He will say absolutely anything to get in power and avoid the catastrophe that awaits should he fail.

With all the crimes he’s committed that are well documented and easily proven and thus far only some convicted but not sentenced, he’s walking a tightrope. If he falters the consequences are dire.

At best his debts catch up to him and his family legacy is in tatters.

At worst he is in prison for the rest of his life from a treason charge.

If he wins no judge will sentence him until he’s out of office, which he may never be with all the GOP groundwork being laid to create a puppet dictatorship controlled by conservative oligarchs.

Unfortunately the press and the peanut gallery have it very wrong on this one.

He's not calling for the purge.

He's calling for krystalnacht.

Sadly he'd have his little safe room to quiver in until the dust settles. Like the rich people in the movies that would drop security shutters and party through the holiday.

Getting way too real but those movies are actually well worth watching. No, not the first one where Ethan Hawke and Lena Heady are rich white upper middle class people who are betrayed by their neighbors because they didn't own enough guns. Like... every other Purge movie

The reality is what we already see. The Holy Second Amendment is supposed to let people defend thmselves but it results in rich (predominantly white) people owning forty ARs and heavy body armor whereas lower class ethnic folk MIGHT have a pistol for self defense. And when shit hits the fan? Fat white kids cross state lines to mow down some protesters with their assault rifles.

And every movie (except the god awful first one) addresses this. Bubba Gump's convenience store lost their purge insurance so he is forced to try and defend his livelihood. Hispanic women are openly told they will be raped when the clock hits 6 (?). Impoverished black neighborhoods have klan members bussed in to murder them all (its cool though because Y'lan Noel goes John Wick on the nazis). Totally Not Hilary Clinton gets the biggest target ever painted on her head on purge night (its cool though. Frank Grillo is mostly only a dumbfuck that Chris Evans will never talk to again but damned if he isn't an awesome white guy with a pistol). And the rest of the rich white fucks just hang out in panic rooms with the poors they bought the rights to torture and murder.

Because that is the reality. Privilege is everything. If you have enough money you can avoid the consequences of anything. Whether it is the decades of horror because people were too busy looking at Marisa Tomei's ta-tas to realize she should not be allowed to write legislature, the fucking idiocy of wanting a heavily armed populace, or just driving drunk and running over a few kids in a car.

That was my interpretation too. Still lawlessness, but for the police.

Hilarious, as if police haven't been doing what they want this entire time. They literally rape minors they arrest and get away with it. They barely have consequences already.

Yep, and that is a lot worse.

Don’t forget to vote third party or not at all because the Democrats aren’t perfect or because electoral college or voting day is a Tuesday…. s/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackshirts

Yeah, his suggestion is actually worse than the Purge.

Isn't that basically where we are already?

I don't in understand how these people really think they are the only ones capable of violence.

What do they think "the opposing side" will do... lie flat and wait for a bullet to the head?

The night of broken glass is literally their guide book.

Why would this be surprising to anyone…

I remember when I first heard the “we will build the wall and Mexico will pay for it”. I thought, “oh they must be taking him out of context that makes no sense”. Nope

He is pretty consistently advancing absolutely batshit insane things. I don’t think he actually gets taken out of context that often, not because the media is fair, but because the shit he says is so goddamn insane there’s no need.

Is there something in recent memory where you think there was a headline that misconstrued what he said?

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.

Naw this is a case of the media tiptoing around him and preferring easily digested headlines.

He's clearly not describing The Purge in the actual quote. He doesn't want to make crime legal.

He's describing Kristallnacht. He wants the cops to be able to punish anyone they want with as much violence as they want. He wants a massacre of anyone they declare a criminal, aka minorities and dissidents.

It's so much fucking scarier than the bullshit headlines and it's so fucking frustrating.

The Purge is a metaphor for eugenics based on wealth. It's a libertarian's fantasy of what a genocide would be. Ofc they love it.

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.

To stop crime, you need one really violent day.

Yeah someone tried that at one of his rallies, but he missed.