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Can we start with U.S. presidents?
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@georgetakei It's already law for commercial driving license. Trump is duplicating it for political grandstanding.
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@georgetakei Why would a trucker need to recite Shakespeare?
Or is this just another example of Trump not knowing how to speak proper English?
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@georgetakei So we live in a country where truckers need English tests, but the president is allowed to be an idiot and claim he took a test.
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@georgetakei Careful what you wish for -- this might have negative consequences for native-born US truckers!
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4 weeks ago
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@georgetakei it would be nice if the glaring literacy error had been intentional; but I fear not 
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@georgetakei English is a second language for me. I cringe heavily, whenever Trump speaks. I prefer listening to Pidgin.
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@georgetakei Literary?
like...do they know Toni Morrison, Don DeLillo, Jhumpa Lahiri, Colson Whitehead Etc?
or did they mean Literacy test...which he then failed himself...
becuase this pic proofs hes a trucker...
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@georgetakei also, are they going to test for Shakespeare, Wilde, Bronte etc.? Why are they so against the literarily uneducated truckers?
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4 weeks ago
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@georgetakei maybe after enrolling he will give them all a Herold to their sides as well, like the one he desparately needs to read him stuff.
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@georgetakei He clearly is not interested in anything other than the complete and utter breakdown of the UA, isn't he? Dumb!
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@georgetakei The idea of commercial driver license tests having a section where you diagram sentences does please me.
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Testing US Truckers for English literacy?
Testing US Truckers for English literacy?
Does Trump realise that the immigrants may well do better given that theyβve overcome more to be there?
No. He doesnβt understand privilege.
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@georgetakei after what he just did to the American education system, there is a chance that in the future America will need to look for truckers abroad. π¬
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@georgetakei Donald once again failing to grasp who his base are. People who can barely spell MAGA aren't going to be passing literacy tests in any language.
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WE should start a thread on #tRump's abundance of spelling, semantics, and grammar mistakes.
Making fun of tyrants is a concept dating back to at least the Roman Republic, and I seem to even remember examples from Ancient Egypt as well. π½πΌπΌ
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@georgetakei so what, questions on dickens and the BrontΓ« sisters.
Literary vs literacy
Enquiring minds want to know
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Something tells me they meant "literacy," not "literary." Who was it that needed an English test?
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@EverydayMoggie Good one!
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4 weeks ago
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@georgetakei Forcing politicians to read a book a month and do a report of it should be the norm.
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@georgetakei to rephrase "in the middle of self-created economic crisis, racist idiots decide to make transportation harder so they can be racist at people."
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@StevenSavage Well said.
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