Sweet Fellowship: Duggars and Friends (aka the Bates Family and Other Featured Families Thread)

[DragonFaerie]

Well, what do you know? Looks like Spokane has a nice bus system.  Try the bus Timothy, or the bike idea.

https://www.spokanetransit.com/routes-schedules/routes

46 minutes ago, SMama said:

What kind of car did Timothy drive that was spacious enough for a lawnmower and whatever other necessary equipment? These people are just plain freaks.

I was wondering that myself.  Unless by car she means pickup truck, and by lawncare she doesn't mean mowing.  These people.  

[Jynnan tonnix]

1 hour ago, BitterApple said:

I'm curious as well. Isn't that school over 25k a year? Mowing lawns in West Virginia must be a lucrative business if he's racked up that kind of cash. 

Just a "post at random" to reply to since I've "liked" pretty much  everything over the past dozen or so...

Yeah, mowing lawns for 3-4 months is nowhere near the kind of cash he's looking at for college, and one almost new car could easily equal 2-3 road-worthy vehicles for the family if they played their cards right.

My younger son when he went to college in North Dakota bought a  used truck for $3000 which lasted two years of trips back and forth to Georgia where we were living at the time. Plus a lot of rescue work the year that they had all sorts of flooding in late Winter/earlySpring a few years back (and, gosh, he's an atheist!). One would think  a similar vehicle would last Timothy a couple of years of school and even let him drag a couple of cheap lawnmowers around if he wanted to keep up his business.

[Westiepeach]

But why buy a car when you can grift one???

[Triple P]

I think some schools have an enrollment fee that is due when you accept the school's admittance offer. Maybe that is what Timothy paid, not the tuition.

Timothy can't possibly take the bus. He might be forced to sit next to someone who he isn't spiritually close to.

Edited July 6, 2018 by Triple P

[Marshmallow Mollie]

There’s this thing called the filter button on the websites of “new to you” used car lots. Then you ask one of the million people living in your home if they can call the dealership to make sure the car is still there while you, what I can only assume, drive your riding lawnmower while holding your weed eater to your outrageously successful landscaping career. Problem solved!

And come on y’all, you know he can’t ride the bus. He might run into lepers, or promiscuous women, or blind men, and he is way too good of a Christian to ride a bus with the people Jesus associated with. 

[BetyBee]

Tim is determined to stay debt free.  Is begging a legit way to stay debt free?  Where's the honor in that?

[EVS]

I can’t see Jill’s Facebook post, but supposedly someone offered to sell them a car for $500 and Jill didn’t respond to the post. I read this on either reddit or Free Jinger. Can anyone verify this? Maybe she has since responded.  

[PradaKitty]

Heck, I need a new car too, but I’m not begging people for one (unless you all wish to donate, of course)...

[Jynnan tonnix]

10 minutes ago, Marshmallow Mollie said:

There’s this thing called the filter button on the websites of “new to you” used car lots. Then you ask one of the million people living in your home if they can call the dealership to make sure the car is still there while you, what I can only assume, drive your riding lawnmower while holding your weed eater to your outrageously successful landscaping career. Problem solved!

And come on y’all, you know he can’t ride the bus. He might run into lepers, or promiscuous women, or blind men, and he is way too good of a Christian to ride a bus with the people Jesus associated with. 

Aaargh! Between your post and Triple P's I realize how misled I was in thinking that Timothy might be able to work his way through the rabbit- warrens of sin and promiscuity which is  inevitable when one spends any time among the merely "saved"within the walls of places like Moody.

Plus, as BetyBee so wisely asked, where is the honor in begging for a car when your entire world view depends on being debt-free?

[Sew Sumi]

40 minutes ago, EVS said:

I can’t see Jill’s Facebook post, but supposedly someone offered to sell them a car for $500 and Jill didn’t respond to the post. I read this on either reddit or Free Jinger. Can anyone verify this? Maybe she has since responded.  

No one on FJ has updated w/r/t this offer. I doubt Jill will take it since it involves her having to pay someone $500 rather than get something for free. 

[doodlebug]

1 minute ago, Sew Sumi said:

No one on FJ has updated w/r/t this offer. I doubt Jill will take it since it involves her having to pay someone $500 rather than get something for free. 

