Walz asks crowd to picture Trump making a McFlurry in first solo speech

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Trump ‘couldn’t run that damn McFlurry machine if it cost him anything!’ Walz quipped

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on Tuesday hit out at Donald Trump’s anti-union record as he promised that he and Vice President Kamala Harris would take the pro-labor agenda that made his state one of the best places to work and bring it to the rest of the country.

Speaking to the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union in Los Angeles, the Democratic vice presidential nominee — the first labor union member on a presidential ticket since Ronald Reagan ran as a Republican in the 1980 election — slammed Trump’s record while touting Harris’s background as a former fast food worker. 

“You know Vice President Harris grew up in a middle class family, picked up shifts at that McDonald’s as a student. I keep asking this to make a contrast here, can you simply picture Donald Trump working at a McDonald’s, trying to make a McFlurry or something?” he said.

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Taking aim at his opponents, Walz told the audience of union members that “the only thing” Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, know about “working people” is “how to take advantage of them.”

While Republicans are still trying to come up with a goofy nickname for Harris, Walz is openly discussing class consciousness.

I don't even think Harris has a nickname for trump. She just says he's old and has to go. It's very matter of fact. "We're not going back".

I prefer politicians that don’t stoop to name calling.

Politicians that act like children by using nicknames in attempts to disparage others is just plain weird.

It really is, isn't it. And I'm so glad we're finally saying so out loud. It's peurile, it's immature, it's disrespectful... But it's also astonishingly weird. It's a weird thing to do. It's a grown man behaving like the most annoying of schoolyard bullies. And that is just plain weird.

It's weird that a thrce-married, multiply-affaired man is the head of the party of "family values."

It's weird that a man who lived in a gold-plated penthouse in NYC is considered to represent the "common man."

It's weird that a 34-time convict is supported by the "law and order" party.

It's weird that a "billionaire" has to solicit donations from regular Americans.

It's weird that the man who can't quote even the most well-known bible verses is supported by religious organizations.

It's just... weird.

It's especially weird that a man who embodies every single deadly sin is supported by those Christian religious organizations.

Fascism is full of contradictions. By design.

No ideology other than acquiring power and control by any means necessary.

It's just… weird hypocrisy.

The party of hypocrisy. Their only consistent value.

I don’t even think Harris has a nickname for Trump.

As it should be. Let comedians and random people on the internet call him things like Fuckface Von Clownstick.

I can’t imagine Trump lasting a full day in any customer-facing jobs, especially not retail or food service. It’s amazing people think he’s qualified for any job, much less the top job in the nation.

He did last a term in a public facing job - the Presidency. His term review came in and looks like he was fired for bad performance

More than 25% of his time was spent golfing.

Imagine what your boss would say about you if you spent 10 hours out of every 40 for four years on the links.

I'm opposed to Trump, but if my boss where to whine about me playing golf during the day while Beiing on call 24/7 working weekends and nights because something is needed then.. I'd tell him to stuff it. What I mean with this is that this narrative was stupid when trump used it to attack Obama, and it still is stupid now.

What I mean with this is that this narrative was stupid when trump used it to attack Obama, and it still is stupid now.

Wow, that's a hell of a take.

"Golfing because the Presidency is stressful and I need a break" != "I go golfing every weekend at my private club, charge the USSS to rent rooms and golf carts and pocket that money, because I'd rather do that instead of be President."

Jesus fucking Christ, dude.

It's still a stupid line of attack when the grifter in chief was spearheading a bidding war between states for covid supplies, cozying up to the likes of north Korea and Putler and an endless list of other heinous acts.

I'm sure the US will get over the few 100K or even a few million he siphoned off while at the same time ripping the federal budgets asshole so hard with the tax cuts to the billionaire class it still has not regained the ability to sit properly.

You don't need to gatekeep legitimate criticisms of Trump. He was robbing taxpayers well before he fucked up his COVID response, and just because he did worse things doesn't mean we can't point out the other bad shit he did too.

Oh that is very true, I just think a US president playing golf is a nothing burger. And the fact this douchebag owns a country club/resort/golfcourse and thus chooses to play and stay there is more indicative of a broken political system owned by the elite than anything else. And the fact this is even possible in the US system makes it even worse.

Here in the Netherlands using a government vehicle to go anywhere not for a business appointment means the cost is paid by the person themselves. In the US the president gets a salary and has 0 cost of anything while president. That's a pretty sweet deal.. and the US elected someone that pigged out in his "all you can spend" deal.. but this was the deal..

And his base is apparently OK with it.

By any metric trump was a terrible president, as a European I cannot understand how this is happening. A little like the EU getting shafted by Orban... Just HOW?

Okay, I see where you're coming from.

The issue here is one of context. Yes, golf is traditionally a leisure activity of US Presidents. There are a few military bases near Washington DC that have golf courses on them, which is where Presidents usually go. Because they're on secured installations, the additional security required (read: the cost, in taxpayer dollars) for a Presidential visit is minimal.

