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13 hours ago, Cinnabon said:
That makes it worse, lol.
This is disturbing since she has 2 small children in her care. Hello, CPS? 😳
They certainly are prompt, efficient -- and prolific when it comes to providing plenty of SM posts that a CPS investigator could present to show reasonable cause of improper care and supervision.
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2 minutes ago, GeeGolly said:
They redid the living/dining areas in hardwood. Their upstairs, den/bedrooms, is carpeted. So I think that leaves the kitchen and bathrooms.
So two months into the game, Evan's finally going to keep an eye on her? 🤷🏽♀️
The all caps IF just wasn't enough to do the job with these two. Knew I should have broken out the boldface.
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How much do they charge for these dresses? Seems like clothing manufactured in the U.S. would come at a premium, otherwise how would they afford the labor?
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2 minutes ago, GeeGolly said:
They're back home? Why is Carlin sleeping on a mattress on the floor, in what appears to be the kitchen or a bathroom?
And OMG, the piles of dresses in the background of the shop.
Looks like the legs and bottom portion of leather/vinyl chair that would be in living/family/den. I thought it was weird too, until I considered that if he actually is home monitoring her and watching the kids it might be that she's resting where he can keep an eye on her while taking care of the kids. Maybe their bedroom would be too tucked away or on another floor -- or maybe there's concern if she has another episode or attempted to get up and falls again?
Seems odd to me and impossible to get rest, but IF someone is on their own caring for the kids and attempting to monitor her I could potentially see that being the choice made. With these two, who knows.
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1 minute ago, GeeGolly said:
I don't recall them saying she was out for 20 minutes with this one. I'm talking about everyday falls or bumps and bruises that likely are nothing, or could be a mild concussion.
I have no idea if Evan talked to an MD familiar with Carlin's health or if he didn't he gave a full history to whoever he spoke with.
And honestly, I'm not even sure this 'doctor acquired info' was actually acquired that night. He may have been repeating what they told him with other falls and just implied it was current info. Like I said before, he kind of mumbled and circled around the doctor part.
Maybe I've lost the thread then. I understood that she fell in a parking lot, hitting her head and being out for 20 minutes.
If you're out on FMLA because you need to be with your wife 24/7 to monitor her wellbeing, don't you give any doc you talk to the fullest rundown you can? Was he in a rush because he had urgent drone business or something?
I'm only following what's being said here, so I may be missing a lot of info. But I'm starting to see what looks like more and more possibilities where this could go wrong for them in ways they probably would never imagine -- completely leaving aside any risky health decisions they're potentially making about Carlin's actual health.
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1 minute ago, Salacious Kitty said:
Carlin has said repeatedly that doctors "don't do anything." She seems to be vehemently anti doctor, especially now that she hates her meds.
Carlin's medical credentials must be better than mine, because if it were me or my family member -- or even a friend I had to drag kicking and screaming, we would be at the ER pronto.
Who knows, maybe she has doubts about Erin's bout with long Covid, but I know a couple people who have had a pretty rough go of it with long-term concussion consequences. One because the concussion was so severe, another because they essentially shrugged it off and gave zero time for healing immediately after it happened (this one was a young, otherwise healthy teen hurt playing soccer).
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5 hours ago, GeeGolly said:
Actually many MDs do diagnose concussions on a phone consult, even before the pandemic and Zoom. They ask the standard questions - how far was the fall, is there a bump, did the patient lose consciousness, speech, cognition, etc. Most concussions don't need medical interventions and can be treated at home.
I'm no doc, don't even have a TV degree from several seasons of watching ER back in the day. The common sense part of my brain and the part that says a patient who's been under observation and monitoring for unexplained seizures?, blackouts?, whathaveyou, suddenly is on a telehealth visit with their doctor because they've lost consciousness, hit their head and were out for 20 minutes and I'm thinking that doctor says do not pass go, report to the nearest ER immediately.
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4 hours ago, carolinagirl81 said:
Travis Scott has a private plane now?
Apparently. Kylie made a post with their jets side by side and a six-figure auto in the background with a caption about "Yours or mine?" in regard to wherever they were flying off to.
She puts more effort into ostentatious displays of her wealth than she ever did in earning a nickel of it. At least if it comes back to bite her it won't have any difficulty finding her . . .
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Keep being you, Kylie, and flaunting your "hard earned" money in the faces of the public.
Hope Travis appreciates you publicizing his private jet alongside yours if he gets hit with making Astroworld damage payments.
