Coffee Talk with Tiff

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It’s Wednesday…

Shitshow’s public schedule for…

03/25/2026:


In Case You Missed It: The Mess Continues

They’re gonna make a deal.

Unfit for Office:

Because they’re going to make a deal. They’re going to make a deal. They did something yesterday that was amazing actually. They gave us a present and the present arrived today. And it was a very big present, worth a tremendous amount of money, and I’m not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize. And they gave it to us and they said they were going to give it, so that meant one thing to me, we’re dealing with the right people.

Reporter:
Was it nuclear related?

Unfit for Office:
No, it wasn’t nuclear-related; it was oil and gas related and it was a very nice thing they did. But what it showed me is that we’re dealing with the right people.

RollCall.com. 03/24/2026.

AP News:

Iran’s defiance came as Israel launched airstrikes on Tehran and Washington deployed paratroopers and more Marines to the region.

Iranian state television’s English-language broadcaster, Press TV, quoted an anonymous official as saying Iran rejected America’s ceasefire proposal. Press TV’s report came after Pakistan transmitted the proposal to Iran.

“Iran will end the war when it decides to do so and when its own conditions are met,” Press TV quoted the official as saying. The official added Tehran will continue its “heavy blows” across the Mideast.

Press TV, like all of state TV channels controlled by hard-liners, offered its own five-point plan from the official who rejected the US proposal.

It included a halt to killings of its officials, means to make sure no other war is waged against it, reparations for the war, the end of hostilities and Iran’s “exercise of sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz.”

Those measures, particularly reparations and its continued chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz, likely will be unacceptable to the White House as energy supplies worldwide remain affected by the war.

AP News. 03/25/2026.

Speaking of the war…

Show more =’s But the military can’t brief Trump on every strike and so the video, while it showcases U.S. capabilities, doesn’t reflect the full scope of the conflict. “We can’t tell him every single thing that happens,” a current U.S. official said. The official noted that Trump’s briefings tend to draw better feedback from his aides when they focus on U.S. victories.

Show more (tweet 2): asking aides why the news media doesn’t emphasize what he’s seeing.

Show more (tweet 3): “That’s an absolutely false assertion coming from someone who has not been present in the room,” Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. “Anyone who has been present for conversations with President Trump knows he actively seeks and solicits the opinions of everyone in the room and expects full throated honesty from all of his top advisors.”

Currently Puddle is melting down on “Lies” Social.

Speaking of Wino Pirro…

A top deputy to U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro acknowledged in a closed-door hearing this month that the Justice Department did not have evidence of wrongdoing in its criminal investigation of the Federal Reserve over the cost of its building renovations, according to a transcript of the court proceedings.

The prosecutor’s admission, which has not been previously reported, undercuts President Donald Trump’s claim that “there is criminality” in the $2.5 billion overhaul of the Fed’s headquarters overlooking the National Mall.

[snip]

Pirro, the top federal prosecutor in D.C. and a Trump ally, opened the inquiry after Powell gave brief testimony on the renovation’s costs during a congressional hearing last year. The criminal investigation followed years of criticism from Trump over the Fed’s handling of monetary policy and his public demands that the Justice Department target his perceived political foes. Prosecutors are weighing whether the cost overruns amount to fraud and whether Powell gave false testimony to the Senate Banking Committee.

But G.A. Massucco-LaTaif, who was recently named chief of the criminal division of the U.S. attorney’s office in D.C., said at the March 3 hearing that Justice Department lawyers “do not know at this time” what evidence there is of fraud or criminal misconduct, arguing only that the project was $1.2 billion over budget and that “it doesn’t seem right.”

“There are 1.2 billion reasons for us to look into it,” Massucco-LaTaif told Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg.

Pressed by Boasberg, Massucco-LaTaif also said “we don’t know” what statements from Powell’s congressional testimony were false, adding that “there are certain areas that he addressed that caused concern,” according to the transcript.

Washington Post (gift link). 03/24/2026.

Right, cause ICE is doing so much to help in airports…

Voice-over: when nothing sticks shout a meaningless slogan.

From yesterday’s remarks:

Reporter:
If they get a deal, Republicans and Democrats in the Senate, to fund all but enforcement operations of ICE, to get those TSA agents repaid and to open up the rest of the department, would you sign that?

Warmonger:
Well, I don’t want to comment until I see the deal, but as you know, they’re negotiating a deal. I guess they’re getting fairly close, but I think any deal they make, I’m pretty much not happy with it. These guys came in, they wouldn’t pay people. You know, they had a deal to pay. They had to break their deal. The Democrats broke the deal that we had. It was all done. Everything was fine, and then they just said, well, we’re not going to pay anymore. And, uh, they hurt our country. And at a very difficult time because, you know, we are at, as they would say a war. They call it a war; I call it a military operation, a very successful one — successful like nobody’s ever seen before.

RollCall.com. 03/24/2026.

Speaking of Warmongers rejection of a deal he hasn’t seen, but will be unhappy with…

Speaker of the House Mike “I have no Job” Johnson said this this morning:

November better find No Job out of his Job, just saying.

FYI:
DHS shutdown on the 14th of February.
Warmonger started his dumb war on February 28th.

Speaking of elections…

The New York Times Election Results (they don’t let me gift election results pages):

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