The Snowplow Test

Submitted by Hardscrabble Farmer

Authored by Rod Dreher via TheAmericanConservative.com,

Los Angeles Times columnist Virginia Heffernan, who lives in Brooklyn Heights but who lives somewhere rurally to escape Covid, recently had a dilemma: her Trump-loving neighbors did something nice for her. 

She doesn’t know what the right thing to do about it is.

Now, stop right there.

Normal people don’t have this problem.

Normal people think, aww, how nice, and start thinking of ways to return the kindness.

But normal people are not Harvard-educated New York-based liberal journalists.

Hence Heffernan’s revealing column. Excerpts:

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.

It takes a New Yorker to be confronted with someone doing something nice for them, and get suspicious about the angle. More:

On Jan. 6, after the insurrection, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) issued an aw-shucks plea for all Americans to love their neighbors. The United States, he said, “isn’t Hatfields and McCoys, this blood feud forever.” And, he added, “You can’t hate someone who shovels your driveway.”

At the time, I seethed; the Capitol had just been desecrated. But maybe my neighbor heard Sasse and was determined to make a bid for reconciliation.

So here’s my response to my plowed driveway, for now. 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; it’s not mine to give.

Free driveway work, as nice as it is, is just not the same currency as justice and truth. To pretend it is would be to lie, and they probably aren’t looking for absolution anyway.

:::::facepalm:::::

Let me tell you something, Virginia: your neighbors probably have no idea who Ben Sasse is, and isn’t looking to reconcile with you, much less receive your absolution. They just wanted to do something nice for you, because you are their neighbor, and that’s what neighbors do for each other. The fact that you assume there must be some politically aware motive behind the action says a lot about you. I grew up in the rural South, and trust me, nobody stopped to ask what one’s politics were before doing something nice for them. This is not how people live outside of Blue State Cosmopolises.

As for “absolution,” I kind of hope you do try to engage your Trumpist neighbors by descending from on high to tell them that you might be willing to wash their sins away with your pure milk of la-te-da liberal kindness. That would be fun to watch.

The neighbors might know perfectly well that you hate Trump, but if they are like normal people, they don’t care. You’re their neighbor, and your driveway needed plowing. It didn’t occur to them to think that they needed to know anything else about you. Honestly, this kind of “MAGA-heads In The Mist” take really does call for putting on “Sweet Home Alabama,” blasting it at top volume, and shouting these lines against judgmental liberal hypocrisy:

Now Watergate does not bother me.

Does your conscience bother you? Tell the truth.

No kidding, to people like Virginia Heffernan every check their own consciences? Do they believe that they are not sinners in need of forgiveness and mercy? Does Auden’s great command — “You shall love your crooked neighbour/With your crooked heart” — somehow not apply to them?

I know a Latino immigrant who moved to a small Louisiana town for work. Years ago, I was talking to him about what his life there is like. He mentioned how much he enjoyed playing poker with a group of men he’d fallen in with. One of the men had a familiar name from my Louisiana childhood, and then I remembered that decades ago, that man — now quite old — had been a KKK leader in this state. I asked the Latino guy if he knew that.

“Oh yeah,” he said. “But he’s really not a bad guy at all once you get to know him.”

I thought: that’s small town life for you. It’s like that in the town where I grew up too. You just cannot afford to be mean to and judgmental of people, even if they have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, which, believe me, you have done too. The guy you’ll need to call to saw up the tree that fell across your driveway might have MAGA and NRA stickers on his truck. He might also do it for you for free, because he knows you’ve been sick and have medical bills. Many of my friends today back in my hometown are liberals, and I’m sure life is not as pleasant for them in some ways as it would be if they lived in a blue city. But then again, very few people back home talk about politics, and certainly wouldn’t use politics as a reason not to be neighborly. If you live out in the country, you can’t afford to be that way, and besides, it just doesn’t matter that much to us.

