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January 2, 2026 1:08 pm EST Tiff Coffee Talk with Tiff 0
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It’s Friday.

President Shitshow’s public schedule for…

01/02/2026:

7:30 AM
Out-of-Town Travel Pool Call Time
8:00 AM Out-of-Town Travel Pool Call Time
Open Press
5:30 PM
The President receives his Intelligence Briefing
Closed Press
6:30 PM
The President meets with the U.S. Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China
Out-of-Town Travel Pool

As usual, with the clowns currently running the government, there’s been no meaningful information about what the U.S. Ambassador to China, David Perdue, and President “I have a good relationship with China” are actually meeting to discuss.

It could be related to the war games China conducted Monday and Tuesday near Taiwan and Xi’s continued intent to “reunify” the island, as reported by AP News. Or it could be groundwork for the upcoming spring meeting in April 2026 between President Crackpot and Chinese President Xi Jinping, where trade is supposedly on the agenda.

Or, as is tradition, it could be none of the above and we’ll find out three weeks from now via an offhand comment that contradicts everything said today.

“Lies Social”

The other day I had the foolish idea of sharing the Social Media Influencer, also known as the President of the United States, and his posts in chronological order. That idea promptly sucked out my will to blog.

So instead, we’re playing make-up homework. To preserve what remains of my sanity, I’m posting a sampling of the Different Day, Same Puddles stream of consciousness.

Obsessed with dead birds:

12/30/2025:

I took a screen grab of just the photo of the bird.

There are dozens of exact matches from two and three days ago in the replies to Dummy’s post. Among them is an article from Haaretz.com, dated December 20, 2017, which includes the same image with this caption:

A falcon killed by a wind turbine in Israel.
Credit: Hedy Ben Eliahou, Nature and Parks Authority.

Haaretz.com. 12/20/2017.

01/02/2026:

The image was found via PBS SoCal article dated 02/14/2015:

Calling bird law violations inevitable at wind facilties, a group wants tighter controls on permitting. | Photo:Changhua Coast Conservation Action/Flickr/Creative Commons License

PBS SoCal. 02/14/2015.

Following their link to the photo on Flickr:

Taken: May 1st, 2006.

01/02/2026:

This image was found via the Telegraph.co.uk dated 03/17/2011 (the article itself is paywalled, but not the photo or caption):

A red kite killed by colliding with a turbine in Spain, where up to a million birds a year may be dying in this way

Telegraph.co.uk. 03/17/2011.

A red kite is not an eagle. According to Bird finding.info:

Here’s the wildest part of his obsessing over dead birds, specially the bald eagle. Before he shares that photo of the red kite from Spain taken a billion years ago (yeah, I know it wasn’t a billion just feels like it), he shares this:

Fox News (11/03/2025): The Trump Department of the Interior is fining a green energy company over $30,000 after their wind turbines knocked two American bald eagles out of the sky, according to a violation notice reviewed by Fox News Digital. The notice reveals that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing a fine of $32,340 against Ørsted Onshore North America after two bald eagles were discovered dead near wind turbines in Plum Creek, Nebraska, and Lincoln Land, Illinois. The violation notice says the company violated the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act by killing the eagles without what is called an “incidental take permit.”

So, clearly the admin would or should have access to photos of the dead eagles. I mean FFS.

Locked and Loaded

December 30th, 2025:

01/01/2026:

Perfect Health

This post follows the Wall Street Journal‘s report on his health that I shared yesterday. Cognitive tests are not equal to IQ tests, they do not show competence, they show if a persons memory is starting to fail them. I think we should be concerned the sitting President has had according to himself three of them this year?

Flash News

Alleged D.C. pipe bomber held pending trial.

Officials say it was sparklers that caused the fire at a popular Swiss resort that killed at least 40 people and injured dozens of others.

It was the moment New Year’s revelry turned into catastrophe.

A photo shows partygoers hoisting wine bottles fitted with sparklers, yet even as they toast the occasion flames are already visible on the foam soundproofing lining the low ceiling of the bar at the upscale Alpine ski resort.

The fire, which broke out around 1:30 a.m. (7:30 p.m. ET Wednesday) at Le Constellation bar in Crans-Montana, Switzerland and left 40 dead, appears to have started when sparklers atop bottles were brought too close to the ceiling, Beatrice Pilloud, the Valais canton Attorney General, told a news conference Friday after preliminary investigations.

The sparklers appear to have led to “what is referred to as a flashover incident where the fire spread very rapidly,” she said. Investigators would assess soundproofing foam used in the ceiling, and whether anyone needs to be held criminally liable for the fire, she added.

NBC News. 01/02/2026.

Tesla is not number 1.

Tesla on Friday reported a second straight annual drop in electric vehicle sales, as the phaseout of a $7,500 federal EV tax credit and mounting competition weighed on demand. With the decline, Tesla lost its title as the world’s bestselling electric vehicle maker. 

The company said it delivered 1.64 million vehicles in 2025, down 9% from 1.79 million in 2024. Sales also declined in the fourth quarter, tumbling 15.6% to 418,227 vehicles, short of the 440,000 that analysts polled by FactSet expected.

China’s BYD, which sold 2.26 million vehicles last year, is now the world’s biggest EV maker.

Tesla has struggled amid heightened competition from rival automakers, as well as a backlash from some consumers over CEO Elon Musk’s involvement with the Trump administration. Musk had headed up the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, where he oversaw cuts to the government workforce and some funding programs before stepping back in May to refocus on Tesla.

CBS News. 01/02/2025.

This is an open thread

And that’s a wrap. Have a great weekend everyone.

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