Poor bb. Maybe he's just tired? Maybe he got stuck being President for Life ages ago when he had no clear sense of how LONG "for life" can get and it's exhausting, teenagers are mean to him, randos keep making fun of his lips no matter HOW many people he executes, the command economy is a shitshow and let's face it, he's not getting any younger. Maybe the dictatorship course was his last stab at getting some respect, but the syllabus was so long and intimidating that he just said "fuck it"
Anyway, who knows, if the rebels think they have the moral high ground there's a chance they'll try to prove it by letting him chill in a nice relaxing prison cell after they relieve him of the Burden of Leadership. Whereas he knows perfectly well his own senate is just going to make a holograph of his image and keep on keeping while he gets tortured or turned into a hallucinogenic werewolf or probably BOTH, if he tries to step down at this point, or even to institute much-needed reforms like the President For Life Monthly Vacation Initiative.
So to hell with it. He sees an opportunity to rile up the plebs while appearing to do his duty as cackling villain, and he's going to milk it for all it's worth. Anything's better than sitting through another press briefing session, am I right?
(I think this version of Pres. Snow gives him too much credit as a strategist, but you never know).
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Date: 2017-02-26 03:29 pm (UTC)Anyway, who knows, if the rebels think they have the moral high ground there's a chance they'll try to prove it by letting him chill in a nice relaxing prison cell after they relieve him of the Burden of Leadership. Whereas he knows perfectly well his own senate is just going to make a holograph of his image and keep on keeping while he gets tortured or turned into a hallucinogenic werewolf or probably BOTH, if he tries to step down at this point, or even to institute much-needed reforms like the President For Life Monthly Vacation Initiative.
So to hell with it. He sees an opportunity to rile up the plebs while appearing to do his duty as cackling villain, and he's going to milk it for all it's worth. Anything's better than sitting through another press briefing session, am I right?
(I think this version of Pres. Snow gives him too much credit as a strategist, but you never know).