A story from St. Francisville, where I’m from: a liberal friend there told me that back in the late 1980s, a gay male couple moved to town. One of them was dying of AIDS, and wanted to live in the country for as long as his life was left. They started attending the local Episcopal church. My liberal friend said that nobody at the church flew rainbow flags (I speak metaphorically), but they also welcomed this couple, and cared for them with meals and chores and companionship, until the very end. If you had polled the congregation back then, you probably would have found very few who would have said much good about homosexuality. And back then, people were a lot more afraid of AIDS than they are today. But that did not matter. What mattered was that here, in front of us, in the flesh, were two people in need of our love and care. And that they received, because they were neighbors.

That doesn’t make St. Francisville paradise. But it does make it humane, and livable.

The local liberals may chafe at their minority status, but they’re nice people too. One of my best friends back home is super-liberal, and he wouldn’t think twice about rushing to help out a neighbor like Heffernan, whatever her politics. It just would not cross his mind to do anything else. This isn’t a left-right thing; it’s basic human decency. The lady who runs the coffee shop in my hometown is pretty liberal, and her clientele is no doubt mostly conservative, but nobody cares. Why should they care? Are you a kind person? Do you treat others with respect? Then you are welcome, even if your politics leave a lot to be desired, either way. I don’t know if it’s like this outside the South, but down here, it would be a sorry man who wouldn’t plow his neighbor’s driveway on account of she hates Trump.

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. It’s like the WEIRD phenomenon, in which psychological research to determine what is normative for humans has been done solely on Westerners, whose psychological profiles are very different from those of people from around the world. The baseline of normal behavior is actually quite misleading, the theory goes, because the psychology of people formed in Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic cultures is meaningfully different.

A friend of mine lives in a country resort town that has been overrun during Covidtide with rich coastal liberals escaping the plague. He says that they have made life there miserable. They are snotty, entitled, and treat the locals as exotics to be patronized. He says they are bringing with them the same attitudes toward life that ruined California. I’d bet that Heffernan’s Trumpy neighbors are happy to help her, but they’ll also be happy to see the back of her too, carrying those high-and-mighty liberal attitudes back to New York.

Bless her heart, Virginia Heffernan doesn’t know any better. She is the product of elite colleges and urban liberal media culture, and doesn’t understand that one doesn’t politicize neighborliness. One doesn’t look at one’s neighbors and sort the decent from the indecent based on how they vote. If our big-city newsrooms had more people in them who had some sort of real understanding of and sympathy for people like Heffernan’s snowplowers, we might not be such a divided country. But we all know that when the papers hire for “diversity,” they really mean they want to get ten different flavors of liberal.

So, the Snowplow Test: Do you live in a place where people will plow your driveway without wanting something in return, because it’s the neighborly thing to do? If so, then that’s where you want to live. If not, well, better hope that when hard times come, you’ve made enough money to take care of yourself and your family, because you’re going to need it.

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67 Comments
Javelin
Javelin
February 9, 2021 8:45 am

My neighbors know my wife and I both work in the medical field. We don’t get snow days or even holidays. Our driveway of 80 yds or so always gets plowed by one of them.

anthony aaron
anthony aaron
  Javelin
February 9, 2021 4:36 pm

Sounds like you live in a nice ‘community’ … not just a neighborhood or a town — but where the folks seemingly share some ‘commonality’ among them.

Great for you and your wife … nice to have such neighbors.

Anonymous
Anonymous
February 9, 2021 8:46 am

Saw this on Tucker Carlson last night……there are many like this poor wretched loser who have no idea how to really interact with their fellow human beings. They are all over the place as well…not just crapitol hill, Santa Monica, Cambridge or you name the place. These are the ones you ignore and move on to find others who need your help, make great friends and prove to be bright lights in your life.

Eventually Heffernan will be found walking around talking to herself because even her cats have bailed on her.

Cynicles
Cynicles
  Anonymous
February 10, 2021 1:52 am

Did her white privilege afford her immunity from the travel ban mandate thus allowing her travel “to our pandemic getaway”?

The “White privilege” misnomer was fitting I found as it was about the only dog whistle she left out of her nauseating appeal to contempt.

