The company's ad for its Tex-Mex Bacon Thickburger featured women from the U.S. and Mexico playing volleyball over a border wall.

Oh, for fuck's sake.

Puzder penned a commentary in the Wall Street Journal advocating against a minimum wage increase by federal mandate.

"Here’s what middle-class business owners, who live in the real world, will do when faced with a 40 percent increase in labor costs," he wrote in October 2014. "They will cut jobs and rely more on technology. Such changes are already happening in banks, gas stations, grocery stores, airports and, more recently, restaurants. Almost every restaurant chain in the country from Applebee’s to McDonald’s is testing or already implementing automated ordering with tablets or kiosks."

Yeah, that automation is a big part of the reason for the decline in manufacturing jobs, but I don't hear Donald offering a solution to that problem. And by the way, some supermarkets are getting rid of kiosks thanks to the fact that their customers prefer interacting with an actual human TYVM…

/FFS