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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: thesearethetimes...

“ nor does it keep someone else from, God willing - stepping up to continue to move forward on the path Trump blazed.

Prayers for guidance and strength.
Tatt”

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Hear, hear! God willing, I pray for it too. We need so many more God aware.


421 posted on 11/09/2022 3:32:04 PM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Bikkuri; grey_whiskers; Allegra

Dang….I thought that obsessed one had disappeared. It only took a short break?? A time out??

Regardless….it’s an admitted retread and $hot bot.


422 posted on 11/09/2022 3:36:14 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: CatHerd; Bikkuri
Says the guy with the Zot ping list.

Says the humorless ‘lennial who hasn’t even been on FR for two years.

Zots and Viking Kitties are a long-standing FR tradition. We’ve always had trolls and this is a fun and lighthearted way to deal with them.

I realize “fun and lighthearted” is an alien concept to many in the Greta Thunberg/David Hogg generation, but we recognize it as a healthy approach to some of life’s (and FR’s) annoyances.

As Bikkuri said, a lot of the original pingees and keepers of the Zot Ping lists have passed on or left for various reasons. Bikkuri was kind enough to go through the hassle of recreating the list and reinvigorating VK and ZOT notifications.

And many of us are grateful for it.

Way to go take grow FR

Huh?

423 posted on 11/09/2022 3:37:17 PM PST by Allegra
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To: Lazamataz

Think it will break 500?

5.56mm


424 posted on 11/09/2022 3:40:06 PM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho got to go)
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To: Jane Long; Bikkuri
Dang….I thought that obsessed one had disappeared. It only took a short break?? A time out??

I must admit, I had never seen Overcusser50’s posts that I can recall.

Was he/she/it another shot-lover?

425 posted on 11/09/2022 3:40:59 PM PST by Allegra
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To: Lazamataz

That would work, Dog!


426 posted on 11/09/2022 3:42:03 PM PST by Osage Orange
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To: M Kehoe

I might do my ping list. That’ll get us over 500!


427 posted on 11/09/2022 3:46:04 PM 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

Thus Laz has spoken;

Thus shall it be.


428 posted on 11/09/2022 3:48:55 PM PST by miserare ( Impeach Joe Biden!)
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To: Osage Orange
Shoulda used this one
429 posted on 11/09/2022 3:51:13 PM 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: Allegra

I’ve been on FR longer than you have, young’un. Not that it really matters.

Your attempt paint me as a Greta fan is lame, laughable and telling. Got anything honest? Or is honesty beyond you?


430 posted on 11/09/2022 3:51:14 PM PST by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: William of Barsoom

I have a feeling this is going to be a long, long thread.

The firing upon Fort Sumter...


431 posted on 11/09/2022 3:51:53 PM PST by miserare ( Impeach Joe Biden!)
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To: TheOldLady; Cyber Liberty; CatherineofAragon; melissa_in_ga; Slings and Arrows; ...
I might lose a few of you over this, but I have to express myself.

Oh! I found something out! MAGA is Reagan's original 1980 slogan!

"Let's make America great again" was famously used in Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign. At the time the United States was suffering from a worsening economy at home marked by stagflation. Using the country's economic distress as a springboard for his campaign, Reagan used the slogan to stir a sense of patriotism among the electorate

The Official Lazamataz Sometimes-Funny, Sometimes-Disturbing Ping List

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432 posted on 11/09/2022 3:54:46 PM 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: M Kehoe

Check my ping! Turns out MAGA was Reagan’s original slogan!


433 posted on 11/09/2022 3:55:26 PM 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: CAluvdubya

Some of them seem to be getting bolder (more rude, if that’s possible) recently...


434 posted on 11/09/2022 3:55:42 PM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Allegra; CatHerd
"Way to go take grow FR!"

Huh?

Hey, I give CatHerd credit! She successfully channeled Fetterman! :^)

435 posted on 11/09/2022 3:56:49 PM 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

why would you lose us


436 posted on 11/09/2022 3:57:38 PM PST by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearhheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: DoodleBob

Well said.


437 posted on 11/09/2022 3:59:15 PM PST by miserare ( Impeach Joe Biden!)
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To: Lazamataz

Laz I am hearing this everywhere.

From thoughtful conservatives

He is the man who brought us to the place we need to be.

But he is not the man to do the next step.

Nothing wrong with him. Different skill set.

VDH calls it .


438 posted on 11/09/2022 3:59:54 PM PST by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearhheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: Lazamataz

I think it will make it past 500... we have enough hijacks and different topics going ;^D
(sorry about that :P )


439 posted on 11/09/2022 4:01:05 PM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Drew68; kiryandil
Drew,

Trump is running in '24. Desantis will get crushed if he tries to go against Trump.

You will be voting for Trump in Nov. ‘24.

Where are you going to go?

440 posted on 11/09/2022 4:02:42 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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