Meet Doug Ford, next preem of Ontario

This will no doubt have the media bed-wetters in a tizzy. After all, Doug is the slightly more stable brother of former crack-head TO mayor Rob Ford, and surely you remember how relentlessly our "free press" hounded him to death.

In fact, Toronto Star intern Dan Dale did such a bang-up job on the Ford file that the Star dispatched him to Washington, complete with an actual paycheque and expense account, to become the official Donald Trump Fib Tracker.

Why a money-losing Canadian news platform would consider that a useful deployment of their dwindling resources is a question you'd have to ask them.

But back to Ford. Rob was relentlessly portrayed as a racist and misogynist bigot across the spectrum of our mainstream media.

That was mostly fake news.

Take a gander at this video of Rob Ford's funeral.

WTF?

I see brown people galore paying their respects to the racist. And women too!


Frankly, I didn't believe Doug could pull this off, but the Conservative leadership race was such a shit-show that anything was possible.

And here we are. Doug was the only candidate who had a chance at unseating Wynne. She could have easily whupped those females candidates, but Doug Ford is a new game.

Doug Ford will be the next premier of Ontario.


And that's not a happy thing.

Dictatorship of the pussy-grabbers

Can I be the only one who suspects that the entire good vs evil schtick that's been going down in DC is, at root... just that?

Schtick?

Think about it. The last couple of years US politics has looked like it's scripted by the same geniuses who brought you reality TV and the WWF.

In the blue corner... give it up for the most experienced, the most competent, the most presidential candidate in history... HILLARY CLINTON!!!

And in the red corner, welcome the one and only, the most evil character we could dream up, the most racist, most nativist, most misogynistic DONALD J TRUMP!!!

Mostly bullshit, if you ask me.

Donny J. and the Clintons go way back. They've palled around since forever. Here's a shot of Trump and Bill Clinton after what looks like a way fun afternoon at the golf course.



Here they're posing with the caddies who carried their bags. Note the Playboy Bunny logo on the shirt of Trump's caddy. Goddamn, that Hugh Hefner did so much to empower women, didn't he? HH was one of the greatest feminists of the 20th century, no doubt about it.

And Bill's squee... I mean caddy, looks like she could be a Russian hooker in her other job, when she's not shlepping Bill's bag. Either that or one of Trump's ex-wives.

These folks are all in on the joke. They've got themselves roles in the greatest reality show ever.

US politics.

But remember, even though these actors will do well for themselves with these roles, the producers are gonna make the real killing!

Oprah 2020

Oprah's speech at the Golden Globes the other night set a million hearts aflutter.

I wouldn't get my hopes up. Not that she couldn't win. If a condo hustler from Manhattan can find his way to the Oval Office, I'm sure Oprah could too.

No, the reason I wouldn't get my hopes up is because after she wins, it's gonna be plenty more same-old same-old. The same old Yankee Oligarchy pushing the same old plutocratic agenda, in other words.

That's pretty much the story with Trump, isn't it? The hyperventilating of the punditocracy aside, has anything really changed with Trump?

Hell no!

Same old rancid exceptionalism.

Same old rampant bullying of the less exceptional nations.

Same old contempt for the working class.

Same-old same-old all across the dial.

But, she's a black woman! Things would HAVE to change...

No they wouldn't. How did things change when America's "democracy" coughed up its first black president? Why would a black woman president be any different?

Don't let her skin tone fool you. Oprah may be a black woman, but she's also a billionaire. As such, she's got way more in common with her fellow billionaires than she does with the minimum wage gals changing the sheets at the Super 8.

As America's first female president, she'll do more for her billionaire friends than she will for those minimum wage workers.

That's democracy in the USA.

I was so dreadfully wrong about Donald J. Trump, and I'm so sorry...

Ran across this spot of brilliance in my travels this evening.

I was not even remotely acquainted with the word "dotard" at the time.

Thank-you, Kim Jong-un.