More on Drug Fraud's off-the-books RV

[sabotabby]

Mods to the premier's sweet-ass RV that he tried to bribe the OPP to not tell anyone about were apparently going to cost $50K, and there is a picture, and you owe it to yourself to click the link.

This excellent use of taxpayers' money in an age of austerity, where marginalized schoolchildren, broke-ass university students, disabled people, and folks on social assistance, are expected to tighten their belts for the sake of lowering the deficit, was to include a 32-inch television with a Blu-ray player, reclining leather sofa and a mini-fridge. Well worth it, I say! Walter White never got a mini-fridge. Maybe if he did, he'd have been a bit more chill and wouldn't blown up so many people. 

The purpose of this sick ride was ostensibly to provide a security detail for Ford, which sounds reasonable to Americans until you realize that generally speaking, an entire security detail really isn't that common for premiers (usually one cop; I think Wynne might have gotten more after all the death threats, and apparently Harris got some after he retired, but in fairness, he murdered some people and their families might have wanted revenge). I guess Ford is similarly paranoid that someone is genuinely out to get him, maybe the parents of autistic children, but why he felt like the OPP also needed to shag while on duty is beyond me.

Comments

[minoanmiss]

Ooo party van.

God almighty, a movie plot couldn't even go like this.

[sabotabby]

Too unrealistic and contrived. Major villain doesn't have enough depth; he's just evil for the sake of evil.

[rdi]

It's as if White Male Entitlement weren't convincing.

[wlach]

!!!

Really just incredible what this guy thinks he can get away with.

[sabotabby]

This is what we're going to get for our tax dollars instead of healthcare.

[notasupervillain]

I have a book that I dearly love called "Eight Men Speak" which is Canadian socialist propaganda plays, many of them from the Winnipeg strike. My favourite one has a footnote from the author about how he wrote it when he was young and full of passionate rage, and sent it off to the actors. And when he finally went to see the performance, it was being played as a comedy instead of the tragedy he intended, and it was hysterically funny.

Doug Ford is so over the top that if it wasn't real life, he'd be hilarious.

[sabotabby]

Oooh, I want to read that.

[notasupervillain]

I've looked online and I don't know if you can buy the version I have anymore, which I got at a library book sale for a quarter. My version includes a printed page that was pasted in before the title page, explaining that one of the authors disagrees with some of the content in the book. There are used versions for sale online, but that hand-pasted page is one of the things that I love most about it. When I thought I'd lost my, I bought another copy online of the same version (since given away) and it also had the pasted in page, so it must have been a Thing.

"Eight men speak and other plays from the Canadian Workers'Theatre."

If you want, I'll photograph a few pages and send them to you by email so you can read a play? They're good fun. I'd loan my copy to you if we weren't an ocean apart.

[sabotabby]

That would rule!

I wonder if the Reference Library has it. It has most things.

[notasupervillain]

A few pages should be sent!

[sabotabby]

W00t! Got it. I mean I’m at work so I can’t read it yet, but it is in my inbox.

[notasupervillain]

Yay!

I wish I could send you the whole thing. I used to think it was hilariously over the top, but nothing is too much for 2019.

Though looking back over the plays, there's more of a focus on workers than on bosses, which isn't consistent with 2019.

[armiphlage]

https://xkcd.com/37/

[sabotabby]

Also applies.

[rdi]

There's an xkcd for everything :-)