Coffee Talk with Tiff

December 5, 2025 1:11 pm EST Tiff Coffee Talk with Tiff 0
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It’s Friday.

President Shitshow’s public schedule for…

12/05/2025:

For fuck sake:

The president is widely expected to receive FIFA’s inaugural Peace Prize on Friday, anew award honoring individuals who’ve “helped to unite people all over the world in peace.” With a global audience tuning in, early plans called for Trump to give a short speech from the stage in the Kennedy Center’s Concert Hall, according to a person familiar with the event program.

FIFA announced the creation of the prize four weeks after the Nobel Committee passed over Trump for its peace prize. Asked about Trump’s chances of winning, Infantino, who’d publicly supported Trump’s Nobel case, said with a smile, “On the 5th of December, you will see.”

Washington Post (gift link). 12/05/2025.

The Ego Driven Easily Bought President has hit the FIFA carpet…

I really hate it here.

Flash News

Pipe Bomb Suspect.

Yesterday, President Circus performers held a presser to discuss the arrest of a the suspect that placed two explosive devices outside the RNC and DNC HQ’s.

Without irony Cosplaying FBI Director Kash Patel said: “When you attack American citizens, when you attack our institutions of legislation, when you attack our nation’s Capitol, you attack the very being of our way of life.”

Not covered in the presser was…

Speaking of Dan “bingo bongo” Bongino yesterday told Fox News, that while a podcaster he got paid to spew his opinions but as Deputy Director of the FBI they deal in facts. No worries, when he returns to his podcast, he’ll be allowed to lie to his fans without concern!

Show more =’s Bongino: I was paid in the past for my opinions. One day I will be back in that space but that’s not what I’m paid for now. I’m paid to be your deputy director and we base investigations on facts.

This morning it was reported that the suspected bomb placer thought the 2020 election was stolen.

The man charged with planting two pipe bombs near the Democratic and Republican party headquarters on the eve of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol told the FBI he believed conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Brian Cole Jr., 30, is cooperating with the FBI, NBC News has reported, citing a separate person familiar with the matter. Cole is expected to make his first court appearance on Friday. He was charged Thursday with leaving pipe bombs outside the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee in the hours before Donald Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol.

NBC News. 12/05/2025.

In a follow-up regarding the woman falsely accused by right-wing media source The Blaze…

They aren’t even sorry they lied.


RFK Jr., wants babies to be unhealthy again…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory panel voted Friday to change the recommendation for when children should get their first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. Instead of a first dose within 24 hours of birth — as the CDC has advised for more than 30 years — the panel voted to recommend delaying it until a child is 2 months old for children born to mothers who test negative for the virus. 

The panel voted, in a 8-2 decision, to recommend individual decision-making in consultation with a health care provider to determine when or if to give the hepatitis B birth dose to a child whose mother tested negative for the virus.

Many medical experts and organizations including the American Academy of Pediatrics opposed such a change, saying it will leave young children at risk of an infection that can cause lifelong illness. They point to decades of research confirming the vaccine’s safety and effectiveness. 

The decision came on the second day of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ December meeting, after confusion on Thursday led to the vote being delayed.

The panel — whose members were all appointed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — began the day  with a reading of the proposed voting language, followed by discussion from the panel members and other experts. Restef Levi, an ACIP member and mathematician who has no medical training, strongly argued against the universal birth dose, falsely claiming that experts had “never tested (the vaccines) appropriately.” Levi said he believed the committee should not recommend any timeline for the vaccine.

CBS News. 12/05/2025.

This is the bottom line of these types of decisions:

Recommendations from the advisory committee, known as ACIP, go to the CDC director for approval. Ultimately, decisions are left to the states, which tend to base their policies off the CDC’s guidelines but can choose to set their own. ACIP’s recommendations also carry weight with insurance companies: Most private insurers are required to cover the recommended vaccines. If the recommendation changes, what’s covered by insurance may also change. 

CBS News. 12/05/2025.

So, while they haven’t banned it in newborns, they are effectively saying insurance companies including medicaid or medical, won’t have to cover the cost. If you want the newborn protected from Hep B., you’ll have to pay for it out of pocket.

Senator Cassidy who supported RFK Jr., after he said RFK Jr., pinkie promised not to fuck with vaccines had thoughts.

