(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . "General Kelly is NOT Alone" -- he is just the latest, in a LONG List sounding the Alarm [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-10-23 — — Epic rant, in progress ... And here is that epic rant, which starts out that clip. One which captures the stakes of the presidential race, currently in progress. It highlights the stupidity/complicity of the Traditional Media for covering the Republican Gaslighting, as if their non-answers and refusals to acknowledge reality, actually have merit. [1:26] [Sarah Longwell, Strategist: ] Let me just start by saying normally, in a normal circumstance this would be the October surprise. Former Chief of Staff for a president comes out and said he routinely praised Hitler's generals; and this would come shortly after the president himself had said, that he wants to use the Military against the Enemy Within. Meaning Americans who do not agree with him politically. This should be the whole ball game, should be the whole ball game. BUT in our current circumstances, the October surprise would be the Media giving this the seriousness , the gravity — and the longevity . Meaning this is not a one-day news story. It's not something we talk about for a 12-hour news cycle. It's the kind of thing that explodes a campaign. [...] [3:02] This is what happens when something like this drops. Like there is a Media way, or there's like a way that Trump-defenders, they isolate the single instance, and they try to find something that they can grab onto, to discredit it. Either the context — “we don't know the context.” I'm watching dead-eyed Scott Jennings on CNN saying, 'well we ...' And David Urban 'uh we don't know uh -- and also the real Nazis are the kids of college campuses.' Nobody look at the guy praising Hitler's generals, who might run the country in three months. These people make me sick. They make me physically ill, the way that they treat this. But here's the thing: they want to gaslight you . This is peak gaslighting time, where they come for us, to try to isolate the individual — and say “there's something wrong with the individual story.” Some reason it can't be trusted. And they want us to ignore the cumulative weight of the evidence. General Kelly is not alone — not by a long shot! You've got Mike Pence saying, that Donald Trump is unfit for office, because he put himself over the Constitution, and asked Mike Pence to do the same. You've got Millie on the record, calling Donald Trump a fascist. You've got his old Homeland Security Advisor saying he's unfit, John Bolton saying he's unfit. His former White House attorney saying he's unfit, Ty Cobb. THEY'RE NOT ALL LYING! It's just like the sexual assault victims: Are they all lying? Every single one of them? But because Trump-defenders do this thing where they 'circle the wagons' and they pinpoint one thing. They want you to forget all of the other contexts . Not the least of which is the stuff we hear coming from Trump himself. Here's the reason that we know that Donald Trump talks like this about soldiers: He said it on the record, about John McCain. He said it on the record! How do we know that he thinks Hitler's kind of 'a cool guy' ? Is he out there right now calling Americans Vermin? Is he talking about immigrants poisoning the blood of our country? HE SURE IS. Did he dine with a white supremacist, a self-described white supremacist? We have the evidence we need. This is a question of whether we decide to take it seriously. And I will tell you this is the Media's last opportunity to cover the stakes and not the race. Cover the stakes — and not the race! I'll let someone else talk now [...] [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/10/23/2279085/-General-Kelly-is-NOT-Alone-he-is-just-the-latest-Warning-from-a-very-Long-List?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/