Volume 4: White Devil Chapter 234: Clear Foolishness and Ambitious Jeff
Florida's 18th District is one of the seven districts located in Dade County, Florida. There are only 20 districts in the entire Florida. Dade County, which is home to the big city of Miami, is divided into seven districts. This shows how densely populated Miami is.
Jeff, who had no idea that he was about to embark on a completely different life experience, drove Tommy around the constituency in his Ford family car, introducing some of the district's landmark buildings and waiting for the elementary school to finish school before starting his great rally.
Along the way, he told Tommy and Martin about his mental journey from an ordinary person to standing up to run for election. His story was very sincere and simple. Martin wanted to stop the car several times and go to Page in the car behind to get a few electric shock devices to give this guy an electric shock. Maybe he could grow a brain.
In addition to being a plumber, Jeff Lavin is also a volunteer janitor at the church. He can be understood as a Catholic church member who is enthusiastic about helping schools and children. The gathering he mentioned refers to when the children get out of school in the afternoon. Because many local parents work in citrus orchards, okra gardens, or sugarcane plantations, and finish work late, these church janitors will very lovingly help take care of the children in extracurricular areas arranged by the school or church. From this point, we can see that Jeff Lavin is a very loving person who likes children very much.
The only problem is that he loves telling children Bible stories and, with the help of his two janitor friends who also believe in the flat earth theory, he likes to constantly instill in children the so-called truth that scientists are lying and the earth is flat.
He was responsible for telling Bible myths on the stage according to the book, interspersed with some flat earth remarks, while his two janitor friends were responsible for distributing candies to the children so that they could calm down.
No child wanted to listen to the same old Bible stories, so the gathering didn't go very well, with only a dozen or so children willing to listen to Jeff's stories in exchange for candy.
During the assembly, there was a teacher who was in charge of supervising the safety of the children at school. He couldn't help arguing with them on the spot, mocking Jeff and the other two janitors as idiots. Although Jeff and the other three janitors were caring, their eloquence could not compare with that of a real teacher. So the teacher had a debate with them about science and theology, which left only five children out of the dozen who were skeptical about the flat earth theory the next day. Those five did not really believe in the flat earth theory, but liked the free candies provided by Jeff and his friends.
Jeff and the other two were very angry when they saw that their hard work was ruined by the teacher just when they were about to let the children know the truth. However, they felt that they could not defeat the hateful teacher with eloquence. So, after Jeff thought hard, he came up with an idea. In order to prove to the children that practice makes perfect, he invited the teacher who was sincerely finding fault and trying to prevent them from exposing this scientific conspiracy to participate in a proof experiment together.
The experiment was very simple. Jeff found a large solid ball and a large wooden board. Then the three of them jumped up and down on the board like idiots. After jumping, he invited the teacher to repeat the actions they had done on the solid board on the solid ball in front of the children. If the other person couldn't do it, it meant that if the earth was really a ball, they would have fallen off long ago.
Maybe the teacher at the Florida public elementary school had something wrong with his brain. Despite the students' constant urging, he actually decided to accept the challenge on the spot. He took a lot of effort to finally stand firmly on the solid wooden ball, but he sprained his ankle after just jumping.
The day after Jeff proposed this great experiment, the number of students attending the assembly increased dramatically from five to more than fifty. When Jeff was telling the story of how God commanded Noah's Ark to save the world, the students at the assembly were enthusiastically discussing how to get their hated teacher to participate in this great experiment to prove the flat earth theory and then sprain his ankle.
A few brave children even ran to the principal and asked him to participate in the experiment.
The principal obviously had basic logic. He did not argue with Jeff and his friends about any issue, nor did he accuse them of doing something wrong. After all, the three were volunteer church workers who helped take care of the children after school for free, and telling children Bible stories was not prohibited in the state. He just wanted to ridicule Jeff and his friends from a higher perspective and make them realize that the flat earth theory was wrong. His original words of ridicule were as follows:
"Jeff, if you think there is something wrong with the science curriculum in schools, you should go to Congress in Washington and tell all the citizens of this country. Let parents tell their children the truth. Maybe the children will be more likely to believe it."
There was nothing wrong with the principal's ridicule. The only problem was that the three smart people didn't hear the ridicule, but only heard encouragement:
"Yes, if their experiment of the solid ball and the solid wood board is broadcast in Congress or on TV, wouldn't it make all the American people understand that those scientists who said the earth is a ball were lying?"
The three brothers hit it off immediately, and in last year's congressional election, Jeff's friend, Smart One, registered to run as a Democrat. Perhaps due to lack of preparation, not to mention their attempt to debate within the party and show the Democrats their great flat-Earth experiment, during the party primaries, their names were not even mentioned in any media, and they shared a label with a large number of people who registered to run but whose support rate was less than 0.1%.
They originally thought that they would have to wait until the next House election in two years to have a chance to run again and continue their efforts to go to Washington to clarify the truth. Unexpectedly, their luck was very good. Mr. Claude Pepper, who had monopolized the 18th District's seat in the Washington House of Representatives for 27 years from 1962 until he suffered from cancer, finally passed away. The 18th District had to hold a special election to elect a new congressman to go to Washington to take over Claude Pepper's job.
This made Jeff and the other three smart people feel that it must be God who was helping them. God wanted them to stand up and announce this great truth to the world. And this time, the other two smart people expressed their support for Jeff Lavine to stand up and run for election, on the grounds that the great proof of the solid ball and solid wood board was proposed and the props were provided by Jeff.
What happened next was that in order to go to Washington with a shot put and a solid wooden board and try to make the American people see the truth, Jeff felt obliged to step forward and register to run for election.
Today he had just registered and was preparing to find a printing shop to print flyers with his personal information for the election, when he met Tommy and his crew.
Martin watched Jeff in the driver's seat looking at the car while occasionally turning his head to look at the camera lens on the passenger seat, trying to explain the process of his great flat earth experiment. His facial muscles couldn't help but twitch.
He had been living in Little Haiti in Miami, a place full of blacks, lower-class blacks. Later, he went to Los Angeles to make a living, met Paige, met Tommy, and lived in Beverly Hills. Most of the white people he met in his life were rich people, such as Tommy and Stephen, or they were smart and cunning bad guys, such as Paige and Big George who suddenly disappeared. In short, these white people made Martin feel very powerful, making him think that all white people should be as outstanding as Paige, Tommy, Stephen, Sofia, and Otilia.
It was not until this moment that he met Jeff, a smart white man with a face full of clear stupidity, who wanted to reveal the great discovery of the flat earth to the American people, that he realized that there were idiots like Little Haiti or Compton niggers among white people.
"Boss..." Martin looked at Tommy who was reading a newspaper next to him, "Why don't we continue to feed the pigeons with laxatives? Look at this guy's sincere expression. I don't even have the heart to call him an idiot in person! Because I'm afraid he will seriously ask me what the word idiot means."
