American Entertainment 1982

Nick sat in the co-pilot of the car rented by the film crew, held a sandwich in his hand, and looked sleepily at a printing shop on the side of the street.

Tommy Hawke, who was in charge of the filming, had already walked into the printing shop for about an hour. Before entering, he asked Martin to buy a dozen Florida newspapers, and then read them by himself. After that, I started working in the print shop.

After getting permission from the store, the photographer who went in and followed Tommy to shoot, communicated with the team leader Nick on the walkie-talkie: "He is making plates manually, it looks like he is designing newspaper layouts or something."

"It's a serious business after all, although I suspect that the money he earned from pigeon defecation is not enough to support him to publish newspapers." Nick took a bite of his sandwich and responded perfunctorily: "Whatever he designs, at least this picture can be broadcast Come out, it's not the kind of shit, shit, and now when I think of yesterday's scene, I want to spit out the food I was eating."

"I think you are a little too optimistic. When he was making plates, he asked the owner of the printing shop to help design and produce a few work card badges with our names written on them. He also asked Martin to find a cheap photo studio nearby to help us. Taking a headshot and putting it in those work cards, I am a little worried now, the work cards say that we are the staff of a magazine stationed in Florida in the United States from the Netherlands in Europe, who can tell me when I became Dutch?" Photography The division spoke to Nick and whispered:

"I haven't even been to Europe."

When the photographer was guessing what Tommy was doing, Tommy had already designed a small half of the layout by himself. Then he moved his hands and feet, stopped working and smoking for a rest, and chatted with the Cuban immigrant boss who enthusiastically gave a cup of free coffee.

Just as the two were discussing whether the sunshine in Florida is radiant and can easily damage people's brains, which is why there are all kinds of weird humans in Florida, the store door was pushed open.

A burly white man in a plumber's overalls, a sun hat, and an unshaven beard walked in, and the owner of the printing shop greeted him: "I don't remember calling before to report the plumbing and need help. ?"

"Hello, sir, I'm Jeff LaVine, a Democrat, and I'm a candidate for the special by-election in Florida's 18th district." The big man was quite strong, but his expression was a little nervous and shy. He introduced himself quietly to the boss.

When the boss heard the other party's self-introduction, he reacted very simply, pointing his finger out the door with a stern face: "If your eyes and ears are fine, you should infer that I am Cuban from my skin color and spoken language, so don't Count on me to vote for the Democrats who discriminate against Cubans! Get out of my turf!"

Tommy was holding coffee next to him, and laughed when he heard the boss's straightforward words. Indeed, the Democrats are now in Florida, or in many ways, their words and actions are more radical than the Republicans.

For example, the Democratic Party in Florida has always accused the ruling Republican Party of continuing to take in hundreds of thousands of Cuban immigrants for the sake of international reputation. It is destroying this great country. These hundreds of thousands of Cuban immigrants will not only take away the jobs of American citizens , occupying the social benefits of American citizens, and at least tens of thousands of brainwashed Cuban communist fighters will be placed in them. They will lurk in Florida like ghosts, and wait for Castro's order, and these people will quickly occupy Florida. , became the vanguard of Cuba's attack on the United States.

These remarks are very mindless, and the Democratic politicians who said these words should be very clear that these words are nonsense, but the people at the bottom of Florida are willing to believe these words, and they can even spread these rumors and change them, such as accusing some Cuban immigrants The gun shop opened is actually an arsenal built by Cuban spies. In the unknown depths of the Florida Everglades, these damn Cubans still hide hundreds of tanks and planes.

Therefore, a large number of Cuban immigrants who have immigrated to Florida in recent years almost hate these Democratic politicians who slander Cubans. Now that a Democratic candidate comes to canvass, the boss will naturally not be polite.

"You misunderstood, sir, I'm not...I'm not here to solicit votes, sir, I want you to help me print and make some campaign leaflets." The big man named Jeff explained with some embarrassment: "I don't discriminate against Cuba. Man, I... I just wanted to..."