Realestatepup
Realestatepup
February 9, 2021 8:53 am

One of my very dear friends is quasi-liberal. She thinks Trump was a really racist person with not one iota of proof, and she watches main stream media and wants the vaccine.
She also is on disability retirement, as is her husband.
She smokes heavily and does not take care of her health.
But they pay their mortgage, and yet at the same time get 400 a month in food stamps.
She worked most of her life in education.
She loves government freebies yet despises illegal immigrants that take the same freebies.
She believes the story about Covid hook, line, and sinker, yet is no supporter of BLM.
She believes what she wants based on her immediate needs and who she thinks will continue to dole out the free this and free that. She doesn’t care that free speech is being squashed because she doesn’t participate in Twitter, or you tube, Instagram, or Facebook beyond surface check-ins with friends.
What she doesn’t realize is that she is a complete non-entity to TPTB, and when push comes to shove, anything she gets now can be gone tomorrow, and then what?
Neither she nor her husband are capable of surviving anything like a power collapse, no food on the shelves.
Yet every year I bring her cords and cords of free wood for them to heat their homes.
Why? Well, she is kind to her neighbors too. She helps the old lady around the corner. She takes in stray animals and feeds them
She was a good mother and raised two pretty good daughters.
She is always a listening ear for a friend.
So her and I never, ever talk politics
We laugh sometimes about how different our viewpoints are, but I cant imagine it being hateful or judgemental.
That’s just how life should be

Zulu Foxtrot Golf
Zulu Foxtrot Golf
  Realestatepup
February 10, 2021 7:24 pm

Reality is a lot more fun when yiu make it up as you see fit. At least that is what it seems like for them fucken turds.

Joe
Joe
February 9, 2021 9:02 am

There is, and there should be, an expectation that a favor given will be returned in some fashion someday. I help you today with the expectation that I may need help someday. Not altruism, but enlightened self-interest. The “Trumpite” knows that Ms. Heffernan has no useful country skills and can’t possibly return the favor, so this was done out of pity, especially as there was no human relationship between them prior to the snowfall to invoke a kindness.

Best of Luck

Joe

Remo
Remo
February 9, 2021 9:18 am

Kindness was an affront to her evil religion – socialism. That’s all there is to it.

Mygirl....maybe
Mygirl....maybe
  Remo
February 9, 2021 10:25 am

She is a product of her religion and she has drunk deeply from it’s fount. Leftists/liberals/progressives…all the same animal, just different names. They have been programmed to believe themselves smarter, better educated and more cultured than their rural deplorable neighbors. They can’t operate a manual can opener but they know more and better about how others should live their lives. Their racism and biases are off the charts, they classify people on terms far worse than any Southern Klansman of old and yet they accuse others of all the sins they themselves possess in multitudes. They have no sense of humor or irony and are incapable of self reflection or analysis or laughing at themselves.

They cannot think for themselves, critical thought is not in their nature and the primary emotion that drives them is hate. Their insecurities are overcompensated for and they pass judgement faster than a biblical Pharisee condemning Christ.

They are pathetic and…they voted for Biden because….the TeeVee and Rachel Maddow and other purveyors of hate, told them what to think and how to act. As Yuri Bezmenov stated, they are so completely brainwashed that it is impossible to reach them or change their minds in any way. Invasion of the Body Snatchers was a documentary….

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1979) is about conformity. An alien race of creatures, taking the form of seed pods, replicate their hosts when they sleep, killing the original and forming a perfect carbon (literally) copy. The original person turns to dust, the copy transfers all of its memories and physical traits but is soulless—no emotions.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty
February 9, 2021 9:47 am

She will simply vanish one day and none of her neighbors will ever rat on the other.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  MrLiberty
February 10, 2021 1:18 am

Nor will the neighbors much miss her.

RiNS
RiNS
February 9, 2021 9:56 am

Virginia sez..

I also can’t give my neighbors absolution; it’s not mine to give.

I almost feel sorry for her framing a life like that.
Her Prism is a prison.

And as for the snowplow test… the answer is yes.

