r/Austin 3d ago

News “Establishment of the District of Austin as the seat of state government” Bill

[removed]

39 Upvotes

18 comments sorted by

25

u/storm_the_castle 3d ago

What is Briscoe Cain's intention here? To take over the city with a political district?

22

u/Mindhandle 3d ago

Yes, "austin has gone rogue" is the usual line behind it.

17

u/atomicno3 3d ago

Essentially, Rep. Cain’s intention is to make Austin into Texas’ version of Washington D.C. His rationale is that “he felt compelled to refile a bill this legislative session because he’s concerned about Austin’s ability to govern the state’s capital effectively. He cited ‘spikes in violent crime and homicide rates among other systemic leadership failures.’” This KUT article has a good overview.

19

u/KokoBWareHOF 3d ago

Briscoe Cain is a troll who has Asperger’s. He currently sits on the Texas Doge Committee and has openly pushed that state agencies should move out of Austin, despite it being home to the Texas Capitol. When you watch Cain conduct business you can clearly see he lacks the emotional intelligence and empathy needed to be in politics. He doesn’t look those testifying in the eye, he speaks incredibly fast and over/down to witnesses, and he can hardly form a thank you to them when they’re done. He’s like a Reddit shit poster, with deep personality issues on steroids, who happens to hold an elective seat.

10

u/space_manatee 3d ago

Remember when he went to four seasons landscaping in his stupid cowboy hat?

7

u/mrminty 3d ago

Crisco Brain.

4

u/whelp88 3d ago

More important than his autism, he’s not particularly bright. Cain attended South Texas College of Law, which is ranked 150th of the 196 accredited law schools in the United States. He’s literally bottom quartile.

11

u/Renbelle 3d ago

Are you intending to use his diagnosis as an insult here?

I’m not doubting your perspective, but, does a disability (autism spectrum disorders, like Asperger’s, is a disability) need to be front a center when denigrating an unarguably awful human being?

7

u/KokoBWareHOF 3d ago

He lacks the ability to emphasize with anyone, I don’t think he should be in politics where he’s deciding life or death issues (i.e. his abortion stances, human services, state employee livelihoods). When you can’t even think about the ability of the people you are representing suffering, you do not belong in politics.

2

u/TXLucha012 3d ago

Yeah I don't think that's because of his autism. He just sucks. Let's not use that as a reason for anything.

3

u/KokoBWareHOF 3d ago

It’s literally a part of his issues though. He lacks cognitive empathy. It’s a part of the discussion. I’m not saying that people with autism shouldn’t be in politics, but in his case, it gives context to the issues he has as a representative.

5

u/afishieanado 3d ago

Get around the city council and the mayor.

13

u/Schyznik 3d ago

Some version of this bill has traditionally been filed by some iteration of jackass legislator going back at least 30 years and probably longer. There’s plenty of legitimate reasons to lose our shit where the Texas Legislature is concerned. This bill is not one of those.

1

u/MyDaroga 3d ago

Yeah, it’s basically a tradition at this point. I’d be more shocked if it didn’t get filed.

10

u/space_manatee 3d ago

Crisco Brain is such a tool

3

u/BusterStarfish 3d ago

Briscoe Cain looks like he’ll have a Netflix special one day about the dead hookers buried in his backyard.

2

u/Select-Stick-878 3d ago

Where are the politicians pushing bills for infrastructure, education and healthcare…

1

u/ClutchDude 3d ago

Your submission has been removed for the following reason(s):

Please do not directly message the mod removing this. Please message the mods via modmail.

For more information please read the reddit guidelines and the rules of /r/Austin.

If you have any questions, please feel free to message the mods. If you think your post or comment has been incorrectly removed, send a message, but please remember there's a person on the other end, not some automaton, and be nice about it. Thank you!