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Michael Beschloss

@BeschlossDC

28 Jun

“I guess you’re not here to open an I.R.A.”—“Wall Street,” 1987:

"It's gonna be hard on you, but maybe, in a kind of screwed-up way, it’s the best thing that could have happened to you. Stop going for the easy buck, and produce something with your life.”
—Martin Sheen to son Charlie as “Bud Fox” about his imprisonment, in “Wall Street,” 1987:

"Bud, I like you — just remember something.
Man looks in the abyss.
There's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character.
And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.”
—“Wall Street,” 1987:

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Michael Beschloss

@BeschlossDC

28 Jun

Someone lounging at a New Jersey country club has issued a nasty statement denouncing Mitch McConnell and William Barr.

We can only imagine what the guy lounging at the NJ country club must have looked like while dictating his diatribe against McConnell and Barr:

Why would the guy in N.J. choose this particular week to rant against those involved in his 2020 election defeat, which denied him the protective legal immunity that is granted to a sitting President? Anything newsworthy about to happen?

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Michael Beschloss

@BeschlossDC

28 Jun

Plot summary of “Trackdown: The End of the World” (CBS, May 1958): “Walter Trump, a confidence man…tells the people a cosmic storm will hit the town and he is the only one who can save them."

In “Trackdown: the End of the World” (CBS, 1958), the con man “Walter Trump” tells a crowd, “I am the only one! Trust me! I can build a wall around your homes that nothing will penetrate!"

In “Trackdown: The End of the World” (CBS, 1958), when someone asks the sheriff how long he will let “this con man” called "Walter Trump" walk around town, “Trump" threatens, “Be careful son, I can sue you!”

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