Coffee Talk with Tiff

December 9, 2025 1:10 pm EST Tiff Coffee Talk with Tiff 0
Coffee. Photo by Jonathan Thursfield.

It’s Tuesday…

President Shitshow’s public schedule for…

12/09/2025:

President Optics What Optics is scheduled to hold a rally this evening at the Mount Airy Casino Resort in Mt. Pocono, PA to address concerns on the economy. Because nothing says fighting for the working class squeezed by tariffs like holding an economy-policy rally at a top-ranked AAA FOUR-DIAMOND LUXURY: PENNSYLVANIA’S PREMIER ADULT ESCAPE.

It’s the perfect venue for a man who insists he’s waging holy war on “elitism” while delivering stump speeches beneath chandeliers that cost more than most families’ yearly grocery bills. Nothing calms public anxiety about skyrocketing prices quite like a politician assuring you he totally understands your struggle from a resort that not only promises “adult escape” but also boasts its own golf course, because naturally the working class measures economic pain in greens fees.

News Rewind.

Yesterday, President Tariff held a roundtable where he boasted about his tariffs while announcing that taxpayers would be footing the bill for a $12 billion bailout package for farmers. A perfect little cycle: break the system with one hand, then expect applause for handing out Band-Aids with the other.

President Tariff:

I’m delighted to announce this afternoon that the United States will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs.

We are making a lot of money from countries that took advantage of us. For years, they took advantage of us like nobody’s ever seen. Our deficits are way down because of tariffs. I guess, because of the election, because without the election, you wouldn’t have tariffs. You’d be sitting here losing your shirt, but we’re taking in billions.

We’re really taking in trillions of dollars, if you think about it, Scott, because the real numbers. You know, when you think of all the money being poured into the country for new auto plants and all of the other things, AI. So what we’re doing is we’re taking a relatively small portion of that and we’re going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance.

And we love our farmers. And as you know, the farmers like me, because, you know, based on voting trends you could call it voting trends or anything else, but they’re great people. They’re the backbone of our country. So we’re going to use that money to provide $12 billion in economic assistance to American farmers.

Roll call.com. 12/08/2025.

President Tariff:
Thank you, Brooke. Thank you. And this money would not be possible without tariffs. The tariffs are taking in, you know, hundreds of billions of dollars and we’re giving some up to the farmers because they were mistreated by other countries for, I don’t know, maybe right reasons, maybe wrong reasons. They weren’t… they were trying to show us something.

And it really worked out really well. But because of the tariffs, this is possible.

Roll call.com. 12/08/2025.

Because he apparently dreams about tariffs at @2:45 AM D.C., time he posted this…

Dark and sinister forces =’s businesses and consumers plus maybe the Supreme’s if they rule his blanket tariffs are unlawful.

During the Q&A session, President Obnoxious bristled the moment a reporter asked him about his own statement on releasing the Venezuela strike video. When she pressed him on the actual question — whether he was ordering Pete Hegshit to release it — he dodged entirely, insisting it was all up to Hegshit and then lashing out that she was “the most obnoxious reporter in the whole place.” An impressive amount of smoke for a question he could have answered with a single syllable.

Question:
Mr. President, you said you would have no problem with releasing the full video of that strike on September 2 off the coast of Venezuela. Secretary Hegseth now says—

President Obnoxious:
I didn’t say that. You said that. I didn’t say that. This is ABC fake news.

Question:
You said that you would have no problem releasing the full—OK. Well, Secretary Hegseth—

President Obnoxious:
No, I said whatever Hegseth wants to do is OK with me.

Question:
He now says it’s under review. Are you ordering the secretary to release that full video—

President Obnoxious:
Whatever he decides is OK with me. So every boat we knock out of the water, every boat, we save 25,000 American lives. That was a boat loaded up with drugs. I saw the video. They were trying to turn the boat back to where it could float. And we didn’t want to see that because that boat was loaded up with drugs just like everything else.

