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TexasTowelie

(111,313 posts)
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 05:57 PM Jun 2014

Texas Politics To Be Lone Star Of New HBO Series

Between Rick Perry, Ted Cruz and Wendy Davis, Texas politicians in recent years have lived up to their state's reputation for producing larger-than-life characters.

That makes the Texas political scene a natural for the Hollywood treatment.

HBO has given God Save Texas, a drama about the state's often raucous political culture, the green light for development. It's set to unfold at the Texas statehouse, a perennial flashpoint for national debates about issues ranging from abortion to gun rights to the size and role of government.

According to an early description first reported by Deadline.com, the show will follow an "idealistic cowboy" who, after election to the state Legislature, "becomes the target of the powerful energy lobby and learns how to survive in the crazy, brutal world of Texas politics."

More at http://kut.org/post/texas-politics-be-lone-star-new-hbo-series .

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Texas Politics To Be Lone Star Of New HBO Series (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2014 OP
Great. I hope they remember to present the consequences Ilsa Jun 2014 #1
Oh Please!! GOD save texas?? UHG, I am so burnt out on the God/Texas crap misterhighwasted Jun 2014 #2
I know malokvale77 Jun 2014 #3
Me Too. been here 8 years since that's where my daughters & grandkids are. misterhighwasted Jun 2014 #4
I'm in Dallas also malokvale77 Jun 2014 #5
Aww bless your heart..You get to leave!! misterhighwasted Jun 2014 #6
I'm from Minnesota malokvale77 Jun 2014 #7
LOL. Doing time in texas.. misterhighwasted Jun 2014 #10
Minnesota. What a magnificent State. Starry night skies, lakes & loons, & Northern Lights. misterhighwasted Jun 2014 #12
Make sure you take a drive along the North Shore... malokvale77 Jun 2014 #14
OH Geez you had to say it!! WALLEYE misterhighwasted Jun 2014 #15
I never minded the winters... malokvale77 Jun 2014 #16
This message was self-deleted by its author Rstrstx Jun 2014 #17
I work plenty hard to change the direction of this state malokvale77 Jun 2014 #18
Objecting to the bashing of a state in its own forum is not kentauros Jun 2014 #20
This message was self-deleted by its author Rstrstx Jun 2014 #23
I hate it's politics malokvale77 Jun 2014 #24
Well just about all of us agree that our politics needs a good shakedown Rstrstx Jun 2014 #25
MISTERHIGHWASTED HERE: Apologies, certainly if feelings were in anyway hurt. HOWEVER: misterhighwasted Jun 2014 #29
Very nicely put malokvale77 Jun 2014 #30
Good morning & thank you misterhighwasted Jun 2014 #31
Back at ya... malokvale77 Jun 2014 #32
This message was self-deleted by its author Rstrstx Jun 2014 #33
LOL misterhighwasted Jun 2014 #34
This message was self-deleted by its author Rstrstx Jun 2014 #35
Are you describing the Family? Hope a movie comes out about C Street. DhhD Jun 2014 #27
Secretive Fundamentalist Douglas Coe substituting Jesus in the Bible for men of power. DhhD Jun 2014 #28
Of course, these Republicans are just a recent blink in Texas, 20 years exactly. mbperrin Jun 2014 #8
It won't be soon enough for me. TexasTowelie Jun 2014 #9
Birchers! Like the Kochs. misterhighwasted Jun 2014 #11
Didn't the Koch bros.' daddy start the John Birch society? DamnYankeeInHouston Jun 2014 #19
Welch is the actual founder by title, but you're right, mbperrin Jun 2014 #21
Repukes ruin everything for everyone. misterhighwasted Jun 2014 #13
So it's going to be just like House of Cards? They_Live Jun 2014 #22
Sounds like watching it will be as much fun as root canal work. Paladin Jun 2014 #26

Ilsa

(61,675 posts)
1. Great. I hope they remember to present the consequences
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 06:34 PM
Jun 2014

Of Texas politics realistically: start with a blown-up town and dead firefighters.

misterhighwasted

(9,148 posts)
2. Oh Please!! GOD save texas?? UHG, I am so burnt out on the God/Texas crap
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 06:44 PM
Jun 2014

Makes me turn my back on the god I grew up believing something about.
Fuck**g GAWD Overkill. Tipping point with me, has been reached.
This State is not a follower of the true Christian belief.
Unless that belief professes greed for money & power and suppression of the least of its people.
Do Not Claim To Be With God Unless You Are Walking In His/Her Shoes.
Texas, Texans, & its F'd up politicians ARE NOT.

