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A Globe and Mail poll is currently running with 74% (6800 votes) for Rob Ford to step down permanently.
Dear Toronto: You're Being Trolled By Ford Nation
by Reginald Braithwaite
Posted: 11/05/2013 3:07 pm
Do you ever have this nightmare?
You're on the Internet, and you're trying to explain something sensible to someone, and they're heaping abuse on you? And when you start to make headway with a point, they sideslip into something totally irrelevant? And everything that is obviously subjective is objective to them? And everything obviously objective is subjective to them?
I have this nightmare too: It's called being trolled. The primary characteristic of being trolled is when you are trying to achieve something positive, but can't make any headway because the other party's agenda is to disrupt and hijack the conversation.
Trolls are toxic. You know that, I know that. We all run into them, like the "Men's Rights" jackasses who want to turn every story of abuse into a debate about how men get raped for their sperm and sued for child support and it's a double standard.
Have you got that person in your mind? Great. Let's review who they are and what they want:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/reginald-braithwaite/rob-ford_b_4220497.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
Oh, I think they very much are investigating it. The Star editor even said it today. I think they are *profoundly* interested in this. The problem is evidence. Accusing the mayor of smoking crack when they've seen visual evidence is one thing. Connecting him to a murder without hard proof is quote another.
They need the smoking gun, pardon the metaphor (which may not be a metaphor at all). That's the end game.
Toronto has a mayor who has smoked crack, lied about smoking crack, claims to not remember it because he was in a “drunken stupor†at the time, has “gotten hammered†in public on numerous occasions, has exchanged hundreds of phone calls with a suspected drug dealer and extortionist, has been observed accepting mysterious packages from the same man, and has numerous associations with other people on the fringes of the law as detailed in, among other places, a 474-page police document. Rob Ford has also refused to answer questions about nearly all of the above. And he still shows no signs of planning on stepping aside, or stepping down.
Elliott Ross @ElliottRoss6 23m
Dear God no. @briandjohnson #TOpoli Well-placed sources say 2nd #RobFord video shows the unthinkable. He's going to need a bigger basement.
What is the unthinkable? And why is this video making rounds; thought it was in police custody? (for lack of a better term)
Came across my Twitter:
And why is this video making rounds
Came across my Twitter:
What is the unthinkable? And why is this video making rounds; thought it was in police custody? (for lack of a better term)
Came across my Twitter:
What is the unthinkable? And why is this video making rounds; thought it was in police custody? (for lack of a better term)
It thought it was established that the "unthinkable" was a Rob Ford sex video. I've heard a couple theories. One is with an really young prostitute, the other involves his wife.
Yeah... I get that. But can't someone speculate? Jesus, if I put a days work in I could connect some dots... I just hate the worldwide media picking up on just our mayor smoking crack. For me, it's not about him smoking crack. It's about the connection to a god damn murder.
Some kid lost his life. Put that on the front page. That's the story.
Hey... I've been lurking this thread along with all the other hundreds but......
Is the media overlooking the Anthony smith murder? I don't understand why this hasn't been brought to the fore front. Is it just because implicating his involvement in a homicide is dangerous legal territory?
As much as the media has done GOOD on this, I feel like they aren't digging in enough.