Ep. 1643 - Why Illiterate Foreign Truck Drivers Are A MUCH Bigger Issue Than You Think
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, we’ll do an even deeper dive into the problem of illiterate foreign truck drivers on our roads. This is a much bigger issue than most people realize. The details are truly shocking. Also, President Trump continues his campaign to make the Smithsonian pro-American again. Is this a worthwhile fight? I say it is and I’ll explain. And the anti-man feminists in the media have invented a new term to denigrate men. It’s called “mankeeping.”
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In the last few days in particular, the national media has spent so much time talking about foreign affairs that it's worth taking a step back and considering at some length.
the life or death issues that Americans face every single day within our own borders.
Outlets like CNN and MSNBC, which has now been rebranded, by the way, to MS right now or MSNBC right away or MS no one's watching or something along those lines.
I don't know.
Would prefer to talk about, say, Zelensky's attire for five hours, but that kind of coverage doesn't address very basic questions such as, is it safe to drive on the freeways in this country?
If I'm taking my family on a vacation or if I'm just on my daily commute, can I have any degree of confidence that I won't be sharing the road with incompetent criminals driving 18-wheelers who can't even read the road signs and who could obliterate my entire family in an instant?
That's a question that has a very discouraging answer in lots of places in the world.
So what's the answer in this country?
In an effort to secure the nation's roadways just a few months ago,, the Trump administration made a significant change to the way that truck drivers are regulated in this country.
The Department of Transportation announced that commercial motor vehicle drivers who cannot demonstrate proficiency in the English language should be placed out of service.
And the change the administration announced would, quote, ensure consistent nationwide enforcement of this very important qualification.
After all, if you can't read the road signs, then you have no business operating any kind of vehicle, much less an 18-wheeler.
In practical terms, there are two phases to this test, which often takes place on the roadside after drivers pulled over.
In phase one, drivers are not allowed to cheat by using any cue cards or smartphone apps might seem like a pretty obvious restriction, but the Obama administration had allowed it.
Instead, drivers are required to respond to official inquiries and directions in English as they carry on a basic conversation about their trip, their cargo, their qualifications.
Then in phase two, officers are supposed to assess the driver's ability to understand highway signs, including standard signs and electronic signs, which are more dynamic.
And by all accounts, these are not particularly difficult tests.
For example, here's a recent video from a trucker in Arkansas, which already had a similar English language test for truckers.
Watch.
So personally, I also got stopped at the VAPE station in Arkansas two days ago.
So they asked me three questions.
Were you born in United States?
Do you speak English?
How long you been trucking?
That's it.
And they made me write down only two lines of paragraph.
That's it.
So a lot of you guys are scared to be like, oh, my English is not good.
Oh, they're going to revoke my driving license or blah, blah, blah.
Nothing, okay?
I think if you're driving a truck, I'm pretty sure you can speak these three, four words, okay?
You were born in United States or not, it doesn't matter.
They don't give up.
Okay, these tests is not a big deal.
You guys make a big deal out of it.
It's not a big deal, okay?
Well, that's reassuring.
As long as you can answer a couple of very basic questions and write only two lines, a paragraph, then you're good to go.
And yet, as simplistic as the test is, it caused a lot of panic among truckers who can't speak a word of English.
So in recent weeks, they've made the argument that they're just doing their best and it's wrong for Donald Trump to be mean to them.
watch.
All the truckers know English.
It's going to be better for everyone.
But not everyone agrees with Hernandez or President Trump.
The way we speak has nothing to do with our ability to handle a tractor trailer.
Kelvin is a truck driver.iver who works in both Mexico and the U.S. Like other truckers, Kelvin will soon have to show he can understand traffic signs, communicate with law enforcement, and navigate agricultural checkpoints and weight limit stations.
The aggressive way they're doing it, from one day to the next, the fines they're talking about in social media, It's something too strict and worrisome.
Kelvin and others would like President Trump to change his mind.
I'm asking him to be considerate.
We're all part of the commerce along the border and we're only trying to do do the best job possible.
Well, they're just trying to do the best they can.
Hey, if they wipe out an entire family, hey, they did the best they could.
It's very worrisome to hold them to any standards whatsoever.
But let me ask you, what would you rather worry about?
Would you rather worry that maybe we're going to inconvenience some Mexican truck drivers?
Or would you rather worry that, you know, an entire family or an entire, you know, hockey team is going to be wiped off the face of the earth by a truck driver who can't speak the language?
What's the more worrisome scenario to you?
Well, anyway, this was the state of play as of last week.
The Trump administration, using its authority to regulate the highways and interstate commerce, issued an order saying that truckers can either speak English or they can lose their license.
And the only truckers who had an issue with it predictably were the ones who can't speak the language and so shouldn't be driving trucks here.
In the meantime, several Democrat-run states and law enforcement agencies have announced that they would not comply with the new directive.
As a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol put it, quote, CHP has not implemented any enforcement changes in response to recent federal guidance requiring commercial drivers to speak English as it is not part of California law.
So let's break down exactly how this mandate is being enforced or ignored by the states.
