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Column: What can you do about the Trumpites next door?
Yahoo News via Los Angeles Times ^ | 5 Feb, 2021 | Virginia Heffernan

Posted on 02/07/2021 5:20:07 AM PST by MtnClimber

Your neighbor legitimately deserves your thanks for helping on snow duty, but how much thanks?

Oh, heck no. The Trumpites next door to our pandemic getaway, who seem as devoted to the ex-president as you can get without being Q fans, just plowed our driveway without being asked and did a great job.

How am I going to resist demands for unity in the face of this act of aggressive niceness?

Of course, on some level, I realize I owe them thanks — and, man, it really looks like the guy back-dragged the driveway like a pro — but how much thanks?

These neighbors are staunch partisans of blue lives, and there aren't a lot of anything other than white lives in neighborhood.

This is also kind of weird. Back in the city, people don’t sweep other people’s walkways for nothing.

SNIP

When someone helps you when you’re down, or snowed in, it’s almost impossible to regard them as a blight on the world. In fact, you’re more likely to be overwhelmed with gratitude and convinced of the person’s inherent goodness.

You might end up like the upper-middle-class family I stayed with in France as a teenager. They did not attend a citywide celebration for the 100th birthday of Charles de Gaulle, the war hero who orchestrated the liberation of his country from Nazi Germany in 1944. They did have several portraits of Philippe Pétain, Nazi collaborator, on their wall.

When I screwed up the courage to ask how it was for them during the occupation, the lady of the house replied, “We were happy because the Nazis were very polis.” I didn’t know the word, so I excused myself to consult a French-English dictionary. I was in tears when I found the entry: "polite."

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To: MtnClimber

Typical arrogant Marxist fool: “Working together means you concede to everything I want”. He’s not even aware that there other points of view.


41 posted on 02/07/2021 6:35:08 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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To: Fiji Hill

>>It’s worse than the Left’s hatred for President Nixon.

The Left owes Nixon a huge apology after all the illegal spying on Trump. No one ever really paid a price for that.


42 posted on 02/07/2021 6:37:24 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: MtnClimber

Heffernan needs to know, she got her driveway plowed because she is white and in a white enclave... now we can see her true colors. Will she move to Harlem or not?


43 posted on 02/07/2021 6:39:34 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something)
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To: MtnClimber

The writer has swallowed poison and is drying a slow death. The name Trump will forever haunt her. She is living in the twilight zone.


44 posted on 02/07/2021 6:40:45 AM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: MtnClimber

Charles de Gaulle’s 100 birthday was 1990. 44 years after the liberation of France. The idea anyone in France would have multiple pictures of Petain, who was convicted of treason, and sentence to death, is hard to believe. Petain was 89 years old when he was tried. De Gaulle commented his sentence to life imprisonment. Petain was a WWI hero, but was a feeble old man serving as a puppet for the Vichy

Also, how old would someone have to be in 1990 to have fond remembrances of Nazi occupied France (1939-1944)? At least mid-60s. I guess it is possible retired people offer boarding for foreign students. But the picture seems odd. It would be like having a picture of Benedict Arnold in the US.

That said, there is an outside shot these people in 1990 were actually neo-Nazis.

More like, this woman is a fabulist.


45 posted on 02/07/2021 6:44:21 AM PST by magellan
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To: norwaypinesavage
He’s not even aware that there other points of view.

Not a he. At least I don't think so. Maybe a he, but who knows anymore?

See photo in Post #8 if you dare.

46 posted on 02/07/2021 6:47:35 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

When I read the article, I was immediately reminded of this scene from Schindler’s List, when Commandant Amon Goth is talking to the Jewish woman, Helen Hirsch, who he made into his servant. He says, “I realize you are not a person in the strictest sense.” He asks, “Is this the face of a rat?” “Are these the eyes of a rat?” The propaganda of the Nazis is speaking loudly to him. Yet something deeper is making him question the anti-Semitic messages. He acknowledges that she is a good servant and a good cook. But how can this be? How can there be anything good in her at all? After all, she is a Jew.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7vXc2HsMZg

Commandant Goth finally gives in to his pathological anti-Semitic hatred, refusing to give in to any kindness, and instead, decides to beat her. But there is no audience in the room for which he is performing.

But the author, Virginia Heffernan, of this anti-Trump article is performing for the readers of the Los Angeles Times. It’s as though she will acknowledge the kindness of her pro-Trump neighbors—if only briefly—who cleaned off her driveway. But the sneering hatred comes out in the end, again, like Commandant Goth. She must let her readers know that the anti-Trump hatred lives loudly in her, and that in the end, she will abide by her hatred and mistrust.

The anti-Trump propaganda is living loudly in the Left and is becoming increasing audacious. And the propaganda says, “Forget what you personally experience with a Trump supporter. Instead, keep on the front burner how bad they are.” The anti-Trump message from the MSM must stay front and center and is to be believed, no matter what you may personally experience when you encounter a Trump supporter.

We are truly in a very bad place in American history.


47 posted on 02/07/2021 6:50:27 AM PST by dsat4life (Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty . . . who was, who is, and is to come!! Amen!)
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To: MtnClimber
... by working for justice for all those whom the administration harmed. Only when we work shoulder to shoulder to repair the damage of the last four years will we even begin to dig out of this storm.

I want to see her list of 'harm' and 'damage.'

