Chapter 37-3: Balance of Power

[Witch_Doctor]

Sean called CJ "The Queen" in front of Kalani. We see that personality again. She may be able to plan, but she is no leader.

You are absolutely right! CJ just had her Flower Pot Moment with me. "I never had anyone go from the top of my list to the bottom so fast." - Michael Cross, Rules and Regulations
She has a quick tongue and used Napoleon"s (?) Divide and Conquer tactic to secure power. The Colonists, being bitter Grudge Masters, still hold Michael as the cause of their demise and CJ as their savior took sides, took a vote and gave power.
1) Cj's first opponent to subjugate was Tanya; IN HER OWN HOUSE. THE HOSPITAL! She then convinces Tanya to come to her side (Pending her kind treatment to Michael. i.e. She Needs Michael). Tanya might become the Don CJ's Consigliere.

2) The third opponent was defeated by informing Michael that he was her bottom bee-otch, her Underboss. (I'm saving the second thing for last because it gets good.) They want me but I need you. and Michael puts up as much of a fight as a school kid in the principle's office. Notice how easily he leaves his own house when she wants to talk to Saul and Victor.

3) The second opponent she vanquishes by settling family business. Victor & Saul aren't whacked but they are exiled to Dunbar. The cracks at Ground Zero are mentioned again as the reason Saul & Victor have earned their place in a secure spot and CJ honors her deal to the letter. They have to leave the Colony but they can have Dunbar. Why? Because the secret of Sean's death are revealed. C.J. losses her leg because she thought the Mallers killed Sean. She blames Saul's lie and makes a GOOD point about how he has lost nothing in the latest ordeal. He's gotten back his girl, mother, dog, lucky underwear and now a baby. But hey, who told her to try charge into the hospital? That poor dead woman who followed her in and was shot by Scratch sure as hell didn't. She lost more than a leg. For what reason? Tell me CJ! I want answers!


Just like GrogNaurd says, she's a planner but no leader. Kalani makes a better puppet master. She claims the Colonists trust and revere her and tells Tanya that she has their best interest at heart but then seeks revenge on Saul & Victor. They call her bluff by saying they'll tell everyone that she only did it for revenge, not for them. They capitulate because she says they owe it to her. OWE HER WHAT? Everything she does is for herself! The attack on the Colony was for herself, sending Saul & Victor to ground zero was for her own self interest...

But CJ Corleone is building her own house of cards. Just wait until Freddo, uh Skittles returns, armed with a cannoli. What will Michael, Tonya and the other say about Saul's & Victor's exile? Will they stay? If they leave will the Irwin Soldiers stay? Who gets the chopper? Can that thing even land at Dunbar? Does Pegs go? (I doubt it, as things stand now.)

WOW.