Here’s an excerpt from an interview Joe Rogan did with Austin mayor Steve Adler:
How many lies can you spot? Here are a few.
Before they repealed the camping ban: “I had more and more neighborhood associations complaining about more and more encampments, and I had no solution to that.”
Of course you did. You and the city council could have let Austin police enforce the law and either cleared homeless encampments and/or arrested people for breaking the law. That would have prodded the sturdiest beggars to move on to greener pastures. But the city council wouldn’t let APD enforce the law because there was no money to rake off to leftwing activists as part of the homeless industrial complex.
So instead you made the problem ten times worse.
His claim that “90-95% success rate” for “housing first” curing the problem is absolute garbage. Mentally-ill, drug-using transients don’t become magically sane or drug free because they’re in a hotel on the taxpayers dime.
“Smaller cities than Austin have 3-6x the amount of homelessness.” So that’s why you imported west coast policies to Austin? So you can increase the size of the homeless population like they did? If so, mission accomplished.
“They told me the same thing as San Francisco, Portland and Seattle.” Oh, so you sought advice from the cities with the worst homeless problems and the most obvious failed policies that made the problem worse! Genius!
When he says that the “overwhelming majority” of the current transient population are “from here,” either he’s lying or his staff is. A good two-thirds of the current homeless population seem to have come from out of town. And they’re not coming from “the areas immediately around us,” they’re coming from Houston and the Metroplex so they can do drugs and sleep in the street and not be arrested.
“We needed to get people off the streets.” Yeah, that’s why you turned every park and overpass into Bumsville: To get them off the street. Pull the other one.
“If all they’re doing is surviving…” And by “surviving,” he means “shooting up heroin in public.”
And note throughout the newly-minted PC neologism “people experiencing homelessness,” which I’m sure focus groups much better than “drug addicted transients” and “gibbering street lunatics.”
Also, that veterans program isn’t the shining success that Adler is making it out to be. According to a friend that applied for veteran housing, there was a nine month wait, so they put your name on a list, and if you couldn’t accept right then (say, you had just signed a lease), your name went right back to the bottom of the list.
I suspect the rest of the interview would offer up a lot more lies to flag…
(Hat tip: Teddy Brosevelt.)
Tags: Austin, Crime, Democrats, homeless, Joe Rogan, Steve Adler
“‘complaining about more and more encampments, and I had no solution to that.’
Of course you did. You and the city council could have let Austin police enforce the law”
no no, you have to understand these people. he means he had no solutions that advanced his goals. sure, allowing the police to function normally would have advanced the citizens’ and the city’s interests, but those aren’t his goals.
“So that’s why you imported west coast policies to Austin? So you can increase the size of the homeless population like they did? If so, mission accomplished.”
yes. exactly. you’re getting the hang of it.
“Steve Adler’s Lies”
he doesn’t see it as lying, and he doesn’t think he’s lying. and in truth he’s not. see, preciously imitating the people he works for, he thinks he’s in charge of the cattle (you and me), and his job is to herd the cattle, so he says whatever he needs to say to herd the cattle. he’s not communicating with you, he’s manipulating you. whether what he says is right or wrong, good or evil, true or false, is irrelevant – what’s relevant is getting the cattle to go where he wants them to go, and anything that does that is perfectly acceptable and right and good and just.
“drug addicted transients” and “gibbering street lunatics.”
Bums.
“he says whatever he needs to say to herd the cattle … what’s relevant is getting the cattle to go where he wants them to go, and anything that does that is perfectly acceptable and right and good and just.”
Sounds like Animal Farm.
“Sounds like Animal Farm”
it is. now just have to identify who the pigs are.