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facialimpediment posted:

Concerns aside, this is the good stuff, right here.

https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1848006397146911113?t=JBa_VnLCRbZUXRIgWTm_0A&s=19

ThisIsJohnWayne posted:

But why, do our nazis, have to be so, so viscerally, unendingly, pathetic. What is this weird clownshow

facialimpediment posted:

ded posted:

a yes the if we dont say it it doesnt exist defense

Mr. Nice! posted:

So that McDonalds wasn't open. Everything was rehearsed. It was 100% a staged event including everyone who got food.

ThisIsJohnWayne posted:

But why, do our nazis, have to be so, so viscerally, unendingly, pathetic. What is this weird clownshow
I tells ya, it's not like it used to be. Our ancestors got enemies you could respect. Bullfighters have opponents you can respect. All we get is this decades long parade of loosers. It's insulting.

Mr. Nice! posted:

So that McDonalds wasn't open. Everything was rehearsed. It was 100% a staged event including everyone who got food.

facialimpediment posted:

um

I think the "Kamala never worked at McDonalds" gambit backfired just on the visuals

https://x.com/Acyn/status/1848059426265051494

tbd if he does anything besides stare at the baskets, hungry

Big K of Justice posted:

The giant sign on the side there answered my first thought of that situation. There's no way Mc Donald's was going to get involved on any level with the presidental race or trump, so I figured it must be some MAGA-Trumper franchise owner who thinks they are God's gift to capitalism who floated this idea...

It's probably the first time he cooked fries in his life.

Cugel the Clever posted:

Did the campaign claim it was going to be Trump actually serving real customers or something? If not, of course it was always going to be a stage photo op.

SquirrelyPSU posted:

If I lived/worked anywhere near Harrisburg Airport, I would be loving livid the number of times they've snarled traffic in the last 3 months by constantly coming to town.

Stultus Maximus posted:

If they don’t like the traffic they can vote to implement the Popular Vote Compact.

Hyrax Attack! posted:

In Seattle area Walz buzzed in long enough to shut down highways on a weekday for a private fundraiser at Costco founder’s mansion, then immediately left. I know that nonsense is necessary for cash but dammit just rent a private room at SeaTac airport instead of messing with commutes just to show off opulence.

facialimpediment posted:

Lately on the Democratic side, it's to can the FTC chief for being too awesome and regulating poo poo they don't want regulated.

Mr. Nice! posted:

So that McDonalds wasn't open. Everything was rehearsed. It was 100% a staged event including everyone who got food.

Naramyth posted:

Nah, there are a bunch of corpo stores. I’d guess a quarter of all stores are not franchise.

Source: I did tech support for MCD like 20 years ago

psydude posted:

McDonalds operates a 100% franchise model so it was always going to be the case that it was a local franchisee.

Big K of Justice posted:

Around 90%. But yes, I guess I shouldn't be surprised. That big sign was conspicuous in photos. That's not by accident.

Donald is being weird about the whole Mc Donald's part of Kamala's history.

Platystemon posted:

It would be really funny if Harris has a photo from her first day on the job or whatever and releases it on Monday, after the morning shows finish talking about Trump’s stunt.

Zamujasa posted:

the longer this whole mcdonalds thing goes on the funnier it is. trump is just completely loving unhinged over a throwaway first job

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Did you know that you can input any old nonsense information into Elon Musk's stupid PAC pledge petition form? It'd sure be sad if the data harvest there got tainted.

Kaiser Schnitzel posted:

I feel like the Musk million dollar definitely not a vote-buying scheme is just gonna backfire-it's really gross to middle of the road normies. Usually the evil foreign billionaires influence elections quietly, doing it so brazenly and especially with is being so public and such a bizarre and disliked figure like Musk is not gonna win any friends.

And it makes the Trump campaign look really desperate if the only way they can get people to vote for them is by paying them a million bucks.

CBJSprague24 posted:

What happens if someone signs the pledge but votes for Harris anyway?

CBJSprague24 posted:

What happens if someone signs the pledge but votes for Harris anyway?

Midjack posted:

TOS violation, you'll be sued in whatever federal court in Texas that has that Musk dickrider presiding.

CBJSprague24 posted:

https://x.com/carlquintanilla/status/1848359067292680679

Bodes well for his predictions about the stock market being at record highs because it thinks he's going to win.

WaPo posted:

Trump and his allies used that informational vacuum to suggest that she never worked there at all, that she was simply an elitist attempting to pose as someone with working-class roots. And to really hammer that argument home, the billionaire former president spent part of Sunday posing as a McDonald’s employee. (The restaurant was closed, and the cars that went through the drive-through were supporters who had been screened by the Secret Service.)

On his social media platform, Trump claimed that his campaign had obtained proof that Harris’s assertions were false.

“We have checked with McDonald’s, and they say, definitively, that there is no record of Lyin’ Kamala Harris ever having worked there,” he wrote Sunday afternoon. “In other words, she never worked there, and has lied about this ‘job’ for years.”

Notice the rhetorical jump there: from “no record of working” to “never worked.” It’s like saying that, if America’s collective memory and documentation of its history suddenly evaporated, we could prove that Trump was never president, since no record of his having done so exists.

The restaurant chain — obviously not unhappy at the attention — sent a message to its employees that was obtained by The Washington Post. It indicates that no records of Harris’s employment exist, but makes clear that this is not an aberration and not a reason to think that she didn’t.

“Though we are not a political brand,” the message reads, “we’ve been proud to hear former President Trump’s love for McDonald’s and Vice President Harris’s fond memories working under the Arches. While we and our franchisees don’t have records for all positions dating back to the early ’80s, what makes ‘1 in 8’ so powerful is the shared experience so many Americans have had.”

The reference to “1 in 8” is to a corporate marketing program highlighting that (it claims) about 1 in 8 Americans have at some point worked for the chain. As McDonald’s clearly accepts that Harris did.