Posted on 11/04/2026 11:04:05 AM PST by Lazamataz
Hi folks. I'm Anti-Opusing, that is to say, I departed FR for a while, and this marks my return. I'm not a big believer in Opusing. I consider it a demonstration of outsized ego. Opuses are routinely mocked, and they should be.
So instead of Opusing, I just quietly stopped posting (while contacting everyone on my ping lists so I could stay in touch).
Frankly, Anti-Opusing might show outsized ego, too. I mean, who the heck am I? The forum did just fine without me. And another frank admission: I actually enjoyed my time away from the forum. I've been a consistent poster since 1999. This is the first time in DECADES that I stayed off FR. It was refreshing, really.
I won't go too deep into why I bailed for a while, except to say there is one Admin Mod who was quite insulting. I don't need to put up with that.
This Anti-Opus has a dual purpose: One, to inform my friends I'm back, and also to relay a meme I created as regards yesterday's severe and surprising defeat. Yeah, I expected we'd get destroyed in an explosion, but I expected TNT, not a nuclear weapon.
Okay. On to the meme. Enjoy and pass it around.
Thank you for de-opusing. I missed you.
Glad you decided to return.
I stayed off for a few years for reasons, but enjoy being here again.
Oh, and one question has been nagging me for well over a decade” Did you ever hit that cheesy sister the moose bit?
Good to see you back
You were gone?
Oh, you were just fasting. It usually helps. Especially from this place. You can feel it building, kinda like the glacier that wont crack and everyone is growing more and more psychotic as time and the situation evolves. I can sit in the corner and be invisible for extended lengths of time.
Make sure to let me know when we start forming committees of safety to protect us from the Sith.
Meanwhile the battle is truly joined, and its good you have returned to the fight, proving unequivocally that the fen is mightier than the bored !
Shall we put on the whole armor of G_d?
Welcome back!
Looks like Laz is back on the menu!
Nice to see your posts again...
That must be what I mean when I tell people to "Bite me". 😂
Thank you, all of you!
Except for humblegunner, who impugned my parentage.
Thank you everybody!
Except for humblegunner, who covered me in maple syrup.
Thank you, everyone!
Except for humblegunner, who can never spell my screenname right.
Dem actions?
Popular with the swing voters:
Defund the war
Defund ICE and immigration “overreach”.
The anti-immigrant people hit a double in 2025 and thought it was a home run. Big mistake. They were thrown out.
Trump & Vance campaigned on NO MORE STUPID WARS.
Both the war, and more importantly the impact on prices, was opposed by the swing voters.
Priorities: Trump seemed to be obsessed with the reflection pool and other unimportant things. This allowed the MSM to mock him. It took focus away from the good things he was doing...eg fighting corruption.
Shooting oneself: The people wanted ICE to deport murderers, rapists... not illegals who work hard and take care of their family. It seemed like most of MAGA lost focus...did not aim at the enemy combatants... but aimed at the non-combatants. ICE was easily suckered into losing aim on the enemy and focusing on the protestors.
This allowed the MSM to mock him. It took focus away from the good things he was doing...eg fighting corruption.
As for unimportant things, Trump wants our nation’s capital to look like the capital of a first-rate nation. Apparently, to Trump, appearance matters. I can’t say I disagree with him. So he works hard to clean up a city and make more livable that despises him. That, and the election results shows that he is not really a politician at heart.
We’ll just have to see how the next two years play out.
I did miss you AND am glad you are back and posting again. We tend to need each other more in times like this.
LOL, I was speaking of the lack of civil discourse on FR.
So, We now have new lexicon. The anti-opus opus.
Sweet. Welcome back, Laz
So, We now have new lexicon. The anti-opus opus.
Sweet. Welcome back, Laz
“he is not really a politician “
Bingo. He...and too many of his followers... need to find that Ronald Reagan middle area where you are a politician who can compromise and prioritize ... based on politics ... without selling your soul.
To me the reflecting pool/ballroom stuff is PR 101.
ICE keeping focus on the job is law enforcement 101.
But most important going forward, MAGA, Republicans, everyone who want to move in the RIGHT direction needs to learn now to play well together. We need to accept the fact that that not everyone in the coalition agrees with us on every issue.
I swallow hard to accept Navarro into the coalition as he is antithetical to everything conservative capitalist Republican. He is a big government liberal. He just wants big government to do different things than what most big government people, who are on the other side, want.
Can Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens be “rehabilitated”? They are not totally wrong on everything. But I accept a fairly broad coalition and they don’t fit into that broad coalition.
Mississippi is still undecided. It is an example of our weakness that needs to get stronger to compete with the other side that has a strength...the ground game.
Above all else MAGA needs to understand and value the ground game. The next elections will be local...for mayor, city council, etc. They are the ideal way to build a ground game.
“For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.” - 2 Corinthians 4:16
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