Trump today and MAGA still claiming Harris never worked at McDonald’s

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I am all for trolling the other side, and this Trump stunt, albeit hilarious, is certainly fair game. But at least be creative and funny. Trump has made numerous un-staged stops at McDonalds, including during this campaign, and there are plenty of pics and new stories to show that. This was about him WORKING at a McDonalds, which I assume Bubba did not do. Again, totally fair game to make fun of Trump for this, but tweets like this are just nonsensical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder how and why any of this matters. We know Trump is a shit person. Harris might be a shit person. So if you think she is also one, then the alternative is a shit person. Ultimately people should be voting on what either presidency means concretely rather than on the person per se. Most politicians are not wonderful human beings.

I'll take the "might be" over the "definitely is" shit person. And let's be honest - for all of the MAGA attempts at "flooding the zone" with shit, the number of shit things about Trump still remains vastly greater, damaging and consequential than any of the "shit" they have tried to dig up on Harris.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I am all for trolling the other side, and this Trump stunt, albeit hilarious, is certainly fair game. But at least be creative and funny. Trump has made numerous un-staged stops at McDonalds, including during this campaign, and there are plenty of pics and new stories to show that. This was about him WORKING at a McDonalds, which I assume Bubba did not do. Again, totally fair game to make fun of Trump for this, but tweets like this are just nonsensical.

We saw the Trump campaign show up at Primanti Bros unstaged, and it was PURE CRINGE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I am all for trolling the other side, and this Trump stunt, albeit hilarious, is certainly fair game. But at least be creative and funny. Trump has made numerous un-staged stops at McDonalds, including during this campaign, and there are plenty of pics and new stories to show that. This was about him WORKING at a McDonalds, which I assume Bubba did not do. Again, totally fair game to make fun of Trump for this, but tweets like this are just nonsensical.

The whole thing is US politics in a nutshell. Trump pretends to work at McDonald's for 15 minutes and claims Harris lied about a college job. It's beyond stupid the level that Trump has dragged politics down to. Maybe he wins, but let's just start the clock then on him being out of politics forever...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This whole incident is just more proof that MAGAs are a bunch of silver-spoon nepo-toads who have never had a real minimum wage job punching a time card.

I worked at Disneyland at a fast food restaurant in the early 90s in high school. Did about 15 hours per week for a year. I do not know the name of a single person I worked with. And nor would any of them remember me. I have no photos of me in one of those god awful uniforms. No W2s or taxes from when I was 16.

Only rich kid nepo-toads who never held a real job would be unfamiliar with this set of facts, or demand proof (that doesn't exist). If they had jobs, it was at their dad's Ford dealership or babysitting for family friends. Not real jobs where you had a mean supervisor, punched a time card, and/or got sexually harassed by older colleauges or customers.

That's the tell in this whole debacle - Trump and his country club circle have never worked a day in their lives at a tough minimum wage job.

It’s also people at the other end of the spectrum. People from small towns, rural areas, places where there aren’t a lot of opportunities or diversity. Areas where everyone knows everyone else, including all the McDonald’s employees, because they’ve lived there their whole life, and went to school with the McDonald’s employee’s parents or cousin, and go to church with the breakfast shift manager. Places like this might have one or two other fast food restaurants, so it’s not like there are a lot of other places for someone to work after school. It’s impossible to confuse if they worked at McDonald’s or another fast food restaurant because they only have McDonald’s. It’s very easy to remember who worked there 40 years ago, because that’s the only restaurant they could’ve worked at and that’s the only restaurant anyone could’ve eaten at in town, because that’s all there is. They know who worked with them after school because they went all the way K-12 with the same group of people. And if you grow up in a place like that, it’s hard to fathom not remembering who worked where, or how you can forget your coworkers’ names.

I grew up in a place like that, except we didn’t even have a McDonald’s until around 1990. (Before that, the closest McDonald’s was about 25-30 miles away.) That area is thick with MAGA folks now, but they’re quieter this go round. They’ll still vote for Trump, but they don’t seem quite as excited.

[Anonymous]

We liberals don't find Trump funny. We cringe Everytime we see him. The issue in my opinion is that either we refuse to acknowledge who we are as people in this country or we hope that we are in an alternative universe. We Americans love people without substance. The goofy funny one gets away with a lot. I am sure many of you have been at companies where lower performing staff survive rounds after rounds of layoffs simply because they tend to be likeable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I am all for trolling the other side, and this Trump stunt, albeit hilarious, is certainly fair game. But at least be creative and funny. Trump has made numerous un-staged stops at McDonalds, including during this campaign, and there are plenty of pics and new stories to show that. This was about him WORKING at a McDonalds, which I assume Bubba did not do. Again, totally fair game to make fun of Trump for this, but tweets like this are just nonsensical.