I am sure that she will chide the offerer, reminding them that poor Timmy is going away to become a flying missionary and surely they don't want to take away any of the funds he needs to do the Lord's work and convert heathens.

[ginger90]

I wonder if Timothy has access to the Facebook page Jill posted this on. I’m guessing not, but if he really said those words to Jill, and that’s what she chose to post instead, that’s some more really shitty parenting.

[Wishing Well]

Jill, I will give you my old car if you let Timothy live a month in the Cap Hill neighborhood in Seattle.

We don’t call it The Gayborhood for nothing.

[LilJen]

5 hours ago, Sew Sumi said:

debt free

Free of monetary debts, yeah. . . I guess she doesn't understand that there's a certain amount of indebtedness to those who give you large gifts?

[Sew Sumi]

1 minute ago, LilJen said:

Free of monetary debts, yeah. . . I guess she doesn't understand that there's a certain amount of indebtedness to those who give you large gifts?

Having no conscience, I doubt she has given this a second thought after she thanked Jesus for the miracle. 

[Fostersmom]

On 7/5/2018 at 2:57 PM, libgirl2 said:

I think mine would. The library I work with partners with the local food bank/school district during the summer to provide free lunch for kids that normally get the free lunch through the school. Now I know looks can be deceiving but there are mothers who come in here with their kids who clearly are not hurting financially. Prada handbags, new and nice cars, tanned, hair highlighted and nicely cut, good clothes...... I don't expect someone to come in wearing a burlap sack but it angers me to see people taking advantage of a freebie. All I can think is that even if a small precentage of those coming in need that free meal then I guess it is worth it. 

 

On 7/5/2018 at 4:55 PM, xwordfanatik said:

It really bothers me when people use the system, and other people's donations, and they clearly don't need it from outward appearances, anyway.  If they're in debt up to their eyeballs (one of my dad's sayings) that's on them, if it's for the more expensive vehicles, designer clothes and accoutrements, etc., when they could get way less expensive stuff, and still live well.  We've probably all seen examples of that, and we've more than likely seen others that have a hard time making the rent and eating a substandard diet (some of them still working, others on disability.)  

When supposedly religious folks abuse food banks and such, it just seems especially egregious (to me, anyway.)

I know a woman I went to junior high and high school with who is the epitome of both of these. She has 2 kids in private Christian school, has family season passes to 2 major amusement parks in Ohio and food passes in at last one of them for her, the kids, and her husband, has posted for at least the last few years about the family Christmas trip to Florida, and spring break trips to Florida again. She's also begged for someone to loan her kids shoes because they didn't have dress shoes to wear to their piano recitals and the kicker was last summer when she was bragging about taking her kids to locations around her major city that offered free lunches to any school aged child, no questions asked. In theory, these should have been to replace meals kids would be missing since school was out for the summer and they weren't getting their free lunches at school. Hot dogs, ham sandwiches, fruit and milk, standard school lunch fare. Are the lunches she got for her kids keeping another kid from eating? No, most likely not, but milking the program when you're spending thousands a year on trips and amusement parks is really just sleazy. 

On 7/5/2018 at 5:42 PM, lookeyloo said:

This reminds me in a way of several people I know who used to be friends and aren't for various and sundry reasons, but, they had a handicap sign for the car because of their ill husbands, and after the husbands passed, or when the husbands weren't in the car, they would still used the sign to get a "good space".  I said, let me out here, I don't want to be involved.  They would get in a huff but not change.  

I have MS and a handicapped placard that I rarely use. Maybe a few times a month, if that. But every time I go someplace with anyone, they are aways demanding I bring it with me so it can be used. If I've been doing a ton of walking lately or the weather is extreme, I sometimes will, I sometimes won't. I constantly hear, "if I had one, I'd use it every where". Here's the thing, I know there's a good chance there will come a day I have no choice in the matter of using it or not, so as long as I'm able to avoid using it, I'm going to avoid it. I'm 41 and was diagnosed at 26. I held out to getting one until Feb of last year and then only asked since I was having issues with my balance and walking on ice was getting dangerous so I needed to be able to not have to trudge across parking lots. I'll still trudge across in the winter even when it's freezing if the lots aren't icy though. 

