Mayor of West Texas town,
Colorado City in Texas to be
specific, has resigned following
a pretty awful social media post
that has received so much backlash
for very obvious reasons.
Now as we had shared with you in
an earlier show, Texas along with
several other states are dealing
with frigid temperatures.
Texas is really dealing with
the brunt of this winter storm
because of the uniquely terrible
position the state has been in when
it comes to its power grid.
There have been rolling
blackouts as a result of that.
People have been left in the cold
without power to heat themselves.
It's been a complete and
utter disaster.
And so understandably, there have
been constituents, there have been
people who've been reaching out to
their local politicians hoping that
they would get some assistance.
But Tim Boyd, now the former mayor
of Colorado city in Texas is not
too happy about that.
He doesn't think that you should
reach out for any type of help from
your elected leaders.
Let me give you just some excerpts
from the post that has since been
deleted.
He writes, no one owes you or
your family anything,
nor is it the local government's
responsibility to support you
during trying times like this.
Sink or swim, it's your choice.
The city and county along with
power providers or any other
service, owes you nothing.
There's more.
Let me remind you all that more
than 4 million Texans have been
left without power in the state.
And Texas really prides itself on
ensuring that their utilities
are privatized.
They believe in market competition.
And what's the argument that we
usually hear John from people who
argue that free market
capitalism is the absolute best.
Well, I mean,
you get what you pay for you.
You get the best service, right?
Sorry, I'm answering the question
that I asked you, but go ahead.
>> [LAUGH] Mostly what you
had said.
>> [LAUGH] No, no, no but
seriously.
>> Yeah, that it's supposed to
produce the best outcomes and
natural incentives, blah,
blah, the invisible hand.
Yeah.
>> Yeah, but these power companies,
they owe you nothing.
I mean, they expect you to pay for
the service, but
they owe you nothing.
So let me give you more from what
he had posted.
If you don't have electricity,
you step up and come up with a game
plan to keep your family warm and
safe.
If you have no water you
deal without and think outside
the box to survive and
supply water to your family.
Only the strong will survive and
the weak will perish.
>> I feel like he wants people
to break into his house and
steal his stuff.
If he has what you going to do,
you're going to complain?
We're thinking outside of the box
here buddy.
You got a problem with me?
Should I unrope you?
Well, survival of the fittest in
all that.
So you don't want a government, you
act like you don't want a society.
What do you want exactly?
You want anarchy and yet
you ran for mayor.
So that doesn't really seem
consistent.
I get that there are people who
are so antisocial that they
might think something like that.
Usually it's as a result of you
being privileged to not be one of
the houses that lost power and
you just assume something about you
naturally makes you better.
I do not understand a politician
posting it.
They must have thought, I guess
Trump Marjorie Green anything
goes just say what you think.
Maybe there are actually limits
though.
>> Yeah, limits when people
are desperate and seeking help from
their elected politicians and
I know this is a local politician.
And when you get this kind of
response, I mean, look,
I get that there are conservatives,
certainly conservatives in Texas
who believe in small government.
But I would venture to say
that even those small
government Republicans,
are understanding of the fact that
what Texas is experiencing right
now is exactly what government is
supposed to take charge of.
And provide services in order to
protect people so
they don't die, right?
The whole point of the government
is to be able to
protect its people.
And that's not what this
government's doing,
that's for sure.
That's not what the mayor had any
interest in doing.
Don't know why he had any
interest in being mayor.
I mean, I think that should
probably be looked into.
>> Salary maybe.
I don't know.
I know someone in the chat and
a twitch chat was like this is like
Mad Max.
And I get it, sink or
swim survival, the fittest and
all that, but
the thing is that even in Mad Max,
Immortan Joe does give some water.
He gives handouts.
This guy's meaner than
the dictatorial post-apocalyptic
leaders of Mad Max.
>> I mean,
speaking of handouts, he mentioned
that specifically, writing,
bottom line quit crying and
looking for a handout.