The whole thing is US politics in a nutshell. Trump pretends to work at McDonald's for 15 minutes and claims Harris lied about a college job. It's beyond stupid the level that Trump has dragged politics down to. Maybe he wins, but let's just start the clock then on him being out of politics forever...

Trump is not the issue. Trump's personna is a winning issue in some states (that decide the election) in this country. If another guy with Trump's persona comes around he may be similarly successful. It works. See since birth we are bombard with propaganda in this country (it starts with the commercials in your favorite kids cartoons). Our movies often have conspiratorial themes to them. We are told, encouraged and demanded to follow a leader/hero because he/she knows best. This is why Trump will say anything and people will believe it. And if they don't believe it they see it as entertainment. Do you think he will deport 10 millions people? Of course not. Some of his big donors love the cheap labour. Even if he doesn't deport a single person his supports will still love him. All he will need to do will be go on TV have a press conference and entertain us. The rich and powerful in this country have always seen as as commodity that can be play with. It works.

[Anonymous]

I love that Trumpistas think this somehow isn’t beyond cringe and totally owns the libs.

Yeah, whatever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This whole incident is just more proof that MAGAs are a bunch of silver-spoon nepo-toads who have never had a real minimum wage job punching a time card.

I worked at Disneyland at a fast food restaurant in the early 90s in high school. Did about 15 hours per week for a year. I do not know the name of a single person I worked with. And nor would any of them remember me. I have no photos of me in one of those god awful uniforms. No W2s or taxes from when I was 16.

Only rich kid nepo-toads who never held a real job would be unfamiliar with this set of facts, or demand proof (that doesn't exist). If they had jobs, it was at their dad's Ford dealership or babysitting for family friends. Not real jobs where you had a mean supervisor, punched a time card, and/or got sexually harassed by older colleauges or customers.

That's the tell in this whole debacle - Trump and his country club circle have never worked a day in their lives at a tough minimum wage job.

It’s also people at the other end of the spectrum. People from small towns, rural areas, places where there aren’t a lot of opportunities or diversity. Areas where everyone knows everyone else, including all the McDonald’s employees, because they’ve lived there their whole life, and went to school with the McDonald’s employee’s parents or cousin, and go to church with the breakfast shift manager. Places like this might have one or two other fast food restaurants, so it’s not like there are a lot of other places for someone to work after school. It’s impossible to confuse if they worked at McDonald’s or another fast food restaurant because they only have McDonald’s. It’s very easy to remember who worked there 40 years ago, because that’s the only restaurant they could’ve worked at and that’s the only restaurant anyone could’ve eaten at in town, because that’s all there is. They know who worked with them after school because they went all the way K-12 with the same group of people. And if you grow up in a place like that, it’s hard to fathom not remembering who worked where, or how you can forget your coworkers’ names.

I grew up in a place like that, except we didn’t even have a McDonald’s until around 1990. (Before that, the closest McDonald’s was about 25-30 miles away.) That area is thick with MAGA folks now, but they’re quieter this go round. They’ll still vote for Trump, but they don’t seem quite as excited.

I grew up in a rural, sparsely-populated red township in PA and the idea of some rich New York billionaire showing up at a McDonalds and play-acting at "work" doesn't sit well with me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I worked at a Sonic Drive In for a summer in college.

Early in my career (as a lawyer) I mentioned this in an interview when I was asked about work ethic -- I said I'd been working since I was 14 and had a strong drive to work and do my job well no matter what it was. They asked for examples of the kind of work I'd done as a teen and I mentioned working the drive thru at Sonic along with babysitting and working as a receptionist in a law office.

One of the women interviewing me said "do you have evidence of these jobs? How do we know you actually did this stuff?" I was a bit taken aback because the idea of lying in an interview was very foreign to me -- I'm from a religious middle class midwestern family and that honestly had never occurred to me.

I got the job and later realized after working with that woman that the reason she didn't believe me is that she was from a very privileged coastal upbringing and the idea of having a kind of menial low-wage job as a teen sounded made up to her -- something a character in a novel would do but not something actual people did in real life.

A lot of elites (like Trump) are really sheltered and don't realize how much other people work. I've had literally dozens of jobs in my life. I've never not worked except my first year of law school when I wasn't allowed to. People from money and who have parents who don't believe kids should work at all don't understand.

