Free Agency and a double barrel

Glengarry Glen Ross written by David Mamet

(Roma is speaking to his office manager, Williamson, who in trying to help Roma close a sale with his customer, lies and blows the deal.)

Roma: You stupid fuckin' cunt. You, Williamson; I'm talkin' to you, shithead. You just cost me six thousand dollars, six thousand dollars and one Cadillac. That's right. What are you gonna do about it? What are you gonna do about it, asshole, you fuckin' shit? Where did ya learn your trade, ya stupid fuckin' cunt, you idiot? Who ever told you that you could work with men?

note: some folks think age means they can

work with adults or deliver adult expectations.

Detective (Jude Ciccolella): Could I uh...?

Roma: Oh, I'm gonna have your job, shithead. I'm goin' downtown, I'm gonna talk to Mitch and Murray. I'm going to Limkin! I don't care whose nephew you are, who you know, whose dick you're suckin' on, you're goin' out. I swear to you! You're goin'.

note: nepotism or sexual preferences or willingness

Detective: Hey fella, let's get this done!(Roma turns and looks at him, complete a 180-degree turn back to Williamson.)

Roma: Anyone in this office lives on his wits. (turns back to the detective) I'm gonna be with you in a second. (turns back to Williamson) What you're hired for is to help us. Does that seem clear to you? To help us, not to fuck us up. To help men who are going out there to try to earn a living, you fairy, you company man. I'll tell you somethin' else; I hope you ripped the joint off, I could tell our friend here a little something might help him to catch you. (turns to go into the office and talk to the detective, stops and turns back for his parting shot to Williamson) You wanna learn the first rule? You'd know if you ever spent a day in your life. You never open your mouth till you know what the shot is. You fucking child.

The parts in orange are great dressing, but the parts in white are the double barrels to both sides of the aisle receive. Like religious Pharisees and Nationals on one side and the sex and crucifixion style cancelling of the Romans whenever someone isn't PC, then there are Greeks and Jews stuck in the middle wanting to live LIFE.

The more things change the more they stay the same.

We're not into this S, either group, any initials. Don't write to us trying to persuade us or asking us to get behind any corporate causes or lifestyle trends. We're not religious or lawless. That doesn't mean we don't like Jesus or that we don't like you because we aren't flying your colors. We're a family, in the old school sense of the word. Whenever you'd have Thanksgiving, because most everyone is off work and agree to being off. You should conduct yourself the way you would like to think the Natives and the folks like them who left that other land mass because shit sucks in the old-world. Like a buffet or pot-luck you can choose what is badass and what isn't, you can eat according to what is palatable to you. However, rotten is rotten regardless of how you feel or if covid deadened your sense of smell. Somethings can look great and be rotten and somethings can look rotten and be made to whip up Banana Nut Bread...

If you don't like banana but bread and that makes you miss the analogy or the first thing you say is, "well I don't like banana bread" then you are the fucking problem. You intentionally miss the point to make it about your personal flavor preference.

Same with the first rule; it isn't about fighting. You can talk about fighting. If you don't know the shot, you don't know the audience and then you are breaking the first two rules.

Punisher, Batman, Sting, these characters are free-agents, like you, they have free-agency, and they don't have to choose any man-made side. They wrestle with evil and the consequences.