Kamala, We All Deserve a Break Today.

By Tim Mooney

If we hum “You deserve a break today…”  or, “Two all-beef patties, special sauce…”, we all know what we’re talking about. McDonald’s is as ubiquitous as anything in America. 

One-in-eight of us have worked at a McDonald’s, from Jay Leno to Sharon Stone, Jeff Bezos to Star Jones.

Even Kamala…umm, wait. No. 

She said so…well recently. 

No mention of working at McDonald’s in any campaign previous to her first presidential run. No passage about it in her two autobiographies. No old photos of college-aged Kamala in a McDonald’s uniform. No pay stubs or old tax records. And no comment at all from McDonald’s corporate or the supposed Alameda California McDonald’s franchisee or that store’s longtime manager.

The best the Harris campaign could do was provide a quote from a high school friend, Wanda Kagan, saying she “remembered it.” Except this friend went to school with Kamala for five years… in Montreal… years before Kamala’s supposed time at McDonald’s.

One friend, a continent and country away? We all deserve a break today!

She’s lying about it, just as she’s lying about being a young child civil rights activist protesting for “Fweedim.” 

We know this because Kamala Harris never even registered to vote… until age 29…when she started, umm, “dating” the then-60-year-old married Mayor of San Francisco, Willie Brown. 

Da Mayor got her a job in the San Francisco District Attorney’s office and put Harris on two city employment commissions that paid her hundreds of thousands a year, in spite of Kamala not really showing up. She had the worst board attendance record of any commissioner.

She didn’t show up for the District Attorney’s job much either. According to billing records kept by every attorney in the office, she never worked over 8 hours in a day… any day… for the years she was there. In 10 years time, in two different DA’s offices, she took only 10 cases to trial. 

Not a problem when you’re … umm… dating the married Mayor. 

Kamala didn’t show up much when she was a US Senator, missing recorded votes 45% of the time.

Ah, but in her time as Vice President, she’s got a record of… umm, help me out here.

Someone this week did show up at a McDonald’s – former President Donald Trump. Trump is the blue-collar billionaire, and his trip to a Pennsylvania McDonald’s was performance art. 

The Media, of course, went berserk. 

“It was a staged event.” 

And, “That McDonald’s was really closed.” 

And, “The customers weren’t real.” 

And finally, “Trump has no proof Harris didn’t work there.”

They’re all missing the point. Campaigns do this all the time. Former US Senator Bill Proxmire famously worked a common job once a month throughout his campaign. From working construction to bagging groceries, showing he was still in touch with the common men/women of Wisconsin.

And that’s exactly what Donald Trump should do in these last 13 days.

• Go bag groceries at a Safeway… and talk about how it takes fewer bags to fill up $100 of groceries, as compared to four years ago.

• Go work at a gas station… and talk about how much more it costs to fill a minivan with gas than it did four years ago.

• Go work at a pawn shop… and talk about how people are pawing their jewelry to get by. 

• Go work at a gun store… and talk about how people are buying a gun, to keep their family safe.

Donald Trump could close the campaign working and talking to voters about their real concerns, demonstrating in action what this campaign should be all about:

“Are you better off than you were four years ago?”

Note: the opinions expressed herein are those of Tim Mooney only and not Breaking Battlegrounds’ staff.