According to research published on the website Overdrive, so far this year, California inspectors have logged just one English language proficiency or ELP violation away from the border zone and inspectors did not place that driver out of service.
So we'll put the rest of the data up on the screen right now.
And as you can see, states like Texas, Wyoming, Colorado, Iowa, Arkansas, Missouri, Arizona have been recording a relatively high number of truck drivers who have been removed from service because they failed the English language proficiency test.
At the same time, the raw numbers themselves still aren't particularly large.
This data runs from June 25th to July 20th, so it includes a bit less than a month.
And in that period, Arizona recorded 157 ELP violations, but only 43 of those drivers were removed from service.
Texas recorded more than 1,800 violations.
Only six drivers were removed from service, and all six of those drivers were caught in the interior of the state away from border counties.
In Colorado, all 41 ELP violations resulted in the driver being removed.
So there's a lot of variability here.
Some states are taking the Trump administration's order seriously.
Some are making half-hearted attempts.
And other states like California are openly violating the order.
They're refusing to implement the new requirement at all.
The consequences of this approach, as the Department of Transportation laid out yesterday, led directly.
to the deaths of three people on the Florida Turnpike last week.
We talked about this case yesterday.
The driver, an illegal alien from India, made an illegal U-turn with his 18-wheeler across several lanes of traffic, blocking traffic and leaving a van going 80 miles an hour with nowhere to go except right into the trailer.
Now as it happens, the driver of the truck wasn't simply an illegal alien who had no business in this country.
He was also illiterate and he was clearly in violation of the Trump administration's new order on English proficiency.
So quoting from the Department of Transportation, quote, during the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration interview with the driver, investigators administered an English language proficiency assessment.
The driver failed the assessment, providing correct responses to just two of 12 verbal questions and only accurately identifying one of four highway traffic signs.
Now before we go any further, this needs to be repeated.
The driver who just wiped out an entire passenger van by executing a very illegal U-turn could only answer 16% of the questions correctly on the English exam.
He could only identify 25% of the traffic signs that he was shown.
Now with that in mind, take a look at the U-turn sign on the road where this crash happened in Florida.
It clearly communicates that no U-turn is allowed except for official use only.
Now, any English-speaking person would understand exactly what that means.
But if you're a foreigner from India who can barely speak English, you might interpret this sign very differently.
You might not understand what official use means.
You might not even understand what the no-you-turn sign means.
These are very basic fundamental concepts, but if someone can only identify one out of four traffic signs, the odds are pretty good that he doesn't grasp any of this.
But as we return to the report from the federal government, things only get worse.
Quoting again from the Department of Transportation, quote, additional preliminary findings include on July 15, 2023, Washington State issued the driver a regular full-term commercial driver's license.
Asylum seekers or individuals without legal status are not eligible for this type of license.
On July 23, 2024, California issued the driver a limited term non-domiciled CDL.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is investigating the issuance of this license to determine whether it was issued in accordance with federal regulations.
On July 3, 2025, the New Mexico State Police conducted a roadside inspection of the driver and issued a speeding ticket.
But there's no indication that an ELP assessment was administered.
New Mexico has not yet begun enforcing ELP as an out-of-service condition, despite the requirement being in effect since June 25, 2025.
In other words, the state of Washington unlawfully issued a standard commercial driver's license.
No question this decision was illegal.
Then the state of California issued a non-domiciled CDL, which as we discussed yesterday is somehow legal, even when the driver is an illegal alien.
And then to top it off, police in New Mexico had a chance to take away the driver's license from this person when they pulled him over for speeding, but they failed to perform the English language proficiency test, even though it would have been obvious to them that he doesn't speak English, but they didn't perform it.
So every single state that had a role in this crash, which includes, but probably is not limited to, Washington, California, and New Mexico need to face serious consequences immediately.
By refusing to enforce the federal government's order, they clearly contributed to the deaths of three people on the Florida Turnpike last week.
If they had done their jobs, there's a very good chance that those people would be alive.
Now, it's true that under our constitution, states don't have to obey every command from the federal government.
So normally.
As long as they're not actively obstructing federal agents, it's difficult to compel states to enforce any particular federal rule.
But there are some rules the federal government can indeed pressure the states to obey.
Article 1 of the Constitution grants the federal government the power to regulate commerce among the states, which includes the highway system.
That's why back in the 1980s, Congress passed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, which handed out a financial penalty to any state that allowed people under the age of 21 to purchase alcohol.
Congress made the case that young drunk drivers were a major threat to interstate commerce because they often kill people using the highways.
And therefore, Congress asserted that it had the authority under the Constitution to withhold 10% of federal highway funding from any state that refused to enforce the new drinking limit.
This was a significant amount of money that states needed in order to maintain their roads, and the pressure worked.
The states mostly fell in line.
In 1987, the Supreme Court heard a dispute over the law, Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote an opinion upholding the authority of Congress to apply some financial pressure on the states as long as that pressure served a valid federal interest.
Now, protecting our highways from foreigners who can't speak English or identify highway signs is obviously a very compelling, very valid federal interest.
