"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless." - Thomas Jefferson
too late for that one huh? I think the bigger joke is actually bringing a child into this world and subjecting them into this insanity and calling yourself a "good parent" Wanna be a good parent in this world? Don't have kids.
It was like 1914 when the banksters went to Jekyll island and came up with the Federal Reserve and forced it on Congress which then enacted it. The real crime was going off the Gold standard which gave the Federal Government a no limit credit card and we get to pay the bill through taxes and inflation.
🚫 Well I surely don't want people(or frogs) to end up in a gigantic pot of boiling water! They used to promote the "American melting pot" ideal, and for a century we accepted it. But maybe that was just a scam to dupe us into climbing into the pot(before they crank it up to boiling). Woe to the people(and frogs) who wait too long to climb out.......
I agree with you! The sellout of America 🇺🇸 to build shit cheaply. I want American 🇺🇸 Jobs, I want American made products 🇺🇸This bunch of people are doing just what UT is talking about. He is a bastard who wants to ruin Harley Davidson. The Sportster XLCH 1000 is at its best at $ 8000 and is the best commuter bike ever made! Ride it anywhere, let your wife, your daughter ride it. It’s a great bike. I hated those bikes. I m blind now and can’t ride. I dumped our shares of HD as soon as they did it. RE is a joke. I d rather find an old Yamaha XS2 and restore it than be seen on one of those pushrod parallel twins. If I want a Brit bike I’d get a Bonneville.
"First we overlook evil, Then we permit evil. Then we legalize evil. Then we promote evil. Then we celebrate evil. Then we persecute those who still call it evil." Fr. Dwight Longenecker “In the Last Days, Good will be called Evil and Evil will be called Good.” Are We There YET ?
We have to be careful about areas of clear overlap with Iranian and Russian special services operations in western countries. Hyperbole takes us right into that overlap.
It's called Duginism - Dugin is Putin's Rasputin and spiritual guide. They've got the best and smartest people (from the west) and have recruited them to destabilise the US, USA and other countries. It's a separate but equal challenge as that posed by neoliberal globalism.
I said the same thing somewhere else. This ceo *KNOWS* what he is doing. There is nothing accidental about his decisions. His plan is to kill off the gas engines entirely, and only have electric bikes. You can tell, simply because he is killing off the budget bikes. He is also moving the manufacturing overseas to prevent anyone else from taking over the production. His plan is to move manufacturing out of this country, build bikes for 2 or 3 years, but that is only going to be using up existing inventory... Then when he kills the gas engine completely, no one will be able to pick it back up. And I will even bet he tries to re brand in 2 years. This clown needs to get thrown out. No chance he walks out willingly, he knows he hasn't destroyed the brand yet. He needs at least 2 more years to prevent someone from building it back up.
#1 The York Pa, plant is NOT closing. They sell bikes made in York to NA and EU. #2 Asian market for motorcycles is HUGE. They need to manufacture bikes specific to the Asian market IN ASIA. #3 If they were so gung-ho on electric motorcycles, why did they spin off the company (Livewire) and not keep it in-house? BTW, Livewire's stock price is 17 cents/share. They may not make it. Harley has to keep Livewire afloat due to emissions. Period.
Your right. I suppose. I know 2 people that loved Harleys, 1 is trans, 1 is gay. They will not touch them anymore. 1 actually sold his because of this. They want to be left alone. It's the biggest smack in the face to them.
I'm not interested personally. Never owned one, always liked them. Bit I'm not interested in a motorcycle I'll likely not be able to get parts for in the next few years. I do like the Honda rigs too though. Jmo
A little over a year ago I put a "F*** ZEITS" sticker on my Harley. Some people looked at me like I was overreacting then. Now everyone wants a sticker.
Harley has a history of certain things. Like when imported motorcycles started eating their technology and power and performance lunch, and HD went crying to bid daddy gubmint to impose tariffs.
Exactly. The only thing they have learned is that they need to lie about what they do. Go to their website, scroll to the bottom, and click on Sustainability. They are fully on-board with ESG crap. As woke as ever.
@@johnroberts3824 You better take screenshots of it. I didn't when TSC did the drag show. There was radical stuff on their website. A few day later they had sanitized their agenda.
Hypocrisy is the soup de jour everyday of woke elite. We are up against a coordinated assault on our way of life. This is what socio path megla manics do. Hitler, Stalin Mao, all the back to the fall of the Roman empire caused by these types. This is not over.
this has nothing to do with economic systems. communism has never existed just like a democracy has never existed. like UTG said, they aren't loyal to or in pursuit of any ideology. this isn't about the "worldists" wanting economic equality for the proletariat lmao. none of this is about the workers seizing the means of production! blaming communism is just what the lazy right pundits spout when criticizing all of this woke and "worldist" trash going on. edit: spelling mistake
Yea " We" know enough. Tony just finished explaining that Communism and Capitalism eminate from the same entity. You know something worthwhile to add to the established facts? @THIRSTYGUMS
I wonder how much stock the Harley and Davidson Families have left in the Motor Company. There were of course the Davidsons working in design and R&D and I think a couple of the Harley family still worked there around the time of the 100th anniversary.
The ultimate goal is a psychological one. To make all forms of private transportation so unaffordable that the public begins accept the idea that their movement is a matter relegated to the whims others. The car manufactures are all on board because there is more profit margin to be made creating a limited amount of expensive vehicles vs a high volume and low profit margin vehicles.
