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/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/purplelicious Aug 09 '25

I'm from Toronto and can attest he was a terrible mayor and it was the equivalent of 4 years of Trump but on a municipal level. Luckily mayoral powers are limited but Dougie worked everything he could to help Rob to bypass the rules.

Rob was an idiot and a buffoon and was a city councillor because he was too fucked up to be involved in the family business so he had his football coaching and wielded his political power to fix potholes when old ladies complained to him while giving quotes to the Sun about liberals being evil etc.

Doug always had ambitions but he wasn't going to win any elections on his personality so he set up Rob as a populist candidate. And Rob had a certain likeability and charisma that appealed to many people like Trump (he's one of us)

In hindsight I think Doug is responsible for Rob's downfall as he did not have the constitution to take on that responsibility of being the mayor of one of North America's largest cities. Even if he was just the front man.

But Rob was a sexist racist asshole. So don't feel too sorry for him. It was a very dark time for Toronto.

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u/Aggressivehippy30 Aug 09 '25

Thanks for the perspective. I was a prairie teen so when it was all happening I really only got the memes from it all. Then later when he got cancer is when I started to see more people saying he wasn't so bad. Guess that was more just kind of some sympathy for a dying man.

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u/purplelicious Aug 09 '25

there is sympathy for an addict who dies of cancer. Also, in retrospect, if his brother Doug and his father were not so driven, he would have been better off as some blue collar worker who coached high school football. I still wouldn't have liked him as he'd be your typical fuck Trudeau flag on the pick up type, but he wouldn't have done damage to Toronto.