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12 hours ago, Irate Panda said:
I do feel a lot of what we see is scripted, I mean I highly doubt Amy and Matt would be hanging out as much as they do, but I don’t feel sorry for either one of them since they readily accept the paycheck for these cringeworthy events. I definitely don’t think the AZ breakfast/Jeep tour would have taken place without the TLC money.
Particularly given that the roots of this show lie in the family unit it would take a drastic pivot to continue the show without any interaction between the different factions. When the divorce occurred Matt and Amy could largely be filmed separately with separate storylines, only coming together for big events and especially petty backbiting and arguments for drama because Zach and Jeremy and families were still onboard as connective tissue.
Jeremy and family stepped out and eventually we began to see lots of Zach's family at the farm to drive most of the family story, occasionally pulling Amy and Chris into the mix as well. The bitter drumbeat of Matt and Amy played on throughout, featuring the push to get Amy to make a decision, Amy decides to sell, Amy searches for a new home and finally moves on, culminating with a (storyline convenient) Covid-driven necessity for the farm to be the wedding venue.
Now we are told there's a fracture between Matt and Zach so there's a necessity for some type of reasoning to occasionally have those two factions interact and also a necessity for the M&C and A&C show to resume with things like the new AZ angle and Chris suddenly feeling the need to head for the farm to scope out how much Amy still has stored there.
Absent family I wonder what storylines producers could come up with that doesn't result in 3 separate storylines altogether, all of which seem very short on potential plotlines -- at least until Zach's children are quite a bit older to function like independent characters capable of driving story and narrative within their household on their own.
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I was surprised to see the farmhouse when Matt and Caryn walked through it. He was so insistent for Amy to make her decision, and then to get moved out because it was critical that he attend to the dire shape of the home. Then we heard the employee was leasing the home for a while. Doesn't seem Matt actually did much of anything to the home before the employee moved in, or before filming the walkthrough with Caryn.
I did expect a kitchen reno, possibly bathrooms, to bring things to standard height for selling purposes. Instead he's choosing to asphalt a driveway it sounds like Amy had suggested for many years. IDK the actual situation, but just on the bare bones of what was presented I'm surprised.
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3 hours ago, oliviabenson said:
Someone desperate ! There is a pot for every lid !
Even the blue box of Kraft dinner says to cook the macaroni uncovered. Sometimes just a solo pot is all that's necessary.
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11 hours ago, Gemma Violet said:
Oh, I know. I was pretty sure he'd cozy up to the chaplain with all the fake sincerity he could muster. He just wants to be the big dog again and leading prayer meetings is the only way he can do it. Of course, it could backfire if his fellow inmates think he's overstepping his bounds, especially this early.
Watching him come to the realization he's completely out of his depth amongst many others who are used to manipulating and pulling the wool over people's eyes and who don't take kindly to his nonsense would actually be something I would like to see on a very special episode of Duggar TV. The seriously limited extent of the stunted environment he was raised in puts him at a very serious disadvantage in his current living situation, no matter how much he may have strayed from the boundaries all these years. At the end of the day he has a SOTDRT education and very limited street sense. His scheming and conniving will be no match for present company.
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14 hours ago, Lady Whistleup said:
I feel like Jessa and Jill have a strong bond. It might not be a particularly warm and fuzzy bond -- I don't think they sip kombucha and do each others' nails. But I think only they know what it was really like to wake up to FF molesting them, and the fortitude it took to be a "buddy" when they were just children themselves. So I do think Jessa will always be there for Jill, and vice versa.
Interesting thought.
It would be nice if the Duggar sibs could manage to truly be healthy support for one another, despite the minefields that were installed during their upbringing to prevent that. It really made me sad to read this week that the pattern may be being repeated among the grandchildren. How heartbreaking if all of these children are simply being raised as numbers in families of eleventy billion kids and one of the potentially biggest positives of the situation is deliberately being cut off at the knees.
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26 minutes ago, GeeGolly said:
They may not be sex offenders, but they may be hardened criminals, or at the very least, have lived in the real world. The way I see it the FF is going to be on the bottom rung in more ways than one.
In my original post I did mention his standing in the food chain.
51 minutes ago, Tikichick said:The twist here is he's in a box with others potentially much higher on the food chain in regard to grooming and manipulation.
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1 minute ago, GeeGolly said:
Predators prey on the weak and vulnerable. In prison Josh is not the predator - he is the prey.
I'm sure there's plenty there he feels quite superior to. They're not all sex offenders and therefore aren't even aware of the world he sees.