[Normades]

Just when I think Jilly has sunk as low as she can get, she manages to go lower. If she keeps it up, she'll find herself clinging to a wire at the Earth's core with a little demon. I knew she mentioned Tim had a car. There was no dire need for the new car she just grifted. Sometimes grown ups have to tighten their belt and go without. As I've said about a year and a half ago my son was critically ill. I had no car. I walked to WORK and the grocery store. I now have saved for a $3000 car and my son is better. That car is better than a Rolls Royce to me. No grifting required, just hard work and patience. Also on food banks, I think they do some wonderful work, but when I see people with jewelry and professional manicures getting food, I have a problem with it. My mother in law thinks it's great to take their food when she can afford her own. I think you should sell or pawn your jewelry before you expect others to pay for your groceries. And no way should you spend money on manicures. YMMV.

[Fuzzysox]

On 7/6/2018 at 6:49 PM, Marshmallow Mollie said:

 

And come on y’all, you know he can’t ride the bus. He might run into lepers, or promiscuous women, or blind men, and he is way too good of a Christian to ride a bus with the people Jesus associated with. 

Stormy must have never heard the story of long before becoming the Pope, Pope Frances used to ride the bus every morning to work. Pope Francis wanted to be closer to the people he ministered to. He really enjoyed listening to people on the bus.

 This is the POPE the holiest man in the Catholic religion, a man of the people, who humbled himself because he wanted to be near the people he ministered. It really angers me when Stormy makes it seem that only "her" brand of Christianity is the "right" one. Please, she has a million miles to walk (well now that Timmy has no car) to even get close to being missionary. 

Edited July 8, 2018 by Fuzzysox

[doodlebug]

1 hour ago, Fuzzysox said:

Stormy must have never heard the story of long before becoming the Pope, Pope Frances used to ride the bus every morning to work. Pope Francis wanted to be closer to the people he ministered to. He really enjoyed listening to people on the bus.

 This is the POPE the holiest man in the Catholic religion, a man of the people, who humbled himself because he wanted to be near the people he ministered. It really angers me when Stormy makes it seem that only "her" brand of Christianity is the "right" one. Please, she has a million miles to walk (well now that Timmy has no car) to even get close to being missionary. 

 

The Pope also gave up the Bishop's Palace in Buenos Aires and moved into a tiny flat so that a group of monks who served the poor could use the mansion for their ministry.  He has yet to move into the Pope's luxurious apartment in the Vatican, preferring to live in a small flat in the Vatican guesthouse.

Jill has no idea what it is to live a life devoted to God's plan.

Edited July 8, 2018 by doodlebug

[Temperance]

1 hour ago, Fuzzysox said:

Stormy must have never heard the story of long before becoming the Pope, Pope Frances used to ride the bus every morning to work. Pope Francis wanted to be closer to the people he ministered to. He really enjoyed listening to people on the bus.

 This is the POPE the holiest man in the Catholic religion, a man of the people, who humbled himself because he wanted to be near the people he ministered. It really angers me when Stormy makes it seem that only "her" brand of Christianity is the "right" one. Please, she has a million miles to walk (well now that Timmy has no car) to even get close to being missionary. 

Argentina is mostly Catholic (a little over 3/4s and that's today's numbers with secularism on the rise.) He was most likely never the only person who held his beliefs. Jill woud have hard time finding a bus where most of the people are whatever branch of Christianity she is. 

[doodlebug]

10 minutes ago, Temperance said:

Argentina is mostly Catholic (a little over 3/4s and that's today's numbers with secularism on the rise.) He was most likely never the only person who held his beliefs. Jill woud have hard time finding a bus where most of the people are whatever branch of Christianity she is. 

I don't think one catches secularism from riding the bus.  It's not a virus.  I also think you overestimate the number of people who call themselves Catholic and actually practice the faith.  Many people in Latin America are nominally Catholic, just as here in the US.  Also, based on the example set by the current Pope, I don't think the percentage of Catholics vs non-Catholics he'd encounter on public transportation figured into his thinking.  My guess is that his faith is strong enough that he doesn't worry about being exposed to other faiths, unlike Jill who had a crisis upon learning that some of the faculty at her son's Christian college didn't read the 'correct' translation of the Bible. She sure doesn't trust that her kids have strong enough beliefs that exposure to other faiths won't change theirs.

