggle every time I read or hear, “AR Assault Rifle”.
If the AR is for the AR-15, then you’re mistaken on the meaning. That doesn’t stand for assault rifle. It’s for Armalite, the original developer of the gun.
Armalite Rifle Assault Rifle is a bit clumsy. But people get so intensely hung up on the jargon because they’re angry the conversation is even happening.
Guy with a locker full of guns shits the bed when his son goes on a murder spree, and then we all get an earful about how we don’t know enough about guns to understand why he was a reckless owner.
AR is just for Armalite, not Armalite rifle. Anyway, ywa it doesn’t matter.
It’s an entirely innocuous statement. What are they supposed to say instead?
- “15 Assault Rifle” or “Assault Rifle 15” just makes no sense.
- “AR-15” isn’t understood by all people to mean an assault rifle, since not everyone knows gun names.
- “Assault Rifle” doesn’t tell people which kind of assault rifle it is, since the AR in AR-15 stands for ArmaLite.
It’s a statement that gives the most possible context to the reader about:
- What design of assault rifle it is
- What type of gun it is in general
- While also allowing readers to then learn the definition of the sole term “AR-15” over time
The “AR” in “AR-15” doesn’t stand for “Assault Rifle” though. It stands for “Armalite-15”. Armalite being the company that originally developed the modular firing mechanism that we all know today. Technically speaking, the only part that is legally classified as a gun is the actual firing mechanism that Armalite developed; Everything else (like the barrel, stock, and handle) is just add-ons and accessories.
So yeah, calling it an AR-15 assault rifle would be correct. Though there’s also the debate on what actually constitutes an “assault rifle”, as people seem to just use a “you’ll know it when you see it” rule for identifying assault rifles.
Wow, so that bullet BARELY clipped him? And he has all those pictures of him trying to act heroic?
Veterans (AKA “suckers and losers” according to Trump) must hate this guy…
No bullet touched him, it’s not like in the movies, if a round had even grazed his ear it would have removed a nice chunk of it. Extremely fast objects don’t slice you nice and cleanly.
Extremely fast objects don’t slice you nice and cleanly.
What? If is a light graze, yes they would just scrape(or even penetrates thin cartilage)- even if its hollow-point if the target is thin enough.
Shrapnel creates jagged punctures. JHPs do not work the way you think. They mushroom out to create a larger wound channel. FMJs are much more likely to fragment into pieces upon impact. The FBI apparently is taking trumps word for it, but odds are trump being hit with something one of the bullets hit.
Shrapnel creates jagged punctures.
So?? I’m confused what that has anything to do with whether he was grazed, or penetrated lightly.
They mushroom out to create a larger wound channel.
Yes in flesh.
Fragmenting nor expansion are going to happen in something as thin as an ear.
Trump’s ear isn’t a steel plate, its a very thin piece of flesh, it doesn’t absorb much energy before breaking.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_gelatin#Calibration] I’m no physicist, but if a smaller and much slower BB penetrates over 3.3in through solid flesh, I think the less than half an inch of an ear will not absorb much of the bullets energy.
I think you’re missing the point here, the knick he had on his ear was so damn small that it’s way more likely it was a piece of something from the podium vs a piece of a bullet. The angle also mean if that was a round or piece of a round his head would have been in the way.
I think you’re missing the point here, the knick he had on his ear was so damn small that it’s way more likely it was a piece of something from the podium vs a piece of a bullet.
Why does it being small make that more likely? There is a photo of a bullet going right past his head.
The angle also mean if that was a round or piece of a round his head would have been in the way.
Do you have a source for that?
Exactly, a picture of one going right past his head, he was damn near at a right angle to the shooter. He didn’t turn fully to star at the shooter, so unless he’s made of ar500 plates the odds of that being a bullet is basically 0.
They were saying it was most likely a piece of the teleprompter that nicked his ear.
Yep, why the FBI is wanting to basically look into it.
The FBI has already confirmed that he was struck by a bullet
Did they? I thought they told congress they were not sure.
Trump’s campaign has also declined to release medical records from the hospital where he was first treated or to make the doctors there available for questions.
So they’ve not been able to talk to the doctors, just got the info from trump himself lol
Do you have a source?
you got one that isn’t just
republicans say FBI revised that it was a bullet that took out half his ear?
