Donald Trump on Sunday proposed a new policy that many critics said is equivalent to legalizing “The Purge.”

Trump spoke at a rally in Pennsylvania, where he admitted that his attendees were “falling asleep” at one of his earlier rallies. Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign noted that, as Trump was still speaking at the swing-state event over the weekend, rallygoers placed directly behind the former president started to funnel out of the building.

One comment Trump made drew condemnation on social media, as well as numerous comparisons to The Purge, a film series based on a dystopian world in which the government makes all crimes legal for a 12-hour period.

As reported by Sebastian Smith, AFP Washington desk chief, “Trump in Erie, PA, says in US ‘the police aren’t allowed to do their job.’ To stop crime, you need ‘one really violent day.’ He says: ‘One rough hour and I mean real rough, the word would get out and it would end immediately.’”


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  • Guy Dudeman
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    446 minutes ago

    I’m not all that surprised. Is anyone else surprised at this? Like, The Purge is the Republican wet dream.

  • @TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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    the police are 0.6% of the population.

    including their families they could be wiped out very easily.

    i think that trump wants to use the police to incite a class war to avoid losing the election.

    i have no idea who would side with whom in the US.

  • @ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
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    864 hours ago

    I don’t think Trump is talking about a purge. What Teump is saying that the police should be allowed to get as violent as they want for that one hour.

    You know typical dictator stuff.

  • @dubious@lemmy.world
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    at any given moment on any given day, with a little bit of covert communications, any group of people could rise up against another in a Rwandan style genocide. we are all connected via our phones. all you have to do is have a willing population and the right person to give ‘the signal’.

    which group are you going to be?

  • @klemptor@startrek.website
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    I’m sure he’s talking about giving police carte blanche to be as violent as they want for an hour. Which is obviously batshit. But it honestly makes me wonder…is he trying to lose this election?

  • @Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee
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    23 hours ago

    Lee Kovarsky: “People confuse telling hard truths with just being a total f------ idiot”

    I need to use that. For my whole life people have always stated obvious shit and hateful statements and insist that being hateful and insulting automatically means the truth.

  • fmstratA
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    One comment Trump made drew condemnation…

    Just one?

  • @MehBlah@lemmy.world
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    64 hours ago

    People who think something insane like the purge are the ones who can’t imagine they would die.

    • @DJDarren@thelemmy.club
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      255 minutes ago

      The older I get, the less I care about surviving a zombie apocalypse.

      As a kid I was all “I’d find a great hideout and make a plan!”, but these days I think beyond the first two weeks, and how everything will have fallen apart real fucking quickly. It all just seems like a hassle, y’know?

      • @MehBlah@lemmy.world
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        245 minutes ago

        I’m still gonna stick around as long as I can. A Zombie apocalypse would be pretty easy. You only have to watch the walking dead for a season or two to see its only the stupid people who will have a really hard time.

    • @helenslunch@feddit.nl
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      Hard to imagine Trump has read very many books. More likely it’s just something he made up on the spot, because that’s what he’s been doing for decades. It’s why he sounds so stupid all the time. He doesn’t think about anything, he just spews out whatever is on the top of his mind. That’s how we got to injecting bleach and putting light inside the body and windmills causing cancer and an absolutely insane medley of incredible bullshit. It’s not because he’s researched the topic in any way, shape, or form.

    • @SassyRamen@lemmy.world
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      As much as I know Trump is a piece of shit nazi, it’s far more likely that he watched a movie, rather than anything to do with reading.

      • @sandbox@lemmy.world
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        No way he read the book, but he’s immersed enough in that far-right shit scape that it’s not really much of a stretch to believe he picked it up somewhere. I’m sure people on Truth Social love talking about it.

          • @Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee
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            43 hours ago

            That’s why people like me and other lefties often take one for the team and read it so you don’t to

            Firstly there is thought slime’s video on the thing describing it in great detail, and then there is the TV tropes that also has some great information on it.

            What do I have to add? I need to mention that one aspect of the Turner diaries plays up is that somehow the opposition is so incredibly afraid of being labeled racist or 'politically correct ’ (now usually called woke) and will allow all manner of heinous crimes committed by non-white people in order to avoid that.

            This is a trope that is often employed by right wing authors, including Ben Shapiro and Glen Beck. They have this idea that liberals and lefties are so terrified of the racist label that they would never describe a suspect as black or Asian for fear of ‘racial profiling’ (even though that isn’t what it is) that blacks somehow commit crimes with impunity until a conservative calls it for what it is and gets the job done.

            The Turner diaries does the same… but only far worse. There are several parts of the book where blacks all form cannibal and rape rings and just kidnap at random white girls (and only white girls) to rape and eat and all the white authority figures are powerless to stop them due to the fear not being called racist.

  • @Rhoeri@lemmy.world
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    7511 hours ago

    They make it sound like he shouldn’t have said it out loud. This is the shit his loyalists love! He means to say it and they were meant to hear it.

    He wasn’t “caught” doing shit.

  • Konala Koala
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    3910 hours ago

    I think Trump wanting to “make all crimes legal for a twelve hour period” should be enough to dump, disqualify, and imprison his @$$.

    • FuglyDuck
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      I think if he made all crimes legal, for 12 hours- and gave people plenty of warning, he’d be dead in the first.

      I mean, it must be an exercise of immense self control to be on his security detail, and not constantly wonder about the good that could happen. If they just.

      Also. Throw in all his cooks and food delivery people, the people that maintain his vehicles. The people that maintain the golf course… the mail people. The people that do the laundry. Change his diapers. The people that manage his medications.

      There’s an awful lot of people that he relies on to survive. Any one of them could end it, and he shits on them near constantly.

      Remove the threat of consequences? Oh yeah. It’d be a battle royally, and he’s the king to regicide.

  • @celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    14 hours ago

    Honestly, a purge might be good for America. Most people purging would be accelerationist alt-right power fantasy morons, and they would be the first to get killed off by each other.

    • @Fedizen@lemmy.world
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      The problem with these people is even when they shoot each other they somehow also manage to hit an innocent bystander. Real purge situations from the past are basically just like old school KKK lynchings.

  • @Godric@lemmy.world
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    Unrelated to the content, how does a self respecting journalist start an article’s title with “Omg”?

    Like I feel dirty even giving them a click when I have no obligation to society, it’s just depressing to see them presenting as a credible news source

    • @Freefall@lemmy.world
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      how does a self respecting journalist start an article’s title with “Omg”?

      Probably the same way we don’t start them with “VERILY!” or “FORSOOTH!”. Language evolves and makes old people mad. Tale as old as time.

    • @Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Unrelated to the content, how does a self respecting journalist

      The fact you lack respect for other living beings does not indicate that they necessarily lack respect for themselves.

      • @Godric@lemmy.world
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        Oh my god, is that what those funky-wunky little lines around Omg meant?

        Before I just thought it was just a sensationalist garbage headline, I had no idea someone ACTUALLY said “Omg” in relation to the article, mind blown, thanks