America 1982.

Chapter 286 Shooting Yourself
At the Marshall Country Club in Los Angeles, Tommy was carefully selecting golf clubs.

Al Gore, who was wearing the same golf uniform as Tommy and looking at the undulating green in front of him with his hands on his waist, said casually, "Do you know how the scandal of Clinton only going to white-only golf clubs when he was governor was exposed?"

"It doesn't matter. He's already solved it, hasn't he? He's popular with those blacks now. Who the hell cares if he would never appear on the same golf course with blacks before." Tommy chose a club and swung it twice in his hand, saying.

Al Gore looked at Tommy and laughed. "Because he was so stingy with his tips. That guy always thought he could please women with his ugly face."

"As far as I know, there are indeed many black girls who fantasize about having sex with him. It's very interesting to say that although this guy refuses to play ball with black people, he does not object to sleeping with black people. This guy is a hypocritical white man. Real white people should be as self-disciplined as I am and can withstand temptation." Tommy straightened up and looked into the distance and said.

“It’s all about tipping and being mean, Tommy,” Gore said.

"Thank you for reminding me so quietly. The tip I gave you was a little too little, so you hope I can compensate you with something. How about this alloy club?" Tommy grinned and shook the golf club in his hand at Al Gore.

These are the supporters he selected, SSD alumni brothers he can trust, who are 41 years old this year and in the prime of life. In fact, Gore is not short of supporters. This guy is a hereditary senator. Even if the Gore family in Tennessee is not as prominent as the hereditary politician families of Kennedy, Bush, and Roosevelt, they are also old and powerful families in Congress and are by no means unknown.

My grandfather, Allen Gore, graduated from the University of the Cumberlands in Tennessee and an SSD alumnus. He became a practicing lawyer after graduation. During the Spanish-American War, he joined the Tennessee Volunteer Corps as an infantry captain and went to the Cuban battlefield. After the war, he served as a judge in a Tennessee court. He later ran for Congress, but died of lung disease shortly after he became a senator.

His father, Albert Gore, now also known as Gore Sr., graduated from Tennessee State University, is an SSD alumnus, a former U.S. Senator, a visiting professor at Vanderbilt University, and a director and vice president of Occidental Petroleum.

When talking about Gore Sr., we need to focus on the Gore family's non-surname patriarch. Although Gore Sr. lost his father's protection early, he was fortunate to have a godfather named Cordell Hull, who was also recognized by American politicians as the non-surname patriarch of the Gore family.

Cordell Hull was a college classmate of Allan Gore, the elder Gore's father. They were brothers in the same period of SSD and enlisted together during the Spanish-American War. After returning from the war, one became a judge and the other a lawyer. They were the two most outstanding figures in the Tennessee judicial community and complemented each other perfectly.

Later, they both entered Congress. Unfortunately, Alan Gore died too early. Before his death, he asked his good brother Cordell Hull to take care of his descendants.

In order to better take care of the family of his deceased friend, Hull got married at the age of 45 and never had any children. He raised old Gore as his own son.

Hull was the longest-serving Secretary of State in U.S. history. President Roosevelt praised him as his strongest ally on many occasions in public. This was true. At Hull's peak, he was so powerful that without his nod, the Democratic Party in the South would not vote for Roosevelt from New York. He was so powerful that even if American Jews raised funds and President Roosevelt and his wife stepped forward to try to rescue more than 900 Jews who were about to be captured and slaughtered in concentration camps in Germany to the United States, the plan was rudely vetoed by Hull alone.

In 1939, more than German Jews sold their homes and fortunes to buy tickets to board a German ocean liner and headed to the Atlantic waters near the United States. American Jews raised funds to invite the Roosevelts to support them. After collecting the platform fee, the Roosevelts only needed to go out to sea and board the ship, which would then change its route and sail into the United States. Even if it was just a short stop, the Jews could get off the ship and arrive in the United States. Not only could they make money, but they could also add some charity and humanitarian aid to themselves. The presidential couple thought there was no harm in doing so.

