Krystel Seier

Award-winning Voice Actress, Texan, Devourer of Books, Homesteading Cowgirl & Rep Lip Connoisseur

[Krystel Seier @KrystelSeier]

Take my money. #AmericanOwnedAmericanMade

[The Buy American Movement - BuyDirectUSA ❤️🇺🇸 @BuyDirectUSA]

In 2005, Oneida shut the flatware factory in Sherrill, New York.

A town that had made silverware for MORE THAN 100 YEARS was supposed to be finished.

Two men refused to let that happen.

Their names are Matt Roberts and Greg Owens.

Roberts had managed that factory. Owens was another former Oneida manufacturing manager. When the company ended U.S. production, they bought the plant and the equipment and reopened it the NEXT DAY as Sherrill Manufacturing.

They did not have a giant rescue fund.
They did not have a Hollywood ending waiting.
They had a building, some machines, and a workforce that knew how to make forks, knives, and spoons.

At first they kept making product for Oneida.

Then Oneida pulled the remaining American work and sent it overseas.

That should have been the end.

It wasn’t.

They took government flatware contracts to keep the lights on. In 2010 they filed Chapter 11. They sold unused equipment. They sold space they could no longer fill. They leased back only the part of the factory they could still run.

They came out of bankruptcy in 2013.

Then they did the thing that saved the company.

They built their own brand: Liberty Tabletop.

They sold 18/10 stainless flatware straight to customers who wanted tableware MADE IN THE UNITED STATES.

Not through a department store that could drop them overnight.
Direct.

Today Liberty Tabletop is the only company still manufacturing stainless steel flatware in America.

Same town.
Same trade.
U.S. steel.
About 70 jobs.

They did not bring back 2,000 workers. Nobody did.

What they saved was the last line.

If you want American-made forks and spoons, this is the factory that still makes them.

Support Liberty Tabletop.
THIS is what keeping manufacturing in America actually looks like. 🇺🇸

[Krystel Seier @KrystelSeier]

@BuyDirectUSA Well, I know who gets my money for new flatware now!

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@belleofva @WallStreetApes And not a single ounce of evidence given in this rant either.

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@WallStreetApes So, which of these 10 Commandments is she particularly offended by?

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@FreddyLA7 Have fun!

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@jk_rowling Ran out of the house-made, slow-cooked, only available on Saturdays, Texas BBQ brisket just as he made it to the front of the line.

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@hubbledr1 😂😂😂

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@hubbledr1 @lady_valor_07 😂😂😂

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@Playteaux1

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@Fascinate_Hist

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@WallStreetApes So, how do we flood her American business with 5-star reviews?

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@gman5180 Nope. Not at all.

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This is what being a Mama is really all about. You rise above it. You buck up. You find strength within you that you did not know possible - straight from an endless well of unconditional love. You ask for help when it’s needed. You accept that this is your season to raise the next generation of able-bodied, intelligent, young adults (and future community leaders) and that one day it’ll all come back tenfold should you choose to take the post seriously. #MostImportantJobInTheWorld

[Louisa Clary @LouisaClary]

A heartfelt song, a homemade patchwork dress (remind you of anyone? 🦋💕) and a voice that had the judges hearing exactly who you're thinking of… 🥹✨

Hannah Harper, a mom of 3 and gifted storyteller, sang about her journey through postpartum depression on American Idol.

Luke Bryan: “I kept thinking… I heard a little Kacey Musgraves, Alison Krauss… a little…”

Carrie Underwood: “...A little Dolly in there."

Lionel Richie: “I want you to use Dolly as the example of two things…”

✨A heads-up: If you want an excuse, start cutting the onions now. 🦋🥹

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@japan_nobunaga She flies all day, everyday, 3.

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Texas built 30k seats and refuses to use them. #InCaseWeAreNeeded #TexasProud

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In Texas I went to a game where the entire student side of the stadium did not sit down for four hours.

I assumed the seats were broken. I checked the one next to me. It worked.

I asked a student named Tyler why nobody was sitting.

He said, "In case they need us."

That was the whole answer. In my land we have a saying, always on the battlefield. A samurai does not lounge in the presence of a lord who may call him. He stands, so that when the call comes there is no distance between the call and the man.

Here were thirty thousand of them. Standing. In case.

I asked Tyler how often they are needed.

He thought about it. "Once."

Once. In 1922. The team was running out of healthy men, and a student named Gill was called down out of the stands. He put on an injured player's uniform and stood on the sideline, ready, for the rest of the game. He never went in. They won without him.

That is the whole origin. A man who did not play. A hundred years of standing for a man who did not play.

So I stood. I am not a student. I was not going to be called under any reading of the rules. My knees began filing complaints in the third quarter and I ignored them, because Tyler was nineteen and had stood through every home game for three years and had never once been called, and was not bitter about it, and was in fact eating nachos.

Nobody was called. Nobody has been called since 1922. The knees of Texas do not care.

In my land we say be ready at every moment.
Texas built thirty thousand seats and refuses to use them.

[Krystel Seier @KrystelSeier]

“I am a girl of many colors.” What a legend. 💕

[Haryanpunch @HaRyanPunch]

“I don’t LOSE my temper, I USE my temper.”

Well said. I could not love her more.

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@BurnerBarbieUSA @robynngarfield Double insta-follows from me. Keep mothering like normies, friends. ❤️ #motherhoodisaprivilege

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@Bossy_Leah Loss of trust with their babies for clicks from strangers. *shakes head*

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@StephenCorvair YES

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@hubbledr1 Hey! I know that designer! And love this channel!