The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: Harley-Davidson

Episode Date: August 19, 2024

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And he had to have medical care because he apparently fell down the stairs because he was too busy looking at the dummy's boobs. That's what happened. He was looking at dummy boobs and he fell down the stairs. That's what happened. He's like, these negligently placed boobs. I mean, display. That's what happened. That's what his face looked like when he said it.

He fell. It sat above a staircase and handrail, and he was too busy looking at it. It was their flagship store on Fifth Avenue. He was too busy looking at it, and so he fell. And he had to have medical care. He said it was a dangerous trap-like condition. Yeah, some will say that.

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40% off. Speaking of DEI, Harley Davidson, you know Harley Davidson got itself into some trouble. Harley Davidson of all the things that you would think are like not DEI, but they did. They had their CEO. He was talking about embracing wholeness and DEI. and he was at this the Rockefeller Leadership Award event and he was saying that they were in a disemate, that that event says they're all about dismantling systems

that create the most urgent problems of our time, social injustice and climate change. And he went out there and was saying that they wanted to be as diverse as we could possibly be as a brand and a business and I celebrate diversity and inclusion. And that's one of the reasons why I took the job because I believe, you know, blah, blah, blah. He was like going on and on and on about DEI and all of this.

And so there was a lot of controversy as a result. So now they've, they tweeted this out a little earlier today because this is what happened with tractor supply and then John Deere and then now, uh, Harley Davidson. So they tweet, I'm not going to read the whole statement,

but they tweeted out this statement saying they commit, they're committed to listening to all the members of their community. Just buy, just, they're just buying a damn bike. Okay. so they said blah blah blah blah joy motorcycle in 120 years blah blah blah blah we're saddened they said by the negativity on social media over the last few weeks designed to divide the harley davidson community so

they're saying that the reaction was designed to divide the harley davidson community not the fact that their CEO was out there talking about you know de i alphabet blah blah blah blah blah and and bending the knee. They said, as a company, we take this issue seriously. It's our responsibility to respond with clarity. We initiated an internal stakeholder review to better align company activities to the needs of both our business and community. So they said that we're committed to the following. Diversity and equity and inclusion, D.E.I.

They wrote, we see it as every leader's role to ensure we have an employee base that reflects our customers. How about you just have employees that you hire based on merit and not they should reflect the employees that you hire should reflect the work ethic of your company and wanting to work hard for your customers. And it shouldn't be based on things that people don't control skin color, where they come from, all of that stuff. That's irrelevant. It should just be merit. They said that we do not have, they say in their statement, quote, that said, we have not operated a DEI, function since April 2024, and we do not have a DEI function today.

We do not have hiring quotas, and we no longer have supplier diversity spend goals, end quote. Okay. Credit we're due. Credit we're due. And then the other stuff I don't care about. So,

it looks like they're backing off of that. Hmm. Hmm. That's a good thing, right? I like when they look look look look you got to be open to reconciliation folks i like it that they said that they went way further than bud light ever did in terms of walking it back they didn't they didn't bring out a dude cosplay as a chick and do a pantomime of women right they didn't do woman face in an ad but i still think it's important that you know you got to be the de i stuff is

absolute marxism so i think this is good i they're CEOs got to go, I think. Don't you agree, Cain? I do. I'm seeing a statement they had two hours ago. They said they're still committed to DEI. Well, that's what I'm reading off their thing, but did you read the whole statement? I just read it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, but I'm just saying it's country. That said we have not operated a DEI function since April 2024 and we do not have a DEI function today. We do not have hiring quotas and we no longer have supplier diversity spindles. But that's contradictory to what they say they're still committed to is my point. That's why it's such a, it's like a. contradictory statement almost to me.

It's, I don't know. I don't know if it's as contradictory. It's like they're playing both sides almost or trying to. They said that they're committed to, I guess, what is it, their customers. And, but they said that they don't have a DEI, I guess. Well, I don't know what DEI function means. What does that even mean? Like a DEI department?

Like a DEI position. What were, like, Chief Diversity Officers, what some of these companies have. But I'm looking at the statement that they, they tweeted just a little bit ago. So anyway, I, I, this is what I don't get. Why do you have companies like for the love, John Deere, they make game tractors? Why does your tractor company have to go out and make a statement? Oh, yeah, we're totally fine if you have a penis and you want to pretend not to. Like, why do you, why do you have to even get into all this stuff with DEI? Why do you have to get into the racial stuff? The, the train, why do you have to do

any of this? Sell bikes. Sell tractors. Sell farm supplies. What are you, why do you have to get in because the people that are doing this are not buying your products anyway they just hate you because you're an iconic american brand and this is cultural this is like what we saw Mao's cultural revolution where they would go and destroy all of the tenants of their Chinese culture to replace it with Marxist symbolism that's exactly what this is they just call it something different that's why they go after these certain businesses you know the free the economy of the United States. They're going after these iconic American brands,

brands that were built around telling the story of who and what the United States is. You know, they are free-spirited motorcycle enthusiasts. They're, you know, they're farmers, they're ranchers, they're, you know, they work the land. They all tell the story. And they go after these icons. And much like you see with people tearing down statues, they want to tear down these. icons. And so now all these businesses as a veneer of protection that they got to put up do this stuff. And it's just dumb. What does DEI have to do at all with riding motorcycles? Nothing. So why do you have

to wade into it? Your CEO is a moron. Why do you have to go out and say this stuff? Why do you open up, not just your brand, but all of the people who have worked so hard to make your brand what it is? What about the people who save their money and they get their first Harley Davidson? And then your CEO walks on stage, bends over and spreads his cheeks apart for fun, you know, as a show to the audience. Look how debased I can make myself. I'm going to sit here and do a performative act for this Mouth Cultural Revolution 2.0. It's exactly what this is. The CEO literally was on stage helping to bust down his own company's brand.

