>>16775330Kek this isn't based nor is it being assertive.
It's textbook conflict avoidance. He just stops booking them because he's afraid to talk to them. He let's them sit at home and leech his money. They win. They get paid to sit at home and make fun of Tony.
Tony is nothing like Vince.
Vince wouldn't pay people to sit at home. If you were lucky he just fired you. But most of the time he'd job you out to the point you were unsalvageable. And he'd find a way to humiliate you on tv. Just few examples would be having you make out with a dirty mop, joining the kiss my ass club, calling you Piggy James, giving you a stutter, having Heidenreich molest you...
It's clear you are Tony Khan still or maybe even Tony himself trying to justify these embarrassments.