Here is a road song for her… when she does go…

For the plans you made long ago
Hear the engines roar as we walked throught the doors
I just can’t believe this dream is over
Virginia look up in the sky, don’t it bring you sorrow
We know when ever you gonna fly, I will be there tomorrow
Virginia, Virginia don’t go
Virginia, Virginia don’t go

It’s easy to release me when you’re three thousand miles
Away
You no longer care, when I’m no longer there
And all the love we have will fade away, fade away

Virginia please hold on to me, don’t leave it all behind
Is there something I can say, that will change your mind
Virginia, Virginia don’t go
Virginia, Virginia don’t go

So look around you now at this faceless crowd
You can walk right out and forget it
Virginia we got too much love to bring it to an end
And I know if I let you go, I’ll never see you again
Virginia, Virginia don’t go
Virginia, Virginia don’t go
Virginia, Virginia don’t go
Virginia, Virginia don’t go
Virginia, Virginia don’t go

Francis Marion
Francis Marion
  RiNS
February 9, 2021 10:05 am

#Metoo

Machinist
Machinist
  RiNS
February 9, 2021 12:31 pm

Her Prism is a prison.

NIce phrase there RiNS.

Anonymous
Anonymous
February 9, 2021 9:59 am

Be the one to start and set the tone ! Growing up my mom was a nurse and she knew every person with heart trouble in our neighborhood including my dad so when it snowed I knew it would be an early start digging out the cars , driveways and sidewalks at 4 houses . Those were the days when you were told to go do something you had two responses YES SIR or YES MAM !
Well here I am the retired blue eyed white supremest devil with a snow blower and I go out as soon as the snow stops and go several houses down and up my street ! The older couple with medical issues , the neighbor who had back surgery , the EMT guy who was at work doing a double came home to a clear sidewalk and driveway and the husband and wife both critical care nurses came out turned the key cleaned the car of and away they went ! This is a scene on my street every snow day !
Now the return I was hospitalized several times thru 2020 and my grass was cut and the guy with the back issue is healed and went dear hunting this fall and scored some steelhead filets he works for a seafood distributer . I’m well on the way to a full recovery and yes these past few snowstorms I hit it same as always . My neighbors and I work together and I think we all supported President Trump I’d ask but I think the neighborly kindness that is automatic gives us away !

subwo
subwo
  Anonymous
February 9, 2021 3:59 pm

I did that too in my old neighborhood, entire cul de sac down to cross street and neighbor cali single lady driveway, widow on coroner driveway. That’s just how I was raised, one does for others when they can’t do as easily.
In my new neighborhood I shovel the two model homes sidewalks to my north. I shovel to my neighbors driveway to my south. He just shovels same walk to our property line and not an inch more.

Hardscrabble Farmer
Hardscrabble Farmer
February 9, 2021 10:00 am

It is a revolution of the ugly, the obese, the stupid, the degenerate, the corrupt, and venal against everything that is good.

She looks exactly as you would imagine someone who wrote this would.

GNL
GNL
  Hardscrabble Farmer
February 9, 2021 1:48 pm

Inversion

Francis Marion
Francis Marion
February 9, 2021 10:05 am

“Bless her heart…”

The best line to ever come out of souther culture. We’re now using it ‘liberally’ here as well.

Peter Horry
Peter Horry
February 9, 2021 10:08 am

What in the hell is this “snow” thing of which y’all speak?

oldtimer505
oldtimer505
  Peter Horry
February 9, 2021 10:14 am

The good Lord scratching his head wondering what his did wrong when he put us here. Dandruff from heaven.

Stucky
Stucky
February 9, 2021 10:16 am

Here is the final paragraph from the article;

“But I can offer a standing invitation to make amends. Not with a snowplow but by recognizing the truth about the Trump administration and, more important, 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.”

Do you see how IMPOSSIBLE it is becoming to co-exist with Libtards??!!

It is no longer possible for them to “agree to disagree” and move on with life. NO!! YOU must bow down and kneel and admit that you are a scumbag.

