Rebirth of America, this is my era

Chapter 164 Reply to Attack!

"Yesterday, after the signing of the treaty, people from all sides expressed their opinions. Our former vice president praised Jimmy's actions, saying that Jimmy's actions showed the world that we Americans respect and trust the people of BNM... Our former Secretary of State also published a statement saying that Jimmy's reasonable solution to the canal dispute is in line with the long-term interests of our country... It reflects the inclusive values ​​of our country... In this regard,... Professor, what do you think?"

"What do I think? To me, what these people said is bullshit! Because everything they said has no actual basis! They said that transferring the ownership and operation rights of the canal is in the long-term interests of our country, but can they point out where the specific interests are? They can't! They said that Jimmy's actions showed the world that we Americans respect and trust...? Then I want to ask, can the current... be trusted? We have said many times how independent they are! They have not been stable for ten years! No one knows whether they will still exist in the next second! It is really a tragedy to hand over the canal to such a...!"

"So... Professor, what do you think?"

"My opinion is the same as most people's. This is a mistake... I think it is weakening our influence in the Western Hemisphere... Jimmy is selling out the interests of the country in exchange for his good reputation internationally... As Ethan Jones said, Jimmy's success has never been his personal success! The power Jimmy exercises is not his personal power! He is running his business with the trust of the people! He is using the support of the people to gain his own wealth!"

"So...as a sociology professor, you also think that what Ethan Jones said is right?"

"Of course! Even though he is a 22-year-old kid! Uh... I don't mean to disrespect Mr. Jones here, I'm just repeating what he said. What I want to say is that although he is very young, although he said he has not received a college education, his cognition and understanding of society is far beyond that of ordinary people. He knows that his success is brought about by... the prosperity of the country, he knows that his wealth is given by... the power of the country, and he knows that the core of the American dream is what is under our feet... When a 22-year-old kid! A kid who has never been to college knows all this... How can Jimmy still not know what his actions mean?"

"His behavior is bringing shame to America!"

"Snap!" Ethan turned off the TV and threw the remote control on the table in front of him.

Support your head with one hand and insert your five fingers into your hair.

When he picked up the freshly-published newspaper, countless headlines came into view.

[“This is a dangerous and unnecessary concession!” - Los Angeles Times]

[“This is a new chapter in diplomacy!” ——The Washington Post]

[“Jimmy makes difficult decision, formally announces re-election chance” — San Francisco Daily News]

[“America is about to usher in a new era of peace and progress” ——The New York Times]

Although the headlines in these media were both good and bad, and the wind of controversy that could not convince each other provided juicy fodder for the badger in the melon field, at this moment, Ethan simply could not watch the outside quarrels with twisted excitement as usual, because every time there was a voice of opposition, his name and his previous angry remarks against Warner would hang high above the page like a dazzling sun.

For a normal person, this might be a great thing.

If this kind of thing happened to those who wanted to enter the political career, they would probably jump three feet high with excitement! This huge flow of traffic can easily allow them to get a lot of votes! Easily cross the election threshold! Get a stable seat in some conservative states!

But for Ethan Jones...this is simply a nightmare!
Because he is a businessman, he is not running for election from scratch!
He puts on the cloak of greatness and justice, but he just wants to offend Warner, who doesn't even recognize him!
The results of it?
Warner was indeed moved to tears by him.

But his words against Warner were also used to criticize the current commander-in-chief.

Damn...

What the hell is going on!
If Ethan Jones was as happy as eating honey after seeing the solemn statement issued by Warner Communications a few days ago, then now, when all the media are quoting his words to criticize the President, he really wants to swallow back what he said before.

It's not that he is afraid that his words and actions will attract attention, targeting, and retaliation from the parties involved.

Because all Americans know that it was the media that quoted him. He himself did not make any public statement, nor did he express his opinion on Jimmy's actions.

What he was worried about was actually that he voted for Jimmy last year!

Just like what I heard from the employees when I went upstairs yesterday -

In last year's election, he cast his sacred vote for Jimmy as an American citizen. Although this seemed to be no big deal at the time because voting was free, it is no longer the case if viewed from today's perspective.

Because once the media interviewed him and asked him what he thought about the canal, he had no way of answering.

Say support?
That's it.

He was showing off his patriotism one moment, and the next second he was supporting Jimmy's idea of ​​handing over the sovereignty of the canal? This is like waving his arms and slapping the faces of those conservatives who are spreading his words!

Say no support?

The situation may be better than saying support, but not much better.

