2nd Man: Has been brain dead for years.
3rd Man: Not yet.
Isn't Elon Musk's Neura-Link recruiting for human test subjects for clinical trials to implant chips to make brains useful again? This could solve all the puppeteering problems trying to make Joe not look like a babbling idiot. But then we would still have a lying liberal on our hands, like before when he didn't babble. Never mind...