Posted on 07/30/2017 4:49:33 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus
A few years ago in New York, Al Pacino starred in a revival of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross, and the casting was poignant: In 1992, a much younger and more vigorous Pacino had played the role of hotshot salesman Ricky Roma in the film adaptation of the play; in the Broadway revival, a 72-year-old Pacino played the broken-down has-been Shelley Levene. Glengarry Glen Ross is the Macbeth of real estate, full of great, blistering lines and soliloquies so liberally peppered with profanity that the original cast had nicknamed the show “Death of a F***ing Salesman.” But a few of those attending the New York revival left disappointed. For a certain type of young man, the star of Glengarry Glen Ross is a character called Blake, played in the film by Alec Baldwin. We know that his name is “Blake” only from the credits; asked his name by one of the other salesmen, he answers: “What’s my name? F*** you. That’s my name.” In the film, Blake sets things in motion by delivering a motivational speech and announcing a sales competition: “First prize is a Cadillac Eldorado. Second prize? A set of steak knives. Third prize is, you’re fired. Get the picture?” He berates the salesmen in terms both financial — “My watch cost more than your car!” — and sexual. Their problem, in Blake’s telling, isn’t that they’ve had a run of bad luck or bad sales leads — or that the real estate they’re trying to sell is crap — it is that they aren’t real men.
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He has had a middling career in real estate and a poor one as a hotelier and casino operator but convinced people he is a titan of industry. He has never managed a large, complex corporate enterprise, but he did play an executive on a reality show. He presents himself as a confident ladies’ man but is so insecure that he invented an imaginary friend to lie to the New York press about his love life and is now married to a woman who is open and blasé about the fact that she married him for his money. He fixates on certain words (“negotiator”) and certain classes of words (mainly adjectives and adverbs, “bigly,” “major,” “world-class,” “top,” and superlatives), but he isn’t much of a negotiator, manager, or leader. He cannot negotiate a health-care deal among members of a party desperate for one, can’t manage his own factionalized and leak-ridden White House, and cannot lead a political movement that aspires to anything greater than the service of his own pathetic vanity.
Now Trump is a failed businessman. (I wish I failed like that.) He is a failed negotiator because OCare is still here - nice try but ask McCain who trashed it for 7 years with repeal and replace and now votes to keep it. Williamson says the Senate is "desperate" for a deal. Really acid freak? What planet is Williamson vacantly wandering on? They had six months for a health care deal, and now its Trump's fault? Why is Rich Lowry allowing this urine-yellow journalism to stain their pages. Next Williamson will blame Trump for no deal in the Middle East.
WFB would bust him out on these egregious lies and exaggerations, because it was he who wrote "the best conservative who can get elected."
Williamson is overwrought, using Peggy's weak article as a backstop. (Maybe she can resurrect Obama, that real conservative, whom she supported.)
National Review is diminishing. Its comment section is like HuffPo.
Trump should continue to use twitter. If they want him to stop then it is having the right effect. Someone has to call bullshit on this garbage Russia investigation, or the countless deliberate lies put out everyday by the DNC-media!
Lopsided deep state crap, while the FISA Court was run over by an Obama assault vehicle, the treasonous spying on the Senate by Brennan's CIA, the IRS abuse of US citizens because they were political opponents of Obama, the unmasking of thousands of US citizens - also for being political opponents of Obama, FBI agents leaking national security information...and with all of that being spiked; Trump's tweets are whiny?
Getting a lot of malware warnings for the link.
Precisely
Coffee is for closers.
Wonder how many Deploreables cancelled their subscriptions to this rag?
These people all have hard-ons for Trump's defeat, failure and removal from the office that he was legitimately elected to. They are part of the slimy swamp of DC.
Not exactly an objective source for the facts. They are part of the "Resistance".
Once upon a time NR used to be respected publication. Today it’s the home of bitter NeverTrumpers. The more Trump wins, despite the occasional setbacks, the more miserable these people become. In a way it’s fun to watch.
Lessee, he started with $1 million and ultimately parleyed it into a thousand million ($1 billion).
Yeah, that's what I'd call a "fair to middling" career in real estate.
Isn't this guy a well-documented #NeverTrump b-tch?
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