Ep. 1643 - Why Illiterate Foreign Truck Drivers Are A MUCH Bigger Issue Than You Think
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The problem of illiterate foreign truck drivers on our roads is a much bigger issue than most people realize, and the details are truly shocking. Also, President Trump continues his campaign to make the Smithsonian pro-American again. And the anti-man feminists in the media have invented a new term to denigrate men: mankeeping. We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, we'll do an even deeper dive into the problem of illiterate
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foreign truck drivers on our roads. This is a much bigger issue than most people realize.
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The details are truly shocking. We'll talk about it today. Also, President Trump continues his
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campaign to make the Smithsonian pro-American again. Is that a worthwhile fight? I say that
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it is, and I'll explain. And the anti-man feminists in the media have invented a new
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In the last few days in particular, the national media has spent so much time talking about foreign
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affairs that it's worth taking a step back and considering at some length the life or death
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issues that Americans face every single day within our own borders. Outlets like CNN and MSNBC,
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which has now been rebranded, by the way, to MS Right Now or MSNBC Right Away or MS No One's
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Watching or something along those lines, I don't know, would prefer to talk about, say, Zelensky's
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attire for five hours. But that kind of coverage doesn't address very basic questions such as
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is it safe to drive on the freeways in this country? If I'm taking my family on a vacation
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or if I'm just on my daily commute, can I have any degree of confidence that I won't be sharing
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the road with incompetent criminals driving 18 wheelers who can't even read the road signs and
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who could obliterate my entire family in an instant? That's a question that has a very discouraging
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answer in lots of places in the world. So what's the answer in this country? In an effort to secure
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the nation's roadways just a few months ago, the Trump administration made a significant change
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to the way that truck drivers are regulated in this country. The Department of Transportation
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announced that commercial motor vehicle drivers who cannot demonstrate proficiency in the English
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language should be placed out of service. And the change the administration announced would,
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quote, ensure consistent nationwide enforcement of this very important qualification. After all,
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if you can't read the road signs, then you have no business operating any kind of vehicle,
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much less an 18-wheeler. In practical terms, there are two phases to this test, which often
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takes place on the roadside after drivers pulled over. In phase one, drivers are not allowed to cheat
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by using any cue cards or smartphone apps. It might seem like a pretty obvious restriction,
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but the Obama administration had allowed it. Instead, drivers are required to respond to official
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inquiries and directions in English as they carry on a basic conversation about their trip,
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their cargo, their qualifications. Then in phase two, officers are supposed to assess the driver's
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ability to understand highway signs, including standard signs and electronic signs, which are
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more dynamic. And by all accounts, these are not particularly difficult tests. For example,
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here's a recent video from a trucker in Arkansas, which already had a similar English language test for
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truckers watch. So personally, I also got stopped at the wait station in Arkansas two days ago. So they
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asked me three questions. Were you born in United States? Do you speak English? How long you've been
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trucking? That's it. And they made me write down only two lines of paragraph. That's it. So a lot of you
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guys are scared to be like, oh, my English is not good. Oh, they're gonna revoke my driving license or blah,
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blah, blah, blah. Nothing. Okay. I think if you're driving a truck, I'm pretty sure you can speak
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these three, four words. Okay. You were born in the United States or not. It doesn't matter.
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They don't give up. Okay. This test is not a big deal. You guys make a big deal out of it. It's not
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a big deal. Okay. Well, that's reassuring. As long as you can answer a couple of very basic questions
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and write only two lines, a paragraph, then you're good to go. And yet as simplistic as the test is,
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it caused a lot of panic among truckers who can't speak a word of English. So in recent weeks, they've
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made the argument that they're just doing their best and it's wrong for Donald Trump to be mean to
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them. Watch. All the truckers know English. Going to be better for everyone. But not everyone agrees
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with Hernandez or President Trump. The way we speak has nothing to do with our ability to handle a
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tractor trailer. Kelvin is a truck driver who works in both Mexico and the U.S. Like other truckers,
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Kelvin will soon have to show he can understand traffic signs, communicate with law enforcement,
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and navigate agricultural checkpoints and weight limit stations.
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The aggressive way they're doing it from one day to the next, the fines they're talking about in
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social media. It's something too strict and worrisome. Kelvin and others would like President
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Trump to change his mind. I'm asking him to be considerate. We're all part of the commerce along
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the border and we're only trying to do the best job possible. Well, they're just trying to do the
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best they can. Hey, if they wipe out an entire family, hey, they did the best they could.
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It's very worrisome to hold them to any standards whatsoever. Let me ask you, what would you rather
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worry about? Would you rather worry that maybe we're going to inconvenience some Mexican truck
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drivers? Or would you rather worry that, you know, an entire family or an entire, you know,
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hockey team is going to be wiped off the face of the earth by a truck driver who can't speak the
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language? What's the more worrisome scenario to you? Well, anyway, this was a state of play as of
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last week. The Trump administration, using its authority to regulate the highways and interstate
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commerce, issued an order saying that truckers can either speak English or they can lose their
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license. And the only truckers who had an issue with it, predictably, were the ones who can't
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speak the language. And so shouldn't be driving trucks here. In the meantime, several Democrat
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run states and law enforcement agencies have announced that they would not comply with the
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new directive. As a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol put it, quote, CHP has not implemented
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any enforcement changes in response to recent federal guidance requiring commercial drivers to speak
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English as it is not part of California law. So let's break down exactly how this mandate is being
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enforced or ignored by the states. According to research published on the website Overdrive,
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so far this year, California inspectors have logged just one English language proficiency or ELP
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violation away from the border zone, and inspectors did not place that driver out of service.