Think I'll GAG now.

malokvale77

(4,879 posts)
3. I know
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 07:05 PM
Jun 2014

I live in the hell hole known has Texas. I think God fled this place decades ago. Who could blame him?

misterhighwasted

(9,148 posts)
4. Me Too. been here 8 years since that's where my daughters & grandkids are.
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 07:41 PM
Jun 2014

the "y'all" speak is nauseating. The political corruption is blindingly obvious & to hear Texans applaud Abbot & Perry & their ilk is blatant stupidity.
I Can't Effing stand it anymore..Hell hole is appropriate.
It will take generations to change the corrupt stench from this place.
Its like another planet, driving outside my Dallas boundary.
I've lived a variety of States and I've never met backward like Texas. Yeehaw y'all. aaagghhh

malokvale77

(4,879 posts)
5. I'm in Dallas also
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 08:05 PM
Jun 2014

It is slightly more tolerable than the outlying areas. I've been here way longer than you, but I have never felt comfortable here. Every day I want to pull my hair out.

I have one more grandchild still to graduate, then hopefully I can escape. Hah

misterhighwasted

(9,148 posts)
6. Aww bless your heart..You get to leave!!
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 08:51 PM
Jun 2014

Mine are just 2, 3, & 7 yrs. I take vacations whenever I can.
Lived in Seattle for a year, at one point. The scenic beauty of that area makes you never want to go home. Especially if you are stuck in Texas. HA
Colorado too. Lived in Denver for 9 years back in the 80's/90's. Its kinda home to me still.

I'd love to take walks into the woods & not be eaten by chiggers & ticks & get torn up by thorny undergrowth, like here in Texas. That I miss. A Lot.
Maybe I just need to head north for a vacation. Summer in the mountains is the best.

malokvale77

(4,879 posts)
7. I'm from Minnesota
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 09:29 PM
Jun 2014

I hope to walk in the Superior National Forest once again before I die. My idea of heaven.

Here's hoping you survive your time here.

misterhighwasted

(9,148 posts)
12. Minnesota. What a magnificent State. Starry night skies, lakes & loons, & Northern Lights.
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 10:16 PM
Jun 2014

Okay then, guess I'm going for a really really long drive come July.
ahhhh.

malokvale77

(4,879 posts)
14. Make sure you take a drive along the North Shore...
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 10:25 PM
Jun 2014

and on your way stop off and have a walleye sandwich at Trophy's near Mille Lacs' Lake. I can taste it now, yum.

I'm jealous. Wish I could ride along.

misterhighwasted

(9,148 posts)
15. OH Geez you had to say it!! WALLEYE
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 10:47 PM
Jun 2014

All we get in Texas is big dumb catfish.
walleye wwwaaalleyyye mmm. on an open fire..crisp cool nights with the last of the campfire logs crackling & popping & smoke curling up & the sound of the night breeze through the tops of the pines. I can smell it. peace & home.
Better places await for the summer.
Okay but not the frozen winter.. ummm nope. Okay maybe the first couple snowfalls & before the temps hit -zero. Then I have to leave.

malokvale77

(4,879 posts)
16. I never minded the winters...
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 11:25 PM
Jun 2014

but then again, I was just a kid. My grandmother managed to live past 100 in that frozen tundra.

I find the Texas summers far more unbearable. One can put on enough clothes to get warm, but you can't take off enough to get cool.

But yah, walleye!

Response to malokvale77 (Reply #16)

malokvale77

(4,879 posts)
18. I work plenty hard to change the direction of this state
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 03:01 AM
Jun 2014

I have every right and reason to bash what is going on here. Are you suggesting I'm not a good person because I see the awful things going on here?

For your information, I love all nature has to offer. My back yard is a regular nature preserve.

I vote you get off your high horse.

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
20. Objecting to the bashing of a state in its own forum is not
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 10:37 AM
Jun 2014

a "high horse" action. It's a reaction to what most would call "bad form." If you want to bash us, take it to GD, where it's not only accepted as good form, but highly encouraged by the rest of the GD denizens.

