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Walz asks crowd to picture Trump making a McFlurry in first solo speech (www.independent.co.uk)

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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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[-] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 203 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 67 points 2 months ago

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".

[-] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 45 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] kescusay@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 42 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

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

[-] prole 12 points 2 months ago

Fascism is full of contradictions. By design.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

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

[-] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's just… ~~weird~~ hypocrisy.

The party of hypocrisy. Their only consistent value.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] worldwidewave@lemmy.world 177 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 50 points 2 months ago

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

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

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

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

And he only lasted the whole term due to the corrupt GOP.

[-] OccamsRazer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

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

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 155 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[-] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 61 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 47 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[-] COASTER1921@lemmy.ml 91 points 2 months ago

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

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 53 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] C0unterfactual@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

Merrick Garland, somehow

[-] DokPsy@infosec.pub 4 points 2 months ago

Now here me out: Schiff

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] DokPsy@infosec.pub 5 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 48 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 31 points 2 months ago

Get him to do a church crowd shift

[-] Num10ck@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

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

[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

Tell him that's all the money he has for two weeks.

[-] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

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….

[-] kescusay@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

I can't imagine a McFlurry machine actually working.

[-] null@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Canis_76@feddit.nl 6 points 2 months ago

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

[-] auzy@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

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

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

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[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago

Reminded me of this animation of Trump working at the Magamart: https://youtu.be/JicwX2P4mrQ

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

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.

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