Donald Trump will ‘work the fry cooker’ at McDonald’s in Pa. this weekend
The stop is part of Trump's effort to tamp down on his Democratic opponent Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign message about her middle-class upbringing and time working at McDonald's.
Anyone wants to get some McDies with big fries? 🍟 🍔😏
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Harris, for her part, continues to use her middle-class upbringing and time working at McDonald’s in advertisements and stump speeches as a contrast with Trump, who had his early career started at his father’s real estate company before growing to the billionaire he is today.
this is fake solidarity
no way that either of the two candidates have any idea of what working at a McDonald's for less than a living wage and never being able to get anywhere feels like
fuck Trump and fuck Harris and fuck their cake too
Agree, working at a McDonald's today is not about the "work". It's about the pay and the ability to live the lifestyle that job would afford. Which is not something either candidate would ever experience, after todays wages, cost of living, and inflation is factored in.
However, Harris probably has an idea of what that life would be like and has the ability to empathise. Where as Trump will just use the photo op as a way to get free McDonald's
I think one of the two most beneficial things that could be done for America would be to enact a proper living wage that is in line with inflation. Not only would that help the minimum wage workers but it would also increase tax revenue.
However the best way to increase the tax revenue would be to tax the rich. Either way, Trump would definitely not do either.
Didn't she work at McDonald's as a teenager? Presumably paid minimum wage?
I think the point GP was trying to make was that Harris didn’t rely on the McDonald’s wage to put food on the table
Getting downvoted for what? You're not wrong.
If I had to guess, it's both because their comment can be read as them asserting that someone who worked at McDonald's... doesn't know what working at McDonald's is like, and because they're asserting that the there's no realistic difference in life experience between the white male child of a corrupt multigagillionaire and the black-indian female child of a research oncologist and an economics professor.
Were either of them poor growing up? No. Are there many steps between "poor" and "having a gold toilet" that a person can be at? Oh you betcha, and suggesting there isn't is either myopic or intentionally deceptive.
i am happy to include the child of divorced POC professors in the "poor" bracket
If you'll allow an interpetation of their comment, it read to me as them saying Trump and Harris are similarly out of touch with the common workers.
Harris even said that she only worked there for a summer to earn some extra pocket money, no one was relying on her income for housing or to be fed.
It's certainly a far cry from people working a fast food job as a second or third job to keep their kids fed, which I believe to be the people she's trying to connect with, which I see as disingenuous.
If it's even true she worked there, I wouldn't put it past a politician to lie about something like that to connect with common workers. Kinda like that republican who borrowed a family to take pictures.
But for the sake of the discussion, let's say it is true. A summer job is still not the same as the reality of wage slavery that many people are suffering through, which Harris did not.
If you’ll allow an interpetation of their comment
How dare you offer a counter interpretation to my interpretation you terrible person (I wish I didn't need to include this but /s, you are not a terrible person)
Taken on it's own that's a fair and totally valid criticism, I think the pushback is just due to conflating the two experiences as equally out of touch. Anyone who is 59 and has had a steady white collar career is going to lack first-hand experience with the current minimum wage work life, but Harris is a great deal more likely to be able to at least accurately conceptualize and empathize with what it's like vs. someone who's never worked a day in their life and was given $419 million dollars by their father.
Conflating the two as the same is the issue, not casting skepticism on the impact of Harris' teen summer job on her understanding of the challenges facing modern American families, and that's the reason they're being downvoted (imo).
Ah gotcha. I didn't see it as the two being equal in their levels of out of touchness. No discussion is required on Trump's level of disconnection with the common person. Hopefully they'll make him dig his grave with the golden spoon he was born with.
Harris is certainly out of touch, and while not at the same level as Trump, she's certainly closer to him than she is to us, despite whatever summer job she's had.