Monday Mood [DOT 4/5/26]

4/5/26 MegMegMcGee 22

I hope everyone had a nice weekend. I accomplished quite a lot this weekend! IKYKY! 😉

Ah, well, what’s for breakfast?

Rudy Giuliani hospitalized in ‘critical but stable condition,’ spokesperson says
https://gothamist.com/news/rudy-giuliani-hospitalized-in-critical-but-stable-condition-spokesperson-says

Gas prices went up more than 30 cents a gallon last week. How high could they go?
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/03/nx-s1-5809433/gas-prices-rise-week-hormuz-iran-war

Todd Blanche says case against Comey based on more than just Instagram post
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/03/james-comey-indictment-instagram-post-seashells

Lulz the kids are alright

Teens storm Scientology church in New York in latest ‘speed running’ incident
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/03/scientology-church-new-york-speed-running-incident

Have a great day!

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22 Comments

  1. There’s fuel shortages everywhere. Only reason gas isn’t above $2 CDN/L here (yet) is because (or roughly 6 USD/US Gal) is because we (meaning Alberta) produces oil.

    Of course the Trump Admin and the wingnuts who control most of the Canadian press is continually trying to fuck us with a referendumb on Alberta Separation that can’t keep their shit together. If they can’t organize a petition properly (or read the rules) then how the fuck do they think they can actually run a nation? And the worst part is that the superteam of Alberta fuckwits are all allegedly lawyers (all of them with documented serious ethicial issues.)

    You think your MAGAts are dumbfucks? Maple MAGAts are fucking dumber.

    The Pro Canada guys got their shit together and didn’t have to steal voters registration lists either in less time unlike Team Dumbfuck who got buste last week with an unauthorized voters list (big legal/electoral no-no.)

    • …this largely passed me by in that I never really watched any of them & was at best dimly aware of the phenomenon…though I think one guy that did it on a bicycle eventually made enough of a nuisance of himself to get in trouble doing it to someone at home where it was basically B&E-as-livestream & there might have been charges…but…this seemed to put it quite neatly?

      Not all heroes wear capesSome of them are just really damn irritating influencers

      — Dom Ervolina (@dominicervolina.com) 2026-05-04T06:16:33.952Z

    • This is the text of first link that won’t display. It pretty much summarizes Taber’s position.

      Reposted by Sarah Taber
      ‪Emily J‬
      ‪@emexastris.bsky.social‬

      Listen to Dr. Taber. Farmers aren’t poor stupid hicks, they are largely rich landowners with inherited wealth who vote exactly like you would expect rich landowners with inherited wealth to vote.

        • I’d never thought of it from the “rich landowner” perspective. I’m sure a non-trivial percentage of them thought that Trump would provide them with free concentration camp labor. “Hey, why should we pay these people pennies when we can get them for free from the camps?”

          Let’s think about this for a minute. Where did they put the camps?

          “Immigration detention centers (often referred to as detention facilities or, by some advocacy groups, as camps) are located across the United States, with high concentrations in Texas, Louisiana, California, and Georgia. Major sites include the Adams County Correctional Center (MS), Winn Correctional Center (LA), Stewart Detention Center (GA), and Adelanto ICE Processing Center (CA).”

          Gee, is agriculture a major industry in any of those areas?

          • …forget who it was I saw put it this way…might have been jamelle bouie…not sure…either way the thing they pointed out was that slavery was in at least one sense misunderstood by a lot of people as an economic phenomenon…it wasn’t just that you profited to the tune of the freebie you got by skipping payroll

            …under the principles of chattel slavery those slaves are an asset class…in fact the single most valuable asset class of the eras that allowed for that

            …the feudal system being sort of a clue to how that worked…or…I dunno…think it was the japanese who had a traditional unit of currency based on the amount of rice it took to feed one person for a year…which sometimes makes me wonder if that might be one way of looking at the idea of “living within one’s means” even with considerable means if that followed spidey’s famous principle that great [financial/economic] power comes with great [social] responsibility…often around about times I find myself thinking of the spending habits of a few headline ex-mrs-obscene-wealth types lately?

