Doing the Fries

[George K]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/20/us/politics/kamala-harris-mcdonalds-work-trump.html

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Kamala Harris and McDonald’s: A College Job, and a Trump Attack
Donald Trump has claimed without evidence that Ms. Harris never worked at the fast-food chain. Her campaign and a friend say she did.

Birtherism, meet burgerism.

Vice President Kamala Harris has recalled her stint at a Bay Area McDonald’s 41 years ago in introducing herself to voters — a biographical detail relatable to millions of Americans who have toiled in fast-food restaurants.

But former President Donald J. Trump has repeatedly accused her of inventing it. Lacking a shred of proof, he has charged that she never actually worked under the golden arches — recalling his earlier false claim that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States.

Mr. Trump’s latest allegation also appears to be false.

Whether a presidential candidate actually flipped burgers as a college student is a far less serious allegation, of course. But Mr. Trump’s seeding of doubts about Ms. Harris’s story, while insidious and outside the lines of traditional fair play in politics, advances his goal of portraying Ms. Harris as a fraud.
It exploits the fact that her life story is not as well known or as well documented at this late stage of the campaign as those of most presidential nominees have been. And it gives voters who may already harbor doubts about her another invitation to dismiss her and doubt what she says.

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Hay, New York Times..."Without evidence?" What evidence exists that she did work there other than the word of a "friend," who says she heard it from Harris's mother.

I can go to SSA.GOV and see my records going back to 1972. Why can't doesn't she? Surely McDonalds paid in to SSA back in 1983, right?

[George K]

If ever a "spit-take" emoji was appropriate...

[Jolly]

Spit-take or spit-roast?

[xenon]

@LuFins-Dad said in Doing the Fries:

@xenon said in Doing the Fries:

Seems more like a guided tour of a closed off McDonalds.

Different from Kamala’s truck stop dorito visits different, how?

Of course it was staged and carefully controlled. There’s a 15% chance the fry cook throws a shitload of fry oil on Trump if it isn’t. Same with Kamala “stopping for chips”.

I didn't know Kamala did anything. Just saying that this was akin to using the McDonald's as a closed movie set. Not sure what voters are supposed to take away from these sort of "visits" (by either side).

[George K]

Of course.

[Horace]

@xenon said in Doing the Fries:

@LuFins-Dad said in Doing the Fries:

@xenon said in Doing the Fries:

Seems more like a guided tour of a closed off McDonalds.

Different from Kamala’s truck stop dorito visits different, how?

Of course it was staged and carefully controlled. There’s a 15% chance the fry cook throws a shitload of fry oil on Trump if it isn’t. Same with Kamala “stopping for chips”.

I didn't know Kamala did anything. Just saying that this was akin to using the McDonald's as a closed movie set. Not sure what voters are supposed to take away from these sort of "visits" (by either side).

That was well written. Granted, I wasn't expecting much, but it was just a random McDonalds owner.

[George K]

McDonald's official statement:

[Horace]

It would shock me if 1 in 8 American adults have worked at McDonalds.

[George K]

@Horace said in Doing the Fries:

It would shock me if 1 in 8 American adults have worked at McDonalds.

I saw that as well. I don't think I know anyone who has worked at Mickey D's.

[jon-nyc]

Seems high to me. Back of the envelope math doesn’t work out well (13k restaurants, 50 employees each, 125% turnover gives you ~812k a year.)

[taiwan_girl]

@jon-nyc said in Doing the Fries:

Seems high to me. Back of the envelope math doesn’t work out well (13k restaurants, 50 employees each, 125% turnover gives you ~812k a year.)

Multiply that by 60(?) years. But then of course, you need to figure out the total number of people who lived during that time period.

I am guess it is somewhere about 1 in 50.

[jon-nyc]

[George K]

@xenon said in Doing the Fries:

Seems more like a guided tour of a closed off McDonalds.

Pulitzer for Newsweek coming!

I don't how how I can react to this...

[Axtremus]

[Jolly]

With this campaign event, maybe Trump took the advice of the late Ray Kroc... “If any of my competitors were drowning,” he said, “I’d stick a hose in their mouth and turn on the water. It is ridiculous to call this an industry. This is not. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I’ll kill ’em, and I’m going to kill ’em before they kill me. You’re talking about the American way — of survival of the fittest.”

[jon-nyc]

[LuFins Dad]

@George-K said in Doing the Fries:

@Horace said in Doing the Fries:

It would shock me if 1 in 8 American adults have worked at McDonalds.

I saw that as well. I don't think I know anyone who has worked at Mickey D's.

You know 1…

I think I was there for 2 weeks until I got a better paying job bussing tables at a hotel conference center.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in Doing the Fries:

Post #12.

[LuFins Dad]

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[jon-nyc]