2024 GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump openly advocated police brutality when, during a campaign speech in Erie, Pennsylvania on Sunday, September 29, he called for "one really violent day" of policing. This "extraordinarily rough" approach, Trump promised, would dramatically reduce crime in maj...
  • IMongoose@lemmy.world
    24·
    2 months ago

    Trump’s running the 1s platform.

    1 vote and you won’t need to vote anymore.

    1 hour they’ll fix crime.

    1 day with dictatorship and Trump will fix the rest.

    This is a completely normal thing to campaign on and not at all concerning.

  • someguy3@lemmy.world
    24·
    2 months ago

    Trump told the crowd, “One rough hour, and I mean real rough, the word will get out, and it will end immediately. End immediately. You know, it’ll end immediately.”

    Trump continues to think it all works on fear and “respect”.

    On X, formerly Twitter, Ben-Ghiat posted, “I study dictators and this chills me. Given all his comments in the past about executing people & shooting looters and his admiration for leaders specialized in mass repression, it’s not hard to imagine what ‘one really violent day’ would mean.”

  • frazw@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    2 months ago

    Ok so can we start with a really rough day of policing election fraud, inciting insurrection, business fraud, not paying suppliers, sexual assault, stealing classified government documents, and shitting your pants in public. Then maybe the word will get out and we won’t have to go further.

    … Ok maybe not the last one. That’s just unfair.

  • IphtashuFitz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    2 months ago

    If he allows this then the other 364 days of the year will turn into open season on cops. Gangs will be out for vengeance, and will not let it slide.

    Not to mention that virtually every gun owner out there will prepare for such a day. You’ll end up with countless firefights between a relatively small number of cops and a lot of heavily armed groups with nothing to lose. Unless the orange Cheeto has some way of magically confiscating all firearms ahead of this then I think it’s going to be very difficult to convince the cops to do this.

    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 months ago

      I even bet to some extent if all the gangs knew this was going to happen, they’d work together to survive the day while weakening the police as much as possible.

    • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
      65·
      2 months ago

      This is not a movie. Gangs will fold like they always do when confronted with superior firepower.

  • cmeu@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 months ago

    Donald Trump is like the Biff Tannen of the future. You know the one - where Hill Valley is in tatters and he’s abusing women in a penthouse somewhere

  • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    Trump is a cunt and a bitch and a little baby-handed pussy who nobody would take seriously even if his pudgy squad of mooks was murdering their family right in front of them.

    No matter how much he dials it up he’s still weak.

    Vote.

    • Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 months ago

      He didn’t mention anything about the Log cabin Republicans or purifying his own party so I am guessing that’s gunna be a future suggestion once he’s in power. Right now he still needs their support.

  • doingthestuff@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 months ago

    What was the full quote? I expect it to be complete shit but he gets partially quoted out of context enough I’ve learned not to trust headlines quoting just a phrase. He vomits legitimately terrible things often enough we shouldn’t need to exaggerate or manufacture bad quotes. I want to read this one.