Kamala Harris could make history as the first president to work at McDonald’s
independent.co.uk
Now, the Democratic presidential candidate’s campaign is nodding to her summer job to highlight her upbringing and a platform to boost American workers that stands in stark contrast to her Republican rival Donald Trump, who “has no plan to help the middle class — just more tax cuts for billionaires,” according to a recent ad.
*to have worked at Macdonalds.
*t've mcworked.
t’ve mctwerked
Things must be getting really bad if the president needs a second job....
Particularly if that second job is McDonald's. Nothing wrong with that job, just not the best job I'd think a president could get.
With the price of McDonald’s these days, she may be just doing it for the employee discount.
Oh, that's probably why conservatives fear her. Not the legal background.
She doesn't just relate to millennials and younger, she's suffered like millennials and younger
She’s gen-x
Gen-x got fucked over big time in a way we millenials didn’t, but only because the expectation for them was so much higher. They got almost the same raw deal we did without the previous generation to buffer them.
They shouted and raised the alarm bells about what was being done to millenials and younger.
Lots of gen x slipped right in with the boomers and have their life, but many many more are out here struggling with us millennials except they didn’t grow up in a world where it was apparent it was slipping from them.
Gen-xers are gonna be huge for us honestly.
My parents and my girlfriend's parents were both gen x. Mine bought a house in the 90s and lived the middle class dream. Nothing fancy but regular camping trips and occasional vacations. Girlfriend's got destroyed by the 08 crash and grew up in borderline poverty. We are in vastly different places financially and it's pretty fucked.
She jokes that I tell my parents "mummy look, I've adopted a poor" in an English accent.
The worst part is my mom recently told me to invest in real estate because it only goes up. I'm like "yeah because old fucks like you hoard it and reduce the supply so nobody my age can afford one." Love them but damn they're boomer brained sometimes.
Younger gen-x here. You nailed it.
She's actually born one year before gen x, so god willing the next president will be a millenial and we'll totally skip over ever having a gen x president
The cut off dates are fuzzy. More like guidelines than actual rules.
Contrary to trump, she actually worked in her life.
Now she's making a hamberder out of Trump.
Yikes. I wouldn't even feed that to pigs.
But Mr. Wu would feed trump to his pigs.
Times are hard when you have to work two jobs by running the country and flipping burgers.
Everybody got a side hustle these days I guess
TIL. Those who have worked in the food industry, will always have way more respect for somebody else who has worked in the food industry.
That shit is hard. I wonder if she had that moment many in that industry have had crying in the cooler.
As an non-american that seems very patriotic.
Wait, the MacDonald's? The one I saw featured prominently in 1988's Mac and Me? Radical!
No, you're thinking of McDowell's from 1988's Coming to America.
Aw, that's not fair to presidents elected prior to 1955 that never had the chance to work at McDonalds.
George Washington would have made a fine Big Mac.
He probably would've been fired for insisting on using quarter pounder patties. Damn rebel.
Breast or thigh?
Glad to see a colleague in the Oval Office
McDonalds is a place to rock!
People go there to get down with the rock music.
If she were from the east coast, we could have a "from White Castle to White House" slogan.
Makes it sound like a downgrade tbh
I've spent my entire life on the east coast and, to my knowledge, never been anywhere near a White Castle restaurant.
Though I would love to go to one. The frozen sandwiches are fantastic by my low standards.
Why can't she go to the white house? Why would a president need to work out of a mcdonalds? ...
The same reason NASA used an abandoned McDonalds for dome projects.
The American dream, it's still alive. From dishes cleaner to president. /s
"oh yeah, well i played at a McDonald's commercial!"
— some old weirdo, probably
A president will work at McDonald's? Cool!
They really are just like us, come look, she even worked at mcdonalds.
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neither do you or your party
some of do not have the luxury of working McDonald's as a summer job to learn values
for some it is a fulltime job that will not pay all the bills including food and will have the workers overworked and underpaid and underappreciated and sick from lack of healthcare
get the fuck out of here saying you know what it is like to struggle Kamala
doubt she ever went to bed hungry
if the Democrats truly understood the minimum wage would be $20 or more and we would have had universal healthcare because they would have fought tooth claw and nail for the people to have it despite Republican oppositions
In Democrat-controlled California, the minimum wage for fast food workers is $20: https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/minimum_wage.htm
just curious, whats your solution? you seem great at pointing out how everyone running is an ignorant piece of shit and unworthy of politics.
what, Realistically is your solution? vote 3rd party? vote for the faster path to fascism via the orange turd??
no candidates are going to be 100%, we will always be picking the best 'running'. so, who the fuck do you think people should vote for now realistically, to get democratic ideals pushed forward?
so far youre just a whiner with zero added value.
if enough people put in enough vote to a third party then it would become a viable party
the democrats hold a carrot to their voters every election halting any form of progress
every election we get either the Republicans actively against the people or we get the Baby Steps Party that is full of enough empty promises to keep people on the treadmill
so you dont have a solution for the present . just some hyperbole on what people maybe should kinda move towards. got it.
doesnt seem to stop you from shitting on the actually choices people need to make now.
look, im with you. progressives have been shit on for 50 years by a very conservative democratic party, but if we dont keep voting the babystepping democrats in, we dont get opportunities like we had where Bernie almost made it.
that is the piece youre flat out ignoring. we cant get more Bernie opportunities if we cant keep people successfully voting down that path. your rhetoric is antithetical to actual progress.
The ONLY way that's going to happen is if the 3rd parties get their shit together and run a candidate and platform that isn't insane; and if we completely eliminate the spoiler effect, which will require a complete switch to ranked choice voting or some other system that addresses it.
As of today, we have a duopoly, and the choices within that duopoly are fascism or not fascism. If fascism wins, 3rds are fucked right along with everyone else, so if you support 3rds then your best option is to vote Harris as a means of preserving a flawed but malleable system that can eventually be made compatible with your goals. Voting for anyone else, or not voting at all, just tips the scales that much closer to fascism.
I'm rooting for you. Viable 3rd parties would be a great addition to our system, but that's going to take systemic changes beyond the scope of one election or party. You've got a LOT of work to do, but keep your eyes on the prize and don't let your work space burn to the ground.
her saying that does not translate to Harris or the Democrats truly understanding the plight of the US worker
the actual people making sure the country is still in operation the workers who are always forgotten by the time shareholders are paid and elections results are counted
tl;dr
"She's not Marx enough for me."
It's not like Marx himself would have passed that test.
between Harris saying she knows what it is like to struggle to telling protesters to shut up she is not becoming who thought she was at the beginning of all this
Harris advertised as some hero of the people when she first announced she was in the race and with her VP pick thought that would really seal the deal for us
but here we go again
You should go on the internet and read what's current, as of the last 24 hours, anyway!
tl;dr:
Pausing her speech on Friday to directly address the protesters, Harris said: “I have been clear: now is the time to get a ceasefire deal and get the hostage deal done.”
baby steps, she's not prez, yet....
forgot apologize
the Democrats are the Baby Steps Party
ready for adults steps at this point
why should any of us have to wait until our deathbeds to see progress
I've waited almost 70 years, you?
You can put on your adult pants, too!
Be the change you want! Get a meeting with that Israeli genocide guy, then the Hamas genocide dude, invite Daesh/ISIL/ISIS, maybe China, Russia, et al and tell them all to show both cheeks, like Jeebus said!
Because the options are baby steps forward, or giant steps backwards.
She didn't tell them to shut up she told them if they want trump to win just say it, and they were so flabbergasted by her quick witty response to them interrupting her that they shut themselves up.