Coffee Talk with Tiff

November 14, 2025 12:58 pm EST Tiff Coffee Talk with Tiff 0
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It’s Friday.

President Shitshow’s public schedule for…

11/14/2025:

They also shared his weekend schedule:

Wasted a lot of words to say “golf weekend”.

After going radio silent on “Lies Social” for more than 24 hours, President Attention Seeker came sprinting back into the spotlight, hawking other people’s books like a mall-kiosk hustler before pivoting to hype Fox Entertainment’s resident sexist pig, Jesse Watters.

We aren’t touching those posts with a ten-foot pole; we’re zeroing in on a few of his greatest hits instead, because my patience has limits even if his ego doesn’t.

#EpsteinFileGate

This morning the ego-driven asshole cranked out two fresh “Lies Social” posts, once again screeching that the fight over the Epstein files is a “Democrat hoax,” as if repetition magically turns nonsense into truth.

He’s calling it a “Democratic hoax” while trying to shove his MAGA base back toward Big Bad Bill Clinton and lean on the roughly 100 Republicans reportedly ready to vote for forcing the DOJ to release the Epstein files.

Reminder: we’re only here because A.G. Bondi and FBI Director Patel said they reviewed the files, found nothing worth pursuing, and declared the case closed.

Speaking of Epstein…

This morning I saw this…

This lead me to someone in my discord directing me to this from 11/10/2025:

Whistleblower Shares Evidence That Federal Prison Camp Warden is Pampering Ghislaine Maxwell, Maxwell Also Filing a “Commutation Application” With Trump Administration (Democrats-judiciary.house.gov).

Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to President Donald Trump demanding that he answer inquiries from the Committee and make Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche available for a public hearing in light of documents and information received by the Committee showing that under Dr. Tanisha Hall, the warden of Federal Prison Camp (FPC) Bryan, the federal law enforcement staff working at the camp have been waiting on Ms. Maxwell hand and foot. Whistleblower information provided to the Committee also indicates that Ghislaine Maxwell is working on filing a “Commutation Application” with the Trump Administration—demonstrating either that Ms. Maxwell is herself requesting to be released from her 20-year prison sentence for her role as a co-conspirator in Jeffrey Epstein’s international child sex trafficking ring, or that this child sex predator now holds such tremendous sway in the second Trump Administration that Trump and his own DOJ will follow her clemency recommendations.

“You have claimed to be the ‘most transparent’ president in history and have insisted you exercise close control over the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). Yet, you have adamantly refused to release the Epstein files despite campaigning on their release. You lied when you denied authoring a lewd and incriminating birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein, and you ridiculously claimed that your own unmistakable signature on that note was not your signature. You shut down the DOJ’s ongoing investigation into Epstein’s co-conspirators, and you expressly declined to rule out pardoning his main accomplice, convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. The situation looks more and more suspicious to growing bipartisan majorities in Congress every day. The House Committee on the Judiciary has now received whistleblower information indicating that this cover up goes even further into DOJ and BOP than was known before,” wrote Ranking Member Raskin to President Trump.

In August, Judiciary Democrats wrote to the DOJ and Bureau of Prisons (BOP) regarding the Trump Administration’s inexplicable transfer of Ms. Maxwell to FPC Bryan, a plum minimum-security facility, in apparent flagrant violation of BOP policies, including one that explicitly prohibits the placement of sex offenders in such facilities. DOJ and BOP arranged this transfer after Deputy Attorney General Blanche interviewed Ms. Maxwell over a two-day period in July, during which Ms. Maxwell, claimed she never saw Trump “in any inappropriate setting in any way,” and she also testified “that there was nothing from President Trump” in Mr. Epstein’s 50th birthday book—all proven to be lies. She also repeated, unchallenged by Mr. Blanche, many of the same lies that led the Trump DOJ to charge her with perjury in 2020. The favorable treatment by the Trump Administration has not ended there.

