No Compromises with TDS

I've received a coupla (sic) dozen similar notes over the years (scroll). This note from a former business colleague, retired, with a successful career behind him and charitable non-profit responsibilities (a good guy) was sent in response to what seems to me to be a fairly innocuous endorsement by me of DJT's cabinet appointees (scroll further). TDS is real. Lottsa hardwired people out there will only judge from their self-professed position of moral superiority and not engage in real discussion or debate. The writer was on a blind list, so his name was not visible to others.

I was in a book club discussion a few months ago "Washington's Crossing" by David Hackett Fischer | Stephen DeWitt Taylor  where I drew a comparison between George Washington and Donald Trump, both of whom avoided by a whisker being killed by a bullet.  My point was, how would the world be different had the shots hit their mark?  One of the participants, totally avoiding my point, said, "Trump was not hit by a bullet."  "Was the Butler, PA event contrived?" I asked.  Again, avoiding the point, like an automaton he repeated, "Trump was not hit by a bullet."  TDS.  The discussion moved on to something else.  The gist of my question was acknowledged by the participants but not discussed in more detail as I hoped it would be.