Reply #60: I'm inclined to think that monkey's mental state is like his mandate:

[bleever]

fragile, tenuous, precarious.

I've been under the impression that he's been on meds for a while now, and those meds (Xanax? Antidepressants?) are not easy to calibrate -- it takes time.

But I also know he's insulated from the news, just like he's insulated from detailed policy deliberations: that's not his job, as, you know, The Leader.

But I do think that he has sufficient awareness of the hanky-panky to have some level of ongoing...discomfit? Anxiety? And he's definitely not in control of his own cigarette boat here, and that spells trouble, and that rhymes with rubble.