Read the first sentence
Funny how no one has the actual release just those words saying fbi totally said it
I’m assuming all those free-speech nuts are really going after Musk for doing this right?
I’m joking, we all know it’s just free-speech for the things they agree with …
Elon Goebbels really seems to be working hard on this one.
Can we revoke his government contracts now?
I mean, they didn’t even do that when he literally fucked up a Ukrainian operation against Russia.
Money rules this country. It stopped being a democratic republic a long time ago.
Journalists need to stop fucking using Twitter for fucks sake.
At the end of the day incentives are incentives. All the engineers Elon fired when he took over did in fact build a site that’s really good for announcing things like news to the world, and it was really quite complex behind the scenes. And if someone wants to replicate that, it’s a lot of work with the added problem that unlike the original Twitter, they have to compete with Twitter in building a new network. Additionally, social media news just isn’t very profitable which is why Meta/Threads has discouraged news and politics. So unfortunately Twitter is really all there is, social media news now essentially has a strong built-in right wing bias for the foreseeable future.
Hard to get an audience if you leave big tech, Twitter included
Yes, my content was way up when I joined Twitter, before Musk. I deleted it and took the financial hit, don’t want customers from that user base now anyway
We all need to stop using Twitter to be fair.
I really hate when news articles embed tweets directly as a source, it’s blocked by Privacy Badger, so I only see an article full of holes. Why can’t they use screenshots?
Mastodon: “I’m the guy in the picture!”
Even just mirroring their stuff to one of the Twitter alternatives would be nice
It’s still wild to me that people announce things on X (né twitter).
Bastion of free speech
This speech wasn’t quite free enough sorry
If that’s an actual photo from today then I doubt he was grazed much because I skinned my knee biking the day before his rally. I’ve still got a giant scab there.
Also Pete Souza isn’t just anyone. He’s a former director of the White House photo office.
It probably means he’s on blood thinners. You’ll bleed like you cut an artery even with a tiny nick.
So he probably had a tiny cut that just bleed a lot because of blood thinners.
the ear is also mostly cartilage, so i wouldnt be surprised if there was a lot of blood flowing through them constantly, especially at the very top of the ear where he was grazed. Very well could still be on blood thinners, but i think i would just expect the ear to bleed pretty aggressively in some cases.
My thoughts exactly. I was on them for a time and I’d bleed FOREVER if I cut myself shaving. That’s when I learned about styptic pencils and alum blocks.
Styptic stuff is amazing. I didn’t find out about it until I was in my late 30s
Stings like a bitch but sure does work
Could be, but then blood thinners also make the wound heal longer.
So he’s probably off them to let it heal fast and back on. If it’s just a nick, a day off doesn’t sound too drastic.
When your a 90 year old turd with a steady diet of trash, not taking blood thinners for a day might be your last day.
When your veins and arteries are lined with years’ worth of fast food grease, it could be pretty drastic actually
Most blood thinners work for 7 days after you stop taking them because that’s how long thrombocytes live in your bloodstream.
So it was a really small one then, ok.
Similarly, I cut the crap out of my hand on a waterslide 2 weeks ago - grabbed the fiberglass side while trying to right myself so my kid wouldn’t get dunked - and it’s still healing. Close to being back to normal, but you can still clearly see where It was for sure
You wanna post the other 3/4 of these?
I’m not digging through an Instagram profile to look for that shit
Much appreciated
Jfc. The tinfoil hat mentality in this thread is insane. GJ conspiracy club.
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I am annoyed by folks who say “AR-15 Assault rifle” its a fucken AR-15 and im pretty sure the one used was at best in something closer to a range rifle or sharpshooter configuration. Most of what makes an assault rifle are pretty random but I feel like selective fire is a pretty important one. Aight gun rant over.
Also I wish BARs were more common cause I feel like theyd have a good hunting community due to being .308.
I think it’s because non-gun people see “AR-15”, hear it being called an assault rifle, and assume the AR stands for Assault Rifle. It doesn’t, it stands for ArmaLite Rifle, but good luck breaking that association in their minds.
Yeah I know, I just find it real fucken annoying, its like the term assault weapon. It means nothing and is literally just a buzz word, and I really wish folks would nock it off. Learn at least a modicum about firearms before ya start yapping, I dont mind if folks want to put slight restrictions around certain weapons just dont be stupid.
