Coffee Talk with Tiff

April 16, 2026 12:49 pm EDT Tiff Coffee Talk with Tiff 0
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It’s Thursday…

Shitshow’s public schedule for…

04/16/2026:

Thursday Thoughts — WTF Edition

Secretary of Dress-Up Defense Pete Hegseth held a presser this morning to update the public on Operation “Epic Fury,” which sounds less like a war and more like a straight-to-streaming action movie, and at one point compared the press to the Pharisees—because nothing says “serious briefing” like implying Puddle is Jesus.

Using the clip from Acyn’s tweet—I finally figured out how to screen record with sound, so the non-Twitter crowd doesn’t get left out.

A note to the press, to the press corps, to the American media.

As I just can’t help but notice the endless stream of garbage, the relentlessly negative coverage you cannot resist peddling. Despite the historic and important success of this effort and the success of our troops, sometimes it’s hard to figure out what side some of you are actually on. It’s incredibly unpatriotic.

This same press corps, not this exact same press corps, but at least an older press corps, bent over backwards during the Biden administration to explain away the disastrous and disgraceful Afghanistan withdrawal. You called it the greatest airlift in American history. It’s almost like you’re cheering only for one side.

This past Sunday, I was sitting in church with my family and our minister preached from the book of Mark, the third chapter. In the passage, Jesus entered a synagogue and healed a man with a withered hand.

The Pharisees came to watch and, as the scripture reads, they came to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath so that they might accuse him. You see, the Pharisees, the so-called and self-appointed elites of their time, they were there to witness, to write everything down, to report.

But their hearts were hardened. Even though they witnessed a literal miracle, it didn’t matter. They were only there to explain away the goodness in pursuit of their agenda. As the passage ends, the Pharisees went out and immediately held counsel against him, how to destroy him.

I sat there in church and I thought, “Our press are just like these Pharisees.” Not all of you. Not all of you. But the legacy Trump-hating press, your politically motivated animus for President Trump nearly completely blinds you from the brilliance of our American warriors.

The Pharisees scrutinized every good act in order to find a violation, only looking for the negative. The hardened hearts of our press are calibrated only to impugn.

I would ask you to open your eyes to the goodness, the historic success of our troops, the courage of this president, and this historic moment for a deal that could end the Iranian nuclear threat.

Me, ChatGPT, and the AP News YouTube—because lord knows I wasn’t doing that on my own. 04/16/2026.

The Pope, now on the Trump 2.0 admin’s bad side, appeared to respond through the official Twitter account.

Yesterday, the wishes he was an action hero the Secretary of Dress-Up Defense Pete Hegseth spoke at a worship meeting. During the remarks he seems to quote a fictional characters speech from the movie Pulp Fiction. I can neither confirm or deny that he knew it was fake or if he stole it.


In another WTF moment, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., head of the MAHA movement, testified before the House today. He was asked about past comments suggesting Black children should be “re-parented,” which he denied making.

*Flashback*

Summer 2024:

For those without twitter:

The screen record captures the Closed Caption. I did record the replay but cut it off. 🙂

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