If there’s anything that isn’t super annoying about Doug Ford lately, I can’t find it. Even when I was starting to kinda get on board with his patriotic fight for Canada against Trump gimmick, he had to go and ruin it by admitting, to what should be no one’s surprise, that he was happy Trump won last November. That’s bad enough on its own, but then he made it even worse by saying he expected that things would somehow be different this time. This in spite of the fact that Trump literally campaigned on doing exactly what he’s doing right now with the tariffs and that, come on man, he’s Donald fucking Trump! If there’s a shitty thing to do to another person, he’s going to do it even if that person is supposed to be a friend. That’s all the guy does. He has no loyalty to anybody but himself, and the fact that Ford can straight face act like he had no idea says a lot about him and his fitness for the job he’s been given, I think.
And then there are these stupid cheques. A costly waste of money that will do absolutely nothing to address any real cost of living issues. They’re designed 100 percent to bribe us all into voting for him in the pointless election, which I should also remind you is going to be a costly waste of money.
All that is bad enough, but this being a Doug Ford initiative, you can bet your ass it gets worse.
Yes, this first gripe of mine probably would have happened regardless, but I’m going to go ahead and blame Ford for the extra scam because this was all his idea.
The Province of Ontario is warning residents to be on the lookout for scams to do with the $200 rebate cheques issued by Doug Ford’s government.
The $200 payment is available exclusively via cheque, which will arrive through the mail.
However, residents should be wary of texts, emails and phone calls from anyone claiming to be from the provincial government.In a “scam alert” on Ontario’s website, officials said the province will not contact someone proactively unless they initiated a question or query about the rebate.
Residents who are contacted unprompted by someone claiming to be a government staffer or representative should never give out their personal information, including social insurance number, banking or health information.
The province said it will never use text, email or a phone call to offer money or a reward, or ask to sign you up for a rebate program.
Great. We have old people in our lives who are already freaked out about scams as it is, so this should make things better.
And don’t even get me started on how he’s chosen to send these damn things out. Instead of remembering that it’s 2025 and using direct deposit like a normal person, the frigging guy is spending lord knows how much to mail them! Through the post office! The post office which, in case you’ve forgotten, is still working its way through the backlog caused by last year’s strike!
The video I stuck at the top of the post asks a question that it then proceeds not to answer, but the reason for this paper mail garbage is pretty simple. It’s all marketing and branding. It would be easy for Ford to just send you money, but he wants you to see that he’s doing it and to hold it in your hand. That way, the reasoning goes, you’ll remember who gave it to you and have fond feelings about that person when you’re at the ballot box later. It’ll likely work, too.
Me though? I just see the fucking asshat who’s making me make an unnecessary trip to the bank in the goddamn snow, and then a similarly unnecessary one to wherever the hell my polling station is after that. Thanks, dingus. You underestimate my distaste for both you and winter. I look forward to voting NDP. Great work. Go pound rocks.