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If Jill wouldn't announce her kids' courtships 30 seconds after a Rod kid and a rando smile at each other across the church sanctuary, she wouldn't have the humiliation of walking it back when it doesn't work out. Of course, waiting until the newbie gets to actually spend time with the Rods and seeing what he/she is in for doesn't exactly work in Jill's favor either, so what's a Mahmo to do?

I'm surprised he didn't fire H. R. Pufnstuf.

I want him to burn for this. I also don't want to care because caring means I think something, anything, will change and I'm just so %$@&^&%$^ tired of getting my hopes up.

What on earth made him pause the tariffs? I know it can't be that someone talked him into it. Is today Opposite Day?

This is the very thing that infuriates me so much when it comes to my MAGA relatives. They seem to take pride in the fact that "he doesn't talk like a politician because he's a businessman!" I have worked for a variety of "businesses" in my time and on all that is holy, I have never heard anyone in my entire life speak like Trump. EVER. He lost me when he openly mocked the reporter back in '15? 16? And his followers lost me when they either laughed or didn't denounce him on the spot right then and there. And here we are.

Sadly, they both might actually be able to pass for 5 - especially the 10-year old. :( But! It's okay, because we all work sooooo000ooo hard printing our smiley tracts to pass out to those awful sinners! So Jesauce wouldn't mind at all if we "pretend" our ages to shave off a few of our hard-earned dollars to gain entrance into a museum where we get to learn more about how special we are! I'll bet she has her kids do some type of performance art for those who take one look at them and try to push past...like maybe she has Janessa say something like, "Mommy? Do you think that person is going to hell? I wonder if I can save him all by myself!" Or, more likely, they travel in a pack like that to literally surround a person to prevent them from running away until they've accepted the tract. And I'm positive they choose their targets carefully. Good heavens - those two photos are far more jarring than watching the video! Holy crap, Jill, you've got her trained, okay? We get it. She can't enjoy her life until she posts about it so she can get that jolt of superiority over everyone else who isn't spending their day of rest worshipping and learning about the Bible. Why, I'll bet some of those heathens spend their day of rest working a second job or taking care of their homes. Shameful.

Did anyone see the video of the Rods at a Bible museum (I saw it on Reddit) where they're all sitting in the dark watching a presentation? Of course Jill isn't watching the movie, she's filming herself and panning to her kids watching the movie. Tessie drew the short straw and had to sit next to Jill. As Jill films her kids, Tessie apparently didn't get the telepathic "perform!" signal from Jill, so Jill clearly nudges Tessie with her elbow and ta-dahh! Tessie performs her big giggle/smile right on cue. The saddest part is, it looked like Tessie was actually concentrating on whatever she was watching to where she was able to tune out Jill and her stupid camera but Jill had to make sure to capture the fact that Tessie was, indeed, having the time of her life in some dark dusty old museum. It must be a living hell in that house. Not one of those kids has a moment of privacy or agency to do what they want - they have to know that Jill is always lurking around like a dark creepy shadow, and knowing that at any second they are going to be yanked away from whatever they might be doing to do a proper cheese for the camera. Their ability to concentrate on anything must be less than zero seconds. I suppose that's how Jill wants it but my gosh, those kids are doomed. Oh, the second saddest part was that Janessa and Sofia were being pulled around in a stroller. Probably so Jill could claim that they were young enough to get in free.

Here's what Meri does: She approaches Kody and Robyn while the two of them are walking out of the Paintings 'R Us store, giggling over their latest acquisition - a 60 x 80 piece depicting a horse running across the surface of Mars while being chased by a fire-breathing purple turtle. Meri quietly says, "Kody - here's the dill. In my pocket, I have a pair of scissors. Either you buy me and Janelle out of our plots of worthless plague land by the end of the day, or Janelle will hold you down and I will cut off all of your hair. Janelle has already set up camp inside one of the unused rooms of your mansion - you'll never find her. The question is - what do you value more? Holding those stupid parcels of land over our heads, or your precious ringlets? Think it over, even though we all know the answer. You have 6 hours." Then she snaps the scissors in front of his face and slowly turns to leave. Robyn cries, Kody wets himself, and pays them their money with interest so they'll never come back. /scene

I guess that would explain why he mumbles one or two semi-coherant sentences and then goes off on a free-style word salad mumblefest every time he gets in front of cameras.

But just think of the higher-quality restaurants and fancy vacations she could take on the dime of one of those accomplished kids! Come on, Jill - think of yourself for once! What about "staking boxes?" How does he get them out of the ground once they're "staked?" That seems like a lot more work. The sad thing is, I thought that list was a joke. I know where he's been educated so I know better.

This is good thought, and I was just thinking something kind of opposite - does he actually understand the chaos he's causing and just keeps one-upping himself, throwing another plot-twist at us to see if his sycophants will continue to bend the knee and say, "Yes, Sir! Great idea, Sir! Keep 'em coming!" Like, is even HE surprised at what he's been able to get away with so he keep playing and this is all just something fun to occupy him in between rounds of golf? I feel like the people of the US are tiny mice, and he is a giant orange cat who bats us around with his slimy paw when he's bored, then he takes a nap, wakes up with another hairball, and coughs it up in the form of some new insane concept of a plan. It's all too much to be real and yet, here we are.

