Your Zen this morning is just trying to keep up with all the global weirdness. Recent events prompted my memory of Tim Robbins' political satire, Bob Roberts (1992). In the film, a mock political documentary, Robbins depicts the rise of Robert "Bob" Roberts Jr., a right-wing politician well known for his conservative-sloganeering folk music. A sort of sociopathic Woodie Guthrie, if you will.
During his campaign Roberts is shot by a would-be assassin. By the end of the film, there's a suspicion the whole thing might have been staged. Inevitably, the tinfoil hats have been turned up to 11 and now everyone's got a theory. Robbins isn't having it.