Biden Caves to Union Bosses and Foolishly Blocks Nippon Steel Purchase of U.S. Steel

[JoeB131]

For everyone else..

Cybertruck driver left behind rant praising Trump and Musk, slamming Democrats • Washington State Standard

He referred to the event as “a wake-up call” and effort to rid himself of the “burden” of the lives he took in combat.

washingtonstatestandard.com

“Try peaceful means first, but be prepared to fight to get the Dems out of the fed government and military by any means necessary,” he wrote. “They all must go and a hard reset must occur for our country to avoid collapse.”

“Fellow Servicemembers, Veterans and all Americans, TIME TO WAKE UP! We are being led by weak and feckless leadership who only serve to enrich themselves,” Matthew Livelsberger wrote on one of two iPhones retrieved from the vehicle, in what police call two letters and a journal detailing his preparations in the ten days leading up to his suicide.

 

[Cellblock2429]

I've told you my policy on links.

So if I provide a link that proves that he said that, will you leave the board?

if not, do your own research.

/—-/ If you don’t have a link, just admit it.

 

[JoeB131]

/—-/ If you don’t have a link, just admit it.

I just provided one.

So will you leave the board now?

 

[JoeB131]

Here's a complete link to his letters. As crazy as they sound, they are about as crazy as what USMB Right Wingers post every day.

https://nevadacurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/PO-003a-01-03-25-Livelsbergers-Letters.pdf

Fellow Servicemembers, Veterans, and all Americans,TIME TO WAKE UP!

We are being led by weak and feckless leadership who only serve to enrich themselves. Military and vets move on DC starting now. Militias facilitate and augment this activity .Occupy every major road along fed buildings and the campus of fed buildings by the hundreds ofthousands. Lock the highways around down with semis right after everybody gets in. Hold until the purge is complete. Try peaceful means first, but be prepared to fight to get the Dems out of the fed government and military by any means necessary. They all must go and a hard reset must occur for our country to avoid collapse.

-MSG Matt Livelsberger 18Z, 10th Special Forces Group.



We are the United States of America, the best country people to ever exist! But right now, we are terminally ill and headed toward collapse.We are crumbling because of a lack of self respect, morales, and respect for others. Greed and gluttony has consumed us. The top 1% decided long ago they weren’t going to bring everyone elsewith them. You are cattle to them.We have strayed from family values and corrupted our minds and I am a prime example of having itall but it never being enough.A lot of us are just sitting around waiting to die. No sunlight, no steps, no fresh air, no hope. Our children are addicted to screens by the age of two. We are filling our bodies with processed foods.Our population is too fat to join the military yet we are facing a war with China, Russia, North Koreaand Iran before 2030.We must take these actions if we are going to make it past the next few years in one piece: We must end the war in Ukraine with negotiated settlement. It is the only way. Focus on strength and winning. Masculinity is good and men must be leaders. Strength is adeterrent and fear is the product. Weeded out those in our government and military who do not idealize #2.The income inequality in this country and cost-of-living is outrageous. The number of homeless onour street is embarrassing and disgusting. Have some pride and take care of this.Stop obsessing over diversity. We are all diverse and DEI is a cancer. Thankfully we rejected the DEI candidate and will have a real President instead of Weekend atBernie’s.

We must move on from the culture of weakness and self enrichment perpetuated by our senior political and military leaders. We are done with the blatant corruption. Our soldiers are done fighting wars without end states or clear objectives. This was not a terrorist attack, it was a wake up call. Americans only pay attention to spectacles and violence. What better way to get my point across than a stunt with fireworks and explosives?Why did I personally do it now? I needed to cleanse my mind of the brothers I’ve lost and relieve myself of the burden of the lives I took. Consider this last sunset of ‘24 and my actions the end of our sickness and a new chapter of health for our people. Rally around Trump, Musk, and Kennedy, and ride this wave to the highest hegemony for all Americans! We are second to no one.



I'm kind of horrified a guy with grammar this bad was promoted to MSG, so he might have a point about lowered military standards.

 

[mikegriffith1]

Eric Boehm of Reason magazine online has written a cogent critique of Biden's awful decision to block the Nippon-U.S. Steel deal. He points out that Biden has yet to identify how the deal would threaten national security, and he notes the economic benefits of the deal, benefits that will now be lost thanks to Biden:

Officially, Biden says he's blocking the deal because there is "credible evidence" that the deal "threatens to impair the national security of the United States."

