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Walz asks crowd to picture Trump making a McFlurry in first solo speech

www.independent.co.uk

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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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.
  
  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.
  
  She's got it right, Biden maximized trump, Kamala minimizes
  
  Does "Weird" count?
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.
  
  It's a disgrace that he made it to the end of his term. He should've been convicted and removed.
  
  And he only lasted the whole term due to the corrupt GOP.
- 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.
  
  Sure. I'd bet trump doesn't have any of that experience either
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.
  
  Walz also just has a joyous charisma. Which is a welcome change from the last decade.
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.
  
  Merrick Garland, somehow
  
  Now here me out: Schiff
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.
- Get him to do a church crowd shift
- show him looking over a paycheck after a late shift in Oakland
  
  Tell him that's all the money he has for two weeks.
- 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….
  
  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.
  
  That might literally kill him. He'd be confronted by an endless supply of his favorite food.
I can't imagine a McFlurry machine actually working.
Tim is such a sharpshooter. Finally we get to see the Dems taking clever potshots while actually making good points.
How is anyone supposed to make any dessert there when the frozen yogurt machine is broken?
- 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
- 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.
  
  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
Reminded me of this animation of Trump working at the Magamart: https://youtu.be/JicwX2P4mrQ
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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