Big corporation: Stop selling sedans, coupes, hatchbacks, wagons. Only make utility vehicles, bypassing all the certificaitons and testing and regulatory costs. Now, jam the utility vehicles full of Star Trek technology to drive up the prices. Remain just as profitable as prior, with half as many models. Result: Cost tide rises, lifting all vehicles to a level of unaffordable. Auto corporations remain profitable.
Notice that the attacks are largely on publicly traded companies. The buy/sell orders of multi-billion dollar fund managers may be indirectly writing policy. Save hd? Take it private again. Notice how much better twitter is functioning these days: amazing! Also notice the percolating stories bashing venture capitalists, who deploy cash away from the festering boil of wall street.
I'm sure I'm not in the minority when I say this, but, keep making these types of videos. I dig the car stuff, but I look forward to your "political" commentary.
I agree. There is one Channel i won't watch anymore. He actually says "no politics" when he does a live chat. Yet some on there will bitch about the cost of things etc. Well keep your heads up your a*ses but quit complaining about the economy, since no politics is allowed. Who do they think is making the decisions that affect the economy?
It really pains me to see an iconic American company run by a foreign national dedicated to turning it into a social experiment. Fire Seitz, hire a successful American CEO and make quality machines that Americans and the world would be proud to own. The fact that they are paying this German national $43 million in total compensation to destroy an iconic brand is criminal.
“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains..." - Frank Zappa
@@cusso1138 Post Modern Woke Libtardation is a super cult like religious ideology that's very much akin to a fascist theocracy. Probably not what libtard Zappa meant when he said it, but true nonetheless.
Lithium batteries= little African kid's working in dangerous and hazardous condition's for very little $$$ if any for us to feel like we're doing something good for the environment 🤔
Ukraine has very large lithium deposits quite interesting. It is quite the coincidence there is a war we are funding there as we mandate electric vehicles.
It is tremendously refreshing to hear someone talk who TRULY understand how the world works. There are very very very very very VERY few people who seem to have the wisdom of Uncle Tony.
Harley hasn’t been cool since they made the big twins water cooled, and now they’re making electric bikes.. nope, not for me. I’ll take an old sporty or shovel or evo but never ever water cooled or electric. I rode a screaming eagle v rod when they came out and they’re uncomfortable, handle like shit, and are fugly to boot. If I bought a new bike today, it’d be a 100% American made Indian!!! Huck Farley!!!
before i would pay 20k for a new harley, i'd go buy 3 different mid 90's models with 20k miles in excellent condition for the same money and ride a different bike every day.
You are on the mark about 90 % of what you stated. Power is profit margins and profit margins are power. Those in power do not care about anything else. I am surprised that UTG has made this quasi-political swing but I do understand it too. You have a voice, you have a following. Your whole content so far has been preparing and teaching the younger "DIY" community in the skills that will be required to survive in the continued downfall of U.S.A. I like and appreciate the recent change addition to the channel though.
Harley-Davidson has gone through its ups and down including the AMF era from 1969-1981. AMF (American Machine and Foundry) owned a bunch of companies and made a bunch of things, including lawn and garden equipment for Sears. However, during this time, they would develop the pejorative term of "Hog" and "Hardly Ableson". By the end of 1981/early 1982, the employees made a move to buy the company back. It has since become a case study for graduate school students (I remember studying it when I went for my MBA).
A lot of good hard-working men and women that work for Harley Davidson and own Harley Davidson dealerships are going to suffer because of this, and that sucks.
I have a 1953 Panhead, 74 cubic inch and at idle the front wheel bounces like a basketball, then when you speed the engine up it smooths out. And I've owned it since 1978.
@@Jeffrey-t8g My Honda runs like a dream throughout the rpm range. Same for my Suzuki. A balanced engine is a long lasting engine. Harley Davidson cons people into loving the bikes designed in planned obsolescence. Sell your Harley Davidson and get a real American bike, like an Indian. I don't even like cruisers, but at least they have enough self respect to build a quality product and not blow smoke up asses for profit.
Funny how I'm notified for every other video, but this one I had to look to find!!! Thank you for not being quiet and speaking up!!! All extremely valid points!!!
Harley davidson is the #1 brand for seeing leather tassels on the handlebars. They've always been the brand for non binary zesty bros, this is just the next logical step for them.
@@Marius_vanderLubbe I thought it looked a little funny. I get a little mixed up dealing with Spanish an Brazilian Portuguese at the same time. Mixing in a little Quechua and Nahuatl now and then doesn't help my English either 😂.
These manufactured issues are a dead end distraction to use your emotional response to divert your energy from real world bread and butter problems while they empty your wallet.
Been saying this for a long time. They want us all living in 500sq foot boxes, riding electric bikes and eating crickets. The Blob is suprene and the individual is but a cipher.
As a gay wannabe biker, I completely agree. Being a lesbian doesn't mean I want this DEI shit in my life. I am just a person. I want to be treated like a person. I don't want quotas or parties, or parades, or rainbows everywhere. I just want to be me and be left alone and respected like anyone else does.
Tony, I came to your channel for the '60s and '70s car stuff but what you are talking about here is more important. Keep on doing what you are doing! (although if someday you get back to that propane 383, that'd be awesome).