If he doesn't support Jimmy's policy ideas, then what was he doing last year? More importantly, with Jimmy's coming to power, many of his friends have been given official positions in Jimmy's government. If he says he doesn't support it, then what's the point of visiting the DoJ and DoD before?
He went there openly at the time, and although he did not inform the media, no one knew if anyone took photos. Moreover, when Roy Disney could get the special gifts given to the children of officials in their game of fate... it was too easy for his opponents to attack him.

So, yesterday, after hearing the discussions among the employees, he knew something was wrong and he quickly ran away. But when the news about him appeared, and his figure was everywhere in the news, he truly realized how difficult the defense was.

Pooh!
wrong!

He didn't eat the defense!

"What the hell!"

"This is definitely Steve Ross's doing!"

Ethan threw away the newspaper and banged on the table.

Although he knew that the boss of Warner Group did not have the power to control national public opinion, such disgusting things could be done without manipulating public opinion.

Because many conservatives were very dissatisfied with Jimmy's canal proposal.

In this case, he just made a gospel statement blasting Warner?

Oh - then what should we do next? We should just let some media outlets that are on good terms with us but don't like what Jimmy Canal stands for quote his gospel statements when they make their opinions known?
This can directly put him on the fire!
Anyone who is not a fool can see this method of fanning the fire.

Anyone with a little bit of strength can do it.

And Steve Ross, chairman of Warner Communications, is neither stupid nor powerful.

"Grass!"

Ethan swung out his calf and kicked out in anger.

"Bang!" A dull sound came from the corner of the solid wood table.

"Hiss——" The collision also brought Ethan a sharp pain, making him gasp, "Fuck! It hurts so much!" He quickly retracted his foot and rubbed his toes.

The look of self-inflicted suffering made the girl curled up on the sofa's eyelids twitch.

Although Ethan had explained everything to her clearly after he came back yesterday, and the girl understood Warner's provocation and Ethan's decisive counterattack, she still wanted to talk about it at this moment.

"Ethan, I support your approach."

"When Warner swung his fist at our face, we had to fight back decisively."

"But you're too careless this time, aren't you?"

"Before, whether it was MILOVA suing us for infringement, Atari threatening us to pay compensation, or Nintendo's premeditated plan or Philips's plot, you always took action after figuring out all the circumstances. But this time, why... why did you... why did you suddenly give Warner a punch?"

Evelin couldn’t figure it out.

And Ethan...

Sitting behind the desk, the corners of his mouth twitched.

His sister asked him why he suddenly punched Warner?
Very simple!

He was careless! He didn't dodge!

When he learned from Steven Spielberg and George Lucas that Warner had a history of banning and that David Geffen was currently being banned, Ethan felt that Warner was seeking death, so he A'd in the way he thought was cool.

It's that simple!
He also knew the reason for this, which was nothing more than hearing too many nice words recently. When Roy Disney, the son of the founder of Disney, wanted to use his power to take back the company, when Walt Disney's son-in-law wanted to stabilize his position through cooperation, when Paramount, Fox, MGM, and Columbia all tried to seek cooperation...

If Ethan Jones doesn't flap his little wings of pride, would he still be considered a human being?

So when he found out that little Warner dared to speak so arrogantly...

Then shouldn't I suppress it with thundering force to show my majesty?

Although it may sound a bit childish, but...

“Ahem…” Ethan coughed pretentiously, trying to argue, “Evelyn, you can’t blame me for this, right? This was just an accident. No one knew that Steve Ross would fight back in this way. Besides, things like the canal don’t happen every time, right?”

As soon as he said this, Ethan wanted to hit himself twice.

Because he himself felt that he was shirking his responsibility.

Evelin glared at him and raised her voice. "So you mean to say that Warner is lucky?"

"Don't you watch the news for something as big as the canal?"

"Even if all you think about every day is making games, before you make a national statement or buy national ads, don't you think about whether there is any problem with your statement? Your excuse really makes me want to beat you up!"

Evelyn raised her fist.

Ethan shrank his neck.

"Okay, okay, okay, I was careless."

He admitted decisively, "I really don't watch the news that much, because I..."

"I don't like reading newspapers, and I don't have the habit of listening to the radio or watching TV."

"I was wrong—"

What Ethan said was true. As a soul of the 21st century, his greatest advantage was that he loved playing with his mobile phone. In the era of mobile Internet, people can know the world's major events by just taking out their mobile phones. Newspapers, televisions and radios? Those are things that only antiques play with!

In addition, in his previous life, he had no chance to speak out in America.

