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Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders skipped a $45,000 bill in 2016.
originally posted by: Degradation33
a reply to: FlyersFan
It's Tucson, so who knows. The city in general "burns your eyes," and it's certainly NOT MAGA country.
Before the rally, Pima County Supervisor Adelita Grijalva sparked backlash by posting a profane sign on social media. The sign, which read “F you MAGA, no more Orange” in Spanish, was captioned, “Welcome to Tucson.” At a subsequent Pima County Board of Supervisors meeting, constituents demanded an apology from Grijalva. However, she stood by her actions, stating, “I’ll acknowledge wrongdoing when Trump apologizes for the racist, misogynistic, sexist, inflammatory comments he’s made about women, people of color, LGBTQ…”
Grijalva wasn’t the only notable Tucson figure to oppose the rally. Music legend Linda Ronstadt, whose name adorns the venue, also disapproved. Taking to social media, Ronstadt criticized Trump for holding the event at a building associated with her legacy, stating her deep opposition to his policies.
So there's some opposition from 1971's Ugliest City in America.
This could be household mustard gas. Someone cleaned the stage with amonia and bleach combined. Or some mop bucket containing the mixture off-stage was left closest to the stands.
Maybe it's payback for the $86,000 he owes them?
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Before the rally, Pima County Supervisor Adelita Grijalva sparked backlash by posting a profane sign on social media. The sign, which read “F you MAGA, no more Orange” in Spanish, was captioned, “Welcome to Tucson.” At a subsequent Pima County Board of Supervisors meeting, constituents demanded an apology from Grijalva. However, she stood by her actions, stating, “I’ll acknowledge wrongdoing when Trump apologizes for the racist, misogynistic, sexist, inflammatory comments he’s made about women, people of color, LGBTQ…”
Grijalva wasn’t the only notable Tucson figure to oppose the rally. Music legend Linda Ronstadt, whose name adorns the venue, also disapproved. Taking to social media, Ronstadt criticized Trump for holding the event at a building associated with her legacy, stating her deep opposition to his policies.
While the rally drew a large and enthusiastic crowd, it ended with an unexpected turn of events. Approximately 20 attendees, primarily members of the “Latinos for Trump” group who had been onstage, reported becoming ill with mysterious symptoms shortly after the rally concluded. All those who reported falling ill were seated on the side of the stage where Trump made his entrance before approaching the podium.
Pastor Eli Moreno, who opened the rally with prayer, and his wife, Francesca Moreno, were among those affected. Pastor Moreno said that he experienced mild discomfort, but his wife’s symptoms were far more severe. On their drive home, Mrs. Moreno’s nose began to run, her vision blurred, and her face swelled up. They stopped at a Walgreens and encountered another rallygoer with similar symptoms. Mrs. Moreno stated that emergency room doctors flushed her eyes earlier and referred her to an ophthalmologist. Five days later, she was just beginning to feel better.
Pepper spray causes irritation of the eyes, skin, and mucus membranes. Inhalation exposures can cause coughing, difficulty breathing, nasal and throat irritation, and a runny nose. Eye exposures can result in pain, redness, watery eyes, difficulty opening the eyes, and sensitivity to light.
Acute symptoms
Loud noises, visual disturbances, head pressure or vibration, ear pain, tinnitus, hearing loss, dizziness, and unsteady gait
Chronic symptoms
Insomnia, dizziness and nausea, light sensitivity and eye strain, sound sensitivity, tinnitus and hearing reduction, impaired concentration and memory, irritability, nervousness, and sadness, fatigue, and headache[/ex
originally posted by: TheLieWeLive
Possibly but when and how was the pepper spray deployed, pepper spray is an instantaneous reaction, while this seems a bit delayed.
Seemingly no discomfort for the attendees or Trump, pepper spray hurts like a beyotch but mostly you have to be hit directly by it
edit on p000000309am096 by putnam6 because: (no reason given)
originally posted by: RickyD
a reply to: BeyondKnowledge3
In my experience of working inside event venues...I have never seen UV lights used for anything but nack of house sterilizing. Usually these days they're all LED...but some older venues may still use old style lamps. Production lighting engineer is my background...so I might know a thing or 2 about lights in venues.
originally posted by: nugget1
a reply to: DAVID64
t a laser could be the culprit.