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So put the rest of the data up on the screen right now. And as you can see, states like Texas,
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Wyoming, Colorado, Iowa, Arkansas, Missouri, Arizona have been recording a relatively high number of truck
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drivers who have been removed from service because they failed the English language proficiency test.
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At the same time, the raw numbers themselves still aren't particularly large. This data runs from
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June 25th to July 20th, so it includes a bit less than a month. And in that period, Arizona recorded
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157 ELP violations, but only 43 of those drivers were removed from service. Texas recorded more than
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1,800 violations. Only six drivers were removed from service, and all six of those drivers were caught
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in the interior of the state away from border counties. In Colorado, all 41 ELP violations resulted in
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the driver being removed. So there's a lot of variability here. Some states are taking the
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Trump administration's order seriously. Some are making half-hearted attempts, and other states
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like California are openly violating the order. They're refusing to implement the new requirement
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at all. The consequences of this approach, as the Department of Transportation laid out yesterday,
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led directly to the deaths of three people on the Florida Turnpike last week. We talked about this
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case yesterday. The driver, an illegal alien from India, made an illegal U-turn with his 18-wheeler
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across several lanes of traffic, blocking traffic and leaving a van going 80 miles an hour
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with nowhere to go, except right into the trailer. Now, as it happens, the driver of the truck wasn't
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simply an illegal alien who had no business in this country. He was also illiterate, and he was clearly
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in violation of the Trump administration's new order on English proficiency. So quoting from the
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Department of Transportation, quote, during the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration interview
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with the driver, investigators administered an English language proficiency assessment. The driver
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failed the assessment, providing correct responses to just two of 12 verbal questions and only accurately
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identifying one of four highway traffic signs. And before we go any further, this needs to be
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repeated. The driver who just wiped out an entire passenger van by executing a very illegal
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U-turn could only answer 16% of the questions correctly on the English exam. He could only
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identify 25% of the traffic signs that he was shown. Now, with that in mind, take a look at the U-turn
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sign on the road where this crash happened in Florida. It clearly communicates that no U-turn is
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allowed except for official use only. Now, any English-speaking person would understand exactly what
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that means, but if you're a foreigner from India who can barely speak English, you might interpret
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this sign very differently. You might not understand what official use means. You might not even
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understand what the no U-turn sign means. These are very basic fundamental concepts, but if someone
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can only identify one out of four traffic signs, the odds are pretty good that he doesn't grasp any of
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this. But as we return to the report from the federal government, things only get worse. Quoting again
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from the Department of Transportation, quote, additional preliminary findings include, on July 15th,
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2023, Washington State issued the driver a regular full-term commercial driver's license.
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Asylum seekers or individuals without legal status are not eligible for this type of license.
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On July 23rd, 2024, California issued the driver a limited-term non-domiciled CDL. The Federal Motor
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Carrier Safety Administration is investigating the issuance of this license to determine whether it was
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issued in accordance with federal regulations. On July 3rd, 2025, the New Mexico State Police conducted
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a roadside inspection of the driver and issued a speeding ticket, but there's no indication that an
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ELP assessment was administered. New Mexico has not yet begun enforcing ELP as an out-of-service
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condition, despite the requirement being in effect since June 25th, 2025. In other words, the state of
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Washington unlawfully issued a standard commercial driver's license. No question this decision was
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illegal. Then the state of California issued a non-domiciled CDL, which, as we discussed yesterday,
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is somehow legal, even when the driver is an illegal alien. And then, to top it off, police in New
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Mexico had a chance to take away the driver's license from this person when they pulled him over
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for speeding. But they failed to perform the English language proficiency test, even though it would
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have been obvious to them that he doesn't speak English, but they didn't perform it. So every single
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state that had a role in this crash, which includes, but probably is not limited to, Washington,
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California, and New Mexico, need to face serious consequences immediately. By refusing to enforce
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the federal government's order, they clearly contributed to the deaths of three people on
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the Florida turnpike last week. If they had done their jobs, there's a very good chance that those
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people would be alive. Now, it's true that under our Constitution, states don't have to obey every
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command from the federal government. So normally, as long as they're not actively obstructing federal
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agents, it's difficult to compel states to enforce any particular federal rule. But there are some
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rules the federal government can indeed pressure the states to obey. Article 1 of the Constitution
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grants the federal government the power to regulate commerce among the states, which includes the
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highway system. That's why back in the 1980s, Congress passed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act,
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which handed out a financial penalty to any state that allowed people under the age of 21
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to purchase alcohol. Congress made the case that young drunk drivers were a major threat to
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interstate commerce because they'd often kill people using the highways. And therefore,
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Congress asserted that it had the authority under the Constitution to withhold 10% of federal highway
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funding from any state that refused to enforce the new drinking limit. This was a significant amount of
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money that states needed in order to maintain their roads, and the pressure worked. The states mostly
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fell in line. In 1987, the Supreme Court heard a dispute over the law. Chief Justice William
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Rehnquist wrote an opinion upholding the authority of Congress to apply some financial pressure on the
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states as long as that pressure served a valid federal interest. Now, protecting our highways from
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foreigners who can't speak English or identify highway signs is obviously a very compelling,
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very valid federal interest. So the federal government needs to start punishing every
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single one of the states that allowed this crash to take place. That's allowed by our Constitution.
