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What can you do about the Trumpites next door?
Los Angeles Times ^ | Feb. 5, 2021 | Virginia Heffernan

Posted on 02/26/2021 10:03:06 AM PST by Freelance Warrior

The Trumpites next door to our pandemic getaway 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 — 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 the neighborhood.

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

So when I accept generosity from my pandemic neighbors, acknowledging the legitimate kindness with a wave or a plate of cookies, am I also sealing us in as fellow travelers who are very polite to each other but not so much to “them”?

But the plowing.

On Jan. 6, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) issued a plea for all Americans to love their neighbors. He added, “You can’t hate someone who shovels your driveway.” Maybe my neighbor heard Sasse and was determined to make a bid for reconciliation.

So here’s my response to my plowed driveway. Politely, but not profusely, I’ll acknowledge the Sassian move. With a wave and a thanks, a minimal start on building back trust. I’m not ready to knock on the door with a covered dish yet. I also can’t give my neighbors absolution. Free driveway work, it is just not the same currency as justice and truth. And they probably aren’t looking for absolution anyway.

But I can offer a standing invitation to make amends by recognizing the truth about the Trump administration and, more important, by working for justice for all those whom the administration harmed.

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To: Freelance Warrior

What can you do about the Trumpites next door?

Hope that their intelligence, common sense, and good morality, rubs off on your misguided idiot selves.


21 posted on 02/26/2021 10:19:58 AM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! China-Russia collusion! Click ETL...)
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To: Little Ray

Yes, but her stream of consciousness is extremely colourful, especially in the longer version on the newspaper’s website.


22 posted on 02/26/2021 10:20:04 AM PST by Freelance Warrior (A Russian.)
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To: 17th Miss Regt
Funny.

"Dating is hard but so is turning into the weird cat lady."----printed on mugs and shirts.

23 posted on 02/26/2021 10:20:46 AM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

‘Her cats are enough for her.’

her cats are no doubt far more sane than she...


24 posted on 02/26/2021 10:22:07 AM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: Freelance Warrior

I used to clear the sidewalk of snow from one end of the block to the other. That was about 15 houses that got their sidewalk cleared off just for being my neighbor. I have stopped however because, statistically speaking, 8-9 of those houses are owned by democrats (I live in a big democrat city).


25 posted on 02/26/2021 10:28:23 AM PST by RC one (When a bunch of commies start telling you that you don't need an AR15, you really need an AR15)
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To: Freelance Warrior

A-HAH! Gullible fool! We Trumpists don’t do things like this to be *nice*! We do it to make you weaker and more dependent, so that you’ll be easy victims when we re-take power!

I suppose if I wrote something like that, some loon on the left would believe it, wouldn’t they?


26 posted on 02/26/2021 10:28:41 AM PST by Flatus I. Maximus (My job went to India and all I got was this stupid severance package.)
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To: RC one
I have stopped however because, statistically speaking, 8-9 of those houses are owned by democrats (I live in a big democrat city).

This is probably wise due to another reason: the democrats might claim you do that job badly.

27 posted on 02/26/2021 10:37:23 AM PST by Freelance Warrior (A Russian.)
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To: a fool in paradise

““Respect them””

No respect will ever come from her. From this short article it can be easily seen that she is a Narcissist.

In her mind nothing she ever thinks says or does could possibly be wrong and it is other peoples fault that they do not recognize and pay tribute to her superiority.

She is the typical uppity and entitled lefty.

Basically she is useless to society because of her egocentric mental health issues.


28 posted on 02/26/2021 10:40:46 AM PST by oldenuff35
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To: Freelance Warrior

The anti-Americans at the LA Times and the Communists who get their propaganda from that rag need to know that the “real” POTUS and the 80 million people who love him are gonna BEAT THEIR ARSES in 2022 AND 2024!


29 posted on 02/26/2021 10:40:54 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Conceding the result of a fraudulent election is both irrational and immoral.)
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To: BenLurkin

“..What is a “Trumpite”?...”

An American.


30 posted on 02/26/2021 10:41:50 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: COBOL2Java

First stated by Michael Savage.


31 posted on 02/26/2021 10:42:59 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Conceding the result of a fraudulent election is both irrational and immoral.)
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To: Freelance Warrior

TDS is way more harmful than covid, that’s for sure. This woman’s a lunatic if she thinks she’s owed an apology from Trump supporters. If we were like them we wouldn’t be plowing their driveway, we’d be taking a dump on their porch.


32 posted on 02/26/2021 10:43:39 AM PST by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: Freelance Warrior

Remember the LA Slimes Editors “felt” this was good Journalism and let it be published.


33 posted on 02/26/2021 10:53:07 AM PST by DAC21
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To: 17th Miss Regt

Yes. No doubt she’s most likely a single , white female who lives all alone in a tiny house with 50 cats.


34 posted on 02/26/2021 10:59:27 AM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: Freelance Warrior

Liberals are the ones who need to get a grip on the truth about the Trump administration.


35 posted on 02/26/2021 11:02:10 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Freelance Warrior

Typical liberal...

You have not harmed ME and in fact, you have been a GOOD NEIGHBOR, but until you believe and think JUST LIKE I DO...

Well, then we got problems.

So give people you don’t know all of your money, don’t ask people with skin a tone or two darker than you to actually follow the laws we have democratically selected for ourselves, and take the livelihood of folks that were born here and give it away to folks that snuck in last week. Oh and quit trying to stay warm or drive a car cuz, ya know, da erf or something...

F-— all of ‘em. If this person puts politics over humanity, maybe we should let them have a place of their own they can give that full throttle. And let them discover for themselves how fast your life becomes a joyless labor in the People’s Republic when you need to spend 100% of your time conforming... even if you like 90% of the stuff you are conforming to.


36 posted on 02/26/2021 11:16:39 AM PST by L,TOWM (An upraised middle finger is my virtue signal.)
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To: Freelance Warrior

How many times will this article get posted?

It’s been used & reused a zillion times...
Almost as worn out as harris’ knees & mouth...


37 posted on 02/26/2021 11:28:45 AM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Joe McCarthy now that we desperately need him sober?)
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To: Freelance Warrior

“I also can’t give my neighbors absolution. Free driveway work, it is just not the same currency as justice and truth.”

Man, leftists have gone too far with their God-complex attitudes. How arrogant and intolerant, but many of them really do see anyone who disagrees with them as a sub-human blasphemer. They do not seem to possess the capacity to see things through other points of views without straw men and slanders and to understand that they can be fallible and hurting people themselves.


38 posted on 02/26/2021 12:16:44 PM PST by FenwickBabbitt
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To: SuperLuminal

It’s the first time I’ve seen it, and I’m on Free Republic a lot. I have no idea how many times it might have been posted, but there are new people who will see this. It’s a good article to help our side understand the intolerant left.


39 posted on 02/26/2021 12:19:39 PM PST by FenwickBabbitt
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To: FenwickBabbitt

OK... See your point...

But, based on snitch articles like this one, those Trumpites will soon go away to either a re-education camp or a culling site...


40 posted on 02/26/2021 12:46:41 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Joe McCarthy now that we desperately need him sober?)
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