Ever see a drunk asked to leave a nice restaurant? It doesn’t have to have been in person, you’ve likely seen it in a movie or a TV show; something where the person is asked nicely, but forcefully, to leave and they cause a huge scene as they walk to the door – knocking over drinks, bumping into people, being very loud, etc. That guy is Joe Biden. The current President of the United States and his administration are going to go out like a destructive drunk and it should lead not only to the destruction of his legacy, but a dramatic change of the transition period in the future.
Remember when the Obama administration was ending and there were a whole bunch of political appointees – people whose jobs should have ended on January 20, 2017 – who moved to non-political jobs so they could stay in various departments and undermine the incoming Trump administration?
The Biden administration appears to be trying to do that with ideas, bad ideas. “The State Department has crafted plans to distribute staffers from a shuttered office accused of censoring conservatives to a new internal ‘hub’ that will coordinate its activities,” reports the Washington Examiner. “The Global Engagement Center, the office that Republicans accused of working with groups aiming to demonetize right-leaning media outlets in the United States, shut down in late 2024 upon lawmakers agreeing to no longer fund it. However, in a non-public letter to members of Congress on Dec. 6, the State Department outlined its plans to “realign” more than 50 GEC officials and tens of millions of dollars in funding to a hub purporting to counter foreign interference, documents show.”
There was an agreement to shut this censorship machine down and the people the deal was struck with simply started moving it around and calling it something else.
Maybe Biden doesn’t understand or know that this is happening, but he is still responsible for it.
The sale of the materials to build the border wall were simply made out of spite – an angry man lashing out at anyone in his line of sight. He’s throwing every penny not nailed down at Ukraine, and God knows what else.
Now we get word that Joe is officially blocking the sale of US Steel to Nippon because, well, “national security.” What national security? Who knows?
Nippon is a Japanese company, not a Chinese one. Japan is an ally, not an enemy. Nippon has the resources to help rebuild a faltering company and has pledged to do so. Still, Joe blocked it. The New York Times described it as “an extraordinary use of executive power, particularly for a president who is just weeks from leaving office. It is also a departure from America’s long-established culture of open investment, one that could have wide-ranging implications for the U.S. economy.”
In a statement Biden said, “As a committee of national security and trade experts across the executive branch determined, this acquisition would place one of America’s largest steel producers under foreign control and create risk for our national security and our critical supply chains.” He’s never explained how.
Nippon couldn’t physically remove the steel factories from the US, nor could they refuse to act in America’s interests, should we have an emergency that required steel immediately – every business in the country is subject to the Defense Production Act, which gives power to the feds to take control of pretty much any business in an emergency.
CBS reported “Trade Representative Katherine Tai, who is a CFIUS member, had concerns about the deal's impact on labor, and was opposed to the deal,” which is odd considering her domain is trade, not unions. Of course, she’s been cozy up with the “other suitor” in this deal, Cleveland Cliffs, which has offered a much lower priced deal with significantly less investing. The CEO of US Steel, David Burritt, called what Biden did “shameful and corrupt. He gave a political payback to a union boss out of touch with his members while harming our company’s future, our workers, and our national security,” on Twitter, adding, “Our employees and communities deserve better. We needed a President who knows how to get the best deal for America and work hard to make it happen. Make no mistake: this investment is what guarantees a great future for U. S. Steel, our employees, our communities, and our country.”
One is coming, and those jobs can still be saved.
Undoing this blockage, along with all the last-minute destruction Biden is inflicting on his way out the door should be a day one priority of President Trump. Of course, he can’t claw back money already in Ukraine, he can’t undo pardons and commutations, but he can reverse Biden’s job-killing decision on US Steel and he can the censorship regime Biden is trying to embed deep in the government.
Then we need to have a serious discussion about limiting what any President can do in the ultra-lame-duck three months after an election timeframe. If our political leaders were angels, we wouldn’t need to worry about it. But they’re that drunk guy being asked to leave a restaurant who simply refuses to do the right thing and leave with some dignity.
Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
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