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? 🍟 🍔😏
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.