Welcome to another episode of Inside the Hive. I'm Joe Hagen. I'm here with Emily Jane Fox.

Hello. I have a question. Where is Joe Biden is he have you seen him I think I've seen him I mean I know I've seen him in a in a basement with with some very large bookcases.

So I think he just lives in the basement now,

is that right?

I mean, it's, I mean, maybe he doesn't have much choice.

He is among the vulnerable citizens, you know, given his age.

You know, we don't expect him to be out on the hustings right now, but, you know,

there is a presidential election going on.

In some cases, you might not think there is a presidential election going on in some cases you might not think there is one going on of course it's like the

subplot to this much larger pandemic plot that we're all in and to some degree that's understandable.

But you're also looking at what's going on and you're asking yourself why isn't there a strong counter voice just sort of in the media every day, you know, sucking up some of the oxygen that Trump usually is

Democrats in a way that they can feel

confident about

everybody's looking for that to happen

and so my question keeps being is Joe Biden is this a strategy you know is he do is this the

rope a dope as they say you just sort of lean back and let Trump punch himself out by saying absurd things.

You know that saying absurd things has never really fully hurt him on some level but maybe there is

starting to be damage because people are really scared right now but and you and I've

spoken a little bit about this in the past I mean is he you think this is a bad idea right

for him to just disappear Well sure because there is actually a presidential election

that will maybe happen in November and I want to talk about that but I can't think of an argument for just disappearing in the middle of a presidential

election. I think that people need to hear the alternative. I don't think that that

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