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I thought for sure he was a sibling. So the Coveretts only have six kids? Do they even count as fundies with only six blessings? He's probably picturing Heidi in one of those sluttish dresses. I sincerely hope that Tim can break away from his nutjob mother.

They're also not supposed to fit a toddler.

By the time they're doing family lineups at the last kid's wedding, Carlin will probably show up in a tutu or with a Carmen Miranda hat. How sad that she acts like this as an adult because she never got enough attention as a kid.

Jackson has more hair than forehead. It's absurd. And yet he still barely manages to be taller than Ofjackson.

His hair is like a fundie version of 1980s hair bands. It's all I can look at. The skinny pants look silly at a wedding.

I wonder if Kelly has feet problems -- like plantar fasciitis -- that are worsened by her size and 123 pregnancies. I am NOT criticizing her size. I'm overweight with plantar fasciitis. I wear athletic shoes because anything without support, like flats, just kills me.

Is it just me, or is Jackson's hair just off-putting? I want to go push down on top of his head. Of course, he probably uses Jim Bob-levels of hairspray and his hair wouldn't move.

Think somebody else chose and styled it for her? Josie, maybe. Kelly's hair obviously enjoyed the light touch of a professional.

Kelly looks heavily Spanxed, but she looks nice overall. For once, she doesn't have fried, ratty hair. Gil's suit doesn't fit, but oh well. He shopped at Jim Bob's Cheap Men's Suits again. Now bring on the bridal party photos so I can snark. Hopefully Carlin laid off the fundie-Kardashian look. It doesn't flatter anyone, including a fundie or a Kardashian.

That article is nauseating. "The family quickly planted roots and some of the children have even started families of their own with U.S. citizens." So do plenty of brown people the Bateses and Romeikes are so eager to get rid of. WTF makes German "asylum seekers" so damn special?

I thought Gil or Kelly (Gilly?) had said that he wanted to wait to start their family, but Kelly wanted to start right away and they had Zach less than a year after their wedding. I also wouldn't call it near poverty -- it was poverty and of their own making. The sad part is that the kids paid the price. I've mentioned before that I lived in the same part of South Carolina that Gilly are from. Even among the non-religious people, it was very much seen as a woman's goal or station in life to "get her diamond" and have babies. Women who wanted anything more, or wanted careers that weren't nursing or teaching little kids, were seen as abnormal and unfeminine. (I knew one girl who wanted to be a physical therapist, and people gossiped and tried to talk her out of it.) None of this prevented the wife-and-mother set from being jealous of people who had more. Kelly is very much a product of that environment.

Out of curiosity, why do you think he takes life too seriously? The rest of your description of Kelton is spot on, but I don't see that part.

Ah yes, the Gil Bates School of Financial Management.

I wonder which sister started the cattiness first. Carlin is my guess.

Both. I'm convinced that Kelly never matured past the age of twelve.

Yes. The Romeikes don't deserve it and are not entitled to it. What's good for one is good for another. If you're going to deport people who are legally and morally entitled to asylum, you should definitely deport these attention-whoring phonies.

Carefully-curated hospital photos and drive-home photos. I wonder how many takes they took. I'm having a real Holden Caulfield moment here. Phonies.

The party atmosphere in her room solidifies my belief that the doctor ordered the five-day EEG to shut Carlin up. I think she and Evan complained until they got what Carlin wanted, which is more attention. If the test were really needed, and I think the doctors know that, it would 1. Have been done long ago, and 2. Not be treated like a birthday party. You can never convince me that doctors don't order tests that are not needed, especially for a certain demographic, while others go without because they are not taken seriously.

In light of current events, perhaps we should change the name of this thread to Trace and Lydia: Can He Save Her From Deportation? I'm only half serious.

As usual, Carlin shading the truth.

I don't think so.

I'd like to find out how he made so much in Germany, if in fact he did. Did he do something in Germany besides tune pianos, teach piano, and play the piano in church? In other words, is he another fundie who had a good career but decided it wasn't acceptable to work around worldly people? I looked up Hamblen County, Tennessee property ownership records. To my great surprise, Uwe and Hannelore are listed as the owners of three properties. Their home of record is a single-family, 3/2 home. (Zillow has it as a 4/2 home with 4+ acres.) That home sold in 2010, and the others in 2011 and 2021.

Here or in Germany? If in the US, I'd sure like to know how a piano tuner/teacher with seven kids managed to buy a home. Donations? Since I'm extra-cynical today, I suspect the "Romeikes own several homes" like Carlin "works hard at her business."

The Romeikes wouldn't join the military because they might have had to take orders from heathens, or women, or just people who didn't like them. (Insert exclamation points here.) And that's assuming the military would take morons with "homeschooling" diplomas anyway. They'd still have to pass the ASVAB, and I don't have any confidence that fundies could manage that. (Also assuming they could join at all -- as an epileptic, I couldn't, and there are a lot of other medical conditions that keep people from enlisting. But that is a different topic.) Trace is a peckerwood loser who only gets attention because his culty parents whored out their family for money. I really doubt that he and Lydia hired an actual immigration lawyer after they were married. For one, that costs money.

That would have been about five years ago, and they were already on deferred status, as in the clock was already ticking then. As I understand it, they had no path to green cards or citizenship. Who knows, though.