Well, Jill is aging backwards so maybe she's on to something. After all, people often think she is actually her daughters' sister! Incredible to live your life thinking your kids are just actually little mechanical robots that you program and you alone hold the remote controls. Does Jill also think that when she closes her eyes, her kids can't see her because she can't see them? 🙄

The worst part about these mush-mouth quotes is that I can't help but read them in his weaselly condescending monotone voice. And since when is the term "groceries" old-fashioned? Like, WTF does he think we're doing, loading up the family into the horse-drawn wagon for a ride into town to visit the general store? I get it, the man probably hasn't stepped a foot into an actual grocery store in his entire life so no wonder he finds the term antiquated. Where's the emoji that bangs its head on his desk while rolling its eyes and screaming at the heavens? That's the one I need 1,000 times a day.

Good point - doesn't Jill usually throw us a post once or twice a year showing us those garage-sale textbooks that were probably published in 1978 all neatly set into piles based on each kid's supposed grade? How else are we supposed to understand the sacrifices Jill makes for the sake of her children's education? 🙄 I will never understand how parents like Jill, or Jim Bob, or whoever, can do this to their kids when they KNOW their kids will outlive them. Then what are those kids supposed to do? They have never been taught how to make an independent decision, let alone how to handle basic math and reading nor develop any innate skills they might have. So what then, they just wander around the world bumping into things like a pinball in a machine wondering how to pay those pesky bills that keep coming? It's enraging to think about.

My friend and I discuss every episode and I had told her that I demand clarity and resolution for every member of the Ratliff family because they are so profoundly weird with each other, going back to their introduction scenes. She said, don't be disappointed when you don't get that, because there are way too many loose ends to clear up with the one remaining episode. It remains to be seen but I'll be pretty bummed if Mike White created such uniquely complicated characters, only to not fill in all, or most, of the blanks.

And my first thought was - it's not a cab! It's a trap! Of all the theories, and there are many, this is mine. I don't think Laurie makes it home.

Eww....just invite some guy to peruse your available daughters and choose the one he likes best, no need to ask the daughters if they have any attraction to the guy. Will he pay for Mahmo's dinners and bring her little prezzies from time to time? Then that's the guy for her girl! Good heavens, I would be waking up in the middle of the night to hide Jill's hair dye just to have an excuse to drive to Dollar General to get another box for her, if only to taste freedom for a few minutes.

I have questions. What makes Usha Vance think she can visit a country - any country - given how despicable her husband, his boss and his other boss have been treating the rest of the world? Especially uninvited? What level of delusional narcissistic self-importance must one have to visit a place where you are not needed nor wanted? And why is Mike Waltz going anywhere except maybe to his own house because he shouldn't still have a government job? If the visit was canceled, I hope they were already in the air when it happened.

Between her bi-weekly vacations, shilling donated clothes on the Cream of Wheat Boutique, running not one but two MLM's, crashing attending church services, bilking people out of retreat money, filming herself for the socials, farming out her spinster unmarried daughters, and keeping her Hunk fed with uncooked chicken and bird juice, it's a wonder she has time to cook and homeschool her kids! hahaha j/k lol

Did anyone see Paedon's - um, "problematic" - birthday wish for the podcaster Amanda from "We Love to Hate Everything?" Amanda's co-host bought her a $10 Cameo from Paedon for her birthday, as a joke. I saw the clip on Youtube. The person who bought the Cameo asked Paedon to just tell some jokes. Paedon rambles on and on, in a very fast tempo, about how the jokes he wanted to tell would get him in trouble for being racist and misogynistic. If this is Paedon, I can understand why some of his siblings aren't interested in a relationship with him. And listening to him babble on and on, he sounded just like Kody.

I hope this isn't why Jill keeps her kids so skinny and dresses them like she's just purged the Goodwill trash bin - because she knows their appearance might translate into bigger donations - which she will then turn around and use to buy herself something nice like a trip with Hunk to Epcot, or another shiny espresso machine for one of her coffee bars, etc. To be clear, I think this is exactly what she's doing but the ramifications make me sick. She's got at least two waifs whose skin coloring looks like that of a consumptive Victorian child.

I do appreciate a giggle now and again regarding the sh!tshow that is the US. But at the same time, making light of things feels like we are trying to downplay the very real danger these incompetent bozos are putting us in. It's like we have to laugh to keep from crying because the dumpster fire is coming from inside the house, while the fireman are chuckling about whose turn it is to turn on the water. As for comfort watches, Kevin in the Countryside popped up on my YouTube homepage. Kevin - who we never see, nor hear unless he says "Morning" to a passerby - takes long walks through various quaint English villages and shows us the beautiful old cottages, the churches, fields of sheep, overlooked trails, etc. And if he's walking in the rain, I can practically hear my blood pressure falling.

This is exactly what we'd better not see from her. Despite all of her proclamations to the contrary, she was NOT there from Day One.

Regarding Garrison's passing...I would've been upset, as someone who has watched this show from Day One, if they had glossed over their family tragedy. We aren't owed anything from the Browns but at the same time, they're the ones who decided to air their family's business for the last decade. But I am also pre-emptively nervous wondering if we will be treated to watching Kody and Robyn talk about what happened. Kody is his father and no matter what I think of him as a person, he was also dealt an unfathomable blow. But Kody and Robyn are so completely performative and that is the last thing I want to see on this show - Kody and Robyn on the couch trying to re-write history in any way, shape or form. We all heard Kody say what he said about Garrison and Gabe. Part of me just wants a small but heart-felt tribute to Garrison and leave it at that. What I definitely do not want are over-emotional tributes from the people who knew him the least. In other words - Robyn, please sit this one out. And Kody - be careful.

So it was a nautical theme and Jill served tacos? A seafood buffet would've been more appropriate. Jill serving shrimp, clams, etc. - I don't see any possible way that could be a giant disastrous fail, do you? You have my dream job. :)