Coffee Talk with Tiff

January 23, 2026 12:21 pm EST Tiff Coffee Talk with Tiff 0
Coffee. Photo by Jonathan Thursfield.

It’s Friday.

President Shitshow’s public schedule for…

01/23/2026:

1:30 PM – Print Interview (Closed Press)
Location: Oval Office
Closed press means we’re spared the live spectacle, but not the inevitable selective leaks. Somewhere, a journalist is preparing to write 1,200 words that say “he rambled” in polite font.

3:00 PM – Signs Congressional Bills (Closed Press)
Location: Oval Office
The ceremonial Sharpie Hour. Actual policy impact unknown. Dramatic flourish guaranteed. If a pen doesn’t get swapped out mid-stroke, was democracy even performed?

The bills:

4:30 PM – Meeting with the Commissioner of the U.S. Social Security Administration (Closed Press)
Location: Oval Office
This is either about the future of retirement or about how to phrase “please stop alarming seniors on cable news.” Possibly both. Definitely neither in public.

5:30 PM – Policy Time (Closed Press)
Location: Oval Office
The vaguest entry on the menu. “Policy Time” sounds like something you give toddlers to make them feel important. It could mean serious governance. It could mean someone showing him a pie chart he immediately ignores.

So the day is essentially:
Morning briefing fog → mysterious interview → autograph session → grown-up meeting → “policy vibes.”

A nation waits. A Sharpie waits. Reality braces itself.


Different Day Same Puddle’s meltdown on Lies Social began in earnest on Thursday. A little of the spillage has carried over into Friday, but the main event unfolded yesterday, in a familiar cascade of grievance, reposts, and performative outrage. We aren’t attempting to catalog the entire episode here. This is a slice, not the whole spiral.

Unhinged Man floats idea of a “fourth term”.

Unhinged Man said:

We had a — we had a good speech. We got great reviews. I can’t believe it. We got good reviews on that speech. Usually they say he’s a horrible dictator-type person. I’m a dictator. [Laughter] But sometimes you need a dictator. But they didn’t say that in this case. And no, it’s common sense, it’s all based on common sense.

You know, it’s not conservative or liberal or anything else. It’s mostly, I’d say, 95 percent common sense, and that’s what we have.

Roll Call. 01/21/2026.

What makes this pairing so jarring is how neatly it bookends itself. He skips right past the inconvenient reality of a third term and jumps straight to fantasizing about a fourth, then steps onto a world stage and shrugs, “sometimes you need a dictator.” It isn’t a slip. It’s a through-line. The joke, the post, the boast, and the punchline all point in the same direction: power without limits, dressed up as common sense.


Honestly Has no Clue how Anything works Especially the Economy

My reply:

I’m a shit for brains.

These people vote…

I know you know this. But in case you don’t.

Bank Rate.com:

Speaking of the economy…

Not to be outdone in the category of “things you probably shouldn’t say out loud,” Vice President Vance compared the economy to the Titanic in remarks yesterday.

Twitter users are stating the obvious issue “the titanic sank”.

The idea that a ship that size is doomed to plow forward forever isn’t even true on a basic mechanical level. As a few users have already pointed out, you can turn a vessel like that around. In fact, the rough consensus from a quick dive into maritime reality, Google, and yes, asking ChatGPT, is that turning a Titanic-sized ship would take anywhere from a few minutes to a couple of hours, depending on conditions.

Which makes comparing the economy to a famously doomed ocean liner less poetic and more revealing. The problem isn’t that it can’t be turned around. It’s whether the people at the helm believe in course correction at all.


It had a great time in Davos.

We will have the framework on Greenland in…

Reporter: Mr. President, back to Greenland. Can you elaborate more on just, we’re trying to understand what exactly the concept is here. Is the U.S. gonna actually take ownership of—

In Two Weeks: We’ll have something in two weeks. There’s a good spirit to get something done and we have to have a strong freedom. We have to have the ability to do exactly what we want to do. Uh, we have a great military. I built a great military. I did this in my first term. And continuation. Big continuation. I think what we did with the defense companies was very important because we need things faster.

We have the best weapons in the world by far. We showed that last week with Venezuela. We have the best weapons in the world. We have to make them faster.

Reporter: How would it be any different than the current situation? The U.S. can—

In Two Weeks: Well, much different. Much more detail. Uh, much more generous to the United States. It’s a much more generous deal. It has to be. And we’re building a golden dome and you see the way it works. That is so much better for us and for Europe to have that piece of ice covered by the golden dome.

Roll Call. 01/22/2026.

As 200 million Americans brace for a severe winter storm Asshole decided to troll…

If you are in the path of the storm, please be safe, and listen to the local & state officials and not the White House trolls.

I’m gonna wrap there.

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