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Soaper410

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  1. I think other people have probably covered it but can't find actual posts about it. 

    Federal court is either: release or not release. THERE IS TYPICALLY NOT BAIL OR BOND.  State court is where bonds come in.  3rd party custody is fairly regular with electronic monitoring. 

    From what I've read the case is basically a slam dunk (welcome to federal court).  Assuming that the search warrant is held as valid, he's going to prison for a VERY LONG TIME. 

    It will take a while for the AUSA to see if they can get up with the attorney for the children they are able to identify (lawyers represent the SA victims to get restitution).  

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  2. 9 hours ago, Sandy W said:

    I think he's on the brink of a breakdown.  He has Robyn perpetually in his ear, a wife he doesn't seem to want around any longer, another who is no longer "keeping sweet", and then there's Janelle.  He's very close to financial ruin, there is no assurance they will be renewed for the easy TLC money, his married kids are scattered away in other states...he seems to me like a cornered rat.

    I agree.  He has spent 30 years living this life and KNOWING he was right.  All of his children have rejected his lifestyle.  This may not be so terrible if there were 2-3 of them but he's got a football team and still...

    He keeps losing money & its basically all his fault due to very stupid financial decisions time and time again. 

    He has 2 of his 4 wives openly admit they are miserable.  Janelle supports the 1 house thing but other than that, she's clearly making her own decisions and living her own life.

    He's supposed to be the head of the household and yet, he is making no decisions and nobody listens to him. 

    Everything he's known about himself and his family has been a lie, lost or was something that only existed because the kids were young.  

    He's also always been immature.  All those kids and wives and responsibilities but he pouts or gets angry anytime he doesn't get his way.  He becomes spiteful when one of his kids disagrees with him, he shuts out people who with whom he feels betrayed him for years.  He gets a gut feeling about things and no matter who utterly stupid, negative, or risky they are...when he gets his mind to it, he's going to do it. 

     

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  3. Imagine being a normal/human person and finding out your child has images of a child being sexually assaulted on his computer/phone. 

    Then imagine realizing you've spent 15 years covering for him, excusing his behavior, knowing that 2 of your daughters were sexually assaulted because you did NOTHING after 2 of your other daughters were sexually assaulted.  Now, he's helping fund and provide a market for babies to be sexually assaulted. 

    But knowing them, they are on the phone with TLC trying to figure out how they can keep working. 

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  4. 21 hours ago, dargosmydaddy said:

    Claire, Joe/Kendra, and John/Abbie all "liked" Jinger's post.

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    Abbie & Kendra have always come across as sweet and genuine people.  Abbie certainty is older, matured, and has had more real life experiences but I assume both of them are HORRIFIED.  They did not grow up in the brainwashed family where Josh isn't insta forgiven because the devil made him do it and he asked for forgiveness. 

     

      I also can't imagine Joe and John David being anything but sick to their stomachs over all of this. 

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  5. 23 minutes ago, Tuxcat said:

    I realize this has all been debated before but I don't fully understand Derick's argument. My impression is that the older adult children that choose to continue to do the show do it for a variety of reasons. First and foremost, the show provides them with continued opportunity and exposure so that they can write books, sell and shill, and be those influencers. So they do benefit from the show even if they are not fully in control of production, negotiation, money. Has Derick ever acknowledged this? 

    Has he been advocating for Counting On to be cancelled even before the Josh thing?

    I believe the Dillards have been fairly vocal that Jim Bob and Michelle get all the money from the Counting On show as well and then divide the money up.  They said a few years ago that the contracts at least back when they were on the show was between TLC, production company, and Jim Bob.  

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  6. 16 minutes ago, Tuxcat said:

    Is it common to take two years from discovery to charges? The charges specify a very narrow date for the crime. So why does it take two years to file these charges?

    YES!  Well maybe not 2 years but 1+ years yes.  I used to prosecute sex cases (some of which went federal). 

    Federal prosecutors have a very limited window with which they have to be ready to try the case.   Most state courts don't have the same limits so when a federal case is indicted, it is done so because the AUSA is READY TO GO.  For embezzlement cases I've seen it take 2-3 years.   Child pornography cases require very skilled and specific experts to chart and prove how an image(s) came to be on a specific computer.   

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  7. The whole 2nd half of the episode was so uncomfortable.  Kody saying he had never been cruel...while being cruel was special.  

    I do think the fact that Meri doesn't go see Janelle and Christine or their kids speaks volumes.  The wet bar and Mariah being put up on this pedestal always rubbed me wrong as did the B&B mess but...I can't help but feel sorry for her. 

    She's pathetic and lonely and is being punished not just for her 5+ year old sins but seemingly for all of Kody's frustrations. 

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  8. I was in the hospital over a week before I had my daughter due to me developing a serious medical condition.  They kept me on the L&D ward.  I became close to many nurses and heard lots of stuff during my 12 days on the ward (but couldn't see anything outside of my room for 12 days). 

    Every time I would hear SCREAMING, every nurse on the floor would come in to "reassure" me.  They would say "she's decided to go the natural root" or "despite everyone telling her, she's didn't want the epidural." Many of the nurses said that a lot of these women had weren't doing it for any reason other than to PROVE how strong and awesome mamas they were.  

