• @ZeroCool@slrpnk.net
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    1 month ago

    “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.

    • @RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
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      211 month ago

      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
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        131 month ago

        No, no - “free market” means I don’t have to pay, because it’s free.

      • @zbyte64
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        11 month ago

        “free market” should be “fair market” but the free means corporations are free to move labor to another country but not let the actual labor freely move.

    • @zbyte64
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      11 month ago

      The whole reason he does outdoor rallies is because he stiffed all the indoor facilities in his last election run.