TheTigerMaster
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So weird seeing Patrick Stewart cracking Rob Ford jokes.
Link to video?
Picard was always my favourite
So weird seeing Patrick Stewart cracking Rob Ford jokes.
I think a lot of Ford's problems comes from the way he was raised (beyond simply being raised in what is most likely a criminal world).
So weird seeing Patrick Stewart cracking Rob Ford jokes.
Largely the siblings' criminal world. I'd take the parents halfway off the hook--or at most, they "appreciated" the money young Randy & Doug was hauling in, even if it was through seamy means...
I felt the same.
Also all I could think of was the John Tory Toronto Life quote, and how we're living "Robbie's turn". We're living the realization of a dysfunctional family's dream. That's horrifying.
Pure speculation as well, but all of their kids are fucked up. The parents must have done something.I don't know about that. Doug Ford SR always seemed a little fishy. I wouldn't be surprised if as a younger man who was involved in some sort of crime. But this is merely speculation.
One thing I'm finding is that a lot of us are putting the "matriarch" on an unnecessary pedestal. Look, remember folks: she's the "matriarch" in a heavily patriarchal family. She only seems more commanding than she is because she's widowed, and because she comes across as halfway "normal", because she's of a pre-drug-casualty generation where "halfway normal" is default mode, at least among her kind of classic postwar blue-collar aristocracy. But otherwise...her cloudy goody-nicey delusion is perfectly characteristic of that neo-Stepfordian state of being that's the typical housewife within a postwar blue-collar aristocracy. You can tell that the dotted line representing Doug Sr. is still watching her every move, making sure she falls in line and is "good" and "proper". And you can see why she'd be so cloudy re the gravity of what's presently happening to "Robbie" and, indeed, the whole family--"how could it be? everyone's so nice!"
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