# Did Kamala Harris work at McDonalds? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** kamala-harris\ **Created:** [September 2, 2024, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631 "2024-09-02T15:53:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/181 "2024-09-03T20:55:39Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Well, if anybody does ask the question, my money is on Peter Doocy. To prove my point, check out this post from @Smapti in another thread: > [@NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 3)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7608): > > Peter Doocy at the White House press conference is asking the big questions Americans want answers to, like “How come Kamala Harris talks funny?” ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/182 "2024-09-03T21:25:15Z")
[Moderating] To the extent that this thread ever had any factual content, I think we’ve moved well beyond that. Moving to P&E. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/183 "2024-09-03T21:26:32Z")
> [@sciurophobic](#): > > If someone does ask her which McDonald’s isn’t “the one on Maple” a better answer than “none of your business”? “Which McDonald’s did you work at?” “The one on Main Street in Alameda.” “LIAR! There is no McDonald’s on Main Street in Almeda,” “There was 40 years ago.” “She had it torn down so we could not prove her lies. Burn her! She is a heretic and a witch!” ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/184 "2024-09-03T21:38:01Z")
More ominously, the hospital she claims to have been born in was mysteriously torn down as well. What is she hiding? How do we know she was ever born? ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/185 "2024-09-03T21:40:34Z")
I have this problem as well, which is why I can never run for president. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/186 "2024-09-03T21:42:04Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > But she uses this story/anecdote to illustrate early struggles and common roots but to my knowledge doesn’t mention the location ever. [According to the Democratic presidential nominee, much of it was spent behind the cash register, fryer, and soft-serve machine at a McDonald’s in Alameda . . .](https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-t-stop-talking-044922908.html) If when the readout comes back from social security, it turns out to really be Berkeley, there will be hell to pay ☺ ---
**Author:** ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/187 "2024-09-03T21:49:54Z")
> [@](#): > > According to the Democratic presidential nominee, much of it was spent behind the cash register, fryer, and soft-serve machine at a McDonald’s in Alameda, where she hoped to earn a little extra pocket money between her freshman and sophomore years at Howard University. I can understand being behind the cash register, but what was she doing behind the fryer and soft-server machine? 😉 Oh, and I spotted another lie. She said she did it to earn “pocket money”, but none of the money was actually in her pocket at any time. It was in her purse. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/188 "2024-09-03T21:55:46Z")
No it’s perfect! They can’t find the skeletons in your closet if the closet and everything in it was demolished. You have it made! ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/189 "2024-09-03T22:29:37Z")
This was 40 years ago Often purses were called, “pocket books,” so there. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/190 "2024-09-03T22:41:24Z")
Alas, there’s still the life drawing modeling mentioned above. There’s evidence. It’s very strange to look in a dorm room window and see a nude portrait of yourself on the wall. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/191 "2024-09-03T23:13:00Z")
This isn’t directly about Mcdonald’s, but it’s relevant to this thread - Aaron Rupar writes on how Harris, unlike previous candidates, is upending Trump’s campaign by refusing to engage with his namecalling and conspiracy theories. > **[Kamala Harris is cutting off Trump’s political oxygen](https://www.publicnotice.co/p/kamala-harris-strategy-for-dealing-with-trump)** > > She's also not taking the bait from the press. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/192 "2024-09-03T23:46:02Z")
This thread is making me feel weird. I’ve had dozens of jobs, starting when I was about 14, and I can recall faces and names of many, many people I’ve worked with. Am I some kind of freak? ---
**Author:** ![Tride](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tride/32/13907_2.png) [@Tride](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tride)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/193 "2024-09-03T23:49:16Z")
Yes. Yes, you are. But that’s just incidental… ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/194 "2024-09-03T23:59:21Z")
“She lied about working at McD’s”. That could have a small chance of resonating if she lied about it because she was mega-wealthy and was pretending to be a working stiff. Of course, if they ever did a humble-off, trump and JD would lose bid time. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2024, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/195 "2024-09-04T00:02:21Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Am I some kind of freak? Nah. The individual variation on memory is pretty substantial. I can recall an awful lot of obscure shit ([Hermissendra crassicornis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermissenda_crassicornis)! I learned that name taking Marine Invertebrate Zoology in the mid-1980’s at about the same time I was working at McDonald’s), but I’ve always been pretty poor at people’s names. I don’t think it is particularly rare for some folks to have excellent recall of them - I just suspect it isn’t the norm. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2024, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/196 "2024-09-04T00:17:23Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I’ve had dozens of jobs, starting when I was about 14, and I can recall faces and names of many, many people I’ve worked with. I’m the same. I can remember people from every job I’ve held. Now, that only goes back 30 years so maybe that’s the difference? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2024, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/197 "2024-09-04T00:40:43Z")
I heard that Vance worked as a male stripper in Vegas when he was 19. If he denies this, let him provide the records to PROVE that he did not work as a male stripper in Vegas. ---
**Author:** ![abcdefghij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@abcdefghij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abcdefghij)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2024, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/198 "2024-09-04T01:19:18Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I heard that Vance worked as a male stripper in Vegas when he was 19. Getting fired from a furniture store for moral turpitude does not count as working as a male stripper ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2024, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/199 "2024-09-04T01:34:46Z")
> [@abcdefghij](#): > > Getting fired from a furniture store for moral turpitude does not count as working as a male stripper It does if he was stripping varnish from furniture as part of his job. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2024, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/200 "2024-09-04T01:43:58Z")
You need moral turpentine to strip varnish. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631.md?page=11)