George Bush’S Great America [EN]: Chapter 165

“Domino effect. I guess you could see it that way?”

The Chief of Staff, having finished organizing the ‘Federal Congressional Plants Declaration,’ stretched at the small desk prepared for him. The Chief of Staff was getting on in years, so helping with paperwork without a desk was difficult, leading to its installation this time.

“It will bring changes, for better or worse, not only to the United States but to the legal profession worldwide.”

“It seems more deeply involved than I thought.”

“This country is the land of lobbying. Even if you don’t receive anything directly, you can get a light ‘favor’ from a ‘close friend.’”

Here, a close friend meant high-ranking government officials, and a favor meant illegal lobbying. Even if it was illegal, in reality, there were several people versed in the law attached to it, developing subtle methods that didn’t violate it.

If it’s legal, why not do it openly? If you ask, ‘Why does affection go around and around?’ That affection is open to various interpretations depending on the perspective, and there is no politician anywhere in the world who welcomes leaving a dubious history on their career.

“Truly terrible.”

There’s a saying that like sees like. A positive person sees the positive side of the world, and a negative person sees the negative side. This saying isn’t used in a very positive sense in either the East or the West. In the West, they even openly add, ‘Evil breeds evil.’

Quite a few older people want young people to take this saying as a lesson to ‘live positively in everything,’ but tell them to shove it. What does it matter if you see the world a bit negatively? The perspective on the world is different for everyone.

For example, a person who specializes in investment must have a somewhat negative perspective, whether they like it or not. If a positive view is involved in the judgment, the eyes become clouded. In activities like sports, the ‘You can do it!’ spirit is essential, but in investment, this ‘You can do it!’ spirit is the most dangerous.

With stocks, you can lose a lot with just a few clicks of your finger, and if you interpret a declining situation as a temporary phenomenon and persist with ‘You can do it!’ without getting out in time, your assets may be halved.

That’s not to say that living negatively is good. However, it doesn’t mean that you lose half of your life by living negatively. Anyway, back to the saying that like sees like, there was a considerable gap between the perspective that President Bush had and the perspectives that other people had.

“The perspectives of the President and the congressmen are worlds apart.”

The Chief of Staff smiled bitterly. In the eyes of somewhat dishonest people, the dishonest legal profession of the United States was visible, and in the eyes of an honest person, the legal profession of the United States, which still symbolizes justice to the extent that it can be fixed, was visible.

“Please write and carry around a speech in advance with this opportunity. Not that impromptu speech of yours.”

“I had a plan too! An order!”

The problem was that the plan was shattered in a mess and the order was all mixed up, but originally, people speak with results. Bush, whose results were nowhere to be found and even the process was twisted, had no choice but to be quiet.

Anyway, as the situation reached this point, the people also put this incident on the chopping block and began to fight, dividing into good and bad sides.

The side that said it was good was mostly the common people and the poor. This was divided into two: one was simply a group that incited, ‘Mr. President! You’re doing well! Just beat them all!’ In fact, this group accounted for the vast majority. The other was people with a little more thought, who hoped that the world would get better through this, but wished that the timing was a little more appropriate.

The reason why the timing was not appropriate was related to the anarchists, which will be described later, but it was due to the fact that the authority of the federal government was too strong.

Because it had become commonplace to encounter news or newspapers that a rich person had killed someone in a car accident and was acquitted, the court’s usual image was not very good in the first place, but with this incident, the index of corruption awareness of the legal profession was soaring.

The side that said it was wrong was also roughly divided into two: one thought that the president was too reckless, and the other was people who asked why they were touching the intact court. In the former case, they wanted it to be handled secretly without announcing it at all. Because the moment the president announced it, those who were quick to notice would erase the evidence or create loopholes to escape in some way. It was already a bit late, but anyway, they strongly agreed that the legal profession should be overhauled.

In the latter case, it was too obvious that they were people who often owed a debt to the legal profession or were engaged in the legal profession. They wanted the current system to be maintained.

Of course, there were also people who wanted everything to be turned off without that kind of thing. Their name is Anarchist. They were people who demanded a minimal state, in other words, a small government. And complete autonomy for each state. In other words, they were telling the federal government to stop meddling.

The federal government is tightening the state governments in every way, holding a huge knife of justice as a yardstick, saying that it is right. In fact, looking only at the phenomena caused by Bush’s actions, they had enough reason to worry about this situation.

Thinking that far, Bush raised his head, which had been looking at the documents.

“Every single one of them is terrible.”

“What are you talking about?”

The Chief of Staff reacted to Bush’s somewhat absurd remarks. However, he wasn’t so embarrassed because it wasn’t the first time he had experienced this.

