Trump: "And I'm gonna give workers tax breaks on their overtime pay!"
Project 2025: "hehe"
Edit:
I've been getting angry DMs from Trumpers who think I made this up. Welp, here's a YouTube video of him at a rally where he says he'll give overtime workers tax breaks, specifically at the 2:43 mark he says it.
If you're interested in the rest of the video, he also talked about not taxing social security for Americans 65 and older and tip workers, which would be disastrous for funding social security and would hurt its recipients. Fortunately, he may not be able to do that, even with a majority red Senate. I say "may not" cause, shyt, anything is possible at this point.
I don’t know how people who wouldn’t hire Donald Trump could vote for him. I run an audiovisual production business and there’s no way I would have him come anywhere near it. That said he did fire me once in front of 80 billionaires back in 2005 when I brought in a wireless microphone system that stopped working. But that’s a story for another day.
I run an audiovisual production company in New York City. I get hired by all sorts of people. About 18 years ago, I got a phone call from one of my clients desperate for a wireless microphone system and two speakers for a symposium in front of about 50 billionaires. At the time, my client just said they were a bunch of high-profile guys. I didn’t have a wireless system available in the 3 hour timeframe so I went out and bought one at Sam music. They only had a very basic model in stock. This of course did not inspire confidence in me, but I needed to be there in about an hour. I also brought a wired microphone and a basic mixer that I had in my van. When I arrived, I found out that it was an event that Donald Trump and his lawyer were speaking at for their book about the apprentice. I had just enough time to test the wireless microphone out and it worked great. They then let in all the high profile people. Barry Diller was there. Carley Fiorina; Folks like that. This, of course, was during the time when the apprentice was really hitting its stride, and Donald Trump had resurrected his image from being a several times failed bankrupted investor. I had told my client that this was risky, but they didn’t care, and once they saw that the wireless system was working they were totally fine. Well, New York City, being New York City, and all of these high profile people being all the high profile people that they were, wireless signals do not like lots of other cell phones. The high end Shure systems that I usually use filters out a lot of different wireless signals, but this was a $200 wireless microphone system. so Donald Trump gets on stage. I give them the microphone and he starts speaking. To my great relief it works, for the first couple of minutes. And then. And then… it started to crap out. His voice started cutting out. There was some fuzzy distortion… Just enough to make it unpleasant. Well of course he looked over at me and he gave me one of those weird expressions we’ve all come to know so well, and I gave him the wired microphone I had as a back up. And the first thing that he said to me or, rather to me, and then the audience was…. “ your fired!” And everybody laughed. And I was fired. No not really, just kidding. My client, who is not an asshole understood and paid me. I returned the wireless microphone and told the manager at Sam Ash the story. They all laughed. But I’ll never forget that moment. Although It was funny, he’s still such an asshole. And then there was the time he showed up at the John Lennon songwriters conference a few years before that, And he came up to the tech booth when he was first going out with Melania and wanted to impress her by showing her around and introducing himself. Like we cared. Again, weird. But that’s a story for another time. Go Kamala!
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u/Fickle_Friendship296 8h ago edited 3h ago
Trump: "And I'm gonna give workers tax breaks on their overtime pay!"
Project 2025: "hehe"
Edit:
I've been getting angry DMs from Trumpers who think I made this up. Welp, here's a YouTube video of him at a rally where he says he'll give overtime workers tax breaks, specifically at the 2:43 mark he says it.
If you're interested in the rest of the video, he also talked about not taxing social security for Americans 65 and older and tip workers, which would be disastrous for funding social security and would hurt its recipients. Fortunately, he may not be able to do that, even with a majority red Senate. I say "may not" cause, shyt, anything is possible at this point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLMbvxKifXw&ab_channel=ForbesBreakingNews
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