Bob is dead. Haven't you heard? Bob is dead.

I am the medium for the medium

and I foresaw its death

the dementia-addled geriatrics were slowly dying as usual - those withering brains who marinate in The Price is Right! with Bob Barker.

"How much GOLD does this GOLD cost?"

laugh track, boo track, speech, item exchange. Cut to commercial, buy GOLD!

But on the 23rd of August, their regularly scheduled programming was interrupted with...

The Sound Bite is Right!

The gameshow with Bob Barker's phantom presence, with laugh tracks, boo tracks, and GOLD

the debate is a theatrical performance where quotables are generated and exchanged

hear the laugh and boo tracks, between acts buy the GOLD

watch the spirit of 9/11 sell you coffee

the problem is...

THEY ARE NOT ACTORS

they are acting the part of actors because Bob Barker's medium requires it

Trump is the rube icon

and

the Lie is cast

The King is dead, long live the Kang!

Our system brands his violence - criminal; against us

The spiritual belief in the King's Divine Right was invoked by God-Sorcerer Trump. He's not the only who did it, but he's the only one to do it so powerfully

Whether you call this the Spirit of Fascism or a cryptofascist's coinage is up to your taste

If anything, Trump's incompetence holds it back, he made it, and it transcends him

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up?

or

Does it explode?

hear this, hear it again:

(he says "guillotines" and their heads turn)

that Bob is dead; that the belief in Bob has become unbelievable - is already starting to cast its first shadow over America. To those few at least whose eyes - or the suspicion in whose eyes is strong and subtle enough for this spectacle, some kind of sun seems to have set; some old deep trust turned into doubt: to them, our world must appear more autumnal, more mistrustful, stranger, 'alder'... Even less may one suppose many to know at all what this event really means - and, now that this faith has been undermined, how much must collapse because it was built on this faith, leaned on it, had grown into it - for example, our entire American polity.