[Josh & Anna Smuggar: A Series of Unfortunate Events]

5 minutes ago, Normades said:

I know someone who has very conservative beliefs and was against sex education in schools and abortion rights.  They felt that everyone should follow their beliefs and that others should not have options to believe or act otherwise.  Well, that person's teen daughter turned up pregnant.  Guess what?  The person had an appointment for their daughter at the abortion clinic so fast it would make your head spin!!  It never ceases to amaze me how hypocritical some of these true believers are!!!  They have lots to say when it's someone else's kid, but when it's theirs, it's a whole new ballgame.  How lucky for them that if the daughter had wanted to terminate, she had a safe place to go, which wouldn't be the case if the parent had their way!!  Or maybe if sex education was allowed, this wouldn't have even happened at all.  The daughter ended up having the baby and it all turned out fine.  This parent was really concerned about what the neighbors were saying.  Of course that's a really valid concern because had it been someone else's daughter this person would have had lots of nasty things to say.    

What’s the saying? “The only moral abortion is MY moral abortion.”

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I won’t read anything into it. I think Jeremy is vain and likes to pretend he’s posing for GQ. 

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I’m pretty sure Pickles just wants headlines and mentions and doesn’t give a damn about the victim and her right to privacy. 

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1 minute ago, JoanArc said:

Hitting the kids with them. or melting them on them? They'd probably do both.

 

Hitting them I assume. It’s flexible yet hard like plumbing line. The Pearls suggested something that would be inconspicuous to carry in a purse. 

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It also seems that hot glue gun sticks were the plumbing line of choice for the Duggar’s home church. 

2 minutes ago, BitterApple said:

That is beyond vile, shitty and absolutely inexcusable to out a victim of sexual abuse like that, and this is coming from a woman who proclaims herself to be a feminist. If the victim chooses to come forward and tell her story that's one thing, but she doesn't deserve to have her privacy violated like that.

As for Smuggar, I have no doubts there's more victims we haven't heard about. 

In the comments, she’s all “of the Holt’s have a problem with me outing their daughter, they can contact me directly.” Right. Cause that’s going to help Us Magazine and every other scandal ridden magazine and website from calling the poor woman after her name has already been released. And she goes further by saying that the Holt daughter is an adult now so it’s fine that her name was put out there for public consumption. Isn’t that what every woman wants, childhood sexual assault blindsiding you in a Monday morning? I’m so mad I could spit nails. 

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It’s already being reported in a mainstream media article and it may pick up more as the week goes on by the tabloid rags (but I won’t link it because it outs a victim.) Pickles outed the Holt daughter by name as another victim and it’s fucking shameful. Really fucking shameful on Pickle’s part. 

 

Also, “Sam” alleges that Jill and Jessa were the primary targets of Josh’s molestation. If the allegations are true, it seems that Josh’s proclivities toward sexual assault were more widespread than the Fox interview let on (surprise surprise.)

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4 hours ago, ginger90 said:

Honestly, our daughter Nurie brings us nothing but joy! She is such a submissive young woman who has a VERY close walk with God. She strives to please Him in ALL she does! She is a great example to me. “I love you, honey.” 

Usually, whatever people say after “honestly” is a lie and they’re trying to convince you it’s the truth. 

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38 minutes ago, Mindthinkr said:

I also like to look in peoples houses at night when their lights are on and their blinds (curtains whatever) are open to see how they’ve decorated their home. I’m not a snoop and never go into peoples medicine cabinets or drawers. 

Cue why I’m addicted to looking at houses on Zillow. 

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12 hours ago, QuinnInND said:

That's what I thought it was. Like you would find on a buffet line.

Wow. Israel looks just like Dan. 

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Jill is doing a great job demonstrating how utterly malnourished all the Duggar kids were growing up. 

*How many cans of cream of whatever soup can a person digest in a week? 

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On 10/11/2018 at 11:24 AM, bigskygirl said:

I do not know what scares me more, Josh running for office and winning, or people would actually vote for him. In the case of Anna, I think she thought she was something special when Josh got his D.C. job,  but she had a quick and rude awakening when the scandals hit the fan. 

He was buddying up to all the far right wing superstars like Huckabee and Santorum. I’m sure the FRC would have gotten him a ton of endorsements and funding. Considering a game show host is in the WH, it’s not far from reality to think a popular fundie tv star could get in the Arkansas legislature. 

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1 minute ago, McManda said:

I'm not doubting this would be fun for the kids, but would this not stain their skin? I just know when I bake with a ton of food coloring my fingers get discolored. I wouldn't want to sit in it!

