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When Rob Ford was elect­ed May­or of Toron­to in 2010, I felt no hes­i­ta­tion in pre­dict­ing that he would unleash a tidal wave of chaos, incom­pe­tence and cor­rup­tion on our fair city. His type of pho­ny-baloney “pop­ulism” was noth­ing new to me, and the results pre­dictable. My eval­u­a­tion has been con­firmed a thou­sand times over.

This evening, I was watch­ing Tim Bur­ton’s sec­ond Bat­man film, Bat­man Returns (1992), and was in stitch­es over the obvi­ous resem­blance between Ford’s cam­paign and per­son­al­i­ty, and the Pen­guin, as por­trayed by Dan­ny DeVi­to. The Pen­guin runs for may­or of Gotham City on pret­ty much the same plat­form, and his phys­i­cal resem­blance to Ford makes it all the more delight­ful. Think­ing I might find a good still from the film on the inter­net to illus­trate my point, I dis­cov­ered that many oth­er peo­ple had made the same con­nec­tion. The above image was all over the web. Kudos to the anony­mous humourist who cre­at­ed it.