YES. It’s rage inducing.

The whole natural childbirth and extended breast feeding attachment parenting thing is very cult-like. Just like with any ideology, there are some basic and true things at its core but taken to the extremes, it’s antifeminist, antiscientific fundamentalism.

Seriously. My brother was born this way too. I don’t see why you’d put yourself in a situation to rely on an ambulance getting there in time when you could just be in the place with emergency services.

So what was the advantage of being at home?

What is the point of doing it somewhere where you’d have to transport rather than just being in the place that has emergency services from the get go? Was it financial? Hospitals will allow you to only have an attending midwife as well so why do it at home? I just don’t get this.

Even home births are nastier (in the US) than they need be much of the time. The main issue seems to be the reluctance to seek help when it is needed and the huge variety in paths to become a midwife. Some midwives are very well trained medical professionals. But a lot of states let you become one just by doing an…

They aren’t reasonable. They are brainwashed. A reasonable person would’ve had prenatal care in the first place and wouldn’t glorify and romanticize dead babies and female pain.

yes?

I don’t think he’s going to win. I’d give away all my halloween treats to come for it to happen. But even if he does, he’s more an Obama style Democrat than anything (hopey changey charisma but centrist politics). That’s lightyears better than what we have and I’ll take it a million times over, but what’s more…

Hey, I don’t know if you are in Texas or not, and if you are, I don’t know how long you’ve been involved on the ground, but Beto has not been a rising tide lifting smaller local boats. In fact it’s absolutely nearly 100% the other way around. Beto is rising on the massive well organized local tides that started during…

I was agreeing with you, and adding the fact that a lot of the NATIONAL attention around him focuses on the narrative of “look what a shining star to do so well in such a red state!” when the truth is actually that he’s the only Democrat that’s even attempted to campaign there in decades. Other Democrats might’ve done…

I agree with you generally, but I disagree with the idea of needing one person to speak for the nation as a whole. I think it’s a ludicrous leftover from monarchy days- why in the world should the same person be the spokesperson for a country’s economic policies, environmental policies, foreign policy, domestic…

Well I don’t agree that he should run. I think he should focus on being a Senator if he wins and continuing to build a base of support and especially to defend Texans against all the shit going down here. Build a background for himself first.

I really hope you are correct. But I’m not optimistic. Not with all the voting machine stuff and the disenfranchisement, plus the fact that the older population just really is hardcore GOP plus some younger and suburban folks too. Texas is purple, but the two sides hate each other. I have seen more people, who were…

I think what the current situation has taught us is that the presidency should be abolished altogether. Seriously. What the fuck is its purpose? Why not just eliminate the personality cults altogether and have a parliamentary system?

He should only run for POTUS if he wins this race and then serves some time as senator. That puts him at the 2024 (after Trump’s second term, let’s be honest) when his kids are older.

A GOP candidate will step up and that’s all that matters to them at this point. No one likes Cruz in Texas, not even the Republicans, but they will still come out for him because the state is massively split.

I get the twins mixed up. It was Joaquin that stepped out of the Senate race for Beto, but it’s Julian who wants to run for POTUS, right?

He’s been campaigning basically since 2016. Think about that for a bit. That’s how long it takes, with that many millions of dollars, to come close to a federal office. Running for something is basically his job at this point. 

Yes but you do have to keep in mind that the DNC hasn’t even bothered campaigning in Texas for years, and then when someone does, they get half the vote and run a very tight race. I don’t think Beto will win though I’m on pins and needles about it, but the fact that it’s even a possibility shows how purple Texas…