Edited July 8, 2018 by doodlebug

[Temperance]

I never said secularism is caught on the bus like a virus. I said the majority of people are Catholic, and that's based on the numbers I got from goggle. My point is that it's easier for him to be comfortable with the people on the bus, because the most of them consider themselves Catholic and he's never the minority.  It's similiar to being in a Catholic church, where (like in the church I grew up in) people take being Catholic to mean different things and practice their faith accordingly.  Yes, I get your point about most fundies being worried that secularism is catching is stupid, but I also know Catholics who worry about their kids being susceptible to bad influences in public schools. It's hard to say what a celibate man like Pope Francis would be if he was like Jill, in America raising 13 kids and counting. 

Edited July 8, 2018 by Temperance

[doodlebug]

15 minutes ago, Temperance said:

I never said secularism is caught on the bus like a virus. I said the majority of people are Catholic, and that's based on the numbers I got from goggle. My point is that it's easier for him to be comfortable with the people on the bus, because the most of them consider themselves Catholic and he's never the minority.  It's similiar to being in a Catholic church, where (like in the church I grew up in) people take being Catholic to mean different things and practice their faith accordingly.  Yes, I get your point about most fundies being worried that secularism is catching is stupid, but I also know Catholics who worry about their kids being susceptible to bad influences in public schools. It's hard to say what a celibate man like Pope Francis would be if he was like Jill, in America raising 13 kids and counting. 

This particular Pope has shown himself to be comfortable with people of all kinds; he washed the feet of Muslim prisoners on Holy Thursday, amongst other things.  His willingness to connect to people from all walks of life is one of his best traits, IMO.  Not at all like Jill.  

My parents sent me to Catholic schools not to keep me from mixing with non-Catholics; but because our local Catholic school, in addition to providing religious training and prepare us for the sacraments, was academically stronger, had stricter guidelines for behavior and discipline and generally had a lot less of the BS one found in inner city public schools in the 1960's when I attended.  My class was about 1/3 non-Catholic, BTW, and that holds today.  A lot of parents send their kids to Catholic schools for reasons other than faith and anyone who sends their kids to one in hopes to prevent them from meeting non-Catholics is dreaming.  Meanwhile, Jill wants only KJB believers to teach her adult son about aviation and cannot allow him to attend a Baptist Church unless she has personally vetted it.  No comparison, IMO.

[becca3891]

On 7/6/2018 at 7:12 AM, GeeGolly said:

Or Jill just lied because her kids are so isolated that they don't have anyone they've talked to for more than a hour in their on-the-road-grifting life.

Do they even know their neighbors? The kids certainly don't know anyone from school or sports, etc. Or if they did connect with someone, in anyway, what town or state were they in when they made friends with them?

Exactly. Of all the fundies I know, only one family stands out as truly practicing what they preach. They reached out and made friends with their neighbors, wanting to share their faith by their friendliness and the way they lived, and not by isolating themselves and printing tracts. 

On 7/6/2018 at 4:51 PM, DkNNy79 said:

I call BS on her whole post.

Why don't they use the money they took from folks from the last go fund me to buy a car for him?  The money that was given to them even though someone had already given them a car.

Also, why does he need a car?  Why doesn't he use public transportation like regular folks.  I and most of my friends didn't have a car in college.  My freshman year of college I also worked part-time at FAO Schwartz and I would take the bus (most college campuses usually have a bus stop on them) to get to work.

I don't know what kind of college this is, but most colleges have a church on them and he can find a job on campus as well.

This really makes me mad. I live in a rural area, not by choice (long story) and there truly is no way to get around with a car. There simply isn't public transportation. But as has been pointed out, there is a good bus system where Timothy will be and I can't for the life of me fathom why they think a car is a necessity in his situation. 

On 7/6/2018 at 8:16 PM, BetyBee said:

Tim is determined to stay debt free.  Is begging a legit way to stay debt free?  Where's the honor in that?