Tony I just wanted to say I appreciate you and your wisdom when it comes to motors, but also current world events and politics. I found your channel a few years ago after I bought an 87' dodge b250. You were the cool dodge guy. I've since started riding motorcycles and fell in love with Harleys, specifically evo and older (nothing fuel injected) so it's also really cool to hear your take on motorcycles as well. You hit the nail on the head with about the "worldists". It's a crazy time we're living in. Take care brotha 🤙🏼
They're so hung up on the past all they can do is hypebeast their 'heritage' and 'history'. Look at us. We were cool once, young fella, dont'cha know! Everything they put out is like a Hollywood "reboot" that just shits on their legacy. If the best the USA can do is build bikes from the 60's and fawn over the good ol' days while outsourcing their production overseas to meet the UN's UNEP sustainabilityGoal 7 by 2030. Maybe they're right when they said they won't be selling internal combustion engines by then, people born today will know them only as a clothing brand sold at Walmart and listicles on Tiktok will marvel about how way back when they actually used to make the actual motorcycles.
Got 400,000 miles out of my 1995 Electraglide, test Bike. Rode it as hard as I could to try to brake it. It stayed together for 400,000 miles. Sold it for $5000 running, Thing acted like a Toyota. Christ bless!
It hasn’t been intended to help them in decades. People on the ground promoting social justice may believe that it does, but it isn’t intended to actually work. It’s a control mechanism.
We used to call Sportsters in the 1960s-70s "Dirt Bikes" Built my first real chopper in the early 1970s. Knuckle Head, front end so long couldn't see the front wheel and what front brake? Those were the days!
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HD lost me years ago when I was researching their Confederate editions for an article and their historian, Willy G. Davidson told me that they were under corporate orders to NOT discuss the Confederate editions.
Well, Every Dog has its day, as is said? I’m a Mopar guy in my 50’s. Modern Mopars although having been impressive, eh? 🤷♂️. They were sold on a Marketing lie of what I love. As soon as most trucks had a “Hemi”(5.7) years back, I figured it as “okay you want to be cool with a badge?” Lots of those names and badges rolled back. It ain’t hard to make a sticker, and stick it to something? Second time round? Don’t be crying wolf when there’s a poodle at the trash. The poor old Fratzog, soon to be the Mopar’s rainbow? The architecture of Gen 3 mass produced isn’t braking any sanctioned records. The Hellcat, a factory production car record. But it’s just not me. Chrysler corp? Now Stealantis? Well the CEO, he’s killed his market. Pushing what people don’t want, can’t afford. Harley’s the same thing. A corporate suicidal mission, just a wind up to the faithful. Don’t worry about it, enjoy your old bikes, be nostalgic. Keep them running. Cherish your rides, and keeping them alive. Modern stuff is built with so many fail points it’s all part of planned obsolescence anyway. Someone will start in a small shed somewhere building something simple, durable, and affordable, It’s happening all the time. We just haven’t heard of them yet to get in behind of. That’s part of a free market. Glad to live in a society that allows it. An just remember, the crew that still loves there AMC’s, Buick’s, Pontiac’s, Studi’s, Desoto’s, and Plymouth’s etc. Love them for what they are. History. The transition is never pretty. Most modern shite ain’t gonna last anyway.
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I don't get why Harley customers got so infuriated by the DEI thing. I would assume companies do it for press among growing younger customer segments. One would think that pulling back on this thing only furthers Harleys path into a dying market. I ride and have no big stake in any brand, I just try to buy from companies that actually build and engineer in the country that they claim to represent.
I literally just put a commentary out on this, and you are correct. The rabbit hole goes deep, and btw, news this wk suggests they're not quitting anything... just quietly rebranding.
Thank you, Tony. I am understanding the issues much better with your explanation. CEO needs to go immediately. Just can't believe anything like this is happening! So sad!
These corporations typically have a handful of do gooders who get the ear of leaders and push them into this DEI stuff. The unfortunate reality is that even if they abandon DEI programs the people with these ideas are still there and in power, and they’ll do the same discriminatory hiring, etc…
I was talking with a guy on a neat looking harley last weekend. I asked him if he knew about the issues, because he still had full badges. He was, and it was a pretty good conversation. His grandfather had passed that harley down to his father, who had let it sit in a barn, and when he passed, this guy restored it. He said that he would NEVER buy a new harley now, but he wasn't going to wreck the memory of his grandfather and father over one woke CEO. It's really sad, that company has such deep roots, and the guy running it is just pulling them all out and pissing in the holes. I gotta say, the 1950's harleys were really cool looking. Not so beefy and pretentious, just a slick looking machine.
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless." - Thomas Jefferson
too late for that one huh? I think the bigger joke is actually bringing a child into this world and subjecting them into this insanity and calling yourself a "good parent"
Wanna be a good parent in this world? Don't have kids.
Jefferson had it right all along.
"wake up"? Sounds woke to me.
Always read your mileswmathis updates daily.
It was like 1914 when the banksters went to Jekyll island and came up with the Federal Reserve and forced it on Congress which then enacted it. The real crime was going off the Gold standard which gave the Federal Government a no limit credit card and we get to pay the bill through taxes and inflation.
It all comes from DAVOS AND WEF. They are currently boiling the frog. The frog is the human race.
Always read your mileswmathis updates daily.
