Hey, Doug Ford is a piece of shit. Him opposing Trump doesn't change that. Don't forget
this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2025
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The right-wing, plain-spoken politician admitted he was initially delighted Donald Trump won re-election and viewed him as an ally.
That's really the only thing that needs to be said. Ford wants to be Trump and he's frankly just mirroring his rhetoric on this.
Corrupt politician defending his turf from another corrupt politician.
Like his crack smoking brother, ford is not to be trusted
Not to mention that both brothers were widely known to be distributors in the drug trade.
Yeh Rob was crack smoking but, but fuck he genuinely gave a damn about people. He was actively involved in the community. Not just a career politician type. Rob is probably rolling around in the grave watching the horrors dougie is doing.
Wait a sec. He's made bold statements in the news and strutted about a bit.
Aside from really making hay of a bad situation, is there anything he's done that we haven't really done?
He's not taking on Trump. He's undercutting and backstabbing PP so that he can take over leadership of the CPC at some point in the medium-term.
I'm not a fan of either of them or the various conservative parties in general, but I'd much rather have a Doug Ford led CPC than a PP CPC. I'm not Ontarian though so maybe I'm biased.
I heavily dislike a lot of Doug Ford's decisions he's made for this province, but I can give him credit for not falling into the culture war BS like his federal counterparts.
Is that starlink contract ripped up now? For good and for realsies this time? I get keeping it in limbo as a bargaining tool, but actually following through with it shouldn't still be a serious option - even if the U.S. did a complete 180 today and started trying to walk it all back.
I don't believe for a minute he actually tore it up. He's a populist, so he says things that people want to hear, even if those things are lies.
I suppose Ontario has given our approval to him, one way or another.
The key part is the majority of ballots cast. Beyond the benefits of MMPR (of which I am fully on board for), we still had a sub 50% voter turnout. If literally half of ontarians can't be bothered to vote, they're agreeing to everything else. I place responsibility for trump with those who voted for him and those who didn't vote - it's the same in this case.
It seems with the new national unity between liberals and conservatives that they are signaling that Dofo is okay with them while PP is not.
Not surprised to see Doug Jump. The second the provincial election ended he started gearing up for his federal run, and unfortunately the blitz of positive media has really helped improve his image with people who probably voted against him just a few weeks prior to this.
Makes sense to send a former drug dealer to talk to a wannabe mafia boss.
This you?
(A picture of Doug Ford and three other white men in suits giving thumbs-ups around a big sign that says Welcome to Ontario, Open for Business)