[ Yeah, Jake thinks, sort of idly, staring again at those last three pixelly words. Fuck you. ]
Mighty nice and charitable of you, son
[ The mockery of the difference in age, seniority; the kind of respect you have for people in leadership. US Attorney General, in another life. But certainly not this one. ]
Think we should start playing on the same field 1. I am not her husband 2. She did not tell me what happened 3. You are doing a fine job of digging your own grave
[ Macho-bullshit filtered through downhome Texas, turns of phrase he only uses when he's trying to rattle on purpose. Slick when he wants to be cruel. Buried in it, at least, the flinty implication of something: that this is not a conversation Jake is willing to have. That a man worth his salt apologizes head-on. And most of all: that Jake is not, by any measure, the person anyone turns to if they want absolution. ]
If I were you, I'd pick your next moves very carefully And they certainly wouldn't be for me
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Mighty nice and charitable of you, son
[ The mockery of the difference in age, seniority; the kind of respect you have for people in leadership. US Attorney General, in another life. But certainly not this one. ]
Think we should start playing on the same field
1. I am not her husband
2. She did not tell me what happened
3. You are doing a fine job of digging your own grave
[ Macho-bullshit filtered through downhome Texas, turns of phrase he only uses when he's trying to rattle on purpose. Slick when he wants to be cruel. Buried in it, at least, the flinty implication of something: that this is not a conversation Jake is willing to have. That a man worth his salt apologizes head-on. And most of all: that Jake is not, by any measure, the person anyone turns to if they want absolution. ]
If I were you, I'd pick your next moves very carefully
And they certainly wouldn't be for me