My American magical life
Chapter 29 - 29 29 You're doing daily settlements and incidentally committing treason

29: Chapter 29: You’re doing daily settlements and incidentally committing treason?

29: Chapter 29: You’re doing daily settlements and incidentally committing treason?

America has a simple and classic institutional framework.

Separation of powers, the Congress, the President, and the Supreme Court, each commanding legislative, executive, and judicial powers.

For decades, under the strong promotion of the media, America’s system had been regarded by many as the epitome of national top design.

But a story is, after all, just a story.

Exemplars are relative, and this model isn’t without its flaws.

When establishing this system, the Founding Fathers lacked the wisdom to transcend time, leaving behind a fatal flaw.

The lack of specific design in the election process.

Many people truly understood America’s elections for the first time during the 2020 election.

It was from this controversial election that many realized for the first time that America wasn’t so perfect.

It wasn’t that American elites hadn’t noticed the systemic flaws in the campaign process.

Through history, patches had been applied to elections, one after another.

But those who write programs know that each update brings new bugs.

Sometimes, applying one patch can lead to a slew of bugs.

While programming allows for gradual bug fixes, fixing bugs in campaigns is way more troublesome.

Over time, the campaign process bugs keep getting patched but never completely fixed.

All those in America who participate in campaigns, whether candidates for Congress or for Great Commander, set up their campaign support organizations.

Like campaign committees, campaign offices, and so on.

But apart from these legally permitted campaign aid organizations, candidates still need some ‘special’ services.

They hire professional teams to do the inconvenient tasks.

The merely rough-and-ready gangs clearly can’t handle the job, and that’s when Eris comes into play.

Eris isn’t a natural-born American; he hails from the western Balkans, raised in a local virile family clan.

After the Bear fell apart, to keep up with the rapidly changing globalization era, he chose to leave his hometown and learn advanced experience in America.

An ambitious young man met opportunity-filled America.

Being an immigrant with a special background, he wasn’t accepted by the upper circles.

But opportunity is for those who are prepared.

With the help of his family’s resources, he helped his college classmate become elected as a council member of a certain place at the age of thirty, and he became an overnight sensation.

Many West Coast candidates eager to serve the American people have heard of his reputation and are willing to believe in his past success.

This time, he was just running the campaign for a headstrong Republican candidate in the same way.

He didn’t join that candidate’s campaign office.

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to join; in fact, the help he provided as an outsider was much greater than if he had joined the campaign office.

“I like your idea, but I need to know your background.

Don’t try to bluff your way through, understand?”

Eris sat in the coffee shop with his foot propped up; as he spoke, his beard moved with his lips, and paired with those sharp eyes, he looked very intimidating.

Pointing to his own eyes, he inquired about Cheng Daqi’s background.

Unintimidated by Eris’s question, Cheng Daqi responded calmly.

“Just like I said, I’m from Hua Country, an illegal immigrant.

Today I’m just here to earn some Dollars, and I thought this idea might help you.”

There are more than ten million illegal immigrants in America, with California being a Sanctuary State, harboring an even larger number.

In California, admitting to being an illegal immigrant doesn’t carry any legal risks, and Eris obviously wouldn’t threaten Cheng Daqi’s personal safety over two thousand Dollars.

“Illegal immigrant?

Well, your point is somewhat interesting, but it’s not worth two thousand and, besides, no one else needs it except me.”

Eris put down the arm that was rubbing his beard and started to haggle directly.

“Eight hundred Dollars, that’s the highest I’m willing to pay.”

“Deal!”

Without a second’s hesitation, Cheng Daqi immediately agreed.

Eris was different from Lisa, and the negotiation dynamics were also different.

As the head of a team dedicated to serving candidates, Eris was not to be taken lightly.

Maybe because Cheng Daqi agreed too quickly, Eris was a bit taken aback.

He even regretted it, thinking perhaps he had offered too much.

He had anticipated a fee of fifteen hundred Dollars to keep the shut-up money.

But now it had been taken down with eight hundred Dollars, without even bargaining.

This gave him a strange feeling.

As if he were getting ripped off?

But it was half less than the anticipated fifteen hundred, so it seemed like it wasn’t quite a rip-off.

Like a rip-off.

Shrugging his shoulders, Eris didn’t dwell on it too much and instructed,

“Don’t repeat this opinion to anyone, understand?

After it’s sold to me, it belongs to one of my clients, and you don’t want to cause me any trouble.”

Hearing Eris’s words, Cheng Daqi frowned slightly and responded,

“When I was holding the sign today, ABC did an interview.

I mentioned it to the reporter, does that have an impact?”

He didn’t yet know that the so-called interview was live; ABC’s subscribers had already seen the entire interview on TV.

“Was it live?”

Cheng Daqi’s words made Eris’s expression darken.

The sign-holding today was nominally in support of this Republican district candidate, and with his manipulations, Cheng Daqi’s words could be seen as representing that candidate’s viewpoint.

But this did not align with Eris’s plan.

Such an explosive viewpoint should at least be sold to some congressman or senatorial candidate; it would be a big loss if wasted on this foolish district candidate now.

“No, that reporter made it clear to me that it wasn’t.”

Shaking his head, Cheng Daqi answered.

“If it wasn’t live, then there’s no problem.”

Eris said with a smile, but his smile was just a false social one.

“I have quite a few friends on the West Coast, and I’ll have a chat with the people at ABC.

You’re a smart man, you get what I’m saying, right?”

Cheng Daqi took the money Eris handed over and nodded back,

“I understand you, add the Bald Eagle, and I’ll come directly to you if I have any more opinions like this in the future.”

High-end connections don’t appear out of thin air; taking a swing when the opportunity arises is the best strategy.

Cheng Daqi would never just watch an opportunity slip by him.

“I like smart people, Chan.”

Leaving the coffee shop, Cheng Daqi smiled at Sani, who was getting impatient waiting.

“Sani, I’d like to treat you to a meal, to thank you for introducing me to this money-making opportunity.”

The black girl rolled her eyes; she somewhat disdained Cheng Daqi for his act of betraying his country.

I’m a vagrant, I’m homeless, I don’t love my country.

But that doesn’t stop me from despising a traitorous neighbor.

And it certainly doesn’t get in the way of eating.

As a vagrant, not being proactive about eating just won’t do.

However, before getting to the meal, Sani had a question that she really wanted an answer to.

“Did he really give you two thousand?

You sold out for two thousand Dollars?”

The black girl’s way of asking was truly lacking in manners.

Who curses someone to their face like that?

With a wry smile, Cheng Daqi replied.

“It was just eight hundred, but why do you think I’m selling out the country?”

“I might not have been to school, but that doesn’t mean I don’t understand these things!”

“Sani, you really don’t understand.”

Cheng Daqi opened his phone and started checking out the Bald Eagle from Eris.

“Stop fretting about it, just pick a restaurant, anything under fifty Dollars is fair game.”

Seeing how Cheng Daqi didn’t take selling out seriously, Sani aggressively chose a restaurant.

The dog who would sell his country, I brought you in for day labor, and after you’re done you TM even sold out incidentally.

I’m going to eat fiercely!

Her symptoms were exactly like Lisa’s.