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Vanity: Thank you for your service, but....
11/9/2022 | By Laz A. Mataz

Posted on 11/09/2022 4:56:41 AM PST by Lazamataz

Donald Trump is my favorite President, even more so than Ronald Reagan.

However, I think I’m moving on from him.

I like him in the role of a clarion-calling standard bearer, and his presidency was the best I have ever seen.

I don’t like him in terms of his failure to be a team player. I’m not even sure I like him as a kingmaker. Calling out numbers to make him look good, in a severely-disappointing election shows me he doesn’t care about the boots on the ground, but only how he looks.

Reagan faced the same Establishment hate and Media mocking, but he had a great way of playful rebuttal, with a twinkle in his eye and a little smile. America loved that. All the attacks mustered against him, failed, because he was able to gently turn it around on his attacker with a witty quip or a well thought out fact.

Reagan was also the author of the phrase, the 11th commandment, which was “Thou shall not attack a fellow Republican.”

Trump, on the other hand, has a serious ego problem. He cannot resist getting into a public verbal fight with anyone who criticizes him. While this was fresh and new in 2016, and propelled him into the presidency, it doesn’t work in 2022.

Also, the way Trump fights back is not nearly as good as Reagan’s style. Trump hasn’t got the charm of Reagan, and it’s beginning to hurt our side.

It is for these reasons that I must move on from Donald Trump. Sir, thank you for your incredibly wonderful service in 2016 through 2020. You made those years prosperous and sane. But it is time to move on.

I’m likely to get a ton of flak for this post. That’s okay, I can take it.


TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister
KEYWORDS: betamale; getthepopcorn; hilaz; lazamataz; lazopus; lazspeaks; muhplan; nevertrumptruth; newblood; tds; trumpslaststand; trumpvsdesantis; whiningwhinerthread
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To: Lazamataz
Was there vote fraud in 2020? Yes, and massively so. Is there still massive leftist-perpetrated vote fraud being engaged in in some of last night's races? Almost certainly so. That being said I have another theory why it looks like there isn't going to be a "Red Wave" after all, nor will there ever be one again: Nearly 50% of Americans receive some type of government benefit(s). A freedom-loving people would not be on the dole in such massive numbers.

America has devolved from a country where, in spite of differences, the vast majority of its people agreed on important things like the sanctity of human life, love of country and the existence of God. They didn't celebrate perversity, stupidity, personal irresponsibility, infantilism, communism, pornography, thuggish behaviors, the mutilation of children by so-called "doctors," and the murder of full-term infants in the womb. And they damn well would have never put up with "lockdowns" and "masking" nor would we have accepted sitting on our hands while scumbag bureaucrats and government drones forced the destruction of their businesses. I also believe that religious leaders of that time would have told the "authorities" to get bent rather than shutter their places of worship.

Most of us on this forum come from that former time so yeah, we're shocked to the core when we see things like elementary school children being instructed by their teachers in the finer points of fellatio and anal sex while mentally ill predators dressed as women dance for five-year-olds in libraries across America and masses of tatt-covered, pierced, blue/red/purple-haired, poorly-dressed, foulmouthed, paunchy demons roam the streets, tormenting and attempting to ruin those who disagree with their crazy bullshit.

A culture of thuggery, stupidity, self-mutilation, sloth and greed is now exalted and embraced by vast numbers of Americans. More and more Americans (and Westerners in general) resoundingly reject the notion of God as the highest power in the world and anoint themselves as gods instead.

Those "gods" are now busy building a hell on earth.

Let's face it, we're the "Old Guard" when it comes to standing up for time-tested, traditional things, for good things and for viable, constructive things. Slowly but surely our sensibilities are being pushed out of the mainstream in favor of those belonging to generations of uneducated, leftist-indoctrinated, infantile narcissists who believe the world begins and ends with whatever sick, destructive and crazy things they desire to do. The only thing that can turn things around would be something calamitous like a world war or complete economic or societal collapse. At this point nothing else would force shrunken heads and blackened hearts across America to leave the disjointed, narcissistic worlds of their "smart" phones and abandon their envious, infantile revenge fantasies against humanity.

For what it's worth, I think it's time to huddle with like minded folks, find a way to keep away from all the crazy shit foisted on America by leftist filth and get on with our lives outside the new mainstream, because the new mainstream is both vile and evil. Make the Red States redder, keep the Feds out and get on with life. Through pure luck I moved out of the US eight years ago and moved to a country where "Old School" guys like me hold the majority views on just about everything - not having to have vile, leftist scumbaggery rubbed in one's face every day is a great way to live. With the way things are there, I could never live in the US again.