So the federal government needs to start punishing every single one of the states that allowed this crash to take place.
That's allowed by our constitution.
It's obviously the right thing to do.
And it needs to happen before more families are pancaked under 18 wheelers.
If there's one thing the Trump administration can do immediately to protect Americans, it's to withhold federal.
funding from every state that's ignoring the federal rules on English language proficiency.
Now, this is not simply another 80-20 issue.
This is a 99-1 issue.
Okay, people are unanimous on this.
If you were to poll a thousand random Americans, do you think that we should allow illegal aliens who can't speak English or read road signs to get CDLs in this country?
and drive on the roads.
Poll a thousand Americans on this.
Would even one of them say, yeah, I think that we should allow that.
I don't think so.
After our show yesterday, we received so many comments from truckers and people who are in the trucking industry who are echoing the sentiment that it's just impossible to read them all.
But here are a few.
Quote, I'm a freight broker.
I have to speak to and deal with these foreigners every day.
It drives me absolutely nuts, as it does for all brokers.
So many of them don't understand a lick of English, forcing me to speak to their dispatchers to convey messages back and forth.
Quote, as a trucker in Virginia, I've seen translators take the tests for unqualified drivers all the time.
Quote, I'm from Ohio.
If you get hit by a foreigner, there's a 100% chance they do not have insurance and you'll be footing the bill, at least your deductible.
It's way out of hand here.
They never get in any legal trouble for it either.
Quote, I travel the globe in the military.
There are very few places in the world that as a culture care about safety of others like ours.
Death in many of these places is so commonplace that unless they catch you with the knife in your hand actually stuck in the body, it's pretty much, oh well, sucks to be that guy.
Quote, I'm a Canadian.
I have a trucker friend who's been driving for 20 years.
He cannot get jobs anymore because Indian drivers are undercutting all the established truckers.
Quote, as an American truck driver who travels all over the lower 48, I'm reading this story from the Kenworth Sleeper in my semi.
I second every point made and I'm glad to finally see what those of us in the industry have known for a long time being brought to light on a national stage.
Now, those are thousands of comments like this.
And the conclusion is pretty clear.
Truckers have been trying to raise the alarm on this issue for many, many years.
And now that mainstream attention is finally focused on this very obvious problem, they're demanding some sort of serious federal response for once.
And they should receive it.
That's what we voted for.
For their part, Democrats have made it clear that they're willing to fight violently to keep the status quo.
You may have seen this video that's been circulating, people calling themselves Marines.
marines who aren't speaking any English are threatening to confront ice agents watch marine okay and the marines are crazy and it's too soft to be the mother in the valley of san fernando already thank you and we're gonna read mother are 25 marines that are and we're the marines are crazy when they're at the troca and they look at the logo of the marine and more than that they're going Because I'll not re-vient.
We are 25 Marines who are in San Fernando.
25 Marines that are in San Fernando.
Yes, we are 25 Marines who are in San Fernando.
Where are they?
We are in all the villages.
Meanwhile in San Bernardino officers who attempted to arrest an illegal alien were just attacked by the local residents.
Here it is.
We are the ones that have to protect us.
They started to throw us.
See, they're already taking the girl.
Why are they taking her?
If it's a girl, don't mame.
Now, needless to say, the whole neighborhood should be placed under immediate surveillance and investigation.
They're all fighting with law enforcement officers.
We all know they're not Americans.
investigate every single one of them and if they're illegals round them up into buses and deport all their asses immediately that's what it takes at this point it could not be any more clear that we're dealing with two options here one option is to ruthlessly crack down on foreigners who have violated our sovereignty who endanger the lives of american citizens the other option is to allow these people to ruthlessly attack law enforcement officials and terrorize american citizens on the highways every single day.
Those are the choices.
States like California, New Mexico, and Washington have decided where they stand on the issue.
They've decided to defy the federal government for the express purpose of replacing Americans with unqualified foreigners who don't belong to this country, have no right to be here, will happily kill them on the roadways with no remorse.
I mean, they're very clear on where they stand on that issue.
Now the federal government has to make it clear where it stands.
The Trump administration must use its authority under the constitution to pressure every non-compliant state into compliance.
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.
That's how the federal government enforced the drinking age.
They can do it again.
We have the capability to save thousands of lives just by compelling states to enforce a regulation that's already on the books.
We can make the interstate 10 times safer than it already is, virtually overnight.
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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Post-millennial reports, President Donald Trump has said that his administration will root out wokeness from the Smithsonian, as well as other Washington, D.C. museums, and will do so in the same way the administration has dealt with colleges.
Trump posted to Truth Social.
Museums throughout Washington, but all over the country are essentially the last remaining segment of woke.
The Smithsonian is out of control.
where everything discussed is how horrible our country is, how bad slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been.
Nothing about success, nothing about brightness, nothing about the future.
We're not going to allow this to happen.
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.
This country cannot be woke because woke is broke.
We have the hottest country in the world.
We want people to talk about it, including in our museums.
