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Nac Mac Feegle

(970 posts)
Fri Dec 30, 2016, 02:25 PM Dec 2016

Beware the fury of a patient man.

Often attributed as a 17th Century translation of a Latin maxim first recorded in the 1st Century B.C.E.

Meaning that the reaction from someone that is not quick to anger, waiting and planning their 'revenge', is much more terrible than the reaction from the hot-tempered.

Plan and consider your actions.

Do not react from fear.

Dispense Justice rather than exact Revenge.

Plan for all the ramifications of an action, so that ONLY a desired and SPECIFICALLY targeted outcome is attained.

Make your weapon a poniard, rather than a mob.

Be an assassin rather than a ravening horde.

Pick the exactly correct tool for the job: no more, no less. Apply it to the specific place necessary with only that force absolutely required.

Do not act from fear, but cold-blooded Necessity.

When ONLY one person or group is precisely targeted with no 'collateral damage', the results stand stark and unmistakable reminder of the consequences of their offenses.

Do the research so that only the guilty party is dealt with, no more, no less.

Your 'revenge' will be all the more terrifying.

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Beware the fury of a patient man. (Original Post) Nac Mac Feegle Dec 2016 OP
+ 1000 - President Obama is a patient & smart man Pachamama Dec 2016 #1
K&R... spanone Dec 2016 #2
Are you talking about President Obama... Volaris Dec 2016 #3
tRump is not a patient man. Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2016 #5
Don't most dementia patients revert to a child-like state eventually? Volaris Dec 2016 #6
It is not dementia... awoke_in_2003 Dec 2016 #9
Damn straight. That's my focus. nt TeamPooka Dec 2016 #4
Verra insightful for a Feegle. Crivens! Hekate Dec 2016 #7
Be calculating and wise, in other words. "Use a poniard not a mob." AmericanActivist Dec 2016 #8

Pachamama

(16,887 posts)
1. + 1000 - President Obama is a patient & smart man
Fri Dec 30, 2016, 03:28 PM
Dec 2016

Trump is the exact opposite

And I believe that in next weeks we will see many things exacted by a patient and intelligent man who will show precision in his patient fury representing the values for which this nation stands.

Volaris

(10,270 posts)
3. Are you talking about President Obama...
Fri Dec 30, 2016, 04:55 PM
Dec 2016

Or motherfucking Grand Admiral Thrawrn lol???

Either one is fine, I happen to like that the president is such a man.
=)

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,001 posts)
5. tRump is not a patient man.
Fri Dec 30, 2016, 05:00 PM
Dec 2016

There is some doubt as to whether he is a man at all or is an arrested development of a 5 year old boy trapped in a 70 year old body.

Hekate

(90,674 posts)
7. Verra insightful for a Feegle. Crivens!
Fri Dec 30, 2016, 05:16 PM
Dec 2016

All along people on all sides have wanted our president to show temper, for reasons of their own -- Whether because they think that's the only way to fight back or get things done, or because they want to label him an angry (scary) black man, whatever.

But that's never been his true nature. Maybe someday we'll be privy to what's going on now. But for all those DUers who resented his vacation and said he'd "already handed over the keys to the White House," and claimed he wasn't doing anything -- I can't forget how he took out Osama Bin Ladin, the guy George W. Bush let slip through his fingers.

AmericanActivist

(1,019 posts)
8. Be calculating and wise, in other words. "Use a poniard not a mob."
Fri Dec 30, 2016, 05:22 PM
Dec 2016

Learned something new today from your post...poniard, what is that?

Poniard is a specific type of daggar

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poniard

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