The worry is they play a long game, always keeping their end goal in mind. The years aren't long enough.
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On 7/6/2022 at 4:47 PM, cereality said:
While this was a "smaller" visit, it was still - G&K, Zach's 6 person family, Carlin's 4 person family, Michael/Brandon, Law/Tiff, Warden, Isiah, Addie, Ellie, Callie, Jeb, Jud. That's 23 ppl right there. Jeb and Jud seem pretty feral and then there were 6 other kids under age 6. Yeah . . . . have a feeling Mama Jane and Papa Bill are lounging in their recliners grabbing coffee from their industrial size coffee maker all this week as they recover. The Bates are selfish that way. They HAVE to go to the farm on July 4 bc that's the vacation THEY want. I doubt they even ask Mama Jane if it's ok, if she prefers they come in smaller groups etc. I mean I get it, it's Papa Bill's bday so maybe you want it to be somewhat of a celebration but a celebration can be had if say 5 guests show up instead of 23 and the other 18 people can make plans to visit at different times. I mean seems like Alyssa and Erin go to the farm specifically when other Bates are not going - presumably to actually spend time with the grandparents rather than just be there for the "fun" chaos. Josie just doesn't go so there's another option - lol.
Hopefully they made it Irish -- during and before the visit. Sounds like medically necessary.
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Josh is a predator. Typically the predators have their moment where they fold like a napkin, and then the traits than enable their achieving their obsessions kicks in. They assume they sit in a position above everyone else, knowing what mere idiots could never understand.
The twist here is he's in a box with others potentially much higher on the food chain in regard to grooming and manipulation. Hopefully he doesn't pick up any tips and ideas in that regard.
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15 hours ago, GeeGolly said:
Agree, but one could argue what the Kardashians put out is very harmful to women overall.
Constant obsession about looks isn't healthy and something everyone should aspire to at all costs? Go figure.
Truly love it when they happily accept kudos and attention for how they "slay", and then preach how horrible it is for people to pick them apart and criticize them for any missteps and fakery in the looks as if their entire schtick and obsession isn't (not so) subtly laying down a heavy burden for society as a whole. Looky there, common ground with the Duggar hypocrisy train.
Social media can be a great thing. It can also cause such harm.
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15 hours ago, GeeGolly said:
Agree, but one could argue what the Kardashians put out is very harmful to women overall.
Taking my response to small talk.
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15 minutes ago, Ljohnson1987 said:
At least Pris has a husband who isn't in prison.
I see what you did there.
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34 minutes ago, GeeGolly said:
No one knows what Joy's crisis of faith was. It could have been about always wearing skirts, it could have been about waiting to date, etc. I doubt it was anything huge because she had already set hers sights on a Fundy for a husband.
I didn't realize she had indicated when the crisis happened.
I wouldn't be surprised if the house of cards begins to sway and splinter in varying degrees as time goes on. Michelle herself went from hussy harlot temptress to MOTY after a few years in the orbit of JB and his mother. Any of the 19 could potentially change direction, subtly, wildly, or anything in between. One of them is no doubt currently experiencing an entirely new walled off community much different from the one he grew up in.
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9 hours ago, GeeGolly said:
To be fair, its not Jinger's fault her brother is a criminal, nor is she responsible for her father's behaviors. With that said, J & J do have a history of poor follow through.
I do feel bad for the siblings that they effectively wear a scarlet letter when it comes to the media associating them with the eldest. On that front every one of them should be free to go out and live their lives unencumbered with his crimes.
As far as J & J, well really mostly Jeremy ... Squirrel!
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Haven't some of the 19 admitted to struggling with doubts about their faith in the past? I think Joy said she did and I believe it was Joe who got her ear and counseled her. What happens now if Joy runs into doubts and/or Austin comes across something that changes his influences? Joe is reportedly on the outs with JB & M, but still all tied up with Kendra's cuckoo for coconuts bunch, but what happens if they too run into conflict?
Time, spouses, inlaws, all have the potential of changing minds and shifting paths.
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Carlin and Evan: But Mostly Carlin!
in Bringing Up Bates
Fortunately that is the case so far. I didn't suggest CPS was about to bust in their door. My choice of wording regarding improper care and supervision was purposeful These two are one misstep away from an investigator paying them a visit at the rate they're going. They've put an awful lot of info. out there that would not cut in their favor.
I'm not unfamiliar with CPS and what they do. In fact most children who come to the attention of CPS and the courts are not victims of abuse as is generally assumed. Most children in the system require intervention for chronic neglect, which includes improper care and supervision.