After the boss learned that he misunderstood the real intention of the other party, he also softened his tone, but still kept a straight face: "You don't have to think about it. In principle, I will not print advertising leaflets for the Democrats, unless you are willing to pay more."

"Is it faster to add money?" Jeff handed a plastic bag containing his own information to the boss, and did not refuse the boss's unreasonable request for more money.

The boss took the information, and his tone was full of sarcasm: "It must not be as fast as the speed at which Democratic politician Rose Wright has sex with women."

Florida is an outstanding place, and this phrase lives up to its reputation. Ross Wright, the owner of the printing shop, was the candidate for mayor of South Miami last year. The Democrat, this guy just had a spring night in bed with a Cuban high-end girl the night before. At the campaign rally the next day, he justly criticized the Republican Party's Cuban immigration policy and robbed locals of their jobs.

The Cuban girl saw the bastard's speech harming racial rights on TV, and angrily published the details of Ross Wright's whoring scandal in the name of the person concerned, giving the opponents of the Republican Party just a chance to ridicule. He ridiculed him "Ross Wright, a great politician who keeps saying he wants to help Americans keep their jobs and boycott Cuban immigrants, but at night he would rather provide jobs for Cuban female immigrants than touch his American citizen wife."

Then, Ross Wright, who was forced to take the blame and withdraw from the election, became the mascot of the Democratic Party in the mouth of Cuban immigrants, and was picked up by Cubans to flog his corpse at every turn.

In fact, in Tommy's opinion, this kind of thing is not a serious scandal. All the men in Florida know that the most cost-effective girl is a Cuban girl. Ross Wright's mistake is just that he didn't expect the prostitute he found when he was relaxing. There is also a strong compatriot feeling, but Ross Wright is not really against Cubans, just like the Republicans in this state don't really care about the life and death of Cuban immigrants, it's all business.

The Republican Party has controlled Florida for many years. Although the governor is a Democrat, the Republican Party has firmly held 12 of Florida's 19 congressional seats in the past ten years. This is because the financial backers behind these Republican congressmen are major citrus orchards in Florida. Farmers or sugar companies, these benefactors demand cheaper wages for workers, and the influx of a large number of legal or illegal Latinos can keep the wages of Florida’s bottom workers stable at a low level. Root causes of immigrant inclusion.

If technology develops tomorrow, the assembly line work of these large enterprises can be replaced by machines. Today, the Republicans who call Cubans the pillars of Florida affectionately will join the Democrats in accusing Cubans of being brainwashed soldiers tomorrow, and even slander Cuba. Immigrants hide in the Everglades rubbing atomic bombs in their hands.

The boss went to help Jeff print the leaflets. When Jeff looked around, he noticed the camera beside Tommy. He was stunned for a moment, and walked carefully to Tommy: "Sir, please, are you doing social work on the TV station?" Is the news recorded?"

"Of course, do you need a campaign ad? You pay me a thousand dollars, and I'll let the most advanced camera in the United States shoot your face all morning." Tommy said to the big man without blinking. Said.

He will not discriminate against the other party just because the other party wears a plumber's uniform. Candidates sometimes wear cheap clothes or overalls that are carefully designed. Generally very rich, even if I have no money, there will be campaign funds from donors or voters.

"No, I can't afford it. I called the TV station and asked about the advertising price. It's too expensive. If I want to pay for advertising, I don't need to print these leaflets and distribute them door-to-door. This way let everyone know Me." The other party grinned honestly at Tommy, glanced at the camera enviously and said.

"It doesn't seem like the election date is now." Tommy was smoking a cigarette, stretching his neck, and asked casually, "Is there another unlucky congressman who broke the scandal and resigned?"

The normal congressional elections have ended long before the presidential election. This kind of special election usually leaves a seat vacant in a certain district, and that district prepares for the election again.

"Mr. Claude Pepper, a Democratic member of the House of Representatives, has been admitted to the hospital for advanced gastric cancer, and his condition is not optimistic. He is in a coma most of the time. When he is awake, he said that even if he is discharged from the hospital, he will resign. In the last days of his life , staying with his family, so he needs to re-run for the House of Representatives seat in the 18th District of Florida." The big man named Jeff seems not very good at chatting with people, and he will only answer when Tommy asks, and said Then he fell silent, but he couldn't help but move slowly towards the lens of the camera, as if he wanted to get into the shooting range of the camera and find a chance to be photographed for free.