And even that is not enough. YOU must work for “justice” for everyone (but, mostly Kneegrows) supposedly “harmed” by the Trump administration. Only then … MAYBE … after a decade or so of groveling and penance might you be accepted as a human being.

This is what they mean by “having a conversation” —> “Fuck you, you cock sucking Trump voter!”.

Regarding the parable of the rich man (who was in hell) and Lazarus (who was not) Jesus said;

“And besides all this, between us and you a GREAT CHASM has been set in place, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.”

I suggest to you that the “great chasm” between Libtards and normal people is even greater than that between the rich man and Lazarus.

Reconciliation seems impossible at this point.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran
  Stucky
February 9, 2021 10:43 am

You’re not driving to Kansas with Bruce Springfag in his 40 year old Jeep?

Mustang
Mustang
  Stucky
February 9, 2021 1:47 pm

Preach!!!!!!!!

TS
TS
February 9, 2021 10:17 am

The bottom line is as simple as it can be difficult to implement; good people do what they do because of who they are, not for what they can gain. Not an absolute, of course, only a general attitude. I will usually help out anybody who needs it, no questions asked, but at the first chicken-shit response, that all goes out the window. I won’t hinder, but I certainly won’t disrespect their desire to not receive my help.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  TS
February 10, 2021 1:35 am

Helping out where help is needed is often rewarding enough, in and of itself. I was taught that it was important to help out and did so often enough as a kid. As an adult, one learns more about life and if the choice is to be selective about who/when to help with limited time and equipment resources then that is just the way it is-enjoy your good will toward others and don’t regret having to cut it short because other responsibilities-family, job, time-become a limiting factor. The dog and I would be up at 4:30am on snowy mornings, shovel our double driveway, and still have time to do the same for the old Army-Air Force vet across the street, just in case an ambulance needed to come take him to the hospital yet again. And yes, there were assholes in the neighborhood whom would never get that courtesy.

Anonymous
Anonymous
February 9, 2021 10:19 am

They espouse the virtues of their urban hives yet flee to the country the moment crisis hits without a hint of shame or self-awareness.

Machinist
Machinist
  Anonymous
February 9, 2021 12:58 pm

A common phrase I hear a lot: “Well, they done shit their own nest…”

brian
brian
February 9, 2021 10:39 am

I did not know that liberals might actually really and truly believe the rubbish they spew. I assumed it was mostly the power, control and demand for free stuff that drives them like a petulant 5 yr old.

I’m reminded of the scriptures,

2 Thessalonians 2:10-13
and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Here in our neighbourhood there are people who are old, older than me, one has serious heart problems, another has cancer, one has a summer home here. We had some people buy a house a few doors away, came from the city of Chilliwack, retired fireman so has gobs of toys and a yard that looks like a model home for landscaping brochures. Last summer the new neighbour Randal called me the ‘mower man’, never thought anything about it. Over the last two years they have been here I have noticed they stay to their own boundaries, most do.

IMO, being neighbourly is old school that is taught by parents from small towns and rural areas and likely still that way. Cities breed suspicion and selfishness which is why I avoid them. Like many here I have lived in the cities, for work and schooling, where next door neighbours do not know each other. Personally, I prefer to have great nieghbours and it means getting to know them. What better way than to mow their lawn or shovel their driveway… oh.. and for free too. Besides, I need the exercise.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  brian
February 10, 2021 1:37 am

Self deception seems to be on the rise now more than ever.

Doctor de Vaca
Doctor de Vaca
February 9, 2021 10:42 am

Got to love the reference to Lynrd Skynrd. Ronnie Van Zant was a wordsmith with song lyrics…Simple Man

The Liberal Progessives will eventually destroy one another, we just need to stand back and let them.

Glock-N-Load
Glock-N-Load
  Doctor de Vaca
February 9, 2021 6:33 pm

The Liberal Progessives will eventually destroy one another, we just need to stand back and let them.

I really don’t think this is true. They are much more ready/willing to go for other people’s throats than the nice guy across the street that plows their driveway for free (“what a tool” they say in their own minds). They are mean spirited to the core. If/when they believe they can end us, they will.