There is an original ancient Egyptian obelisk as the centerpiece of St. Peter's Basilica. They've been at it for a while.
Smh
🚫 Well I surely don't want people(or frogs) to end up in a gigantic pot of boiling water! They used to promote the "American melting pot" ideal, and for a century we accepted it. But maybe that was just a scam to dupe us into climbing into the pot(before they crank it up to boiling). Woe to the people(and frogs) who wait too long to climb out.......
THEY ARE TURNING THE FRIGGIN FROGS GAY!!!
"In the last days good will be called evil and evil good"
So MAGA is proof that we are in the end of days.
😂😅😅😅wtf last days are you talking bout? Cause the bible is more full of 💩,than facts
Yes. Classic example = Trumpty Dumbty.
ROFLMFAO!!
Ha, send more cash.
"Removing manufacturing from the US, and eliminate the internal combustion engine from its lineup as early as 2030 are the objectives here" 💯%
American manufacturers have been offshoring their manufacturing for more than 40 years. Get off of RUclips and read a book or ten.
Always read your mileswmathis updates daily.
@@alantrimble2881 Thanks for the comment ! p.s. GFY
I agree with you! The sellout of America 🇺🇸 to build shit cheaply. I want American 🇺🇸 Jobs, I want American made products 🇺🇸This bunch of people are doing just what UT is talking about. He is a bastard who wants to ruin Harley Davidson. The Sportster XLCH 1000 is at its best at $ 8000 and is the best commuter bike ever made! Ride it anywhere, let your wife, your daughter ride it. It’s a great bike. I hated those bikes. I m blind now and can’t ride. I dumped our shares of HD as soon as they did it. RE is a joke. I d rather find an old Yamaha XS2 and restore it than be seen on one of those pushrod parallel twins. If I want a Brit bike I’d get a Bonneville.
Lol. The objective is to take your illusion of freedom away so that you know without a doubt that you are a slave.
"First we overlook evil, Then we permit evil. Then we legalize evil. Then we promote evil. Then we celebrate evil. Then we persecute those who still call it evil." Fr. Dwight Longenecker
“In the Last Days, Good will be called Evil and Evil will be called Good.” Are We There YET ?
Seems like someone is paying attention.
When you say, "are we there yet?" you have to have the Bart Simpson voice in your head.
cool your jets... youre being paranoid.
We have to be careful about areas of clear overlap with Iranian and Russian special services operations in western countries. Hyperbole takes us right into that overlap.
It's called Duginism - Dugin is Putin's Rasputin and spiritual guide. They've got the best and smartest people (from the west) and have recruited them to destabilise the US, USA and other countries. It's a separate but equal challenge as that posed by neoliberal globalism.
I said the same thing somewhere else. This ceo *KNOWS* what he is doing. There is nothing accidental about his decisions. His plan is to kill off the gas engines entirely, and only have electric bikes. You can tell, simply because he is killing off the budget bikes. He is also moving the manufacturing overseas to prevent anyone else from taking over the production. His plan is to move manufacturing out of this country, build bikes for 2 or 3 years, but that is only going to be using up existing inventory... Then when he kills the gas engine completely, no one will be able to pick it back up.
And I will even bet he tries to re brand in 2 years. This clown needs to get thrown out. No chance he walks out willingly, he knows he hasn't destroyed the brand yet. He needs at least 2 more years to prevent someone from building it back up.
Just buy an Indian for now .
@@mikeskidmore6754 Exactly. FHD. Indian all the way.
#1 The York Pa, plant is NOT closing. They sell bikes made in York to NA and EU. #2 Asian market for motorcycles is HUGE. They need to manufacture bikes specific to the Asian market IN ASIA. #3 If they were so gung-ho on electric motorcycles, why did they spin off the company (Livewire) and not keep it in-house? BTW, Livewire's stock price is 17 cents/share. They may not make it. Harley has to keep Livewire afloat due to emissions. Period.
I will buy an electric HD when hell freezes over.
@@mikeskidmore6754 Bonneville is a good choice for me .
Nathan Rothschild "Give me control of a nations money supply, and I care not who makes it’s laws"
An interesting family, and he knew how to skin a cat in the financial world.
And so?...
The government controls the money supply. Only they can authorize printing money.
Nobody wants a PrideGlide
Your right. I suppose. I know 2 people that loved Harleys, 1 is trans, 1 is gay. They will not touch them anymore. 1 actually sold his because of this. They want to be left alone. It's the biggest smack in the face to them.
I'm not interested personally. Never owned one, always liked them. Bit I'm not interested in a motorcycle I'll likely not be able to get parts for in the next few years. I do like the Honda rigs too though. Jmo
Does my bum look big on this bike😊😊😢😢
They have no problem Gliding into your pocket to charge you a ridiculous amount of money for a pile of sh*t.
😂😂😂nice try diddy
A little over a year ago I put a "F*** ZEITS" sticker on my Harley. Some people looked at me like I was overreacting then. Now everyone wants a sticker.
such a rebel
@@NoPrivateProperty The rebel is a Honda. This is a Harley.
Harley has a history of certain things. Like when imported motorcycles started eating their technology and power and performance lunch, and HD went crying to bid daddy gubmint to impose tariffs.
Continue the BOYCOTT! FHD! ✊️
FJB FKH, FDNC
Agreed 👍
HD... Woke as a joke!
won't buy any more new HD woke is a joke
HD will be fine 🤑🤑🤑
Harley is just going to do better about hiding it from the public!