From the Q\u0026A, Tommy learned that this guy who looks like the backbone of the Florida gangsters and talks like a harmless white nerd is 31 years old this year. He is a plumbing repairman with a stable income. He also works part-time in a church elementary school Served as a volunteer janitor, served in the military before, a typical well-off white family in Florida, a wife, two dogs, three cars, four children.

"For the sake of me being a Democratic supporter, five hundred dollars, you pay five hundred dollars, and the camera can circle around you all morning, you can shoot whatever you want, and I can guarantee that you will appear on TV .” Seeing this guy’s desire for the camera, Tommy opened his mouth and offered a kind price.

Then the guy shook his head again, carefully backing away: "I can't afford it."

"You can't even advertise on TV, and your campaign action committee didn't conduct pre-fundraising activities?" Tommy said with a look of disgust: "You don't have the small cash sent to you by voters, and you don't have any companies or businesses in the district to send you money." Your big check?"

The big man shook his head blankly: "I launched a 'Say No to Atheists' rally before. At the rally, everyone said that I should run for election so that more people could hear my slogan, so I just signed up to run and I'm getting ready for the party primary right now and no one has sent me any money yet."

"You initiated a rally?" Tommy looked suspiciously at the other party: "You give me the feeling that you are a little reserved when talking to strangers. I doubt that you have this kind of incitement, and how many participants in your rally. "

"If you count them all, more than seventy?"

Tommy was stunned for a moment when he heard this number. This number is already quite a lot. You must know that in many small constituency election rallies, there are fifty supporters who would rather support the rallies than ask for leave instead of going to work. Excellent, at least it shows that these fifty supporters are absolutely hardcore, not to mention that these fifty people have families.

The shy man in front of him was able to incite more than 70 people to initiate a rally. No wonder he has the confidence to stand up for election.

Tommy walked around the big man twice, and finally said to him: "Jeff, this way, you see, we have cameras, we work in TV stations, I can help you, no one knows propaganda better than me, as long as you want For money, I could even show on the spot how to sell a black man a tanning cream to make him darker."

"I can't afford the TV commercial fee, Mr. Hawke." The big man said with a wry smile, "I only have one hundred and seventy yuan."

"Deal, I mainly want to support the Democratic Party that makes America great. The remuneration is actually not important. It can be discussed later, as long as you allow me to set up a campaign action committee in your name, and allow me and my staff to campaign The employees of the team took part of the funds in the name of receiving their due remuneration reasonably. Have you seen these photographic equipment and these hands? They will all be used by you.” Tommy held out his hand to the other party: “One hundred and seventy yuan, I let You see how candidates can get voters to pay you."

"But I still have to pay for the printing of the flyers." Jeff took out his wallet and looked at Tommy with some hesitation.

"What do you do with that thing? Poor people don't use that thing to wipe their ass." Tommy took the other party's wallet, took out all the banknotes in it and put it into his pocket, then turned to the busy boss and said, "Hey, Boss, Jeff is going to add a new slogan to the flyer: Say No to the Cubans!"

"What the hell are you talking about?" The boss came over with his eyes wide open, glaring at Jeff.

Jeff wanted to wave his hands to explain, but Tommy put his arms around his arms and said to the boss: "He said that his campaign slogan is, Say No to the Cubans, and the font should be enlarged."

"Get out of my shop! Yankee!" the boss roared angrily.

Tommy walked out of the printing shop with his arms around the other party: "The camera recorded everything, and the leaflet printing was terminated entirely because the other party breached the contract. In this way, you don't have to pay, and you can wait until you get the donation and hire a lawyer. We will come back Sue him for breach of contract and force him to double the compensation for our losses."

"However, I still have to send out leaflets to promote myself, and no one in the constituency even knows me." If it weren't for this guy named Tommy who had a camera following him to shoot, Jeff LaVine would have thought he had encountered a liar.

