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I'm still struggling to see what point he was trying to make.
The right is losing it because Harris said she worked at a McD bad has shown no prove of it.
Possible she never has and it's a lie to appeal to the working class voters. Or not. I honestly dgaf.
This right is behaving as if Trump never told a single lie in his long life. It's Harris making a claim without backing it up has been THE THING all week now on most right wing forums I peek at.
It’s worse than this. They’re saying because it wasn’t on her resume (curriculum vitae) 20 years later when she was going for another job, possibly a law job, that it means she was lying.
These dumb fucks don’t realise that CVs are for listing relevant work to the role you’re applying for. When I was applying to become a software developer I too didn’t list McD on my CV because that’s fucking dumb.
Exactly this. When I created my very first CV - at the guidance of people from uni - I listed NO experience rather than listing irrelevant jobs when going for my first work study type of jobs. The people that believe this about Harris are just showing how little they know of the professional world.
Trump is exceptionally unequipped for this because the presidency is the only job Trump ever "applied" for in his life and when we fired him he organized a violent coup, including a gallows for Vice President Michael Pencil. He might really believe resumes contain all of someone's job history, or he may be throwing ketchup at the wall again.
Weirdly enough, at 47, I no longer list the dish washing job I had at Ponderosa Steakhouse when I was 16 on my resume.
And I'm not even an attorney.
Not 20 years later, but at all. At least that I'd their claim and I haven't seen it debunked do far.
I'll reluctantly link a right wing article that at least tries to come across not overly sensational:
The Free Beacon also obtained a copy of Harris’s October 1987 job application for a law clerk position in the Alameda County district attorney’s office. On that form, Harris, who was in law school at the time, listed several jobs—including a month-long clerical job at a stock brokerage—in a section that asked her to list every position she held in the last 10 years. McDonald’s is absent.
Harris lists three jobs on the application and five in total on an attached résumé, according to the documents, obtained through a public records request. Harris, who submitted the application as a second-year student at then-University of California, Hastings College of the Law, included granular life experience on her résumé—"extensive travel in India, Africa, [and] Europe" and "lived in Montreal, Canada for six years"—but not McDonald’s.
They've got photos of the resume and all.
The three jobs listed on there are somewhat relevant to the law clerk role she was applying for, so I can see why McD wouldn’t be on there.
Surely, Harris should just release her tax information from that time that show she was paid by McD.
Possible she never has and it’s a lie to appeal to the working class voters. Or not. I honestly dgaf.
The weird thing is that they'll tolerate literally any lie from donnie and still vote for him.
Or, maybe not that weird. He's a rich (allegedly), white, male, nominally xtian, Republican, bidnessman. No need to apply any kind of standards.
It was for weirdos on the right that are so terminally online that they whipped themselves into a frenzy over Kamala working at McD's. They want to see the long-form birth certificate of her pay slips from - checks notes - several fucking decades ago - at some service-level job or they'll stamp their feet even more...
People talk about how weird that publicity stunt is instead of how he's a gross, fat, perverted, dumb, criminal wannabe dictator
“Open our doors to everyone” that’s why we are closing them for you!
The whiplash on that was insane.
Small business???? Bitch you own a fucking McDonald's get the fuck out of here
They technically qualify. All the franchises do. Yes it's cursed. Especially when it's time to hand out SBA funds. Remember the pandemic? All the small business money got sucked up by franchises and large money cap/small employee number businesses.
Poor guy probably got a small million dollar loan for his small McDonalds business!
We all know how much McDonald Trump cares about small businesses…
Also there is this… https://www.newsweek.com/mcdonalds-donald-trump-worked-failed-last-health-inspection-1971998
lmao this owner is so demented he thinks McDonalds is a "small business". You're a franchisee, not a small business. Enjoy making french fries for nobody.
Well that's not accurate. By weight, Trump is one of their largest customers.
But I thought he was gonna do "all the jobs" ??? /s
How does McDonald's corporate feel about their franchisees using McDonald's for political stunts?
Bonus:
https://www.newsx.com/world/health-violations-at-mcdonalds-location-that-hosted-trump-what-happened/
"Notably, Trump did not wear a hairnet or gloves while serving food, claiming that “my hands are clean already.” This assertion stands in stark contrast to health standards that require food handlers to maintain strict hygiene protocols.
