Castle with battlements & moot
Aw yeah.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump 35m
Now the press is trying to sell the fact that I wanted a Moot stuffed with alligators and snakes, with an electrified fence and sharp spikes on top, at our Southern Border. I may be tough on Border Security, but not that tough. The press has gone Crazy. Fake News!
You watch: moots stuffed with alligators and snakes are going to be the next big thing.
His tweet is uncharacteristically accurate. Since everything he does or says is “subject to debate, dispute, or uncertainty”, then backing the wall w a moot makes perfect sense.
But he does want to shoot people in the legs. Obviously that’s perfectly reasonable.
Meanwhile, Grytpype-Thynne and Moriarty are discussing a moot point.
“Don’t point that moot at me, Moriarty.”
He forgot the Ents – you can’t have a real moot without Ents!
Maybe he’s going to shoot them in the legs with alligators and snakes? Back to the early days of firearms where the weapon was as dangerous to the person firing it as it was to the person being fired at.
YNNB – maybe catapults? Alligator catapults? Ooohhh, so cool. But catapults are pretty hard to aim that accurately, so is he sure he’ll hit them in the legs and not the head? Because having an alligator on your head is kinda not much fun.
I believe tRump is quite high on catapults — but only steam catapults. [Reference is to his interference with the US Navy’s research into magnetic/rail gun catapults on its aircraft carriers..]
Alligator catapults? Mai non! Fechez la vache!
Corrections to my French welcome.
Tell us more?
If we’re doing alligator catapults, we are definitely doing squid launchers. Oh yeah.
So… it’s true. You’ve just admitted that it is true, you fucking imbecile.
@Holms
#11
Only if Trump knows what a fact is.
OB #9, If you were asking me, it’s a Monty Python and the Holy Grail reference.
Yes, an alligator catapult, or trebuchet, is likely to result in a steep angle of descent for the reptillian projectile, with a reduced probability of striking lower extremities in comparison with higher ones. Something with a higher muzzle velocity would produce a more horizontally directed flightpath more conducive to impacting the legs of the target. This is not without its own complications. Alligators are not really designed for high speed flight. Or flight at all, for that matter. At some point in this progression of imparted motion, one is bound to cross the line between angry alligator and dead alligator. Loading an angry alligator into anything is going to be an unpleasant job for anyone having to use this class of weapon.
Snakes are going to have the same problem vis. extreme, sudden acceleration and bodily integrity. Perhaps moreso, as at least alligators are equipped with hard dermal scutes which might offer some slight measure of protection against ballistic mayhem for at least part of the regime of speeds involved. Snakes? Not so much. They would be more effectively launched after the fashion of bolas than artillery shells. Again, we have the problems facing the thrower, who has to deal with a perterbed herp whirling in close proximity until optimal launch speed is attained.
The issue of accuracy is a whole ‘nother can of worms, so to speak. Ideally some sort of laser guidance would be helpful in this regard, though integration of the components of such a system to an actual alligator or snake will introduce further complications (SEE: Belling the cat). You can see how even simple, straightforward proposals like this conceal whole realms of unforseen technical considerations. DARPA is going to have its work cut out for it on this one.
Training attack alligators might be a better option than reptile launchers for deployment along the US-Mexico border if one wishes to avoid cleaning up the concomitant copious amounts of alligator puree.
YNNB, that’s ridiculous. Clearly the alligators and snakes would be helicopter-mounted and deployed from the air, solving all your petty little objections in one stroke. Snakes can take a big fall. Alligators would have to be launched close to the ground and close to the invaders as their attack range is quite short, but that’s nothing a little testing couldn’t iron out.
You need to get your head out of the clouds and start thinking practically.
Snakes from a plane.
I’m fairly sure this is what Trump has in ‘mind’:
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