The Concavity Cabinet and the Clipperton legend
reports that President Gentle has isolated himself in a small private suite at Bethesda Naval Hospital with several thousand dollars’ worth of sound and sterilization equipment and is spending all day every day singing morose show-tunes in inappropriate keys […] preparing the release of a Presidential Address to the Nation cartridge that purportedly consists entirely of the president seated at his desk with his head in his gloves intoning “What’s the point of going on?” over and over
Context
Mario's puppet-film montage after Canada declines the Concavity: "What's the point of going on?" intoned on loop, head in gloves — clinical despair done as national farce, the depressive register borrowed for geopolitical satire and the setup for the map-elimination header.