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.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Ben Sasse could come and shovel my driveway and I’d still detest his politics and his sanctimonious tone but I’d thank him.
Wait! Is this satire?
Lady I wouldn’t do crap for you.
Most democrats these days are either undiagnosed clinical psychopaths, Satanically possessed tyrants, or some other twisted combination of the two.
They are all as malicious and dangerous as hell, and should be avoided at all costs.
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More truthful words have never been posted on FR!
bkmk
I’ll give the nice guy the benefit of the doubt that he wasn’t aware this woman was a mentally disturbed POS. But if he did know it, he was a damn fool for clearing out her driveway. Such people should be totally SHUNNED, undeserving of anything other than hostile eye contact. And no rebuttal will induce me reconsider that mindset!
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!
Be an adult, say thank you and go back into your house.
Freakin' idiot.
I wish it were. But it isn’t. That’s the issue. I seldom come across such irrational pieces. They deserve to be on display in a museum.
Sorry, this piece was new to me and learned about it from a foreign source. So the author has received international notoriety. A search on this site didn’t return previous postings either.
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