The knight in the big world of American TV series

When your boss asks you if you can handle it, what would you say as a subordinate?

One of the scoring situations is disbelief, distrust in the abilities of subordinates.

One is to ask casually, which does not make much sense.

Another way is to know the situation and the unspoken rules. The meaning of his question is not about that matter, but about you.

What it means is that if something goes wrong in this matter, will it implicate him if you don't back it up?

The chief of staff is Benjamin's confidant... This position can only be filled by confidants.

The chief of staff was very clear about Benjamin’s needs and concerns, so he knew what Benjamin meant when he asked: “Don’t worry, we’ll take care of everything.”

There is something called white gloves!

This thing has formed an industrial chain in Washington. Let me tell you the fact that in the United States, politicians are very rich!

The United States has an electoral political system. Congress consists of the House of Representatives and the Senate. The House of Representatives is the lower chamber and the Senate is the upper chamber. The House of Representatives has a total of 435 members, determined by the population of each state. Then the Senate is composed of fifty states, each state has two people and one hundred people, a total of 535 people. These 535 people are elites from all walks of life in the United States. However, since the United States has an electoral system and has multiple parties, apart from other factors, the election is actually a marketing competition.

Starting from the bottom, starting from the grassroots, you need to let your neighbors, let your community, let the people around you know you. The usual methods are to either publish your relevant campaign speech in a newspaper, give a speech on TV, or let everyone know who you are by mail or letter. Then this kind of campaign process and marketing process all require costs. And this cost is at least millions. When you reach the parliamentary stage, you usually have a campaign team. The campaign team has people who specialize in strategic planning, marketing, and media communication. This campaign team is also equivalent to the operation of a company, so there will be costs related to company operation. And even if it spends so much money, it does not mean that it can be elected.

During the election process, there is a lot of uncertainty even when spending money. The United States is a business-based society, including business, which is also based on public consumption. Therefore, most Americans can engage in political work only if they have both money and leisure, and they must be very interested in political work or the public management system. Only when these three points are met can we develop in the political field.

This election is not easy. It should be said that it is a social superstructure. You need to have sufficient underlying foundation and sufficient experience in public management to gradually accumulate. Only by accumulating over time can you gradually rise to the top. The top level of the entire social management. So it is a very difficult thing. You need to have both money and leisure. This is a requirement of American congressmen.

The average net worth of U.S. congressmen is around 750 million to 800 million U.S. dollars, and they belong to the upper class elite of the United States.

In short, poor people should not even think about the job of being a politician. It won’t be your turn!

So this raises another question: Why do a group of wealthy people with money and leisure come out to participate in politics?

Don't tell me specifically that you are serving the people... No, right? No way? Does anyone really believe it?

America is a business society!

The entire society follows business logic. Every time they run for election, they invest a huge amount of money. These are all costs, so... if there is a cost, there must be a return!

So what's the reward?

In a business society, the most intuitive reward is money!

But he is a politician after all, so he cannot be too naked when making money.

This is about the famous 'revolving door' politics. The so-called "revolving door" is a top-level institutional design in the United States, which aims to provide assistance to officials who have held positions in the government, allowing those who worked for companies or companies while in office to Senior officials who have contributed to interest groups, spoken, signed, and legislated can comfortably obtain high-paying positions in relevant industries and enterprises after their youth and struggle, just like a solid and reliable anti-corruption system between the government and enterprises. An "automatic revolving door" opened on the big wall, shocking foreign corrupt officials who tremble every day under the "shadow" of anti-corruption that "swatts flies big and small".

(Since 2022, dozens of former Armed Services Commission and Defense Department officials have obtained similar positions in corporate "Government Affairs Departments" through the "revolving door", continuing to persuade their colleagues to embark on the road of common prosperity. 2001 In the beginning, more than 2700 officials in the military industry alone used the "revolving door" to turn around and continue to fight for the welfare of the defense industry. In contrast, the first quarter report of the military industry sector continued to be exciting, and the quarterly reports of leading manufacturers had to use the word "strong" "Two words to describe it.)

