@mcfate @th3j35t3r
Thanks for filling in the missing piece -- sort of. If it was a whole bullet that grazed his ear, the sonic boom would have at least deafened him or stunned him. A fragment, though, would have slowed more quickly.
What's your theory? A radio-fired squib taped to the back of his ear?

@GeezerWench @TheAbbotTrithemius @Anouk @Fellixe He sounds like he's been picked already. Or like he's letting Harris know his speeches are written and his bags are packed.

@piquant00 A dish we call "inmalk," Captain. Usually for children, but some adults retain a taste for it.

@mcfate @th3j35t3r Muzzle velocity > velocity after 120m travel, and if fragments are considered, there's a wealth of possible subsonic objects.

@mcfate @th3j35t3r Bullet, bullet fragment, bit of debris -- I admit there's a very narrow window of mass, speed, and proximity to the skull to produce a wound like that, apparently ¼-inch of tissue literally shaved off. ¼-inch closer to his head would have shredded the whole ear.
The other plausible explanation is that he was wounded when the SS agents took him down.

@th3j35t3r The shiny bit near the top looks like scar tissue to me. (Not that this photo could be conclusive--the shine could be hair grease, makeup, an artifact.)
Only a tiny wound could heal this well in two weeks. Which is also consistent with the blood on his face and how little it affected him. As @mcfate said, ear gauges entail bigger holes than that.
So he was grazed by a bullet, so what? This is the US, people get shot all the time. Easy to believe, means nothing. He's still an ass.

@mcfate
Dishwashing? Why not cooking? "Not only does Anibal work cheap, we save money on meat. I don't know where he gets all that liver."

@mcfate Irony, pal. He's an idiot, but he understands irony as well as any 11-year-old (which is why he sounds like one when he uses it).

@mcfate From my exhaustive research, a full five minutes, it looks like talking about refugees and asylum seekers triggered thoughts of Lecter, long held in an asylum, and he superimposed Lecter's psychopathy on immigrants.
As for being "stuck" with Lecter's demise, that's just me assuming he wants to keep his story straight. Not that it matters -- he could tell his fans Lecter rose from the dead and turned into a talking turnip and they'd buy it. Contempt for "facts" is part of his strategy.

@mcfate The later books describe Dr. Lecter as a child during World War II, though -- old enough to remember his little sister and her fate -- so he'd be at least 85 years old now, old enough for rumors of his death to be plausible.
But he'd be a more useful bogeyman if he might still be alive, so maybe the "late, great" business just something that sounded good at the moment and now TFG is stuck with it.
#politics

@b2bjacks Same with Drumpf in New York right?
#politics

@mcfate Your perception is at odds with what I heard back in '16. He didn't gain a following by talking about adrenochrome, that was his 4chan partisans.
Best example is a couple of supporters who met him before he declared his candidacy, who remarked on his ability to convince whoever he was talking to that he understood their situation and was on their side.
That, with billionaire money from both sides of the Atlantic (and the Volga), makes a strong candidate. Even if he's an idiot.
#politics

@estherschindler Bones are a social construct.

@mcfate @th3j35t3r Because to most voters he's obviously an idiot. But to a sizable minority, even a majority in some polls, he's Jesus. And a sizable minority can swing an election.
Let's not underestimate him as we did in 2016.

@mcfate @th3j35t3r He has an uncanny sense of what people will go for. I read that on one of his shows -- must have been The Apprentice -- there was a fat guy the producers wanted to drop, they thought he wasn't telegenic -- but Cheetolini insisted he stay, and it turned out he was right.
Which doesn't mean he ought to be president, of course. He does enough damage as a TV show host.

@sfleetucker And now that it's been exposed, the bluenoses who complained about the books and the cop who conducted the investigation are pointing fingers at each other, each claiming it was all the other's idea:

"[Officer] London said the probe was simply a response to the complaint from Lowery and Brown and not driven by his own views. [...]
"Lowery, however, said in an email to reporters last year that it was London who asked if she and Brown would file the complaint...."

@Armchaircouch @Maude There's hardly any human activity that doesn't kill birds. Farming decimates habitat. Fossil fuel plants destroy whole biomes. Even the windows of my house, just standing there--birds fly into them. We put up some of those stickers that are supposed to warn birds there's a window there. A finch flew right into one of them.

@mcfate Oh, right. Living where I do I shoulda known that.

@th3j35t3r That pledge didn't last even one scaramucci, did it?