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led the simultaneous sip. It's coming at you. It's coming at you fast. And all you need is a cup, a mug, or a glass, a tiny chalice, a tankard, a thermos, a flask, a carafe, a grail, a goblet, or vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I'm partial to coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing th

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at makes everything better. Oh, it's gonna be a good one this time. Simultaneous sip. Go.

I hope you could all enjoy the full simultaneity of that. It was sublime.

Well, of course I know you want me to talk about Trump's new video campaign ads he just came out with. He meaning his team. Two of the strongest, best campaign ads you're ever gonna see. And look, look what time it is. I mean, we've got a lot of time between now and the election. Apparently they're smelling blood in the water and they just unloaded the magazine into Joe Biden.

So if you didn't see them, they're just classics. And here's something that we can now say with a certain degree of confidence is probably going to be a theme for future Trump ads. And the theme will be funny because funny works. Funny works every time. And these latest two ads I'll talk about in a moment were both funny without a punchline. They're just hilarious just because of what they express. Just the ideas themselves are actually hilariously funny.

So the most famous one that was released yesterday was showing Joe Biden saying they never had a discussion with Hunter Biden, his son, about his overseas business with Ukraine. And then it cuts immediately from Biden saying that to Nickelback, the band. And I guess there's a video, you know, a music video in which they hold up a photograph. And in place of whatever photograph was there in the original song was the golf photograph of Joe Biden, his son, and the Ukrainian board member who was golfing in their foursome, and some other random guy.

So it's hilarious because of the way they juxtaposed it and the way they throw in the Nickelback. Because when you see Nickelback you laugh anyway. You just automatically laugh at Nickelback because Nickelback is the only band — well, there might be another one but I can't think of another band — where when you just say the name of the band you're start laughing. Nickelback. Because so many people have a feeling about Nickelback now. Of course I'm no music expert and they've been hugely successful so I'm not the one who says that. Art is subjective. I would just note that the way the public receives this band is sort of with a little bit of a priming to laugh because they're used as a punchline so often.

So it was sort of the perfect video because when you see him saying that and you see the picture it's really devastatingly hilarious because it's so effective and because it's Nickelback. So it's sort of ridiculous at the same time it's sort of perfect. I mean you couldn't make a better ad than that.

Now if I'm being objective I don't believe that the photograph disproves what Biden said because he was kind of specific about what he said. He said I haven't discussed it with my son. That's not the same as saying I never met a guy you work with. I've golfed a lot and I've never talked business during golf. Well I haven't golfed that much but you know I've golfed and I don't really talk business. It just doesn't happen. So well I don't think it's innocent when somebody golfs with the vice president, a sitting vice president. You know it's sort of always business. I think it might be technically true that he didn't have anything like a substantive conversation about Hunter Biden's overseas activity but the campaign ad is just as effective either way because it looks like it. And the answer to the question that makes Biden look like a liar. So the people will receive it the way it was intended. They probably won't lawyer it up like I just did.

The other one was just as good because it showed a whole bunch of older clips of Trump's impeachment nemeses all saying that impeachment is taking away the will of the voters. Of course they were talking about Clinton I think. So it was everything from Maxine Waters to Nancy Pelosi to what's-his-name, the penguin-looking congressman named Nadler. It shows all of them saying in the clearest, passionate language that impeachment to simply cha

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nge the result of an election is wrong. It's devastating. I mean it was really effective. So I would say that the Trump — whoever's doing their digital stuff, man, I got some good people there. So I don't know who's in charge of that. Is that Brad Parscale? Whoever it is, they're killing it. Sorry, that was a lot of fun. And predictably it looks like Nickelback probably complained. It looks like…

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