# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/121 "2024-09-03T03:26:56Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > But Obama’s long form birth certificate was stupider. […] But it helped him to release the long hospital document. He released it in April 2011, years after he’d overwhelmingly won the 2008 election. So I guess Harris should release her pay stubs in 2027? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/122 "2024-09-03T03:27:17Z")
Same info via MSN: [Republicans resurrect an old racist ruling to disqualify Kamala Harris | Opinion (msn.com)](https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/politics/republicans-resurrect-an-old-racist-ruling-to-disqualify-kamala-harris-opinion/ar-AA1pRmXn) ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/123 "2024-09-03T03:27:25Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > These are the same people who are literally claiming right now in 2024 that she can’t be president because the Dred Scott ruling says blacks can’t be citizens. Clearly they’re wrong because she didn’t used to be black. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/124 "2024-09-03T03:28:41Z")
This better be a bad joke, because it sure isn’t true and thus doesn’t belong here. ---
**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, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/125 "2024-09-03T03:39:07Z")
TY, what a group of thugs losers. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/126 "2024-09-03T03:41:21Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > This better be a bad joke, because it sure isn’t true and thus doesn’t belong here Did you mean my post? Because it wasn’t a bad joke, it was a good joke, imo. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/127 "2024-09-03T03:46:47Z")
I have never worked at a fast food joint. But I’m thinking I might impress employers if I padded my resume and claimed to have attended “Hamburger University”. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/128 "2024-09-03T04:01:17Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > I’ll give documentation of my employment at McDonalds when McDonald Trump releases his Michigan Man of the Year documentation. I read this as “his Michelin Man of the Year documentation”, and I have to admit he has the physique for it. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/129 "2024-09-03T04:02:25Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > The Birther movement was stupid enough, and Barack Obama should not have had to produce his birth certificate. The Burger movement is even dumber, and Kamala Harris is better off not playing to that game. Just wait for “McDonalds Employees for Truth” steps up, claiming that even if Harris showed up in a McDonalds, she never ‘worked the line’ and certainly didn’t earn the nametag or the polyester uniform. The Republican Caucus will hold Congressional hearings about it. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > This better be a bad joke, because it sure isn’t true and thus doesn’t belong here. > **[Trump Falsely Claims Harris Hasn't Always Identified as Black](https://time.com/7006139/donald-trump-kamala-harris-black-indian/)** > > “I don’t know. Is she Indian or is she Black?” Trump said, drawing gasps. “She was Indian all the way and then...she became a Black person.” Stranger ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/130 "2024-09-03T04:10:02Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > > [@madmonk28](#): > > > > Trying to prove it is playing their game. > > Many Democrats, on the internet, said the same thing about Barack Obama’s long form birth certificate. They were mistaken. It helped Obsma to release it. Huh? In what world did that help him? > [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Regardless, it’s not cut-and-dried that producing that W2 would shut Trump up. In fact, we know that after Obama released his birth certificate, his enemies didn’t shut up. They started blathering about a “long form birth certificate”, whatever the hell that is. > [@PhillyGuy](#): > > His newspaper birth announcement was already out there. That was found by a reporter, not released by Obama, iirc. And that did, in fact, completely settle the relevant factual question. Except it didn’t stop the endless speculation that he somehow wasn’t a real American. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/131 "2024-09-03T04:15:01Z")
I’m still nonplussed that he called my joke bad. 🤷‍♀️ ---
**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, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/132 "2024-09-03T04:15:21Z")
I liked it. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/133 "2024-09-03T04:18:44Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I liked it.  Vindicated! ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/134 "2024-09-03T04:32:34Z")
I haven’t read the entire thread, but if Harris said that she worked at McDonald’s in high school or college, I’m inclined to believe her. And if she didn’t put it on her resume, well, she’s at the level where she doesn’t have to. Hell, I was a parking lot attendant during high school. I’m a lawyer now (just like Harris, though I’m not a prosecutor), and nobody, no client, no law firm, no court, wants or needs to know that I was a parking lot attendant when I was 17. And if they knew/know, well whoopee. I was in high school back then, after all. I wasn’t expected to know enough to be a lawyer. