From: AlleyCat <katt@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: When Gay Ass Liberals Want To Refute, But Have Nothing But An Idiotic Analogy
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 19:28:35 -0500
Organization: AlleyCat Computing, Inc.
On Mon, 20 Oct 2025 08:54:49 +0200, -hh says...
> Having a 'direct line of sight" doesn't make it a meaningful threat.
You fucking moron... it's DEER stand. If hunters don't have "line of sight"
from a deer stand, why build the fucking thing where they don't?
My god, man... are you that stupid, or just trying to get us to think you are?
> Case in point, we also have a direct line of sight to the moon, and it is
> well out of anyone's firing range.
That is THE stupidest thing ANYONE has EVER said here.
God DAMN me, for thinking you were one of the smart ones.
More reductio ad absurdum:
Maybe Trump should have Air Force One park on the moon?
Maybe the assassin could rent a rocket from Elon Musk and fly into orbit, if
he did, making your stupid fucking analogy moot.
In outer space, there is no air resistance to slow down a bullet, so it would
travel much farther than it would on Earth. The distance a bullet travels in
space depends on its initial velocity and the lack of external forces acting
upon it.
The muzzle velocity of a .30 caliber bullet can vary depending on the specific
cartridge and rifle used, but a typical muzzle velocity for a .30-06
Springfield rifle is around 2,700 feet per second (823 meters per second).
In the vacuum of space, the bullet would maintain its initial velocity almost
indefinitely, as there is no air resistance to slow it down. However, it would
still be subject to the effects of gravity from nearby celestial bodies.
Assuming the bullet is fired in a direction perpendicular to the Earth's
gravity, and neglecting the effects of gravity from other celestial bodies, we
can estimate the distance the bullet would travel.
The kinetic energy of the bullet is given by KE=21mv2, where m is the mass of
the bullet and v is its velocity. For a .30-06 bullet, the mass is
approximately 0.18 kg (6.2 oz) and the velocity is 823 m/s.
However, to estimate the distance traveled in space, we consider that the
bullet will travel in a straight line until it encounters another
gravitational field or an external force.
Given that we do not know the direction of the bullet or the frame of
reference, let's assume it travels at a constant velocity of 823 m/s.
The maximum distance the bullet could travel in a given time t would be d=v·t.
Without a specified time, we can consider that in one year (approximately 3.15
×107 seconds), the bullet would travel about d=823·3.15×107?2.59×1010 meters
or about 25.9 million kilometers.
To put that in perspective, the Moon is about 384,400 kilometers away from
Earth, so the bullet could reach the Moon in about 468 seconds or
approximately 7.8 minutes.
Keep in mind that this calculation assumes a constant velocity and neglects
any gravitational influences. In reality, the bullet's trajectory would be
influenced by the gravitational fields of nearby celestial bodies, causing its
path to curve over long distances.
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All you need to know about "Trump Derangement Syndrome," or TDS.
"Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a mental condition in which a person has
been driven effectively insane due to their dislike of Donald Trump, to the
point at which they will abandon all logic and reason."
Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote a piece in the
Los Angeles Times in 2016 that broke TDS down into three distinct phases or
stages:
"In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. The
president-elect's every tweet provokes a firestorm, as if 140 characters were
all it took to change the world."
"The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim's
vocabulary: Sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting solely of
hyperbole."
"As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from
reality."
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opposition from liberals to anything and everything Trump does. If Trump
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suggest he was up to something nefarious, according to the logic of TDS.
There's nothing - not. one. thing. - that Trump could do or say that would be
received positively by TDSers.
The history of Trump Derangement Syndrome actually goes back to the early
2000s - a time when the idea of Trump as president was a punch line for late-
night comics and nothing more.
Wikipedia traces its roots to "Bush Derangement Syndrome" - a term first
coined by the late conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer back in 2003.
The condition, as Krauthammer defined it, was "the acute onset of paranoia in
otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency - nay -
the very existence of George W. Bush."