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It's obviously the right thing to do. And it needs to happen before more families are pancaked
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under 18 wheelers. If there's one thing the Trump administration can do immediately to protect
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Americans is to withhold federal funding from every state that's ignoring the federal rules
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on English language proficiency. Now, this is not simply another 80-20 issue. This is a 99-1 issue.
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Okay, people are unanimous on this. If you were to poll a thousand random Americans, do you think
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that we should allow illegal aliens who can't speak English and read road signs to get CDLs in this country
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and drive on the roads? Poll a thousand Americans on this, would even one of them say, yeah, I think
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that we should allow that? I don't think so. After our show yesterday, we received so many comments
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from truckers and people who are in the trucking industry who are echoing the sentiment that it's
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just impossible to read them all. But here are a few, quote, I'm a freight broker. I have to speak to
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and deal with these foreigners every day. It drives me absolutely nuts, as it does for all brokers.
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So many of them don't understand a lick of English, forcing me to speak to their dispatchers to convey
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messages back and forth. Quote, as a trucker in Virginia, I've seen translators take the test for
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unqualified drivers all the time. Quote, I'm from Ohio. If you get hit by a foreigner, there's 100%
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chance they do not have insurance and you'll be footing the bill. At least you're deductible.
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It's way out of hand here. They never get in any legal trouble for it either. Quote, I travel the
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globe in the military. There are very few places in the world that as a culture care about safety
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of others like ours. Death in many of these places is so commonplace that unless they catch you with
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the knife in your hand actually stuck in the body, it's pretty much, oh, well, sucks to be that guy.
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Quote, I'm a Canadian. I have a trucker friend who's been driving for 20 years. He cannot get jobs
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anymore because Indian drivers are undercutting all the established truckers. Quote, as an American truck driver
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travels all over the lower 48. I'm reading a story from the Kenworth sleeper in my semi.
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I second every point made and I'm glad to finally see what those of us in the industry have known for
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a long time being brought to light on a national stage. Now, those are thousands of comments like
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this. And the conclusion is pretty clear. Truckers have been trying to raise the alarm
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on this issue for many, many years. And now that mainstream attention is finally focused on this
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very obvious problem. They're demanding some sort of serious federal response for once
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and they should receive it. That's what we voted for. For their part, Democrats have made it clear
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that they're willing to fight violently to keep the status quo. You may have seen this video that's
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been circulating. People calling themselves Marines who aren't speaking any English are threatening to
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They said, Listen, there are 25 Marines. We're dead, aren't you?
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You're scared of violence in 따라's DV, aren't you?
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Meanwhile, San Bernardino, officers who attempted to arrest an illegal alien were just attacked
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A nosotros son los que nos tienen que proteger.
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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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Now, needless to say, the whole neighborhood should be placed under immediate surveillance and investigation.
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They're all fighting with law enforcement officers.
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And if they're illegals, round them up into buses and deport all their asses immediately.
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It could not be any more clear that we're dealing with two options here.
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One option is to ruthlessly crack down on foreigners who have violated our sovereignty, who endanger the lives of American citizens.
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The other option is to allow these people to ruthlessly attack law enforcement officials and terrorize American citizens on the highways every single day.
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States like California, New Mexico and Washington have decided where they stand on the issue.
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They decided to defy the federal government for the express purpose of replacing Americans with unqualified foreigners who don't belong in this country, have no right to be here, will happily kill them on the roadways with no remorse.
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I mean, they're very clear on where they stand on that issue.
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Now the federal government has to make it clear where it stands.
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The Trump administration must use its authority under the Constitution to pressure every noncompliant state into compliance.
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Before any more Americans are slaughtered by truck drivers who can't even read a stop sign, any state that's enabling this lunacy must face very real consequences.
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That's how the federal government enforced the drinking age.
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We have the capability to save thousands of lives just by compelling states to enforce a regulation that's already on the books.
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We can make the interstate ten times safer than it already is, virtually overnight.
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And if there's one issue that every single trucker, except the illegal ones, can agree on, it's that we're long overdue for exactly that kind of transformation.
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President Donald Trump has said that his administration will root out wokeness from the Smithsonian as well as other Washington, D.C. museums,
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and will do so in the same way the administration has dealt with colleges.
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Museums throughout Washington but all over the country are essentially the last remaining segment of woke.
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The Smithsonian is out of control where everything discussed is how horrible our country is, how bad slavery was,
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how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been, nothing about success, nothing about brightness, nothing about the future.
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I've instructed my attorneys to go through the museums and start the exact same process that has been done with colleges and universities where tremendous progress has been made.
