Gravydämmerung: Drinking game edition

[sabotabby]

rohmie: Has someone devised a drinking game for this yet?

sabotabby: You know, I'm not sure. Someone should, but it's so hard to predict what will happen next!

rohmie: "Sip when the Mayor commits a misdemeanor. Empty when it is a felony."

"Two sips for a Daily Show mention."

sabotabby: Every time he swears.

Public drunkenness.

New video revelation.

Something gets uncensored from the police report.

rohmie: Imbibe twice as much if the event is violent. Hence video revelation of death threat counts double.

Also imbibe twice as much if the embarrassment is committed in city council or in front of city hall.

So, tackling that councilwoman basically means emptying the bottle.

sabotabby: In fairness, I was going to do that anyway.

Okay, you know what to do, folks. Suggestions in the comments, drink 'em if you got 'em.

Comments

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

In fairness, I was going to do that anyway.

"He who fights with Fords should look to it that she herself does not become a Ford. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.."

-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Robs

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

My comment needs music. Something with gravitas.

[sabotabby]

Heh.

[jvmatucha.livejournal.com]

Y'all really should've come up with this drinking game a lot earlier!

Mmm... Maybe not! :O

[sabotabby]

You underestimate the degree to which this is capable of being dragged out and getting even more loltastic.

[jvmatucha.livejournal.com]

At least us Yanks kick our greasy politicos out faster. I keep wondering when it will all end???

http://mayorford.ytmnd.com/

[jvmatucha.livejournal.com]

Help me out with something that's confusing me. How did this bloated mess from hell ever het elegted to any office in the first place???

http://fordherpderp.ytmnd.com/

[sabotabby]

For Toronto, see my comment to eyelid. It's complicated.

So, Ford used to be a councillor for the municipality of Etobicoke. Back then, municipal government didn't have the level of responsibility that they do under the amalgamated Megacity, so it was much easier to be a councillor. (In the 90s, a far-right provincial government merged the five surrounding municipalities + Toronto together and offloaded a whole bunch of shit that it had previously done as a gesture of spite. You can read about it here.)

Etobicoke is really white and really rich in comparison to other parts of Toronto. It's much more conservative and backwards, so a schtubby racist, homophobic, good ol' boy who likes hockey and beer plays quite well there. And because he had less responsibility as a councillor, his work entailed things like making sure that potholes got fixed and responding to minor complaints. He had a reputation for penny-pinching (again, great for rich white people) and returning every phone call personally. Yes, he frequently did offensive and embarrassing things, but his constituents fucking loved him.

Also his family has a lot of money and power, which they were able to throw at various elections. He likes to pretend that he's an ordinary working class guy, but he is not.

[misslynx.livejournal.com]

Etobicoke is really white and really rich in comparison to other parts of Toronto.

Southern Etobicoke is -- the northern part, decidedly not. Etobicoke's got a weird split personality that way.

[sabotabby]

Okay, the bit that votes.

[90pointmetaphor.livejournal.com]

When a new scandal surfaces, get into a drunken stupor.

[sabotabby]

I think a drunken stupor is necessary at all times at the moment.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

I have finally seen the speech he gave prior to the vote. And the logic is hilariously, awesomely wrong.

First, he tries to tell us what a coup d'état is. And, of course, he is wrong.

Second, he says supporting the measure is tantamount to destroying democracy and telling the public that their votes don't count. Gee, I don't think your antics were in your platform.

Third, he says his father was a Bible study teacher and says that he stands with the poor. People are literally laughing at him during the speech.

And all of this is before he gets to his strange Desert Storm comparison: “If you think American-style politics is nasty, you guys have just attacked Kuwait.”

[sabotabby]

Epic.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

Lianne and I have been enjoying this whole debacle immensely: you call it Gravydammerung, I call it Schadenforde.

Hee hee hee!

[sabotabby]

I believe I've called it Schadenforde a few times as well.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

Damn, thought I invented that one.... sorry.

[sabotabby]

If it's any consolation, I didn't invent it either.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

You didn't? Then who is the brilliant one?

[sabotabby]

I don't remember. It might have been bcholmes?

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

That's brilliant!