"In politics, there are two things that are very important. The first is money, and the second I don't remember." This is the experience of Mark Hanna, a campaign expert who helped William McKinley win the presidential election twice more than 100 years ago. talk". Today, during every US election, this sentence is still quoted frequently by the media. Because, compared with more than a century ago, the nature of money politics in American democracy has not changed at all.

In American democracy, money is supreme. Power comes from money and serves money. The so-called "freedom, democracy, and human rights" spoken by American politicians are nothing more than a fig leaf used by the elite to cover up their own privileges. Ordinary people are deceived and restricted by carefully designed political mechanisms full of back-room manipulation, and are excluded from the power system. However, the elite relies on their financial resources to influence the country through various means such as campaign donations, political lobbying, and the "revolving door" of politics and business. policy and benefit distribution.

Every presidential election or the transfer of power between the two parties, there will be a large number of senior government officials who leave their jobs to work as senior executives in the private sector and receive high salaries. Many of them join the lobbying industry and use their personal connections to seek benefits. Once their party regains power, many senior business people will enter government departments, and their scope of power sometimes directly covers the industry of the company where they originally worked. The American media criticized that as an inevitable by-product of the American political tragedy, the existence of the "revolving door" provides a convenient door for collusion between officials and businessmen and breeds a lot of corruption. In 2009, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development issued a report saying that the "revolving door" phenomenon was very obvious in the U.S. financial sector, which made it difficult for the government to strictly supervise financial institutions and became an important reason for the 2008 international financial crisis.

American sociologist Charles Wright Mills pointed out in his book "The Power Elite" that the American "power elite" who enter and exit the "revolving door" control the state machine and have various privileges in the economic, political, military and other fields. They are closely connected with each other and hold the power to make decisions. No wonder former U.S. President Carter once lamented, “American democracy is dead and has been replaced by oligarchy.”

And this is just the basic gameplay, the real gameplay is actually white gloves!

After all, a revolving door must rotate!

For many members of Congress, just like hereditary officials, the father does it, the son does it, and then it is the grandson's turn.

If the whole family goes to 'serve' the country, who will make the money?

At this time, White Gloves appeared. They specially serve these powerful people and help them take care of anything. Remember, it is anything!

Later, this method began to appear in more places. For example, the CIA was short of funds. What should we do?

Look for white gloves!

Many drug dealers are actually "undercover agents" of the CIA. They also sell drugs, but the proceeds from drug trafficking are shared with the CIA!

These guys are white gloves.

Even more exaggerated, do you remember that Colonel Stryker?

He also has white gloves.

White gloves from some in the government and military.

Their role is not to make money, but to isolate danger.

What Stryker is doing cannot be led by the government or the military. After all, this thing can be done, but it cannot be said that if it is leaked, it will cause great turmoil in the political arena and affect the government's credibility.

So although Stryker has great power, he seems to be able to command anyone and accomplish anything.

But in fact, he is just a retired military officer and has nothing to do with the government or the military. At least according to government and military files, he is not employed by any government agency.

He got the result, naturally it belongs to the government.

Once something went wrong with him, it was exposed. Then he is a criminal, and what he does has nothing to do with the government!

That’s what white gloves are for!

The chief of staff thought about it early.

What, someone is studying it privately?

It has absolutely nothing to do with the government!

what?

Captain Marvel’s cells leaked out, and it was definitely the security guard’s fault!

Fired!

Then nothing happens to the government!

As for whether it will cause harm to the people...well, this has never been what these politicians care about.

You can refer to the neon politicians next door, who directly make people over sixty years old commit seppuku... The same is almost the case in the United States. They don't care about the poor. After all, they are consumables, and they are very easy to replace. You know, there are very, very many illegal immigrants in the United States, but the United States is not strict about this investigation.

Many illegal immigrants live and work in the United States, but neither the tax nor the immigration authorities pay too much attention to them. They just do it every year.

But there are more illegal immigrants in the United States than you think!

