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Feb 17 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I'm torn. Lindell is unhinged, but an aerial pillow bombardment of Canada's capital city would be fun to watch.
He should consider siege weapons instead, though. A trebuchet or ballista firing pillows into Ottawa would be even more fun to watch.
Ok. Ottawa is further from the border than any siege weapon is really capable of getting an object. But I've thought about this and the WWI Paris Gun is an option. Ottawa is about 70 miles from Waddington, New York. The Paris Gun's range is about 81 miles.
Another option? Project HARP (High Altitude Research Project) was designed to shoot objects into space. It once fired a projectile 111 miles into the air.
It would take a lot of time and money to re-build these canons while modifying them to work with pillows. But I've seen much dumber things crowd-funded than giant pillow cannons.

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In recent months, the gun-control groups have increased their public criticism of Biden, which I find pretty fascinating. I'm not sure it's true Biden could do much more on guns than he already is. But they all seem to feel otherwise.
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The gun-control groups are much more comfortable going after Biden than the gun-rights groups were going after Trump (although, it did happen from time to time).
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