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called the simultaneous sip. Now I know you're thinking, but Scott, the simultaneous sip can't cure the coronavirus, can it? To which I say, you don't know until you try. So all you need is a cup or a glass or a tankard or a canteen or a trekker flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the

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dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. Go.

Well, the dumbest presidential candidate in the history of candidates, Joe Biden, whose animal brain is barely functioning at this point, I think we could agree, has decided to go public and prove to the world that he doesn't understand the strategy against the coronavirus. All right, I'm going to read you something he said yesterday and tell me if you think he understands what the strategy is. Because the CDC has a strategy and it's to flatten the curve. Those are exact words. Nobody is trying to keep the virus from getting in, because that can't be done and nobody thinks it can be done. There are no experts who think we can stop the spread of the disease. Not if you think that, it's time to change your mind. The disease is coming. It could be 40 to 70 percent of the public get it, and that's actually the only way it will ever stop, because you have to have enough herd immunity that the odds of spreading it aren't that high, because it always hits somebody who's already got it and is immune.

So that's the strategy. The strategy is to slow it down and that's it. That's the only strategy and everybody agrees that's the strategy. The CDC says it clearly and often. Here's what Joe Biden says, quote, "A wall will not stop the coronavirus." All right, we're done there, right? Aren't we done? He can't be president. We're in the middle of a crisis and he can't tell the difference between slowing something down because that's the best we can do and stopping it. A wall will not stop the coronavirus. How does that have anything to do with anything?

Okay, let's say that's just politics and we'll let that pass. And then he went on and said the poll banning all travel from Europe or any other part of the world will not stop it. Biden continued taking aim at the temporary travel policy. I'm Joe Biden. You just proved you can't be president, because if you think that the travel ban was to stop it, you're missing the whole important part, which is that it can't be stopped. The important part is slowing it down to the flattening of the curve. And Joe Biden, if you don't know that by now, you really can't be president. And was there nobody on his team who could advise him that the strategy is to flatten the curve? Nobody noticed? Nobody's paying attention? Has anybody watched any of the CDC stuff at all?

Somebody asked me, what's this going to look like if Kamala Harris becomes the vice president? And it looks like she's a nursemaid for a declining Biden. And I said, unfortunately for them, it's going to look like a Driving Miss Daisy situation. It's going to look, you know, with the genders reversed, it's going to look like Biden is Miss Daisy and Kamala is driving the car. And I don't know how we got here. You have to, don't you have to blame the Democrats? Now I realize that when Trump was running for office, the Democrats were yelling, you Republicans can't, you see, are you blind to what's happening here? My cat's bumping the camera, that's why it moves. To which I said, no, actually I can't see it. Now I can't see it. You're telling me that Trump is a monster and he'll destroy the world, but looking at the same things you're looking at and I don't see it.

And then he became president and things were going well, except for the one thing he couldn't control, the virus. And he did the one thing he could do that he could control, which is close travel fairly quickly. So is that the same as watching Joe Biden run for president and clearly is in some stage of, just give us, at some stage of mental decline? You know, I was going to use a word but I think I won't use a mental medical word because obviously I can't diagnose him, but there's something going on. Anyway, that's enough on that.

I would ask Democrats not to put the country in this kind of danger. I mean, what would happen? You know, I don't even want to put this thought into the universe, but let's say if Trump retired tomorrow, just to put it that way, what would be the backup plan? I mean, of course vice president, but for 2024, could we survive a President Biden whose brain is clearly not working? What do you say, Democrats?

You know what I need to do is I need to give some guests. Now this is interesting. I've never talked to anybody in person who supported Biden and also thought his brain was working. Have you? How can it be that I've never talked to anybody who thinks Bid

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en's brain is working? Now I have talked to people who support Biden, but I've never heard them say directly, yeah, I'm looking at him and he looks fine to me. Because I don't think it's a thing. I don't think there's any Democrat who, looking in the eyes and being honest, I mean anybody can lie, but being honest and say, you know, I don't see anything wrong. I'm watching the videos. You are? I gu…

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