figured it out.

Now there was also this viral video that went around that put together all the little bits of his speech in which he seemed to be slurring or searching for a word. If you see them all together it looks like he has a mental problem or he's just very old or it really does sell a picture of him having some problems. I would say that's misleading because you could probably do that same clip with all of my Periscopes. If you took any of my Periscopes and took all the little times I'm searching for a word or I slur a word or I say a word wrong it would look just like that. Maybe it's because I'm old anyway. I wouldn't make too much of it because I think you could do that with anybody.

But here's the other funny part and this is the best part of all. So when we heard that Trump was calling him Sleepy Joe, Sleepy Joe Biden, yeah there was some disagreement about whether that was a good or bad nickname because people said well creepy would be better but I think the president wisely stayed away from creepy. And I think it was wise because the president has his own you know grab him by the whatever stuff going on and so if he used the creepy label it would probably be thrown back at him. So I think it was good that he avoided that. Sleepy is one that the president can win every time.

Because let me just give you this scenario and if this doesn't make you laugh you're dead inside. All right so now Sleepy Joe has to deal with the fact that he has to deal with this label. So he has to act as whatever is the opposite of sleepy when he was onstage. Do you think he was thinking that he had to look like he was presenting a lot of energy? Oh yeah he was thinking it. He was thinking it hard. Because if he had done anything that looked low energy it would have been all the news. That would have been the news. It wouldn't have mattered what he said that night. If his energy was low in any way that you could even interpret it as low even if it had not been that would have been the only story.

So Trump by now is absolutely in his head. He's so far into Biden's head because now everything that Sleepy Joe does has to counter the idea that he has low energy. What does that make you do to overcompensate? Well the first thing he does to make him overcompensate is he probably has to ramp up his energy a little higher than normal for these events and it almost certainly would make him miss peak. Because if you're adding a little bit too much energy compared to the energy that you normally add, and he I think he actually has good energy but it's a great political argument against him it seems to me, then maybe that could have been a little bit of what made him miss peak. Then maybe he was trying a little too hard.

Or how about this? Do you think that Biden got a good night's sleep the night before he gave his speech? When he was going to sleep the night before and you know Joe lays down and he's like ah tomorrow I'm gonna announce for president. I've got to save the world. He's calling me Sleepy Joe. Can't sleep. Can't sleep. Don't sleep. I'm not gonna get eight hours tonight. I'm gonna get five hours tonight because I'm not Sleepy Joe. I'm not Sleepy Joe. He's not gonna make me Sleepy Joe. I'm gonna get five hours a night. That's all I need. And I'm not gonna let anybody see me take a nap ever. I'm never gonna go home early. I'm not gonna cancel an event because I'm tired. I'm not Sleepy Joe.

So I think that President Trump has used what I would call a sports trash-talk model that is very active, meaning that it's gonna make his opponent respond to it. It's an active insult. I think imagine if you will President Trump has a long day and he wants to take a nap. How does he do it? He probably says something like this. Can you clear my schedule after eight o'clock tonight? I want to spend some alone time or some family time. And the president goes off to his private quarters and goes to sleep early. I don't know yet if he ever goes to sleep early. I suspect he doesn't but he could and nobody would have any question about it because his brand is high energy. So if the president goes and privately goes into his private quarters you just think well it might be a sleep. It might be having some family time. You wouldn't think anything of it. So the president could sleep as much as he wants because his brand allows it.

Now imagine that you're Sleepy Joe and you've got all these advisers and people. You don't know them all. You don't necessarily quite trust and yet you don't know who's leaking to the media. You don't know if you have a mole. You don't know what stories are gonna get out. And you're tired. You can't say you're tired. You can't tell your closest adviser you're tired because that's gonna come out someday. You can't say cancel my events this afternoon. I just need to catch up. Can't say that. You can't not take on an event even though it would exhaust you because you don't want to look like you couldn't take on an event because it would exhaust you. If you can't even go to sleep early. Suppose it's 11 o'clock at night and the advisers are still talking with Biden and what he wants to say is I need some sleep. I don't know if he can. I don't know if he can say that. I think he stays up to midnight so that they leave on their own so that he doesn't have to tell people he's tired.