201 posted on 11/09/2022 6:33:36 AM PST by Rocco DiPippo (I)
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To: Lazamataz

Way to take a 9-iron to the hornet’s nest, Laz!

lol


202 posted on 11/09/2022 6:35:50 AM PST by jimjohn (We're at war, people. Start acting like it.)
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To: Lazamataz

Aw c’mon, man. Did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? :0)

[But, if Trump runs I’ll vote for him. Why? My dream is that he and DeSantis run as a team.. if they can figure out the FL residency thing.]


203 posted on 11/09/2022 6:37:09 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Guenevere

I love you, Guen! I embrace the fact you have a different opinion. Different opinions is what keeps FR fresh and active.

We can disagree and still be madly in love with one another!


204 posted on 11/09/2022 6:38:27 AM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: central_va

You got that right!


205 posted on 11/09/2022 6:39:50 AM PST by kstockwell (Kari Lake for AZ Gov 2022!)
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To: jimjohn
Way to take a 9-iron to the hornet’s nest, Laz!

I am Free Republic's original shit-stirrer! LOL

But in seriousness, that's not my intent. My intent is to share my reasoned thoughts on one of my favorite presidents, Donald Trump.

206 posted on 11/09/2022 6:40:19 AM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: Overcusser50

Trump is done if people quit and have no resolve.


207 posted on 11/09/2022 6:42:39 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Hildy

You mean RINOs who endorsed candidates Trump didn’t are now getting behind Sanctimonious?

And it’s not considered a flip-flop?

Oh really?!


208 posted on 11/09/2022 6:44:13 AM PST by kstockwell (Kari Lake for AZ Gov 2022!)
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To: Lazamataz
And usc: Yours is the only opinion I was worried about. You’re a dear friend, I’d have hated to lose you over this.

Even if we disagreed, you'd have not lost my friendship over this. You're as entitled to your opinion as anyone else.

Love ya like a brother. You know that.

209 posted on 11/09/2022 6:44:14 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Tell It Right
I respectfully disagree with the premise that Reagan faced the same hostile media that Trump faced.

All of politics has become more crude and hostile.

Biden is crude and hostile. Obama was crude and hostile. The press is crude and hostile. Many congressmen and senators are crude and hostile.

The 1980's were a more refined, gracious, gentlemanly time. Remember Mondale's reaction when Reagan poked a little fun at him? He genuinely laughed, and was gracious about it. That would never happen today.

210 posted on 11/09/2022 6:44:51 AM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: usconservative
Even if we disagreed, you'd have not lost my friendship over this.

Yeah, but you would have lost MINE!

KIDDING!!!

Love ya like a brother. You know that.

Ditto.

211 posted on 11/09/2022 6:46:12 AM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: Lazamataz

Trump isn’t the problem. Election fraud is and it will continue now in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan. And, it will continue in Arizona is Lake loses. Meaning the only path to victory for any Republican would be through North Carolina, Nevada and Georgia with Georgia only being possible if the Republican establishment approves of the candidate.


212 posted on 11/09/2022 6:46:46 AM PST by Kazan
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To: Gaffer
[But, if Trump runs I’ll vote for him. Why? My dream is that he and DeSantis run as a team.. if they can figure out the FL residency thing.]

I would vote for him, too, obviously.

But my dream is that Kari Lake head up a 2024 ticket. Let the first woman president be REPUBLICAN MAGA!

213 posted on 11/09/2022 6:47:46 AM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: Lazamataz

Hope you have your fire proof clothes on

Still very thoughtful. I need to ponder for a bit before I say yup


214 posted on 11/09/2022 6:49:22 AM PST by Nifster (OI see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Kazan
Trump isn’t the problem.

Respectfully, he's part of the problem. A good candidate can overwhelm voter fraud, especially when they are aware of it beforehand.

215 posted on 11/09/2022 6:49:47 AM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: Overcusser50

Ah a never Trump chimes in


216 posted on 11/09/2022 6:50:25 AM PST by Nifster (OI see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Nifster
Hope you have your fire proof clothes on

Surprisingly, very few flames!

217 posted on 11/09/2022 6:50:30 AM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: Lazamataz
Cheer up Laz!

It wasn't Donald's fault, it's all voter fraud...

Here's some Olivia Dunne to get your mind off of it -


218 posted on 11/09/2022 6:52:08 AM PST by eldoradude ("What is a person but a collection of choices..." )
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To: Rocco DiPippo

Damn, bro. Well written.


219 posted on 11/09/2022 6:52:37 AM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: Kazan

Establishment candidates ran ahead of MAGA candidates in many states. That’s something that conservatives will have to cope with.


220 posted on 11/09/2022 6:53:48 AM PST by x
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