After Trump took the White House in January, the administration took many colleges and universities to task over discrimination, equity, inclusion, over DEI practices.
And now the same thing is happening in the Smithsonian.
So the battle over the museums continues.
And it's a battle very much worth having.
And I've even heard a few conservatives say, well, why are we worried about the Smithsonian?
Why does this matter?
Well, it does matter.
I mean, it matters a lot.
Trump's point is that these museum exhibits represent the story of American history that we tell ourselves and more importantly, the story that we tell our children.
And that matters very much.
Every country, every culture.
has a story that it tells itself about itself.
And until the modern left came along, the point was always to tell a generous, positive, inspiring heroic story about ourselves, about our country, to highlight the good rather than the bad.
And this is what every country has done, every culture, everywhere on Earth.
This is coming.
Many cultures, especially historically, have founding myths, right?
They're not even true stories.
They make up stories.
And there's a million examples.
The Polynesians, for example, created a story about a great navigator and chief named Hawaii Iloa, or however you pronounce it.
And this was their guy who discovered Hawaii centuries ago or thousands of years ago.
And now the guy never existed.
In reality, the Polynesians likely discovered Hawaii by accident, by getting lost at sea and sort of drifting into it.
But they would prefer a story where they are skillful navigators who discovered the island on purpose.
And the Polynesians were skillful navigators, but they would prefer a story where this island was discovered by them on purpose.
So that's the story they came up with.
And every culture.
has done this same sort of thing where you have these legends, these founding myths.
Now, I'm not saying that we should do that.
I'm not saying the Smithsonian should contain made-up stories that we are pretending are real.
I'm not even saying that we should ignore or deny the reality of slavery or any of that stuff.
I'm not saying we should ignore the bad stuff.
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.
We have gone to the opposite extreme.
So for leftists, for decades, thanks to leftists, thanks to the left and the indoctrination efforts to destroy our national identity.
For decades, we have been telling ourselves essentially a founding myth designed to make us hate ourselves.
And as far as I'm aware, we're the first country in the world to do this.
Like that's what you have to understand.
We're the first country to ever invent a story of its own founding that's designed to make us look bad to ourselves.
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.
We lie to ourselves to make ourselves sound worse.
Who does this?
No one does this.
You can't have a culture this way.
This is not the culture.
Cultures don't work this way.
So our new founding myth is that.
America was built on the backs of slaves, which isn't true.
That's not true.
Yeah, we had slavery was america built on slavery no um could america still have existed without slavery yes that's not true you know the the idea that we carry some kind of unique guilt for slavery also not true the idea that america was built on stolen land not true the idea that you know we have no right to exist as a nation not true The idea
that this country was founded by committing genocide against the Indians, not true.
So what I'm saying is that is our founding myth now.
That's all a myth.
None of that's true.
And so it's for all the people on the left say, well, we got to tell the truth about our history.
It's not the truth, though.
That's the myth that you've created.
So we're the first country in the world to have a founding myth that's designed to be depressing and humiliating.
And it's the myth that the Smithsonian and academia and the media have been spreading for decades.
And we have to bring it to an end.
I mean, it's good that we're bringing it to an end.
This is very important.
Now, of course, not everybody agrees..
Obviously, the left's very upset.
Here's one of the Krassenstein brothers on TikTok whining about all this.
Watch.
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.
He wrote, The Smithsonian is out of control where everything discussed is how horrible our country is, how bad slavery was, dot, dot, dot.
Either Donald Trump has never been to a museum in his life, which probably is true, or he's grossly exaggerating what he did see in these museums.
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.
Trying to erase the history that makes us look bad is really something that dictators of the past have done time and time again.
So if you want to actually teach our children and not indoctrinate them, then I would say let's not touch these museums.
Do you agree?
Well, no, I don't.
Thanks for asking.
Ed or whoever, whichever one you are.
Note all that.
Actually, it turns out that focusing obsessively on slavery does not prevent us from following in those footsteps.
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 because that's the only way to make sure we don't make the same mistake again.
But it hasn't worked out that way.
Slavery was the dehumanization and commodification of human life.
As we talked about, it was all across the globe engaged in this and um non-western non-white cultures engaged in it oftentimes much more into much longer into a much brutal much more brutal extent but that's what slavery is it's the dehumanization commodification of human life um and okay well we are a culture obsessed with relitigating and apologizing for slavery and yet at the same time we're also engaged in the dehumanization and commodification of human life right now abortion surrogacy I
mean, even the arguments the left makes for illegal immigration are really just arguments for slavery, for slave labor.
Instead of, hey, who's going to pick the cotton?
It's who's going to pick the strawberries?
So apparently obsessing over some dark aspect of your own past will not stop you from repeating it.
If anything, and this is true in your personal life as well.
I mean, this is just a general truth.
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.
You know, when you focus on, as Trump said in his truth social post, Where's the lightning?
things that are light and bright and inspiring.
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.
That's the road you're walking.
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.
We've talked about that.
I'm not going to rehash it right now, although I'm sure I will many more times.
But let me point out another problem though, with this self-hating approach to American history.
