What can you do about the Trumpites next door?
Los Angeles Times,
by
Virginia Heffernan
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
2/6/2021 10:48:56 PM
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.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
columba 2/6/2021 10:52:04 PM (No. 687486)
Perhaps the writer moved to California from the East Coast, where everyone is more intelligent than Westerners. /s
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
pearlyjo 2/6/2021 11:05:56 PM (No. 687492)
So. Much. Self-righteousness. Do the neighbors know they have this idiot living next door?
85 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
TrueBlueWfan 2/6/2021 11:07:37 PM (No. 687495)
Maybe the writer could educate herself. AOC LIED about her experience on Jan. 6th. Trump failed to mitigate the virus? What an idiot. Without Trump's Operation Warp Speed, we'd be locked up for another 2 or 3 YEARS!!! And he did not incite a riot, either. Actually, President Trump WON the election in 2020.
I hope these kind Trumpian neighbors stop doing anything for this self-important, ignorant and condescending snob.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
john56 2/6/2021 11:12:59 PM (No. 687496)
If they were my neighbors, I'd give them their snow back.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Newtsche 2/6/2021 11:13:34 PM (No. 687498)
What can you do? Convince yourself that responsible neighbors with a sense of honor and respect are a problem.
Or just stew in your own juices like all your other fellow travelers.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
web 2/6/2021 11:19:57 PM (No. 687501)
That isn't aggressive niceness, you idiot. That is ordinary niceness, which apparently you are unable to recognize. What to say in the face of such ignorance and self-righteousness?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
JL80863 2/6/2021 11:35:00 PM (No. 687503)
Mz. Heffernan is incapable of understanding goodness..
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
chase9365 2/6/2021 11:35:06 PM (No. 687504)
I seriously felt I was reading an article from "The Onion". This guy needs to seek professional help.
58 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
mre 2/6/2021 11:37:38 PM (No. 687506)
What an *sshat. If his Trump-supporting neighbors are lucky, there will come a 30-foot snowfall that completely buries this fool under it so that he can’t come out until spring.
28 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Melanie 2/7/2021 12:05:28 AM (No. 687523)
What a condescending load of crap.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
dirtyjersey 2/7/2021 12:10:21 AM (No. 687524)
The author is finds comfort in hate. Anything that conflicts with that hate is a threat to her comfort.
47 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
Digiconver 2/7/2021 12:31:04 AM (No. 687526)
It must be so exhausting for her to have to maintain such anger in the face of such kindness; plus she's a real porker - desperately needs a trip to the gym. Gotta suck to be her.
33 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 2/7/2021 12:40:45 AM (No. 687528)
Another Nazi comparison. The moron who wrote this deserves whatever comes his/her way. What a POS.
31 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
mindsport 2/7/2021 12:50:03 AM (No. 687532)
I could only make it half way thru the article. What a little bit ch , of the petty mean girl variety.
24 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 2/7/2021 1:04:47 AM (No. 687536)
I thought it was satire and thoroughly enjoyed the piece until two-thirds down when I realized the writer was serious! Lord have mercy!!!
Sadly, its a glimpse into "progressive" culture where no-strings-attached kindness is considered a hostile act. Without God in their lives, or worldview, the modern nihilist takes care of #1 and expects others to do the same. They inhabit enclaves of the like-minded where every act has a hidden motive. Every social interaction has a giver and a taker, and every conversation is scored for effectiveness in moving forward.
Our poor post-modern Virginia, to her horror she found out Santa Claus is real and personified by a Trump supporter. Her self-revelatory angst is the screed of an anorexic soul forced to partake at the table of neighborly kindness. Her great burden is determining and then meeting the very least possible display of gratitude expected by polite society, while at the same time communicating that her disdain still holds for her neighbors' political beliefs...they don't deserve a covered dish.