Anyway I 100% believe Harris worked at a McDonald's as a teen. That's a very typical job for someone with her background who needs cash -- easy to get with steady hours and if you have a decent attitude it's not a terrible job.

She had a job application out of college that said list all jobs and this was left out. She claimed she was working the job while in college. Lately on the campaign trail she has shifted to talking about her husband winning employee of the month at McDonalds.

If you are trying to be taken seriously, for a professional job, it is not unusual to leave off part-time service jobs…like Life-guarding, dog walking, babysitting. They are not relevant after you have a college degree.

You toadies love spinning. Summer of sophomore year in college is not ancient history. It’s a pivotal year. And gunner strivers all list service jobs because it’s an endearing hook.

Have you seen the resume she submitted that the clowns at the Free Beacon FOIAd? She has three relevant jobs on there filling up all the available space. Which one would a “gunner striver” leave off to add four months at McDonald’s? Clerking at a law firm?Schwab? The FTC?
https://freebeacon.com/elections/i-did-fries-kamala-harris-claims-she-worked-at-mcdonalds-but-she-never-mentioned-it-until-she-ran-for-president-did-she-really-toil-beneath-the-golden-arches/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This whole incident is just more proof that MAGAs are a bunch of silver-spoon nepo-toads who have never had a real minimum wage job punching a time card.

I worked at Disneyland at a fast food restaurant in the early 90s in high school. Did about 15 hours per week for a year. I do not know the name of a single person I worked with. And nor would any of them remember me. I have no photos of me in one of those god awful uniforms. No W2s or taxes from when I was 16.

Only rich kid nepo-toads who never held a real job would be unfamiliar with this set of facts, or demand proof (that doesn't exist). If they had jobs, it was at their dad's Ford dealership or babysitting for family friends. Not real jobs where you had a mean supervisor, punched a time card, and/or got sexually harassed by older colleauges or customers.

That's the tell in this whole debacle - Trump and his country club circle have never worked a day in their lives at a tough minimum wage job.

It’s also people at the other end of the spectrum. People from small towns, rural areas, places where there aren’t a lot of opportunities or diversity. Areas where everyone knows everyone else, including all the McDonald’s employees, because they’ve lived there their whole life, and went to school with the McDonald’s employee’s parents or cousin, and go to church with the breakfast shift manager. Places like this might have one or two other fast food restaurants, so it’s not like there are a lot of other places for someone to work after school. It’s impossible to confuse if they worked at McDonald’s or another fast food restaurant because they only have McDonald’s. It’s very easy to remember who worked there 40 years ago, because that’s the only restaurant they could’ve worked at and that’s the only restaurant anyone could’ve eaten at in town, because that’s all there is. They know who worked with them after school because they went all the way K-12 with the same group of people. And if you grow up in a place like that, it’s hard to fathom not remembering who worked where, or how you can forget your coworkers’ names.

I grew up in a place like that, except we didn’t even have a McDonald’s until around 1990. (Before that, the closest McDonald’s was about 25-30 miles away.) That area is thick with MAGA folks now, but they’re quieter this go round. They’ll still vote for Trump, but they don’t seem quite as excited.

I grew up in a rural, sparsely-populated red township in PA and the idea of some rich New York billionaire showing up at a McDonalds and play-acting at "work" doesn't sit well with me.

Unfortunately, a lot the people in that "rural, sparsely-populated red township" are masochists who love to see Trump play-acting their lives. This is a form of entertainment, even though it's pretty degrading.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I could care less whether Harris worked at McDonalds; I just think it was a great campaign strategy for Trump to work at one.

can you say why? A serious question because it’s not clear to me why people see this as a great stunt.

Maybe I would feel differently if he’d put in an actual shift, with real customers. But nothing about this was working. Surely anyone who has ever held a job like this can see that.

Just because a kid wears a hat that says “principal for a day” and makes a few announcements over the PA system doesn’t actually mean she’s in charge of the school.

I just genuinely don’t get this one and am trying to understand what people are seeing and celebrating here.

I am not the PP, but I’m a Harris voter, albeit one who believes Harris clearly lied about working at McDonalds (but who cares in the face of freaking J6).

Here is why this is a good campaign stunt:

First, nobody believes he actually worked (eg will get W2 income, went through food safety training, etc.). The people who keep on talking about how this is fake are missing the point. Of course a man with multiple assassination attempts on his life is not opening the drive-through window for random strangers. The idea that he worked a real shift is not the point—nobody who is moved by this ad or voters he is trying to reach expected him to work a full shift. I’m not even sure how that would have been operationally possible given the security issues.