      • …she’s been great at explaining lots of this stuff in pretty clear fashion for a while…longer than I’ve known she did that, certainly…& I think I probably cottoned on to it somewhere during all the covid supply chain shock stuff

        …makes you wonder why there isn’t a more effective case being made to “farmers” that the assumption they’d be “naturally” aligned to the (R) side of the dial is deeply flawed

        …the UK has a vaguely-similar disconnect…except that one sort of boils down to the part where it’s the inheritable side of the prospect that keeps them in the tory column…chunks of land with lots of wildly expensive equipment that qualifies as asset-class stuff on the business side…getting broken up because inheritance taxes assume those numbers are indicative of some mcmansion scenario or whatever…though arguably that in a bunch of cases stems from an earlier iteration where lots of “family farms” disappeared as their holdings were consolidated by the ones that supersized back when that was the big change in the sector

        …sticking with donnie-donnie-what’sinitforme, though…that feels more like the pensioners all assuming the tories are their huckleberry despite the part where they’ve royally fucked the social care stuff that provides quality of life stuff which otherwise would have benefited them more or less directly & made it vastly more likely any assets they have will be consumed to offset the money the conservatives drained out of the funding rather than get involved in that inheritance stuff that buggered up the farms

        …kind of a bitch, that…lot of people who bought a fairly modest home they raised a family in over a period where houses as a rule appreciated by orders of magnitude…if all that didn’t get sucked away into care costs arguably it could have been a step up for a lot of people on the “social mobility” equivalent of the “housing ladder”…you don’t have to be a farmer to see how anything that can tip over into being classed as the sort of generational wealth that translates to still being wealth after it moves a generation is kind of the moat around an effectively protected social strata in a lot of places?

        …pretty weird if you start to think about it…it was technically possible to have ridden the “things are getting better all the time” wave from post-war through the scrimping & saving to buy your home…worked your whole life to keep up with the mortgage…wound up with no income in retirement save a state pension…never to have had cash to speak of in a “disposable income” sense…& still on paper make it over the bar to be considered in the 1% of most wealthy people on a net asset basis solely on the basis of the value of the home you lived in all that time…& it didn’t even need to be a farm for that trick to work in some places

        …sorry…I suppose that’s largely got very little to do with your comment…it’s mostly just that listening to that lady tends to have some…side-effects, I guess?

        …I seem to start wondering about other stuff that I also don’t understand directly which seem to be treated at odds with their realities…but…britain might (I have my doubts) be “unusually” fucked up about the whole “social mobility” thing…everyone seems to want to say they’re blue-collar/working class…but “be” middle class/white collar…while saying the middle class is an endangered species…some of that “new money” is probably old enough it’s weird we still call it “new” at this point…the grading curve severely fucks you when some families have had the same entries in the land registry since normandy stormed the beaches rather than the other way around

        …still…someone I know who knows a fair bit about how the numbers go mentioned a statistic to me recently that is pretty fascinating to me…apparently there being fortunes that don’t evaporate in less than 3 generations is barely “a thing”…if the first round of the ones that didn’t make that happen don’t wind up losing all of it the ones they leave behind will generally take care of it

        …probably not significant…but…until all those farms got consolidated…not that long before maggie made a lot of friends by letting people buy their home even when it had been “council housing”…&…you know…didn’t replace the public housing…that whole business about the englishman’s home being his castle used to be about as close to running that game by the same rules as the ones with the actual castles as most folks got…indeed that was why maggie’s policy making that achievable for more people was so popular…&/or the thing where moving “british telecom” from a public utility into private industry was done in a way that encouraged lots of the same people to make their first foray into shareholding

        …ok…I don’t even really understand why I can’t find the rip-cord on this comment…so I’m just going to bail?

  10. Holy shit did you see a low-flying United jet clipped a light pole and hit a delivery truck (minor injuries for the driver only) on the highway on their way into landing at the airport??? Fuck that could have been so much worse.

    • …I…sort of did…in a vaguely analogous sense to the driver sort of connecting with the plane?

      …I saw a headline that mentioned how the guy driving the truck got to walk away from it & the plane had landed & it was hard to say in some circumstances whether they thing to call someone was lucky or unlucky…given the odds of driving a thing that gets hit by a plane on a regular road

      …but that was all the contact involved, really…so a glancing impact at best & I still don’t really have any idea what happened?

      • As I understand it, the jet was flying so low into the landing strip that it was clipping shit on the highway. Which how the fuck does a pilot pull that off? It doesn’t sound like mechanical issues, so maybe just a pilot misjudged the altitude?

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