And this is also infuriating. The Duggars were major grifters before fame rendered it unnecessary, and their justification for the begging was the same -- a commitment to being debt free. Why exactly is it everyone else's responsibility to bail you out of deliberately having more children than you can afford? And did anyone else notice how Jill had to stress how Nurie was SO busy that she had absolutely no time to organize a dinner to raise money, and Timothy is SO busy volunteering that he couldn't possibly stoop to looking for a car. Really? I call BS, but if you are really spending all 16 waking hours each day "volunteering," maybe you need to reevaluate your priorities. 

[Albanyguy]

Maybe I'm getting too cynical, but I don't even really believe that Timothy had a "fender bender" accident at all. I think Jill is making the whole thing up. Her recent attempt to profit from her daughters' accident really paid off; she got a free car, plus a couple of thousand in cash donations. I think it emboldened her to try again with another hard luck story involving one of her children and a car crash. I think the tipoff is that she described the "accident" with very little detail (no dramatic, heart-pounding story with Jill herself at the center) and no photos of the smashed vehicle (Jill LOVES posting photos) to lend authenticity.

[beckie]

My guess is, if it really happened, it was a dent in the fender, or something. Nothing rendering it inoperable, but enough for her to want something better.

 

I don't have a vehicle. I want one, but can't afford one. I ride the bus when I have to go somewhere.

[doodlebug]

2 hours ago, beckie said:

My guess is, if it really happened, it was a dent in the fender, or something. Nothing rendering it inoperable, but enough for her to want something better.

 

I don't have a vehicle. I want one, but can't afford one. I ride the bus when I have to go somewhere.

Jill did say that the fender bender wasn’t the cause of the car’s breakdown.  It was a very old car, a beater, that she and the hubs had grifted years ago and then handed down to Timothy when they grifted the car that Nurie totaled.  

This all begs the question, how the heck were they planning on getting this jalopy to Spokane?  After all, they’re supposedly towing the nearly new car they extorted after Nurie’s wreck behind the stink bus.  Obviously, someone was going to be driving this broken down hoopty to Spokane which also begs the question as to why they so urgently needed the new car if they were going to have Tim’s car for errands on the way out there.

Methinks Jill always planned to beg/demand a new car for Tim before they left and Nurie’s accident was just a bonus.  Since that scam worked beyond her wildest dreams, scoring a better car than most working people drive; she’s now emboldened and going for broke.  She’s again ignoring posts from people offering to sell them a car for cheap; it’s free or nothin’ for greedy grifty Jill.

Edited July 8, 2018 by doodlebug

[queenanne]

1 hour ago, doodlebug said:

Jill did say that the fender bender wasn’t the cause of the car’s breakdown.  It was a very old car, a beater, that she and the hubs had grifted years ago and then handed down to Timothy when they grifted the car that Nurie totaled.  

This all begs the question, how the heck were they planning on getting this jalopy to Spokane?  After all, they’re supposedly towing the nearly new car they extorted after Nurie’s wreck behind the stink bus.  Obviously, someone was going to be driving this broken down hoopty to Spokane which also begs the question as to why they so urgently needed the new car if they were going to have Tim’s car for errands on the way out there.

Methinks Jill always planned to beg/demand a new car for Tim before they left and Nurie’s accident was just a bonus.  Since that scam worked beyond her wildest dreams, scoring a better car than most working people drive; she’s now emboldened and going for broke.  She’s again ignoring posts from people offering to sell them a car for cheap; it’s free or nothin’ for greedy gritty Jill.

Is she really?  I mean, it's not so long ago that people remember full well, "Timothy" saying "I don't want it for FREE, Mama.  I WILL pay."  Are these people not saying anything? 

[doodlebug]

12 minutes ago, queenanne said:

Is she really?  I mean, it's not so long ago that people remember full well, "Timothy" saying "I don't want it for FREE, Mama.  I WILL pay."  Are these people not saying anything? 