It is said that there are 10 to 20 million!

So, why doesn’t the U.S. government crack down on these illegal immigrants?

Because of human rights?

Don't be ridiculous, anyone with a right mind knows that the United States never cares about human rights!

The most important reason why the US government does not clean up these illegal immigrants is to use them as consumables!

In fact, the U.S. government really hates those people at the bottom... not very immigrants, they really like illegal immigrants. What they don't like are the poor, those with American status. After all, they want welfare, votes, and there are laws that stipulate minimum wages and welfare benefits.

Capitalists don't like them.

How great it is to be an illegal immigrant. You can exploit them as much as you want. If you are unhappy, you will be fired immediately. There will be absolutely no unions to cause trouble.

Much easier to use than those poor guys.

If possible, those upper class people really want to kill all the poor people in the United States... Okay, that's an exaggeration. After all, the poor also have to consume. If they consume, they can make money. But if you really care about those poor people, you are definitely thinking too much.

They don't worry about how many people die, since there will be a steady stream of immigrants to replenish their numbers.

They don't care about the life and death of ordinary people at all, so Nick Fury is not a special case, it's just... Nick Fury is at the top.

"Then get it done!"

Benjamin nodded.

……

While there's conspiracy going on here in the White House.

Something happened on the little bully's side.

They were under air attack!

This is very interesting. As one of the countries with the strongest air force, the airspace of the Little Overlord is very safe. However, there was no sign of the Little Overlord before it was attacked by air!

Xiaobawang is still very concerned about the safety of his own airspace. In order to ensure the safety of his own airspace, Xiaobawang has built a very complete three-dimensional air defense system. The land area is small and it is difficult for Xiaobawang to withstand large-scale missile attacks. Therefore, Xiaobawang It attaches great importance to the construction of air defense systems and has a four-layer anti-missile defense system.

It is a four-layer air defense and anti-missile system. The bottom layer is the "Iron Dome" system; the next layer is the "David's Sling"; and the third layer is the "Arrow-2" anti-missile system. The interception height is generally believed to be up to 100 meters. The interception distance is about 100 kilometers, and the interception distance is also about 3 kilometers, mainly targeting medium and short-range ballistic missiles; further up is the "Arrow-2000" anti-missile system, the interception height can reach the altitude of satellites, and the interception distance is estimated to be kilometers. Left and right, capable of intercepting some medium and long-range ballistic missiles.

Generally speaking, even if it is an attack, the damage can be minimized.

But the problem is...the air raid went very smoothly.

All the major airports in Xiaobawang were attacked and the losses were very heavy.

There was no warning or alarm at all before!

After the incident occurred, the Little Overlord government did not respond at all!

Many reporters who want to find news don’t know who to turn to.

In fact, the top management of Xiaobawang is also in a mess.

"You said they all rebelled?! Impossible! Absolutely not possible!!!" This is a high-level Air Force official.

"Then how to explain their behavior? They swaggered back to the country and bombed their own country! Including their own air force base?!!"

A high-ranking government official couldn't bear it any longer and directly attacked the top officials of the Air Force!

It turned out that just now, the F35 that had lost contact before finally responded and they were returning.

The Air Force breathed a sigh of relief. Although they have money, this is the F35, which is considered the most advanced fighter plane in the world. If they are all discontinued, it will still be a big blow to the Overlord. This is not only a loss of high-tech weapons, but also affects national morale!

However, just after they returned to the airspace, they immediately launched attacks on major airports and military bases in the country... It must be said that for the first time, the Little Overlords knew that their own arms were really powerful!

The losses were huge, and what was even worse was the loss of the air base, with many fighter planes destroyed while still on the ground.

Although the specific losses cannot be calculated yet, according to estimates, at least 300 fighter planes have been completely written off... This does not include incidental losses and losses that have not yet been counted.

It's so painful!

The weather has been really bad recently. It has been over 20 degrees for the past two days, and it has dropped again at night, and it will even reach zero degrees tomorrow... It's so boring, I feel like I'm going to catch a cold again.