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In your opinion, what is the purpose of giving a commercial driver’s license to someone who can’t read or speak English, and thus, can’t read road signs?
Wordpress ^ | August 18, 2025 | Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)

Posted on 08/18/2025 2:45:06 PM PDT by grundle

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1 posted on 08/18/2025 2:45:06 PM PDT by grundle
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To wreak havoc on the general population.


2 posted on 08/18/2025 2:46:03 PM PDT by fruser1
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It’s a variation of the traditional “Death to America!” urge.


3 posted on 08/18/2025 2:46:27 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The list of things I no longer care about is long. And it's getting longer.)
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Cultural enrichment of course


4 posted on 08/18/2025 2:47:35 PM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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I traveled to a top 3 city this week. The airport, hotel and diners- downtown stores restaurants. Museums

No one f ing speaks English and has no shame about it

The worst offender was my uber driver back home.


5 posted on 08/18/2025 2:47:43 PM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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Governor George Ryan of Illinois more or less went to jail for that.

The commercial license was not given but sold and it ended up killing most of a family in a minivan in Wisconsin.


6 posted on 08/18/2025 2:49:20 PM PDT by Biblebelter
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With truckers, it seems like D.O.T. would have something to say about it.


7 posted on 08/18/2025 2:49:29 PM PDT by marron
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Google Maps convert to several languages.
Just need to listen to the directions in a native language.


8 posted on 08/18/2025 2:52:49 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (There are no more conspiracy theories, only questions that further the truth.)
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Imaging how such an Employer of the unlicensed driver would respond.

To get the job done, but at a fraction of the full cost hiring a legitimate professional would cost.

Plus, the employer can ‘fire at will’ w/o any Union defending them. If there is an injury, OSHA need not ever hear about it. Long, long drives can be demanded.

And this kind of an employer would feel no obligation to pay for medical expenses. Nothing over a quick visit to
Urgent Care. No follow up.


9 posted on 08/18/2025 2:52:54 PM PDT by lee martell
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Screwing the rest of us.


10 posted on 08/18/2025 2:53:38 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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If you're a democrat, new voters.

If you're an old establishment republican, cheap labor.

11 posted on 08/18/2025 2:54:30 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Prayers for the US and President Trump)
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Always the answer is the REVOLUTION.


12 posted on 08/18/2025 2:56:35 PM PDT by MAAG (The LORD does not choose sides, HE is a side.)
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Somebody has to drive commercials.
Recently I found someone parked on a private road within 10 ft of a sign that stated ‘No Parking, Fire Lane’. When asked what they were doing there, the response was ‘We lost’. ‘OK, turn around and go back the way you came. When you get to the point where you started the car earlier you might not be lost any more.’
‘Where that?’ ‘Do you know what a sheriff is?’ ‘We going’


13 posted on 08/18/2025 3:15:40 PM PDT by sasquatch (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit! c/o piytar)
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Corruption like this sent former Illinois governor George Ryan to prison. When he was Secretary of State his office was involved in a similar CDL scandal. A hispanic semi truck driver obtained a license even though he didn’t meet the requirements, and he ended up killing six kids in a wreck because he couldn’t speak English.


14 posted on 08/18/2025 3:19:19 PM PDT by dznutz
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“””Plus, the employer can ‘fire at will’ w/o any Union defending them. If there is an injury, OSHA need not ever hear about it. Long, long drives can be demanded.”””

A lot of these guys are independents and have their own rigs. I used to deal with a lot of them.


15 posted on 08/18/2025 3:21:37 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To secure their vote. Or at least to secure a ballot that someone else could fill in.


16 posted on 08/18/2025 3:26:50 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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The purpose is to get as many new democrat voters as possible, and to hurt as many Americans as possible.


17 posted on 08/18/2025 3:27:36 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To make sure no one calls them racists.


18 posted on 08/18/2025 3:29:20 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF ISR pilot. We are a family of aviators. )
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

I use an App called WAZE. The app practically drives my car, even warning me if there are police ahead or a vehicle on the side of road ahead, or a railroad crossing coming up. It tells me (in English) how far my next turn or exit is. I never get lost anymore at age 85.

Do not need maps any more. It is totally stress-free driving now. Do not need bi-focals to read maps or Rx glasses to read signs.


19 posted on 08/18/2025 3:33:21 PM PDT by Bobbyvotes (TERM LIMITS is the ONLY WAY to get rid of corrupt career politicians. )
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Any cogent plan for staging an insurrection invariably includes destabilizing the infrastructure by interrupting basic services.

My favorite example of that is Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, multi-millionaire owner of Italy’s largest publishing firm. He was a trust fund baby who hated his privileged upbringing. He’d tried the communists, and the anarchists, too, but they both were too milquetoast to suit him, so he struck out on his own.

In 1972, what was left of Feltrinelli was found at the base of a power transmission tower outside Milan. Apparently he had intended blowing up the tower to cause black-outs in Milan but the bomb detonated prematurely.

Because lack of electrical power gets the sheeple agitated, makes them more receptive to offers of alternative forms of governance.


20 posted on 08/18/2025 3:35:28 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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