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 T...

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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    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      1·
      15 minutes ago

      Oh he means it. He may claim it was a joke like he often does when he’s confronted with this shit, but he absolutely meant it.

    • krashmo@lemmy.world
      7·
      5 hours ago

      The uncertainty you’re expressing is why the 2nd amendment exists. Trump is exactly the type of person the founding fathers had in mind when they wrote it.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        12·
        3 hours ago

        No he wasn’t. I despise Trump, but the second amendment was about keeping well regulated militias to protect the colonies from attacks by natives and other potential outside enemies. These militias were disbanded when we created a standing army.

        It had nothing to do with fighting back against your own government. Sorry.

        • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 hours ago

          I think you forget that “fighting back against your own government” was exactly what the people who wrote the Constitution had literally just finished doing.

    • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 hours ago

      Yeah this is one of those hope-for-the-best-but-plan-for-the-worst kind of situations. Hopefully he’s joking, as his supporters will undoubtedly claim; but if a potential president tells me he wants to damage our country in any way, I’m just going to take that shit at face value.

      Let’s not play with fire inside our thatch hut of a country.