Exactly. The only thing they have learned is that they need to lie about what they do. Go to their website, scroll to the bottom, and click on Sustainability. They are fully on-board with ESG crap. As woke as ever.
Same with tractor supply bud light@@johnroberts3824
I covered this in latest video-the ESG DEI is still on their website. They are not even hiding it. Yet, Starbuck called it a “win” because of a memo.
@@johnroberts3824 You better take screenshots of it. I didn't when TSC did the drag show. There was radical stuff on their website. A few day later they had sanitized their agenda.
Exactly!
The CEO of Harley wants DEI everywhere, except when it comes to Executive Compensation, of course.
Hypocrisy is the soup de jour everyday of woke elite. We are up against a coordinated assault on our way of life. This is what socio path megla manics do. Hitler, Stalin Mao, all the back to the fall of the Roman empire caused by these types. This is not over.
"A communist system can be recognized by the fact that it spares the criminals and criminalizes the political opponent." - Alexander Solzhenitsy
Thank you
this has nothing to do with economic systems. communism has never existed just like a democracy has never existed. like UTG said, they aren't loyal to or in pursuit of any ideology. this isn't about the "worldists" wanting economic equality for the proletariat lmao. none of this is about the workers seizing the means of production!
blaming communism is just what the lazy right pundits spout when criticizing all of this woke and "worldist" trash going on.
edit: spelling mistake
Not just a communist one. All authoritarian and despotic systems do that.
"I am your retribution". Fat Boy's telling us what he is.
Man you guys never shut up about communism while knowing nothing about communism😂😂😂
Yea " We" know enough. Tony just finished explaining that Communism and Capitalism eminate from the same entity. You know something worthwhile to add to the established facts? @THIRSTYGUMS
It is a systematic tear down of this country.
All western nations.
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Ma'am.
The Marlboro them
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The Marlboro Abomination
😂😂😂😂😂
Lol
So sad, I feel sorry for the young. I feel sorry for MY son. OUR proud country is on the downhill slide.
The board who hired this radical also speaks volumes about this company.
It's a lie ! The guy still works there and still has the same agenda!
South Park had it right about Harley guys…
It's time for HD to take itself private again.
i agree. i think they outgrew their market segment.
I wonder how much stock the Harley and Davidson Families have left in the Motor Company. There were of course the Davidsons working in design and R&D and I think a couple of the Harley family still worked there around the time of the 100th anniversary.
Impossible.. The amount of corporate debt taken on to accomplish that would bankrupt private ownership on day one..
@@mikeborrelli193 Nobody said it had to happen in a day. LOL.
Forget your history? "Unburdened by what has been". Sound familiar?
Chairman Mao and the 3 red banners.
I love these tony rants the most. I think he should make a separate channel for politics and global affairs.
Agree, he has a unique take.
@@pallidbustofpallas4679 From the looks of the comments, Tony's "take" isn't that unique.
Harley is moving in the same direction as the US auto industry. Only making and selling big dollar trucks and SUV’s.
They're NOT selling. Not here anyway.
The ultimate goal is a psychological one. To make all forms of private transportation so unaffordable that the public begins accept the idea that their movement is a matter relegated to the whims others. The car manufactures are all on board because there is more profit margin to be made creating a limited amount of expensive vehicles vs a high volume and low profit margin vehicles.
Big corporation: Stop selling sedans, coupes, hatchbacks, wagons. Only make utility vehicles, bypassing all the certificaitons and testing and regulatory costs. Now, jam the utility vehicles full of Star Trek technology to drive up the prices. Remain just as profitable as prior, with half as many models.
Result: Cost tide rises, lifting all vehicles to a level of unaffordable. Auto corporations remain profitable.
The Klaus Schwab of the motorcycle industry. 'You will power your motorcycle with bugs and you will enjoy it'.
hey Unc Tony no spam bot here lol... all american Icon brands are being attacked to make us to abandon them
It’s called subversion in order to demoralize the US population.
Notice that the attacks are largely on publicly traded companies. The buy/sell orders of multi-billion dollar fund managers may be indirectly writing policy. Save hd? Take it private again. Notice how much better twitter is functioning these days: amazing! Also notice the percolating stories bashing venture capitalists, who deploy cash away from the festering boil of wall street.
They really did it to Chrysler. First Daimler, then Fiat, now Stellantis.
its not just american icon brands, it's aimed at literally every aspect of society.
Attacked by who? lmao.
They scale back until people stop talking about it , then they're right back at their old ways.
I'm sure I'm not in the minority when I say this, but, keep making these types of videos. I dig the car stuff, but I look forward to your "political" commentary.
yup..i agree..!..well done U.T...!..u r are mouth piece...!
It's great to hear from another awake mechanic, I'm in the UK, some days I feel like the only person who can see what's going on in the world.
@@brianalbrecht4423 "our"
I agree. There is one Channel i won't watch anymore. He actually says "no politics" when he does a live chat. Yet some on there will bitch about the cost of things etc. Well keep your heads up your a*ses but quit complaining about the economy, since no politics is allowed. Who do they think is making the decisions that affect the economy?
Just about any subject can circle back around to politics. Public policy affects anything and everything.
