I rode a Honda Shadow, fun little cruiser until an old lady took me out. The false ego and grand standing from the Harley guys was fuckin obnoxious, nearly as bad as the coal roller bros.
I, too, rode a Honda shadow. I quickly grew tired of that upright sitting position on classic cruisers. Longer rides made my spine feel every fucking bump.
On a separate note…
Fuck all of those Harley bitches that bought into the lifestyle riding around without helmets on the weekend.
Correct if I’m wrong here, but is this article just “Economist comments on something it has been claimed the Harris campaign team said, but is not explicitly mentioned anywhere in writing or in speeches”?
If she planned on taxing billionaires, she’d be shouting it from the rooftops. That’s a popular policy. It’s not going to be something she keeps in her back pocket and then when she’s president goes SURPRISE MOTHERFUCKERS. Not that she could do it by EO anyway, but honestly, this is so far from a reality it just barely qualifies as news.
Vice President Kamala Harris will push to increase the corporate tax rate to 28% from the current 21%, her campaign said Monday, the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Coming days after she unveiled a four-part economic package that would provide tax relief to working and middle-class Americans, the corporate tax proposal marks Harris’ first effort to detail how she would pay for her policy platform should she win the presidential election.
"As President, Kamala Harris will focus on creating an opportunity economy for the middle class that advances their economic security, stability, and dignity,” campaign spokesperson James Singer said in a statement. “Her plan is a fiscally responsible way to put money back in the pockets of working people and ensure billionaires and big corporations pay their fair share.”
The commondreams article says “endorsement of taxes on ultra-wealthy individuals and large corporations” - your linked article says she’s raising the corporate tax rate not even up to what it was before Trump. So, sure, I guess that technically counts as the “large corporations” part, but it doesn’t meet the “ultra-wealthy individuals” language or the “billionaires tax” claim in the headlines.
I love that she says she wants to raise it somewhat. I love that she wants to give tax breaks to working class people. I don’t love that this makes it out to be something it’s not.
If she planned on taxing billionaires, she’d be shouting it from the rooftops. That’s a popular policy.
Not among corporate mega-donors, it isn’t! Keeping it in her back pocket – not until she’s president, but until shortly before the election and, crucially, after their checks clear – is exactly what she should do.
Nobody would be happier than me to see that happen, but seeing how nobody’s ever done something like that before I have my doubts. Can’t remember the last Democrat that actually got more radical than the platform they ran on. Certainly wasn’t anybody in the last 50 years.
The article cited the 2025 budget [PDF]. It’s under the section “Proposes a Minimum Tax on Billionaires”.
To finally address this glaring inequity, the Budget includes a 25 percent minimum tax on the wealthiest 0.01 percent, those with wealth of more than $100 million.
Though the Harris campaign is not directly mentioned, I think we may assume it’s coming from both Harris and Biden.
Trump is going to do everything he possibly can to pressure Kemp and Raffensperger to commit election fraud – up to and including threatening their families, I’m willing to bet – because he knows that’s the only possible way he can “win” his dictatorship.
I did what I could and sent a form-message to Raffensperger to do his duty and step in if any counties do not certify the election results properly. Or to find a way to remove the openly biased election officials who vowed to disrupt the counting/certification as much as possible.
Bank of America and Morgan Stanley commanded the top two spots in the U.S. leveraged-finance investment banking league tables in 2021 and 2022 during some quarters before Musk bought Twitter, according to data from Dealogic. In 2023 and 2024, JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs—which didn’t finance the Twitter deal—have held the top spots.
He’s so toxic that being involved with him can unseat you from being the top two in your industry. This will make people a bit more hesitant to get into bed with him (gross) in the future.
Barclays’s top investment bankers on the mergers and acquisitions team were told at a New York dinner early last year that compensation for everyone in the room would be cut by at least 40% from the prior year. The bank had several hung deals hurting its performance but X was by far the largest, according to people familiar with the situation.
When you’re slashing compensation for your people, especially the ones who bring in real money, you know it’s serious. I’m happy to see X crash and burn and pull down bankers with it. Dumbass mf.
At the time, Musk himself had complained that the price for Twitter was too high, but he decided to go ahead with the deal after waffling over it for a while.
Mmmmmmmmm that’s not how I’d describe it, Marketwatch.
I mean, he did have to decide if he wanted to pay the money and take the company, or just pay the money, as he’d signed a solid agreement. So there was a choice.
HOWELL, Michigan, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday attacked Democratic rival Kamala Harris’ record on crime and safety, while brushing aside criticism from her campaign over holding an event in a Michigan town where white supremacists had rallied a month ago.
Catering to his base.
According to local media, another group of demonstrators shouted, “We love Hitler, we love Trump” from a highway overpass outside town.
A sure sign that you’re on the right side when your fellow orange shithead voters equate him with the H man, but what do I know?
A Trump campaign spokesperson said the former president would make it clear in Howell that “crime, violence and hate of any form will have zero place in our country when he is back in the White House.”
Oh wait, see? I was wrong.
Trump did not speak out against hate during his 45-minute remarks on Tuesday.
Good, sit the fuck out while I proudly vote for Kamala in Georgia. And when you finally realize that you are in a cult led by one of the most moronic people to ever waddle this Earth, don’t come whining to the rest of us who told you back in 2015 just the piece of shit Trump was then and still is now.
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