Mayor Of Texas City Resigns After Controversial Facebook Post Blaming Victims Of Energy Blackout For Their "Laziness"
“If you are sitting at home in the cold because you have no power and are sitting there waiting for someone to come rescue you because your lazy is direct result of your raising,” he wrote. Boyd said only the “strong will survive” the storm, the “weak will parish,” by which he apparently meant “perish.”
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Texas Mayor Announces Resignation After Unhinged Facebook Rant About Power Outages Goes Viral
Tim Boyd, the mayor of Colorado City, Texas, announced his resignation on Tuesday following a viral Facebook post where he whined about residents who wanted help during the extreme weather that has caused widespread power outages and dangerously cold conditions for millions of people throughout the state. Boyd accused some Texans who didn’t have power of being “lazy” and looking for “handouts” because of “socialism.”
Boyd’s post, which was riddled with spelling errors and homophones, included bizarre lines like, “no one owes you are [sic] your family anything; nor is it the local government’s responsibility to support you during trying times like this!” The post went viral on Tuesday as an example of the callousness many politicians have exhibited in Texas during this week’s terrifying weather.
Boyd even wrote, “The City and County, along with power providers or any other service owes you NOTHING!”—a strange claim when you consider that both governments and power companies do, in fact, owe citizens quite a lot. As many as 3 million people still don’t have electricity in Texas as of Wednesday morning, according to the Associated Press .
“Only the strong will survive and the weak will parish [sic],” Boyd continued in his cold-hearted Facebook rant.
At least 23 people have died in incidents related to the apocalyptic weather, according to the New York Times , including some elderly people who are believed to have died from the lack of heat . Others have died from carbon monoxide poisoning while trying to get warm in dangerous ways, such as leaving their cars running in the garage .
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The viral Facebook post, complete with spelling errors and strange grammar:
Boyd eventually deleted his post and created a second even longer post where he wrote that some of the things he said were “taken out of context.” He also complained that his wife was being harassed and had lost her job for defending her husband’s statements. It’s not immediately clear where Boyd’s wife worked or how she actually lost her job.
The second Facebook post:
Boyd told the Dallas Morning News on Tuesday that he had already resigned before he published the first Facebook post, a claim that couldn’t be verified independently. Boyd’s claim obviously has the energy of a man who wants to say, “you can’t fire me, I quit.” But who knows?
Maybe he just really wanted to get out of his job by spreading as much ill will as possible on the internet before he left. Because if that was the goal, he got his wish.
How do you take "something out of context" when the whole thing is right there in black and white????
I really do believe some people need to spend some time with dictionaries and other text books.
As I said on another seed, the storm that has hit Texas would be totally normal winter weather in much of the rest of the country. Texas is not immune to snow and cold, although it is rare. It is a failure of government to not have better prepared for this. Although people do have a responsibility to do what they need to do to survive, all the complaints the citizens are making about "government" in this crisis seem fair to me.
First time in history that the entire state has been under storm warnings.
Not normal in the least.
I wonder how many more Texas customers would be without power if all Texas customers were on one of the other two grids, taxing them to the max?
Claiming it is normal winter weather in most of the country is plain false.
Equating a once-in-a-lifetime storm with events that occur every single year in other places is simply ludicrous.
California seems to have rolling blackouts every single year affecting millions of customers.
See any differences?
Here in Chicago , the last time the temperature reached 20 degrees or higher was 13 days ago. We had 18 inches of snow the day before yesterday, and have had 36 inches of snow fall in the past 2 1/2 weeks.
4 inches of snow and a few days of cold weather like Texas is getting would seem like a vacation.
I know it is unusual for Texas, but it's not impossible and their utilities were not ready. Why this jackass mayor is trying to blame the citizens is beyond me.
Chicago is hardly "most of the rest of the country".
Chicago also has snowplows, Texas largely doesn't.
And Texans laugh when places like Chicago or New York get hit with a "heatwave" that makes temperatures soar into the high 90's or just over 100 degrees and people there complain about the "heatwave" when our low temperatures in the summer rarely get below 65 degrees---if that--and our highs are 100+ for a solid month. We just wonder why they don't crank their AC's up!