It really pains me to see an iconic American company run by a foreign national dedicated to turning it into a social experiment. Fire Seitz, hire a successful American CEO and make quality machines that Americans and the world would be proud to own. The fact that they are paying this German national $43 million in total compensation to destroy an iconic brand is criminal.
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Always read your mileswmathis updates daily.
He is Jewish
I think dodge is doing this exact same thing destroyed from within. Germans
I said it before and they got mad at me🤷♂️
“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains..." - Frank Zappa
Uncle Frank should've just Shut Up & Played his Guitar
@@adp5R3xIf you pay any attention at all, Frank never shut up when playing his guitar.
@halfassDIY “The Biggest threat to America today is not Communism, it's moving America towards a fascist theocracy” Frank Zappa 1986
@@cusso1138 That may have been true in 1986, but the commies have made a hell of a comeback since then.
@@cusso1138 Post Modern Woke Libtardation is a super cult like religious ideology that's very much akin to a fascist theocracy. Probably not what libtard Zappa meant when he said it, but true nonetheless.
If Harley stays on this track they won't be around in 2030 to make battery powered bikes
That's the whole point .
Poor engineering, absurd prices, bad reputation, better alternatives. Not happy about it, but that's how it is.
RIGHT! So they blame Biden and make a video of it....
Lithium batteries= little African kid's working in dangerous and hazardous condition's for very little $$$ if any for us to feel like we're doing something good for the environment 🤔
Ukraine has very large lithium deposits quite interesting. It is quite the coincidence there is a war we are funding there as we mandate electric vehicles.
Yup. Truth
@@nickb2080 Just in case you didn't know Cargile and MonSantos, are in The Ukrainian "market" as well.... ☠ ☠ ☠
@@nickb2080 primarily Chile, Australia, Argentina and China
HD guys worry about that? Sounds Woke as hell.
Fight the good fight Uncle Tony!
We struggle against Powers and Principalities.😔
It is tremendously refreshing to hear someone talk who TRULY understand how the world works. There are very very very very very VERY few people who seem to have the wisdom of Uncle Tony.
I'm not a biker, so thanks for this detailed insight into the world motorcycle market, Harley-Davidson, and sinister goings-on behind the scene.
Harley hasn’t been cool since they made the big twins water cooled, and now they’re making electric bikes.. nope, not for me. I’ll take an old sporty or shovel or evo but never ever water cooled or electric. I rode a screaming eagle v rod when they came out and they’re uncomfortable, handle like shit, and are fugly to boot.
If I bought a new bike today, it’d be a 100% American made Indian!!! Huck Farley!!!
Indian is owned by Polaris. Polaris is another woke company. Read up on them.
before i would pay 20k for a new harley, i'd go buy 3 different mid 90's models with 20k miles in excellent condition for the same money and ride a different bike every day.
Actually since they got rid of the kick start, wanted more girls to ride. How’d that turn out ? Same problem with them voting unfortunately.
The first clear explanation I've heard about the woke agenda and its true goals. Please share this.
You are on the mark about 90 % of what you stated.
Power is profit margins and profit margins are power.
Those in power do not care about anything else.
I am surprised that UTG has made this quasi-political swing but I do understand it too.
You have a voice, you have a following.
Your whole content so far has been preparing and teaching the younger "DIY" community in the skills that will be required to survive in the continued downfall of U.S.A.
I like and appreciate the recent change addition to the channel though.
And customers have a choice in who to spend their money with. What you're saying is a little overly simplistic.
Harley-Davidson has gone through its ups and down including the AMF era from 1969-1981. AMF (American Machine and Foundry) owned a bunch of companies and made a bunch of things, including lawn and garden equipment for Sears. However, during this time, they would develop the pejorative term of "Hog" and "Hardly Ableson". By the end of 1981/early 1982, the employees made a move to buy the company back. It has since become a case study for graduate school students (I remember studying it when I went for my MBA).
We always said that AMF stood for “Almost Fu*ked Harley” . lol
American Machine and Foundry, numnuts.
Stellantis dude is doing exactly the same thing--you're getting EVs and you're going to like it.
Man 1, But I don’t like EV’s……
Man 2, After the revolution comrade, you’ll LOVE EV’s!
Stalintis
You mean Stalintis?
@@crazytrain7114 No--I meant Stellantis; you know, Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram, etc. The Tavares guy.
@@cadesmith4278 well, say goodbye, then.
A lot of good hard-working men and women that work for Harley Davidson and own Harley Davidson dealerships are going to suffer because of this, and that sucks.
Just like what happened with Budweiser.
All part of the NWO and their plan to keep us all fighting against one another.
Thank Robby Starbuck for that while he gets richer and more powerful and all these dumbasses who follow him
The "worldists" wear tiny hats.
For tiny heads
No hat on Jimmy's head so they wear one on their head. Weirdos doing things to kids.... When everyone realizes it will be a strange time
I've ignored Harley Davidson since I learned as a kid that they engineer their engines purposely out of balance. 🤢
I have a 1953 Panhead, 74 cubic inch and at idle the front wheel bounces like a basketball, then when you speed the engine up it smooths out. And I've owned it since 1978.
@@Jeffrey-t8g My Honda runs like a dream throughout the rpm range. Same for my Suzuki. A balanced engine is a long lasting engine. Harley Davidson cons people into loving the bikes designed in planned obsolescence. Sell your Harley Davidson and get a real American bike, like an Indian. I don't even like cruisers, but at least they have enough self respect to build a quality product and not blow smoke up asses for profit.