In October, Judiciary Democrats fired off a letter to FPC Bryan Warden Dr. Tanisha Hall after public reports indicated the Epstein co-conspirator has received special treatment since her transfer. The subsequent whistleblower disclosure received by Judiciary Democrats shows that Warden Hall has been heaping favorable treatment on Ms. Maxwell since her arrival. For instance:

Whistleblower Shares Evidence That Federal Prison Camp Warden is Pampering Ghislaine Maxwell, Maxwell Also Filing a “Commutation Application” With Trump Administration. 11/10/2025.
  • Ms. Maxwell’s meals have been customized and prepared by federal prison camp staff and then personally delivered to her in her cell by longtime federal employees;
     
  • When Ms. Maxwell wanted to arrange a private meeting with visitors, including members of her family, the Warden personally arranged it for her—and then provided a special cordoned off area for visitors to arrive, as well as an assortment of snacks and refreshments for her guests;
     
  • Ms. Maxwell’s guests were permitted to bring computers—an unprecedented action by the Warden given the security risk and potential for Ms. Maxwell to use a computer to conduct unmonitored communications with the outside world;
     
  • When the phone lines went down for other inmates at the camp, Ms. Maxwell provided specific instructions about exactly which BOP personnel her contacts should call, and how those BOP personnel would then connect to relay the call to Ms. Maxwell;
     
  • When Ms. Maxwell wanted to review and edit documents quickly, she essentially used Warden Hall as her personal secretary and administrative assistant. Ms. Maxwell’s correspondents would email documents directly to the Warden, who would provide them to Ms. Maxwell, who would then review and edit them and provide them back to the Warden to scan and provide to the original sender. For other inmates, simple mail can take weeks to arrive and is frequently lost;
     
  • An inmate who trains puppies to become service dogs was instructed to provide one to Maxwell for a time so she could play with the puppy, even though neither inmates nor staff are ordinarily allowed to pet the service dogs in training; and, 
     
  • When Ms. Maxwell wanted to go to the prison exercise area, she was personally escorted there after hours by prison guards so she could work out by herself and was allowed to enjoy recreation time in staff-only areas.

While being catered to by federal law enforcement officials while at Bryan, Ms. Maxwell has also been working on what appears to be the second part of the quid pro quo. She is preparing a “Commutation Application” for the Trump Administration to review. The Warden herself is directly helping Ms. Maxwell copy, print, and send documents related to this application. The exact content of this “Commutation Application” is unclear. 

“The time has come to cease any coy or sly answers about granting clemency to a convicted child sex predator. I am demanding answers to these three questions. First, have you discussed a potential commutation—or any form of presidential clemency—for Ms. Maxwell with Mr. Blanche, his underlings or anyone else in your Administration? Second, have you directed Mr. Blanche or anyone else in your Administration to provide Ms. Maxwell with the transfer to the prison camp, favorable and preferential treatment in prison, or special accommodations for her communications and interaction with her family and the outside world? Third, what has Ms. Maxwell, her attorneys, family or representatives promised you or your attorneys?” continued Ranking Member Raskin.

Click here to read the letter to Trump.

Whistleblower Shares Evidence That Federal Prison Camp Warden is Pampering Ghislaine Maxwell, Maxwell Also Filing a “Commutation Application” With Trump Administration. 11/10/2025.

FYI: President CYA has not ruled out pardoning or commuting Maxwell’s prison sentence.

Not content with flashing his enthusiasm for weaponizing the DOJ whenever it suits him, he abruptly swerved into the economy like he’d taken a wrong exit on his own rant.

The irony of the above truth post, was I had already planned to touch on the economy…

This morning:

Maria Bartiromo: Yeah. For sure. And the month of October, I mean, one could make the argument that the shutdown impacted October business. So, I mean, is that a moment in time, a look at what happened in October, because things were shut down and companies couldn’t get permits and IPOs couldn’t go public and we couldn’t do filings, et cetera, et cetera. That in and of itself dictated the economic activity of the month of October and that was a slice in time. Does it change come November, December, January?

