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"Apologies to everyone outside Toronto who's probably sick of all the local politics tweets, but I cannot stress enough that a failed sticker salesman has launched a constitutional crisis because he was hellbent on revenge against the city that laughed at his ferris wheel" -- @matttomic, 2018-09-17

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Truth in quotations. Right here.

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OMG, that's fucking hilarious.

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https://twitter.com/matttomic/status/1041728513215160321

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Fixed now, I think. Extra spaces get inserted as a result of the script that feeds posts to post-by-mail (since the API no longer resembles LJ's closely enough for Clive to work) and I usually have to fix things by hand after I wake up.

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And just swap "sticker" for "steak" and "ferris wheel" for "mushoom" and guess who we've got over here?

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Aye. *sigh* Well, except that nobody knew the mushroom thing until ... yesterday? (Um, for anybody who doesn't already get the reference, you're probably happier not knowing.)

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But there was *always* the mushroom; the fact we didn't know 'til then changes nothing.

(Besides this, that was the other best laugh I've had over any political figure in a long time.)

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Wait. Wut.

Would somebody catch me up? I've been under a rock.

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Doug Ford, brother of Toronto's crack-smoking former mayor, apparently holds a grudge from when he was on the Toronto city council and wasn't defered to like he thought he deserved, or something (I'm a bit fuzzy on that part). Having since become Premier of Ontario, he decided Toronto should have half as many members on its city council ... right in the midde of an election for same. A court slapped him down on constitutional grounds, but he bounced back up again, invoking a "can ignore the constitution if it's an eergency" clause. It's an absolute mess.

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