Not unless she poured a whole lot in. Bath bombs have food coloring in it and it doesn’t dye the skin unless you have a highly pigmented bath bomb with very little water. (I worked at Lush for years.)

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They lived in Maryland, not Pennsylvania. I think Anna liked the life that they had in the DC area. Josh had a high profile job, she was Mrs. Joshua Duggar, and he had viable political ambitions. I think they planned to stay at the FRC for a while and then make a run for the Arkansas House. He had name recognition, political allies, and would have had a decent shot.

They had their own money that wasn’t tied to her FiL.  I think that was the big one. They seemed like they made organic friends. It was the first time in their life they were actually free. 

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Josie’s bouquet is super on trend right now. I have several friends who have gotten married with similar arrangements. 

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2 hours ago, sATL said:

here's the "horse shoes" before they added the Styrofoam blocks thingies to hold the flowers. As far as those props that looked like the "ace of spades/clubs" - I guess ms. cindy was trying to bring out a small detail from a wooden crown  that Lauren and Josiah held at the last Duggar wedding, since she made of point of it.

Now if we have to do all of this analysis to figure out what the hell we are looking at - what about those who saw it firsthand first-time in the church ?

 

 

And no one thought it looked like a giant labia?

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2 hours ago, kokapetl said:

This makes a bit more sense:

Why the fuck is a professor encouraging it? Hey, I know the students here have paid thousands of dollars to take this class but let’s give your significant others a free education and I won’t call on you when they’re there. That’s bullshit. 

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1 hour ago, louannems said:

Not only was Sadie pushing plump Janessa around in a cheap, flimsy doll stroller, but Zsu Anderson also posted a photo of her little girl pushing her baby in a doll stroller.  You'd think after having so many babies, these women would know a thing or two about child safety.  I'm guessing anything that keeps their kids occupied and quiet is fine with them.

When you have so damn many kids maybe you don’t notice if you lose a few? *shrug*

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13 minutes ago, Christina87 said:

Ooooh oooooh!!! I believe in ghosts!!! (Waves hand wildly). 

I come from a ghost-seeing family. I honestly think the ability to see them is hereditary. My mom and her side of the family are GREAT at seeing them. My dad and his family have a few experiences. I have an ability somewhat between them, and my sister didn't inherit it at all (but I would trade places with her, because she also didn't inherit the migraine genes that are prevalent in our family). 

Haha I know this sounds nuts to some, and kind of off topic! I grew up "knowing" ghosts weren't real, but started to have experiences in college, so my parents opened up about it. Now we are really open about it!

to bring us back to topic...I wonder if the Duggars do believe. I could see it going either way. Catholicism seems to acknowledge them most, in my experience!

You’re fascinating. I’m just going to follow you around now. 

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On 9/11/2018 at 3:35 PM, BitterApple said:

I was just thinking that. Jessa just lets them be. Israel seemed so much happier running around with Spurge without Jill constantly nagging him and trying to get him to perform for the camera. 

To be fair, it’s all Jill knows. In her formative years she was made to be a performing seal. Her identity is wrapped up in being a teevee star. She was followed around by a camera crew being asked inane questions. Jill is living out what she knows. 

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1 minute ago, farmgal4 said:

She is beautiful, but surely she doesn’t need to sleep with those damn mittens(or whatever they’re called) on!  

Meh. No matter how short you’re able to cut their nails, those things are like razors. Babies tend to scratch their faces up pretty bad. I have more of a problem with her sleeping in head bands. But a sleeping baby is a happy baby. 

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That recipe was floating around Pinterest at least six years ago. 

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I haven’t watched much but just that one clip of Lauren has my skin crawling. She needs some media prep to learn how to talk on television. 

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11 hours ago, Lunera said:

Just saw the Sierra videos, she's definitely out if it and treating Instagram as her personal therapist because she has no one to hear her out.

I don't think she knows the meaning of gender equality. She says society says that because she's a woman she should be in the kitchen cooking and raising kids but instead she's mowing the lawn.

Maybe in her circle women are judged for doing men's work and men are judged for doing women's work but to the rest of the world it's normal. She's acting like mowing the lawn is such a rare thing for a woman to do.

I think she’s trying to be “funny” and make something go viral. Gotta get them clicks. 

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12 hours ago, awaken said:

I work with babies every day and there are sooooooo many Jaxons.

thank goodness the little guy seems to take after Deena in looks!  We’ll See if any Dillard got through!  

We can all thank Sons of Anarchy. 

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5 hours ago, BitterApple said:

Wow, that is ridiculously cheap. Is U of A not a competitive law school? 

Considering that Derwood can’t win a Twitter argument, I’d say that it’s fairly low on the competitive scale.