And for what? what return off of that debasement are you expected to get you got all these people like I said that worked and saved and they got Harley Davidson's and the CEO just went out there and took a sledgehammer to the brand and now these people are looking at their bikes that they were so proud to own like a like a you know it was an icon representative of American culture representative of of no boundaries you know freedom and now they're looking at their purchase like wow and they're not feeling great about it the people who are making them do this are not shareholders the fact that they did the shareholder survey after the fact is insane to me so you have the CEO that goes out there and is like yeah just bust up the brand with a sledgehammer oh and then we'll do our shareholder review and guess what the shareholders were like uh-uh stop it clearly this is so dumb but this is what this is what is. They, they, they want to enforce Mao, Mao's cultural revolution through business and financial

institutions. That's what it's all about. I mean, I was reading the statements of some of these people, they're like, I'm not proud to ride my bike anymore. You know, this is made in the USA. We were proud to write it, you know. It was leading the world again with manufacturing motorcycles. I mean, you're, and then they started offshore manufacturing. I mean, there's all kinds of, they said that they, I think they said that they moved away for it and they don't have an official position, but they, I will agree with you, Canaan, that they didn't say, we hate DEI. Or we are never going to adopt DEI. It just seems like they're playing both sides.

Like, oh, look, look what we said here. Yeah, but if you read between the lines, the shareholders clearly did not like it. That is absolutely true. Because Bud Light never put out a statement like this. So, I don't know. telling a friend about this, the lightest, the lightest, double-stack 9mm on the market. So I got a friend that was looking for a new concealed carry

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happen again, that's kind of crazy. And then they found that there was gaps on how remains were tracked in and out of the morgue. And yeah, that's, that has to, that probably doesn't help with grief very much to have something like that happen. Like when you're, you know, you're grieving the loss of a loved one. And a man was accused of stealing a Yellowstone National Park vehicle while drunk. Yeah. Isn't a very, very, very, you know, is an very, very, you know, Virginia man. He was, he stole a truck near Old Faithful while totally drunk out of his wits. And he, uh, he ended up going to jail. But, uh, it was a heavy wrecker. It was near Old Faithful Lodge. And he was driving one way, wrong way down a one way road. Yay. Stay with us.

Guys, you, I'm sending you the, uh, platform. So yeah, they have Biden's second term. That's on page 66. In President Biden's second term, I think they're trying to scrub it. Yeah, they only got like 45 page. They got Biden's second term, second term, second term. They say Biden's second term once, and then they get into second term, second term, all throughout the platform. So it's Biden's platform that this isn't even Kamala Harris. She's just an avatar. This is not even Kamala Harris's platform.

They took Biden's platform and they just sloppily put Kamala's name on it. It wasn't even his, really. It was, you know, Valerie Jarrett. And they took, they just took it and handed it. did it over to Kamala Harris. This woman is not none of these ideas. This is what they're doing. Can we please, dear heavens, can you show me the gas station? This is what they did over the weekend. Sorry, Juan,

because I'm going to go back to this. I'm going to go back to the Juan's dying. I'm going to go back to the platform. But this is what Kamala Harris was doing with Tim Walz. Wait a minute. Steve, what gas station is this? Sheets. Okay, we'll roll with that. They said it, not

me. Go to this. The sheets, please. Oh, my gosh, this is so stupid. Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I'm confused. Because there's another clip of Tim Walz finding the Doritos for her. Who found the Doritos? Was it Dougie? Was it Dougie? Or was it Timie? Or was it Timmy? Because there's another clip where Wals does, oh, here are the Doritos and makes a big deal about find, they filmed this damn thing twice, didn't they? They filmed it twice. They did. Yes. They filmed it twice.

Juan's getting this video ready. Guys, how, wait, what is this? So he, so Doug finds the Doritos. and then there's another video where Wolves is in there and he's like and then he tweeted it out. Hold up. Hold up. Oh, no. There was. Yeah, he tweeted it out.

Oh, that he found him for it. Watch this. Watch this video. Watch this. You see corn nuts over there. Give him this it? Oh, yeah. There you go.

Do you take corn nuts over there? So, so Tim Wals, in the first video that Juan showed, is staring literally right at Kamala Harris being given a bag of Doritos. And then in a second video, he goes in for Doritos for the cameras. He tweeted it. Yeah, he did. So he tweeted it out and said, quote, every road trip needs a snack break. Doritos acquired. I got you at Kamala Harris.

You could choke on the beta energy. You could just choke to death. And what gets me, I could watch the replay. Okay, so just, you know what? Just show the video one, if you would, without sound of Tim Walz, the video that he has in his tweet. Because there's something very interesting that happens in this video. So as Tim Walz is handing over very performatively, the Doritos to Kamala Harris, Doug is standing right next to her with his own bag of Doritos.

And he looks at them like, well, I want you to watch this. And here's Tim Wallace. He's handing the bag over if you're watching the simulcast. And then there's Doug looking at it. He's like, there's my Doritos though. What's this? What is this? It's a Doritos off.

This is so goofy. I can't even handle it. If only we've rehearsed this staged moment. I thought, well, I wonder if they got into a fight after. who I was supposed to hand the Doritos to her. No, I was going to hand the Doritos to her. I found the Doritos first. No, I was going to handle the Doritos.

I put it up on X. I found the Doritos. Oh, my gosh. This is so awkward. So she's got two bags of Doritos. Who's got the bigger bag? Two bags. Oh, man.

I can't. How much were they, though? I mean, most people probably couldn't afford to just go get two bags of Doritos because they're broke. That's why. Thanks for tuning in to today's edition of Dana Lash and, is absurd truth podcast. If you haven't already, make sure to hit that subscribe button on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast.