Coffee Talk with Tiff

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It’s Monday…

President Shitshow’s public schedule for…

Monday (09/01/2025):

He went golfing today…

No speculation on President Unhealthy’s health from me. Just noting: when a spotlight hog goes dark after a three-hour Cabinet meeting, it sets off all the Spidey alarms.

Before he headed out to his golf course, President Unhealthy posted his “Labor Day messages” — which, shocker, had nothing to do with Labor Day.

It’s a wall of words that boils down to one thing: please call me so I can send in the Guard legally. Now, I get it — President Lawless doesn’t usually give a damn about laws. But notice how desperate he is for states to make the request. There’s a reason he keeps begging governors for the official ask, even if we don’t know exactly what strings are attached.

What exactly is President Revisionist demanding here — a secret PDF no one but him gets to see? Because the vaccine results were already published in places like The Lancet and submitted to the CDC years ago. But sure, let’s pretend science journals don’t exist and instead rely on all-caps tantrums to rewrite history.

Meanwhile, in the real world: Russia, India, and China are publicly forming a major alliance, and Trump is losing his mind over India maybe lowering tariffs on our exports—tariffs that don’t even matter because our own still make U.S. goods more expensive. Decades of “trade disaster,” apparently more urgent than, you know, actual global strategy. Just some simple facts to ponder!!!

That imagery in the city of Tianjin, where more than 20 leaders from mostly Central Asia and South Asia gathered, showed how the geopolitical disruption caused by Mr. Trump has given China and Russia a platform to rally partners such as Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus and Pakistan.

China wants to seize on the unpopularity of America’s chaotic trade policies to drive a wedge between Washington and the rest of the world, arguing that it can serve as a more stable global leader.

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In the past, India’s risk-averse bureaucracy would have taken pains to avoid such overt displays of warmth with China and Russia at sensitive junctures — the secret to expanding ties with Washington while keeping a seat at forums led by the other major powers. But Mr. Trump’s barrage of tariffs on India, now at 50 percent after penalizing India for buying Russian oil, has left little incentive for India to do so.

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The summit, which ends Monday, is the first part of a diplomatic showcase that Mr. Xi has lined up this week. In the lead-up to this meeting, he has held talks with many of the visiting leaders, including Mr. Modi, during which he said that the two countries should see each other as partners and not rivals.

He is also expected to hold talks with Mr. Putin. But the biggest highlight is a military parade in Beijing on Wednesday aimed at commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, to be attended by Mr. Putin and Kim Jong-un, the North Korean dictator. Mr. Xi has tried to recast China’s role in the war to burnish the Communist Party’s image and buttress its claims over Taiwan and the South China Sea, scholars have said.

New York Times (gift link). 09/01/2025.

He spent the weekend lying about tariffs and such on his social media site.

What he means, without the tariff revenue coming from the American consumer he doesn’t have the money to pay for his Big Beautiful bill of Bullshit.

And without going into the weeds this Labor Day; none of what he said as far as revenues is based on facts. it’s all guesses and estimates on what might be generated revenue.

I’ll just leave you with this…

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