who needs a jolt of hot black Joe in the morning when reading Paul Krugmans substack

                                                                                          Oligarchy & the Media this mourning

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/oligarchy-and-the-media

he quotes

Upton Sinclair: “It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

he quotes

Woodrow Wilson: “If there are men big enough to own the government, they're going to own the government.”

his turn hell quote Krugman: “If you ask, why do people still go out there saying that tax cuts pay for themselves and that tax cuts on the rich are an enormously powerful tool for stimulating economic growth? That's been tested to destruction, and it just ain't so.  . . . it's a zombie idea. It keeps shambling along, eating people's brains, even though it should be dead. And the reason is, well, there's a lot of money in it.”

yesterday Secretary of Defence Peter Hegseth told the Senate Appropriations Committee that the expense of Netanyahu & felons war against Iran has cost $37.5B  so far  unconvincing

    to wit

            as quotes go

House Armed Services Committee Chair Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) “(The military is) going to have to spend any money they have discretion over for training and maintenance to fill that for the balance of the fiscal year. It is not good.”

              Hmmm the Military like everyday American people is going to have to budget make priorities

budget speak continuing

quoting Heather Cox Richardson: “The front page of yesterday’s New York Times featured some of the 440,000 Americans from Arizona alone who have lost Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits since the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act made the deepest cuts to SNAP in its history, expanded work rules, and shifted costs to the states even as cuts to federal grant programs have forced Arizona to lay off a third of its caseworkers.”

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-21-2026

Yup

         A cup of black coffee is not necessary    

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White Stripes  One More Cup of Coffee  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BqJv0hHbFo