"Now look everyone, I know tomorrow is the purge so we'll be closing down but if I don't see everyone one of you back here the next day 8AM sharp you'd better be dead because you're fired!"

I'm totally willing to believe that a politician would try to do that (while keeping as much security around them as possible), but it seems like sort of a bad decision given that "look how bad it is - I've had to be in hiding!" is just as good of a political statement. (Sort of like the anecdote about FDR and the…

It seems like other countries - e.g., Canada - could do a fairly lucrative business charging large fees for short term purge visas. A thousand dollars once a year and a plane ticket would certainly be a lot safer than covering your house with metal or building elaborate safe rooms.

Well that's just silly.

I think the problem is that a lot of banking happens after-the-fact given the lag time involved in moving money around - you could deposit a fraudulent check or transfer money out of someone's account during the purge, but who knows when it would technically happen (probably not within twelve hours). Banks tend to…

"In this fictional dystopia there's a twelve hour period once a year where the entire country is, legally, the state of Florida…"

Not to mention that unless the bodies are found very shortly afterwards there would be an awful lot of investigative forensics to determine when precisely they had been killed.

And have more opportunities to remind the poor that they aren't worth as much!

"Possession of stolen goods" is still a crime, right? I'm guessing at least when it comes to things like embezzlement it would be hard to avoid getting caught for it: at least if I was law enforcement dealing with white collar crime the first thing I would do post-purge would be to go around looking to see who had…

Social/whatever consequences?

I dunno - it depends on how they treat the aftermath right? A lot of white-collar or financial crimes (have to) take place over time, not just once-and-done.* Embezzling might work, but any employer with sense would close down their business for the night. You'd see a lot of theft, I imagine, but then the question…

Especially the Yorkies!

This is something that Jack Russell terriers (and a bunch of other ones too) were bred to do.

It's even worse than that. The Department of Energy isn't exactly what people tend to think. The actual generation of electricity or whatever is (almost entirely) under the Department of the Interior. The Department of Energy is concerned with nuclear materials, and more than anything else weapons.

I loved it when Sansa finally knocked into his skull that perhaps someone who actually knows Bolton should be allowed into the discussion of how to beat him. Then she gave him literally the most basic advice possible: don't do what he wants you to do. Then the show cuts to Jon doing precisely the opposite.

Getting thrown like that seems to me to be the sort of thing where the normal range of outcomes goes from roughly 'Never walks again' to '[brushes off clothes] "I meant to do that!"' depending on how things shake out.

I'm not sure how much tactical genius we actually saw there from him. He did successfully manipulate the opposing army into doing something ridiculously stupid, true. But after that it was mostly just that (1) he had a lot of well trained soldiers, and (2) well honestly he had like twice as many well trained…

I really was hoping that the rest of the army would just stay back there, and yell "Come back here! We have a plan!" until Jon stops and sort of trots back looking like a moron.

From what we've seen of the Starks I'm guessing that showing his Stark side wouldn't necessarily involve doing something clever.

I was practically yelling at the screen. All you need to do is break the line and then go at them from their sides! Or from behind! Or, honestly, from anywhere but directly in front of them. And you have a giant!