Biden says he would 'shut down the virus, not the country' during the final presidential debate

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  1. flyboy56

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    Yes Joe, make promises you will not be able keep. If you believe Biden is going to accomplish this then I have a bridge to sell you.

    https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-shut-down-the-virus-not-the-country-2020-10

    • "I'm going to shut down the virus, not the country," Biden said.
    The line was part of a concerted strategy from the Biden campaign to chip away at Trump's last stronghold in polling, with more voters approving of the president's handling of the economy for months.
     
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    Here he says he would shut the country down. Was he lying then or lying now?
     
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    At the end of the day Joe stays in line with the party and the party is full of people who think shutting down the country to save just one life is the morally right thing to do.
     
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    According to Biden he's going to shutdown the virus and keep the country. I sure would like to hear is plan for achieving this feat. I'm sure the rest of the world would love to hear his plan as well.
     
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    Biden also mocked Trump saying we have to learn to live with the virus and we can't all hide in the basement like Joe. He's exactly right and it's just like living with the reality of death and horrific injuries from automobile accidents that we accept as part of keeping our economy up and running.
     
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    Biden will do what China tells him to do.
     
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    Democrat plans don't have anything to do with saving lives.
     
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    That was one (of many) of his best lines of the debate... the entire country most likely doesn't need to be shut down (again), just the parts exhibiting continued case growth..... I.E. mostly Red counties in Red states...

    Haven't seen the T-shirts yet, but I assume they're coming.. they may have thrown too many resource into the flyswatters...

    You'll NEVER have the true consumer confidence required to bring the economy back until you do...
     
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    Exactly. Pretending that the virus doesn't exist and is a liberal hoax clearly didn't work the way Trump thought it would.

    What's crazy is, when Covid hit us early this year, I told my wife Trump just got what he needed to easily win re-election with Covid. All he had to do was show strength in leadership and say a few inspiring words to the Nation. Instead he decided to be Trump and only care about himself. Because of that, Ole Joe has a good chance.
     
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    Odd. I was thinking the other day that if Joe were president that all the deaths would be used against him politically. I mean he suggests to do the same thing Trump has already done. Joe doesn't have any real criticism.
     
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    WTF?? You mean you and your wife weren't inspired by "I don't take responsibility at all"??

    We were in tears of genuine awe here....

    A far cry from my personal greatest leader statement in history, from a man Trump, in his vacant idiocy, thinks he emulates...

    'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few'

    Also, I don't think even a successful COVID response would have meant a lock reelection for Trump, since most would have figured out it was due to letting the medical professionals do (and dictate) what they are trained to do. Likely would have been a lot closer though..
     
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    That and every single billionaire throwing their money at Sloppy Joe. That and every corporate and MSM outlet shilling for Sloppy Joe. The people at the tippy top are very excited about Sloppy Joe's promises to do a partial shutdown to completely wipe out what remains of their competition. There has been a fundamental erasure of the back bone of the middle class by the globalist oligarchs in the past 6 months. It was made possible by corrupt Democratic and RINO politicians shutting down the economy. It was also made possible by Democrats and the MSM inciting racial violence and encouraging mobs to burn down the competition of the oligarchs.

    What I find most amusing of all, are the activists and talking heads who then express outrage over the oligarchs having the best year in the history of our country. They are literally too fricking retarded to make the connection between their actions and the entirely expected result. Very useful idiots. Burn and loot (or forcibly shut down) the businesses of middle class Americans so that people are forced to buy from Amazon instead. Brilliant. Move out the middle class jobs and move in the McJobs.
     
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    Trump said the virus would be gone many times, like magic even when it warmed up

    Trump also declared himself a war time President against an invisible enemy, then raised the white flag
     
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    I disagree with the way Trump is handling the virus, but he isn't making flase promises Biden is. Exactly what is his plan to shut down the virus without shutting down the country? If you are voting for Biden then shouldn't you know what his plan is? Sounds to me like he's telling everyone they can have it both ways. I have to throw down the BS flag on that promise.
     
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    You forgot to highlight the last part of the sentence where he said he's not going to shutdown the country. You can't have it both ways. And I don't need someone interrupting Biden's words. I want to hear it from him since he's the one running for president, not you.
     
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    Ya the leftist politicians, they know better then mother nature, evolution and human immune system. That's why this country is in the crapper because the left wing think hiding from incurable pathogens is possible.. Gonna be a rough transition from our current evolutionary model to one of living in a bio-cleansed hypochondriacal world of insanity..
     
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    Ya, read between the lines! Same thing we are already doing but throw A LOT MORE MONEY AT IT :) Ya the leftist fix all, everyone hide and we will print you the money to get you all thru this and every flu forever more ..
     
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    Interesting take. I thought it was one of his worst lines. Shut down the virus not the economy? That actually made me LOL.
     
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    Typical meaningless blather.
     
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    What 'white flag'? We still have the task force, we still have their recommendations. I'll take pained pleasure to remind people of this fact if in say May 2021, we're still dealing with this.

    "What's wrong, I thought Orange Man Bad was gone?"
     
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    But in January 2021, we'll have a new task force that will be actually listened to...
     
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    There's a sub section in these forums for this type of conspiracy nonsense. You may find the responses you desire there.
     

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