
Toronto’s crack-smoking, racial-slur-spouting, allegedly rehabilitated mayor is back in action, and it seems as if there are two competing schools of thought on how to deal with it: ignore him completely, or confront him aggressively.Rob’s only been back at work for five days, but there have already been two surprise opponents that jumped out of the woodwork to publicly confront Toronto’s highly flawed mayor. One is Joe Killoran, better known as the “shirtless jogger,” who ran up on Robbie during a Canada Day parade wherein the mayor was flanked on either side by his brother Doug, his spokesman Amin Massoudi, and a handful of other staffers. The Ford posse’s presence obviously set the shirtless jogger off, who unleashed a cathartic rant on behalf of many Torontonians who are tired of dealing with the Fords’ constant flow of bullshit:
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The shirtless jogger’s outburst has made him somewhat of a cult hero in a very short time. As you can see from the Shirtless Jogger HOPE meme posted above, some people see a likeness between his energy and Obama’s first run to the Oval Office. Then, this morning, a “horde” of shirtless protesters (#ShirtlessHorde) took to demonstrating outside the CFRB 1010 studios where Robbie was live on air for an interview.
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But it's not just shirtlessness interrupting Rob Ford’s campaign! On the very same day that Team Ford was accosted by the jogger, Rob had to deal with another justified confrontation at Ribfest, of all places. At the now infamous BBQ’d meat festival, Andray Domise, a candidate for City Council in Ward 2 (a seat that’s currently held by Doug Ford, who may not run this year, so he can let his nephew Mike Ford run instead) approached the mayor and asked if he planned on apologizing “for referring to African Canadians as "niggers" and referring to youth programs as ‘Hug a thug.’"Sadly, Rob Ford responded with a derisive non-answer, saying only: “It’s complicated.” Then he walked away—presumably to chow down on some dope ribs.In a written response to the confrontation on his blog, Andray Domise expands on the issue of Rob Ford’s racism:“I wish I could have asked him why he takes no responsibility for the wreckage the investigation into his drug transactions has left behind in the Somali community. Why he hasn’t looked upon the faces of the men and women forced to the ground by police in the middle of the night, and offered an abject apology for helping to bring this down on their heads.”These are the kinds of questions that are much more relevant than how many mollys Rob Ford has popped, but with insulting responses like “it’s complicated” being offered from an elected official to a completely relevant and necessary question, it’s no surprise that there’s a tangible movement to simply ignore the continuous tornado of manure that is Rob Ford.
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