Donald Trump didn't do that. He would either fly to his golf course in New Jersey, or his course in Florida. Because neither of those locations were secure, it cost the Secret Service a lot more time and effort (read: taxpayers' dollars) to secure the area for a Presidential visit. Also Donald Trump forced the Secret Service agents to rent rooms and golf carts- in other words, the agency tasked with protecting the President of the US had to pay for rooms and carts for its agents, and since Trump didn't divest himself from his businesses that money went straight from the USSS to his pockets. He essentially was at one of his properties every weekend for his entire Presidency- over 360+ days were on a Trump property, which means that a full 25% of his term in office was spent on a golf course.

So not only was he absentee from the White House for a significant period of time, he was doing so in a way that forced taxpayers to give him money above and beyond his salary. Profiting off the Presidency is supposed to be illegal, but since we have a legal system that has proven it's willing to bend over backwards in its refusal to hold him accountable, nothing was done about it.

In contrast, Obama usually went golfing near the WH and did so at a lower average rate than Trump. Fox only complained about him because, well, they're racists.

It's a disgrace that he made it to the end of his term. He should've been convicted and removed.

I'd argue that customer service experience isn't that relevant to a job running a country, that there is other experience I'd consider much more relevant.

Sure. I'd bet trump doesn't have any of that experience either

From an international observer, this walz guy is looking like a fantastic pick

during the 1948 presidential election campaign. In Bremerton, Washington, Truman delivered a speech attacking the Republicans. During the speech, a supporter yelled out, "Give 'em Hell, Harry!" Truman replied, "I don't give them Hell. I just tell the truth about them, and they think it's Hell."

Walz is the same type of guy.

It’s the correct direction for USA. Labor protection, women’s rights, care for children, taxes on corporations and 1%, not Trump. The last one this month, oddly became the least important to me. Biden was a solution to a problem (Trump) and now he’s out of the way, some of us are very excited that it’s looking like “not Trump” is the easiest and those other issues will be our running platform.

Walz also just has a joyous charisma. Which is a welcome change from the last decade.

Going from Biden to a campaign with actual energy behind it is incredibly refreshing.

I know there's a lot of work to be done but Harris picking Walz gave me a lot of confidence in both her advisors and her own decision-making. If this was Clinton, she would've picked Shapiro or even like... Joe Manchin or something.

Every single major media operation was holding their breath and stomping their feet to demand Shapiro, I was shocked when she picked Walz.

Really? Since when do Democrats want that whiny brat who can't even get a woman wet? The Republicans can keep him.

/s

Different Shapiro. (Well, maybe him also, but not Ben Shapiro, the one infamous for this.) They're talking about Josh Shipiro (no relation), the Democrat governor of Pennsylvania.

Now here me out: Schiff

haha point taken but I confess I have a soft-spot for Schiff which may be an unpopular opinion. I think he's one of the best rhetoricians in the party up there with Buttigieg. I gained a lot of respect for his leading one of the impeachment hearings and his remarks on the January 6th hearings. Also how he was one of the few Senators to publicly call for Biden to step down.

Edit: Sorry, self-correction: Schiff is currently a US House Rep (but pretty high in seniority) but running for a CA US Senate seat.

During the impeachment, I wished he was my rep instead of one of the ones proving that you can indeed barge into a scif and hold a pizza party then not go to jail immediately, you just have to be important enough.

He's got a point, but now that he's said it, I would be very happy to see him do a shift in McDonalds. Not as a manager, but as a regular dude, full uniform. We'll find one of the busy ones for him too.

Goddamn that would be entertaining.

show him looking over a paycheck after a late shift in Oakland

Imagine if the judge in his recent felony conviction were to sentence him to a few hundred hours of community service working the counter at a fast food joint….

That might literally kill him. He'd be confronted by an endless supply of his favorite food.

As funny as it is to imagine, you've got enough problems over there with for-profit prisons. Giving companies like McDonalds incentive to lobby for more arrests to get free labor from community service sentences would not be pretty.

Tim is such a sharpshooter. Finally we get to see the Dems taking clever potshots while actually making good points.

How is anyone supposed to make any dessert there when the frozen yogurt machine is broken?

He's the kind of person who would get someone to make him ice cream, and then he'd break it in purpose so nobody else can enjoy it, and then crap in the machine so it needs to be replaced

Publicly, he'd probably call ice cream woke to appear macho

I will admit Trump is incompetent, however I don't think even the most experienced McDonald's employee can figure out the mystery to the ice cream machine.

It's hardly a mystery. The company that makes them has a monopoly on the repair services. When the machine breaks the company makes money fixing it. The real mystery is why right to repair is not a federal law (and the answer to that is basically the same: corporate greed. Yay superpac donations!)

https://www.foodandwine.com/mcdonalds-ice-cream-machine-broken-8627641

And apparently the most common point of failure: It's been over filled and the sensor detects it and prevents operation with a mystery code.

Ronald Reagan was a Union President. He was head of the Screen Actors Guild. His Vice President was James Garner, who siad that Reagan was an idiot who needed things explained to him ten times.