But he did, unquestionably, do the actual labor involved for a few minutes. He served the fries. He chatted with the drive-through window and came across as genuine and likeable (and I say that as someone who despises the man). He operated the fryer. He, in other words, showed he wasn’t above getting his hands a little greasy and putting on an apron like millions of other Americans.

And, more than that, by just showing up and putting on that apron, he signaled that he thinks that work has dignity, is important, and the people who both work at McDonalds and have to eat rushed meals at McDonalds aren’t beneath him. This is an arrow straight to the heart of the Democrats who really struggle to hide their disdain for working class voters.

It is an emotionally brilliant campaign move. I’m dismayed about it since I am a Harris voter, but I can’t help but see the brilliance of the maneuver. The photo of him waving out the window is going to be iconic in political campaign history.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This whole incident is just more proof that MAGAs are a bunch of silver-spoon nepo-toads who have never had a real minimum wage job punching a time card.

I worked at Disneyland at a fast food restaurant in the early 90s in high school. Did about 15 hours per week for a year. I do not know the name of a single person I worked with. And nor would any of them remember me. I have no photos of me in one of those god awful uniforms. No W2s or taxes from when I was 16.

Only rich kid nepo-toads who never held a real job would be unfamiliar with this set of facts, or demand proof (that doesn't exist). If they had jobs, it was at their dad's Ford dealership or babysitting for family friends. Not real jobs where you had a mean supervisor, punched a time card, and/or got sexually harassed by older colleauges or customers.

That's the tell in this whole debacle - Trump and his country club circle have never worked a day in their lives at a tough minimum wage job.

It’s also people at the other end of the spectrum. People from small towns, rural areas, places where there aren’t a lot of opportunities or diversity. Areas where everyone knows everyone else, including all the McDonald’s employees, because they’ve lived there their whole life, and went to school with the McDonald’s employee’s parents or cousin, and go to church with the breakfast shift manager. Places like this might have one or two other fast food restaurants, so it’s not like there are a lot of other places for someone to work after school. It’s impossible to confuse if they worked at McDonald’s or another fast food restaurant because they only have McDonald’s. It’s very easy to remember who worked there 40 years ago, because that’s the only restaurant they could’ve worked at and that’s the only restaurant anyone could’ve eaten at in town, because that’s all there is. They know who worked with them after school because they went all the way K-12 with the same group of people. And if you grow up in a place like that, it’s hard to fathom not remembering who worked where, or how you can forget your coworkers’ names.

I grew up in a place like that, except we didn’t even have a McDonald’s until around 1990. (Before that, the closest McDonald’s was about 25-30 miles away.) That area is thick with MAGA folks now, but they’re quieter this go round. They’ll still vote for Trump, but they don’t seem quite as excited.

I grew up in a rural, sparsely-populated red township in PA and the idea of some rich New York billionaire showing up at a McDonalds and play-acting at "work" doesn't sit well with me.

This is what a lot of people seem to be missing. A lot of people have done these jobs for real — worked until their feet and backs hurt, sweat over grills and fryers, felt their hands grow slimy inside latex gloves, kept their cool as unreasonable customers bullied them, inhaled bleach as they mopped grimy floors, lay in bed at night knowing that they were going to do it all again in the morning.

Do these people feel “seen” because a silver-spoon nepo baby put on an apron and leaned out a window handing fries to pre-selected supporters? I did these sorts of low-wage jobs, and I don’t think for a minute that Trump “worked at McDonald’s.”

It’s just so weird. This whole conversation is so so weird.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I worked at a Sonic Drive In for a summer in college.

Early in my career (as a lawyer) I mentioned this in an interview when I was asked about work ethic -- I said I'd been working since I was 14 and had a strong drive to work and do my job well no matter what it was. They asked for examples of the kind of work I'd done as a teen and I mentioned working the drive thru at Sonic along with babysitting and working as a receptionist in a law office.

One of the women interviewing me said "do you have evidence of these jobs? How do we know you actually did this stuff?" I was a bit taken aback because the idea of lying in an interview was very foreign to me -- I'm from a religious middle class midwestern family and that honestly had never occurred to me.

I got the job and later realized after working with that woman that the reason she didn't believe me is that she was from a very privileged coastal upbringing and the idea of having a kind of menial low-wage job as a teen sounded made up to her -- something a character in a novel would do but not something actual people did in real life.

A lot of elites (like Trump) are really sheltered and don't realize how much other people work. I've had literally dozens of jobs in my life. I've never not worked except my first year of law school when I wasn't allowed to. People from money and who have parents who don't believe kids should work at all don't understand.

