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[–] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 136 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

“I won’t pay the bill for this stupid company,” he said. “I won’t pay the bill, and then we’ll have a story that Trump didn’t pay the bill to a contractor.”

If you don’t want a reputation for screwing over contractors then you should pay your damn contractors. But we all know Trump would’ve just made up a reason to stiff them even if everything went smoothly.

But I do find it amusing that he’s this close to figuring out why his mic didn’t work in the first place. Good contractors have options and won’t work for a known dead beat. So all he can get are incompetent fools.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 84 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He never pays ANY of his bills. How many cities have ended up getting stuck with unpaid bills for his stupid fucking circlejerk events?

[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 61 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

This is a common tactic the rich use all the time. They even hire people to contest valid charges because it often works. They are literally why we can't have nice things. "So much winning" but they have to cheat and lie about everything.

It's disproportionately the rich who refund uber eats meals that were perfectly fine and shit like that.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It happens on business all the time as well. Huge company hires small company to outsource whatever, with the promise of more work if this project goes well, then they end up being a nightmare to work for, with impossible deadlines and constantly changing requirements.

Small company ends up underwater on the project and the guy that outsourced it gets a promotion for getting it done under budget.

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[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If there's no show at all, or it's completely ruined, then you have them cancel the bill. You don't just refuse to pay and stop picking up the phone. That's childish and we know he doesn't pay bills even when he gets everything he asked for, just more gaslighting.

Plus when I hire someone for a price and they do a meh but ok job, i pay them and never hire them again. That's how the free market works, at least in theory. He doesn't see we can't just "not pay our bill" when my internet goes down for a few hours. Normal people get fucked by that, he doesn't know what normal is. Weird they don't even realize they're saying the quiet part out loud.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, no - "free market" means I don't have to pay, because it's free.

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[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 111 points 1 month ago (3 children)

20 minutes to find a second mic? Or move the connection to a different input.

Sounds about right for the people Trump hires.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The sound tech probably didn’t have it on.

Sometimes you wind up working gigs you wouldn’t want to. Easy to make mistakes.

[–] wildflower@lemmy.world 66 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Reminds me of a gig I had in a studio where the lead singer was a real jerk to everyone in the studio and to his band-mates, he kept berating everyone in the band, telling them to play better, and when it was his turn to record vocals, I pitch shifted his monitor a half note :-) Watching him squirm in the vocal-booth trying to hit a note was priceless.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago

That.

that's just beautiful. Kind of evil. but beautiful.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Billy Corgan never recovered from that one.

Despite all my rage, I'm still just a rat in a cage.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Probably hard to find a good sound guy that'll work for free.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

I'm sure if he asked a local evangelical church, they'd loan up their sound guys. You know. Gotta help the antichrist out.

[–] twistypencil@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or you haven't been paid...

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Not getting paid is rather demotivating, yes.

“Mistakes” happen when you lack motivation…

[–] match@pawb.social 6 points 1 month ago

Comrade Mic Guy

[–] Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

I mean seeing how he has probably pissed off just about every theater kid living by now it's just deserts. Nobody is racing down from the booth with a lav for this guy.

[–] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 month ago

“Only the best”

[–] Bananigans@lemmy.dbzer0.com 93 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Proper soundcheck + mic 2 and I've never had more than 15 seconds of dead time in past 10 years.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 61 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But you know, you, you get paid.

[–] SacredHeartAttack@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

As a 20+ year audio professional, the only way this happens is an engineer that either doesn’t know what they’re doing at all (so not a pro) or they aren’t getting paid enough and are very vindictive.

Literally thousands of open mic nights across the country run by teenagers getting paid nothing do a better job of preparing than this.

I applaud whoever fucked this up cause honestly, fuck that guy.

[–] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why waste money on a pro when the deputy campaign manager’s cousin, who is very big in the audio, can do it for campaign merch and free soda?

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[–] archomrade@midwest.social 16 points 1 month ago

Looks like they had a second mic, but it didn't work either

My money is on someone pulling the plug mid speech

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

“Mic the loser” they call him.

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[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago

I like mics that didn't fail.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 38 points 1 month ago (5 children)

“I won’t pay the bill for this stupid company,” he said. “I won’t pay the bill, and then we’ll have a story that Trump didn’t pay the bill to a contractor.”

He already wasn't gonna pay.

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

He probably hasn't been paying all along and is now down to the bottom rung of contractors.

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[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago

Lol I thought you made that quote up, so I had to check the article. He actually said that lol.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Guy probably didn't even pay for the AC at that event where they were passing out from the heat.

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[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago (3 children)

He didn't play music this time?

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[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Didn't want to do another impromptu concert?

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 22 points 1 month ago

Aaaaaaaaveeeee Mariiiiiiiiiiiiiaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[–] recapitated@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So the guy who thinks he and he alone can fix the world, and that foreign leaders admire and fear him cannot (1) hire a campaign competent with the simplest contingencies, (2) cannot stick through any interview that asks him about things he did, let alone a hostile interview, (3) cannot find and maintain staffers nor cabinet members who won't betray him for being ignorant and unhinged.

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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

We've seen him handle an actual emergency and it was strikingly similar. It's good to know he handles even small problems in the same dumbfounded way.

We're all completely screwed if this crisis generator gets back into office.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

big energy fascist would have been screaming into a bullhorn. you're losing it donny.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I already commented, but another thought came to mind: Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

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[–] superkret@feddit.org 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I volunteer at a venue that offers a stage for bands and DJs starting out and looking for a first place to preform.
It has a capacity for an audience of 300. None of the people working there get paid.

We can't display "Complicated Business" on a big screen when a mic cuts out, but would have fixed that issue within a minute.
Unless the stage is mobile and outdoors, or in someone's living room, you set up an emergency backup amp, mixer, speakers and mics before the first guest enters the building.

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[–] donescobar@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Then this dipshit said he wasn’t paying the bill, I mean tell me something we don’t already know…

[–] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Like he would have anyway

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[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Hope he hated it.

[–] match@pawb.social 7 points 1 month ago

every time something comes up in politics that i don't like i just imagine donald trump swaying catatonically to Ave Maria

[–] recapitated@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Inb4 hang mic pence

[–] wildcardology@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Now he's got a reason not to pay for the event.

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

Finally, after nearly 20 minutes, an aide brought Trump a replacement microphone that worked.

“I won’t pay the bill for this stupid company,” he said. “I won’t pay the bill, and then we’ll have a story that Trump didn’t pay the bill to a contractor.”

Might be the only truthful thing trump said during the event

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