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Always love your writing Dan, even 'if' your intent was to tag the plus and minus 5 camps as either loonies or just the simple minded. After all, what 'thinking 'person could go to such an extreme rating of FIVE on your own carefully constructed 'sensibility scale'?

Hum, what shall I be today... deranged or just delusional?

I could side with the +2's or even the join giant ZERO bunch, but hey I never liked the taste of pablum or luke warm water for that matter.

Ah hell, I've always been a radical so I'll give myself a big +5! (oh hey, does the highest score get a prize or sumpin'?)

Oh and just a theoretical point of order question here...

Should those who abstain from voting have the same right to test, criticize, and then grade the duly elected as those who actually cast a ballot? (asking for a friend)

Lastly, I'd love to meet your mom someday. That lady has some gumption!

Your pal,

Bruce (er, I meant FRED!)

*written in good humor but with much respect!

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Bruce,

Your cordial response with a friendly (and appreciated) start and finishing note, and the fact that you’re willing to discuss this stuff without anger or drama, tells me you’re not a five. Remember, as I stated, the TESR is not a measurement of like & dislike per se, but a measure of how much negative and positive emotion can move us away from objectivity. If Trump were everything his supporters think he is, it would be fine to be a +5 on the Trump Love/Hate Spectrum (a different scale), but it still would be advisable to try to strive for the mental clarity/equilibrium/unbiased judgement of a 0 on the TESR.

Cordially,

Dan

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Pizza and beer? Pizza? WTF? We had lamb stew and beer!!! Or are you talking about a different men's group which does serve pizza? They probably drink Bud Light as well.

Seriously, though, I am about as close to a 0.0 on your scale as anyone could reasonably expect. I admit that, secretly and deep in my heart, I wish that Trump really could make things right again, but I don't have any delusions about that. Or, as the old hymn puts it,

"My hope is built on nothing less,

Than Jesus Christ and righteousness."

As far as Trump's To Do list goes, I think you might score with sending the illegals home, at least some of them, and ending the DEI/affirmative action quotas, at least some of them. More than that, I am skeptical about.

Anyway, you should send that to him. It would give him something to shoot at.

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Sanity!!!

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This is an excellent (not all that short of a) short list. A cautiously optimists observer, I hope he achieves them all.

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to summarize the whole article in one short paragraph, without pictures and graphics:

Trump has angered me for a number of reasons, at the top his promotion and sanctioning of the murderous and satanic Covid Plandemic & Clot Shot. And now, like my uncle, I’m repelled by the guy (for different reasons of course). But I must strive to not let that muddle my mind to the degree that my uncle’s Trump hatred (TDS) has. The same dynamic holds on the plus side of the spectrum. James Corbett warned us about it right after the election in '16.

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