Peter Horry
Peter Horry
  Glock-N-Load
February 9, 2021 7:21 pm

No. If/when they believe they can end us, they will TRY. And they will fail.

Doctor de Vaca
Doctor de Vaca
  Glock-N-Load
February 9, 2021 8:37 pm

Don’t mess with the ones that just want to be left alone

Auntie Kriest
Auntie Kriest
February 9, 2021 10:56 am

The snowplow people are those that actually built, maintained and make the great-mechanism called “the Nation” work. More than likely the snow remover is a (nominal) Christian individual who is an inadvertent adherent of The Royal Law, just by being brought up by properly civilized and peaceable people.

Heffernan, on the other hand, is one of The Cloud People and by virtue of the rare air they breathe have contempt for all of the Dirt People of which the nice snowplow neighbor is obviously a member of.

The best thing, in this particular case, that a Dirt Person could do for Cloud People who need help, is to have thrown a them a shovel. This heuristic method of instruction for the Progtard journalist would provide them a superior education as to the actual meaning of the word “work”.

Nothing short of an existential challenge, violent crime or being involved in a shooting war will change the mind of person who think so highly of themselves (Ivy League pedigreed, Manhattan-spoiled mouthpiece for the lying and hateful printed propaganda machine B3rg* flagship.)

Chinablue
Chinablue
  Auntie Kriest
February 9, 2021 12:04 pm

If this is how she shows her appreciation for her neighbor’s kindness, the next snowstorm, I’d take all the snow that I removed from my other neighbors’ driveways and pile it all in front of hers. Hopefully, she’ll write another article complaining even more? That would just show that liberals will complain no matter what you do.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Auntie Kriest
February 10, 2021 1:41 am

The part about ‘built and maintained’ brings back memories of the chocolate Messiah preaching about how none of us ‘built it’. I call it a cancer of the mind.

Southern Sage
Southern Sage
February 9, 2021 11:51 am

Hardscrabble farmer is a decent, kind man, and God knows we need more of them. He is willing to more or less turn the other cheek with monsters like Virginia Heffernan. I suppose my life experience and Scotch-Irish background are a bit different. This woman needs to be made to pay and pay dearly for her arrogance and stupidity. Note her name. When the time comes – and it will – she and all others like her will have to be taught a terrible lesson. I have never known such a person to change, repent, or feel shame. There was a time when kindness and just trying to get along were valid choices. No more. We are now in a situation where mercy and understanding for the enemy is a crime in itself. This woman and the people like her are the enemies of America and they will have to be dealt with. It is time to face the hard facts of life and forget Bruce Springsteen´s bullshit about “unity”. The only unity is among the true American people. The Heffernan´s are the domestic enemy and need to be viewed as nothing more. Save the good neighbor stuff for another time. And stop plowing her damn driveway….

gmpatriot
gmpatriot
  Southern Sage
February 9, 2021 12:10 pm

+10000000

Mustang
Mustang
  Southern Sage
February 9, 2021 1:54 pm

Amen, Virginia will stab her snow plowing neighbors in the back in a heartbeat!!!

TN Patriot
TN Patriot
  Southern Sage
February 9, 2021 5:35 pm

SS – When a libtard talks about unity or compromise, he is ALWAYS talking about coming around to his way of thinking. Springsteen is a disgusting human being, as is this Heffernan.

VirginiaIsTalking...
VirginiaIsTalking...
  Southern Sage
February 9, 2021 8:20 pm

I think @SS has it right in the end, but I’d give her the chance to toss her a shovel next time and see if she would pitch in and help a different neighbor out to return the favor. But odds are she is “irreformable” until she hits a life or death bottom. It is like they are all addicts, in it for only themselves on their own terms with only their view mattering. No such thing as truth other than their own thought for the day. They need to hit a hard bottom where their own shat for brains ideas leave them close to the end and God gives them a chance to turn it around, and they take it. Even then many will be like rats on a sinking ship clawing at anything and everyone to pull down to try and survive. No honor. Not to be trusted. Maybe another chance with the snow but when times get really tough she’d just be another back-stabbing predator coming for your family.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Southern Sage
February 10, 2021 1:48 am

In a way it’s all about choices, just like how a dog-when being approached by a stranger-knows how to react. With neighbors-even new neighbors-it doesn’t take much time or effort to sort out the wheat from the chaff. Good people generally know when to be good as well as when to not bother.

