Gravydämmerung: Happy Ford Finally Admitted Doing Crack Day!

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Shorter Rob Ford: "I am so sincerely sorry that I got caught."

Another good twist: The Honourable Wife-Beater hired a hacker to destroy the crack tape.

This is totally my favourite, though. Faced with irrefutable proof that the Laughable Bumblefuck smoked crack, hung out with gangbangers, and lied about it all, his other head, Dougie, goes on the attack, calling for police chief Bill Blair to step down.

Note: Bill Blair should have stepped down over the G20 debacle and almost certainly covered up evidence to protect the Fords in the past. It's one of those situations that I really enjoy in fiction where both sides are really evil and you are rooting for them both to destroy each other in the most bombastic possible explosion.

God this is good. I love living in Toronto.

Comments

[outcastspice.livejournal.com]

I'm so mad that he's still mayor.

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Console yourself with this: The longer he's mayor, a) the more evil shitbags he can drag down with him, and b) the less likely a more presentable right-wing person will step in and carry out his policies.

George Smitherman, but less faggy?

[ed-rex.livejournal.com]

I hate to rain on your schadenparade, but I fear that (for once) you're quite wrong.

The ostensible centre with present some ostensible liberal as a compromise candidate, possibly with some nice leftish rhetoric and promises (spare Change, spare Hope?), then carry out those policies in a vastly more efficient and effective fashion.

As Cerebus the Aardvark once (roughly) said, "You can't conquer squat with peasants and livestock."

Not that it isn't fun to watch Ford squirm and to hope he drags some evil shitbags down with him, but like cockroaches, there are so many who will happily step up to do their masters' bidding that my Inner Cynic doesn't think it matters at all.

[sabotabby]

I dunno. I mean, Rae managed to—sans an actual personal scandal—fuck things up for the NDP in Ontario for decades.

But yeah, we'll get a Smitherman clone unless someone like Chow runs.

[misslynx.livejournal.com]

I was thinking last night that if she ran, it would be really interesting to see how that might affect the vote in areas like where I live now. Because yes, I know, last time around pretty much every riding outside of the old city of Toronto voted for Ford. But there is a massive Chinese population in the northeastern part of the city and I wonder if having a Chinese-Canadian candidate would make a difference... It's not like everyone votes along ethnic lines, but it's probably likely to be a factor to some people. Plus, she is just generally awesome.

Young Geoffrey, adolescently cynical?

[ed-rex.livejournal.com]

I dunno. I've become so disenchanted with the NDP, that I fear even Olivia Chow would "compromise" her way into continuing the neo-con destruction, albeit probably with a slightly more human face.

The older I get, the more I despair of our ostensible democracy.

But if you see Chow making a difference, maybe I won't give up on it just yet.

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The NDP's neoliberal, but I have this naïve faith that they'll at least make some concessions to the concept of civilization. That's how low we've sunk; we're not considering what kind of civilization to have, but whether it's justifiable to have one at all.

I do like Chow, though. She's better than most.