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(295,543 posts)at home and abroad - cruelty is the point.
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(4,018 posts)Unintended consequences will continue to spread as well. The architects/political leaders rarely face justice for the terror they spread.
Blowback is the unintended consequences and unwanted side-effects of a covert operation. To the civilians suffering the blowback of covert operations, the effect typically manifests itself as "random" acts of political violence without a discernible, direct cause; because the publicin whose name the intelligence agency actedare unaware of the effected secret attacks that provoked revenge (counter-attack) against them.[1]
Etymology
Originally, blowback was CIA internal coinage denoting the unintended, harmful consequencesto friendly populations and military forceswhen a given weapon is used beyond its purpose as intended by the party supplying it. Examples include anti-Western religious figures (e.g. Osama bin Laden) who, in due course, attack foe and sponsor; right-wing counter-revolutionaries who sell drugs to their sponsor's civil populace (see CIA and Contras cocaine trafficking in the US); and banana republic juntas (see Salvadoran Civil War) who kill American reporters or nuns (e.g. Dorothy Kazel).[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowback_(intelligence)
malaise
(295,543 posts)is more likely to deliver intended consequences rather than unintended consequences. Donvicts threats of violence and his administrations obvious violence from Jan 6 2021 to now are by no means subtle.
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(4,018 posts)short term...he is essentially a marketing con man grifter out to make a buck. He uses the presidency to shake down gov.s at will while he can get away with it.
I don't mean to express that he will be self-reflective about repercussions, even if it were to catch up to him face-to-face.
Trump is the premier example of a narcissistic, criminal mind.
malaise
(295,543 posts)Trump is the premier example of a narcissistic, criminal mind.
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(4,018 posts)erronis
(23,699 posts)Being a narcissist makes him very easy to sway with false praise and gilded objects.
His criminality is because he is always looking for the easy way. This frequently runs against societal norms and laws, but I don't think he is cunning like a smart criminal.
He is not smart
Botany
(77,186 posts)The last words he heard were from a note Norm had sent me as Dad was in home hospice.
KPN
(17,339 posts)Joinfortmill
(21,014 posts)It's so enraging.