And I I think that this is like an underrated problem with it.
It's boring.
Okay.
It's one of the reasons why so many kids in this country grow up to have no interest in history.
We live in a country now full of historically illiterate morons.
And this is one of the reasons.
It's because they've been relentlessly pummeled by this dreary, repetitive nonsense.
And they see the whole subject as sort of excruciating and tedious and depressing.
And that's really tragic because in reality, history is fascinating.
American history is especially fascinating.
I would argue that we have the most fascinating history of any nation on earth, especially when you consider what America achieved and how quickly it achieved it.
No country on earth has ever done this.
It's incredible.
There are so many incredible stories from our past, so many other things we could be talking about.
So slavery in America is, among other things, just really not that interesting of a topic.
Not interesting enough to eat up as much of the historical conversation as it does.
2% of Americans own slaves.
It's like, okay, we had slavery in this country, you know, as a country, we had slavery for 90 years and 2% of Americans owned slaves.
It's like, it's not that, it's actually not that, it's not that significant of a part of our history, actually.
It's not nearly as significant a part of our history as the left would have us believe.
And it's not like, we get it.
Okay, we get it.
We do get it.
Slavery happened.
It was bad.
Okay.
Thank you.
We got it.
We really do.
So you have all these people on the left.
No, we have to remember.
Yeah, we all know that.
Yes, we know.
Yes, it's bad.
Okay.
Yes.
Acknowledge.
Everyone in the country acknowledges slavery is bad.
We shouldn't have done it.
It happened.
It shouldn't have happened.
It was bad.
Okay.
Can we talk about something else now?
Are there other things that happened in history that might be interesting to talk about?
Can we talk about, I don't know, Lewis and Clark?
Daniel Boone, the Apollo program, the building of the Panama Canal.
I mean, a million fascinating subjects.
And I know you might claim that, well, a lot's already been said on all those subjects.
What are you saying, Matt?
Are you saying mad are you saying well are you really claiming that we don't nobody talks about lewis and clark the Panama Canal or the Apollo program.
Yeah, actually that is what I'm saying.
Test me on it.
Okay.
How many high school seniors in this country do you think could write even four sentences explaining who Lewis and Clark were and what they achieved and when they achieved it?
How many could give you four sentences on the Apollo missions or on the building of the Panama Canal?
How many high school seniors could tell you even within 50 years when the Panama Canal was built?
You give them a 50 year on either side cushion.
Could they get within that range?
without consulting ChatGPT?
If you were to ask the average high school American high schooler in the year 2025, who are the, you know, just to you, who are the 10 greatest American heroes up to 50 years ago, let's say?
From our nation's founding to about 50 years ago, a lot of great American heroes in that time.
Give me your top 10.
Give me your top 10.
How many high school seniors could even think of 10 names?
Like just for you about heroes, name 10 Americans who lived between, say, the year 1800 to 1940.
So kind of an arbitrary, 1800 to 1940.
Give me 10 Americans, any 10 who lived in that 140-year time period.
How many high school seniors could do that?
Like, we all know the answer is, I don't know, 5%, 2%, 1%.
Um...
Because the education system, this is all, we want to talk about indoctrination.
People are being indoctrinated to be historically illiterate buffoons who do not know anything about the history of their own country.
And this is all deliberate.
Because if they knew something, if they knew anything, if they knew anything about any real thing about our nation's history, they would, as a consequence, they would not be able to help but feel deeply proud of this country because our history is so incredible.
You wouldn't be able to help but feel pride.
And the left wants to make sure that no one feels pride in this country and no one loves this country.
And so the only way to do it is to make sure that no one knows anything about it.
You got a bunch of, you know, the Americans walking around as if they just sprang out of the ground as if the world itself began at the moment of their birth, as if nothing happened before, right?
Except slavery.
For a lot of Americans today, two things happened in history, slavery and the Holocaust.
Those are the only two things that happened.
For a lot of people walking around today, it's Slavery happened in the Holocaust and then me.
That's it.
That's all the things that happened in history.
Nothing else happened.
Maybe the crusades.
They might, they don't know anything about the the crusades, but the crusades and like, I think there was the, what was it, the Inquisition?
That's where the Catholics did some bad stuff or something.
And then slavery and then the Holocaust and then, and so just nothing.
It's just a bunch of terrible things.
And then, and then here I am.
That's, that's the story of world history that most people have jumbling around in their heads.
And that's a major problem and one that I think Trump is trying to fix.
Okay.
Here's a headline from Reuters.
With the majority of black beauty products being made in China and Vietnam, U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs have disproportionately impacted black business owners.
There's a video that accompanies this.
Let's watch that.
I understand that tariffs are designed to protect U.S. businesses.
And that's important.
But when you start creating policies like this and you're not consulting with professionals in the beauty industry, especially black professionals, it creates a gap.
So now we're being impacted at every level.
Earlier this summer, Deja Blackshire Calloway began to realize that her usual clients weren't coming in as frequently as before.
Her salon, Hair Freak Beauty, offers services ranging from $50 natural styles to $745 tape-in weave extensions.