If ya think ya can create a gun completely out of 3D printed materials barrel and all. Well I have a carbon fibre submarine to sell ya.
“Most of what makes an assault rifle are pretty random but I feel like selective fire is a pretty important one. Aight gun rant over.”
As someone trained in an army, it’s weird seeing American politics trying to pretend like being able to switch to full automatic is somehow a game changer, that that needs to be the line, that that is what makes a firearm properly dangerous. First off, you don’t use full auto really anywhere. You use semi-auto, double-shots, center-mass. Secondly, those “bump-stocks” are awful easy to make for the semi-autos already sold at supermarkets in the US.
Most of what makes an assault rifle is a somewhat large magazine capacity and semi-automatic firing. Look at pretty much any conflict since a bit after WWI. What were the major advantages of the M1 Garand, for instance? It’s not a huge mag, 8-round internal box magazine, but that added with the semi-automatic firing makes it far superior to any bolt-action rifle.
Point being if it shoots rather fast and has several bullets, you should probably have some regulations on it.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-simple-truth-about-gun-control
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And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
THIS SHIT ISN’T FUNNY ANYMORE
It’s so on-the-nose that I don’t even Trump is the parody anymore, it’s evangelical Christianity that’s the real parody. A group of folks who make a story about a socialist day laborer from the Middle East and use it to justify white supremacy, unfettered capitalism, and wealth as a measure of God’s love falling in line behind a cartoonishly accurate representation the “bad guy” in their book…exactly like their book said they would.
Out of context it sounds like something.
But add the lines right before and it’s more clearly fever dream gibberish of a dying old man:
And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, and on its horns were ten diadems, and on its heads were blasphemous names. And the beast that I saw was like a leopard, its feet were like a bear’s, and its mouth was like a lion’s mouth. And the dragon gave it his power and his throne and great authority.
Did Trump come out of the sea? Does he look like a leopard with bear feet and a lion mouth?
People have been misunderstanding and trying to extend parts of that text to contemporary events since it was written.
You’re right, but it’s also funny that Christianity has generally streamlined taking things out of context. I just say "Revelation 13:3 and boom, that verse is cited out of context. Endless pamphlets, posters, sermons, and so on focus on bringing some verse without context.
Apocalyptic literature isn’t meant to be taken literally. It’s a common mistake though, even among so-called Christians. “Mouth like a lion” could mean boastful, roaring, brave, loud, threatening, or any number of things.
And yet I’ve not seen anyone figure out that the locusts in Revelations was just a poetic taxonomy for the local middle eastern hornet, Vespa Orientalis, down to the golden crown on its face.
People like to interpret those texts in all sorts of fantastical ways as long as it titillates them, but shy away from actually looking plainly at what’s being said.
So by all means don’t take it literally. But also maybe don’t think that a text written by a syphilitic old man in antiquity is talking about the 2024 United States presidential election without a more compelling case.
Mar-a-lago Spanish - sea to lake
There are 9 current trump towers. Moscow would make 10
7 heads with blasphemous names - TRUMP on the top
Feet of a bear -Russia is known as the bear in the west since early 20th century.
Lion mouth - have you heard him speak? (Who hasn’t, he’s loud, boisterous, like a lion)
As this comment shows it’s very easy to twist the meaning of something like this to suit your needs when viewing it through the lens of metaphor as the author intended. However, I’m fairly certain historians have figured out fairly definitively that the beast in revelations was always meant to depict Emperor Nero. I’m too lazy to look it up right now though so I could be wrong.
See also anyone trying to rationalize Nostradamus prophecies. People love contorting things like that to somehow vindicate them.
And some people believe this to be true.
And some peoeple are ACTIVELY TRYING TO BRING ABOUT THE END OF THE FUCKING WORLD.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Mountain_Mandate
"The movement was generally supportive of the presidency of Donald Trump, with member Paula White becoming Trump’s spiritual advisor. White claimed that Trump “will play a critical role in Armageddon as the United States stands alongside Israel in the battle against Islam.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/167499/new-apostolic-reformation-mastriano-christian
I’ve not seen his feet, but he certainly has a lyin’ mouth
Any other president that cared for the American people would have offered and grieved for the Americans that got shot that day.
No one knows about them…
No one hears about them…
Only know what around the internet, were others shot? Casualties?
2 dead and 3 injured.