    This is Maddie to me.  Let me moan and scream and keep myself awake for DAYS to truly be miserable to prove how awesome I am.  Its one of those crazy fundamentalist/Evangelical things that drives me nuts. 

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  9. This episode: 

    Meri: I don't even know what a pre-evacuation means....but there is ONE WHOLE helicopter flying over head...PANIC!!!!!!!!!  NO JOKES ALLOWED.

    Christine: I should punch a bitch. 

    Kody: Nobody ever could have predicted this would be a bad financial plan.   

    Robyn: We have to be moved in 3 hours. Pray for a rental. 

    Kody: I cannot believe you 4 womens talked me into moving from Las Vegas.  

    Meri: OMGZ I cannot leave my house during this VERY SCARY PRE-EVACUATION PANIC!!!I have to sell LulaRoe!

    Robyn:  We are so good with money that we have paid for UHauls for days on end to park in the middle of our field because no other wife will let us put our crap at their house. 

    Maddie: For whatever reason I am glad I was in 86 hours of labor. 

    Christine: I don't like any of these people so that's why I didn't pick up Kody until the last second. 

    Janelle:  I don't want my night with Kody. 

    Christine:  For realz?  Okay I'll pretend to be excited about this. 

    Kody:  Maddie is having a baby so naturally I'm making it all about me. 

     

     

     

     

     

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  10. Any other NC peeps here?  WTH...

    Maddie lives in Greenville. 

    She clearly picked up Janelle at a bigger airport (my guess is RDU (in Raleigh) which is 90 or so miles away....

    Then the birthing center was in Chapel Hill which is only about 20 miles on the other side of Raleigh but in traffic times can be an hour.  Her birthing center could be 2 1/2-3 hours driving away from her home.  That seems crazy just to have a non hospital birth. 

    There are plenty of good hospitals (there is a teaching hospital in Greenville).  Ft. Bragg (the country's largest military base) is a few hours away and they have TONS of midwives/dulas/etc due to the huge military presence there.  Lots of them work with the hospitals so there are doctors and nurses nearby who can step in if necessary. 

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  11. 1 hour ago, LydiaE said:

     

    I’ve wondered this same thing about Janelle.  She doesn’t seem to be a haughty bitch to everyone like Meri is, but does she have any relationships with the other sister wives’ kids that extend beyond the surface level? Christine seems to be the only wife that is nurturing. The others seem to be aloof or detached to members of the family that aren’t biologically theirs.  I feel badly for Truely. Other than Christine, her only other mother or parental figure was Aspyn, who is now absent.

    An ONTD thread 8ish years ago said Janelle was close to Aspyn while the kids were still growing up.  If I remember correctly it was an a "friend" of theirs from their Utah area.   The poster said something like Aspyn was just like Christine but "smart" and Janelle and Janelle was the "our kids need to go to college" parent.  

    It was the first time I hard about: Janelle and Meri being sisters-in-law, Janelle moving out of the house for a while, etc. 

    With that being said, its clear that Christine is close to all of Janelle's kids.  Meri seems to have a genuine interest and relationship with Solomon. And for the first few seasons, it seemed like all the adults doted on Truly (between Christine's miscarriage and the original last child it would be natural).  

    OT: The only thing I remember from that ONTD thread that has never come up on the show was something about a traditional field trip that the school system took in middle school to an overnight place.  The trip happened every other year.    Logan got to go one year, but the next time due to money it was decided that Maddie, Aspyn, and Mariah wouldn't go due to money.   Except, Mariah ended up going....

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  12. ^^Agreed.  The "story line" this year is basically housing.   That is BORING AS HALE & hard to follow.  Meri has to move out.  Meri is back in LV.  Kody spends a month on plans which won't come into fruition.  Christine has bought a house.  Meri is back in AZ.  Robyn has to move.  Meri has to move.  Everyone argues about the land. 

    But for whatever reason, everyone is showing more of themselves this season. That part is fascinating because the only thing we've ever really seen is a PG version of Meri/Janelle issues.   Janelle/Christine bonding and chatting about the fight, the fight of mud whole Canyon, Meri's tree mess, Christine refusing the one home idea, Robyn realizing she gonna be raising her kids semi by herself. 

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  13. ^^Yeah a lot of evangelicals believe that there are WAY too many wordly influences in public and private schools.  They also don't like pesky science and/or being taught anything other than the version of history they like. 

    It also limits children to the outside world for things like: reporting child abuse, having a separate support system, having someone question or make you question your belief system, etc.  

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  14. I feel like the whole series is an Easter egg:  why all the girls live in one room, why all the boys sleep in jeans at night, why J&B were so anti-touching of any kind between anybody, the infamous side hug even among siblings, no physical contact until marriage, the purity of the heart crap, the reason there is always a chaperone during courting. 

    Then of course, you get sick to your stomach when you hear all of Josh's victims gush about his wedding and engagement to Anna.  You see his victims in his wedding, you hear his victims being preached to about how pure and righteous this relationship was, etc.  Lawd.....

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  15. Can you imagine your whole life (where the bedroom is, what kind of clothes you can sleep in, how you physically interact with your siblings, how you can date, etc) are done because your brother molested either your or your other siblings. Imagine being 20 years old and married and just now getting to wear actual pajamas or boxers or something normal to bed if you are a boy.  

    The amount of covering and hiding this mess is appalling.  

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