While David Sirota's podcast linked in the upstream toot starts with the euphoric progress of American democracy - it then delves into the corruption of their government.
If you ever wondered how the GOP and the USA got to where it is today - with big business and the wealthy running the show and everybody else, including the planet paying the price, this program puts the pieces together.
The fingerprints of that conspiracy are also evident in other countries at various government levels as well.
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#kingford — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #kingford, aggregated by home.social.
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#kingFord is betting on getting term number 3 and he still needs his binder to be able to stay on script 🤪
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2025/02/13/ford-campaign-calls-premiers-sparky-comment-a-poor-taste-joke/ -
@gemelliz @AnnieBuddy @zenheathen @paulbusch
The Globe was the only one on my search engine's list to make mention of Ford's flip on cancelling the Starlink contract ...
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-mr-ford-end-the-starlink-deal-with-elon-musk/ -
@paulbusch and in other news, #kingFord & Company recently gave themselves yet another superpower:
"Ontario’s minister of natural resources now has broad powers to overrule environmental permitting decisions made by local conservation authorities about development projects."
https://thenarwhal.ca/new-year-new-power-ford-government-can-now-overrule-conservation-authorities/
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In regards to this month's Ontario provincial election ...
"Ford has pledged to dismantle encampments across the province."
Not that addressing the actual causes that contribute to the growing numbers of homeless would be a far better solution ... #kingFord wants to eliminate the symptoms / mask / deny the systemic problems.
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@LexyCameron
#kingFord 's buddies are chomping at the bit for another Con win 'cause they all know their good buddy Dougie's moto is 'fill yet boots' and where his loading dock is for the $$$. -
@Richard_hoperestored #kingFord probably also wants to take advantage of:
- Federal government turmoil
- PP+co's animosity towards Trudeau
- the dawn of the second #tRump era
- the timing of the $200 'vote for me' chequesWe gotta get everybody out to vote this time.
Back in 2022:
- the cons won a majority with the support of only 17.8% of the voting population 🤮
- the NDP and the Liberals together had support of 20.7% of the voting population
- the non-con vote was split 25 ways
- over 6,000,000 eligible voters did not cast a ballot
- there were 30,517 blank and invalid ballotsTime for a change for the better ...
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#kingFord will only do what's good for #Ford when it's beneficial to do so.
He wants to talk jobs? What about his use of the #NotWithstanding clause to avoid fair contact negotiations?
Ford is here so much for the people of Ontario - that he gifted a deal to build a luxury spa at #OntarioPlace . And here we are - with more than 80,000 people in the province are homeless during the worst winter we've seen in years, and Ford is sending out $200 'vote for me' cheques.
Ford's priorities? NOT the people.
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#kingFord *chose* to do provincial business on his "personal" cell phone.
Given Ford's history of mob-boss-like behavior, that choice clearly makes certain data on that phone of interest to the public.
It's like getting into a debate about whose paper provincial business notes were written on. If Ford wrote notes on a piece of paper at his home or in the office - is there any difference? Does it matter who paid for the paper? It's still provincial business ...
https://globalnews.ca/news/10956999/doug-ford-cellphone-ipc-judicial-review-appeal/
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Anyone seen the most recent #Conservative propaganda commercial with #kingFord espousing, with a straight face, how he's there 'for the people' ... ?
As Arnold from Happy Days was known for:
Baa-haa-haa-haa ... !!Note to Dougie: What you've done speaks so loudly, we cannot hear what you say.
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An excellent assessment of #kingFord 's "vote for me" payouts - coming to your mailbox ... if you have one.
But don't expect the colours of His Royal Rotundness or his government to change - ever. They are a band of thieves stealing from all of us - with the support from only 17.8% of the voting electorate in 2022.
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Agreed. Just in case anyone missed it, when posts have included #kingFord , these four points were implied:
1. The big guy thinks and acts as if he were King and everyone in #Ontario are his subjects, none of whom are worthy of his regard
2. The first letter, F is ommitted
3. The second letter, U is ommitted
4. The third letter, C is ommitted -
Apparently the lessons of the past are lost on #kingFord and his cronies.
Speed limits have been lowered or kept down to decrease injury severity, vehicle damage as well as repair and insurance costs ... but what the heck, we got booze in corner stores now, so let's go for broke 😵💫
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Apparently #kingFord has been visiting the pot shops and corner variety stores now selling ready to consume alcohol far too often.