As were alot of muscle cars back in the day but they pull a huge premium. Mopars can get into the millions
@@BruceLee-xn3nn Also not a Mopar guy. JDM all the way for my cars, truck, and bikes.
The CEO of Harley MUST be Fired ,,,,, anything else is a LOSS.
Funny how I'm notified for every other video, but this one I had to look to find!!! Thank you for not being quiet and speaking up!!! All extremely valid points!!!
I'll keep riding my pre woke Harley. I have a good independent shop for service that I can't do. To hell with HD
THERE YOU GO,I'VE GOT 3 all made before 1985 AND I'M KEEPING THEM,all of them run on points and carbs,the future is a bleak notion to me
@@darrellteague8629 And I'll keep ridin' my lil' Honda Monkey! "On that road agin', I can't wait ter git on that road agin'....."
Harley davidson is the #1 brand for seeing leather tassels on the handlebars. They've always been the brand for non binary zesty bros, this is just the next logical step for them.
Pay no attention to that man behind the certain.
If it were certain, there would be no curtain.
@@Marius_vanderLubbe I thought it looked a little funny. I get a little mixed up dealing with Spanish an Brazilian Portuguese at the same time. Mixing in a little Quechua and Nahuatl now and then doesn't help my English either 😂.
@@davefarnsworth3020 It's all good, man. I do the same at times.Thanks for the laugh.
@@davefarnsworth3020made perfect sense
@@Marius_vanderLubbe If we don't do it, spelchequer has a bad habit of doing it for us.
Rugged individualism for the poor socialism for the rich that is how it is in this country
I'm deep down this rabbit hole (unfortunately). Uncle Tony is directly over the target.
Exactly!!! Well done Tony
You are spot on, you have nailed our problems, 100 Percent.
Meh...
These manufactured issues are a dead end distraction to use your emotional response to divert your energy from real world bread and butter problems while they empty your wallet.
You Are wrong, a denier of truth
Close enough.
Tell that to the kids that get mutilated at the altar of WOKE ideology.
Been saying this for a long time. They want us all living in 500sq foot boxes, riding electric bikes and eating crickets. The Blob is suprene and the individual is but a cipher.
As a gay wannabe biker, I completely agree. Being a lesbian doesn't mean I want this DEI shit in my life. I am just a person. I want to be treated like a person. I don't want quotas or parties, or parades, or rainbows everywhere. I just want to be me and be left alone and respected like anyone else does.
Well spoken too bad the morons in charge don't realize that! Be safe, stay cool through all this BS!
New model didn’t sell well, the Chopper Dkoff
Maybe Chopper Titsoff?
🤣
Tony, I came to your channel for the '60s and '70s car stuff but what you are talking about here is more important. Keep on doing what you are doing! (although if someday you get back to that propane 383, that'd be awesome).
DAMMET !!!
I'M SO GLAD I SUB'D A WEEK AGO.
BLESS YOU.
Tony I just wanted to say I appreciate you and your wisdom when it comes to motors, but also current world events and politics. I found your channel a few years ago after I bought an 87' dodge b250. You were the cool dodge guy. I've since started riding motorcycles and fell in love with Harleys, specifically evo and older (nothing fuel injected) so it's also really cool to hear your take on motorcycles as well. You hit the nail on the head with about the "worldists". It's a crazy time we're living in. Take care brotha 🤙🏼
pressure must be maintained permanently😢
Uncle Tony's Garage, nice video my guy
You're right, it's not about that. What's behind what Harley is pulling goes into the spiritual.
YOU ROCK UNCLE TONY
i canceled the order for my FLGBTQ model
What?
No vibrating seat?
I'm getting a Break Out dude
Denuting built in the saddle @@danielwarpaint1963
😂😂😂😂
A new spin on the Crotch Rocket
So glad to hear a brother awake. Not woke.
Finally!!!
Someone with a more proper understanding of what is truly going on, that is willing to speak up. Devide & Conquer. Thanks Uncle 😎👍
The biggest problem with HD is that their bikes are junk.
They're so hung up on the past all they can do is hypebeast their 'heritage' and 'history'. Look at us. We were cool once, young fella, dont'cha know! Everything they put out is like a Hollywood "reboot" that just shits on their legacy. If the best the USA can do is build bikes from the 60's and fawn over the good ol' days while outsourcing their production overseas to meet the UN's UNEP sustainabilityGoal 7 by 2030.
Maybe they're right when they said they won't be selling internal combustion engines by then, people born today will know them only as a clothing brand sold at Walmart and listicles on Tiktok will marvel about how way back when they actually used to make the actual motorcycles.
Fuel injection fixed a whole lot of problems.
You apparently don’t ride one. But that’s ok to each his own.
You could take five of the most expensive japanese pieces of shit, couldn't even come Close to the value of one of my antique Harleys.
@@4dogsgaming #triggered
100% correct! Listen to Tony,he’s a smart guy!!
Revolution calling
Great Queensryche song !
Got 400,000 miles out of my 1995 Electraglide, test Bike.
Rode it as hard as I could to try to brake it. It stayed together for 400,000 miles. Sold it for $5000 running,
Thing acted like a Toyota. Christ bless!
Toyota? That's saying something. Toyota is the gold standard in long mileage value cars.