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This country cannot be woke because woke is broke.
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We have the hottest country in the world, and we want people to talk about it, including in our museums.
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After Trump took the White House in January, the administration took many colleges and universities to task over discrimination, equity, inclusion,
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over DEI practices, and now the same thing is happening in the Smithsonian.
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So the battle over the museums continues, and it's a battle very much worth having, you know, and I've even heard a few conservatives say,
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well, why are we worried about the Smithsonian?
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Trump's point is that these museum exhibits represent the story of American history that we tell ourselves,
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and more importantly, the story that we tell our children.
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Every country, every culture has a story that it tells itself about itself, and until the modern left came along,
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the point was always to tell a generous, positive, inspiring, heroic story about ourselves, about our country,
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And this is what every country has done, every culture, everywhere on earth.
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Many cultures, especially historically, have founding myths, right?
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The Polynesians, for example, created a story about a great navigator and chief named Hawaii Iloa, or however you pronounce it.
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And this was their guy who discovered Hawaii centuries ago or thousands of years ago.
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In reality, the Polynesians likely discovered Hawaii by accident, by getting lost at sea and sort of getting, drifting into it.
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But they would prefer a story where they are skillful navigators who discovered the island on purpose.
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But they would prefer a story where this island was discovered by them on purpose.
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And every culture has done this same sort of thing, where you have these legends, these founding myths.
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I'm not saying the Smithsonian should contain made-up stories that we are pretending are real.
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I'm not even saying that we should ignore or deny the reality of slavery or any of that stuff.
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What I'm saying is that we've gone, and this is the point that I think maybe not everyone quite, maybe that some people are missing, is that we've gone exactly the other way.
00:26:25.580
So, for leftists, for decades, thanks to leftists, thanks to the left, and the indoctrination efforts, the efforts to destroy our national identity, for decades, we have been telling ourselves essentially a founding myth designed to make us hate ourselves.
00:26:47.060
And as far as I'm aware, we're the first country in the world to do this.
00:26:57.060
We're the first country to ever invent a story of its own founding that's designed to make us look bad to ourselves.
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I mean, if you're going to have a founding myth, it's much, much, much better and healthier and more productive to make it something heroic and inspirational, rather than depressing and embarrassing.
00:27:20.780
We lie to ourselves to make ourselves sound worse.
00:27:30.380
So, our new founding myth is that America was built on the backs of slaves, which isn't true.
00:27:50.140
Could America still have existed without slavery?
00:27:56.600
You know, the idea that we carry some kind of unique guilt for slavery, also not true.
00:28:03.820
The idea that America was built on stolen land, not true.
00:28:08.120
The idea that, you know, we have no right to exist as a nation, not true.
00:28:12.960
The idea that this country was founded by committing genocide against the Indians, not true.
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So, what I'm saying is that that is our founding myth now.
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And so, it's like, we, we, it's for all people on the left saying, well, we got to tell the truth about our history.
00:28:36.600
So, we're the first country in the world to have a founding myth that's designed to be depressing and humiliating.
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And it's the myth that the Smithsonian and academia and the media have been spreading for decades.
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I mean, it's good that we're bringing it to an end.
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Here's one of the Krasenstein brothers on TikTok whining about all this.
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Donald Trump just basically said that museums in the United States are out of control and woke because there's exhibits within these museums about slavery.
00:29:19.060
Here, well, the Smithsonian is out of control where everything discusses how horrible our country is, how bad slavery was, dot, dot, dot, dot.
00:29:28.320
Either Donald Trump has never been to a museum in his life, which probably is true.
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Or he's grossly exaggerating what he did see in these museums.
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Teaching Americans, especially children, about where we screwed up, like with slavery, is actually a good thing because it prevents us from following in those footsteps again.
00:29:50.400
Trying to erase the history that makes us look bad is really something that dictators of the past have done time and time again.
00:30:01.040
So if you want to actually teach our children and not indoctrinate them, then I would say let's not touch these museums.
00:30:14.600
Thanks for asking, Ed, or whichever one you are.
00:30:20.060
Actually, it turns out that focusing obsessively on slavery does not prevent us from following in those footsteps.
00:30:30.180
I mean, this is the nonsense that we hear about why we have to constantly rehash the sins of the past, that we have to constantly obsess over it,
00:30:38.580
because that's the only way to make sure we don't make the same mistake again.
00:30:45.100
Slavery was the dehumanization and commodification of human life.
00:30:52.260
As we talked about, it was all across the globe engaged in this.
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And non-Western, non-white cultures engaged in it oftentimes much more and to much longer and to a much more brutal extent.
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It's the dehumanization and commodification of human life.
00:31:09.440
And okay, well, we are a culture obsessed with relitigating and apologizing for slavery.
00:31:13.820
And yet at the same time, we're also engaged in the dehumanization and commodification of human life right now.
00:31:24.460
I mean, even the arguments the left makes for illegal immigration are really just arguments for slavery, for slave labor.
00:31:32.560
Instead of, hey, who's going to pick the cotton?
00:31:35.360
So apparently, obsessing over some dark aspect of your own past will not stop you from repeating it.
00:31:42.460
If anything, and this is true in your personal life as well.
