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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.

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[-] Tramdan@sh.itjust.works 114 points 1 month ago

*to have worked at Macdonalds.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 53 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] Sammy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago

t’ve mctwerked

[-] freewheel@lemmy.world 79 points 1 month ago

Things must be getting really bad if the president needs a second job....

[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

With the price of McDonald’s these days, she may be just doing it for the employee discount.

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 55 points 1 month ago

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

[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 53 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] Jasonw911@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

Younger gen-x here. You nailed it.

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 4 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 5 points 1 month ago

The cut off dates are fuzzy. More like guidelines than actual rules.

[-] hOrni@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Contrary to trump, she actually worked in her life.

[-] dogsnest@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

Now she's making a hamberder out of Trump.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Yikes. I wouldn't even feed that to pigs.

[-] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 month ago

But Mr. Wu would feed trump to his pigs.

[-] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 4 points 1 month ago

Swearengen! Cocksucker!

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 16 points 1 month ago

Times are hard when you have to work two jobs by running the country and flipping burgers.

[-] BeanSwellington@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Everybody got a side hustle these days I guess

[-] Rustywhims@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Wait, the MacDonald's? The one I saw featured prominently in 1988's Mac and Me? Radical!

[-] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

No, you're thinking of McDowell's from 1988's Coming to America.

[-] FanciestPants@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Aw, that's not fair to presidents elected prior to 1955 that never had the chance to work at McDonalds.

[-] FlaminGoku@reddthat.com 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

George Washington would have made a fine Big Mac.

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[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Glad to see a colleague in the Oval Office

[-] Iapar@feddit.org 9 points 1 month ago
[-] Cptmurph616@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

People go there to get down with the rock music.

[-] FanciestPants@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

If she were from the east coast, we could have a "from White Castle to White House" slogan.

[-] AnIntenseMoist@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Makes it sound like a downgrade tbh

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] witx@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 month ago

Why can't she go to the white house? Why would a president need to work out of a mcdonalds? ...

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[-] verdantbanana@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

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

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 36 points 1 month ago

if the Democrats truly understood the minimum wage would be $20 or more

In Democrat-controlled California, the minimum wage for fast food workers is $20: https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/minimum_wage.htm

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 28 points 1 month ago

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.

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[-] Rookwood@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

“There was not a family relying on me to pay the rent, put food on the table and keep the bills paid by the end of the month,” she added. “But the reality of McDonald’s is that a majority of the folk who are working there today are relying on that income to sustain a household and a family.”

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[-] SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

The American dream, it's still alive. From dishes cleaner to president. /s

[-] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

A president will work at McDonald's? Cool!

[-] MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

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[-] pyre@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

"oh yeah, well i played at a McDonald's commercial!"

— some old weirdo, probably

[-] verdantbanana@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[-] dogsnest@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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....

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[-] arefx@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

They really are just like us, come look, she even worked at mcdonalds.

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