David French
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He's just a guy watching on CNN like the rest of us.
And yes, he has ICE.
He has his little private army.
ICE on paper has 22,000 people.
Looking at Minnesota right now, Minneapolis, they've committed more than 10% of their on-paper agents to try to pacify the 46th largest city in the country, 45th, 46th, and they can't do it.
You know, obstinate Midwestern, middle-aged Midwesterners have essentially stopped ICE from operating in Minneapolis in a meaningful way.
So I just feel like saying, I feel it's necessary to say that there's a lot of fear-mongering and scare-mongering about what the president can do with regards to the midterms.
He's demanding voter rolls and the courts are like, no, none of this is your business.
So for Trump to try to cancel an election in Virginia, for example, like Abigail Spanberger would have to be like, okay, sure, right?
Yeah, that's going to happen.
How is Donald Trump going to stop Gavin Newsom?
How is he going to stop Kathy Hochul?
You have to think in practical terms.
And I understand the temptation to latch on to worst-case scenarios and fantasies.
It makes a lot of sense in the moment.
But you have to temper that stuff with sort of like, okay, how does the practical โ
operation of government to actually work.
That's all.
I've never seen a second of Stranger Things in my life, and I don't intend to change that.
It's literally never going to happen.