Can someone please try to explain Texas to me?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

We have a bystander with a cell phone proving that the South Carolina PD versions of a murder were all wrong. (Kudos to SC - their reactions, actions, and public statements kept that state peaceful and relatively safe. See generally, Ferguson and the Grand Police Presence)

So Texas responds how? By wanting to ban and to make illegal photos and video of cops in action?

What am I missing about that state? And the kind of people who would think along those lines?

[liberal N proud]

1. Texas once had a theme related to travel but was so much more...

The theme was Texas, a Whole other country.

And when you look at the laws, the politics and what they have done to schools among other things, it really is a whole other country where nothing is as it should be.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. I still laugh at the time when Perry held a prayer vigil for rain

and just as the hurricane was coming across the Gulf, just as it was to hit the Texas coast, it slowed down, stopped, and then disappeared.

So much for the power of prayer.

[Buzz Clik]

11. -1

good god.

[snooper2]

2. It won't happen, Supreme court has ruled on this a couple different times

"No expectation of privacy while in a public space/place"

[Faux pas]

3. There is no explanation other than

they live in an alternate universe/reality. Sane folks will never get it.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. Too much sun?

[Faux pas]

6. LOL

not enough oxygen?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

13. galactic distances between their synapses?

with plenty of inert dark matter in between.

[Faux pas]

22. Yeah, that's the ticket!

Maybe it's not so much 'dark matter', more like pudding. lol

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

7. They assume they will never need that cell phone video themselves. Just racist fucks

[KamaAina]

8. This guy, maybe

[LeftInTX]

9. My gut feeling: This bill won't pass

It was introduced by Jason Villalba, but other than that I haven't heard of anyone else supporting it.

[Buzz Clik]

10. "Texas" is a state, a geographical location filled with people at a low population density

While the rest of the political right in this country is looking at the video from South Carolina and saying, "This cop has just made a bad name for every other cop in this country," one Dallas Republican in the Texas legislature has proposed a bill making filming of cops illegal for everyone but the MSM.

Texas is no different than any other state: they have a shitty selection of candidates to begin with, and choose somebody based on just about nothing. This guy is an attention whore, and just got 15 big minutes of fame.

If the legislature passes the bill, then we'll talk about "what's wrong with Texas." Right now the question is, why is Jason Villalba so fucking tone deaf?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. Cowboy culture in the government.

Nothing against ordinary Texans per se, which like just about anywhere, are a mixed bag.

But there's a sick cowboy culture that governs public policy there, evidenced by the gun worship and the eagerness to execute people.

[Pathwalker]

14. Texas needs another "S" at the end of it's name?

Tried to never stop in the state driving through, even in the 60s & 70s the people were so unfriendly, we chose to drive straight through.

[tabasco]

15. Its lawmakers are evil

as well as much of its population.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

17. Yet, I found Austin to be rather nice

except for the 108 F. in the shade temps in the spring.

[tabasco]

19. I'm sure there are many decent people there.

I'm not sure why.

[Avalux]

16. Umm....GOP extremists control everything at the state level.

They are the kind of people who would think along those lines.

[clarice]

18. This particular issue aside,

Texas is a great place to live. Great housing prices, no state tax, very business friendly, outstanding restaurants
and cultural happenings.


I first came here in
1980 from Connecticut of all places. I couldn't BELIEVE how much friendlier and hip the people in Texas are
as opposed to those puritans in CT. (no slight intended)

[world wide wally]

20. Don't forget...

They seceded once and we were stupid enough to let them back in

[RecoveringJournalist]

21. Fence?

I know people from Texas. Like everywhere, there are people who strongly disagree and are indeed sickened by what seems to be the local status quo. (I live in Indiana. So I know this all too well.)

But here's my thought:

Toxic fumes from the border fence??

[rainbow4321]

23. Before you generalize about our state, please read this link

It was one lawmaker who got negative feed back from so many Texans he dropped the bill. Article said people from the left and the right opposed it.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/state-politics/20150410-bill-to-limit-filming-of-police-activity-is-dropped.ece


The guy who introduced the bill is a dick, though. He was deleting ALL his voice mail to avoid people calling to leave him messages and deleting the same critics from social media. Wonder how many constituents' non-bill related voice mails he deleted?