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TSP doesn't need to shoot himself in the bunker, he can just threaten to press the button and his staff immediately jumps up to do whatever he wants.
Meow needs parenting 101 courses: you do NOT fucking yield to tantrums, it just teaches the kid that tantrums _*work_*!
And that's best-case option of "Meow isn't lying about TSP never going to go through with the ultimatum", too.