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/135 "2024-09-03T04:36:07Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > That was found by a reporter, not released by Obama, iirc. And that did, in fact, completely settle the relevant factual question. Except it didn’t stop the endless speculation that he somehow wasn’t a real American. The annexation of the Kingdom of Hawai’i was recognized as being illegitimate by President Grover Cleveland, and the sovereign monarch, Queen Liliʻuokalani was detained, convicted of treason in a kangaroo trial by the Sanford B. Dole-led Provisional Republic, and forced to abdicate in return for the release and commutation of the death sentences of her jailed supporters. In 1993, the US Congress passed Public Law 103-150, informally known as the Apology Resolution”, which “acknowledges that the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii occurred with the active participation of agents and citizens of the United States and further acknowledges that the Native Hawaiian people never directly relinquished to the United States their claims to their inherent sovereignty as a people over their national lands, either through the Kingdom of Hawaii or through a plebiscite or referendum” So, technically…Hawaii is not legitimately claimed US territory, and Obama is arguably a stateless person. From a certain point of view. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/MfAiB2ZoRhM/maxresdefault.jpg "Honest Government Ad | Visit Hawai'i! 🌺") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfAiB2ZoRhM) Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/136 "2024-09-03T04:37:25Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > I’m still nonplussed that he called my joke bad. 🤷‍♀️ Some people have no taste. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/137 "2024-09-03T04:43:13Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > I’m still nonplussed that he called my joke bad. 🤷‍♀️ I got it. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/138 "2024-09-03T04:45:06Z")
I like [Jeff Tiedrich’s take](https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/this-week-in-stupid-august-31-edition) on McDonaldgate (yes, I’m plugging him yet again): > obviously, Komrade Kamala is lying — because _I slung the shit out of burgers_ _at Mickey Dee’s_ is definitely a thing you’d put on your resume **[when applying for the job of Alameda County Deputy District Attorney](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris#Early_life_and_career).** ---
**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, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/139 "2024-09-03T04:50:47Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Hell, I was a parking lot attendant during high school. I’m a lawyer now (just like Harris, though I’m not a prosecutor), and nobody, no client, no law firm, no court, wants or needs to know that I was a parking lot attendant when I was 17. Yeah, I’m in IT and I only list my IT-related jobs I’ve held on my resume. And I have had quite a few jobs in IT, so there’s no need to go back further. I had 3 real jobs prior to the start of my IT career that I don’t bother listing because they aren’t relevant to any positions I’ve applied to in the past 25 years. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631/140 "2024-09-03T05:14:11Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > Many Democrats, on the internet, said the same thing about Barack Obama’s long form birth certificate. They were mistaken. It helped Obsma to release it. I do not think so. > [@PhillyGuy](#): > > If she can get a social security earnings record that would show this, she should. We have explained this i think a dozen times now. A W2 from “Bobsfamilyfreanchise, inc” is what you will get, not a W2 from McDonalds inc. The MAGAs wont accept it. > [@kenobi\_65](#): > > As noted several times in this thread, if she worked for a franchisee-owned restaurant, rather than a corporate-owned restaurant (i.e., owned by McDonald’s itself), the W2 would likely not settle it in the least, as it’ll show the name of the franchisee company, not McDonald’s. Yep. > [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Regardless, even if she jumped through the hoops to prove this (and she shouldn’t), Trump and his toadies would just move the goalposts. Exactly. > [@Eva\_Luna](#): > > I bet I could dig up the names of some managers from my HS jobs And what would that prove in this case? “Yeah, I am Bob Brown, I owners a McDs back then and she worked for me”- quickly labeled fake news, and a liar, complete with death threads and a boycott. > [@PhillyGuy](#): > > You just want to reduce the number who believe the myth but putting out evidence. None of whom would even vote for Harris anyway. I mean if your vote depends on whether or not she worked at a Mcds- you are insane anyway., > [@PhillyGuy](#): > > Refuting false opposition claims is a normal low cost part of campaigning. And it is mistake- > **["I know that, I just want to hear him deny it."](https://www.notaryrotary.com/forums/forums.asp?id=&forumid=1AAA00000008&action=view&posn=prev&firstnbr=67987&lastnbr=67987)** > > "I know that, I just want to hear him deny it." _There is a story in politics, commonly attributed to Lyndon B. Johnson, about how LBJ wanted to circulate a rumor attacking his opponent in a Texas election. Johnson, it’s said, wanted to spread the story that his opponent liked to have sex with barnyard animals. One of LBJ’s aides said, “We can’t prove he’s a pig f----r.”_ _“I know that,” replied Johnson. “I just want to hear him deny it.”_ > [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > The annexation of the Kingdom of Hawai’i was recognized as being illegitimate by President Grover Cleveland, and the sovereign monarch, Queen Liliʻuokalani was detained, convicted of treason in a kangaroo trial by the Sanford B. Dole-led Provisional Republic, All that is untrue, but it would be a hijack refuting it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kamala-harris-work-at-mcdonalds/1006631.md?page=8)