Posted on 08/18/2025 2:58:14 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
One of President Donald Trump’s biggest political strengths is his unpredictability. He refuses to follow the rules of the Washington establishment, and in doing so, he keeps both his domestic opponents and foreign adversaries constantly off balance.
While most presidents telegraph their intentions months in advance, Trump often operates behind the scenes, distracting the media with comments that trigger hours of frenzied speculation on cable news panels. He has joked about buying Greenland, pondered serving a third term, and thrown barbs at world leaders, not as random outbursts, but as part of a deliberate strategy to shape and steer the political narrative.
Remember the so-called “rocket man” exchange with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un? The press portrayed it as reckless warmongering. In reality, Trump was secretly negotiating behind the scenes, eventually meeting Kim twice and easing a nuclear standoff that had thwarted past presidents.
As Sun Tzu advised in The Art of War, “All warfare is based on deception.” Trump has embraced that lesson.
In the past few weeks, three major events have emerged from the Trump White House with almost no warning, a remarkable feat in leak-prone Washington.
First, the FBI and DOJ released previously classified RussiaGate documents, long thought to be buried or destroyed, which point to a coordinated effort to undermine Trump’s presidency. Some legal experts even suggest the conduct described could be considered treason. Public statements from certain individuals involved in that scandal indicate the operation, or parts of it, may still be ongoing. If so, the criminal conspiracy remains active, which could nullify any claims of the statute of limitations.
Second, the White House announced a recent meeting between Trump and Putin that took place a few days ago at a secure U.S. military base in Anchorage, Alaska. This announcement came just a week before the event, providing an extremely short timeframe...
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WHAT an AMATEUR. If you're going to quote somebody in a public forum, don't be a dumbass, CHECK YOUR SOURCE.
Bond DID NOT say this, GOLDFINGER did. And NOT in the film, ONLY in the novel, in Chapter 14 to be precise:
Goldfinger’s flat, hard stare didn’t flicker. He might not have heard Bond’s angry-gentleman’s outburst. The finely chiselled lips parted. He said, ‘Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.” Miami, Sandwich and now Geneva. I propose to wring the truth out of you.’ Goldfinger’s eyes slid slowly past Bond’s head. ‘Oddjob. The Pressure Room.’
Brian C. Joondeph is a maroon.
No Mike Pence, no leaky leaky.
This one is a bit of a stretch.
I also wonder if, in many parts of the bureaucracy, individuals are told different versions of (XYZ), and then when that version gets leaked, shared, whatever, that person is history.
That tactic is old as dirt, and still remarkably effective.
“a saying in Chicago”
I heard that often June - November 1964 when I moved to inner city Chicago... especially among Goldwater volunteers and Alinksy Organization types (big overlap) in cynical discussions Chicago politics.
Goldfinger came out in Dec 64.
Good article. Time will tell whether the writer or his reflexive critics are right or wrong, but I believe his suspicions are warranted and that something big is coming that’s been in the works for several years. We’ll see...
I probably messed up the dual address. Came up with idea on my own mid 1980s. I was Sr scientist and fellow in major world-wide biomed company.
Stuff was getting out. We suspected sales force but the conduit was not clear. On my own I made about a dozen versions of an internal clinical/technology/FDA strategy report differing in typos and punctuation. Distributed same at a board meeting. One week later told division exec VP what I had done.
It worked.
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