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October 10, 2025 12:51 pm EDT Tiff Coffee Talk with Tiff 0
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It’s Friday.

10/10/2025:

President Pick Me was once again denied his most coveted award; the Nobel Peace Prize.

Show more =’s Peace laureate Maria Corina Machado has shown that the tools of democracy are also the tools of peace. She embodies the hope of a different future, one where the fundamental rights of citizens are protected, and their voices are heard.

The Trump House responded as you’d imagine; by lying.

“Has the heart of a humanitarian”…

Here’s the thing: the Nobel Peace Prize goes to people who actually value peace, not to those who fantasize about crushing their own citizens. President Dictator isn’t a peace president—he’s a thug in a red tie, daydreaming about soldiers cracking skulls and calling it patriotism. Every word, every action, drips with spite for the Americans who didn’t worship him. There’s nothing humanitarian about a man who treats vengeance as governance.

Fox Entertainment soothed the faithful after Trumpy Bear’s latest snub, reminding them the Nobel window may have closed—but hope, like denial, springs eternal.

Show more =’s The committee’s deadline for nominations was Jan. 31, meaning the president could be eligible for next year’s prize.

Republican reps are coping by whining on Fox Entertainment…

And this one…

This level of copium isn’t surprising, but it’s still impressive how fully congressional Republicans have embraced the cult. The government’s shut down, a rep hasn’t even been sworn in weeks after her election, and this guy’s wasting paper trying to give President Loser a participation trophy.

Just an FYI…

The letter was issued on 08/26/2024:

Winner Maria Corina Machado

Show more =’s We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy. I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!

President No Soup for Him has responded to the Nobel Prize Committees decision…

He thanked his dictator hero Putin for his words of kindness, I guess.

I had GROK locate the tweet that pairs with the video…

Show more =’s “There were cases when this committee discussed the Nobel Peace Prize for people who have done NOTHING for the world.” “Is the current president of the USA worthy or unworthy? I don’t know. He really does a lot to solve such complex problems, crises that last for years or even decades. He sincerely aspires for this crisis in Ukraine to be resolved.”

GROK says Putin said:

In his typical fashion President Needy has moved on in hopes he’ll bury his thanking a well known Dictator that he allegedly is mad at…


Flash News

China is a bully…

Text:

Some very strange things are happening in China! They are becoming very hostile, and sending letters to countries throughout the world that they want to impose export controls on each and every element of production having to do with rare earths, and virtually anything else they can think of — even if it’s not manufactured in China.

Nobody has ever seen anything like this, but essentially, it would “clog” the markets and make life difficult for virtually every country in the world — especially for China. We have been contacted by other countries who are extremely angry at this great trade hostility, which came out of nowhere.

Our relationship with China over the past six months has been a very good one, thereby making this move on trade an even more surprising one. I have always felt that they’ve been lying in wait, and now, as usual, I have been proven right!

There is no way that China should be allowed to hold the world “captive,” but that seems to have been their plan for quite some time, starting with the “magnets” and other elements that they have quietly amassed into somewhat of a monopoly position — a rather sinister and hostile move, to say the least.

But the U.S. has monopoly positions also, much stronger and more far-reaching than China’s. I have just not chosen to use them. There was never a reason for me to do so — UNTIL NOW!

The letter they sent is many pages long and details, with great specificity, each and every element that they want to withhold from other nations. Things that were routine are no longer routine at all. I have not spoken to President Xi because there was no reason to do so. This was a real surprise, not only to me, but to all the leaders of the free world.

I was to meet President Xi in two weeks, at APEC in South Korea, but now there seems to be no reason to do so. The Chinese letters were especially inappropriate in that this was the day that, after three thousand years of bedlam and fighting, there is PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. I wonder if that timing was coincidental?

Dependent on what China says about the hostile “order” that they have just put out, I will be forced, as President of the United States of America, to financially counter their move. For every element that they have been able to monopolize, we have two.

I never thought it would come to this, but perhaps, as with all things, the time has come. Ultimately, though potentially painful, it will be a very good thing, in the end, for the U.S.A.

One of the policies that we are calculating at this moment is a massive increase of tariffs on Chinese products coming into the United States of America. There are many other countermeasures that are, likewise, under serious consideration.

DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

No link. Fuck him. 10/10/2025.

I saw this this morning…

Beijing has banned semiconductor research firm TechInsights from working with or receiving data from Chinese entities, in a move that could add to the opaqueness of the country’s chip industry. 

China’s Commerce Ministry, citing national security concerns, announced Thursday that TechInsights was designated an “unreliable entity,” which prohibits Chinese individuals or organizations from sharing information with the Canadian-based company. 

TechInsights is well known in the global tech space for its in-depth coverage of Chinese-made chips and was among the first to report breakthroughs by companies like Huawei Technologies.

CNBC. 10/10/2025.

China controls about 70% of the global supply of rare earths minerals, which are critical for high-tech industries, including automobiles, defense and semiconductors.

[snip]

China’s Ministry of Commerce on Thursday said that foreign entities must now obtain a license to export products that contain more than 0.1% of rare earth sourced from that country, or that are manufactured using Chinese extraction, refining, magnet-making or recycling technology.

The new rules in rare earths exports are set to take effect on Dec. 1.

CNBC. 10/10/2025.

No Kings Day…

This morning, Speaker of the House pussy-ass bitch Mike Johnson claimed that Democrats won’t reopen the government—the one Republicans control—because they supposedly want to please their base of “of Antifa people” holding a “hate America” rally on October 18th on the National Mall.

His fellow cult member and Majority Whipping Boy Tom Emmer continued the theme of painting protesters as the “terrorist wing” of Democratic party.

Shortly after the above asshole sent out the latest bullshit fucking horrible talking point…

Do not let them win. We cannot bow to their threats. We must continue to stand up against Dictator Trump and his wannabe “generals”.

FYI: The October 18th No Kings Day protest has been scheduled since September 2nd, 2025 or thereabouts.


Super Flash News…

Letitia James was indicted yesterday.

Her response.


Fox Entertainment weekend host currently playing at being the Defense Secretary said things…

His words do not really match what it appears is happening.

I have to continue to deep dive this but I found that there was a plan started back in 2017 and continued from there according to the Stars and Stripes.

The U.S. Air Force soon may bring 170 members of Qatar’s air force to Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho. They would be coming to learn to fly the newest model of the F-15 fighter jet specially modified for the Persian Gulf state.

[snip]

Just how the Qataris would fare in the quiet town with a population of 14,000 remains to be seen. But it wouldn’t be the first time the Mountain Home base trained foreign military aviators. Since 2009, Singapore military members have lived and trained there as part of an agreement with the United States. “With Singapore, their ability to integrate with our local community has been phenomenal,” Lt. Col. Peter Yule, director of the Mountain Home Base Wing Integration Office, told the Idaho Statesman in a phone interview. “I would expect the same thing out of the Qatar program.” The Qatar project dates to 2017 when the United States inked a $12 billion deal that gave Qatar “36 aircraft, their associated weapons systems, U.S.-based training, maintenance support equipment and logistics support,” according to The Air Force Times.

Stars and Stripes. 01/18/2022.

Like I said, the words said by the faux war planner do not seem to align with actual facts I’ve found so far.


This is currently happening.

I’m not sure how long the hearing will last. We will revisit on Monday if nothing super wild happens over the weekend.

This is an open thread

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