Over time, when faced with zero-yuan shopping, people just watch it with a bystander mentality.

Because of this, after coming to this era, he cares very little about current affairs. It’s not because he doesn’t like politics, but because he hardly listens to politics.

Before, he thought that there was nothing wrong with his approach. After all, everything was a business behavior, and everyone was making a fuss in the circle, so it didn't matter whether he listened or not. But now, the idea of ​​not being too lazy to listen because it was useless in the past life is really not acceptable. After making more money, not understanding this thing really delays things.

Of course, he also admitted that he didn't want to listen because he had heard it too much.

In my previous life, my Bloomberg machine kept ringing when I was at work. In this life, I finally have some free time...

Well, it looks like there's no way to relax.

“Alas!” Evelin sighed heavily, “Be careful next time.”

Ethan glanced at her and assured her, “There won’t be a next time.”

“…” Evelin was stunned for a moment, then smiled and shook her head, “What about this time?”

"Pretend to be dead."

In Ethan's opinion, the best way to deal with this incident is to play dead, not to contact outsiders, not to accept any interviews, and not to have any intersection with anyone who might gossip.

There is no way, because the canal is such a big thing.

This kind of issue involving sovereignty will result in the death of whoever touches it. In his previous life, since Jimmy was a good guy and earned the reputation of Renzong, he should shoulder it alone in this life.

To be honest, in the eyes of the international community, Jimmy is indeed a hero.

The dispute over the canal had really started in 1969, but America dragged it out for thirteen years, through four great commanders, until Renzong came to power, before giving the other party an explanation.

But again, honestly, in American eyes, he's a jerk.

Before this, no one dared to sell land like this.

And Warner used his words on this kind of thing?
Oh--

He underestimated Steve Ross, this guy is obviously also a version player!
Special grandma's!

Next time I have the chance, I must feed him a big one!
After Ethan gave his thoughts, Evelyn asked, "What about Warner?"

"Warner will not take any action."

"Are you sure? Why?"

"It's very simple, because it's true that I voted for Jimmy, but it's also true that they used their leading position in the market to monopolize. We have a handle on each other, and it's only the kind that can only discredit each other but not kill each other, so... there's no point in using it."

Ethan shrugged and said, "And even if they really did use it, it doesn't matter, right? At worst, I can go to Principal Terman and cry, and I'll say that he's also responsible for this, because it was Barbara who asked me to vote for Jimmy, and Barbara is a legal talent he brought in, so if you round it off, it was actually him who asked me to vote for Jimmy."

“Since he asked me to vote for Jimmy, shouldn’t he help me solve the problem?”

As they were talking, Evelin was stunned by the nonsense words.

"Wow Ethan... why are you such a bitch!" The girl couldn't believe it.

"Thank you for the compliment." Ethan accepted it with a smug look on his face.

Such an answer made Evelin’s face darken.

After a few seconds of panting to recover, she said, "Forget it, let's not talk about this anymore."

"Um, do you want to call Barbara back?"

"She should be very embarrassed by you now."

"Although she was also unhappy with Jimmy's actions."

This proposal was approved by Ethan.

He put away his joking thoughts and said, "Of course, Barbara is also a good person."

"She has helped us so many times, but I have caused her a big trouble this time."

Ethan felt that he should call Barbara. His reckless remarks might have an adverse effect on her. However, when he contacted Barbara through the phone he had called in advance, the secretary who answered the phone said, "Ms. Babcock is not here recently."

"What?" Ethan asked curiously.

"She's on vacation."

"??? Sorry miss, do you know where she went?"

"do not know."

"..."

This result gave Ethan a headache.

‘Fuck! ’

'Barbara won't be forced to take a leave of absence because of me?'

'The next step is to be fired?'

'hiss--'

"If that's the case, then I'm afraid I'll be beaten to death by Evelin?"

Just when Ethan was thinking that his butterfly wings might not be able to reach the white house, he received many calls. There were Steven Spielberg and George Lucas asking about his situation, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak asking about his current situation, and Uncle Thomas Johnson and Aunt Linda Johnson asking him to go home and stay at home if he couldn't make it.

These concerns warmed his heart.

After telling everyone that he was fine, Ethan really stayed at home and didn't go out. After about two or three days, he was almost bored when he suddenly heard a knock on the door.

"Who?" he asked.

“Is me——”

This response made Ethan feel a little strange, so he leaned over to take a look through the peephole...

Good guy!
Why did Barbara come to him?

(End of this chapter)