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pnwmom

(108,955 posts)
Mon Sep 3, 2018, 11:25 PM Sep 2018

Did you know Michael Avenatti's mother was born on a cotton farm in Texas?

And she didn't even have a midwife.










I am excited to announce that I will be leading a large resistance rally in Texas at the exact same time of Trump’s (details tba). All groups are welcome to join. We must fight fire with fire and we must send a message that we will fight to make America America again. #Basta


1/2 - The only “outsider” coming to Texas is Donald Trump. My mother was born on a cotton farm in Leuders, Texas (pop. 300). There was no midwife. She learned to pick cotton as soon as she could walk. She later moved to Dallas and graduated from NR Crozier Tech.


2/2 - My grandmother worked at a hair salon at the old White Plaza Hotel in Dallas. And my brother was born at Baylor Hospital. My family wasn’t born with silver spoons in our mouths and we didn’t have real estate empires or gold toilets under our butts either. See you in Texas.
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Did you know Michael Avenatti's mother was born on a cotton farm in Texas? (Original Post) pnwmom Sep 2018 OP
K & R UTUSN Sep 2018 #1
Glad he's on our side. dalton99a Sep 2018 #2
No kidding grantcart Sep 2018 #6
Good! summer_in_TX Sep 2018 #3
Leuders, Texas gay texan Sep 2018 #4
Do you think you might make it to the rally? n/t pnwmom Sep 2018 #7
k&r Demovictory9 Sep 2018 #5
He should coordinate with Beto. nt SunSeeker Sep 2018 #8
Funny how Trump won't say one word about Avenatti.. helpisontheway Sep 2018 #9
good point KT2000 Sep 2018 #10
No snow flake.... safeinOhio Sep 2018 #11
"Did you know Michael Avenatti" mitch96 Sep 2018 #12
Message auto-removed Name removed Sep 2018 #13
What is LOL? Sanity Claws Sep 2018 #14
Message auto-removed Name removed Sep 2018 #17
Who said the birth or delivery was easy? Sanity Claws Sep 2018 #18
No LOL there. Yonnie3 Sep 2018 #19
If a woman can deliver on an Amtrak train or in a cab, pnwmom Sep 2018 #20
Either she was alone or someone else on the farm. Around the world, this happens every day. pnwmom Sep 2018 #16
One correction Ted Cruz is NOT a Texan MagickMuffin Sep 2018 #15

summer_in_TX

(2,710 posts)
3. Good!
Tue Sep 4, 2018, 12:08 AM
Sep 2018

I worried about that famous Texas disdain for outsiders. He's smart to foresee and address that now. Now, let's hope there will be a lot done to shore up his Texas bona fides.

gay texan

(2,435 posts)
4. Leuders, Texas
Tue Sep 4, 2018, 12:30 AM
Sep 2018

Is a very remote place and it's not too far from me. There is a lot of busted boom towns out here. To survive out in this area back in the day, you had to be tough. I can see where he gets his work ethic...

helpisontheway

(5,004 posts)
9. Funny how Trump won't say one word about Avenatti..
Tue Sep 4, 2018, 01:28 AM
Sep 2018

He is scared. He knows Avenatti has dirt on him. Just as he knows Putin has dirt on him.

mitch96

(13,870 posts)
12. "Did you know Michael Avenatti"
Tue Sep 4, 2018, 08:42 AM
Sep 2018

Is a pretty good race car driver in his spare time??? I was impressed... The guy's got skills..
I saw a pic of him at the track with his ex wife... She looks just like Stormy with dark hair..
I wonder what other skills he has..
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Response to pnwmom (Original post)

Sanity Claws

(21,840 posts)
14. What is LOL?
Tue Sep 4, 2018, 10:56 AM
Sep 2018

I hope the mother received assistance from family members, such as her mother or sisters.
I couldn't imagine the pain, emotional and physical, she would have endured if she had to go through childbirth alone.
Really, what is LOL?

Response to Sanity Claws (Reply #14)

Sanity Claws

(21,840 posts)
18. Who said the birth or delivery was easy?
Tue Sep 4, 2018, 02:06 PM
Sep 2018

You are making a lot of assumptions and laughing at your own assumptions.

Yonnie3

(17,420 posts)
19. No LOL there.
Tue Sep 4, 2018, 02:08 PM
Sep 2018

For thousands of years there were no doctors, midwifes or nurses. Yet mankind survived.

The only LOL I see is your belief.

pnwmom

(108,955 posts)
20. If a woman can deliver on an Amtrak train or in a cab,
Tue Sep 4, 2018, 03:06 PM
Sep 2018

she can deliver in her own bed on a cotton farm.


https://www.thecut.com/2016/03/how-to-deliver-a-baby.html

Last weekend, a woman who was eight and a half months pregnant gave birth on a New York City–bound Amtrak train in Aberdeen, Maryland. When she unexpectedly went into labor on the train, she found a “Good Samaritan” to help her until they could stop for EMT help. By then, there was no time to get to the hospital, so she had her baby on the train.

pnwmom

(108,955 posts)
16. Either she was alone or someone else on the farm. Around the world, this happens every day.
Tue Sep 4, 2018, 12:03 PM
Sep 2018

Babies don't always wait for hospitals or even midwives.

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