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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  • masterofn001@lemmy.ca
    84·
    1 month ago

    The Purge has been central to Q Anon.

    It was supposed to happen 4 years ago but trump lost.

    Had he won, the trucker convoy would have been a part of it.

    (I was witness to some chatter and had this directly communicated to me.)

    Also, see: the turner diaries a book. A horrible violent racist book. There’s a theme throughout.

    “The day of the gun and rope”

    One of the organisers of the convoy in Canada loved using the phrase, “day of the rope” in reference to hanging our prime minister. (Also see “diagolon”)

    The threepers/ 3 percenters ara group that believe it would take 3% of the population to bring about an ethno state.

    They operate in Canada and the us and were VERY visible in Ottawa.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      132·
      1 month ago

      The Turner Diaries are what inspired Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols to blow up the federal building in Oklahoma City.

      It’s super dangerous. But at this point, the genie is way out of the bottle.

      • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        I read the Turner Diaries. There is not the slightest shred of preaching or ideology in the book. The book automatically assumes you are 100% on board with white supremacist ideology and also are willing to take action.

        The book, fundamentally, is a call to action.

        BTW the reason why the book doesn’t bother explaining it’s ideology or tell the reader why they should believe it is because the book was originally published in serial form in a far-right magazine in the 70s. The only people who read that magazine were already full blown Nazis, and thus did not need convincing.

    • Freefall@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 month ago

      That isn’t where the 3% number comes from. Also they were very up-their-own-ass, but were ultimately benign. Then they got turned into another terrorist mlitia by maga. So, while you are right in calling them out as the enemy of the people now, that still isn’t what 3% stands for.