Cozy Glow has won.
She has taken over all of Equestria and with her powers she is virtually unstoppable. With the princesses trapped in the sun and moon, Discord put in stone once more, and Twilight and her friends trapped in Tartarus, nopony is there to stop her. Nothing will get in the way of ruling Equestria.
Except bureaucracy.
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HAHAHAHA!
XD best freaking story I've read with Cozy Glow so far
Those unicorns are geniuses!
Typical shortsighted villain: so much effort in taking over, yet they never stop to think what ruling actually means.
Ah yes. Bureaucracy. The one thing child dictators never account for. I approve!
Yes! Bureaucracy Is Magic!
Did you take inspiration from this? It was the first thing that came to my mind.
Bureaucratic shenanigans in Canterlot. Always fun.
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No.
Proof the Bureaucracy is the most powerful force in the universe
The true heroes!
And then Cozy Glow is punished by a ferocious puppy! Mwahahahahahahaha! O3O ^3^ O3O ^3^ O3O ^3^
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The funny thing is that right now, United States of America is in the same position. They have terrible administrative leaders and an president which do not want to lead. USA has not gone under yet which is the proof that bureaucracy are the wheels of democracy.
Anything with Cozy in it will make me happy. Thanks sir or ma'am!
Did the clipboards even have anything on them?
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Probably not all of them, and even the ones that would have probably mostly had blank paper.
Haha haha!! I think better punishment is to KEEP Cozy Glow on the throne. Celestia and Luna could use a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGG break and probably cater a new Regent-Minister.
And then somepony shot her and she died forever.
Because she forgot to ask the Eternal Dragon for immortality.
Cozy smirked and steepled her hooves, "Can I watch?"
9364390 Actually, we had a Congress pretty much getting in the way of everything as most of them were throwing a fit that someone not in their circle was elected, which meant the people of the country still weren't totally under their thumb.
They're very envious of Venezuela, where the entire nation can be crumbling into torment and starvation, and yet the sheeple still lack the will to rise up.
If the US population ends up like that, I'm afraid I'll have little choice but to become supreme emperor and force evolution upon them all... by involuntary genetic engineering.
Then they will become like me. Literally.
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Yeah no. I'm 95% certain we Americans are not envious of Venezuela.
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Second most powerful.
Compound interest is more powerful than bureaucracy.
Stopping Cozy Glow failed? Time for plan B.
Plan Bureaucraty.
Or she could have just gone the England route. I mean, sure they have Royals, but they don't seem to do anything, and no one really seems to expect them too.
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In any debate, the crazy tends to win out. We have, on one side, leftist academia, a complicit and even out slobberly loving democratic party, throngs of tamboreen shaking, drum beating, give peace a chance ninnies, 4th wave feminists, and whole swathes of ignorant willing to burn down their own cities for a lost election.
And on the other side... one teddy boi
Plan B for bureaucracy
At least she Saved herself from Modecan Rule, If she'd Didn't Give all Magic To Everyone.
But that was Quite Funny, I'm glad Modeca has Stable Republic.
And that is how you stop any wannabe emperor/empress that want to take Equestria
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Or we could not talk politics in my comments section.
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Well, your story is about the politics of power. So you shouldn't be surprised that there are (more or less) constructive comments on that topic. There's nothing else to say in the comments, besides the one-liners praising your story.
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Sorry.
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my apologies
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Your story is about someone with power hunger that does not want to face the bureaucracy and government. When an story can been seen parallel with the real world and engage somewhat, it is an good story.
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I don't deny the realism in this story, nor that it is very enjoyable and I like it. That wasn't my point at all.
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I know, but like what happened with my other Cozy Glow story, people kept arguing until my comments notifications were all people arguing.
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That's what you get for writing the stories you do. When you tackle the issue of a megalomaniac lunatic child trying to take over the world, who ends up in a place that's basically the hell, then you're begging to receive these comments about stuff like politics, power, morality, etc.
Sorry for sounding insensitive, but this is your own fault. Don't blame the people discussing.
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Fair point. It's just that I've seen that devolve into anger and shouting a lot. That's my issue. Not just politics.
9365057 Uhm... you missed this...
Yes, there are many people that delusional out there.
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Never saw that video before in my life, and likely will never click on it. And the author has requested already that the topic be dropped, so do not expect anymore response than this.
see this is why not being in charge is great
Very clever. If you wanna take over a nation, you better have a proper plan of leadership and other political jargon thingie-stuff ready.
Wait, so how did she ascend to alicornhood? Pure magic absorption?
Yeah yeah, that's great and all, but where's Kibitz, the royal scheduling adviser?
Woo!
Yeah, but enslaving all his citizens with shackles and mind-control helmets probably lead to a lot less backtalk from the help.
Heh, no one tell her about the Mirror Pool.
I like the idea that Raven and Kibitz have standing orders from Celestia to bog down any coup attempts in pure bureaucracy.
If she's sick of bureaucracy, Cozy should've become an expansionist tyrannical dictator. When the world is under her rule, there won't be a need for international diplomacy. Surely that couldn't backfire in her face.
tbh this is how the episode should have ended, more believable
Lighting and decorum?
hahaha This was awesome!
Imagining Raven (and Kirbits) deadpan deliveries of these very silly dialogues as a lot of fun.
I just wish that someone (like, for example, Scribbler and friends) would do a dramatic reading of this text.
Nice story, but you're forgetting that Cozy is a good manipulator. She'd probably be able to turn a bureaucracy to her favor.
Equestria's true last line of defense is made of red tape.
Brilliant bit of reality ensuing. It doesn't matter how much of a rabble-rousing chessmaster you are, no twelve-year-old is equipped to fill Celestia's shoes.
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That’s a clever way to dethrone a dictator ha ha
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Ma’am all the griffins are revolting
Wha...
Oh and the dogs
And the cats and the crystal ones
And our army
There's more to ruling than just a crown. Ha!