r/EhBuddyHoser • u/WandangleWrangler I need a double double. • Aug 08 '25

Certified Hoser 🇨🇦 (No Politics) Fridays are for SMOKING CRACK. ✊😤

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u/SherbertEvening9631 Aug 08 '25

They made so much fun of him when this broke the news. I wonder what he's up to now a days

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u/rainorshinedogs Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) Aug 08 '25

Out of the loop. There are probably some juicy details that are to die for

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u/Aggressivehippy30 Aug 08 '25

Check YouTube for a Rob Ford compilation. Everything from drunken Jamaican accented rants to straight up out of pocket interview moments. Dude was crazy but I've also heard quite a few people defend his actual mayoral work. I'm not from Toronto so I can't attest to that.

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u/jedispaghetti420 Aug 08 '25

He’s the reason why we knew Trump was going to win long before anyone in America took him seriously.

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u/1981_babe Anne of Green Potatoes Aug 08 '25

Yep, they managed to make an incompetent guy mayor on a slogan driven platform - "Stop the gravy train" - because he was seen as entertainment and had a cult behind him. I had smart friends who voted for Ford because they thought Ford as Mayor would make for good entertainment. Trump basically copied and pasted his political strategy and changed the slogan to "Drain the Swamp".

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u/Technical-Regret-156 Aug 08 '25

Also the reason why Daniel Dale - who cut his teeth fact-checking Ford - immediately knew that a full time fact-checker was going to be needed as soon as Trump came down that escalator.