80% of the 51 states (inclu DC) get an average of at least 5 inches of snow per year.
That is "most of the rest of the country" whether you like it or not.
Oh, FFS.
Do I really need to explain to you that AVERAGES are different than one-time weather events?
Seriously?
So you see no fucking difference whatsoever with Texas getting record snowfalls over a 3-4 day period with Bumfuck, USA getting 5 inches of snow spread out over an entire winter.
That's like claiming that a place that floods because of a hurricane shouldn't because Bumfuck, USA gets more rain in a year than that and doesn't flood!
Good to know.
SMMFH
It is an utter waste of time to talk with you.
In one of your comments you said this
It isnt everyday winter weather in most of the country, but it is normal. Normally, Kentucky gets an average of 8.83 inches of snow per year.
I have to remind myself not to waste time replying to your comments anymore.
I know exactly what I wrote.
You are comparing AVERAGES to a one-time weather event.
That is plain stupid.
Comment on the mayor in the article.
Any further comments that do not involve the seed will be subject to deletion.
I responded to your post #2.
If I am off topic, so are you by your very own standards, right?
In post #2, you made no reference to the mayor at all, nor in ANY subsequent comments to me on this particular thread.
You can delete this if you choose, but it makes you look very hypocritical to do so.
I don't know if Texas is part of the 10 State Standards but it's a manual used by utility and public engineers (health and environmental) when planning where to put water and sewer lines. There is a minimum distance that water lines are to be placed to guard against freezing in severe weather. Chicago probably had them buried all the way to the Earth's core (that's a joke) but more southern states only have to go down about a foot and a half at best. This is to provide insulation from the soil where the pipes are buried. If some utilities didn't do this, this could be why they have problems.
Also, lack of water can come from power outages because water plants run on electricity. That's where generators come in handy with a supply of fuel to keep the water plant going for a few days at least.
I don't know anything about power plants but burying power lines eases some of the problems.
Also, Texas is not prepared for such a storm. They probably don't have salt and sand and I doubt you could find one snow plow in all of Texas.
John, you and I grew up in cold weather climates so we know what's necessary, but for people who have never experienced it, it can be a harsh reality. Hopefully they will be better prepared when it happens again.
Lazy, freezin' Texans lookin' for handouts now huh?! What a buncha socialist pinko commies!
;~)
I know right?
So how are people in Tx supposed to generate heat and electricity for themselves?
Setting their house on fire would handle the heat problem. As for electricity they could dam the creek and produce it that way.
Those suggestions are as ignorant as the mayor's comments are.
Morning. Do most houses over there use all electric?? Here we can have both...electric and gas...so if one is blacked out still can use the other.
Our power grid is struggling to the extent they were running adds on tv to prepare for blackouts etc if it was going to be a stinker of a summer.
Lucky this summer has been very cool no majour bushfires and Autumn is already in the air. So think we have avoided the yearly "dance with the fire devil"..
No, most have a combo of gas and elec, shona. Some are all-electric, our complex is all-electric. The next one over is gas and electric.
You had a mild summer down under. My kids are quite happy that it was and not another dance with the fire devil.
Yes same here..last year's bushfires were enough for quite awhile. It is only the last two days I have been able to hit the waves..and the temperature was over 30oC..
SUCH A FUCKING IDIOT. He, a guy who is paid by taxpayers, goes on to blame them for their basic utlities not working? When all of them to one degree are subsidies by their $ in addition to them paying those companies directly? Somehow the payees are at fault for their services, the ones they paid for, not working? Dipshit.
The last time I looked electricity and water are not handouts...I gotta pay for those "handouts"
Any doubt his wife is already applying for unemployment, a socialist handout?
I feel sorry for his kids. another fucking dumb ass texas trumpster.
Why wouldn't she apply after getting laid off? To not do so would be rather foolish.
How is unemployment insurance a socialist handout exactly?