48 posted on 02/07/2021 6:52:06 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (Die-ggl,TWT,FCBK,NYT,WPo,Hwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antf,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP,MSNBC )
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To: MtnClimber

Agree. Instructive. Thx for posting it. ‘Pod.


49 posted on 02/07/2021 7:01:26 AM PST by sauropod (#ImpeachMcConnell. #Resist. #NotMyPresident.)
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To: MtnClimber

“I recommend reading to understand how leftist opinion influencers operate.”

I saved it for that purpose.


50 posted on 02/07/2021 7:07:13 AM PST by stanne
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To: IndispensableDestiny
"Her neighbor will never clear her driveway again."

If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; And if he is thirsty, give him water to drink;

For you will heap burning coals on his head, And the LORD will reward you.
Proverbs 21-22

51 posted on 02/07/2021 7:11:43 AM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives our fortunes and our sacred honor." )
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Hey lady, if the cop-next-door didn't know how you felt about her, she does now.
52 posted on 02/07/2021 7:14:47 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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To: MtnClimber

The Trumpets next door? If they were in my neighborhood, I’d do what I do with all of my neighbors (all 12 families voted Trump) talk to them and enjoy the Florida weather and just wait until 2022...


53 posted on 02/07/2021 7:17:36 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (We might be DEPLORABLES, but we don't CHEAT like Dem)
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To: MtnClimber
"I recommend reading to understand how leftist opinion influencers operate."

I recommend you dig deeper and reading her nutscream scroll of a Twitter to get at the icy root of her rotten snowflake core:

"It's the plowman's wife who's the cop. She seems standard issue cop racist w/CPS issues, as she puts it, b/c she hit one of *his* kids & they lost custody. He's said to be apolitical, but flew flags & banners. I worry he's in an abusive situation but clearly I shd stay in my lane."

"Also: here the plowing was a gift I was forced to accept. I was in debt before I knew it, like when someone sends you a drink"

"But I’m psychologically behind. I got my own inner Ted Cruz who tells me my my own weird catastrophes are fake, so I’m trying to imagine a time when I can admit, if only to myself, that XYZ was hard & I still think about it."

"Whole piece is about my conscience bothering me, I’ll tell the truth."


54 posted on 02/07/2021 7:20:20 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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To: MtnClimber

Never heard “Trumpite” term before.

Guessing the opposite would be a “Bidumbass.”


55 posted on 02/07/2021 7:24:22 AM PST by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food. )
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To: MtnClimber

Look. You hire a man to clean out the corruption, the crap that leads to the corruption along with the policies that the corrupt provide to their supporters in order to establish and keep the power, and tgere will be backlash

They’re not going to take it. They’ll have to, eventually, but as success becomes apparent, these confused souls with a publisher will be heard

Eventually they will either go off to live quiet, angry lives or they’ll realize the truth, join in, live their own life, leave others to theirs. Natural law prevails. There are enough able defenders of the Constitution...for now

But a dangerous piece? Nah. Trump won with nearly 80 million and the electoral college. (No, biden did not get the popular vote. If he had we’d heard it to no end.) think of what it would be if we hadn’t all gone out to vote knowing they would cheat. Or if Biden had actually won. The situation would be dire if that had been the case.

The losers in this election will do this in a more ugly subversive way in the couple of weeks. That’s all this is. That and the abject confusion in the leftist mind.


56 posted on 02/07/2021 7:28:27 AM PST by stanne
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To: MtnClimber

He’s not even aware that there other points of view.

Not a he. At least I don’t think so. Maybe a he, but who knows anymore?

***

Definitely has the Seinfeld defined Man Hands! Pictures don’t lie.


57 posted on 02/07/2021 7:28:31 AM PST by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food. )
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To: SauronOfMordor

That’s a MAN, baby!


58 posted on 02/07/2021 7:29:21 AM PST by Afterguard (Deplorable me! )
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SO nutroot "politely" engaged Reher on Twitter but she obliquely ignored Rod's money shot:

"This Heffernan column is so revealing. Is that really how urban media liberals see the rest of America: as a place full of people as bitter and as judgmental as themselves? Heffernan’s column is what happens when people who have extraordinary power to shape the media discourse live in a political monoculture... But we all know that when the papers hire for “diversity,” they really mean they want to get ten different flavors of liberal."

The stronger contention is why she hides behind liberalism, is exactly.why.so.many.women.do.

This woman, this paid-for-attention-whore, is the product of failed relationships her entire life: she mentions a partner and no marriage; and a son but no father. Every tweet reeks of Imposter Syndrome and as said in her own words, fake PTSD.

She basically doxxed the female cop next door and ascribed every manner of hatred towards her, but the jealousy is palpable -- the law-enforcement officer represents everything she can never be -- hard work, community honors, who attracted the kind of husband who plows the neighbors walk just because he's a good guy.

59 posted on 02/07/2021 7:42:38 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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To: Hulka

It is not “left getting history wrong”. It is left (all socialists/comunists, either with Hitler or Mao of Stalin) twisting history. Remember, to them truth is relative. To them truth depends upon YOUR point of view.

What was it about Satan? His best trick was convincing everyone that he doesn’t exist. Evil has a history of lying. About everything. All the time.


60 posted on 02/07/2021 7:55:18 AM PST by bobbo666 (communists)
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