But every boat we shoot down—and I don’t know if you know we’re 92 or 94 percent down in drugs coming in by the sea. And we’re trying to find who are the six percent, because I don’t know. People aren’t liking to drive boats right now, loaded up with drugs. But every single—think of that—every single boat we shoot out on average, we save 25,000 American lives.

President Obnoxious:
Do you feel OK about that, Cordt?

Cordt Holub:
Keep us safe.

President Obnoxious:
OK. I knew—I knew—I know my man. What about you, Meryl, are you OK with that?

Meryl Kennedy:
I’m totally fine with that.

Question:
Are you committing to releasing the full video?

President Obnoxious:
Didn’t I just tell you that?

Question:
You said that it was up to Secretary Hegseth.

President Obnoxious:
You’re the most obnoxious reporter in the whole place. Let me just tell you, you are an obnoxious— a terrible—actually a terrible reporter, and it’s always the same thing with you. I told you, whatever Pete Hegseth wants to do is OK with me.

Roll call.com. 12/08/2025.

*Flashback*

5 whole days ago…

President I Didn’t Say That (but I did say it):
This is something… I’ve never heard of it. Very good, I appreciate it. We never heard of it. That’s pretty good.

Question:
Mr. President, you released video of that first boat strike on September 2, but not the second video. Will you release video of that strike so that the American people can see for themselves what happened?

President I Didn’t Say That (but I did say it):
I don’t know what they have, but whatever they have we’d certainly release, no problem. You know, we stopped… every boat we knock out, we save 25,000 American lives.

Roll call.com. 12/03/2025.

*End Flashback*

This morning I saw this…

WSJ (gift link–12/08/2025):

Trump, who said Monday that he saw the video, told reporters he would leave the final decision on whether to make it public to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. “Whatever Pete Hegseth wants to do is OK with me,” the president said at the White House.

Hegseth raised concerns with Trump last week that tactics and intelligence methods might be compromised if the video is released, officials said. Trump agreed and didn’t want the Pentagon to buckle under pressure from Democrats and press reports to disclose details of the operation, they said.

The president has told aides he also doesn’t want to fuel criticism that Hegseth or Navy Adm. Frank “Mitch” Bradley, who commanded the attack, did anything wrong, according to the officials.

Trump’s shift underscored the stakes for the administration, which has called the alleged drug-smuggling boats legal military targets but has released little evidence supporting its claims about the at least 20 strikes on such vessels in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, other than brief excerpts of video showing the vessels being destroyed.

WSJ (gift link–12/08/2025).

Speaking of Obnoxious…

Our Reality Star cosplaying as the Secretary of Transportation has now added yet another dumb idea to the original dumb idea that we should all play dress-up just to board a flight.

He posted his own follow-up…

Show more =’s That happened today as me, my daughter, Paloma, @SecKennedy & @paulsaladinomd celebrated DOT grants to Make Travel Family Friendly Great Again! Tell me how many pull-ups you can do.

Right, because nothing completes a travel day like working up a sweat in your nice dress or suit before getting sealed into a metal tube with a crowd of human people. #MBOGA (Make Body Odor Great Again).

Continuing the obnoxious theme.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegshit announced today that our military is going to partner with AI.

I had to have GROK transcribe the clip and ChatGPT to format it correctly.

“AI models–starting with Google Gemini directly into the hands of every American warrior, at the click of a button.”

Now here’s the thing: I’m not opposed to using AI as a tool. As I said above, I used two AIs just to transcribe one video. But Google Gemini is awful. I’m at the point where I rarely use Google for anything because their AI is so spectacularly useless.

Perfect example — and yes, I should have taken screenshots, and I will from now on — I asked for something President 47 said and Gemini confidently informed me that President 47 was not Donald Trump but Joe Biden. Absolutely incredible. I was painfully specific, and Gemini still told me, “No, Donald Trump did not say this,” when he absolutely did.

Of all the AI models someone could choose for anything remotely important, Gemini is by far the worst. The bar is underground and it’s still tripping over it.

That’s a wrap…

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