Unfortunately, Secretary of State Hull, a pure-blood Anglo-Saxon white man and a die-hard member of the Ku Klux Klan, found out about this matter. He went directly to the president and his wife and said that the president could accept the platform fee paid by the Jews, but the passenger ship could not board. , and passenger ships could not sail into the United States. Roosevelt's wife angrily accused Hull of being cold-blooded, and sarcastically said that Hull was not the president of the United States. Then when she was about to insist on boarding the ship with her husband, Hull said coldly, Roosevelt dared to go out, who was the president in 3? He didn't know, but he was certain that the name of the president at that time was definitely not Franklin Roosevelt.

In the end, Roosevelt refused the entry of the passenger ship. More than 900 Jewish wealthy people who bought high-priced tickets drifted in the Atlantic Ocean for an unknown period of time. When they were only one step away from the free and great America, they were brought back to Germany by the same route because of Hull's words. Then they successfully caught up with the German Holocaust against the Jews and were directly sent to concentration camps to produce daily necessities.

When the Jewish representatives in the United States found out that the president took the money but did not fulfill his promise, they went to the president's house to question him. The first lady told them that it was Hull who prevented the rescue. So the American Jews filed a complaint with the U.S. State Department for discriminating against and indirectly participating in the massacre of Jews. Upon learning that American Jews dared to cause trouble for him, Hull responded very quickly. He issued an order to American consulates around the world, prohibiting the issuance of visas to Jews. At the same time, the proposal to accept more than 20,000 European Jewish children to the United States, which had been considered before, became a cold and impossible possibility. At the same time, a large number of Jewish bullying incidents broke out in the southern United States.

This series of operations allowed Jews to develop a good habit of shutting up in the United States from 1939 to 1945, when Hull resigned due to illness, and no longer dared to say anything about the government's discrimination against Jews.

What shocked the Jews even more was that after investigation, they found that Hull's wife was actually a beautiful Austrian Jewish widow. And marrying a Jewish wife and sending the Jews to die were not contradictory to Hull.

Rumor has it that some Jews could not accept the truth and asked reporters to interview Hull, who had retired due to illness, and asked why he married a Jewish woman despite not having a good impression of Jews. Hull's answer was also said to be very American: I just don't want to have children to take away my feelings for my friends' children, not that I don't have sexual desires.

The year Hull retired, all U.S. federal officials and even Western high-level officials knew that Hull was a KKK member and SSD white supremacist, but they still recommended him to the Nobel Committee. Ultimately, the committee decided to award him the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his efforts for peace in the Western Hemisphere.

In the hearts of many brothers of the SSD fraternity, whether deceased or alive, Cordell Hull is an omnipotent God-like existence who can watch indifferently as Jews are taken away for slaughter, can tell black people to their faces that racial segregation should be implemented, and can let everyone know that he is a white racist. However, everyone still has to give him all the praises against their will, saying that his massacre and racial discrimination are fully worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Before him and after him, SSD will never find such an influential brother.

This patriarch of the Gore family, who was not from another family, disciplined old Albert like his own son and made him into a second version of himself: rational, cruel, and a white supremacist. His resume was like a copy and paste. He joined the Democratic Party in college, obtained a double degree in politics and law, started out as a lawyer, became a member of the House of Representatives, joined the army as a member of Congress during World War II, went to the front battlefield to observe and participate in combat, completed reports for members of Congress, served as a prosecutor of the military government during the Allied occupation of Germany, and continued to be elected to the House of Representatives after retiring. No matter how you look at it, he is a dazzling new star in the political arena.

According to Hull's idea, his godson Al Gore should have been able to run for president in the mid-1951s. Unfortunately, Hull suffered from tuberculosis in his later years and was often hospitalized. He could not continue to teach Al Gore by words and deeds. Al Gore got one question wrong. He thought he had participated in World War II and seen the battlefield, so he understood war. In a congressional hearing at the Pentagon in , Gore believed that the words used by U.S. military generals to explain the poor performance of the U.S. military in the Korean War were just excuses. He believed that this was the attitude of the U.S. military trying to blackmail Congress for funding. How could North Korea and the Chinese volunteers withstand the U.S. offensive? If not, they would use nuclear weapons to create a radiation belt to cut off the opponent's retreat, making it impossible for North Korea and the volunteers' supplies and reinforcements to cross the radiation belt, dividing the Korean territory in two and completely surrounding the soldiers whose retreat was cut off.