Anyway I 100% believe Harris worked at a McDonald's as a teen. That's a very typical job for someone with her background who needs cash -- easy to get with steady hours and if you have a decent attitude it's not a terrible job.

She had a job application out of college that said list all jobs and this was left out. She claimed she was working the job while in college. Lately on the campaign trail she has shifted to talking about her husband winning employee of the month at McDonalds.

If you are trying to be taken seriously, for a professional job, it is not unusual to leave off part-time service jobs…like Life-guarding, dog walking, babysitting. They are not relevant after you have a college degree.

You toadies love spinning. Summer of sophomore year in college is not ancient history. It’s a pivotal year. And gunner strivers all list service jobs because it’s an endearing hook.

Have you seen the resume she submitted that the clowns at the Free Beacon FOIAd? She has three relevant jobs on there filling up all the available space. Which one would a “gunner striver” leave off to add four months at McDonald’s? Clerking at a law firm?Schwab? The FTC?
https://freebeacon.com/elections/i-did-fries-kamala-harris-claims-she-worked-at-mcdonalds-but-she-never-mentioned-it-until-she-ran-for-president-did-she-really-toil-beneath-the-golden-arches/

Exactly. There are only spaces for THREE JOBS on that application form. That's an absolute, undisputable fact. And the positions that she did put on it, "Law Clerk", "Charles Schwab" and "Federal Trade Commission" are a lot more relevant for the job she was applying to than "fries at McDonalds."

The Trump campaign just looks ridiculous to me and any other thinking person for trying to peddle this narrative.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This whole incident is just more proof that MAGAs are a bunch of silver-spoon nepo-toads who have never had a real minimum wage job punching a time card.

I worked at Disneyland at a fast food restaurant in the early 90s in high school. Did about 15 hours per week for a year. I do not know the name of a single person I worked with. And nor would any of them remember me. I have no photos of me in one of those god awful uniforms. No W2s or taxes from when I was 16.

Only rich kid nepo-toads who never held a real job would be unfamiliar with this set of facts, or demand proof (that doesn't exist). If they had jobs, it was at their dad's Ford dealership or babysitting for family friends. Not real jobs where you had a mean supervisor, punched a time card, and/or got sexually harassed by older colleauges or customers.

That's the tell in this whole debacle - Trump and his country club circle have never worked a day in their lives at a tough minimum wage job.

It’s also people at the other end of the spectrum. People from small towns, rural areas, places where there aren’t a lot of opportunities or diversity. Areas where everyone knows everyone else, including all the McDonald’s employees, because they’ve lived there their whole life, and went to school with the McDonald’s employee’s parents or cousin, and go to church with the breakfast shift manager. Places like this might have one or two other fast food restaurants, so it’s not like there are a lot of other places for someone to work after school. It’s impossible to confuse if they worked at McDonald’s or another fast food restaurant because they only have McDonald’s. It’s very easy to remember who worked there 40 years ago, because that’s the only restaurant they could’ve worked at and that’s the only restaurant anyone could’ve eaten at in town, because that’s all there is. They know who worked with them after school because they went all the way K-12 with the same group of people. And if you grow up in a place like that, it’s hard to fathom not remembering who worked where, or how you can forget your coworkers’ names.

I grew up in a place like that, except we didn’t even have a McDonald’s until around 1990. (Before that, the closest McDonald’s was about 25-30 miles away.) That area is thick with MAGA folks now, but they’re quieter this go round. They’ll still vote for Trump, but they don’t seem quite as excited.

I grew up in a rural, sparsely-populated red township in PA and the idea of some rich New York billionaire showing up at a McDonalds and play-acting at "work" doesn't sit well with me.

This is what a lot of people seem to be missing. A lot of people have done these jobs for real — worked until their feet and backs hurt, sweat over grills and fryers, felt their hands grow slimy inside latex gloves, kept their cool as unreasonable customers bullied them, inhaled bleach as they mopped grimy floors, lay in bed at night knowing that they were going to do it all again in the morning.

Do these people feel “seen” because a silver-spoon nepo baby put on an apron and leaned out a window handing fries to pre-selected supporters? I did these sorts of low-wage jobs, and I don’t think for a minute that Trump “worked at McDonald’s.”

It’s just so weird. This whole conversation is so so weird.

Only business owners, crypto bros, and country club goers who love Trump and have education trusts to pay for their kids' private school think this was a "brilliant move" politically.

Anyone who has actually worked a low-wage fast food job knows that cosplaying "working class" is one of the phoniest and most-cringe things a politician can do.