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Can’t drink wine, can’t have blue hair, but your malnourished sons can wave guns around to prove they’re not “sissies.”

I think the TLC producers purposely ask very leading questions of Micah to push the fish out of water, Beverly Hillbilly narrative. Maybe to get him to admit to some experimentation. Maybe to get him to say something that could be perceived as homophobic. Either way, I’m glad he didn’t give them the satisfaction. They purposely played Micah’s answer right after Michael jokingly said they went on a date together. I also think they along with Kim are the ones pushing Barry to get Ethan to talk to Kim on camera. I think Kim has a boyfriend. She seems almost disgusted by Barry. Every time she has these “talks” with him, it’s always, “remember how you’ve always been a total dick to me and I’ve been an innocent suffering wife?” And Barry’s always like, “Yes, you are correct ma’am. I am trash.” In all the footage I’ve seen of Barry, he’s been completely deferential to Kim. I keep wanting to see this controlling, uncaring beast she makes him out to be. ETA: autocorrect keeps changing Ethan to Ethanol 😂.

She doesn’t even understand how much of a privilege it is to be in the hospital room with her mom. My mother was in the hospital during the peak of the shutdown and I had to wait in the parking lot. I have friends whose parents were having major surgery during that time and they were not allowed in. We were trying to figure out who we knew that worked at the hospital so that they could check on our parents and pass messages back and forth. Still, I know how fortunate I am compared to those who had to say goodbye to their dying loved ones over Zoom or FaceTime these past few years. The fact that she can’t be bothered to even put on a mask to protect her mother’s very fragile health is mind blowing.

A much smarter person can feel free to correct me, but I think that’s pretty common for kids in bilingual households. Avi has spent most of his little life with people who speak Amharic as a first language.

They are kind of hot together, am I right?

Bini sews? Did we know that already? That’s a very valuable skill to have. Much more than competing in fixed MMA fights with TLC’s pool of extras.

Me too. That lady looked like she had six nipples. Michael Phelps was the first person I saw with them and I just assumed he needed to visit a Dr. Pimple Popper.

Can a very mean pterodactyl or something just bust through that window and eat him? Ugh!

Ugh! I need trigger warnings for Bilal’s mug.

Why are you in the garage of your (allegedly) own house in order to give someone privacy? Just go to another room.

Yuck! That little snarf ferret dog is licking the ketchup and mustard from underneath her talons. My dog is a trash panda, but even he would be disgusted.

Temperature? Temperature! And he answers the door wearing a Hugh Hefner smoking jacket? This guy wants to be Sojaboy Jr.

Throw in Kate Gosselin, Amy from Little People Big World, and 90 Day Danielle and then you got me. The Real Divorcées of TLC all decked out in capri pants and fisherman sandals.

What’s glaring to me is Kim’s lack of accountability in how she hurt the very children she thought she was protecting. I’m very sorry that she was victimized. It was brave of her to share that with her son when he asked for an explanation of her parenting methods. She claimed that was one of the reasons why she was so overprotective. What should have followed was, “And I realize now that, that was not the best way to raise you and I’m sorry.” When Aunt Lydia was droning on about being married to god, I could see the light bulb go on above Kim’s head like Dr. Frankenstein finally realizing what he had created. I think the scene with Micah and Kim was filmed before Ethan went to the farm house to talk to Barry. I think that was why Micah was so defensive of her when Ethan referred to her as “that lady.” Whatever trauma Kim experienced, she clearly self-medicated in her youth with drugs and alcohol, but she doesn’t realize she only replaced the drugs and alcohol with a fundamentalist lifestyle that was damaging to the nearly dozen children she bore. And speaking of Aunt Lydia, if marriage is a covenant blah, blah, blah, then that other lady your daddy was married to should’ve been your mother.

Two butts sharing one chair while the patient’s husband stands should be a clue that there are too many visitors in the room.

Did she? I think I’m behind all of you because this show keeps putting me to sleep! No need for a white noise app on Tuesday nights.

He looks like he’s holding his breath and Tammy looks like she hasn’t lost an ounce.

I don’t understand it either. She said that she stays at one of their rentals, but if none are available at that time, then she sleeps on the sofa. So why can’t she come see her kids? I thought Barry works in Florida, so unless he’s teleworking, the three youngest children are home alone. If this ridiculous dance studio is her new job, then why aren’t the girls there with her during the day? Those kids must be so bored.

I think some more recent studies have shown that dark polish is not as big of a deal as once thought, but some hospitals would rather err on the side of caution. I know my surgeon made me remove mine :(

Pulse oximeters do not work well on people of color nor on people with fingernails painted with dark polish. I’m sure the nurses let out a big sigh every time they have to undo something this patient’s stupid family does to impede their work.

That picture with Tessie is just gross for several reasons. I don’t fault Tessie, she’s only doing what her idiot parents tell her to do and it’s typical of the inappropriate photos Jill posts. But, this unmasked and likely unvaccinated child is all up in an elderly and unconscious stroke victim’s face. If they are so terrified of losing their matriarch, you’d think they’d be overly protective of her in current state.

Me too. The Tunisian and Moroccan love rats reign supreme.

Ha! 90 Day Con sounds scary. Imagine the David and Coltee costumes.

Oh, so the only reason for divorce and the pre-nup to go in effect is if she does something out of pocket. Not perfect Bilal with his Liz Taylor length of ex-spouses. I hate him.

“I brung up.” Ugh, this mothereffer’s grammar!