“Only strength.” It’s reminiscent of a song that our fascist president Donald Trump had performed by children at a campaign rally during his first run for office, in which little girls sang the phrase “Deal from strength or get crushed every time” to the tune of “Jingle Bells.” At the time it was the most openly fascist thing I’d ever heard from a presidential campaign. All the billions of people on Earth have been backed into a corner, he says, and the solutions people propose are bound to get “messy messy.” Coop exits the encounter — but what does the presence of the man he’s supposed to assassinate right there in the same building with him and Charlie say about the opsec of the assassination plan to begin with? With none of the religious hangups endemic to Maximus’s faction, he’s a happy-go-lucky guy, and — hey, guess what — all he really needs is Maximus’s help in retrieving the cold fusion device Quintus controls so that they can stop the civil war before it starts.
Author: mliss1578
Published at: 2025-12-31 21:00:00
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