The entire article literally rings with cognitive dissonance. I kept hoping she would somehow "circle back"; make a plate of cookies and knock on her neighbor's door with a smile on her face, if not in her heart. I imagined an offer of sincere gratitude from one human to another for a favor done under shared extreme circumstances. Its ironic how the enlightened elite fashion themselves as lovers of "the people", but don't think much of individual persons.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
valinva 2/7/2021 1:06:50 AM (No. 687539)
People on the left really are mentally ill. They are so twisted in their thinking they cannot help but be vile and ungrateful. This woman actually believes that if she was not white her neighbors would not have plowed her driveway. They would have because they did it to be neighborly not because they were rewarding her whiteness.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
smcchk 2/7/2021 1:22:49 AM (No. 687542)
she even got the Nazi reference in there. Liberals are becoming unabashedly tyrants.
32 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
LadyHen 2/7/2021 1:36:24 AM (No. 687544)
Why read or post this crap? They hate us. So?! What else is new?
16 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
pixelero 2/7/2021 2:00:19 AM (No. 687557)
What amoral, blinkered idiocy. Encapsulates perfectly the “end justifies the means,” lying hypocrisy of the armchair information-deprived left. Even the undeniable evidence of an altruistic mindset in their neighbor's value system does nothing to alter their blind devotion to an irrational ideology.
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I would so love a Trumper next door. Instead, I live between two crazies.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
PostAway 2/7/2021 3:48:27 AM (No. 687579)
The woman who wrote this is the sort who wanted desperately to yell, “Get off my lawn!” at the plower and believes she can tart up such meanness of spirit by making it appear to be political. As Edmund Burke observed of the Jacobins during the French Revolution Miss Hefferman is the sort of person who despises herself until the moment in which she becomes truly despicable.
21 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
jsulman 2/7/2021 4:27:43 AM (No. 687585)
Try treating them like I treat my progressive liberal neighbor, with dignity and respect. We actually have become good friends.
14 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
rfr46 2/7/2021 4:41:09 AM (No. 687590)
What an absolutely odious woman! Unfortunately, there seem to be many like her in the USA today. But she did not get that way because of Trump. It was in her heart for a very long time
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 2/7/2021 4:43:40 AM (No. 687591)
Next time, give her the finger and tell her to plow her own damn driveway. What a witch.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
IceQueen 2/7/2021 5:53:24 AM (No. 687606)
Firstly, I reject her comparison of the "Trumpites" next door with Hezb'allah and Farrakan: clearly, Trump supporters have not behaved in the manner of terrorist groups. bigots and drug dealers. (Or, please, show me, madam, when!).
Secondly, she mentions "back in the city." Leads me to think that she is now in a rural/country neighborhood. In my experience, country/rural people are more likely to help each other than city people are.
Thirdly, she supports the liar AOC, and the lie that President Trump ". . .utterly failed to mitigate." the chinese virus (perhaps because his response wasn't onerous as she would have liked. Gruesome Newsom did such a good job!
Finally, she is obviously so embittered by hate that she refuses to follow her leader's desire for unity. (Cough, cough LOL). What truth about President Trump's administration. . .what harm???
If I were her neighbors, I wouldn't take a covered dish from her, EVER! Reminds me of the ID program "Fear Thy Neighbor."
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
downnout 2/7/2021 8:04:37 AM (No. 687660)
This woman needs help. How can one be so petty and mean-spirited towArd another, especially after the back breaking work it took to clean off those steps and the driveway? She is so convinced of her virtue she can’t bring herself to offer a heartfelt thank you. a totally, self-absorbed b...
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
anniebc 2/7/2021 8:09:13 AM (No. 687664)
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Califedup 2/7/2021 8:09:43 AM (No. 687666)
Does everyone get it now? Even simple acts of kindness by a neighbor who happens to be a Patriotic American is translated by a communist death democrat as crimes against humanity, a demonstration of racism, and above all triggers contempt for her kind neighbors who have committed the ultimate crime of supporting our legally re-elected President Trump. Unity, reaching across the aisle, smiling, being friendly, patient, and generous are wasted upon these communists who hate us with a passion. They are like the muslim terrorists who only respect force. Compromise is akin to surrender with these evil, evil communists. They hate us and want to brutally crush us. They are not our fellow Americans anymore. They are our mortal enemies. The Truth can sometimes be very harsh. The choice they are giving us is either submit or die, there is no third choice.