Lori Chavez-DeRemer: You don’t get that time back. That’s exactly what I believe that you are saying. Sometimes it’s too late to get accurate data points and like I said, the household surveys were not able to be done and businesses submitted the passive information so is it a little too late? It’s similar to the Fed a little too late on these interest rate drops. I’m looking forward to the December report on that, that they will again step up as the president has oftentimes asked them to pay attention to but again, because of the Democratic shutdown, we don’t have that accurate data for them to make a good decision but I believe that the Fed needs to cut the interest rates again in December to really prop up this economy that the president has been so forceful in by bringing the trillions of dollars, by the Department of Labor really looking at the skilled workforce and now this is one more way for the Fed to help out the American people because of this Democratic shutdown. 43 days, going on 44, this is…

Two things that jumped right out to me in the above clip.

First, the host bemoaning how filing paperwork would somehow impact the Jobs report is silly. That paperwork is forward-facing, not tied to work happening right now. When an oil company files for a well lease, that well is expected to be pumping in five or ten years, not next freakin’ week.

Second, a genuinely healthy economy doesn’t need the Federal Reserve to slash interest rates just to “really prop up this economy,” no matter how confidently our labor secretary tossed that line out there.

The next clip I saw, before President Pivot Pivoted away from screaming “hoax” to focus on the economy was this…

Show more =’s EMMER: Donald Trump and his administration have driven down costs on groceries [this is a lie]

I didn’t transcribe the exchange as it’s fucking silly.

Prices at the grocery store are up. Everyone feels it, some more than others depending on where they live and what they need to buy. And the Trump admin absolutely knows tariffs are driving a chunk of the food inflation, which is why they’re suddenly scrambling to cut deals to make stuff we don’t grow here, like coffee or bananas, duty-free or at least not buried under 50 percent worth of dumbness. It’s the same exhausted pattern with MAGA: President Breaks It slaps on a policy that screws everything up, quietly reverses the thing he broke, and then demands applause for fixing his own broken policy.

I saw this last night from CNN…

By rolling back his own policies, President Economically Challenged is admitting placing blanket tariffs was a mistake. It’s not a change in tactics. It’s him and his admin admitting that not only do the American consumer pay the tariffs, those tariffs are causing inflation.

Flash News

Court Watch:

Nobody should be excited by this news as Anna Bower went on to tweet:

Trade Deal:

Declaration of intent between the USA and Switzerland on US additional tariffs:

Switzerland and Liechtenstein have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding with the United States. On this basis, the United States will reduce the country-specific additional tariff to 15%.

On November 14, 2025, the United States announced that the country-specific additional tariff for Switzerland would be limited to a maximum of 15%. The declaration of intent is based on the negotiating mandate adopted on 28 May and Switzerland’s offer approved by the Federal Council on 4 August aimed at reducing the bilateral goods trade deficit with the USA. The declaration of intent was agreed after intensive discussions.

Under the declaration of intent, at the same time as the reduction in US tariffs, Switzerland will reduce import duties on a range of US products. In addition to all industrial products, fish and seafood, this includes agricultural products from the US that Switzerland considers non-sensitive. For other US export interests, a solution was agreed that takes Switzerland’s agricultural policy interests into account: under the agreement, Switzerland will grant the US duty-free bilateral tariff quotas on selected US export products: 500 tonnes for beef, 1,000 tonnes for bison meat and 1,500 tonnes for poultry meat. The date for implementing these market access concessions will be coordinated with the US to ensure that customs duties are reduced at the same time.

Furthermore, Swiss companies are planning to make direct investments in the USA amounting to USD 200 billion by the end of 2028. This should also include efforts to strengthen vocational education and training.

The announcement of the reduction in additional US tariffs on Swiss imports will serve to stabilise bilateral trade relations. Although overall tariffs remain higher than before the additional tariffs were introduced in April, the agreed reduction in additional tariffs is expected to have a positive impact on the Swiss economy.

Declaration of intent between the USA and Switzerland on US additional tariffs. 11/14/2025.

Key takeaways:

It’s non-bidding.
Switzerland consumers will pay less for American products.
US consumers will pay up to 15 percent more on goods imported from Switzerland.
Swiss companies say they will invest about $200 billion into the US.

That’s a wrap on the week. Everyone have a nice weekend. Remember joy is resistance.

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