Hubby says the military has lasers that are invisible to the naked eye.
It's unreal how diabolical campaign tactics have become this time around.
BAMN indeed!
originally posted by: rickymouse
Could have been some kind of gas that was released in the area which triggered reactions. It would be easy for someone to smuggle a small canister with a remote control valve into the area and slowly release a gas that might be able to give those symptoms. As someone said, it could be a mixture of a couple of common chemicals like bleach and ammonia or it could be something like nitrous oxide which would give dizziness and some other side effects if the nitrogen in the environment was elevated for a while...but some symptoms stated do not match NO2. NO2 is not picked up well in tests either, like some other gasses. t might just lower blood pressure too much
There are multiple ways someone could do this kind of sabotages and some ways would be hard to detect the cause.
A headache as the lasting after effect would be common of a gas being used...nothing much shows up in blood tests many times.
The long term effects remind me of A form of Havana Syndrome?
originally posted by: Degradation33
a reply to: putnam6
Don't pay attention to it? It wasn't meant to deflect.
The main point was there's enough haters with enough reasons for someone to "accidentally" leave a mop bucket of mustard gas (chemicals) by the stage. Or some other irritant to diffuse without being noticed.
I also wanted to make fun of Tucson a little, because if you live there, and then leave for prettier places it becomes a novelty "joke city" as seen on a Family Guy cut away and hard to approach without humor.
The dumbest city in the world could accidentally gas rally attendees by "deep-cleaning" something.
But lean more towards boiling hatred without any specific organization needed. All it takes is another lone actor with "TDS."
originally posted by: EyeoftheHurricane
originally posted by: rickymouse
Could have been some kind of gas that was released in the area which triggered reactions. It would be easy for someone to smuggle a small canister with a remote control valve into the area and slowly release a gas that might be able to give those symptoms. As someone said, it could be a mixture of a couple of common chemicals like bleach and ammonia or it could be something like nitrous oxide which would give dizziness and some other side effects if the nitrogen in the environment was elevated for a while...but some symptoms stated do not match NO2. NO2 is not picked up well in tests either, like some other gasses. t might just lower blood pressure too much
There are multiple ways someone could do this kind of sabotages and some ways would be hard to detect the cause.
A headache as the lasting after effect would be common of a gas being used...nothing much shows up in blood tests many times.
Why would only a section of people directly behind Trump be affected then? It has to be more directed to affect only those people.
originally posted by: Encia22
All good theories so far, but they would all, more or less, have an immediate effect.
From what I understand, many people began to feel the various symptoms after the rally. I recall one person was able to drive for almost an hour before their eyes started burning.
Also, whatever it was must have been an accumulation over the hour plus that Trump spoke. That may be why he wasn't affected. He stood in front of that small group only after he entered the stage and let the music play out. He then moved to the lectern to start his speech, thus his exposure would have been brief, hence, no symptoms.
It is now nearly certain that a recent attack impacting attendees of a Trump rally in Arizona was carried out via the deployment of a handheld UV laser device, battery powered, silent, and invisible to the naked eye. The symptoms of those impacted are fully consistent with such a directed energy attack: Temporary loss of vision, sunburns on exposed skin, skin peeling, extreme eye pain, redness, etc. Yet all victims felt nothing during the moments of exposure.
UV lasers in the wavelengths of 280nm - 315nm are considered "UV-B" and are extremely dangerous to the human eye, as the optics of the eye add significant "gain" to incoming photons, in orders of magnitude...
Night vision optics cannot detect UV lasers. Very sensitive, high resolution thermal cameras *may* pick up elevated surface skin temperatures as UV rays strike the faces, chests, eyes, etc., of intended victims, and this temperature rise would appear in the shape of a very large circle, perhaps 15' in diameter...