It's not a dream, he's hallucinating 😵💫
An ever expanding highway system is about as realistic as the concept of sustainable growth. It's not - when there are fixed resources and land area.
Not unlike the unintended experiment at St. Matthew Island during WW II:
https://www.gi.alaska.edu/alaska-science-forum/when-reindeer-paradise-turned-purgatory-0If we don't limit ourselves voluntarily, Earth will put a stop to it ... hello? ... hurricane Helene ... 😉
Those who are not students of history are destined to repeat it.
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#kingFord 's 401 tunnel idea makes about as much sense as paving over prime agricultural land to build factories: 🤪
What about eliminating parking places so there's no reason to drive to said destinations.
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No surprises here ... there's a lot of things #kingFord doesn't get:
- public health care
- labour negotiations
- social support
- homelessness
- food bank demand
- covid
- waste water monitoring
- honesty
- integrity
- empathy
- doing the right thing
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While Health Canada currently advises that the viral activity level is HIGH for #COVID :
https://health-infobase.canada.ca/wastewater/#kingFord and his cronies wrapped up wastewater screening for #COVID
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Israeli / Palestinian / Hamas issues aside ...
Reminiscent of #kingFord 's shenanigans in 2022, anyone supporting #PP and his #Conservative 's supports discrimination.
Unacceptable.'... one of Poilievre's staff members intervened.
"He looked at my head, which was wearing this scrunchie,” she said, pointing to a Pride-themed hair scrunchie. “…and a Pride Kippah, and my t-shirt, which said 'protect trans kids.'”
Zaifman-Guslits said the party official told her, “Because of what you are wearing, you cannot come in." '
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Apparently, to #kingFord , the massive gutting of conservation authorities is irrelevant. The end justifies the means and the collateral damage to flooded communities are acceptable losses.
From October 2022:
' Speaking to a lunchtime audience at the Toronto Region Board of Trade on Tuesday, Premier Doug Ford pitched a new plan he said would help tackle Ontario’s housing crisis.“It will make it easier to build the right type of housing in the right places,” he told industry stakeholders, with a grin.
But Ford didn’t say his plan depends in part on a massive gutting of conservation authorities, which oversee and protect vital and deteriorating watersheds. '
Our conservation authorities monitor, regulate and make recommendations regarding surface water.
Given their expertise and function, they need to be able to be more effective - not less.
https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-conservation-authorities-development/
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@c_9 #kingFord is applying the old adage - When you don't want to do something, any excuse will do.
They don't want to fix the #OntarioScienceCentre because they have plans for the land that will make $$$ for their cronies.
All they have to do is get rid of the building ... and they've proven it doesn't matter how much it costs the taxpayers for the Cons to have it their way. -
Remember the saying:
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck ...You know the rest.
#kingFord & his band of thieves can say what they like and do what they do, but we've all seen how they operate. Honour is a concept they know nothing about.
Brighton's Mayor has *nothing* to apologize for ...
https://globalnews.ca/news/10486801/ontario-town-ford-government-lobbyist-plan/
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Given #kingFord 's #Conservative #Greenbelt fiasco, where they and their cronies were caught with their fingerprints all over the cookie jar, this non-disclosure agreement thing in the latest attack on Ontario's green space leaves one thinking that it's not much of a stretch to apply the old phrase:
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck - the Cons are pushing this.
The justifications and rationalizations of why they *NEED* "shovel ready sites" is sounding an awful lot like a kid throwing a tantrum to get their way ...
This latest chapter tis a putrid crock of bovine excrement:
https://www.therecord.com/opinion/columnists/waterloo-region-already-has-lots-of-land-set-aside-for-industrial-expansion-so-why-is/article_7a945a77-495d-51df-9994-b415cd590180.html -
Gosh, the winds sure do change direction a lot around Queen's Park, don't they!? 🤪 #kingFord
https://thenorthstar.media/ford-cuts-plans-for-affordable-housing/ -
#kingFord ain't workin' for 99.9% of Ontarians.