But the price of hair extensionsions and the glue used to craft wigs and weaves have skyrocketed.
Why?
Well, most black beauty products are made in China and Vietnam, and the two countries have been hit by US President Donald Trump's series of tariffs.
Here's an example.
A package of synthetic hair imported from Vietnam has gone up $100 to $290 since May.
And another.
A bottle of hair glue ordered from China has nearly doubled in price at the local supply store.
That's really affected my bottom line.
And when you start having these type of issues happening, I'm either having to eat that cost or pass that expense along to my clients.
Experts say the hikes are impacting black business owners more than others, especially those in low-margin businesses like these.
That's because black entrepreneurs often start off with fewer funds.
As the tariffs eat into their bottom lines, that wealth gap makes them even more financially vulnerable, they say.
So they're still going with this.
They can't let it go.
Speaking of founding myths, one of the foundational myths of modern leftism is the myth of disparate impact.
The idea that You know, their favored victim groups are disproportionately impacted by things that actually impact everybody.
So it's the old, you know, asteroid wipes out humanity, trans people most impacted bit.
So it's that old thing.
And they can't give it up, even in cases where it really, if anything, it makes the preferred group look worse.
Because all they're telling us is that black businesses are more likely to buy cheap crap from China rather than trying to support American suppliers.
So what you're actually telling us, I mean, what you Reuters are saying is that black business owners are on average less patriotic.
I mean, that's what you're telling us.
But, you know, the good news is that when you watch this kind of stuff now, a news report explaining how somehow the tariffs target black women, you know, it's a— Very few people buy this anymore.
It's a parody of itself.
No one's convinced by this kind of stuff anymore.
And yet the media and the left continue.
They continue beating this dead horse.
It's not even a dead horse.
I mean, the horse is like bones and ash at this point.
And they're still beating it.
And that's because the victim narrative is inextricable from the modern left.
They can't let it go.
They can't move on from it.
It's the core of the thing.
You know, what we have to understand about leftism is that it has no positive vision.
It's not trying to build anything or build to anything.
It's only, it's merely a collection of grievances.
It's a kill list, a list of things and people and institutions that it wants destroyed.
That's all.
That's all it ever can be, which is to say that, which is to say that wokeness, you get into this conversation about it, is wokeness dead?
Well, it can never truly die until leftism is dead.
So anyone who says that wokeness is dead, You just have to ask them.
So you're saying what the left doesn't exist anymore?
The leftism is no longer.
Everyone's conservative now?
That'd be good news.
But I don't thinkt think that's the case.
And as long as leftism exists and is a force in American culture, is the driving force, the animating force behind many of our institutions, as long as that's the case, then wokeness will exist because this is what wokeness is.
It's a list of grievances.
It's the victim hierarchy.
That's the whole thing.
That's the deal.
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I'm just learning this now.
The new number one is Michael Knowles' documentary series, The Pope and the Führer, The Secret Vatican Files of World War II.
Apparently episodes one and two are whatever one is watching right now.
Michael's been saying he wants to beat me just to rub it in, which, let's be honest, sounds exactly like Michael.
Well, I'll give him this much.
It's an important piece of history.
They're making me pretend I'm happy about all this.
I'm not.
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Music.
So in our decadent society outside.
the world of AI, it may seem like there isn't a lot of innovation going on, but that's not entirely true.
Some people in our society are still innovating.
And for example, every three or four months, feminists in the media come up with a new term to denigrate men.
And it's been about four months since the last one, which means that this New York Times article that we'll talk about today is arriving right on clue.
Q, here's the headline.
Why women are weary of the emotional labor of man-keeping.
As male social circles shrink, female partners say they have to meet more social and emotional needs.
Yes, man-keeping.
Now, to be fair, I don't think the New York Times actually invented the term.
They're helping to popularize it.
There was a headline back in The Guardian back in June that said, mankeeping, why single women are giving up dating.
As the male social circle continues to shrink, their partners have to take on much more emotional labor, and many are opting to spend their lives alone instead.
Another headline a few months before that tells us, mankeeping is on the rise, and it's exhausting women.
So, um.
What is mankeeping?
Well, if you type the term into Google, here's the definition it provides.
Mankeeping refers to the unpaid emotional labor that women often perform in relationships where they're expected to manage and support the emotional well-being of their partners, often without reciprocation.
This includes tasks like anticipating needs, managing conflicts, and providing emotional support, which can lead to exhaustion and resentment.
So mankeeping is when a wife is expected to, you know, be a wife.
It's when she's saddled with the horrific burden of having to provide emotional support to her husband.
him.
of all she has to do this unpaid imagine that Women are being asked to form emotional connections with their spouses without any form of financial compensation.
Obviously, this is unfair.
Husbands should pay their.
wives an hourly wage for every hour that their wives spend caring about them so if you want your wife to care about you for say eight hours a day full-time job then you should pay her i'd say 2400 about 300 an hour you might think that's kind of steep but hey do you want your wife to care about you or not and if you want her to do some overtime and say care about you for 10 or 11 hours Maybe you say,
well, I get home from work and I still want her to care about me for a couple of hours at least.
