One Inch. God Must Be Laughing.

God must be laughing.

On July 13, 2024, Thomas Matthew Crooks, fired a rifle bullet at Donald Trump from approximately 400 feet away from the rally stage in Butler, Pennsylvania. Politico+9New York Post+9Wikipedia+9

Crooks used an AR–15–style rifle and discharged eight shots. One of these bullets grazed the upper part of soon-to-be President Donald Trump’s right ear, causing a 2-centimeter-wide wound. 

The bullet traveled 4800 inches and was 1 inch off its intended target. Did that one-inch deviation in flight change the history of the world?

According to ChatGPT, to miss by just 1 inch at a distance of 4,800 inches, the bullet’s angle would need to be off by only 0.012 degrees, about 1/8,000 of a full circle. Even a light gust of wind or a tiny thermal current could easily account for such a shift.

A barely noticeable crossbreeze of just 3.3 mph could have nudged the bullet enough to cause that 1-inch miss.

That 1-inch deviation means we would not have a president who claims global warming is a hoax and who said the ocean would only “go down 100th of an inch within the next 400 years.”

We would not have a President who doesn’t believe human activity is making extreme weather events worse, or who directed the immediate withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement and other international climate commitments. 

One inch, and we would not have a President who has taken over 140 actions to dismantle environmental protections, favoring fossil fuel expansion and reducing oversight of pollution and land use, aggressively promoted drilling and fossil fuel extraction, targeting a record 15 million barrels of oil per day.

But for one inch, qe would not have a President who dismissed scientists involved in the National Climate Assessment and reevaluated the report, and made sweeping staff cuts to key agencies like the EPA, NOAA, and FEMA, hindering their ability to monitor and respond to climate-related threats.

God must be laughing because that one inch means that we would not have a President who, despite climate change denial, has hired the world’s largest electric car maker as his “efficiency” czar. (The primary purpose of the electrification of cars is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution by shifting from fossil fuels to electricity.)

One inch and millions of valuable workers, taxpayers, and consumers will not have been deported without trial.

But for that one inch, we would not have a President who, when asked, “Don’t you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as president?” responded, “I don’t know. I have brilliant lawyers that work for me.”

One inch, and we would not have tax cuts for the rich, while “to pay for them,” we have tariffs, which effectively are sales taxes impacting the middle and lower economic groups.

One inch and our President would not deny that tariffs make prices go up, and then excuse the higher prices by saying, “I don’t think a beautiful baby girl that’s 11 years old needs to have 30 dolls. I think they can have 3 dolls or 4 dolls. They don’t need to have 250 pencils. They can have 5.”

One inch, and we would not have a Health and Human Services Secretary who has done everything in his power to delay and/or eliminate the use of vaccination to prevent disease.

One inch, and we would not have a President planning a giant and costly military parade down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., in honor of his own birthday.

One inch, and we would not have a Presidential family engaged in dozens of lucrative conflicts of interest — a luxury hotel in Dubai, a high-end residential tower in Saudi Arabia, two cryptocurrencies, a golf course/villa complex in Qatar, and a private club in Washington.

One inch, and a previously booming Biden economy was turned into a recession because of bad economic decisions by the new President.

One inch, and a major political party still would not be undecided about whether to end the ACA (Obamacare).

One inch, and the President of the United States would not have distributed an AI-generated image of himself on a throne dressed as the Pope.

We would not have a President who wishes to end the birthright citizenship of everyone born in America nor would we have a multiply-convicted felon as President.

But for one inch, we would not have a President “authorizing” the Department of Commerce and the United States Trade Representative to impose a 100% tariff on “any and all” movies produced in ‘foreign lands’, thus destroying the movie industry, both here and away.

We could go on and on, but the story would be the same: Seemingly very tiny events can have monumental effects. The question is, are these effects long-lasting, or do we merely take one of a multitude of possible paths eventually to end up in the same place?

Did that one inch affect our lives and the lives of our children, grandchildren, and the planet itself?

God must be laughing. Man proposes, but God disposes.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell

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