00:31:46.220
If anything, the more you obsess over the bad stuff in the past, the more likely it is that you'll stay in that cycle and keep repeating it.
00:31:54.200
You know, when you focus on, as Trump said in his truth social post, where's the lightning?
00:32:05.840
You know, we need things that are light and bright and inspiring.
00:32:08.700
And it's true because when you focus on the dark things all the time and your mind's always just on the dark things, that's where you live.
00:32:18.020
And the other thing, too, and I'll say this, and I've already talked quite a bit about the real history of slavery and how it's not a uniquely American sin.
00:32:28.420
I'm not going to rehash it right now, although I'm sure I will many more times.
00:32:36.220
But let me point out another problem, though, with this self-hating approach to American history.
00:32:39.720
And I think that this is like an underrated problem with it.
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OK, it's really just dull and awful and boring.
00:32:52.700
It's one of the reasons why so many kids in this country grow up to have no interest in history.
00:32:59.240
You know, we live in a country now full of historically illiterate morons.
00:33:07.060
It's because they've been relentlessly pummeled by this dreary, repetitive nonsense.
00:33:13.600
And they see the whole subject as sort of excruciating and tedious and depressing.
00:33:21.060
And that's really tragic because in reality, history is fascinating.
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I would argue that we have the most fascinating history of any nation on Earth.
00:33:37.060
Especially when you consider what America achieved and how quickly it achieved it.
00:33:48.440
There are so many incredible stories from our past.
00:33:50.320
So many other things we could be talking about.
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So slavery in America is, among other things, just really not that interesting of a topic.
00:34:00.900
Not interesting enough to eat up as much of the historical conversation as it does.
00:34:12.000
You know, as a country, we had slavery for 90 years and 2% of Americans own slaves.
00:34:16.620
It's like, it's not that, it's actually not that, it's not that significant of a part of our history, actually.
00:34:26.040
It's not nearly as significant a part of our history as the left would have us believe.
00:35:01.620
Are there other things that happened in history that might be interesting to talk about?
00:35:08.520
Can we talk about, I don't know, Lewis and Clark, Daniel Boone, the Apollo program, the
00:35:18.820
And I know you might claim that, well, a lot's already been said on all those subjects.
00:35:24.580
Are you saying, well, are you really claiming that we don't, nobody talks about Lewis and
00:35:34.720
OK, how many high school seniors in this country do you think could write even four sentences
00:35:40.200
explaining who Lewis and Clark were and what they achieved and when they achieved it?
00:35:46.120
How many could give you four sentences on the Apollo missions or on the building of the
00:35:51.100
How many high school seniors could tell you even within 50 years when the Panama Canal was
00:35:56.340
You give them a 50-year on either side cushion, could they get within that range without consulting
00:36:13.400
If you were to ask the average high school, American high schooler in the year 2025, who are
00:36:22.040
the, you know, just to you, who are the 10, the 10 greatest, um, American heroes, uh, up to 50
00:36:33.060
years ago, let's say from, from our nation's founding to about 50 years ago, a lot of great
00:36:45.860
How many high school seniors could even think of 10 names?
00:36:48.480
Like just forget about heroes name, 10 Americans who lived between say, um, the year 1800 to,
00:37:00.660
um, 1940, so it's kind of an arbitrary 1800 to 1940, give me 10 Americans, any 10 who lived
00:37:18.480
Like we all know the answer is, I don't know, 5%, 2%, 1%.
00:37:22.700
Um, because the, the, the, we are, and this is the education system.
00:37:32.760
This, this, this, this is all, you don't want to talk about indoctrination.
00:37:34.880
People are being indoctrinated to be historically illiterate buffoons who do not know anything
00:37:51.620
Because if they knew something, if they knew anything, if they knew anything about any real
00:37:59.420
thing about our nation's history, they would, as a consequence, they would not be able to
00:38:06.040
help, but feel deeply proud of this country because our history is so incredible.
00:38:14.580
Um, you wouldn't be able to help, but feel pride.
00:38:19.900
And the left want to make, wants to make sure that no one feels pride in this country and no
00:38:23.440
And, uh, and so the only way to do it is to make sure that no one knows anything about
00:38:29.400
You got a bunch of, um, you know, the Americans walking around, um, as if they just sprang
00:38:37.640
out of the ground as, as, as if the world itself began at the moment of their birth, as if nothing
00:38:51.600
For a lot of Americans today, um, that two things happened in history, slavery and the
00:39:01.200
Those are the only two things that happened for a lot, for a lot of people walking around
00:39:06.440
It's, uh, slavery happened in the Holocaust and then me.
00:39:11.220
That's all the things that happened in history.
00:39:15.720
They might, they don't know anything about the crusades, but the crusades said, like,
00:39:21.020
That's where the Catholics were, did some bad stuff or something and then slavery and
00:39:26.340
And then, and it's just nothing, but just, just a bunch of terrible things.
00:39:30.280
And then, uh, and then here I am, that's, that's the story of world history that most
00:39:35.080
people have, uh, jumbling around in their heads.
00:39:39.060
And that's a major problem and one that I think Trump was trying to fix.
