Ser Cryptonius Maximus

Lex Luthor, the most privileged and entitled orphan boy to ever live, attempts to psychologically seduce the senator from Kentucky. He asks if he can call her June, to which she responds: "You can call me whatever you like. Take a bucket of piss and call it granny's peach tea. Take a weapon of assassination and call it deterrence. You won't fool a fly or me. I'm not going to drink it." This brilliant and eloquently vulgar metaphor is communicating the fact that Lex is disguising his vile intentions as good deeds. Unfortunately for him, she sees right through it, and in fact, she claims that everyone can. He won't fool her or so much as a fly with the heroic facade he dresses his sinister repugnance in. She believes in Superman, but her allegiance is to the republic, to democracy, so that's why she calls Superman to the hill of the people, to talk to each other. She certainly won't sacrifice the integrity of civilization to the disguised desires of the world's largest military contractor and weapons manufacturer. So, when the time comes, when the time comes for Lex to artificially create public consent for his doomsday devices, he taunts the senator and her uselessness by insisting that his methods are indeed deterrence, deterrence against the greatest perceived threat to humanity, by pouring her a tall glass of granny's peach tea.