Get your asses and
take care of your own family.
It's so callous and so disgusting
and he claims that he had posted
that as a private citizen because
he allegedly had resigned prior to
posting that.
I'm not really sure I believe him
to be honest.
He says he resigned on February 12,
and he partly doesn't even regret.
>> Nobody knows.
>> Yeah,- >> Okay >> Exactly,
and the city's website, by the way,
also still had him listed as
a mayor because guess what,
he was still the mayor.
My guess is, this post received so
much backlash that he agreed to
resign.
And he did also he took down
the post and then he posted
something else and you would think
maybe he had originally posted when
he was in the heat of the moment.
He's frustrated.
He's getting contacted by so
many people.
It's just out of his hands.
He doesn't know what to do.
He maybe had a lapse in judgment.
I know I'm giving him
too much the benefit of the doubt,
I'm not even buying it, right?
But he didn't even
really apologize.
The post that he put up later
was this.
I won't deny for one minute what I
said in my post this morning.
I was speaking as a citizen
as I'm not the mayor anymore.
I apologize for the wording and
ask that you please not harass
myself or my family anymore.
And what he's referring to
regarding his family is the fact
that his wife jumped in to
defend him.
And then I guess people were
also not so
complimentary toward his wife.
In fact, according to him, his
wife also lost her job as a result
of her own input in this.
That's what he's claiming in
the new post that he put up.
And he also says this, I admit
there are things that are said all
the time that I don't agree with,
but I would never harass you or
your family to the point that they
could lose their livelihood,
such as a form of income.
No, I mean, you maybe wouldn't
harass people, but
you certainly would neglect people
to the point where they could
potentially lose their lives in
the middle of a winter storm, where
their power has been shut off and
they don't have access to water.
That makes you a pretty bad person.
>> I guess it's, whether it's true
or not that he resigned and
almost certainly isn't that he had
already resigned.
This is still what you think.
Is it better in some way that
a private citizen who apparently is
weathering the storm okay,
thinks that everyone else who wants
aid should stop complaining?
I guess it's less of a crisis
because you can't have your leader
doing that.
Although that is apparently who he
was when he was the leader.
And should he seek political office
in the future,
this is what he thinks about
the role of government and its
relationship with the citizenry.
Look, yeah,
don't harass his family, I guess.
I don't know.
If I had any more advice to him I
would say,
bottom line dude quit crying and
looking for a social media handout,
get off your asses and
take care of your own family.
No, but see,
we don't actually think that.
This is how he thinks about
the world.
We want you to join us in society,
which is a much nicer
place to live.
>> Yeah, and I mean,
even one of our members had
commented about what's going on in
Texas right now is pretty awful.
And this member had remembered the
fact that Texas had sent California
rakes when we were dealing with
some pretty severe wildfires.
And it was a way to kind of rub
the fact that we were suffering
in our faces, which is a pretty
horrendous and hideous thing to do.
And so,
the suggestion is to mock Texas for
having such an awful power grid and
overwhelmingly privatized system
that has only hurt the residents of
Texas right now.
I made this argument about,
we want to be better than that.
We want to see people in this
country as people, regardless of
their political beliefs.
We don't want people to suffer.
There's all sorts of innocent
people suffering in Texas right
now and it's not right.
But little did I know that Texas
had its own politicians that wanted
to see their own people suffer.
That's what we're dealing with
in this country.
I mean, it's not just in a federal
level of government.
I mean,
even with a hyper local politician,
such as a mayor of a town of 4,000
people, he just decides to openly
transparently give his own
constituents the middle finger and
he has no remorse.
He's completely
unapologetic about it.
In fact,
he ended up making himself out to
be some sort of victim because of
his wife allegedly losing her
job after she had engaged in
the same commentary basically.
So it's pretty devastating.
I'm glad that he stepped down.
He has no business representing
anyone because he doesn't care
about the best interests of anyone
other than himself and his family.
And that's not the type of person
who should be a politician or
any kind of representative in
government.