Unstoppable
Unstoppable
February 9, 2021 12:17 pm

I am the snowplow. And the one exiting the rig to advise the masked Karens who are sliding backward on slight hills on how to disengage the traction control in their state-of-the-art, and super safe, four-wheeled smartphones.

drew458
drew458
  Unstoppable
February 9, 2021 2:01 pm

Got that right. My 2017 car ( I had to custom order it to get one with a manual ) has traction control. Does not go in the snow. Turn it off, and it drives just fine. Have to learn to play with the slippage to drive in the snow.

Anonymous
Anonymous
February 9, 2021 12:28 pm

Hit the nail on the head and missed the mark completely. What I see is that libs hate “people” and by extension other libs. They push their death cults because they hate people. Two legs baaaad. They tolerate each other but they hate people. I do a lot of bike riding along the front range (Denver, Boulder,Fort Collins Colorado areas) and it is the loneliest place(boo hoo). People don’t talk or look at each other. Yet when I am home, people wave at you, they talk to you in the street about your car, your boots, your ma or whatever. You just can’t socialize with the un-social socialists. They don’t know how. And oh yea, my neighbor clears my driveway.

Doctor de Vaca
Doctor de Vaca
  Anonymous
February 10, 2021 8:45 am

Yep, that’s Colorado Front Range now. Liberal Progressive Hipsters, didn’t use to be that way. That’s why it’s time to find greener rural pasture in a nice Red state.

Gomer
Gomer
  Anonymous
February 10, 2021 11:27 am

OOPS! That be me.

~L
~L
February 9, 2021 1:42 pm

There’s a video out there, where a patriot type of guy with a MAGA hat on, hears a car outside his house, struggling to gain traction in the snow.
He throws on his boots, goes outside, and helps the black male Uber driver out, by pushing his car, and telling him to “Go!”…i.e., not baby it.
But the young black libtard prog female who just got dropped off by the Uber guy sees and hears white deplorable guy yelling “Go”, and incorrectly tweets her racist white neighbor just chased her black Uber driver out of the neighborhood.
The tweet goes viral, the MAGA guys gets doxxed, loses his job, and the SJW’s chalk up another victory, in destroying an innocent man’s life, after he helped someone who needed it.

People like Heffernan will never be transformed, by the renewing of their mind.
Bestow them common courtesy?
Perhaps.
Go out of your way, to do them a favor? THAT’S Christlike…a concept that is unfathomable to Progtard Liberal Democrats.

“Let not your right hand know what your left hand doeth. When you do alms, do not boast, as the Pharisees do, so they might gain honor among men. But your Father, who knowest what thou do in secret, will repay thee.”

That’s why the driveway got plowed.

SeeBee
SeeBee
February 9, 2021 1:43 pm

I am surrounded by Heffernan’s . I like to kill them………with kindness.

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TN Patriot
TN Patriot
  SeeBee
February 9, 2021 5:41 pm

I prefer Carrie Heffernan to Doug

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Ghost
Ghost
  TN Patriot
February 10, 2021 8:56 am

They can both be pretty obnoxious. I prefer Arthur.

GNL
GNL
February 9, 2021 1:45 pm

Propaganda is a powerful drug. Can even be used for slaughter.

brian
brian
February 9, 2021 1:50 pm

Liberals…
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RiNS
RiNS
  brian
February 9, 2021 2:21 pm

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Ghost
Ghost
  RiNS
February 10, 2021 8:57 am

I had to study that for a bit to get it.

