The Rob Ford death cult
Mar. 29th, 2016 06:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabbyYou guys, you should just see what's going on in Toronto. It's amazing. The entire mainstream press and political establishment appears to have forgotten that Ford was a wife-beating, drunk-driving, racist, misogynist, homophobic turdblossom and is just lionizing him like he never ordered a hit on a 21-year-old drug dealer or had a guy severely beaten in prison.
Of course there is a discussion of which park should be named after him and where the statue should go. I think this Torontoist post makes some good points as to why there shouldn't be a statue, but come on. You secretly want a statue, don't you? I do. It would be the greatest tourist attraction since we built that giant middle finger to America.
Think of the potential with statues:
I think the best place to put a statue of the Honourable Wife-Beater is in the big pit where the Scarborough subway will never get built.
But it doesn't end there. No, not when the city is in throes of wailing, gnashing of teeth, and rending of garments. There is politics to be done, people.
Which is why the pinnacle of decorum himself, Mr. Doug Ford, is using his brother's visitation to campaign, inviting supporters to take selfies with him, presumably in front of the creepy-ass dead body. That's some Game of Thrones-level squick and I am truly impressed.
Still, if his corpse is not embalmed in wax and put on permanent display in Nathan Phillips Square, this whole carnival has simply just not gone far enough.
Of course there is a discussion of which park should be named after him and where the statue should go. I think this Torontoist post makes some good points as to why there shouldn't be a statue, but come on. You secretly want a statue, don't you? I do. It would be the greatest tourist attraction since we built that giant middle finger to America.
Think of the potential with statues:
- They can be peed upon.
- They can be slathered in gravy.
- You can put traffic cones on their heads.
- Birds shit on them.
- They can be painted in various amusing ways.
- You can put signs in their hands advocating, say, sodomy or socialism.
- You can decorate them with Christmas lights.
- By "Christmas lights," I mean "crack pipes." You knew that, right?
I think the best place to put a statue of the Honourable Wife-Beater is in the big pit where the Scarborough subway will never get built.
But it doesn't end there. No, not when the city is in throes of wailing, gnashing of teeth, and rending of garments. There is politics to be done, people.
Which is why the pinnacle of decorum himself, Mr. Doug Ford, is using his brother's visitation to campaign, inviting supporters to take selfies with him, presumably in front of the creepy-ass dead body. That's some Game of Thrones-level squick and I am truly impressed.
Still, if his corpse is not embalmed in wax and put on permanent display in Nathan Phillips Square, this whole carnival has simply just not gone far enough.
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Date: 2016-03-29 11:20 pm (UTC)You forgot one of the best things about statues - they can be toppled! Then of course they'd have to make another one and you can start all over again.
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Date: 2016-03-29 11:24 pm (UTC)There are lots of skanky parks used by addicts. But it's important to note that rich dudes like Ford generally don't need to shoot up in parks; they can do it inside, and thus don't get caught as much. That he went to crack houses for his fix and let himself be taped is a personal lack of judgment, not a class marker.
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Date: 2016-03-30 12:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-03-30 12:21 am (UTC)Thing is, he had a lot of drunken stupors.
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Date: 2016-03-31 03:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-03-29 11:32 pm (UTC)Seriously, Rob Ford sounds like a latter-day Eva Peron; I'll bet they erect a shrine to him and collect money to view the embalmed corpse. (Or cart it around the world, the way they did with Evita's body.)
(And maybe Andrew Lloyd Webber still has another musical in him.)
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Date: 2016-03-30 12:23 am (UTC)In fairness, if Nixon hadn't committed genocide he'd be remembered as a half-decent liberal.
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Date: 2016-03-31 09:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-03-30 01:15 am (UTC)Oh what a circus,
Oh what a show
Toronto has gone to town
Over the death of Rob Ford, that crack-addled clown
They’ve all gone crazy
Singing his praises up to the skies
Such a great guy
Let’s forgot all the lies
OK, might not scan properly, my memory of that song is a little hazy…and that’s as much as I have so far.
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Date: 2016-03-30 01:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-03-30 03:57 am (UTC)He died of CANCER.
Everybody who gets cancer is a HERO. It never happens to BAD PEOPLE.
WHY DO YOU LIKE CANCER?!?? WHY ARE YOU TAKING CANCER'S SIDE?!?
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