The Gooyiani event at the Four Seasons Landscaping Company

[Iwasthere]

How did that happen? Did some actually book the wrong Four Seasons? Next to a porn shop and a crematorium too. Not a good look.

[BlueJac]

1. Perfect place for them fools

[klook]

2. The article from The Independent (posted in another thread)

has a hilarious account of the event from a British reporter’s perspective.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/i-saw-donald-trump-s-presidency-come-crashing-down-at-four-seasons-total-landscaping-b1699962.html

[crickets]

14. Oh, my goodness. January and a sense of normalcy cannot get here quickly enough. nt

[Yonnie3]

3. Rudy has stolen Borat's business model

It was a promo for his new venture, a movie.

"Rudy does stupid for to make Donny most glorious leader" is his first title.

[Kitchari]

7. LOL

"Rudy does stupid for to make Donny most glorious leader" - too funny!

[lagomorph777]

4. Same booking agent as Spinal Tap.

[JenniferJuniper]

10. I thought the same thing - where's the puppet show?

[lagomorph777]

12. Cancelled due to poor ticket sales.

[unblock]

5. obviously someone booked the wrong four seasons, and by the time they figured it out,

they inexplicably decided it was too late to change so why not go ahead rather than postpone a day or maybe even just a few hours.

to me, the hilarious part isn't that some staffer made a mistake. this kind of stuff happens. more to them than us it seems, but everyone makes mistakes.

the hilarious part is that no one caught the mistake until it was too late *and* they decided to go through with it anyway.

and they said dukakis looked silly wearing a helmet.

classic.

[Archae]

11. Also one of their key "witnesses..."

Is a local political gadfly, who was busted and convicted for flashing two little kids.

[gratuitous]

6. My guess

The campaign sent out its press notice that the availability was going to be at the Four Seasons, and someone hadn't quite locked down the reservation at the Four Seasons Hotel, which is where any sentient being would have assumed was being talked about. Then the hotel told them to get stuffed, you're not polluting our venue with your toxic batshit nonsense. So the scramble was on to find something else called "Four Seasons," and this landscaping company had the bad luck to share a name with the hotel.

This is the natural consequence of having rank amateurs running a campaign. They don't know how to do what they need to do, they get nasty little surprises like this happening all the time, and they don't have a Plan B when things go sideways. Right now our law office is working remotely, so if I have tasks to delegate to the mail room people, I'm very careful to spell out exactly what I want them to do. Where I printed out the pleading, where I printed out the envelope, what's to be included in the mailing, and what account to charge the postage to. That's because in 40 years, at one time or another, I've fucked up about every way you can think of, and a few other ways you'd never imagine. I've also delegated the most straightforward tasks to people who should know how to do things, and found out later that they discovered a new and unforeseen way to fuck up my instructions. You gotta be careful.

As the Billy Joel song has it, "The things I did not know at first, I learned by doing twice."

[klook]

9. LOL, "Measure twice, cut once."

Or in the case of these Keystone Kops, cut 5 times!

[gratuitous]

15. I've cut this board three times, and it's STILL too short!

[lagomorph777]

13. Franki Valli also turned them down.

[Laelth]

8. It appears that the Trump team tried to book the hotel, and the hotel said no.

Trump just told his campaign to book the hotel and assumed it was a done deal (because he’s Trump, and nobody tells him no), and then he tweeted the location for the press conference at the “Four Seasons.” When staff told the President that the Four Seasons hotel was unwilling to accommodate him, he pitched a fit, and, in an effort to save face, he booked “Four Seasons Landscaping” so that he wouldn’t be embarrassed by the Four Seasons hotel having given him the middle finger. And that’s all there is to it.

It HAD to be at the “Four Seasons” because Trump said so, and he had to save face. And it was ... right next to the porn shop, and right across the street from the mortuary.



-Laelth