Anonymous
Anonymous
February 9, 2021 2:59 pm

Here in NJ the assholes get paid with my local taxes to push the snow from the street into our development’s suburban driveways. It literally took me three hours to do a one hour job – ALONE – to clear wet, heavy snow so my poor wife could drive home at 2AM after being snowed in for two days away from home after going to work.

anthony aaron
anthony aaron
February 9, 2021 4:34 pm

“It takes a New Yorker to … ”

It takes a New York jew to …

There … FIFY …

I know that to be true because 2/3 of my class in law school was NYCity jews … and, aside from israelis, the most despicable folks I’d ever met —

As an aside — as a kid (age 13-18), I used to deliver newspapers in CLE … where cold and snow are in the extreme at times. One of the folks I delivered to was a WW2 vet — who worked at IBM — who had an old truck with a plow that he used to utilize to plow the drives on both sides of him as well as across the street, both sides of him.

The neighbors were always so incredibly grateful — he and his family rarely had to cook for a week after a serious snowstorm …

iggy
iggy
February 9, 2021 4:45 pm

… the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

DirtpersonSteve
DirtpersonSteve
February 9, 2021 9:55 pm

It must be hard to carry that much hate and anger like a millstone all the time.
I have some doubts about the veracity of the story.

That being said, the reward for being kind to someone doesn’t come from the receiver of my kindness.

Anonymous
Anonymous
February 10, 2021 1:59 am

Reminds me of an incident many years ago when we were taking daughter and her then husband out to a birthday dinner in after a snow. The guy was a superficially educated liberal (college degree but pretty dumb). Were in the parking lot and a driver was having trouble getting their car out of its icy parking space. Daughter suggested to husband that he go help push the car out; his responese: “Why should I”? I got out, pushed with another guy and got the car moving. Some people are born jerks. That’s why they are no longer married.

Anonymous
Anonymous
February 10, 2021 5:07 am

I guess I am a bad person since I no longer feel like helping the very people who are destroying America by voting in the commies. “sand in the gears” Help for my fellow Americans, yes, help for the commies, and their supporters hell no. Get Biden to plow yer f#@king driveway.

KaD
KaD
February 10, 2021 11:04 am

The only proper course of action would be for the Karens to tell the neighbor they’re deranged lefties and from now on they’ll shovel their own damn driveway thank you very much.
Of course I doubt they have enough angst to do that.

Zulu Foxtrot Golf
Zulu Foxtrot Golf
February 10, 2021 7:21 pm

I am not the smartest man in the world, but she could maybe thank them by jumping off a really high bridge.

Seriously, if you cannot get the fuck over yourself and your obviously superior liberal intellect and obviously knowing the answer to eveything is reeducating the “simple” folk to be more hive-mindlike such as your hypocritical, non-labor doing fucken worthless ass and simply say “thank you” to your evil conservative neighbors without making it a political issue then you have much bigger problems than your neighbors and their kindness.

Keep drinking that holier than thou liberal ass juice you fucken dirty cunt rag. Seriously, I am ready to absolve people like that with extreme prejudice. In a future not far off, someone will stand that twat on her head and pour quikrete in her cooch so she cannot polute the world with her genetic waste.

I hope her neighbors read this: you all did the right thing and are getting shit for it. No good deed goes unpunished with the proto-fascist left.

That fucken broad needs to go fuck herself with a rusty chainsaw.

Fucken shit baggery at expert level.

Zulu Foxtrot Golf

P.S. twatwaffle stasi neighbor: suck start a double barrel ya fucken ingrate.

Stucky
Stucky
  Zulu Foxtrot Golf
February 10, 2021 8:50 pm

Yikes. Dude, STEP OFF THE LEDGE!!

Actually, stopped by to say I loved your rant. It is a thing of beauty.

Mary Christine
Mary Christine
  Stucky
February 10, 2021 9:21 pm

Zulu has the best rants on TBP.

Zulu Foxtrot Golf
Zulu Foxtrot Golf
  Stucky
February 11, 2021 5:26 am

No ledge standing here brother. Just observing the brass on the Titanic being polished lol.