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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: SauronOfMordor

oh a cheeseburger stalker.


61 posted on 02/07/2021 8:00:58 AM PST by ronniesgal ( no fool like an old fool!)
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To: MtnClimber

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

Lost me there. I don’t have any idea what she means. Blue to me only means BLUE states which are not related to any Trump supporter and “white lives” - I don’t have a clue!


62 posted on 02/07/2021 8:06:44 AM PST by Thank You Rush ( )
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To: MtnClimber
Charles de Gaulle, the war hero who orchestrated the liberation of his country from Nazi Germany in 1944

I can't pay too much attention to someone who's that detached from reality.

63 posted on 02/07/2021 8:15:38 AM PST by libertylover (This is not your Founding Fathers' United States of America anymore.)
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To: MtnClimber

Next time don’t plow her driveway.


64 posted on 02/07/2021 8:36:50 AM PST by theoilpainter (but, )
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To: EEGator
Silicone and fat sculpting. In a few years she will have to go back to the doctor, where he will cut along the bottom of the breast, remove her nipples and place them higher. Then in a Frankenstein manner, sew her up again.

Now if only men would have a doctor slice along their member, insert some silicone or fat, then try and sew that up without breaking the stitches or skin.

65 posted on 02/07/2021 9:16:30 AM PST by dragonblustar (Matthew 24:10 And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another. )
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To: IndispensableDestiny
1. That is not the writer’s house.

No, she calls it "our pandemic getaway" in the second sentence. Easy to miss.

66 posted on 02/07/2021 9:18:09 AM PST by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: dragonblustar

I don’t care about a few years.


67 posted on 02/07/2021 9:18:46 AM PST by EEGator
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To: MtnClimber

In other words, Trumpites = Nazi Sympathizers.


68 posted on 02/07/2021 9:20:03 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Trump - Make America Great Again / Biden - Make American Grovel Again...)
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To: MtnClimber

Is this satire, sarcasm, or both?


69 posted on 02/07/2021 9:24:53 AM PST by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;page)
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To: SauronOfMordor

Heffer!


70 posted on 02/07/2021 9:31:25 AM PST by W. (And now, more beer, and Les Nessman!)
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To: dsat4life

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

And, we are truly in a very bad place in Christian history.


71 posted on 02/07/2021 9:55:48 AM PST by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

I don’t think it is satire or sarcasm. It was also discussed on Fox this morning and no mention of satire there either.


72 posted on 02/07/2021 10:13:08 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: Kartographer

Not there yet, maybe never.


73 posted on 02/07/2021 10:17:20 AM PST by stevio (Drain the Swamp!)
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To: FreedomPoster; All

She just changed her twitter account settings to “protected”. Now no one but her twitter followers can read her tweets. I guess she got a lot of backlash due to this article of hers.


74 posted on 02/07/2021 10:28:16 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: DesertRhino

He should take his water hose and hose down what he shoveled good. If it is below freezing. Let about 2 inches Of Ice build up.


75 posted on 02/07/2021 10:29:07 AM PST by sport
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To: lowbridge
"She just changed her twitter account settings to “protected”. Now no one but her twitter followers can read her tweets. I guess she got a lot of backlash due to this article of hers."

Awwww, that's a damn shame.


76 posted on 02/07/2021 11:17:09 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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"She just changed her twitter account settings to “protected”. Now no one but her twitter followers can read her tweets. I guess she got a lot of backlash due to this article of hers."

LOL.


77 posted on 02/07/2021 11:18:49 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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To: MtnClimber

I am convinced that the motivation of the Trump hater is envy, his life style & fashion (All the cool people hate him so I should so I can be cool !) They can never articulate an actual policy disagreement unless its a secular quasi-religious one like global warming. The “he’s a bigot” claim is so easily disproven that the Trump haters just get mad and walk away. That tells me there are deeper reasons - envy, life style & fashion.


78 posted on 02/07/2021 11:27:17 AM PST by Reily
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To: MtnClimber
There's a simple answer to the question of what you can do about the “Trumpian’s” next door. Listen up, liberals......sell your home at a HUGE loss. You'll decrease the comps in the area...that'll get them! Sure, you'll destroy your credit in the process but you liberals are all about sacrificing for the cause, right?
79 posted on 02/07/2021 11:32:15 AM PST by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: MtnClimber
What can you do about the Trumpites next door?

In my own neighborhood, while we previously never discussed politics, suddenly right before the election, my neighbors next to me and across the street put “Trump 2020” yard signs up. My neighbors still have their Trump signs up and we are now part of a neighborhood watch, rather than just unknown people living in the same neighborhood!

So my answer as to what to do about the Trunpites next door....they became part of our “Got Your Back” neighborhood protection system.

80 posted on 02/07/2021 11:34:06 AM PST by Brandonmark (Made America Great Again! 11.08.2016 - A DAY OF RENEWAL is a )
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