All I know is that both after Nurie's wreck and with this beg-a-thon; people posted about cars they were willing to sell to her for a nominal amount and they got no response.  While we all remember that Timothy supposedly told Jill that he didn't want a free car, he would pay; I guess I am more cynical that most in that I think Jill put that in there thinking it would help get a donated car as her followers realized what a Godly, wonderful boy Timothy was and, of course, he's going to school to enter the ministry; no way should a saintly boy doing the Lord's work have to pay for a car.  Notice, too, Jill lets us know what Timothy supposedly said, but nowhere does she agree with him or indicate that she supports his desire to pay for a car.  It's all part of the act, IMO/

[DangerousMinds]

Who will be paying for the cars' registration and insurance? 

[queenanne]

Thanks.  I do very much feel that Timothy should in fact at least be offered the chance to know about these cheap cars, so I'm insulted on his behalf that his mother is continuing to treat him as such a baby that she won't tell him they're being offered; as I'm assuming that she in fact is not.  After all, this is changing HIS life after he moves away.  Maybe he wants to pay for a better car than he'd be offered for free, etc.  Poor enslaved kid can't even have his own social media as he's going off to college...

[doodlebug]

3 minutes ago, queenanne said:

Thanks.  I do very much feel that Timothy should in fact at least be offered the chance to know about these cheap cars, so I'm insulted on his behalf that his mother is continuing to treat him as such a baby that she won't tell him they're being offered; as I'm assuming that she in fact is not.  After all, this is changing HIS life after he moves away.  Maybe he wants to pay for a better car than he'd be offered for free, etc.  Poor enslaved kid can't even have his own social media as he's going off to college...

I doubt he's allowed free access to the internet; he wasn't allowed to select a college or church to attend, his parents did that for him.  So, if he knows, it would be because Jill told him about it.  To me, this whole thing is just a variation on the last grift.  Remember the GotoMeFund was supposedly set up by Nurie to help her poor parents whose life of service to Jesus made them incapable of buying a vehicle themselves.  Jill was only there to help her with the internet stuff, it wasn't her idea, she certainly didn't expect it.  This time, it's Jill making the request on behalf of sweet little Timmy.  In both cases, Jill is using her poor, malnourished, brainwashed kids to gain sympathy and generate donations.  I also suspect the reason that GoFundMe isn't involved in this quest is that the last one got shut down after people reported the continued begging even after the goal was met.

[Fostersmom]

That's going off the assumption A) there's something really wrong with Timothy's car and B) he even knows what Jill is posting. I'm going on record right now, there's nothing wrong with the old car to leave it undrivable, and it will magically be able to be handed down to Nurie after Jill grifts a newer one for Timothy. Now, if it's truly an ancient junker, I probably wouldn't want to drive it cross county either, but that's a matter of preference.

[Punkadoo]

1 hour ago, Fostersmom said:

That's going off the assumption A) there's something really wrong with Timothy's car and B) he even knows what Jill is posting. I'm going on record right now, there's nothing wrong with the old car to leave it undrivable, and it will magically be able to be handed down to Nurie after Jill grifts a newer one for Timothy. Now, if it's truly an ancient junker, I probably wouldn't want to drive it cross county either, but that's a matter of preference.

I was thinking the exact same thing. They just don't want to worry about it on the long drive. The car could break down and they could be stuck in a big city like Chicago. All sorts of evilness around, it could force them to eat at an IHOP. The ensuing bathroom fight for their ever lovin souls would be too much of a cross to bear for poor poor Stormy J. 

All joking aside, why did she mention the fender bender the way she did when it was a non factor in the grift? Just to create confusion and then come back and say she never lied when someone does get it wrong and is bitter about being swindled? The whole "need" for a car is bullshit. She just wants it. 

I would love to see Jill put on her best Stormy J makeup, look straight at the camera and say "cause I want it" I think I would die and have to contribute to the grift just for that. 

Edited July 8, 2018 by Punkadoo

[Fuzzysox]

4 hours ago, DangerousMinds said:

Who will be paying for the cars' registration and insurance? 

Jesus!

[Fuzzysox]

2 hours ago, Punkadoo said:

I was thinking the exact same thing. They just don't want to worry about it on the long drive. The car could break down and they could be stuck in a big city like Chicago.

Chicago is a horrible place!

We have culture (Field Museum, Adler Planetarium) world class food, gays, straight people, we are multicultural, have  different religions and non-stop things to do. 

