Rob Ford's Toronto

[Parker]

Channeling Bette Davis I will say one should only speak good of the dead. Rob Ford is dead. Good.

Truthfully, I wouldn't have wished death on him. I would have much preferred he recover and either face some justice for his misdeeds and hate mongering, or, better still, grow from his near death experience and use his remaining time to make amends and atone for his behaviour.

My thoughts and condolences go out to his children, but not to his family of enablers who did little to help Rob face his demons and perhaps lead him to a better life. And I have nothing but scorn for his parents whose screwed up parenting skills led to a totally fucked-up brood.

 

[salsa]

Warmington is delivering a nauseating interview right now on CBC radio.

 

[inyyz]

Like Videodrome, I also became much more interested in local politics because of the shit storm that buffoon caused our city, so there's that.

I refuse to feel guilty (even though I'm Irish Catholic). Being dead doesn't erase the damage he did to our city on a global scale. He also destroyed his own body his entire adult life.

I had so hoped he'd survive for the Lisi trial. Justice is sweeter than karma.

 

[EagleEye]

Warmington is delivering a nauseating interview right now on CBC radio.

Is he crying?

 

[Juan_Lennon416]

Like Videodrome, I also became much more interested in local politics because of the shit storm that buffoon caused our city, so there's that.

I refuse to feel guilty (even though I'm Irish Catholic). Being dead doesn't erase the damage he did to our city on a global scale. He also destroyed his own body his entire adult life.

I had so hoped he'd survive for the Lisi trial. Justice is sweeter than karma.

I will sign the book of condolences at City Hall on your behalf

 

[Juan_Lennon416]

inyyz,

I didn't see you make an attempt to get off your ass and help the man. So hard for Rob to get out of a very deep hole when he had people at his side like Doug making the hole deeper

 

[pattycakes]

inyyz,

I didn't see you make an attempt to get off your ass and help the man. So hard for Rob to get out of a very deep hole when he had people at his side like Doug making the hole deeper

Are you serious? Why on earth should inyyz have more responsibility than Rob's family? Rob was surrounded by people who had buckets of money to get him into private rehab, a luxury most addicts don't have. They didn't give a shit until the whole thing fell apart and the helicopter was circling the backyard. Put the blame where it belongs, which certainly isn't John or Jane Q. Public.

 

[L23]

inyyz,

I didn't see you make an attempt to get off your ass and help the man. So hard for Rob to get out of a very deep hole when he had people at his side like Doug making the hole deeper

So what did you do?

 

[hper]

Is he crying?

No. Just being pissy. Sort of insulting the CBC generally and snarking the host specifically. You could hear the smirk in his whiney hoser-voice. And, also, cranking up the Doug Ford juggernaut that's about to roll into, over and through Ward 2. Likely to ensure he's early on the bandwagon. IOW, vintage Worms.

 

[pud99]

For some reason, the word codswallop kept springing to mind whilst reading this: http://www.chatelaine.com/news/rob-ford-former-chief-of-staff-on-letting-his-boss-go

 

[pud99]

Doug Ford: "...I took care of him and protected him from the day he was born."

Done a great job there eh Doug.

 

[pud99]

 

[kbdid]

inyyz,

I didn't see you make an attempt to get off your ass and help the man. So hard for Rob to get out of a very deep hole when he had people at his side like Doug making the hole deeper

while I can't speak for other forum members, what I did was send messages to both my councilor and to Rob Ford himself asking him to get his butt into rehab. His own family was busy enabling him/hiding the truth.

 

[pattycakes]

From Norm Wilner:

ROB FORD, THE UNVARNISHED TRUTH
"I’m torn between the impulse to massage the memory of the man into something soothing and palatable, and the impulse to tell the truth: that Ford could be a terrible, terrible person."

https://nowtoronto.com/news/in-memoriam/rob-ford-the-unvarnished-truth/

 

[dt_toronto_geek]

Fuck that. He didn't love his job and he most certainly did not love his city.

I believe that he did love the city and his job, he was charismatic and he was a natural political bull. Doug has none of that, hence the end of "Ford Nation" is upon us. That said he didn't want to see a progressive Toronto because that's not the a part of the city that he understood. Ya know, cyclists and bike lanes, Transit City, gays & their family/friends, streetcars, Waterfront Toronto projects (even though he sat on the Board, which he rarely if ever attended), jets at the Island airport and on & on.
Much is yet be written about Rob in this thread, as more of the truth begins to unravel and trickle out in the months and perhaps years to come. We can still look forward to the crack video(s), and possibly other videos locked in some lawyer's safe too.