Coffee Talk with Tiff

February 3, 2026 12:51 pm EST Tiff Coffee Talk with Tiff 0
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It’s Tuesday…

President Shitshow’s public schedule for…

02/03/2026:

NBC News (02/03/2026): The bilateral meeting is expected to include a discussion of topics pertaining to Venezuela, including its border with Colombia, oil and energy, and guarantees about independence during Colombia’s upcoming presidential elections, four people familiar with the planning, including Colombia’s former foreign minister Luis Gilberto Murillo, told NBC News.


Former FBI Deputy Direct Dan “Bingo Bongo” Bongino has returned to his safe space. He made his podcast return by “interviewing” his former boss.

Fuck the Constitution said:

These people were brought to our country to vote, and they vote illegally and the, you know, amazing that the Republicans aren’t tougher on it. The Republicans should say we want to take over. We should take over the voting, the voting in at least–many–15 places the Republicans ought to nationalize the voting.

We have states that are so crooked and their counting votes. We have states that I won that show I didn’t win. Now you’re going to see something in Georgia where they were able to get with a court order, the ballots you’re going to see some interesting things coming out, but you know, like the 2020 election, I won that election by so much, everybody knows it.

Listen to the tweet video. 02/02/2026.

And just so we’re clear, a president suggesting his party “take over the voting” is not normal. It’s not politics. It’s straight-up authoritarian nonsense.

Speaking of Georgia…

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard told lawmakers in a letter Monday that she attended an FBI search of the elections hub in Fulton County, Georgia, last week because President Donald Trump asked for her to be there.

She also acknowledged that she “facilitated” what she described as a brief phone call between Trump and FBI agents who carried out the search but insisted that neither she nor the president had issued any directives.

The letter to top Democrats on the House and Senate intelligence committees marked Gabbard’s first detailed explanation for her unusual presence at an FBI search during which agents armed with a warrant seized hundreds of boxes containing ballots and other documents related to the 2020 election in Georgia’s most populous county.

PBS NewsHour. 02/03/2026.

He’s insane. There is no other word to describe his wild ass behavior or statements. For example.

This morning:

This is not normal, it’s not normal for the President to be this racist publicly. It’s not normal for him to trash a member of Congress like this. He’s insane.

In the same clip, the man also launches into a wild story about Tina Peters, the former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder sentenced to nine years in prison for her role in a 2021 security breach in the very elections office she was supposed to oversee.

They put a woman in jail. Colorado put a woman in jail, a wonderful woman, a 72 years old, had cancer. Because she was a voting inspector. She was in charge of a voting era (area?) and she saw boxes of votes come in. So she went over to check it, and they put her in jail for voter manipulation, and she’s still in jail, and they better let her out fast, and they’re suffering a big price. Colorado, they have this woman in jail, who’s 71 years old, and probably has cancer. She’s sick, and they put her in because she challenged somebody that was dumping ballots into a box, okay, and they didn’t put them in jail. This was during Biden’s term, the worst president in history, and we had some bad ones.

Listen to the tweet video. 02/02/2026.

And this is the guy who thinks he should run the country’s elections.

Speaking of elections…

In an upset on Saturday a Democrat beat a Republican to be a Texas State Senator.

Asked about the upset Lying Liar that Lies said he “wasn’t involved” because it was a state election.

*Flashback*

I took the screen grab from the Trump Social Media Archive:

*End flashback*

But sure, Jan, he wasn’t at all involved.

And because no rant is complete without it, he finishes by telling us how he’s the greatest president in history.

I mean, look, Barack Hussein Obama, I call him the Great Divider people couldn’t stand him. They, you mentioned his name, they go crazy, and they start booing the hell out of him. We had some really bad ones. I mean, Jimmy Carter wasn’t exactly the greatest Jimmy Carter didn’t exactly have the hit on Venice–Venezuela. Remember his hits? They always turned out to be a disaster, right? He went out. He had a hit. The helicopters were crashing into each other, the hostages. And everything. That’s why Ronald Reagan won the election he was so pathetic.