The part we don't see:
you* = you ultra wealthy folks. -
A *hypothetical* news story that would come as no surprise to anyone:
Research Reveals That Doug Ford is Actually an AI Driven Holographic Projection Funded by Ontario Oligarchs Association
"The first indicator that caught our attention was how closely aligned it's themes were with the American Republican Party and Donald Trump." the head researcher is supposedly quoted as saying. 😉
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#kingFord & his Cons, at work, for you - making life better for Ontarians 🤪
https://kitchener.citynews.ca/2024/03/15/uw-facing-75m-operating-budget-deficit-for-upcoming-year/ -
@johnefrancis excellent read - highly recommended. 👍
This excerpt is precious:
"On February 23, the government axed the legislation through an order-in-council and comically argued that repealing the law would “solve the inequality of workers created by the recent court decision.” In the world of the Ford Conservatives, a court decision upholding collective bargaining rights created “inequality,” not an unconstitutional law infringing on workers’ rights. "In that regard, if it's not unadulterated BS, then this is the next stop:
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@EricLawton the social costs of #kingFord 's complete ineptness have been beyond measure, and not in dollars.
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@RandomCanuck #kingFord 's health care policies are designed to directly kill the system and as the system collapses, indirectly kill off the population - we are a liability to Conservative oligarchs. A broken system will justify them ushering in a for-profit health care model.
Excerpt:
' "Right now, in Ontario, family medicine is a failed business model," said Leahy. "The amount we're able to bill has not kept up with inflation for the last 10 years." At one point, she took a part-time job doing on-call work overnight in a hospital to make ends meet.'What!? Our private practice doctors have to moonlight to make ends meet!? WTF!? 😡. They didn't go through all that schooling for that nor to do administrative assistant work.
The sooner we get the Cons out of Queens Park the sooner we can start getting #Ontario and our health care system up to par.
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@gemelliz #kingFord is contracting out the services - nursing, Service Ontario, etc.
Let me clarify - my proposal was to clear out the elected officials that work for the oligarchs at Queens Park and replace them with contractors that work within a clearly worded contract - under and for the people of #Ontario .
Edit - something like a Board of Directors that are accountable to the shareholders.
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#kingFord is at it again!
From the email:
"Doug Ford is once again trying to gut hard-won environmental protections.The “Get it Done” Act, introduced Tuesday, is a giant omnibus bill so big Ford’s hoping we wouldn't notice its most offensive policy changes – including allowing the government to expropriate land for major infrastructure projects, without a completed environmental assessment.
The goal? To force through controversial projects such as Highway 413, a $10 billion environmental disaster that would run through pristine Greenbelt land, destroy farmland, and harm endangered wildlife.
Doug Ford is testing the waters to see if you notice these major changes. You could help send a clear message that the people of Ontario see right through this gross overreach."
Please consider signing this petition to help keep things from getting even further out of hand - than they already are ...
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Imagine what could actually be accomplished when the governing principles of the #Ontario #government are #honesty , #integrity , #response-abilty & #trust .
I believe it goes without saying that would include removing and bricking up the back door into #Queen'sPark.
And no, nobody is holding their breath waiting for #kingFord and his Cons to *ever* comprehend the value of these qualities - let alone exhibit them.
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@paulbusch and here we thought #kingFord 's #kleptocracy was just trying to torch the social support systems so they could be replaced by his #oligarch 's / private interest corporations' money machines.
And even with this report in hand, the Cons continued to justify & rationalize their attack on the #greenbelt - until clear evidence of #collusion was brought forward by #thenarwhal .
By directing the authors to minimize their findings and then sliding this report under the proverbial carpet, could the Cons try any harder to send #Ontario up in flames! 🤬
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'When asked if he [PM Trudeau] has concerns with the province’s move to have some publicly-funded procedures in private clinics, Trudeau didn’t specifically mention Ontario, but said in the past, the federal government has “pulled back transfers from provinces that have gone too far down the privatization road.”
“We have increasingly seen particularly Conservative premiers across the country experimenting with more private services … we need to make sure the integrity of the Canada Health Act and the strength of our publicly-funded health-care system holds.” '
How far do you think #kingFord is going to push his luck as he continues to shovel buckets of money over to his private healthcare oligarch supporters?
#onpoli #publichealth #healthcarehttps://toronto.citynews.ca/2024/02/09/health-care-ontario-ford-trudeau-funding-deal/
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Seems #kingFord is at least part Ferengi:
From The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition -
"The definition of insanity is trying the same failed scheme & expecting different results."Edit - His non-Ferengi genes missed that lesson.
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@Snowshadow @themamiyaman @gemelliz
Not to disparage Frank Bonner, the actor who played Herb Tarleck on WKRP in Cincinnati, with his matching shoes and belt, but #kingFord is about as greasy as Herb was ...