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.
US economy crashing again in 3…2…1…
again
Still
Fuck you shoresey
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.
Give your balls a tug, tit-fucker
Tell your mom to stop faking jellyfish stings, I’m not going to pee on her
Shut up shorsey
yet another thing that has no legal standing and only exists to make the idiots think trump is accomplishing something
That’ll help the shortage of drivers for sure 🙄
Which will be ignored like the rest of his Executive Orders that don’t actually have anything to do with the Executive.
Is there any such requirement for ships in international waters?
English seems a bit too narrow, but I could see one of maybe 10 languages being a requirement (English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, Mandarin, Russian, Portuguese, etc)
Or perhaps, like the UN requires, at least three on this list.
Not sure about ocean shipping, but English is the standard language for Air Traffic Control. Specifically, Aviation English, but that came about through a specific need. The dangers of an air traffic accident are much higher, the training requirements for an air traffic controller or pilot already more involved then a truck driver, and English being the most spoken language in the word, when you include second and third languages, made English being the standard the most logical. I don’t know Aviation English, but I would assume it strips out any regional slag or local idioms.
Truck drivers don’t need a common language because traffic signage is designed to be readable without knowing being fluent in the language. If you can read the numbers and memorize what the sign shapes mean, you’re fine. If something goes wrong, you can pull off to the side. Something you can’t just do in an airplane.
As always another trump “policy” that’ll backfire spectacularly
Probably won’t matter much. No ships means nothing to haul
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Who the fuck is supposed to drive the trucks then? I live in (upstate) New York and it seems like even up there a significant population of Mexican truck drivers.
Here, if they don’t speak English, they are almost all Eastern European or Indian. Lots of Russian, Belarusian, Chechen, etc
How does being Mexican mean you don’t speak English? Have you never met a bilingual person in your life?
If you ever followed American politics throughout history, you can see how this can easily be abused. Before, you had to take a test to determine if you were smart enough to vote. The test was the same for both whites and minorities, but it was graded differently depending on your race.
What defines “speaking English”?. Is it a basic level, being able to read road signs or being able to speak to dispatch, the loading crew, or ems at a fundamental level? Or is it college level? Will you even be tested if you’re white?
With trumps many many anti-minority policies and rhetoric, and his abuse of ice, as well as setting up black sites and selling people to the El Salvadoran concentration camp, it’s hard not to think that this will be abused in some way. This is in no way a pro-English law. This is an anti-minority law.
However, cause of how dot and cdls are set up now, I doubt that much will come out of it tbh
That’ll surely fix our surplus of truck drivers! /s
Good news! With the tarriffs throwing cold water on freight all across the US, we won’t need as many truck drivers!
…I really wish I was joking, but the fiance is OTR and freight has already slowed for him. Here’s an article from February that talks about how it was already slower than expected.
Ouch. Things are about to get real harsh before they get worse. I hope you are prepared.
It’s been speculated that Trump is doing this to prepare for the drop in cargo transport in the next few days. Me, I have doubts because nothing that Trump has said or done so far makes me believe that he or his sycophants are intellectually capable of that kind of rational planning. What do you think?
He has no goddamned clue what he’s doing. Whoever is speculating that is welcome to point to even one time where Trump prepared to keep people from economic harm in such a fashion, but I’ve only ever seen him walk things back, not actually insulate someone from harm.
Good thing we won’t need so many of those when supply chains dry up from tariffs!
So cops pulling people over for a Language check?
This is just for show
I keep on thinking of the mad tv skit with the woman who says she can’t understand people with accents.
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??
Not in Trump’s America. Making breathability a requirement could limit some broligarch’s freedom to do business.
Oh definitely not - he has been attacking the Clean Air act.
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?
Classic authoritarian tactics:
Target a marginalized group with an issue that you’ve framed as ridiculous or politically suicidal to disagree with, get public opinion riled up by manipulating their grievances through exploiting their internal prejudices, and make everything an extension of preserving national security. Once you’ve manipulated enough people into giving you extralegal power, simply expand the circle of ‘national security threats’.
In just a few months we’ve watched Trump:
steal the power of the purse and the power to enact tariffs from Congress,
create a precedent for the unconstitutional arrest, detainment, and removal of legal residents and dissenting citizens,
iterate his intentions to restart American expansionism into Canada and Greenland,
Successfully twist the arm of media companies, law firms, and universities into doing his bidding,
And his other executive order directs Dept. Of Homeland Security, DoJ, and DoD to create a plan for implementation of military and national security assets to “prevent crime and protect public safety”.
Welcome to the ‘find out’ stage.
You’re 100 percent dead-on.
And alongside this point, I really wonder how many of the kids that were shouting at everyone to not vote because of the “doing a genocide thing” would have done things differently if they had actually believed us all when we tried to tell them this shit would happen.
And I mean truly and honestly. Not the front they put up when they don’t want to publicly own their part in causing this to happen.
Because I can say that as a voter, I am not at all in the “find out” phase. I already knew this would happen. There was never anything to find out.
I’ve seen others saying it’s just a way to make his devoted loyalists think he’s actually doing something.
Probably a bit of both I’d imagine.
This is an unpresidented act
So, they will arrest people for not obeying an executive order that, and IANAL, has no basis in law? How will they be identifying these drivers? What is the justification for pulling them over?
It does seem like an excuse to call ICE.
Combine with ignoring due process, and it looks like a way to get at immigrants.
If they’re brown, pull 'em over.
If you have to take off your sunglasses to understand their accent, arrest 'em
-From the official executive order.
No, they’ll just add it as a requirement to do any work with federal jobs or something.
The executive office in the us has so many levers of power it can pull that they don’t really need laws anymore.