Show more =’s Before the birth dose was recommended, 20,000 newborns a year were infected with hepatitis B. Now, it’s fewer than 20. Ending the recommendation for newborns makes it more likely the number of cases will begin to increase again. This makes America sicker. Acting CDC Director O’Neill should not sign these new recommendations and instead retain the current, evidence-based approach.

Gee, I’m shocked RFK, Jr., the man that made his family suffer with a whale body on the roof of their car, failed to keep his pinkie promise.


Senator Tom Cotton lied yesterday or lied today…
Both can be true.

After reviewing the video he found that President Warmonger and his trusty sidekick Whiskey Pete, followed all the laws and everything is fine and the Washington Post sucks.

This morning.

They were a threat cause one guy took his t-shirt off…


Glancing at “Lies Social”…

Democrats want 21 supreme’s on the court, and if they win control next year they will force the President to sign that into law, when the bust the filibuster in the Senate to pass it.

The highest number I’ve heard from actual law makers and not TV show hosts, is 13. We have 13 districts now, not just 9 we had when the court was expanded last. IMO–we should have 13, but getting there is not as easy as just killing the filibuster. Lots of deals will need made on who gets to nominate the justices. Lots of arguments will happen, before, during, and after the expansion, if such a expansion is approved.

He’s a big dummy.

After his reality star aka the Secretary of Transportation told fans they’d be able to buy 1970’s style station wagons again, President Legend in his own mind announced his approval to build “TINY CARS”…

We’ve danced this dance before and as the blog post I found explains the cars failed. The post spends a lot of time comparing models that they own. Which is an interesting read. It was posted in 2024.

So, now it’s time to answer my question. Why did these cars fail?

I think the answer is different for both cars. I was around when Smart launched in America and many prospective buyers were disappointed that the Fortwo was not the second coming of the Geo Metro. It didn’t get the fuel economy you’d expect from a car of this size. Smart had a super thrifty diesel engine that gets a legitimate 70 mpg, but the company felt that Americans were willing to trade fuel economy for more speed.

Then there’s the fact that you were getting a tiny city car that, when well equipped, was around $16,000. When Smart came to America, Nissan Versas could be had brand new for $10,000. So, Smart was asking buyers to spend more money to get less car. Ultimately, I think what doomed Smart USA was the fact that it focused on selling the Fortwo to city dwellers when people were really looking for a cheap economy car. Once the city folk got their Smarts, sales dried up alarmingly quick.

Weirdly, Smart did have a good example of how to sell cars to Americans. Up north, Smart sold diesels to the Canadians and a majority of the Smarts sold in Canada went to rural buyers who wanted to save money.

The Toyota iQ’s biggest problem came from within Toyota. The Scion iQ spent most of its time on the market with a base price of around $16,000. That made it over $1,000 more expensive than a Toyota Yaris, which had similar features, similar fuel economy, and a more spacious interior. In other words, you were once again spending more money to get less car. But it was even worse since the cheaper car came from within Toyota. You really had to desire to park in just about any space in order to want the iQ over a Yaris. At least a Smart was hands down the cheapest way into the Mercedes-Benz ownership experience.

But it somehow gets worse than that. These are two highly specialized cars — both meant to be the ultimate dense city car — in a country where they really aren’t necessary. Unless you live in New York City or San Francisco you would have gotten by just fine with a larger car that cost about the same and got close enough fuel economy. I mean, the best-selling vehicles in America are a lineup of pickup trucks, after all. So, you really had to want these cars to end up with one of them.

Then there was just the fact that the small car started dying off the further we got from the Great Recession. I’m not surprised that two of the smallest modern cars on American roads were among the first to die off. Honda eventually decided that Fit sales weren’t sustainable enough. And if Honda can’t sell tiny cars in America, Smart didn’t stand a chance.

Thus, the Scion iQ and Smart Fortwo are orphans. They didn’t sell for long and now it seems the American affiliates of their automakers would rather you forget about them. But, I think they’re still worth considering today. Both of these cars can be had for cheap and both of them stand out in the crowd of gray crossovers that dominate the roads today. They’re not the fastest, the sportiest, or the most fuel-efficient cars out there. But, both of these cars are a ball of fun.

The Autopian. 10/16/2024.

President Easily Bought got a gold trophy.

We are being led by an utter idiot.

The NFL was found in 1920.


That’s a wrap. I need to note something that impacts me, far more than you.

My hard drive is failing. My video graphics card is old as dirt.

Both reasons contribute to the late posts, by me, beyond my utter distractions in real life. For now we are both limping along together…

Have a nice weekend everyone. See ya Monday.

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