Luke Thomas

He's trying to unilaterally impose tariffs, and he's using emergency powers to do that.

We are not experiencing emergencies in this way such that we should be handing to the federal government, whether it's Obama, Biden, Trump, Bush, I don't care, powers under the pretense that we're living in an emergency when we're living in no such thing, at most challenging, but definitely not an emergency.

And I think that kind of concern is what I have, not just about the National Guard, but more broadly about how he is pursuing his agenda.

Also another horrifying, deeply tragic, I mean, just, you know, the terror in that poor girl's eyes from what I've seen on the video is actually, again,

extremely uncomfortable.

I don't know the crime situation in Charlotte enough to know to speak about what kind of crime interventions are important, but here's what I would say.

One thing that drives me up the freaking wall is when people from outside D.C.

tell us what we want.

And they say things like, oh, D.C.

residents are happier.

How would you know that?

How would you know that?

Because you'd actually look at the polling on what D.C.

residents want.

It's none of what they're getting.

It's if you actually like the Washington Post did a big poll about this.

If you'd like to fact check this and people are not happy with the federal intervention.

So the question is, what do the people of Charlotte think about their crime situation and what kind of interventions do they want to do that?

And I leave that to the people of Charlotte to answer.

I cannot speak for them.