[Cobra Commander is of course, oblivious to the fact that he’s not actually being respected. As far as he knows, this new Grunt is showing the proper respect to his commanding officer.]

Sssso, you want to spread misery and chaos? Go ahead! Just don’t get yourself arrested!

[He doesn’t really care what the Grunts do so long as they don’t broadcast themselves in full uniform to all of Johto while eating paper. Or other things that could lead to getting caught. Nor does he care about the pony thing. He's gotten into arguments about how people can't be ponies before, and he just won't bother with it this time.]