Ask The Supreme Leader

OK, so that was really two questions. :slight_smile:

Ginger:

Obviously this topic has great meaning to you.

Very well.

I admit that it’s possible, once I’ve attained Supreme Leadership to wage war on the dandelions and ants, and wipe them out.

If you wish to me devote resources away from starving children and such to do so, and risk destroying the world’s ecosystem, you’re going to have to provide me with some good reasons.

Alice:

Oops! Sorry. Missed you first time around. Once I’m Supreme Leader I will of course be totally unopposed as I will enjoy total world domination. A cheerleader might be superfluous. However, we’re always looking for enthusiastic women. Have you considered a career in Happy Fun Squad

Katie:

Jello pops? I think I’m going to take a neutral stance on this issue.

Frumious Bandersnatch:

No. No toadying either. I want you to be all you can be in my society, and require no disingenuous accolades. I will be comfortable in my own supremacy. Prove your own worth through initiative and hard-work, and your place in my society will be assured.

Jeff Olsen:

Cecil has grown weak and complacent. He has yet to set his sights on world domination, and indeed, shows no signs of even trying to stop me as I recruit here in his very domain.

::::pointing her index finger toward Alice’s face:::::

Uncle Scylla wants YOU!

Just pop by the Happy Fun Squad Head Quarters, and ask for me.

When can you start?

Scylla, kitten, can we please nuke smileys? They are pesky, annoying little things…

OH Elenfair…I am reporting for duty…now who err what did you want me to do?

Elnfair:

Maybe we should form a Brute Squad with some of your men.

Oo.

This is why you’re in power, Scylla kitten. I love it when you talk like that. purrrrr :smiley:

:wink: Let me see what I can do.

Having been turned down for the position of snivelling clerk, I shall graciously accept my place in Sycllian society. In fact, I shall do more. I shall strive to be the best I can be. Watch how bounteously I shall bestow mediocrity! How generously I shall spread my okayness!

All I ask is one thing, one simple thing.

::bows down:: I ask you, dear Scylla, to forbid the practice of permanently employed office workers handing lowly temporary workers envelopes, fully stuffed and ready to go, and asking them to write the address on it because they can’t be bothered to write 5 whole lines.

::rises from bowing, knees popping ominously::

What will you?

Elenfair:

You’re probably going to want to use your Brute Squad to docilate female malcontents and such. Be sure to fill your ranks with people of all different racial types and sexual preference as we want to be all-inclusive in our mass subjugation/docilization of humanity, and leave no one out.

Noted, Oh Most Glorious Leader.

I shall put a list together. I wonder, however, how many males I will have to subdue before they can be enlisted as Brute Squad members.

Odie, fetch me some lemonade and a comfy chair so I can think this over, and line up some eligible candidates for the Brute Squad. Oh, and wipe your feet before coming into my office.

Oh, and Scylla, kitten, dove - do you have any recommendations for the position of Brute Squad Head Minion?

Francesca:

Once again, I adopt a hands-off management style. I provide goals and philosophy and my minions go out and implement with initiative.

If Elenfair feels that it’s necessary and consistent with the goals of my benevolent despotism to violate some civil rights, or terrorize some of the populace, than I’m not going to second guess her decision.

I try to hire the best, and I give them free rein to use their creativity and initiative in implementation.

As such, we’ll be trying to cut back on bureacracy and unnecessary laws.

I hope I’ve made myself clear on this. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to work on my mission statement.

All right, kniz, I’ve seen enough. I’m in. We’ll need something to counteract the Happy Fun Squad.

I’m a math teacher, so I’ll have no trouble stopping happiness and fun: “We’ll be learning Special Triangles today!” I’ll need relief, though. Eutychus, can you prepare some lectures on cartoon history?

alice_in_wonderland, fight Scylla’s sugar! He’s just toying with you… We’d really love to have a cheerleader in the resistance! Cheerleading is a sport!

Elenfair? How could you?

Calling all malcontents, disgruntled, and overenthusiastic testosterone brains who want to stir up trouble!

Ok…Elenfair here are some candidates for the squad…unfortunately some of them seem to be a bit…frisky, I’m a woman of your intelligence and grace can figure out how to counteract that…and here is the lemonade, squeezed from the fresh lemons out back and sweetened with the finest sweetener of your choice…the chef was so pleased with the results that he called it the fair elen blend…in tribute of course.

I am sure, sure a woman of your talents etc…sigh…

Can I be your Dungeon Mistress, please please please please???

I’ll even supply my own uniform …

:pulls out black leather Miracle Bra bustier, micro-mini and leather thigh boots:

Now where did my riding crop go?

:snaps to attention with salute:

I can promise, Sir, that I will take care of any malcontents that the Commander of the Brute Squad feels are in need of discipline!
BTW, if I may request, can you keep the squirrels from eating all the bird seed out of my bird feeder? I know you’re a busy Supreme Leader and all, but if you found the time…

:: UNpacks pom-poms::

Well, ok then.

Elenfair, Alice the Cheerleader reporting for duty Sir!

So, um, should my first task be to make a flan or something?

I make a great flan.

al.

I understand, sir, that you are still working out the details of your new world order. But you did ask for questions and/or suggestions and I have a few.

You’ve mentioned that there will be no freebies and that is laudible. But you’ve not enumerated your ideas on a basic system of economics. Might I suggest a system employing standard units of currency to be exchanged for goods and services? Not wanting to presume here, but to save you time, you might consider allowing the people that produce these goods or services to determine a fair value for these, with the determined value to be provided in said currency. Of course, there will be more than one provider of any given good or service and the greater value will be granted to the producer that offers it for the lesser amount of currency. I daresay, sir, that left competely untouched by your ah, benevolent intervention, this system could well run perfectly.

As you have pointed out, managing the daily lives of six billion people is a significant task and you might want to consider delegating some of the more mundane of these tasks. Of course, your subjects are (for the most part) intelligent adults and you could let them arrange themselves geographically and choose from among their numbers a set of individuals to act on their behalf, these individuals to serve as intermediaries between your august self and the general populace. You may wish to consider, merely in the interests of not wasting your mighty and precious time and effort, allowing these, ah, representatives, if you will, to meet together to work out the petty details of mundane things like establishing justice, securing tranquility, providing for defense, promoting the general welfare…all this merely in order to form a more perfect union. You may even wish to allow them to draw up a single document for the purposes of outlining the basic rights of your devoted subjects. All this to be carried out under your careful supervision, naturally.

I submit sir, that once you have made sure these arrangements are in place, you will have all your time available to walk among your subjects loudly declaring yourself to be their emporer. I’m certain they will see fit to reward you accordingly. In fact I would go so far as to say that they will gift to you a spacious throne room, complete with luxuriously padded walls.