00:39:46.980
With majority of black beauty products being made in China and Vietnam, U.S. President Donald
00:39:50.500
Trump's tariffs have disproportionately impacted black business owners.
00:39:58.080
I understand that tariffs are designed to protect U.S. businesses and that's important.
00:40:06.420
But when you start creating policies like this and you're not consulting with professionals
00:40:11.760
in the beauty industry, especially black professionals, it creates a gap.
00:40:17.560
Earlier this summer, Deja Blackshear Calloway began to realize that her usual clients weren't
00:40:26.220
Her salon, Hair Freak Beauty, offers services ranging from $50 natural styles to $745 tape-in
00:40:34.280
But the price of hair extensions and the glue used to craft wigs and weaves have skyrocketed.
00:40:42.100
Well, most black beauty products are made in China and Vietnam.
00:40:45.980
And the two countries have been hit by U.S. President Donald Trump's series of tariffs.
00:40:51.580
A package of synthetic hair imported from Vietnam has gone up $100 to $290 since May.
00:41:00.060
A bottle of hair glue ordered from China has nearly doubled in price at the local supply
00:41:07.440
And when you start having these type of issues happening, I'm either having to eat that cost
00:41:14.720
Experts say the hikes are impacting black business owners more than others, especially those in low
00:41:21.580
That's because black entrepreneurs often start off with fewer funds.
00:41:25.720
As the tariffs eat into their bottom lines, that wealth gap makes them even more financially
00:41:34.560
Speaking of founding myths, one of the foundational myths of modern leftism is the myth of disparate
00:41:41.060
The idea that, you know, their favored victim groups are disproportionately impacted by things
00:41:47.420
So it's the old, you know, asteroid wipes out humanity, trans people most impacted bit.
00:41:58.400
Even in cases where it really, if anything, it makes the preferred group look worse.
00:42:02.880
Because all they're telling us is that black businesses are more likely to buy cheap crap
00:42:08.040
from China rather than trying to support American suppliers.
00:42:10.940
So what you're actually telling us, I mean, what you Reuters are saying is that black business
00:42:17.440
I mean, that's what that's what you're that's what you're telling us.
00:42:19.400
But, you know, the good news is that when you watch this kind of stuff now, a news report
00:42:25.700
explaining how somehow the tariffs target black women, you know, it's a that you watch it
00:42:32.340
and it feels like a relic from an ancient civilization.
00:42:41.600
No one's convinced by this kind of stuff anymore.
00:42:51.880
I mean, the horse is like bones and ash at this point.
00:42:56.620
And that's because the victim narrative is inextricable from the modern left.
00:43:05.840
You know, what we have to understand about leftism is that it has no positive vision.
00:43:10.740
It's not trying to build anything or build to anything.
00:43:13.340
It's only it's merely a collection of grievances.
00:43:16.520
It's a it's a kill list, a list of things and people and institutions that it wants destroyed.
00:43:23.420
That's all it ever can be, which is to say that which is to say that wokeness.
00:43:28.180
You get into this conversation about it was wokeness dead.
00:43:31.720
Well, it can never truly die until leftism is dead.
00:43:34.780
So anyone who says that wokeness is dead, you just have to ask them.
00:43:38.200
So you're saying what the left doesn't exist anymore.
00:43:39.920
That leftism is no longer everyone's conservative now.
00:43:45.200
That'd be good news, but I don't think that's the case.
00:43:47.820
And as long as leftism exists and is a force in American culture.
00:43:58.140
The animating force behind many of our institutions, as long as that's the case.
00:44:02.900
Then wokeness will exist because this is what this is what wokeness is.
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Well, I was just informed that this week for the first time in a very long time, I've been
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Apparently, episodes one and two are what everyone is watching right now.
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So in our decadent society outside the world of AI, it may seem like there isn't a lot
00:46:25.540
of innovation going on, but that's not entirely true.
00:46:28.760
Some people in our society are still innovating.
00:46:32.500
For example, every three or four months, feminists in the media come up with a new term to denigrate
00:46:38.620
And it's been about four months since the last one, which means that this New York Times
00:46:41.500
article that we'll talk about today is arriving right on Q.
00:46:47.100
Why women are weary of the emotional labor of mankeeping.
00:46:51.180
As male social circles shrink, female partners say they have to meet more social and emotional
00:47:00.240
Now, to be fair, I don't think the New York Times actually invented the term.
00:47:04.440
There was a headline back in The Guardian back in June that said, mankeeping, why single women
00:47:10.560
As the male social circle continues to shrink, their partners have to take on much more emotional
00:47:14.520
labor, and many are opting to spend their lives alone instead.
00:47:18.960
Another headline a few months before that tells us, mankeeping is on the rise, and it's exhausting
00:47:29.100
Well, if you type the term into Google, here's the definition it provides.
00:47:32.600
Mankeeping refers to the unpaid emotional labor that women often perform in relationships
00:47:36.460
where they're expected to manage and support the emotional well-being of their partners,
00:47:41.880
This includes tasks like anticipating needs, managing conflicts, and providing emotional
00:47:45.700
support, which can lead to exhaustion and resentment.
00:47:49.760
So mankeeping is when a wife is expected to, you know, be a wife.