Keyword: 1995
Well said...
My problem with HD is the hype, low quality, outdated engineering, the unionized attitude, and the mindset surrounding all that
Right - the social justice noise is often calculated to hurt the people it pretends to support. Thank you for calling out it.
Its so obvious.
It hasn’t been intended to help them in decades. People on the ground promoting social justice may believe that it does, but it isn’t intended to actually work. It’s a control mechanism.
@@oriontaylor
Thats why they call them "usefull idiots".
Jack Daniels is woke too!
Infiltrated board and top positions.
@@carlmorgan8452
Been drinking the sour mash since the 1970s and won't stop. Don't care about their goofy people board, period!
@@Mark-lq3sb keep supporting the cause that's ruining your children's and grandchildren's future so you can get your buzz..how adult of you.
The only H-Ds that I've ever considered owning were all Sportster-based... XL-CR, XR1200R, XR1200X, 48... good on ya for defending them.
Same here
The XR1200 is the only Harley I liked enough to buy.
We used to call Sportsters in the 1960s-70s "Dirt Bikes" Built my first real chopper in the early 1970s. Knuckle Head, front end so long couldn't see the front wheel and what front brake? Those were the days!
Exactly correct, Uncle Tony.
8/30/23 Over 1,600 Scientists Sign ‘No Climate Emergency’ Declaration International scientists have jointly signed a declaration dismissing the existence of a climate crisis
Yep, Globalist Scare Tactics ☠️
Never happened
HD lost me years ago when I was researching their Confederate editions for an article and their historian, Willy G. Davidson told me that they were under corporate orders to NOT discuss the Confederate editions.
Well, Every Dog has its day, as is said?
I’m a Mopar guy in my 50’s. Modern Mopars although having been impressive, eh? 🤷♂️. They were sold on a Marketing lie of what I love. As soon as most trucks had a “Hemi”(5.7) years back, I figured it as “okay you want to be cool with a badge?” Lots of those names and badges rolled back. It ain’t hard to make a sticker, and stick it to something? Second time round? Don’t be crying wolf when there’s a poodle at the trash. The poor old Fratzog, soon to be the Mopar’s rainbow?
The architecture of Gen 3 mass produced isn’t braking any sanctioned records. The Hellcat, a factory production car record. But it’s just not me. Chrysler corp? Now Stealantis? Well the CEO, he’s killed his market. Pushing what people don’t want, can’t afford.
Harley’s the same thing. A corporate suicidal mission, just a wind up to the faithful. Don’t worry about it, enjoy your old bikes, be nostalgic. Keep them running. Cherish your rides, and keeping them alive.
Modern stuff is built with so many fail points it’s all part of planned obsolescence anyway.
Someone will start in a small shed somewhere building something simple, durable, and affordable, It’s happening all the time. We just haven’t heard of them yet to get in behind of. That’s part of a free market. Glad to live in a society that allows it.
An just remember, the crew that still loves there AMC’s, Buick’s, Pontiac’s, Studi’s, Desoto’s, and Plymouth’s etc. Love them for what they are. History. The transition is never pretty. Most modern shite ain’t gonna last anyway.
Reagan saved the HD with reciprocal tariffs on the Japanese bikes, so it's the first target on the Democrat hit list.
You summed it up Tony, let's see if anybody actually hears you. Nice Rant, Thanks for putting this together.
Great analysis Sir
Time for AMF to come in and save them from temselves
Again
I bet Hell's Angels and the Mongols could straighten things out at Harley post haste!
They can't do squat.
I loved the Buell ..
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Distract, divide and conquer
Bang on Tony.
Uncle Tony is one of the greatest ever.
Hit the nail on the head tony thanks
I don't get why Harley customers got so infuriated by the DEI thing. I would assume companies do it for press among growing younger customer segments. One would think that pulling back on this thing only furthers Harleys path into a dying market. I ride and have no big stake in any brand, I just try to buy from companies that actually build and engineer in the country that they claim to represent.
Im so glad i have an uncle like tony
I literally just put a commentary out on this, and you are correct. The rabbit hole goes deep, and btw, news this wk suggests they're not quitting anything... just quietly rebranding.
vote for donald trump he will fix things
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Thank you, Tony. I am understanding the issues much better with your explanation. CEO needs to go immediately. Just can't believe anything like this is happening! So sad!
Let’s give it a little more time and see how long Zeitz remains CEO before we go into full panic mode .Meanwhile maybe we can work on a Mopar 😊
Spot on Uncle Tony. A great American. I hope to meet you someday soon. Very best to you and your family.
These corporations typically have a handful of do gooders who get the ear of leaders and push them into this DEI stuff.
The unfortunate reality is that even if they abandon DEI programs the people with these ideas are still there and in power, and they’ll do the same discriminatory hiring, etc…
I was talking with a guy on a neat looking harley last weekend. I asked him if he knew about the issues, because he still had full badges. He was, and it was a pretty good conversation. His grandfather had passed that harley down to his father, who had let it sit in a barn, and when he passed, this guy restored it. He said that he would NEVER buy a new harley now, but he wasn't going to wreck the memory of his grandfather and father over one woke CEO. It's really sad, that company has such deep roots, and the guy running it is just pulling them all out and pissing in the holes. I gotta say, the 1950's harleys were really cool looking. Not so beefy and pretentious, just a slick looking machine.