We're going to sit down for dinner.
I'd like her to still care about me when we're having dinner.
I don't know.
Well, that's another three or four hours.
And, you know, that'll ca cost overtime.
It costs you time and a half.
This is all very healthy, of course, acting as an emotional prostitute, demanding that your husband or boyfriend leave cash on the side table as compensation for your emotional intimacy.
That's very normal, right?
That's all very good.
Or is it?
I have to confess I'm a little bit skeptical.
So let's read through a little bit of this New York Times article to find out more.
Quote, Justin Leoy is a licensed clinical social worker in Brooklyn who specializes in therapy for men.
When he sees a new client, one of the first things he asks is, Who can you talk to about what's going on in your life?
Much of the time, Mr. Leoy says, his straight male clients tell him that they rarely open up to anyone but their girlfriends or wives or.
Their partners have become their unofficial therapists, he said, doing all the emotional labor.
That particular role now has a name, man-keeping.
The term coined by Angelica Puzio Ferrara, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, has taken off online.
It describes the work women do to meet the social and emotional needs of the men in their lives, from supporting their partners through daily challenges and inner turmoil to encouraging them to meet up with their friends.
What I've been seeing in my research is how women have been asked to or expected to take on more work to be a central, if not the central piece of a man's social support system, Dr. Ferrara said, taking care to note that the dynamic isn't experienced by all couples.
Yes, women are expected to be the central piece of a man's social support system.
Now, you might think, well, yeah, isn't that what it means to be in a relationship?
Isn't that what marriage is?
Shouldn't you want to be your man's primary source of emotional support?
Shouldn't you want to have a level of emotional intimacy with him that he doesn't have with anyone else in his life?
Isn't that the whole point?
Why the hell are you in a relationship with you if you consider emotional intimacy to be some huge slave-like burden?
Well, these are all good questions and the New York Times will not answer any of them.
Let's read on anyway.
Quote, Dr. Ferrara, who researches male friendship at Stanford's Clayman Institute for Gender Research, and Dylan Vergara, a research assistant, published a paper on man-keeping in 2024 after investigating why some men struggle to form close bonds, a growing and well-documented issue.
In a 2021 survey, 15% of men said they didn't have any close friends up from 3% in 1990.
In 1990, nearly half of young men said they would reach out to friends when facing a personal issue.
Three decades later, just over 20% said the same.
Dr. Ferrara found that women tended to have all of these nodes of support they were going to for problems, whereas men were more likely to be going to just them.
She sees mankeeping as an important extension of the concept of kinkeeping, the work of keeping families together that researchers have found tends to fall disproportionately on women.
Eve Tilly Coulson, 37, was relieved to stumble upon the concept of mankeeping on social media.
Miss Tilly Coulson, who lives in Los Angeles, is happy in her relationship with her boyfriend of nearly seven months, describes him as emotionally mature, funny, and caring.
They make a good team, but Miss Tilly Coulson finds herself offering him a fair amount of social and emotional scaffolding, she said.
I think we all get the point.
And the point is that, as you probably already suspected, mankeeping is yet another term feminists have coined as an elaborate and roundabout way of justifying their own monstrous, hideous narcissism.
They are selfish.
These are selfish women, and they want to continue being selfish.
And anything that distracts from them focusing 100% of their energies on themselves and their own desires is emotional labor.
That's what they really mean by the term.
And that's why, as usual, the struggles of men are being reframed as problems for women.
You know, this is the familiar framing of men are lonely, women most affected.
A woman is a victim because of her own emotional struggles, and a woman is also a victim because of a man's emotional struggles.
No matter who's struggling, it's always the woman who's struggling more.
That's the way the game is played.
Now, all that said, there is a morsel of truth in this idea.
In fact, I'm not really disputing the underlying premise, which is that.
that women tend to be more social.
They tend to be the primary ones in the relationship who create and maintain, as the article says, the social and emotional scaffolding.
You know, I'll fully admit, if I ever find myself at a social event of any kind, it's almost always because my wife coordinated, planned it, scheduled it, and convinced me to attend and reminded me like 20 times that we're doing this thing on Saturday.
And, you know, over the summer, we had various visits from family and friends.
I had no hand in organizing any of it.
If left up to me, none of it would have happened.
If I was entirely abandoned to my own devices, I would probably be just a hermit out in the woods somewhere.
I mean, that's my default setting as it is for many men.
So when it comes to organizing social events, does my wife carry a disproportionate amount of the burden?
Absolutely.
No question about it.
Does that mean she's an oppressed slave?
Does that mean I owe her financial compensation like she's my employee?
Am I saddling her with an unfair amount of emotional labor?
No.
You know what it means, feminists?
It means that my wife is my wife.
It means she's not my business partner or my associate, it means she's my wife and she's wired differently than me.
She brings different things to the table.
There are different kinds of burdens that have to be assumed and carried in order for a family to function.
My wife and I do not go exactly 50-50 on any of those burdens.
