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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
I’m opposed to Trump, but if my boss where to whine about me playing golf during the day while Beiing on call 24/7 working weekends and nights because something is needed then… I’d tell him to stuff it. What I mean with this is that this narrative was stupid when trump used it to attack Obama, and it still is stupid now.
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.
From an international observer, this walz guy is looking like a fantastic pick
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.
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.
Going from Biden to a campaign with actual energy behind it is incredibly refreshing.
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.
Every single major media operation was holding their breath and stomping their feet to demand Shapiro, I was shocked when she picked Walz.
Really? Since when do Democrats want that whiny brat who can’t even get a woman wet? The Republicans can keep him.
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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.
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.
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….