00:47:55.900
It's when she's saddled with the horrific burden of having to provide emotional support
00:48:06.820
Women are being asked to form emotional connections with their spouses without any form of financial
00:48:16.040
Husbands should pay their wives an hourly wage for every hour that their wives spend caring
00:48:22.420
So if you want your wife to care about you for, say, eight hours a day, full-time job,
00:48:27.920
then you should pay her, I'd say, $2,400, about $300 an hour.
00:48:31.720
You might think that's kind of steep, but hey, do you want your wife to care about you or
00:48:38.060
And if you want her to do some overtime and, say, care about you for 10 or 11 hours, maybe
00:48:43.020
you say, well, I get home from work and I still want her to care about me for a couple
00:48:49.500
I'd like her to still care about me when we're having dinner.
00:48:58.840
Acting as an emotional prostitute, demanding that your husband or boyfriend leave cash
00:49:03.020
on the side table as compensation for your emotional intimacy, that's very normal, right?
00:49:13.640
So let's read through a little bit of this New York Times article to find out more.
00:49:19.440
Quote, Justin Leoi is a licensed clinical social worker in Brooklyn who specializes in therapy
00:49:24.720
When he sees a new client, one of the first things he asks is, who can you talk to about
00:49:30.320
Much of the time, Mr. Leoi always says his straight male clients tell him that they rarely
00:49:34.420
open up to anyone but their girlfriends or wives.
00:49:36.580
Their partners have become their unofficial therapists, he said, doing all the emotional
00:49:41.880
That particular role now has a name, mankeeping.
00:49:44.820
The term coined by Angelica Puzio Ferrara, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University,
00:49:51.900
It describes the work women do to meet the social emotional needs of the men in their
00:49:56.840
From supporting their partners through daily challenges and inner turmoil, to encouraging
00:50:02.580
What I've been seeing in my research is how women have been asked or expected to take on
00:50:06.740
more work to be a central, if not the central piece of a man's social support system, Dr.
00:50:11.080
Ferrara said, taking care to note that the dynamic isn't experienced by all couples.
00:50:15.320
Yes, women are expected to be the central piece of a man's social support system.
00:50:22.380
Now, you might think, well, yeah, isn't that what it means to be in a relationship?
00:50:32.460
Shouldn't you want to be your man's primary source of emotional support?
00:50:37.660
Shouldn't you want to have a level of emotional intimacy with him that he doesn't have with
00:50:46.440
Why the hell are you in a relationship with you if you consider emotional intimacy to be
00:50:53.540
Well, these are all good questions, and the New York Times will not answer any of them.
00:50:58.620
Quote, Dr. Ferrara, who researches male friendship at Stanford's Clayman Institute for Gender
00:51:04.840
Research, and Dylan Vergara, a research assistant, published a paper on mankeeping in 2024 after
00:51:11.600
investigating why some men struggle to form close bonds, a growing and well-documented
00:51:17.340
In a 2021 survey, 15% of men said they didn't have any close friends, up from 3% in 1990.
00:51:22.780
In 1990, nearly half of young men said they would reach out to friends when facing a personal
00:51:27.500
Three decades later, just over 20% said the same.
00:51:30.280
Dr. Ferrara found that women tended to have all of these nodes of support they were going
00:51:34.260
to for problems, whereas men were more likely to be going to just them.
00:51:39.700
She sees mankeeping as an important extension of the concept of kinkeeping, the work of keeping
00:51:44.700
families together that researchers have found tends to fall disproportionately on women.
00:51:49.280
Eve Tilley-Colson, 37, was relieved to stumble upon the concept of mankeeping on social media.
00:51:53.340
Ms. Tilley-Colson, who lives in Los Angeles, is happy in a relationship with her boyfriend
00:51:56.920
of nearly seven months, describes him as emotionally mature, funny, and caring.
00:52:00.560
They make a good team, but Ms. Tilley-Colson finds herself offering him a fair amount of
00:52:12.320
And the point is that, as you probably already suspected, mankeeping is yet another term feminists
00:52:17.860
have coined as an elaborate and roundabout way of justifying their own monstrous, hideous
00:52:30.980
And anything that distracts from them focusing 100% of their energies on themselves and their
00:52:41.920
And that's why, as usual, the struggles of men are being reframed as problems for women.
00:52:55.860
A woman is a victim because of her own emotional struggles.
00:53:00.860
And a woman is also a victim because of a man's emotional struggles.
00:53:04.840
No matter who's struggling, it's always the woman who's struggling more.
00:53:09.840
Now, all that said, there is a morsel of truth in this idea.
00:53:17.480
In fact, I'm not really disputing the underlying premise, which is that women tend to be more
00:53:26.640
They tend to be the primary ones in the relationship who create and maintain, as the article says,
00:53:34.680
You know, I'll fully admit, if I ever find myself at a social event of any kind, it's almost always
00:53:42.080
because my wife coordinated it, planned it, scheduled it, and convinced me to attend.
00:53:48.160
And reminded me like 20 times that we're doing this thing on Saturday.
00:53:51.580
And, you know, over the summer, we had various visits from family and friends, and I had
00:54:00.420
If left up to me, none of it would have happened.
