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I’ve been trying to find the reason for the confiscation–no luck, so far. If the venue HAD been pushing the sale of water bottles (for Trump’s personal profit), that surely would have been noticed and mentioned.
So I’m thinking it must have been a decision by the security providers–whether for the city of Phoenix, for the convention center, or by the Secret Service–that the water bottles could contain something other than water. Something that would ignite or blow up.
Seems nutty. It was a hot August night–107 degrees!–and people would have needed water. Security could have made each person with a bottle take a good swig from it, to prove it wasn’t gasoline or such.
Anyway, in my search I found that Trump supporters, dismayed by how unimpressive was the size his Phoenix crowd, apparently decided to use a more patron-packed photo:
Is that supposed to be a blank stare?
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Even an actual water bottle, full of actual water, can be used as a weapon, if people are stupid enough.
I could see concerns about water bottles being thrown by agitators either at the stage or into the crowd.
Because people have been using them as weapons, both to throw and to spray people with substances of questionable provenance?
If water bottles are such a threat, perhaps a rally in Phoenix in late August isn’t the best decision.
ETA: Upon further consideration of the person at the center of it all, I should expect nothing less.
I vaguely recall not being allowed to bring bottles into similar secured venues, e.g. a Bill Clinton event during his second presidential campaign, and 4th of July fireworks on the National Mall in 2002.
Okay, so ‘weapons.’ The “substances of questionable provenance” issue would have been taken care of by making each entrant take a good swig from their bottle. But the ‘throwing actual water in a bottle’ issue wouldn’t, I’ll concede.
Must have been a horrible couple of hours, at 107 degrees, though. No wonder people were leaving early.
That’s pretty dumb on them anyway. The organizers would have been aware that security was going to ban water bottles, and the organizers should have been aware that they were in phoenix in the summer.
I understand why the didn’t allow the bottles, I just don’t understand why they proceeded with the rally.
I did a brief skim of the news, but didn’t see anything. Were there actually any reports of anyone needing medical attention due to the heat and dehydration?
I visited phoenix once in the summer, and the friend I was visiting told me to drink water. I drank some water, he said, no, you need to drink water. It does not take long for you to get into serious trouble in that sort of heat.
With all the money he’s collected in donations (or even his own money. He’s very, very rich, remember?), water could have been offered inside the venue. Just provide disposable cups.
The optics of an entire crowd of Trump supporters holding red Solo cups would have been priceless.
red Solo cup
I drink you up
Let’s have a party
If they used Dixie cups, they could make the racists happy too.
They could have the courage of their convictions.
Yikes.
I’m not going to look at the video, but have no doubt that there are persons on the planet who ‘have the courage of their convictions’ (if you want to put it that way).
In the meantime, I’m still finding the fake-photo thing (about the size of the crowd outside Trump’s rally) a head-scratcher. I thought Trump fans were adamant about truth and ‘real news’…?
Nope. Trump didn’t get rich by giving stuff away. That includes water and cups. He should have had the people dump out their water and bring the empty bottles in (like at the airport) and then fill them for a price from water dispensing stations once inside. No free refills either!
When will he start installing metal detectors and x-ray machines at the entrances to his rallies? Especially the x-ray machines-- he can save pics of the virtually unclothed women for his personal viewing later.
So in the infamous NY Times article of today, Roger Stone thinks that if Trump successfully gets incumbent senators or representatives defeated in the primaries, Ryan and McConnell would “wet their pants” and the party would fall in line behind Trump.
Notwithstanding whether it’s possible, if it were, and it were actually done, would they? I’m kind of torn.
You REALLY can’t make this stuff up.