Posted on 03/10/2020 6:00:07 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
...In the video above one of his aides appearing on camera with Adler states, ‘’We want everyone to know, it’s still safe and a wonderful thing to stand with Austin.’’ They also have announced there would be a fund set up, which residents could contribute to with donations, that would benefit those who are, ‘’hit the hardest by this, and the least likely to be able to come out of it.’’ So they are now asking residents to help bail out those who were directly impacted by the rash decision made by Adler.
What is evident here is that this video is a clear hail Mary in the CYA mode of politics, and it illustrates one of two factors to be in play, neither of which look for Adler. Either he is compelling his gentry to head out and congregate in the midst of a public health crisis, or he has realized the impetuous decision he made and sees the economic disaster he has provoked. Either the case, this appears to be a completely disqualifying maneuver on the part of the mayor...
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A fund setup? /me shaking my head...
The spread of a pandemic be damned!
authoritarians don’t like peons to question their authority
From a Texan who avoids Austin as much as possible ...
400 million? Is this like the 150 million that die from gun violence per Biden?
I think that is $, I hope.
How does someone like Adler even get elected in Texas? Are kids at the University of Texas campus voting idiots like this into office?
What large city anywhere in the US has a Republican mayor?
Most are run by loony liberal lefties.
Austin has three major “industries”: politics, academics, and high tech. All three tend to run with “progressive” Democrats.
The tech sector is the worst because it has attracted immigrants from the Left Coast.
In order to teach President Trump a lesson, the mayor yelled “shark” instead of yelling “barracuda”. Now he has a panic on the fourth of July.
Wonder if he’s related to Jim Adler, “The Texas Hammer!”
The Coachella Festival is on the verge of cancellation, I am thinking.
Will Japan still hold the Olympics?
Will the Kentucky Derby be run without a crowd?
Will the Indianapolis 500 be run without a crowd??
I don’t even wish to go to my local RURAL post office for stamps!!!
Last year, that festival brought in over 400,000 persons, over many days.
Last year’s gross was listed at $388 million.
Large multiday music/film festivals bring LOTS of $$$ to any area.
The mayor’s moronic policies have led to an explosion of homeless camps. Horribly dangerous situation in Austin.
Is this a GoFundMe deal to take up the slack on canceling the SXSW?
I thought Music was a big industry there as well.
Here’s a question for you, if this were football season what would happen?????????
Just saw The Ivy League cancelled their basketball tournament.
Wow. So is the NCAA going to cancel the tournament this year?
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