00:54:03.280
If I was entirely abandoned to my own devices, I would probably be just a hermit out in the
00:54:08.620
I mean, that's my default setting, as it is for many men.
00:54:11.160
So when it comes to organizing social events, does my wife carry a disproportionate amount
00:54:24.240
Does that mean I owe her financial compensation like she's my employee?
00:54:28.560
Am I saddling her with an unfair amount of emotional labor?
00:54:41.480
It means she's not my business partner or my associate.
00:54:45.360
It means she's my wife, and she's wired differently than me.
00:54:52.400
There are different kinds of burdens that have to be assumed and carried in order for a
00:54:58.240
My wife and I do not go exactly 50-50 on any of those burdens.
00:55:03.220
She carries a hugely disproportionate amount of the social burden, for sure.
00:55:10.600
Now, on the other hand, for example, I carry 100% of the burden to provide for the family
00:55:18.020
and ensure that we always have a roof over our heads and food on our plates.
00:55:22.400
Like, making sure that we're not homeless and starving, that job is 100% mine.
00:55:29.240
That is an enormous pressure that I carry every single day of my life.
00:55:39.540
In most marriages, even in our enlightened age, the man is still the primary breadwinner.
00:55:44.280
And even in marriages where the split is 50-50, the man is still the default breadwinner.
00:55:49.040
If anyone's going to stop working, it's almost always going to be the woman.
00:55:52.860
So, even in marriages where there's a 50-50 split, or even if the woman makes 60% of the
00:55:58.320
income, still, there's the option for the woman to stay home with the kids.
00:56:07.480
In the vast majority of families, the man is either the sole breadwinner, the primary
00:56:15.660
And as we've discussed before, there's a substantial emotional and mental burden that comes with
00:56:26.860
We don't come up with any fancy, trendy new terms for it.
00:56:34.920
And instead, the assumption is that there's no, that the task of providing for your family,
00:56:41.220
keeping the roof over the head, keeping food on the plate, making sure people aren't starving
00:56:45.900
or ending up homeless, making sure the kids have money to go to college, if that's what
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you decide to do, making sure you're able to go on a vacation, making sure that, you know,
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The assumption is that there is no psychological or emotional burden associated with that at
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Like, we're just walking around on cloud nine all the time, just wandering around.
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Our heads totally empty, which is not the case.
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Because in reality, men who have this responsibility, they walk around every moment of their lives
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And almost everything they do is in some way directed towards that objective and that responsibility.
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There's never a time when they're not feeling it.
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And this is a burden that in many families, the wife will never feel, at least not to the extent
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Now, am I saying that wives should step up and carry more of this weight in order to make
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So I'm saying that nothing is equal in a healthy marriage.
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The husband and wife are different people and will carry different burdens to different
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They can either choose to whine and complain about this and make themselves into perpetually
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aggrieved martyrs, or they can delight in the opportunity to serve and love their family
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This is entirely a question of the attitude or perspective that you choose to adopt.
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And any woman running around whining about mankeeping obviously has chosen to adopt the wrong
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When if you were a selfless, good person, right, frankly, you would look at it as this, I am
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I am so happy that I can do this for my husband.
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Yeah, my husband, if not for me, would be much more isolated, but I love him and I know
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that him keeping social connections is important and I know that this is not his MO.
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I am good at it and I am blessed to be able to do that for him and serve him in that way
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You could see it that way if you were a good, decent person and a good wife, but you're a
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So instead you sit around complaining and whining and feeling aggrieved and put upon and persecuted
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because you're expected to do anything in the marriage at all.
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Mankeeping is just another way for some women in modern society to complain about the basic
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wifely duties that they signed up for when they got married.
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What we find is that some women, not all, but some become wives, but have no interest
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Being a wife is a role, but as it turns out, they don't want to fill that role at all.
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They took the part, but they don't want to play it.
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And then when the marriage falls apart, when the husband becomes detached and resentful,
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when he perhaps finds intimacy with somebody else because his wife has refused to offer it,
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we're still supposed to see the wife as the clear-cut victim in the case.
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When the wife says, we hear the story of my husband cheated on me, well, he shouldn't have.
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However, oftentimes it doesn't happen in a vacuum.
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And when you withhold affection from your husband, emotional affection, because you don't want to,
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When you do that, and then usually you're withholding physical affection as well.
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It doesn't say like eventually he's at work and there's some woman at work.
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And, you know, there's a woman who takes him seriously and respects him and shows him some affection and seems to actually be interested in him and kind of like likes being around him.
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And then all of a sudden he's, you know, what he gets at home is just cold and detached and awful.
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And what he finds with this woman is this warmth that he's so deeply lacking in desires.
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And the moment that happens, you're in trouble.
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You are, you, this, this is, this is, you know, the asteroid's about to hit moment.
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And when it happens, again, it's not justified.
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But you don't get to pretend to be the clear cut victim.
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You can't, you can't sit back and say that, well, it's, I, this is, I, how did this happen?
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You know, these, these are choices that you made as well.
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So choices have consequences and treating your marriage like a chore and your husband like a child is a choice.
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The consequences will be dire for your marriage one way or another.
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And that is why any woman complaining about man keeping or using the term unironically at all is today canceled.
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