Busy day, as par yooshoo-al. But I can't resist typing something about the cretinous poster-boy for right-wing failure; Rob Ford.
It's in all the papers, yeez can read about it yerselves if you haven't already. Rob Ford was supposedly smoking crack about last weekend at his sister's place. And he was drunk and belligerent in public last Monday. There's a video for the crack smoking and audio of the drinking.
Oh, and "Ford Nation"? Any statements you make about his economic achievements and how they outweigh his gigantic hypocrisy and obnoxiousness just show you for the deluded ignoramuses that you are. He hasn't saved a billion dollars. He's cut some people's taxes while raising other people's costs. He's an idiot and an incompetent. You people are idiots, incompetents, hypocrites and liars for being his fans.
There's a tiny speck left inside of me that feels sorry for this doofus. Sure, he was born rich, white and male. But he was also handicapped with a severe case of stupidity. And it's got to be fucking frustrating. Especially since there are some people who don't know they're stupid (because they're so goddamned stupid!).
Imagine how frustrating it would be to be a blind person who doesn't know that they're blind (or refuses to accept it). You bump into things all the time and can't figure out why it always happens to you but not so much to other people. People are describing things for you but you don't have a clue what they're talking about, so you pretend that you understand, make comments that, through trial-and-error, seem to make sense to them and make you part of the gang. But it's all a fucking lie.
That's what it must be like to be Rob Ford. That alone would drive me to drink (more than I already do, which is to say, at about the level of Rob Ford)!
But any sympathy I have is mitigated by his bullying behaviour. His homophobia. His predatory sexism. His racism. AND his fucking hypocrisy. No matter how stupid you are, if you're a drug addict, from a family with addiction issues, for you to profess to have "zero tolerance" for drugs and gangs; ... that hypocrisy is no doubt fueled by racism. Ford understands how he and his sister and his immediate acquaintances are human beings; but he pictures the masses of faceless black and brown people selling and taking drugs, committing crimes, and he no doubt thinks "The barbarians are at the gates!"
A last sobering thought: Rob Ford is interesting because he provides a glimpse at how low the human brain can function at. He's a symbol of the depths of the right-wing neurosis. And the continuing loyalty of "Ford Nation" is a cautionary tale of the levels of depravity and degradation a significant portion of the electorate is willing to take this country to. Don't forget, this disgusting piece-of-shit was a boon companion to the recently departed "statesman," Jim Flaherty. Before he became toxic, he was a sought-after ally of both Tim Hudak and stephen harper. "Ford Nation" type people are a big reason why other right-wing parties remain viable in other parts of Canada and in the nation as a whole. This is what we're up against. That is the enemy. To a degree, some of their enthusiasm is based on an ignorant recitation of the dominant themes in the politics of the white, male, Christian-capitalist power-structure (that Bill O'Reilly adores). Some of those people can be turned if you approach them the right way. But unless and until you do that, they and all the hopeless rest of that crowd will do untold damage to you, us and our way of life.
It's in all the papers, yeez can read about it yerselves if you haven't already. Rob Ford was supposedly smoking crack about last weekend at his sister's place. And he was drunk and belligerent in public last Monday. There's a video for the crack smoking and audio of the drinking.
Oh, and "Ford Nation"? Any statements you make about his economic achievements and how they outweigh his gigantic hypocrisy and obnoxiousness just show you for the deluded ignoramuses that you are. He hasn't saved a billion dollars. He's cut some people's taxes while raising other people's costs. He's an idiot and an incompetent. You people are idiots, incompetents, hypocrites and liars for being his fans.
There's a tiny speck left inside of me that feels sorry for this doofus. Sure, he was born rich, white and male. But he was also handicapped with a severe case of stupidity. And it's got to be fucking frustrating. Especially since there are some people who don't know they're stupid (because they're so goddamned stupid!).
Imagine how frustrating it would be to be a blind person who doesn't know that they're blind (or refuses to accept it). You bump into things all the time and can't figure out why it always happens to you but not so much to other people. People are describing things for you but you don't have a clue what they're talking about, so you pretend that you understand, make comments that, through trial-and-error, seem to make sense to them and make you part of the gang. But it's all a fucking lie.
That's what it must be like to be Rob Ford. That alone would drive me to drink (more than I already do, which is to say, at about the level of Rob Ford)!
But any sympathy I have is mitigated by his bullying behaviour. His homophobia. His predatory sexism. His racism. AND his fucking hypocrisy. No matter how stupid you are, if you're a drug addict, from a family with addiction issues, for you to profess to have "zero tolerance" for drugs and gangs; ... that hypocrisy is no doubt fueled by racism. Ford understands how he and his sister and his immediate acquaintances are human beings; but he pictures the masses of faceless black and brown people selling and taking drugs, committing crimes, and he no doubt thinks "The barbarians are at the gates!"
A last sobering thought: Rob Ford is interesting because he provides a glimpse at how low the human brain can function at. He's a symbol of the depths of the right-wing neurosis. And the continuing loyalty of "Ford Nation" is a cautionary tale of the levels of depravity and degradation a significant portion of the electorate is willing to take this country to. Don't forget, this disgusting piece-of-shit was a boon companion to the recently departed "statesman," Jim Flaherty. Before he became toxic, he was a sought-after ally of both Tim Hudak and stephen harper. "Ford Nation" type people are a big reason why other right-wing parties remain viable in other parts of Canada and in the nation as a whole. This is what we're up against. That is the enemy. To a degree, some of their enthusiasm is based on an ignorant recitation of the dominant themes in the politics of the white, male, Christian-capitalist power-structure (that Bill O'Reilly adores). Some of those people can be turned if you approach them the right way. But unless and until you do that, they and all the hopeless rest of that crowd will do untold damage to you, us and our way of life.
2 comments:
I was thinking the Rob Ford hypocrisy you mentioned has more to do with class than race.
Anonymous,
It's possible. But he also displays a magnanimity and concern for the poor equal to his friendship and admiration for the Jamaicans and Somalis.
The man is contradictory and I'm sure he likes rich people more than poor people. But at the end of the day, I think he'd prefer the bingo-playing white welfare recipient to the African gangster.
Why don't we say he's both classist AND racist and shake hands?
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