[Punkadoo]

8 minutes ago, Fuzzysox said:

Chicago is a horrible place!

We have culture (Field Museum, Adler Planetarium) world class food, gays, straight people, we are multicultural, have  different religions and non-stop things to do. 

Exactly! Being a Bay Area Californian myself, I would love an excuse to be there. For Jill, her honor would be affronted just at the possibilities.

[Sew Sumi]

That's assuming Jill has honor.

[beckie]

Does anybody know if Jill was successful in grifting a car for Timothy?

[EVS]

I don’t know about the car for Timothy but, according to Free Jinger, Jill is now claiming on FB that she took her kids to the park and when they went to leave, two of the 15 passenger van tires were punctured and it looked deliberate according to Jill. I think she either ran over nails, or she knows they need new tires before they drive Tim to college and is trying to grift them. 

Edited July 11, 2018 by EVS
To correct vehicle

[TresGatos]

On 7/7/2018 at 11:12 PM, Temperance said:

Jill woud have hard time finding a bus where most of the people are whatever branch of Christianity she is. 

Yes, it would be a very short bus indeed!

[doodlebug]

46 minutes ago, EVS said:

I don’t know about the car for Timothy but, according to Free Jinger, Jill is now claiming on FB that she took her kids to the park and when they went to leave, two of the RV tires were punctured and it looked deliberate according to Jill. I think she either ran over nails, or she knows they need new tires before they drive Tim to college and is trying to grift them. 

I suspect the latter.  Jill really does lay it on thick about how incredibly persecuted she is for her faith and how she suffers for the Lord.  I expect we'll be hearing some tall tale about how ungodly heathens vandalized their RV to prevent them from singing their way across country.

She seems to be getting progressively more overwrought and hysterical in her posts.  I think she's really freaking out about losing control of Timothy once he's on his own in Spokane.

[Fostersmom]

Well, she's seen what happened to the Duggars and the Bates kids once one of them branched out, next thing they knew, all their kids were just wild. Girls wearing pants, piercing noses, trying to get an actual paying job, the boys being attracted to girls doing those things. In Jill's world, the sky truly is falling once Timothy leaves. Oh, and he might actually get to eat and gain the strength to think or branch out. 

[SMama]

Jill claimed it was the 15 passenger van that had two tires punctured. Either way she is obviously grifting for tires as well. 

[EVS]

7 minutes ago, SMama said:

Jill claimed it was the 15 passenger van that had two tires punctured. Either way she is obviously grifting for tires as well. 

Thanks for the correction. I’ll edit my post. 

[BetyBee]

3 hours ago, EVS said:

I don’t know about the car for Timothy but, according to Free Jinger, Jill is now claiming on FB that she took her kids to the park and when they went to leave, two of the 15 passenger van tires were punctured and it looked deliberate according to Jill. I think she either ran over nails, or she knows they need new tires before they drive Tim to college and is trying to grift them. 

Jill took her kids to a park!?

[Sew Sumi]

1 minute ago, BetyBee said:

Jill took her kids to a park!?

They actually went to a local amusement park last weekend. Even though the place is relatively cheap, it still would have been nearly $300 for admission alone. I suspect that they spent some of their GoToMeFund (tm Nurie) money to finance this little outing. 

[doodlebug]

6 minutes ago, BetyBee said:

Jill took her kids to a park!?

Probably in hopes that strangers would see how malnourished and pathetic they look and hand them cash. Or, more likely, to hand out some of those fire and brimstone fundy pamphlets that David spends 12 or more hours every day slaving away in his printshop to produce.  I think we can all agree that there is virtually no chance Jill took her kids to the park to actually play.

Edited July 11, 2018 by doodlebug

[Temperance]

Chelsy Bontrager Maxwell has been slowly posting about wedding from December. She's up to Part 8, which is the reception. There's a picture of Kendra Duggar's parents. There is also a picture of JB, Michelle, and John David.

The reception looks nice. 

Edited July 11, 2018 by Temperance

[BitterApple]

I looked up Chelsy's blog, and I agree she did a nice job with her reception. I think when you're on a limited budget you're better off keeping the decor simple rather than doing a bunch of DIY crap that ends up looking a jumbled mess (hello, Duggars).