I'm not saying you don't have the "right" to bash us, just that this isn't the place for it, and expect to be called on it.

Response to malokvale77 (Reply #18)

Rstrstx

(1,393 posts)
25. Well just about all of us agree that our politics needs a good shakedown
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 03:37 AM
Jun 2014

Even though I live in the South Texas Democratic "bubble" where the poor and immigrants aren't the piñatas of the local politicians the statewide Republican machinery is hard to escape (even though the federal government is felt most strongly here). But that's why we keep fighting.

misterhighwasted

(9,148 posts)
29. MISTERHIGHWASTED HERE: Apologies, certainly if feelings were in anyway hurt. HOWEVER:
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 02:48 AM
Jun 2014

A movie about GOD & TEXAS Really? Must be an election year, the name of God is bound to be tossed out there. Not for women's issues, or gender equality, nor a livable wage & certainly not to bring the education standard above the current bottom range of all 50 States, but to insure the GOP structure remains solid in the State House. Why not hold the souls of the voters hostage, it works for most everything else. The tool of the corrupt.
How the people of this State, and yes we can add a few other RED States in the mix, continue to vote the most corrupt into office is beyond belief.
But then as long as they insert the word God in their political speak, the flock follows.
Perry is a prime example.
There's my rant.

As far as the BUGS, well it is the truth, as I have discovered first hand.

Perhaps, you could have understood that the rest of the conversation was simply about what we miss from other places we have lived. And miss it all a bit more since the tipping point has been reached, as stated in my first posting.

And none of this conversation would have taken place without the overkill of religion in a State that arrogantly seems to believe the word of God truly exists on the same high horse that Perry & the GOP ride upon.
They talk the word of God but Do Not walk in the same shoes.

I stand by what I believe as I see it.
Thank You

Response to misterhighwasted (Reply #29)

misterhighwasted

(9,148 posts)
34. LOL
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 11:56 AM
Jun 2014

Fine read whatever you want into my post. You don't have to take my apology as sincere. It was. Believe what you like.
I don't think you actually tried to understand what my posts were about but ok. I believe you took the unintended insult and focused on that alone. Continuing to drive the point home is what you are doing.

No matter how sincere my apology is, I don't see you wanting to accept nor let it simply be the end of it.

Texas is MY home also. I can absolutely say what I don't like about the place.

Care to discuss the condition of Nursing Home Care in Texas as it compares to the other 50 States?

Maybe Perry & the GOP believe GOD wants that also.

And btw, I have given much towards changing the political hierarchy in both time and money.
As I said, when I drive outside my city's boundaries and listen to what is said about our State's political figures I really do feel like I am on another planet and do wonder how far the blatant ignorance stretches.

Guns, abortion, women's rights, voter suppression, low education standards, free pass for business & little for the citizens, hunger, poverty, gay rights, hate for our President & I could go on & on.
Astonishing to think of the generational challenge ahead in changing this backward thinking.

Oh ya, lets make a TV Movie about ummm, Oh I know!! GOD & TEXAS..Must be an election year.

Say what you want, I have apologized, & if you saw it as trite then that's your problem.
I have a reason for saying what I said & believe it as I have seen & lived it.

Good day to you also.




Response to misterhighwasted (Reply #34)

mbperrin

(7,672 posts)
8. Of course, these Republicans are just a recent blink in Texas, 20 years exactly.
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 09:48 PM
Jun 2014

They hatched from the old John Birch Society, and those bigots got to work, because before they came to power in 1994 with Dubya, we had some of the best roads and highways in the US, well-funded university systems, workable public school financing, and a decent tourist development agency.

These little dust-puffs will be gone soon enough. They can't last, because 83 miles of paved road being converted to gravel is straight back to 1938, and Texans want to DRIVE.

TexasTowelie

(111,313 posts)
9. It won't be soon enough for me.
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 09:53 PM
Jun 2014

Teh stoopid rulz. It is evident in the comments of every newspaper in this state.

Paladin

(28,204 posts)
26. Sounds like watching it will be as much fun as root canal work.
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 08:31 PM
Jun 2014

But then, I'm an old Texas liberal and my sense of humor often deserts me.......

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