The infamous crack video

[sabotabby]

They RELEASED THE KRAKEN CRACK VIDEO!

You can watch it here.

Now, you'll be disappointed, like most of the city, because it:

a) Doesn't show us anything we didn't already know or guess
b) Comes far too late to destroy the Ex-Honourable Wife-Beater's political career
c) Will not tarnish the reputation of Brother Doug or any of their various political enablers; even Sandro Lisi got off on a peace bond
d) Isn't even all that funny

But Americans, take note: This can happen to you. Yes, being the mayor of a large city is different than being President of 'Murica, but not as different as you think. The Laughable Bumblefuck represents a sharp break from conventional politics, where politicians at least had to have the pretense of being—if not competent themselves—the puppet of competent advisors. And a scandal like smoking crack was generally enough to sink most. Not anymore.

Meanwhile, the real story is John Tory, walking Dad Joke, continuing Fordism by a different name: Bullshitting on a subway that's never gonna happen and was never meant to happen, breaking his half-assed pledge to reduce poverty in an increasingly divided city, refusing to engage honestly with Black Lives Matter, but since his very presence is a cure for insomnia, no one's paying that close attention. At least with Ford, people paid attention to some of the dumb shit he did.

But this—I would argue, were I of a more conspiratorial mindset—is by design, not accident. That's what you do, if you're playing the long political game that the far right is currently playing. You get someone ridiculous and over-the-top and populist to bust open the door, someone who courts Nazis or uses the n-word or smokes crack, someone so clownish that it's impossible to envision them ever being elected until they do, and then you let them self-immolate. And by then, they've shifted the Overton Window so far towards overt fascism that all you need is another, more soft-spoken and well-dressed far-right ideologue to slither in there, look like a reasonable moderate, and repackage Asshole Boy's ideas as his own, and everyone swallows it.

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Comments

[smhwpf.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it seems to be happening in the UK, in a slightly different form. The Pigfucker was ousted by a Brexit campaign led by a pair of laughable bumblefucks and a Slithy Gove, and we ended up with a far-right PM who distinguishes herself from most leading Tories by her gender and her ability to sound like a reasonable human being.

The consolation we've got - or maybe it's not - is that if President Trump is elected we won't have to worry about what reasonable-sounding fascist will follow him when he self-immolates, as he'll likely immolate the rest of us with him.

[kore]

Oh, I don't think he'll be elected, but I think either he'll get bumped off the ticket, or the Republicans will write off the White House and go for the Senate and Congress. After all, they didn't have the White House for the past eight years and still managed to cockblock everything. Then their next candidate will get a bye from everyone, especially the media, for being Not Trump.

[sabotabby]

Yep. It's almost like they have a long-term plan or something.

[sabotabby]

It's pretty much a pattern, since it works.

May is fucking horrid.

[kore]

That's what you do, if you're playing the long political game that the far right is currently playing. You get someone ridiculous and over-the-top and populist to bust open the door, someone who courts Nazis or uses the n-word or smokes crack, someone so clownish that it's impossible to envision them ever being elected until they do, and then you let them self-immolate. And by then, they've shifted the Overton Window so far towards overt fascism that all you need is another, more soft-spoken and well-dressed far-right ideologue to slither in there, look like a reasonable moderate, and repackage Asshole Boy's ideas as his own, and everyone swallows it.

//reads this

//looks at Trump

Aaaaaahahahaha. //CRIES

[sabotabby]

Sorry.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*weeps with you*

[sabotabby]

I weep for all of you.

[ironed_orchid]

See also: Tony "Onion Eater" Abbott.

[sabotabby]

Lizard people are really their own category, though, aren't they?

Problem for the Yarks ...

[ed-rex.livejournal.com]

... is that Hillary is their John Tory, they don't even need to take 4 years of Trump first.

And the mind shudders to imagine the kind of competent over fascist that will take a double-tithe of Hillary's betrayed "liberal" supporters after four more years of pointless wars and treacherous trade agreements.

There is no good outcome for that republic. Even a successful Bernie Sanders would have been co-opted or so crippled by Congress his administration would have made Obama's look dynamically progressive in comparison.

RE: Problem for the Yarks ...

[sabotabby]

Yes, this.

Re: Problem for the Yarks ...

[ed-rex.livejournal.com]

Er, of course by "Yarks" I meant "Yanks". *sigh*

[symbioid.livejournal.com]

"But this—I would argue, were I of a more conspiratorial mindset—is by design, not accident. That's what you do, if you're playing the long political game that the far right is currently playing. You get someone ridiculous and over-the-top and populist to bust open the door, someone who courts Nazis or uses the n-word or smokes crack, someone so clownish that it's impossible to envision them ever being elected until they do, and then you let them self-immolate. And by then, they've shifted the Overton Window so far towards overt fascism that all you need is another, more soft-spoken and well-dressed far-right ideologue to slither in there, look like a reasonable moderate, and repackage Asshole Boy's ideas as his own, and everyone swallows it."

Fuck. Thanks for reminding me of America's upcoming future. But it's true, with almost all the Republican party licking Trumps boots now that he's "their guy", save for a few "brave" souls who at least have *some* moral conscience at some point, apparently (or at least recognize the national security state bipartisan ruling coalition for the historical thing it is - as opposed to partisan right-wingery).

But yeah - now the next cycle it'll be easier to go further right (even though they're the ones who started the shitshow in the first place with their anti-immigration bullshit).

[sabotabby]

It's rather disheartening to be sure. Good for writers of dystopian fiction; not so much for anyone else.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

Karl Marx wrote that history repeats itself; first as tragedy, second time as farce.
I think we are seeing the reverse of this.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

It is terribly worrying.

[sabotabby]

I'm glad I don't live there.

[xxgross.livejournal.com]

Did the dogs just find it in the wilderness? So some dirty person that fucks random people at the park was using it?

[sabotabby]

They've always had it.