Tommy looked at the weather: "Alternatively, you can take me to meet your more than 70 rally supporters, and I will show you what magic is. First of all, I will take care of the money raised. "

Martin also ran back from a distance at this time: "Boss, I found a photo studio, and now I can let them take mugshots."

"Introduce, this is Jeff, Jeff, this is Martin, the most suitable campaign manager for you, he is also a black man, and he will help you win black votes." Tommy said without blinking his eyes.

After the bewildered two shook hands, Jeff went into the printing shop again, wanting to ask the boss to return his materials to him. When the other party left, Martin asked Tommy:

"Campaign manager? Didn't you say we're going to use the names of Nick and the others...to run a magazine to earn advertising money?"

"Nick and the others would like to thank Jeff. Jeff saved their lives when they were almost hunted down by hemp dealers throughout Florida. Let's change the way of starting a business and set up a campaign consulting company in Jeff's name and form a campaign action committee."

Martin had a ghostly expression on his face: "Boss, judging by his virtue, he must have no chance of being elected, even the primary election. When I was in Miami, I saw many poor black people who were as hot-headed as he was, and they all felt that He's the next fucking President of the United States, internationally known, and literally no one in the neighborhood remembers their name."

"We don't care whether he can be elected, Martin, whether he is elected or not has nothing to do with us, we just use his name to collect voters' money." Tommy whispered to Martin: "He has more than seventy supporters, as long as He brought those people together, and I promise with my help, he can empty the wallets of those people with one speech, counting Page, we have seven people working for him, so taking 80% of the income is very reasonable, that is to say , that guy received 500 yuan, we can take 400 yuan, or, you want us to change to another square and continue to feed the pigeons."

The photographer next to him pondered for a long time, but he couldn't figure out why he was almost hunted down. At this time, he was eager to know and asked Tommy: "Mr. Hawke, what is the meaning of the magazine and the hunt you just said?" thing?"

"I was planning to do a weekly magazine on hemp business in the Netherlands. That country is the only country in the world where hemp is legalized. We can let businessmen who grow a lot of hemp in warm areas like Florida spend money to publish legal product promotion advertisements in the magazine. Open up the international market." Tommy said to the other party.

The photographer swallowed a big mouthful of saliva: "So... so they really paid you to advertise, and we will be hunted down for defrauding them?"

"How can this be considered fraud? They are opening up the international market, and our magazine is also opening up the international market. Products that are illegal in the United States are not illegal in the Netherlands, and we are selling advertisements." Tommy explained confidently:

"The solution to avoid being hunted down is very simple, let Stephen send you to the Netherlands, register and start a magazine there, and change another group of people to follow the filming, so that I can continue without being disturbed. Engage in animal-loving activities such as helping pigeons lose weight."

At this time, the big man Jeff also came out of the printing shop with his own materials, looked at Tommy, smiled a little honestly and said: "Well, this is the most hasty decision in my life, I just went into a shop at random , Just trust others, but I feel that if I really need to stand up and run, I really need to learn to trust others, get in the car with me, and I will take you to the school to meet my supporters."

With that said, he walked towards a family recreational vehicle on the side of the road.

Tommy asked suspiciously: "School? You mean those teachers are your supporters?"

"Two teachers, three janitors, and the rest of the supporters are mainly children, can you believe it? Now science class tells children that God does not exist and the earth is round. This statement is too much , so I launched the 'Say No to Atheists' assembly, telling children about God's great miracles." Jeff opened the door and greeted Tommy, Martin and the photographer enthusiastically: "And most importantly, The earth we live in is flat, like a pizza."

Martin leaned closer to Tommy's ear: "Boss, you just said that you can make this white man in his thirties who still fucking believe that the earth is flat, and squeeze hundreds of donations from dozens of children?"

"I underestimated the magic power of Florida people." Tommy first laughed at himself weakly, then rubbed his face vigorously, and said firmly:

"Yeah, I can squeeze money out whether it's an adult Floridian or a young Floridian."

6,000 words, not divided into chapters, will be divided tomorrow~