So I think the president is so deeply in Sleepy Joe's head that I'm gonna make a prediction. Are you ready for this? If this is as actively powerful framing as I think it is he could exhaust Biden before Election Day if Biden makes it that far. I don't know. I'm thinking he probably won't but if he does make it that far in two years he will have run himself ragged at age 78 or 76 or whatever the hell he is. And the odds of him not stumbling or getting sick or showing some effect of all that work, it's pretty low. So it's possible that Trump has presented a ticking time bomb of a kill shot. And I don't know if we've seen this one before. This is one that has a timer on it because on day one when you heard Sleepy Joe didn't you have the same impression I did which is I don't know he doesn't look sleepy to me. My impression is sort of the opposite. He feels like he's a pretty high energy guy. And I said before I give him very high marks for fitness. Have you seen Joe Biden? Like he is really, at least in terms of his weight and his persona, and he's obviously had a lot of work done on his face and stuff like that but you know I don't like to criticize people for that. Those are personal choices. But I would say he's the opposite of sleepy-looking. But it's got a timer on it and the longer he tries to prove he's not sleepy the more he's gonna wear himself into the ground. The more he's gonna expose himself to mistakes that he might not have made. So I think it could be brilliant but we won't know. We're gonna have to wait and see if that little seed takes root.

All right. I should mention again so yesterday I wrote a blog post. I have not written a blog post in a long time because I've been doing the Periscopes and working on books and stuff. But I thought it was time to take everything about the fine people hoax and put it into a written form because written form just travels better. It can be more viral to more people because people will read things they won't watch on video. And I realized that there was such a consistency to how people responded when they're revealed to have been hoaxed and that they believe the president really said that there were, that the neo-Nazis were fine people. If they believed that and then he's shown the transcript and it's not true they almost always go down what I call the hoax funnel.

They start with this big claim. The president said neo-Nazis are fine people. They show him the transcript. They go okay it says exactly the opposite but he said, and they always revert to what were these other people these fine people? Why were they marching with Nazis? Huh. Can't be a fine person if you're marching with a Nazi. And so in my blog post I talked about how that's actually a hallucination. There is no claim and there's no reporting that all the people there were marching. In fact it was sort of a chaos. There were some marchers and then there were all kinds of other people doing all kinds of other things in street clothes. Who knows what those people were thinking or why they were there? Nobody did a survey. Nobody talked to them all. Nobody knows. So worst case scenario the president made an assumption but he also detailed this assumption. He said I believe there were people there about the statue. So he said that clearly in the same context as he was talking about the fine people on both sides. So it's obviously meant both sides of the statue controversy.

Anyway my observation is that people start with the big hoax and you can debunk each of the lesser hoaxes as they retreat down the funnel until you get to the end of the funnel and it usually turns into questions. If you can turn somebody from a statement of fact, the president said neo-Nazis are fine people, that's a statement it's not true, you debunk it they go down to another statement. Well those fine people were marching with Nazis. But that's not true. There's no evidence, no suggestion, no reporting and all the reporting says that people were not marching with Nazis. There were just lots of people there. So that's not true. Once you debunk that you end up all the time and you could do this at home. The person who's having their worldview annihilated will eventually end up with questions. Look the question form means they've already given up on the statement. So they've already accepted that the president did not say neo-Nazis are fine people. The transcript says that clearly he did not say that. And they end up with so why would these people who were fine people attend an event obviously organized by neo-Nazis and racists?

And as I write in my blog post in order to ask that question you would have to know nothing about reality or human beings. All right so the question is just freaking dumb. Because if you take a hundred human beings, 100 Americans I like to use as my example, you take any 100 Americans and even if they go to the same place for the same event are they going to have 100, are they going to have just two different opinions? If you take a hundred people and put them someplace that has two sides you know pro-statue anti-statue a