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March 9, 2026 12:50 pm EDT Tiff Coffee Talk with Tiff 0
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It’s Monday…

President Shitshow’s public schedule for…

03/09/2026:

House Republicans are in Doral, Fla., at the Trump National Doral for their annual legislative retreat. President Donald Trump will be speaking to House Republicans this evening in, where else, the Donald J. Trump Ballroom at his club.

Speaker Mike Johnson’s Republican Conference retreat will feature a number of conservative pundits, including Scott Jennings and Ben Shapiro. White House Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair and Chris LaCivita, a top Trump political adviser, will also speak. National Economic Adviser Kevin Hassett, who didn’t get the rose for Federal Reserve chair, will take his spiel from television to Miami. We’ll have coverage from south Florida all week.

Reconciliation 2.0 will be a major topic of conversation during the retreat, as we previewed for you last week. Johnson and House GOP leaders will see whether they can begin coalescing around some policies for a second reconciliation package. House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) will present potential budget cuts, including targeting “waste, fraud and abuse.”

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If you’re a Republican, the politics of this conflict have to worry you. With the Strait of Hormuz closed, oil prices have soared to more than $100 per barrel (from just under $70 per barrel 10 days ago.) There’s been a huge spike in gas prices nationally. The Wall Street Journal called it “the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s and threatening to derail the global economy.” The G7 nations — led by France — are eyeing the release of as many as 400 million barrels from their strategic reserves in order to calm the situation. Asian and European markets were getting rocked early Monday.

Punchbowl News. 03/09/2026.

Sunday, I Never take Responsibility responded to the energy crisis he created by saying the short term spike in oil and gas prices is a very “small price to pay” and ONLY FOOLS WOULD THINK DIFFERENTLY!

Speaking of the retreat…

Never one to keep his threats to a reasonable number per day, Empty Threat hopped on Lies Social again to tell Congress he won’t sign any bills unless they pass the SAVE Act first. And because one demand apparently isn’t enough, he now wants the voter suppression bill to also eliminate mail-in voting and ban gender-affirming surgeries for minors.

Narrator: If a president doesn’t sign a bill within 10 days (excluding Sundays), it automatically becomes law. If Congress adjourns before the 10 days run out, the bill dies instead. That’s known as a pocket veto.


US/Israel war on Iran:

The New York Times reported on Sunday that a school hit in Iran during the initial attack was likely hit by the United States military.

A newly released video adds to the evidence that an American missile likely hit an Iranian elementary school where 175 people, many of them children, were reported killed.

The video, uploaded on Sunday by Iran’s semiofficial Mehr News Agency and verified by The New York Times, shows a Tomahawk cruise missile striking a naval base beside the school in the town of Minab on Feb. 28. The U.S. military is the only force involved in the conflict that uses Tomahawk missiles.

A body of evidence assembled by The Times — including satellite imagery, social media posts and other verified videos — indicates that the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school building was severely damaged by a precision strike that occurred at the same time as attacks on the naval base. The base is operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.

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The video of the strike, which was first reported by the research collective Bellingcat, was independently verified by The Times. We compared features visible in the footage to new satellite imagery captured days after the strikes in Minab.

The video was filmed from a construction site opposite the base and shows a worn, dirt path across a grassy area and piles of debris also evident in recent satellite imagery, bolstering its credibility. The video also comports with other verified videos taken in the immediate aftermath of the strikes.

A Times analysis of the video shows the missile striking a building described as a medical clinic in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps base. Plumes of smoke and debris shoot out of the building after it is hit as the distant screams of onlookers are heard.

New York Times. 03/08/2026.

CNN confirmed the strike on the school but has not independently verified that the U.S. military carried it out. Their reporting suggests outdated intelligence may have been responsible.

Satellite imagery from 2013 showed that the school and the IRGC base were once part of the same compound. But images from 2016 revealed that a fence had been erected to separate the school from the rest of the base, and that a separate entrance to the school had been built. In December 2025, imagery showed dozens of people in the school’s courtyard, apparently playing in what appears to be a court for ballgames.

CNN. 03/06/2026.

I Never Take Responsibility told the press he still believes it was Iran that hit the school.

Given we are once again in a war nobody asked for, Senator Lindsey Graham told America that don’t worry in two weeks we are gonna wipe Iran off the map.

Like others Graham also said “Cuba is next”.


It added a presser to it’s schedule.

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