A garbage truck driver in Newark, New Jersey, climbed out of his rig this week and asked a mob of anti-ICE protesters the one question nobody in Washington has the guts to ask: "What's wrong with y'all?" He was just trying to do his job. The mob was blocking the road outside an immigration facility so they could yell at federal agents.
Well said, sir. Somebody give this man a Cabinet position.
The whole thing went down outside Delaney Hall, the ICE detention center in Newark that has become the left's favorite place to throw a tantrum. Hundreds of detainees reportedly launched a "hunger strike" over their accommodations, and naturally a horde of keffiyeh-clad activists showed up to block traffic in solidarity. Because nothing says "free the detainees" like preventing a guy from picking up your trash.
The driver wasn't having it. He got out, gestured at the human roadblock, and laid it out plainly: "If I hit y'all, I go to jail!" Then the kicker — "I have kids!"
Read that last part again. This man is sitting in a forty-ton truck, surrounded by people who think laying down in the street is a personality, and HE'S the one worried about going to jail. That's the country these geniuses have built for us. The working guy is terrified that the professional protesters will dent themselves on his bumper and ruin his life.
And here's the part that should make every Democrat in Congress crawl under a rock. Even some of the protesters knew the trucker was right. One woman reportedly turned to her own masked-up comrades and said the truck drivers "are not the enemy." Another pointed out — out loud, in front of God and everybody — that the drivers were "working class people just like us."
You don't say! The "working class" the left claims to fight for every four years turned out to be the exact guy they were physically blocking from earning a paycheck. Karl Marx would be so proud.
Meanwhile, the activists were busy chanting lovely things at the federal agents, like "Every cop every fed shoot yourself in the head." Real "mostly peaceful" energy. At least three of them got arrested, and authorities say some sprayed agents with a chemical substance. These are the freedom fighters the corporate press wants you to admire.
This is the same crowd that got a U.S. Senator pepper-sprayed at this exact facility earlier in the week when he showed up to grandstand. Sen. Andy Kim wandered into the chaos his own side created and caught a faceful of it. You hate to see it. (We don't, actually. We saw it just fine.)
The genius of this clip is that it required zero spin. A regular guy in a work uniform looked at the spectacle and said what 90 percent of America was already thinking. No focus group. No press secretary. Just "What's wrong with y'all?"
The protesters wanted to make a statement about ICE. Instead they made a statement about themselves — that they'll block a working father from his job, scream at cops to kill themselves, and call it justice. The trucker made his statement too, and his was a lot more popular. Give that man the keys to the city. Lord knows the people currently running it aren't using them.