I thought it was 1 dead 2 injured. That’s what’s on Wikipedia.
Corey Comperatore, the volunteer fire chief was the one who died. Was there another?
Wikipedia does say 2+3. (Including the shooter and Trump). Scroll up to the summery.
Oh, right, yeah. The question was whether others were shot. I didn’t think they were concerned about the shooter and obviously Trump wasn’t seriously hurt.
Biden actually reached out to the widow of the retired Fire Chief. She refused his call because her dead husband wouldn’t want her talking to Biden.
Trump never bothered to reach out, but did hold her up as a prop at the RNC.
Hang on, this guy seriously took a picture where there is no injury to his ear? What was all the blood then? This one needs independent corroboration.
Scalp and ear tissue heals really fast. I’ve had 5 ear surgeries, eardrum replaced with cartilage, titanium prosthesis, whole 9 yards, but 3 weeks is all it takes for the graft to ‘take’ and for me to be off lifting (and sneezing) restrictions
Wait they replaced your ear drum with cartilage? Does it work? Can you hear?
Yeah, my hearing’s normal in the ‘problem ear’, as good as my non-affected ear, which is pretty fortunate, and there’s only a scar way way back behind the ear, where it meets the skull, so it’d be hard for anyone to even notice. I had some recurring cyst thing in my right ear, cholesteatoma, but to remove it they pretty much have to drill behind the ear, cut out the ear drum, remove all the hearing bones, and then remove the cyst from those 2 angles. Then they replace the bones with a titanium rod and replace the ear drum with a small amount of cartilage harvested from the ear. Sounds kinda barbaric, kinda is, but 3 weeks is all it takes to recover from all of that. Even the scar from the incision behind the ear is mostly healed after a couple weeks
Wow sounds intense. Hope things are good and glad you can still hear.
For real! The procedure sounds crazier the longer I read, all the way until removing the tiny bones and replacing them. Hugely impressive that modern medicine allows for working with such delicate and small structures.
When an octopus gets frightened it releases ink to confuse predators. Due to his love of hamburgers Donnie releases catsup.
Do not bring us cephalopods into this.
Well they do say imitation is the best form of flattery.
Not when it’s Elon!
No, that’s just mental illness.
I’m down to flatter ol’ Elonald with some immolation.
2 weeks is plenty of time for a shallow, skin-only graze to heal. And ear cuts can bleed a ton.
In addition, a competent plastic surgeon would likely make it look like it had never happened. I hope he goes to jail for the crimes he committed, but do people really expect him to wear an ear diaper the rest of his life?
He wears orange facepaint every day, so yeah, I did.
Honestly, I thought he would milk it until the election somehow. We can’t be right all the time I guess!
Note that I believe he will milk it forever, but he’s also fairly vain.
I was thinking the same thing. But something tells me the people who’d be in charge of banning the photographer, if not Musk himself, wouldn’t know that.
There was supposedly a big chunk out of his ear. Now it’s just a skin-only graze that heals super fast? Very convenient
Ears, scalp, cuticles… all places that bleed like crazy.
Especially when you’re on blood thinners
The AP does indeed claim that that photo is from July 27, but I think that date is wrong. I can’t find this exact picture but here’s an article with an almost identical picture of him climbing the same stairs, published in March.
Blue and black suit. Airplane fuselage in the background of one. Different angles of his face, different lighting. They are similar, but I wouldn’t call them nearly identical.
And yet here is another source with a different photo recently, so there’s no reason to think this tweet’s photo is deceptive:
Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump attends Turning Point Action’s The Believers Summit 2024 in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., July 26, 2024 (REUTERS)
It looks entirely consistent.
I stand corrected.
Could simply be his other ear and photograph is just mirrored. Like screens, you raise your left hand but to your reflection it’s its right hand.
His asymmetric haircut would give it away.
Seems unlikely since it was posted by the guy who took the picture.
It was probably caused when like eight huge guys shoved him to the ground.
The guy’s nearly 80. Shit gets injured easily when you’re old.
Real bullets were fired for sure, but I don’t think they actually came within a centimetre of preserving democracy. We’re not that unlucky.
If you’d actually watched the videos you’d have seen blood on the way to the ground; something definitely hit his ear.
I think he wasn’t hit by a bullet but by shrapnel from something else that was hit. It’ probably superficial.
