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Speaking as someone who suffered through four years of having a "Crack Mayor" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Ford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Ford), y
by astrodust 10y ago
Speaking as someone who suffered through four years of having a "Crack Mayor" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Ford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Ford), you're underestimating the damage a person like this can cause. He's someone who lived a life so ridiculous that the movie Tommy Boy is the closest anyone can get to explaining it. The parallels are surreal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUY6lDja-DE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUY6lDja-DE
Rob Ford would declare things as done long before votes had even been called, he would bully people into voting his way, and then he'd declare victory. Anyone who opposed him would be ground down, harassed, and if he couldn't fire them he'd persecute them until they got out of his way or they were no longer a threat.
Rob Ford didn't care what the rules were. He didn't care about decorum or tradition. He didn't care if what he said was unworkable, or if he lied, or if he offended people. He just did whatever came to mind, without question, without checking if he had the authority to.
Rob Ford was born into privilege, inherited an ownership position in a company worth millions of dollars, and has never had to work a day in his life. He was famous for showing up to work at 2pm and leaving by 4. He had the audacity to brag he'd never missed a day of work on a day he was missing work because he was in drug rehab.
Trump will do whatever he wants and there's not going to be anyone there to stop him. This is a man who's never been held to account for any of his actions. He has no concept of morality, nothing to keep him centered.
If anyone opposes him, he'll have them fired, blackballed, or tormented until they quit either in disgust or humiliation. He'll make George W. Bush look like a wimp, a man of half-measures, of someone who had too much empathy for his opponents.
If he's anything like Rob Ford, which Daniel Dale (https://twitter.com/ddale8 https://twitter.com/ddale8), who covered Rob Ford in depth during his tenure will surely attest, we're looking at multiple scandals per day.
It got so bad near the end of Rob Ford's term that he'd give a press conference in the morning and have to apologize in another press conference in the afternoon and even then would almost fuck that up so badly he'd have to give another apology.
This shit is real and it's ugly.
- amscanne 10y agoI also "suffered" through Rob Ford. His main problem was substance abuse. That led to the the massive circus that was his last two years in office. Trump does not have this issue (or at least, doesn't seem to) so I don't think the comparison is justified. You're being overly dramatic about Ford in general. His first year was actually productive and he delivered on many of his promises (freeze property taxes, repeal registration tax, privatize garbage collection, kill transit city). This isn't just me being generous, I'm echoing Robyn Doolittle, who was the reporter that broke the scandal, followed subsequent scandals and published Crazytown.
- serge2k 10y ago> or at least, doesn't seem to Pretty sure he doesn't drink or anything because of what happened to his brother.
- astrodust 10y agoThere is no way I'm ruling out cocaine with Trump.
- astrodust 10y agoThing is he destroyed everything he could touch. He "balanced" the budget by depleting cash reserves, he cost the city a fortune by cancelling projects that were already under-way, and his legacy is a single subway stop that costs $3 billion that we still don't know how to pay for. This is quite an achievement from a man who campaigned against the "gravy train". It'll take twenty years to unwind the damage he's done, and we're just talking about a city where the Mayor is just one vote, they have very little executive authority. He didn't have access to the most powerful military in the world. He didn't have a political party backing him up. He didn't have nuclear weapons. He did about as much damage as he could do.
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- masonic 10y ago"If anyone opposes him, he'll have them fired, blackballed, or tormented until they quit either in disgust or humiliation." You mean like how the CEO of Grubhub is doing an "ideological cleansing" of his company now[0]? [0] 11/10 http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/11/10/boss-tells-pro-trump-employees-to-resign.html http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/11/10/boss-tells-pro-trump-em...
- scrollaway 10y agoYes, like that. Do you have a point?