She carries a hugely disproportionate amount of the social burdens, for sure.
Now, on the other hand, for example, I carry 100% of the burden to provide for the family and ensure that we always have a're not homeless and starving, that job is 100% mine.
That is an enormous pressure that I carry every single day of my life.
And that's the case for most men.
In most marriages, even in our enlightened age, the man is still the primary breadwinner.
And even in marriages where the split is 50-50, the man is still the default breadwinner.
If anyone's going to stop working, it's almost always going to be the woman.
So even in marriages where there's a 50-50 split or even if the woman makes 60% of the income, still there's the option for the woman to stay home with the kids.
The man, it's assumed, must always work.
In the vast majority of families, the man is either the sole breadwinner, the primary breadwinner, or the default breadwinner.
That's the case in most families.
And as we've discussed before, there's a substantial emotional and mental burden that comes with this responsibility.
And it's one that is never talked about.
You'll never see that we don't come up with any fancy, trendy new terms for it.
We just don't discuss it.
And instead, the assumption is that there's no, that the task of providing for your family, keeping the roof over the head, keeping food on the plate, making sure people aren't starving or ending up homeless, making sure the kids have money to go to college if that's what you decide to do, making sure you're able to go on a vacation, making sure that all that stuff, the assumption is that there is no psychological or emotional burden associated with that at all.
Like we're just walking around on cloud nine all the time.
just just just wandering around our heads totally empty which is not the case because in reality, men who have this responsibility, they walk around every moment of their lives very aware of it.
And almost everything they do is in some way directed towards that objective and that responsibility.
They're never not aware of it.
There's never a time when they're not feeling it.
And this is a burden that in many families, the wife will never feel, at least not.
to the extent that the man feels it.
Now, am I saying that wives should step up and carry more of this weight in order to make things equal.
No, I'm saying that nothing is equal in a healthy marriage.
The husband and wife are different people and will carry different burdens to different degrees.
They can either choose to whine and complain about this and make themselves into perpetually aggrieved martyrs, or they can delight in the opportunity to serve and love their family in a way that the other cannot.
This is entirely a question of the attitude or perspective that you choose to adopt.
And any woman running around whining about mankeeping obviously has chosen to adopt the wrong attitude and the wrong perspective.
You have chosen.
to make yourself the martyr you want to be the martyr that's what this is about you've chosen to see it that way when if you were a selfless good person right frankly you would look at it as this i am i am blessed i am so happy that i can do this for my husband yeah my husband if not for me would be much more isolated but i love him And I know that him keeping social connections is important.
And I know that this is not his ML.
This is not what he's good at.
I am good at it.
And I am blessed to be able to do that for him and serve him in that way because I love him and I'm married to him.
You could see it that way if you were a good, decent person and a good wife, but you're a bad wife.
So instead, you sit around complaining and whining and feeling aggrieved and put upon and persecuted because you're expected to do anything in the marriage at all.
Man-keeping is just another way for some women in modern society to complain about the basic wifely duties that they signed up for when they got married.
What we find is that some women, not all, but some, become wives, but have no interest in actually being wives.
They don't want to offer emotional intimacy.
They don't want to offer physical intimacy.
They don't want to be affectionate.
They don't want to be caring.
They don't want to take care of the house.
They don't want to tend to the children.
They don't want to cook meals.
They don't want to clean.
Being a wife is a role.
But as it turns out, they don't want to fill that role at all.
They took the part, but they don't want to play it.
And then when the marriage falls apart, when the husband becomes detached, resentful, when he perhaps finds intimacy with somebody else because his wife has refused to offer it.
We're still supposed to see the wife as the clear-cut victim in the case.
When the wife says, we hear the story of my husband cheated on me.
Well, he shouldn't have.
I mean, adultery is never justified.
It's a mortal sin.
It's a terrible evil.
Can't be justified.
However, oftentimes it doesn't happen in a vacuum.
It just happened out of nowhere.
And I'm not telling you what should happen.
I'm telling you what likely will happen.
And when you withhold affection from your husband, emotional affection, because you don't want to, I'm not the man keeper.
It shouldn't be my job to do this for you.
When you do that, and then usually you're withholding physical affection as well, those two things go together.
You'll withhold that for long enough.
You know, it's not going to take that long.
That's it.
Like eventually he's at work and there's some woman at work 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.
And then all of a sudden he's, what he gets at home is just cold and detached and awful.
And what he finds with this woman is this warmth that he's so deeply lacking and desires.
And the moment that happens, you're in trouble.
You're in trouble.
Your marriage is in trouble.
You are in the danger zone.
You are, this is, this is, you know, the asteroid's about to hit moment and when it happens again it's not justified it's a mortal sin but um you don't get to pretend to be the the clear-cut victim you can't you can't sit back and say that well it's i this is i how did this happen i didn't do it you know these these are choices that you made as well so choices have consequences and treating your marriage like a chore and your husband like a child is
a choice The consequences will be dire for your marriage one way or another.
And that is why any woman complaining about mankeeping or using the term unironically at all, is today canceled.
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