Boy, did anybody just see John Heilmann on Deadline: White House?

[PlanetBev]

John’s been filling in for Nicole Wallace.

He just showed calendars of February and March. Each square is filled in with videos of Trump saying the Coronavirus was a Democratic hoax and a fraud and he had it all under control, until we get to the present “I knew this was a pandemic all along” and “I’m kind of like a wartime president.” You can clearly see the evolution of lies and bullshit.

God, would I love to see this turned into a campaign commercial.

[cry baby]

1. Maybe someone will post a video. nt

[malaise]

5. Was posted here earlier today

Will have a look

[malaise]

9. Here it is

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213122923

[cry baby]

12. Thank you!!

[PlanetBev]

13. Thank you so much, malaise!

I don’t know how to post this stuff.

[malaise]

16. You will learn

I did so you can

[Lady_Chat]

25. Thank you!

[erronis]

26. And my thanks too. Not sure how/why IcyPeas post didn't make it onto the radar

There are so many new threads started.

Unfortunately I think most of us look at the ones that have already garnered a lot of eyeballs. Maybe not the ones that really need watching.

[malaise]

27. Kick it

[erronis]

28. Did give it a kick. But I need to see it first to do so. There must be some hidden system for me to

get notified of great posts. Or even to be notified that I have a reply.

I go to DU once or twice a day to see what's happening. Between 10AM and 8PM a lot of shite comes down and I drown....

Thanks, malaise, for always being a pretty steady voice in all of this.

[malaise]

29. Retiree with not much to do

by choice

[True Blue American]

67. :)

[malaise]

68. I worked very hard for 47 years

[True Blue American]

69. Yes,

We all did. That was why I smiled. How many years we tried to be perfect parents, mates, our work or careers.

It is out of our hands now. Just happy to still be here knowing this too shall pass, one way or another! Back at you.

[malaise]

71. Indeed but not one of us anticipated this for our senior years

I was telling my siblings and in laws earlier that we don't know if we'll ever have another reunion with all of us.
I mean the world has almost stopped.

[True Blue American]

72. I was thinking about that

Yesterday. Here we are, in our old age with the insecurity of not knowing what will happen tomorrow.

I knew it was bad when I found myself conserving TP. And counting how manyRolls I have. Security is gone. Isn’t that sad?

[malaise]

73. The toilet paper administration

They sure are full of shit and that's mild.

[True Blue American]

74. I sent that picture to everyone

I knew!

The president will be known as the President that was so full of shit the country ran out of toilet paper!

[uponit7771]

54. +1

[Mike 03]

2. Exactly. Where's Mike Bloomberg's ad crew?

We can't let this asshole get away with this. He screwed the pooch and we need everyone to know this.

[CrispyQ]

8. That's what I've been wondering, too. -nt

[malaise]

31. I walked in on a discussion last night where Bloomberg was speaking

I'm sure someone said he was buying test kits but I couldn't find a link later.

[SMC22307]

48. Maybe waiting until closer to the election? Timing is everything.

I was wondering the same thing earlier today and figured they're waiting until a (factual) attack ad like that would have the greatest impact.

[wnylib]

58. It would have a negative impact for Dems

if done now. We are in crisis and everyone needs to work together. It would be perceived as divisive and would feed right into the belief that Derms criticize Trump's handling of the crisis solely for political reasons and not for his genuine failings.

Trump's turnaround now is not, of course, a sincere recognition of the seriousness of the situation, or a real desire to help the American people. It is purely for image projection. He sees how the governors are outshining him in their performance and how seriously they are handling it. He does not want to be outdone by them.

The public sees his turnaround as a hopeful sign. He is spouting his usual BS con crap, but calling him on it now in political ads would look like a refusal of his cooperation. It would backfire on us.

Those exposure ads will have to wait until later. He is still playacting and projecting an image, and that will be clear soon enough.

[Brainfodder]

3. If he's still running then, HELL YEAH!

MikeY B gonna be all over that chit?

[rzemanfl]

4. Did. K&R. n/t

[Captain Zero]

7. This would be a good summer for the Republican Convention to change their ticket

to Romney and Colin Powell
Have Trump Resign and Pence stumble along to the new year.

