I threw a wedding a couple of years ago. And i don’t remember exactly who we paid when. But we certainly paid a lot of money the day of the event.
Yes. Really there should be an Omnibus Stupid Trump Supporters thread, but there isn’t one. I’m sorry my tangential question has become a hijack. Here’s the exchange. We can probably drop this line of conversation though.
Her: My God doesn’t lie.
Me: So you admit that Trump is your God! I was wondering if you prayed to God before, or after Trump; or if you just left God out of it. Now I know.
Her: I pray for you, that’s for certain.
So, yeah. I called her out and she didn’t deny it. Then she denied it, and I posted the screen capture.
Heh, well trump is the only confused one in trump world. End of this discussion.
Thanks for answering.
Trump sounds like he lost his two front teeth in all these clips. Did he have his dentures out for the interview?
Nah. Let the collapse continue into even more dementia depths.
I fear you are confused - Trump is clearly running on the even punier two-bit processor.
No, no, trump, Nazis move to Argentina, not Venezuela, geez…
Man cant even get that right.
And that is for Police overtime- and trump claims he is for Law & Order? Maybe he likes the TV show?
Yeah, I saw comments of him slurring his words, and I didn’t hear it initially. But the clips of his interview with Musk in this thread sure sound like he developed a lisp, at least.
he didnt discover it, he invented it!
Venezuela is notoriously difficult to extradite fugitives from.
The venues may be paid up front, but city fees for police and traffic control are probably billed after.
Venezuela is the world’s leader in the production of Miss Universe winners.
So…wife #4 once Melania divorces his ass?
AFAIK the unpaid police bills are typically the cities asking for voluntary reimbursement. This isn’t a new Trump thing, I remember stories about the Obama and Romney campaigns having “unpaid bills” from various cities.
It’s one of those quadrennial things like musicians kicking up a fuss about their music (that they signed away the rights to) being used by the campaigns (which bought a license to use the music).
A lot of the time they don’t buy a license to use the music, which is the problem. It tends not to be worth the artists suing because the cost of litigation is way higher than than the pennies they’d get in royalties, but that doesn’t mean they’re not losing out.
A useful piece on the use of unauthorized music from previous years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32n4h0kn-88
This article, which I cited in the schadenfreude thread, says that the standard ASCAP, BMI, etc. licenses specifically exclude political uses.
Public venues like stadiums or arenas typically have already secured their own public performance licenses from performing rights organizations like the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Those licenses include access to hundreds of thousands of songs and typically apply to any event organizer that uses that venue, whether it’s for a sporting event or performance.
However, those licenses generally exclude political events, so campaigns would need to get their own license from an organization like ASCAP or go directly to the record label or whoever owns the copyrights to get the rights to a particular song,
Reputable politicians (ie, Democrats) usually get permission from the artist, and often are explicitly endorsed by them.
I can’t recall the last time I heard about an artist complaining that a Democrat used their music, but you hear complaints about Republicans all the time.
In the John Oliver piece it mentions the Clinton campaign (Hillary, not Bill) getting dinged for using a song without permission. But it is usually the Republicans.
Also Obama.
Song: “Hold On I’m Coming”
Politician: Barack Obama
Outcome: Democrats have been asked to stop playing music as well. In 2008, Sam Moore of Sam & Dave asked Obama to refrain from playing his “Hold On I’m Coming” for fear it would look like the singer had endorsed the candidate. The Obama campaign agreed to stop.
As noted, Obama was classy and stopped when asked.
Trump appears in that article more than any other politician.
Yeah I remember this at as far back as Bush Jr. AFAIK the complaints never go further than a public statement by the artist, no one actually gets sued.
Its usually combined with an utter disregard for the actual lyrics of the song. Like has any Republican actually listened to Born In USA or Keep on Rocking in the Free World before they played them at their rallies?
Though the recent Titanic soundtrack Snafu by Trump’s people was particularly hilarious. I mean that song is synonymous with one thing and one thing only: a catastrophic sinking ship. Its not like it has a patriotic sounding chorus that is a only thing people know, you only need to hear a few bars to think “oh it’s the ship sinking song”