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Proud of my city for this. Hope others follow suit. Formal rejections en masse will speak volumes.
Thank you, brothers and sisters in Rochester!
Rochester rocks.
Wow, this is much appreciated from this Canadian.
"flaccid" 😆
From a Canadian who's too familiar with syndicated American TV from the 1990s to the 2010s, I appreciate a classy gesture from the same place that birthed Jim "The Hammer" Shapiro
You do have to give Trump credit for one thing: He's made it so easy for a number of politicians all around to score easy wins. Making tough decisions? Eh, much easier to point out that Trump is an idiot and score political points.
Yep and that's not a good thing. Makes idiots such as Doug look good and people are more likely to overlook his past actions because we have a new idiot in town.
Precisely.
Same as how the Republican shift to racism gives cover for corporate Democrats to push rightward
As a person from Ontario, this is dumb. Like, not as dumb as renaming it, obviously, but just ignore the turd. I don't need a sign affirming the name of the lake. I hope it wasn't expensive, but knowing Ford I'm sure it was made by one of his buddy's companies at 10x the price, charged to the taxpayer.
FUCK WEBSITES THAT AUTOPLAY VIDEOS
... WITH AN UNLUBED CACTUS, IF THERE IS SOUND
I'm fine with there being lube, as long as it's >75% Tabasco sauce.
... and here's the remaining 25%
(9x10^6 Scoville units; about 9x hotter than Ghost Pepper)
I'm pretty sure that's not supposed to even be possible on websites. At least the audio bit, iirc you have to interact first. Wonder how they do it. Granted, I'm not a proper web dev, just played around with a few things.
Modern web browsers strictly require HTML5 video to be muted.
I assume this site is doing something different. I was using FF on iOS in a quiet room :|
Add 1 year to how long provincial liquor control boards won't buy US products every time the US makes a dick move.
Tariffs "because of fentanyl": that's a year.
Saying "51st state": another year.
Calling the prime minister "governor": and another year. Keep it up, jackasses!
Is doug ford right wing himself? I thought he was kind of a piece of shit from previous readings. I don't care about him smoking crack, that's not my concern at all.
The late Rob Ford was the one that was on tape smoking crack and was the mayor of Toronto. Doug is his brother.
They were very much a proto-trump, "anti-establishment".
The white Merian Berry (sp) of canada.
Marian Berry or however you spell his name, was mayor of DC, black. He leaned into it, wore dashikis (traditional african robes,) to events.
Anyway he got caught smoking crack with hookers in a motel room, then got re-elected. This was a while back, in the 90s I think.
Oh yea, he's right wing, especially financially. And a corrupt piece of shit, but the sound bites play well with the media. He may have some Canadian pride that's genuine, but he'd sell out the province to make a buck for himself or his friends.
He's/was more a dealer than a user. His brother Rob became well known for smoking crack, among consuming other things, while mayor of Toronto.
Fighting crazy with zany. If I was Canada I would dare Trump to come out into the middle of the lake and plant an America flag in the middle of it. He might fall for it.
It's not Lake America. It's Lake Ontario. It's not Donald Trump. It's Donvict Trumpepstein.
Isn't that the crack head? He's still in politics?
That was his late brother.
Doug Ford was the crack dealer. His late brother was the user.
Visual cue:
The wrong Ford died
Dougie is the dealer. Somehow he's really popular.
He’s not popular. The voters in Ontario are just to apathetic and lazy to vote in elections, so we hand this loser a majority government when barely 30% of the population comes out to vote. It’s a shame really. I hate this man.
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