It might generate some confidence. But they won't.

[Gore1FL]

19. It's sad that Romney and Powell would be the dream team.

They have more baggage than Samsonite.

[crickets]

24. Ha! Good one. And so true. nt

[malaise]

32. I would say more baggage than the JFK

carousels -Samsonite is just one brand

[czarjak]

42. THAT'S the ticket?

[gratuitous]

6. You weren't talking about this video by any chance?

Yeah, this has political ad written all over it. It's also a handy compendium for use with your favorite Trump humper when he tries to pass off Trump's bragging about being ahead of everybody on the pandemic. No, he wasn't.

[rzemanfl]

10. Yes, that's the one. n/t

[dem4decades]

15. Wow. Only an idiot can't see the ineptitude.

[scarletwoman]

21. Excellent! Thank you for posting this! (nt)

[Duppers]

33. Have you put this in an OP yet?

I'll search for it. Great catch.

Thank you!!

[gristy]

40. oh, my

If that was a trailer for a scary movie with a very scary antagonist, I'd be scared. But we are living this. OMG

[BComplex]

55. I really wish I could recommend this post!

It truly needs to be a commercial come election time.

[FailureToCommunicate]

63. Wow! Thanks for posting.

[dixiegrrrrl]

64. It's all over the Twitter, also. n/t

[True Blue American]

75. Nicolle on Trump.

[lpbk2713]

11. Trump is as big a gasbag as Limbaugh.

And Limbaugh has been known to say something on air
and then deny he said it later during the same show.

[Evolve Dammit]

44. Q) what is the difference between the Hindenburg and Rush Limbaugh?

A) One is a Nazi gas bag and the other is a dirigible.

[PlanetBev]

14. This is a thing of beauty

Lays it out perfectly.

[CaptYossarian]

17. There was a presidential debate where a candidate was flimsy and the opponent said

"I want this to be the White House, not the Waffle House".

I don't recall the year or who the participants were, but it was the most powerful line spoken that year.

[MyOwnPeace]

39. They were heavy with the

"Waffle" thing in John Kerry's campaign in 2004. That was also the year of the "Swift Boat" campaign.
I thought both were a major disgrace to America and how to treat a dedicated public servant and war hero.

[CaptYossarian]

43. Especially since Dubya skipped out on his Natl Guard duties.

Now that you mentioned Kerry, the memory got clearer.

[MyOwnPeace]

47. And do you remember

they would take "flip-flops" and smack them together because they claimed Kerry had "flip-flopped" on is support of a war, whether it was Viet-Nam or Iraq, I'm not sure. I was SO disgusted with their show, especially, as you said, "W" had a cushy Air National Guard gig and some believe that he had been drummed out of it.
Hey, maybe drums at Kerry rallies would have been good!

And speaking of "flip-flops" - lord knows we're seeing major ones this week with both IQ45 ("It's gonna' be gone in a week" - "I KNEW it was a pandemic" ), and, of course, his enablers in the RepubliCON(victs) party.

My GAWD, how can anybody with one ounce of brain matter vote for that horse's ass?

[BigmanPigman]

18. I thought he was playing Biden's new ad

since I was in the other room listening. The new ad is similar.

[Katinfl]

20. Saw it, loved it!

The ad simply writes itself!

[3catwoman3]

22. Just yesterday, my husband had what he described as a somewhat...

...heated discussion with a casual friend who claims Trump never said the viral mess was a hoax. He should see this video clip.

He’d probably think it was faked.

[Mr. Ected]

23. Doesn't matter when Trump decided the hoax was a veritable pandemic

The only thing that matters is that his psychophants engage their cognitive dissonance and forget about the hoaxy spinny thing.

And to their discredit: many of them are still of the opinion that this is a big nothingburger aimed at their godling and a total media creation. I know. Several told me as much today.

[Peregrine Took]

30. I like him a lot and can't stand her.

He would be great in Tweetie's old slot - hes' a real newsman!

