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MAGA fans are rejoicing on social media in favor of President Donald Trump's plan to sign an executive order requiring commercial truck drivers to speak English.

Breitbart News reported that Trump would sign the order Monday evening because "President Trump believes that English is a non-negotiable safety requirement for professional drivers." Last month, Trump designated English as "the official language of the United States."

"This is such a big deal! So grateful for this, the roads will be much safer. Like many, I have seen many accidents or near accidents from unqualified drivers," posted @coffeegirlvegas.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks ago

Good thing we won't need so many of those when supply chains dry up from tariffs!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

So…. Let’s get this straight… he is signing orders to make things happen that have been happening for almost a century now??

What’s next, an executive order to make air breathable??

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm assuming it's just a way to sneak literacy tests into something. You can speak english, but can you speak it well enough to pass a subjective test administered by someone who hates you for being hispanic?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Not in Trump's America. Making breathability a requirement could limit some broligarch's freedom to do business.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I have a CDL, Class A with X endorsement.

This changes nothing. CDL manuals, exams, and paperwork are all in English. What I think Trump thinks he's doing is banning Mexicans from driving trucks in the US, but this is controlled by a reciprocity agreement between the US and Mexico. Surprise, Mexicans don't have to take American exams for a CDL when they can have a license issued by the Mexican government.

Basically all this is is white supremacist virtue signaling.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Nah you're still thinking about it within the the UN/long peace legal framework. They can just do a decree that says no mexicans, and their extrajudidical thugs will take the signal to harass and murder truck drivers.

B-but that's illegal ☝️🤓

Are you going to stop them?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

I would love to see the US go a month without Mexican truck drivers. The UK pulled the same stunt with Polish truck drivers. People were rejoicing at empty shelves and overflowing garbage bins.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Executive orders are not laws. He can direct how the law in enforced, but he can't just unilaterally define new laws

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Many laws are written to give the executive branch leeway in defining the details of how a law is to be implemented. This makes sense, assuming everyone is acting in good faith; technologies, science, standards, and best practices all evolve over time.

Laws are usually written in a way to ensure Congressional oversight, to prevent the executive either intentionally or accidentally from subverting their will. But with a treasonous President and a complicit Congress, here we are.... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

So if you happen to have a thicc Indian accent you need a second guy with you to translate English to English. Gotcha

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Fuck you, T00l_shed! Your mom wants me so bad she said she’d do anything so I got her walking around with my phone playing my Pokémon Go.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Give your balls a tug, tit-fucker

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Tell your mom to stop faking jellyfish stings, I’m not going to pee on her

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Shut up shorsey

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 weeks ago

yet another thing that has no legal standing and only exists to make the idiots think trump is accomplishing something

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago

That’ll help the shortage of drivers for sure 🙄

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

I keep on thinking of the mad tv skit with the woman who says she can't understand people with accents.

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