Strength of Stamina

The media was all over Donnie’s shot at Liz Cheney last Thursday. “Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. OK? Let’s see how she feels with guns are trained on her face.”

MSNBC roared, “OMG! Trump is talking about putting Liz Cheney in front of a firing squad!” Fox poured oil on troubled waters. “He didn’t mean a literal firing squad. That’s just Trumpian sarcasm. That’s just Trump being Trump.”

The media has the attention span of a toddler. Donnie’s “double down” last Friday received no mention in the press. “Liz Cheney is a War Hawk and a dumb one at that. If you ever put her on the field of battle, she’d be the first one to chicken out. She wouldn’t fight. She’d chicken out so fast. That’s all I have to say about that.”

Nice Forrest Gump reference there, Donnie. Donnie calls anyone, especially women, who oppose him:

“Birdbrain” — Nikki Haley

“Low IQ Individual” — Kamala

“Dumb One” — Liz Cheney

Later that day, Donnie double-“doubled down”. “If you gave Liz Cheney a gun and out her into battle facing guns pointed at her, she wouldn’t have the courage or the strength of the stamina to even look the enemy in the eye.”

Strength of the stamina? It takes Trumpian genius to come up with “strength of the stamina”.

Donnie’s jab at Liz Cheney is a classic “pot calls the kettle black”. Trump “chickened out” when he had a chance to go to “the field of battle” and “look the enemy in the eye” when his student deferment lapsed in 1968. Daddy Trump called in a favor from a doctor and Donnie magically developed debilitating heel spurs that kept him out of the draft. As Donnie so eloquently put it, “My Vietnam was avoiding VD in the New York party scene of the ‘70s.”

Not all of Donnie’s generation lacked that “strength of stamina” or had a well-connected Daddy. Nearly 70,000 of us never came back from Vietnam.

Everyone in Donnie’s (and my) generation was affected. In 1970 while Donnie was cruising NYC hotspots, Cawley, DiVecchia, and Dufton, the “best and brightest” of Mr Buckley’s Homeroom 314 were all in Korea or off the coast of Vietnam “looking the enemy in the eye.” I guess we were “suckers and losers”.

But we had “strength of stamina”.

By Ed Dufton