[SergeStorms]

37. You don't like Nicole Wallace?

I think she's great. Too bad she waited so long to become a Democrat, but better late than never. Most people complain about Heilmann, not Wallace. To each his/her own.

[True Blue American]

70. John had a show at 6

With Halperin who was involved in the sex abuse thing.

The funniest shows I ever saw were when Donny substituted. They were a fun pair.

[SergeStorms]

34. Saw that too.

Trump, trying to say that he knew this was a pandemic all along, and patting himself on the back for being so pro-active about this whole thing is one of the biggest lies he's told. Of course there are ten thousand or so lies to choose from, so that's a bold claim on my part.

[lettucebe]

35. That basically is an ad! Hope someone puts it on the teevee

maybe Fox-n-Friends? That'd be good

[cp]

36. Whole show today was excellent

and the Recount (calendar) at the end just superb.

[2naSalit]

38. I think it's from

a Lincoln Project ad.

[SunSeeker]

41. Yep. There's a number of videos that document Trump's mendacity on Covid-19.

Here's a good one:

Link to tweet

?s=19

[warmfeet]

45. Yes. Let's play some hard ball. A commercial would be perfect.

Why should the repiggies have all the fun. Fuck them, get rid of them.

Fuck ruling - that's what kings and authoritarians do.

I am from the fucking government, I actually want to help (Not sure if I said fuck quite enough).

To be perfectly clear, I like the government (less the repiggies, of course). Our government is for us, formed by us, and serves us.

I would love to see our government actually serving us. November 3rd, 2020.

[keithbvadu2]

46. Let's check his actual wartime experience...

"I feel like a great and very brave soldier"

[Blue Owl]

49. Hoist that lying fuck up on his own petard

Higher.... HIGHER....

[bdamomma]

50. What a bastard he is

we cannot let him or our media hoodwink us. We cannot, he is destroying us.

[Joinfortmill]

51. Trump is the best liar.

He's the greatest liar. There isn't a liar who lies more than him. He's the king of liars.

[Cha]

52. KR!

[tclambert]

53. Think how much worse this will look in 11 or 12 days when we pass 100,000 confirmed cases.

Think how bad it will look sometime in April when we pass the 1 million mark. We will have around 20,000 dead by then.

And it will just keep going.

At the rate of increase we're seeing, we will pass Italy and then pass China for number of confirmed cases.

Finally, FINALLY, Trump will make us Number One in something.

[luvallpeeps]

56. Remember his boast about shooting somone on 5th ave.

and he still wouldn't lose any of his base? This time just MIGHT be different since he now pretty much shot Grandma and Grandpa. We'll see. I'm hoping a few will see the light. Not holdin' my breath though. Oh yea, and everyone's jobs, IRAs, and sports..... GONE

[dchill]

57. It's an ad-in-waiting.

[Tarheel_Dem]

59. That was brilliant. n/t

[calimary]

60. Yes! It was! And I bet someone's working it into a campaign commercial.

I bet there’s TONS of video being stockpiled and catalogued got exactly that purpose.

Let’s use his own words to build the case against him. He’s given us loads to work with.

[malaise]

61. Check this one

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213127367

[onetexan]

62. so this freak is rebranding himself as the wartime president for hiss reelection campaign

what a crock and what gross failure of leadership. This hideous man has no idea how to govern & is eminently inept for such a lofty and demanding position. This viral spread's lack of handling is the result of an failed administration full of science deniers whose decimated the ability of the nation to deal with a pandemic.

[Operaweeble]

65. I wonder if you could pay enough to get an ad like that on Fauxnews?

The sheeple would still believe in that Russian Asset.

[Catch2.2]

66. Thats the problem...

The Dems need help when it comes to campaigning etc. Unfortunately the Dems will most likely let Trump & the Republicans frame this pandemic and Trump will come out looking like the strong leader he can only wish he was. A little over half the population will believe his BS. The Dems need to jump on this and keep playing these clips, tweets, etc. where Trump was saying it was a hoax, that he got rid of the Pandemic Response Team, that he gutted the CDC, etc. People need to be told that Trump botched the response and that we most likely wouldn't have had to go through all this (Isolation, death, job loss, business closure, etc.)