Honestly, what a bunch of knobs.
It seems that Ford Nation picnic fiasco is really biting into the PC government’s ability to present themselves as good stewards of government while maintaining a straight face.
You’ll recall how Ford’s political love-fest was knocked ass-over-tea kettle last week when hundreds of OPSEU members showed up and dominated the space, drowning out the premier for the entire time he spoke. He hasn’t been this embarrassed since Toronto fans booed him during the victory parade for the NBA champion Raptors back in 2019. My God, they even cheered Justin Trudeau, also present on the same stage.
To a conservative of any sort, that sucks big time.
Well, the premier has his supporters and sycophants, a star-studded galaxy of ass-kissers more than willing to help Good Ol’ Doug and his bruised feelings.
Enter Attorney-General Doug Downey and Tory MPP David Smith, who both came to the rescue of the boss. These two, if we had a show like South Park in Canada, would take on the role of former American Attorney-General Pam Bondi, who was regularly featured in episodes with this nasty stain on her nose.
That’s Doug and Dave right there. Ontario’s version of a South Park caricature.
It seems these stalwarts of integrity decided to post an image to their social media accounts showing the turnout at the picnic. Predictably, there are hundreds of people in attendance, and all of them are wearing the blue colours of the provincial PC Party.
The only thing is that the photo is doctored, as in rendered false through it’s representation of the people there as being firm supporters of the premier and his ham-handed government.
It’s meant to show that these are Doug Ford’s people, his “folks” if you will, Doug liking that word a lot.
The problem is that this isn’t exactly the way things went down. In fact, it’s not even close to the way things went down.
Because the real photo, as taken by the Toronto Star, clearly shows the vast majority of those present to be wearing purple, that being the colour of OPSEU, the Ontario Public Service Employees Union. And not only was it a sea of purple, it was a sea of purple noise, the noise of legitimate protest against a government that claims to have nothing to do with the labour dispute, yet pulls the strings behind the scenes and pays millions for replacement workers, security guards, and private investigators, complete with their meal, transportation, and lodging expenses.
That’s an awful lot of money to be throwing around, especially when you’re not involved.
The doctored photo is just another sad example of a government that can no longer be trusted with simple and basic truths. A government absolutely willing to be dishonest with its own constituency, the voters of the Province of Ontario.
Kudos to the Attorney-General and whatever publicly-paid political lackeys that were involved for mastering the complexity of ChatGPT.
I can just imagine the text prompt for the Star photo they uploaded: Change all purple shirts to blue.”
Brilliant, other than a freaking ten-year old could do it and do a better job of it.
Makes me want to go on ChatGPT myself and put my own text prompt in there.
“Please remove these clowns from my news cycle.”
NEWSMAGRENFREW 