Meow Mix

My issue with the daddy daughter dates is that when called on it being creepy, the families always claim that they are showing girls how a man should treat them. I think girls are learning a whole lot more about how men will treat them by watching how their father treats their mother, their sisters, and any women they come across out in public. If John is rude and dismissive to Alyssa or random cashiers or servers, his daughters are going to absorb that much more than they will some fakey "date". And once the holy penis is born, they will be much more influenced by his discarding them than by one obligatory "date".

The only ones getting rich are the people who sell Tony and others like him those books. He really needs to wake up before things get really bad. They have three kids and fading fame and I infer from one of the book titles a lot of debt. Good luck with that.

It's interesting how much she is being asked about Josh. I'm not sure how I feel about that. He is her brother, but this is supposed to be her story. She is not responsible for what he did in the past nor for what finally got him locked up. I think she handled the Page Six interviewer's questions pretty well. This can't be comfortable for her.

I think it was Katie in the sequined gown and I gave her the benefit of the doubt and thought maybe she was in the wedding. The ugly black dress, I have no clue.

I wasn't even homeschooled and my parents always made sure we had a comfortable quiet place to do homework and study. We weren't squinting at a cell phone or standing at a coffee table staring at a laptop like Gideon does.

I am once again impressed by the marketing campaign for this book. And I have to admit I am shocked that Jinger would go so far as to say that you shouldn't have a million kids just because you can. It's going to be hard for her parents to spin that as anything other than a criticism of their choices. I wonder how her siblings like Joe, Jed!, and Joy are reacting to someone saying that having baby after baby is a bad idea. I hope she and Jer stick to that and either stop with the two they have or have only one or two more.

The one thing I hope is that this book puts the final nail in the IBLP coffin. People have been calling out Gothard's false teachings for years (see Recovering Grace), but no one more mainstream famous had done so until now. Since Jinger was part of the propaganda piece known as Growing Up Duggar, to see her disavow those beliefs is going to resonate with some people within the community. There will still be diehards like Jill Rodrigues and Lori Alexander, but I think MacArthur is hoping to pull a lot of people who may be wavering his way. He wants younger middle to upper middle class people to fill his churches and his pockets. The oldsters he has now are dying off.

Austin's nasty beard has to go. I still think it looks like things are living in it. Yuck.

The first bride was giving serious Nike. The boys need to get their nasty shoes off the furniture in the RV. The church for the first wedding was pretty. Sparklers as the bride and groom are leaving terrify me. I am always scared a stray spark is going to catch on the bride's dress. The second bride wasn't quite as Nike, but the mesh allowed her to show more skin.

I have no issue with them paying for Josh's lawyers for the trial or even for one appeal. But at some point, they are going to have to cut their losses. Even his siblings for the most part know he did what he is accused of though I am sure some still think the sentence he got was too harsh. As for the money, I do think JB thinks he has given each kid their fair share by doling out broken down starter homes, junker vehicles, and the occasional crusty mattress out of the hoarder warehouse. Doing that allows him to maintain control rather than giving them cash that they can spend how they like.

Anyone who announced my current weight in a newspaper article would be meeting Jesus is short order. That's awful.

I think the only reason JereME hasn't lost it over Jinger getting all the attention is that he is thinking of all the shoes and gourmet burgers the expected royalties will buy him. Given a much slicker marketing campaign for this book, they do have the possibility of some royalties over their advance.

Those poor kids. These two aren't anywhere near adulthood themselves and they have two kids. I don't wish ill on anyone, but I have seen far too many news stories where something horrible happens with a couple and when their social media is examined, there are constant pictures of them insisting they are happy and in love. I suspect financial reality is hitting for these two. Leisure boy needs to go back to work and Carlin needs to grow up and raise her kids.

I thought I remembered that Leon and Audrey were sharing a house with two other people. Maybe one of them came into frame and didn't want to be part of Leon pretention fest. BTW I can't imagine actually living with Leon. They seem like a slob in addition to the endless pontificating about their cause of the day.

I've never heard the term bride-elect before. I guess Jill was employed somewhere when she was engaged. I couldn't imagine having her as a hairdresser.

I'm kind of torn on the cult aspect. I took a class in sects and cults when I was in college and the first order of business was defining what was a cult. The definition can get quite broad. Early Christianity was a cult offshoot of the Jewish faith. Why I'm torn about the cult aspect is that it is well documented that McArthur does not tolerate dissent at all. Many people have been banished for even minor disagreements with him. So while Jinger has reevaluated her faith, if she reevaluates away from what McArthur and Jeremy want, she will have serious problems. I'm glad she at least gets to leave behind the anxiety of thinking that God is going to zap her any minute, but I don't believe her deconstruction is going to go any farther than what it is now.

Aw, such a pretty kitty. He reminds me of my first cat who also would eat all day if I let him.

While I'm no Meri fan, I am cringing on her behalf about all these public statements about her. I would be devastated if people were publicly trashing me like this. No matter what she says, Meri will lose if she responds. I've always felt that a big part of the issue was that Meri was left to do the disciplining by the other parents. Kody may have done some once in a while, but I doubt Janelle and Christine disciplined the kids at all. Christine particularly seems to want to be her kids' friends rather than their parent. So of course Meri is going to look like the mean one. And as I have said before, Robyn had no problem using Meri as enforcer when Robyn's kids were being bullied.

Oh I agree, Lori is dangerous. My comment was meant to say that I wasn't the least bit surprised that she weighed in and tried to paint the Duggar parents as paragons of virtue. Sadly, I doubt Jinger is going to hold them accountable the way some would hope. She just doesn't strike me as the type to burn everything down.

I hate their habit of putting a kid n a high chair off by themselves nowhere near anyone else. Ben practically has his back turned to her. And why is Josie wearing a brace?

This once again makes me wonder if Tiff was with Lawson because of the TV show. When the show got cancelled, she was in too deep and felt too guilty to call it off. It seemed that even at the wedding and on the honeymoon she was already experiencing buyers remorse. Now she's realizing that Lawson is not going to amount to anything and she is stuck in Tennessee with his family ignoring her. I really hope if she is having second thoughts, she will move on before babies start coming. She could do so much better, I'm sure California has plenty of men who are still conservative that would be a better match for her.

Now that everyone is heading off on the ski trip, I wonder how Alyssa feels. There wasn't any money for her to take a few days to go to her brother's wedding, but there is not only enough for John to fly to Colorado, but to buy all new ski equipment besides. I would be ticked if I were her.

Saying that Tony is similar to Kody and that is why she married him is one of the few insightful things Mykelti has said. I wonder if these dolts understand that if they want to cap their family at three kids that they will need to take some form of action to prevent further pregnancies. They seemed like the type who think that just saying it is enough.

Oh and this is one of the most annoying things about Tony. He is constantly referencing white people like they are different from him. I've got news for him, he's just as white as anyone else. Having a Latinx heritage is not a race, it's a culture or nationality. There are different races in Latinx countries. Tony is an idiot.

I'm really finding this marketing campaign interesting. Someone in McArthur's camp has clearly been studying the internet and wants to make this book look like Jinger's idea instead of something Jeremy came up with. There have been countless comments on Jeremy putting words in Jinger's mouth especially when they played a game of would you rather. Someone wants to avoid that looking like the case here. Also, I don't think Jeremy is capable of letting Jinger do most of the talking in interviews, so it's better just to not have him around at all.