 he was telling the truth in other words he he was so embraced with the moment of what he wanted to believe he was prepared to deny reality so the question to me is you know the family it makes sense they want joe in a position of power because of the perks and the benefits that they get from it but the other people around i don't know there may be some true believers that say no joe is really sharp and that was just an aberration and everything's going to be okay