“No, it’s nothing. By the way, what happened to that?”

“What? I tell you every time, there are so many that I can’t understand if you say that.”

This was also not the first or second time. He even seemed to have said the same thing last time, but history repeats itself. Bush wasn’t a man who dwelled on the past, so he didn’t care much. Originally, men only run forward.

“China.”

“China? Ah, if it’s about the free provision of medicines you ordered last time, it’s in progress. I think it’s time to reduce the amount little by little, but I think it’s okay to decide after watching the trend a little more.”

Even a medicine used for a mere cold is said to have different doses depending on the person’s body type or gender. China had to eat a lot of medicine as much as its size. Otherwise, the government itself was in danger. Or maybe the existence of the species called ‘Chinese,’ which they so loudly proclaim, would be in danger.

But what Bush wanted to ask was not this.

“No, not that.”

Bush pushed the documents that he had not yet processed to one side. It was almost lunchtime.

“Former Chairman. Still can’t find him?”

The former chairman refers to Jiang Zemin [former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China], who disappeared at some point, before the former chairman who committed suicide with a pistol. The CIA was chasing Jiang Zemin, who disappeared at the request of the Chinese government.

“We have confirmed that he had plastic surgery, but we don’t know exactly what his face looks like, so there is a slight hindrance in chasing him. The hospital burned down and the doctor died. We are comparing each one with satellites or CCTV on the street, but as you know, China is not like that. I don’t think it’s possible in the current state.”

Hearing that, Bush put his hands on his chin and looked like he was thinking about something.

“Should I increase the importance [priority of the search]?”

Because it was a search operation that was being carried out in conjunction with other operations, the progress itself was very slow. If the CIA started chasing with all its might, it could create as many Jiang Zemins as it wanted.

“No, it’s okay. There’s no need to be so obsessed. However···.”

“However?”

“I can roughly imagine what he’s feeling.”

Bush’s expression when he said that looked very subtle.

‘I’m screwed!’

Jiang Zemin’s vision blurred, creating the illusion that the world was spinning counterclockwise. Soon, the strength in his legs gradually loosened, and the marble floor suddenly came before his eyes.

The ground is moving? Truly mysterious and wonderful. If Jiang Zemin had this power, could China be a little different now?

‘No, how can marble move?’

Ah, he then realized that he was falling forward. Usually, he would fall backwards and fall on his butt, but he seemed to be very unlucky. However, judging from the fact that he didn’t feel much other than a throbbing feeling, he didn’t seem to be seriously injured.

“It’s not bad to curse America in America.”

Now, as a Chinese-American living in Hawaii under the name ‘William Wong,’ he chuckled and giggled to himself like crazy with his head buried on the floor after falling, and then sat down on the spot. This has happened often since he had plastic surgery. Or maybe a mental illness is the problem. Anyway, the man who was no longer Jiang Zemin sensed that he didn’t have much time left to live.

William Wong got up from his seat and leaned against the sofa. His life was materially quite prosperous, having succeeded in smuggling a huge amount of wealth that seemed to have no end safely abroad. There were four private yachts in the harbor, and seven cars on this small island. The house was just a mansion where the nouveau riche lived, but the interior was one of the most magnificent in Hawaii.

“But what is all this life for?”

When did he only move for his wealth and glory? As you can guess from the wealth he has accumulated now, he can’t really say that he has dedicated his entire life to the country from A to Z, but wasn’t all of this originally a stepping stone to create a greater China?

But what happened to China now? It was so broken that it had to borrow the hand of the United States, and the people were driven into a corner to the point of reminiscent of the 1950s. As the government’s situation became difficult, the rationing system was revived, and Taiwan, which could be said to be a sworn enemy, was taking advantage of this opportunity to introduce new weapons from the United States.

In fact, Jiang Zemin could have done something about China even now. In the first place, the problem was that the current head of state was Li Keqiang [Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China]. He was too nice to embrace everything, so this happened. If he didn’t think it was right, he also needed the courage to cut it off boldly.

That’s right. Choice and concentration. If we dispose of some cities that only need to spend money and concentrate all the national capabilities on the best cities in each district such as Beijing···.

“Damn it. The liquor tastes terribly good.”

But now it was just an imagination. Experience, tactics. He has the will to do it, but there is no way to put it into practice? What kind of torture is this?

「The President criticized it as a plant congress and soon announced that he would eliminate the filibuster.」

News was flowing from a terribly large TV. The problem was that he had no memory of turning on the TV. Perhaps it was turned on for some reason when he fell earlier.

“That man is lucky to be able to do what he wants.”

William Wong’s expression when he said this was truly subtle.