Live free or die should now be our everyday Motto. We must resist at all levels and any way possible.
Wake up my fellow Americans we are at war with these communists.
Free America
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Daisymay 2/7/2021 8:11:15 AM (No. 687668)
I think if I had been the person who dug out her drive and walk, and didn't get so much as a phone call saying thanks, I think it would be fair for her to wake up to a five foot wall of snow at the very end of her driveway! Let her dig herself out! What a Ungrateful Snob! She represents all those Woke Women who voted for Biden!! They wouldn't say thanks either!
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 2/7/2021 8:48:17 AM (No. 687695)
I would say thank you and bake them a cake.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
dst4life 2/7/2021 9:18:32 AM (No. 687721)
#28, you are spot on. 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.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 2/7/2021 9:41:44 AM (No. 687740)
Wow. An act of kindness can't be appreciated because of differing political beliefs. How many antifa or blm folks are shoveling driveways?
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
HammerDax56 2/7/2021 9:43:28 AM (No. 687743)
So it’s all verified now. For any doubters remaining.
Dissent is no longer allowed by the ruling class. You will submit because you’re an idiot.
Kindness, yes even neighborliness is mocked as heartily as believing your vote matters.
Elites in charge is far worse than anyone could’ve imagined.
God help us.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Geoman 2/7/2021 10:24:15 AM (No. 687786)
If the nasty Ms Heffernan wants to make a memorable statement about her next door Trumpites, she should go into her freshly shoveled driveway, pour gasoline on her head and light a match.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
JackBurton 2/7/2021 10:30:24 AM (No. 687798)
Three days ago, we got about 4 inches and I snow-threw the walkway for two neighbors. One said thanks. One hasn't.
Guess who gets my help next time.
BTW the ones who didn't moved here from California two years ago.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Italiano 2/7/2021 10:32:36 AM (No. 687801)
I tried to get through this without vomiting. Fail.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
smsnod 2/7/2021 10:38:42 AM (No. 687808)
What a bunch of ingrates.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 2/7/2021 10:59:36 AM (No. 687831)
I hope someone makes sure that this harpie's kindly neighbor sees her column. If they plow her driveway after that nasty article, they're fools.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/7/2021 10:59:56 AM (No. 687832)
I would advise shaking their hands and bringing them an apple pie because they are much better people than you might think.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
Shells 2/7/2021 11:06:35 AM (No. 687837)
I actually hope this goes viral. I want every dumbarse lib in this country to have to look in the mirror and realize that THIS is who they are!
As repugnant as a human being can get.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
Readaholic 2/7/2021 11:58:03 AM (No. 687888)
The innocent driveway plower probably doesn't have the faintest idea how foul-hearted this writer is.
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Question: why DID the neighbors dig her out? They obviously had already done their own driveways before seeing her"s wasn't done. New in the neighborhood? Why didn't she hire someone? Maybe because she had to get on a list and wait?Refused to sign a contract so she was scheduled after the contracted customers? Snow removers had encountered her before? Waited to see if the neighbors would shovel her out? Too cheap? There's gotta be a reason. (But, I bet they won't do it again.)
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
msjena 2/8/2021 12:33:35 AM (No. 688506)
Tell me again, who are the bigots?
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
BillW. 2/8/2021 8:38:13 AM (No. 688694)
Coming from those miserable Commies at the LA Times, this has the ring of “You Know You’re a Redneck If” articles.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
skacmar 2/8/2021 12:28:06 PM (No. 688980)
Virginia, you need to stare into a mirror and think really hard about who is the one with the problem: You or the Trump supporters? They are not the ones filled with venom and hate, all they did was plow your driveway, for free! How do you respond? A venomous, hate filled rant against your neighbors who dared to help you. But you, being the judgmental, hateful, bigoted liberal you are condemns them based on their Blue lives matter flag and MAGA support. Who really has the problem here? Some serious introspection might be in order.
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