This speech was considered by the US military to be the ravings of a war maniac. They didn’t even bother to reply. They only said that Gore had never been to the Korean battlefield and did not understand the battlefield conditions and the opponent’s will to resist. At the same time, Gore was classified as one of the top US military officers. The annoying Congressional blacklist for mentally retarded people made Al Gore lose the favor of the Pentagon and ruined his path to the presidency. The Democratic Party will not choose a candidate who is hated by the Pentagon, because that will simply provide a direct assist to the Republican Party.

However, although he lost the opportunity to run for president, Gore Sr. still sat in the position of Senator of Congress for nearly twenty years, consolidating his family's influence in Tennessee until his son Al Gore grew up and was qualified to take over his political legacy.

Al Gore, the third generation hereditary senator whom Tommy supported with all his might, also had a godfather, that is the owner of Occidental Petroleum, the legendary American businessman Armand Hammer. Hammer was Gore's financial sponsor before and had always provided strong financial support to Gore. Even after he was defeated and bid farewell to the Senate in 70, he asked Gore to join his company as a director and vice president. Of course, in return, most of Occidental Petroleum's heavily polluting coal and fertilizer plants were arranged by Gore in Tennessee, and the coal company was even completely owned by Gore. Gore is responsible for this. From the s to the s, even though the wastewater from coal washing plants and fertilizer factories polluted Tennessee's water sources, Occidental Petroleum was not in trouble with the environmental protection department in Tennessee. Local residents tried to hire an environmental protection company to test the pollution at their own expense, but before the test began, the testers were expelled from Tennessee on various charges of violating state laws and were completely shut up. This was Gore's influence in Tennessee, and he was a senator from Tennessee. He did not raise the pollution issue on behalf of Tennessee in Congress, and Congress had almost no idea about the pollution situation in Tennessee.

It was this long-term close friendship that led Hammer to promise Gore Sr. that he would support his godson Gore Jr.'s future presidential campaign.

In addition to Hammer, the Gore family also has a close relationship with the Rockefeller family. Part of the Rockefeller family's oil processing industry is also located in Tennessee. When Gore was studying at Harvard University and Vanderbilt University, he always enjoyed scholarship support from the Rockefeller family.

It can be said that even without Tommy's support, if Gore really participated in the election, he would not lack funds. What he lacked was the support of public opinion, which was a very big shortcoming. Because Cordell Hull and his father Gore had too many scandals in the past, and the current American environment could no longer accept the behavior and speech of those politicians during World War II. If there was a real election, it was obvious that the Republican opponents would take out all the scandals of their past and spread them to the American people for free on TV.

In the current situation where Jews have occupied Wall Street and Hollywood, if the fact that the old patriarch Hull forced the Jews to death is exposed and made public, Gore feels that he is almost the same as his father in the past. He has basically bid farewell to the road to the presidency. All he can do for the rest of his life is to continue to control Tennessee and place his hopes for rise on his son.

When Tommy, who was also an SSD brother, contacted him, he did not show off his financial resources. Instead, he talked frankly with Al Gore, who was also concerned about the development of computers, about the computer network and television network plans he was preparing, and described the upcoming Internet era. This made Al Gore see the light. He had been paying attention to computer networks because of his thirst for public opinion propaganda. He always felt that this thing would sooner or later become as popular as television, or even surpass television. If he could seize the Internet position, even if he could only share the same status with traditional media newspapers and television networks, his hopes would be greatly increased.

What's more, Tommy Hawke, who proposed this idea, is from the SSD fraternity like him.

Therefore, Al Gore has been helping Tommy push for some bills in Congress. Even though Tommy seemed to support Clinton more, Al Gore never cared and just made a serious request to Tommy.

That is, he wanted Tommy, a brother in the congregation, to serve as godfather to his son Albert III, who was born shortly before the two first met.

Hearing Tommy's teasing, Al Gore first signaled his caddie to help him set up the ball, then tried a swing himself. After hitting it, he smiled at Tommy and said, "Of course, I can't wait to see that club."

Then he sent the caddie away, and when there was no one around except Page, Gore looked at Tommy with his hands on the club: "It's unlikely that you just asked me to play a game of golf."

"The situation is a bit delicate now. I threw out the bait, and some fools did jump out and say that my TV station was carrying out damn McCarthy propaganda, but they are all small characters. Are all the well-known politicians so timid now? Why can't they be braver!" Tommy cursed in an irritable tone.