In fact, the McDonald’s location Trump visited has a recent history of health code violations, having failed its last health inspection from Bucks County. The report cited multiple infractions related to employee hygiene, particularly the lack of proper handwashing practices, which are essential for minimizing the risk of foodborne illness."
"my hands are clean already"
As someone who ran a restaurant kitchen for 5 years, this is called a lack of standards. Oh I forgot gloves? Meh. That's a slippery slide that shows you don't actually care or have standards, and you throw rules by the side when it suits you. That a sign of a shit worker.
This is called "someone who doesn't wash when they go to the bathroom because they say their hands are clean already." That's what this is called.
I love how he mocked Harris saying she never worked there or whatever and then does a publicity stunt but can’t even follow the most basic rules of the job. Someone actually working that position would be terminated for health code violation.
Or maybe they wouldn't, given the history of infractions at that location.
I can't wait until they're on the news next year because they were shut down because every business Trump touches turns to shit. Like the King Midas of poop. King Poodass.
King mierdas. Mierda is spanish for shit.
Ew.
"We are not a political organization."
Well even if I believed you, which I don't, you will be now. Good job dipshit.
No shit.
Of course they closed the McD for that occasion. DT is not qualified or certified to work with food. Imagine he undercooks something or f-cks up cleaning the salad properly and people fall ill. Of he could have spread some germs, as we don't know what prevents him from publishing his medical record.
Plus he's a convicted felon so probably not eligible for employment at a McDonalds.
They probably also had to sanitize everything and throw out any food his diaper touching hands have touched
Sane people should boycott the "DG Empire" McDonald's. "Empire," WTF!
Ok it shouldn’t be a big deal, but I’ve found that you can tell a lot by a signature.
This guys signature looks like a 7th graders.
Edit: wow I just noticed the “DG Empire” on the sticker. Emperor Axe Body Spray over here
Why is that important? I mean it’s not really, I’ll fully admit I’m being petty. But I’ve found that people that write like they’ve just learned cursive do so because they seldom write things. Now this observation is likely less true today than it was in the Jurassic period when I grew up and had to write out schoolwork, but given that this guy owns a McDonald’s franchise I’m gonna guess he had to handwrite schoolwork too.
There is just something visceral about this signature, it’s a sloppy and bad version of textbook cursive. One of the things that happens when people write a lot is that they develop their own handwriting style.
Anyways, the sentiment in this letter and the stupid stunt are enough to hate, but this signature is just awful 1 / 10 please try harder.
I don't know how it happened, but over the years, my signature developed from '7th grade cursive' to 'squiggle that vaguely starts with my first initial in cursive.'
Yes, I think that’s part of it, I shouldn’t be able to read every letter in your signature. I don’t trust that :D
There’s a reason there’s a print line under the signature line, your signature should be some vague squiggle.
Meanwhile my signature is lying through it's teeth, while claiming I must have multiple PhDs to have the signature I have.
I always hated how I was taught to write the capital letters in my name and then I was sitting in civics class and looking at the Declaration of Independence and stole big parts of my current signature from our founding fathers.
They knew how to write their names with style.
Yeah, but they wrote F when they meant S back then.
Congreff? What's congreff?
^(I^ ^know^ ^it's^ ^a^ ^long^ ^s)^
Well you don't want food service workers wearing gloves for the most part. Nonsterile gloves protect the wearer much more than anything they're touching and food should be the opposite of chemically unsafe to touch. Gloves can also undermine a focus on or even specifically discourage regular handwashing which is what actually keeps food and food prep equipment clean / sanitary. Unless you have cuts, sores, warts or some other infection on your hands, gloves are the least helpful solution to keeping food sanitary.
That said, I doubt he washes his hands adequately and the whole hairnet thing is gross AF, especially with that glued-on dead animal he calls hair.
I just get feisty about the gloves thing because I remember during the pandemic when my hospital was struggling to keep gloves in stock for us to handle blood and bodily fluids with, and one day in an urgent care I saw a patient in the waiting room wearing gloves reach up and run his gloved hands through his hair. I almost just screamed at him. They're not magic clean hand socks you have to use them properly and in the right situations.
"we proudly open our doors to everyone".. when they're officially 'closed'?
Knock knock knock, knock knock knock...
Donnie McRonnie, don't feed me a line of shit, I ain't sniffing it. Fuck McDonald's.
Hey, they didn't say when they proudly opened their doors to everyone. Apparently it's not "normal working hours."
You know you're reading a quality publication when they use an exclamation mark at least once per paragraph.