The official order signed by Biden laughably fails to detail any of that supposedly credible evidence, however. That's because it's ridiculous to suggest that Nippon Steel, a publicly traded company based in a close American ally (Japan) that already operates several steelmaking facilities in the United States, is any sort of threat.

Nippon's agreement to buy U.S. Steel came with a promise to invest more than $1 billion in refurbishing and modernizing the company's existing plants. Local officials in Pennsylvania and elsewhere were enthusiastic about the deal's prospects to bring more jobs to steel towns that have experienced a long, slow decline. (Blocking the U.S. Steel sale is a perfectly disgraceful end to Biden's political career)

 

[JoeB131]

Eric Boehm of Reason magazine online has written a cogent critique of Biden's awful decision to block the Nippon-U.S. Steel deal. He points out that Biden has yet to identify how the deal would threaten national security, and he notes the economic benefits of the deal, benefits that will now be lost thanks to Biden:

Officially, Biden says he's blocking the deal because there is "credible evidence" that the deal "threatens to impair the national security of the United States."

The official order signed by Biden laughably fails to detail any of that supposedly credible evidence, however. That's because it's ridiculous to suggest that Nippon Steel, a publicly traded company based in a close American ally (Japan) that already operates several steelmaking facilities in the United States, is any sort of threat.

Nippon's agreement to buy U.S. Steel came with a promise to invest more than $1 billion in refurbishing and modernizing the company's existing plants. Local officials in Pennsylvania and elsewhere were enthusiastic about the deal's prospects to bring more jobs to steel towns that have experienced a long, slow decline. (Blocking the U.S. Steel sale is a perfectly disgraceful end to Biden's political career)

You spend an awful lot of time worrying about rich people not being able to make money, Mormon Mike.

It's almost like you are brainwashed to worship plutocracy.

US Steel is paying their CEO 18 million dollars. Seems they can start with executive salaries before selling out to Japan if they want to save money.

 

[mikegriffith1]

I'll be curious to see what Biden's defenders will say if U.S. Steel has to close plants and lay off workers because Biden foolishly blocked the Nippon-U.S. Steel deal. U.S. Steel executives have warned that they will have do just that if the Nippon deal does not go through.

The Hudson Institute has published a detailed article on the benefits that the Nippon deal would bring to U.S. Steel, based on Nippon's solid track record, such as what happened when Nippon bought the American steel company Standard Steel. A brief excerpt:

Standard Steel had struggled to make a profit for decades when Nippon Steel purchased it in 2011. However, with $220 million of investment and engineering from Nippon Steel, it was able to boost productivity and make a profit in just two years. It has remained profitable since 2013 and achieved a record-high profit in 2022.

Nippon Steel is also an engaged member of its communities. In Follansbee, Wheeling-Nippon contributes to annual college scholarships for locals, country fairs, disaster relief, and community infrastructure. Wheeling-Nippon has also received credit for kick-starting foreign investment in the area from countries such as Canada and Italy.

Based on Nippon Steel’s 40-year track record and promises, its acquisition of US Steel would likely yield similar benefits for productivity, product competitiveness, and local communities. As mentioned, Nippon Steel has promised a $2.7 billion investment on top of its $14.9 billion purchase of US Steel. This includes—at the behest of local USW leaders—at least $1 billion to replace or upgrade the existing hot strip mill in Mon Valley Works and $300 million to revamp Blast Furnace 14 at Gary Works. (The Real Deal for US Steel: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Nippon Steel–US Steel Purchase)

But Biden has flushed all this down the toilet with his foolish kowtowing to union bosses.

 

[initforme]

You spend an awful lot of time worrying about rich people not being able to make money, Mormon Mike.

It's almost like you are brainwashed to worship plutocracy.

US Steel is paying their CEO 18 million dollars. Seems they can start with executive salaries before selling out to Japan if they want to save money.

18 million? What's the average laborer there get? Hopefully well into 6 figures. Just to start.

 

[JoeB131]

I'll be curious to see what Biden's defenders will say if U.S. Steel has to close plants and lay off workers because Biden foolishly blocked the Nippon-U.S. Steel deal. U.S. Steel executives have warned that they will have do just that if the Nippon deal does not go through.

You don't think the Japanese would have closed those same underperforming plants? Let's get real.

Trump was also against this deal. This is one of the few things they agreed upon.

18 million? What's the average laborer there get? Hopefully well into 6 figures. Just to start.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

The average salary of a steel mill worker is $48,000, bTW.