Gore twirled his club: "Is it possible that they became famous because they were not fools?"

"I need a well-known Democratic figure to jump out and I need to punch him hard in the face, but this person has not shown up yet." Tommy looked at Gore.

Gore nodded slightly: "So, you want to choose one yourself?"

"Our New York mayor, the good old Democrat Ed Curtis, has served three terms. His third term is about to end. His poll numbers are very low, and..." Tommy said what he was thinking, but before he could finish, Gore interrupted him decisively and spoke seriously:
"No, he is a good friend of mine. Do you know how hard he worked to promote me in New York when I was nominated by my party? Not only can you not choose him, you should also support him for re-election, Tommy!"

Tommy seemed to have guessed that Gore would be a bit fierce, but he did not back down: "That guy is a Republican in Democratic guise. He has many more friends in the Republican Party than in the Democratic Party. Moreover, he became the mayor of New York ten years ago with the support of Murdoch's public opinion. It is very reasonable for him to come out and criticize my actions with righteous words. Then it is also reasonable for me to bring him down to ruin so as to give other Republicans a warning."

"He's going to run for re-election, he's not going to cause any trouble, he's a smart man, and he can't come out and accuse you now even if you want him to," Gore said.

Tommy exhaled and shrugged. "So I hope you, one of his few friends in the party, can persuade him to stand up bravely."

"What if he doesn't agree?" Gore asked after a moment of silence.

Tommy waved to Paige who was not far away. Paige came over and handed the file bag in her hand to Tommy. Tommy patted Al Gore directly in the arms and said, "He is a gay, and the kind you hate the most, the kind that is fucked by other men."

"That's fucking impossible!" Al Gore didn't rush to open the file bag. Instead, he stared at Tommy and lowered his voice: "Although he is not married, but I...he and I, and some other men, were once in a New York club with a lot of girls, and he..."

"Cheating, he likes to be zero, what do you think New Yorkers will think of it?" Tommy retracted his gaze, continued to place the golf balls, and then swung the club.

Gore lost his mood to play basketball and asked Tommy, "How did you find out all this, Tommy? I mean, some people did question him because he was unmarried, but there was no evidence. How did you do it?"

"How should I put it? Do you think it is more believable that I traveled into the future and learned the truth that had been hidden for decades from a best-selling book published after his death in 2022 by his nephew who had followed him for many years, or that one of my gay men just happened to share a golf club with the mayor of New York City?" Tommy turned his head and looked at Gore nonchalantly and said, "I won't lie to you, Gore. He is indeed a gay man you hate."

Gore slapped the file bag in his hand and stared at Tommy. "If it's true, if all this is exposed, not only will he not be able to seek re-election, he may have to move out of New York and spend the rest of his life hiding from the anger of New York gays."

"If he agrees to come out and help Murdoch attack me, he will just not be able to seek re-election, but he can continue to live in New York." Tommy also looked back at Gore and spoke slowly.

"How are you going to ruin his reputation? Besides this, are there any other negative news about him?" Gore continued to ask.

Tommy shook his head slightly, and then looked at the green in the distance: "Who knows all the dirty information about a person, of course it is himself. I am a soft-hearted person and like to give people choices. It is the same this time. He You can choose to provide yourself with a piece of black material that is explosive enough but still maintains dignity, and publish the black material through the TV station you gave me and Ted's newspaper, or you can choose a more convenient method and I will directly give you the black material. This information was broadcast on the television network.”

"You want him to jump out and attack you. After the attack, he will personally hand you the gun with the safety off. He can only choose to die in a dignified or embarrassing way." Gore felt his eyebrows twitching uncontrollably, and then he spoke decisively:
"I'm flying to New York."

"There is a ticket to New York in the file bag. I know you will stay in Los Angeles for less than three hours." Tommy smiled at Gore, then pointed to a group of figures walking slowly in the distance: "So in order to avoid Boring and a waste of venue fees, Delia and Susan are here to relax with the girls who were harassed by Fox.”

Gore looked at Tommy and said, "You're a cruel bastard, Tommy Hawke."

Tommy walked towards the crowd carrying his golf club, saying as he walked, "I'm still far behind Mr. Cold-Hull, the old patriarch of the Gore family and the gray-clad godfather of SSD. But I'm trying to catch up with him. See you later."

(End of this chapter)