Did Trudeau use finger puppets as props or a blackboard featuring crude stick figures drawn with colorful chalk? Anything else might have gone over Ford's head. His fat, fat head.

Looks like the bullshit is going to be flowing fast and furious over the next 4 years. Not that any of us expected otherwise. Unfortunately. How long before serious buyer's remorse begins to settle in with the voters who went for the Tories this time out? I'm thinking it won't take a lot of...

I gotta concur with this. The old regime would contact you via phone or email if you actually won a contest or draw - you didn't have to be there in person to win one of those - and they'd give you a reasonable interlude during which you could collect your prizes. With this new mob, you actually...

Something tells me that the same people who screech to this day that Bob Rae was responsible for Brian Mulroney's economic sins will suddenly discover nuance when one of their heroes is put in the same position, and will start squawking that of course Thug can't possibly held accountable for the...

Dude, you had a centrist government with Wynne's Liberals. To quote the Princess Bride, I don't think that word means what you think it means.

Exactly. This is what "centrism"/neoliberalism is, the process of putting a progressive or liberal façade on a conservative, corporatist economic agenda. People like Obama, Tony Blair, the Clintons, et al use the language and symbolism of progressivism to attack its substance and service the...

After Harris won his first term as Premiere and began implementing his agenda, I remember some idiot voter being quoted on a front page Toronto Star story thusly: "I voted for Harris, but I didn't know he was going to do this!" Oy.

Jesus Christ, they called the election for him already?

Well, I did my duty this morning. I'm hoping to be pleasantly surprised, but as with the rest of you, I'm steeling myself for the worst. Frankly, I find it unbelievable that it's come to this. I honestly thought the more respectable elements within the PCs wouldn't allow someone like Ford...

You keep telling yourself that, LMVDR. As the latest in a long line of scandals only just revealed, your "fiscally responsible" candidate has been running his family business (that he inherited from Daddy) steadily into the ground over a period of years while paying himself and various cronies...

Well, no matter how much of a narcissistic megalomaniac the old man was, he couldn't very well have three Doug Juniors for sons, now, could he? What else could he have named Kathy, though? Dougette? Dougalina? Dougella? Speaking of loving wifey, if the money's running out, and if there's...

It's remarkable now to think the PCs used to be a respectable political party.

As ever with the Fords, just when you thought their saga couldn't get any more bizarre, they up the ante. Can you imagine the tours given by relators assigned with selling the place to prospective buyers? "This is where the Great Man attacked one his henchmen with a bag of hamburgers! This is...

Remember when Canadian politics were boring? Don't y'all wish we could go back to those comparatively innocent days? I know I do. Unlike her dumbass hubby, Renata didn't spend years with Thug as his younger sibling, being browbeaten, mistreated, picked on and (no doubt) bullied relentlessly...

We already know it won't be. Look at what happened when his brother was mayor and Dofo was only a city councillor, for Christ's sakes. Does anyone expect any better when he's officially the one in charge, and at a higher level of government at that? I've noticed this. It would seem people are...

It goes further than that: He's in this entirely because of Ego with a Capital "E," and fully expected to be anointed the One In Charge as his just right and due. (Of course, he's managed to climb farther than I would have originally expected, but he had to cheat to pull that off, didn't he?)...

I didn't have the stomach to actually sit through this, figured I'd catch the recaps online. But holy shit. Did Ford really say this?

Yes, far right. Pretending to actually give a shit about the "little guy" while unashamedly serving the interests of the rich and corporate power and scapegoating "the Other" is the entire Ford shtick, as well you know...or as you should know. The gross personal manners are merely the icing on...

A nice editorial from the Guardian thoroughly explaining the utter bankrupt phoniness of Dofo's fake, far right "populism: "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/true-north/2018/may/25/doug-ford-isnt-for-the-little-guy-hes-a-mercenary-for-the-millionaire-class

If the PCs do lose, then they have a ready-made scapegoat in the form of the brutish oaf they "elected" party leader. And if they lose badly, well. That factor will be amplified significantly. I don't doubt that many people within the party already loathed him, and given the tactics the Cons...