Oliver Bateman Does the WorkVerified account

when it came time for "Cobra Commander" - that legendary PMC who built "COBRA" like a pyramid scheme - to assent to his own demotion, becoming a "middle manager" licking the boots of the genetically-engineered "Serpentor" whose creation he spearheaded, he took one for the team.

"COBRA" was some sort of evangelical/sales hustle he masterminded, and yet he came to believe deeply enough in its ethos of shooting blue lasers and losing pitched battles that he realized it needed to be led by a real man's man made from the DNA of some true world-beaters

this is, I think, the trajectory for any kind of sales wonk with no skills past networking, white papers, and the "gift of gab." Cobra Commander did the work, you see. He Organized. He got out in the Streets. And he was cucked by his subordinates and swallowed by his own creation

were BuzzFeed or Teen Vogue daring enough to "center" a toxically man-boy cartoon from the 1980s, they might get a hell of a hot take about how Cobra Commander's career trajectory isn't dissimilar to Bernie Sanders', who is destined to be swallowed whole after losing bigly