But we do it, right? We’ve got the greatest military. I built the military, you know, that in my first term, I built the military that they gave. They gave a piece of it away, but it was, it’s a lot, but it’s still a piece compared to what I built, that we have the most powerful military and my attack on Iran with, you know, operation midnight Hammer, where we wiped out there nuclear threat, which they would have had a nuclear weapon within a month, and we knocked it out and our attack on Venezuela. It was and you know, like, unbelievable, The nice thing about Venezuela were getting along great now, with the government. We talked to them every single day.

We took 50–50 million barrels of oil it’s on it’s way right now to Houston to be refined, and we’re going to help them a lot, and we’re going to benefit by it. Also, it’s going to be great. It’s going to be an amazing place, you know?

Listen to the tweet video. 02/02/2026.

Again, the only word that fits is “insane.”


Big Mad @the New York Times demands money from Harvard

The New York Times (gift link–02/02/2026):

President Trump has backtracked on a major point in negotiations with Harvard, dropping his administration’s demand for a $200 million payment to the government in hopes of finally resolving the administration’s conflicts with the university, according to four people briefed on the matter.

Harvard has been the top target in Mr. Trump’s sweeping campaign to exert more control over higher education. Hard-liners in his administration had wanted Harvard to write a check to the U.S. Treasury as part of a deal to address claims that university officials mishandled antisemitism, The New York Times previously reported. But Harvard, wary of backlash from liberal students and faculty, has rejected the idea.

Trump administration officials have indicated in recent days that the president no longer expects such a payment, according to the Harvard and Trump officials briefed on the matter, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations.

But shortly before midnight, six hours after The Times reported that Mr. Trump had backtracked, he claimed the story was wrong and attacked The Times and Harvard. He said he was now seeking $1 billion “in damages” from Harvard and that the administration’s investigations of Harvard should now be criminal.

The New York Times (gift link–02/02/2026).

The latest chapter in the saga between Harvard and the White House opened two weeks ago in a tiny town in the Swiss Alps.

Mr. Trump had visited Davos to speak at the World Economic Forum, where he crossed paths with Stephen A. Schwarzman, the billionaire investment executive who has taken a role in the negotiations between Harvard and the White House. Mr. Trump asked Mr. Schwarzman to call him about the deal, according to four Trump administration and Harvard officials involved with the negotiations who were briefed on the matter.

The two men spoke last week, the people said, and Mr. Trump made clear he would no longer demand a $200 million payment from the university if that concession would secure the deal. The two sides have discussed additional terms, including provisions that affirm Harvard’s commitment to following federal law.

Linda McMahon, Mr. Trump’s education secretary, conveyed a similar message to Mr. Schwarzman last week in a separate conversation, saying that the administration was willing to forget about the fine, the officials said. Mr. Schwarzman declined to comment.

The New York Times (gift link–02/02/2026).

I guess we can add the man is insanely petty to the list of words we use to describe him.


In Other News

New Castle County Police did not provide details on the death, but an initial release on her death noted that officers responded to a domestic dispute on Dec. 28 at a residence in the Wilmington area.

Linda Stevenson was found unresponsive in the living room and died despite live-saving measures by officers at the scene. The press release at the time said that her body was turned over to the Delaware Division of Forensic Science for an autopsy.

A cause of death was not included in the statement on William Stevenson’s arrest. The grand jury’s indictment on Monday was the result of an “extensive weeks-long investigation” into the death, police said.

A representative for former president Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, did not immediately respond to an NBC News request for comment. [I mean honestly what can they say at this point?]

NBC News. 02/03/2026.

TODAY show host Savannah Guthrie’s 84-year old mom has been reported missing in Arizona. Pima county sheriff Chris Nanos does not believe Nancy Guthrie left of her own free will.

Show more =’s “I believe she was abducted, yes,” Nanos said. “She didn’t walk from there. She didn’t go willingly.” https://cbsn.ws/4rnVlrF

This morning CBS News says a law enforcement source has told them, blood was found in her home.

 A little bit of blood was found inside the Arizona home of “Today” show co-host Savannah Guthrie’s mother, Nancy Guthrie, whose disappearance is being investigated as a crime, a law enforcement source familiar with the case told CBS News.

It is unclear whose blood it is, but it is being tested. Investigators and analysts are combing through the house in search of clues to the 84-year-old’s disappearance.

CBS News. 02/03/2026.

Savannah Guthrie posted a statement on Instagram asking for prayers.


The House has passed the first hurdle in a vote to reopen the government.

That’s a wrap.

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