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

[GeeGolly]

4 hours ago, DangerousMinds said:

She might be shocked at all the porn on Parler, though 🤣.

All this talk about Parler has me wondering how much JillR ventures beyond her own posts. She probably spends very little time looking at posts that aren't hers, because she's Jill.

[Temperance]

20 hours ago, Snow Fairy said:

If something happened to Jill and she dies, how would that impact the kids? Do you think they would continue on like this, or would they be a bit freed?

 Kaylee, Renee, eventually Tessie, and Hannah, would raise the remaining kids. 

18 hours ago, Saylii said:

If Jill died Nurie & Nathan would be roped in to taking care of her siblings.

I don’t see David remarrying unless there’s a 30-40 fundie virgin out there a la Jana. If there was someone’s adult daughter who had never been married and was done raising siblings, they would likely be coerced into marrying David.  Isn’t David’s mom still alive too?  I could see her raising the kids as well.

Plus I’m not convinced that David isn’t just as crazy as Jill, she’s just the louder one.  I wouldn’t guarantee life improves for them.

I doubt Nurie and Nathan would be roped in. Kaylee and Renee are adults and Tessie and Hannah are old enough to be sister moms. 

Edited December 17, 2020 by Temperance

[GeeGolly]

I wonder if JillR has run to a specialist doctor for help getting pregnant with her next blessing? Maybe she can drive down to TN and see good ole Fundy Gyno, Dr Vick.

[Chicklet]

Jill is the fruit-cakey outer layer of far right political ideology and I have no more mental energy for them. I just wish she would take a dose of reality but yes I do realize she will be pushed kicking and screaming into the sanity in my dreams only. Or if her daughters get tired of her and push her into traffic.

I would pay money to watch Jill on Parler. I'll go as high as $25. Maybe she will just quit "evil" Facebook or Instagram? Nah never happen.

[NotthebadVictoria]

Ok, I just watched the video on FB where they introduce their jewelry....... wow........ those girls need help, I can’t even tell if it’s just a horrific speech impediment or if they are actually slow.  

[libgirl2]

36 minutes ago, NotthebadVictoria said:

Ok, I just watched the video on FB where they introduce their jewelry....... wow........ those girls need help, I can’t even tell if it’s just a horrific speech impediment or if they are actually slow.  

I think it is the way they are raised and who is raising them --- Jill. It is a very insular life. 

[Ohiopirate02]

5 hours ago, GeeGolly said:

All this talk about Parler has me wondering how much JillR ventures beyond her own posts. She probably spends very little time looking at posts that aren't hers, because she's Jill.

She has to venture somewhere to get all of her prepackaged misinformation.  I don't think it's Parler though.  It could just be a group text where someone else is posting stolen memes.  Because she posts stuff she agrees with that is way above her paygrade.  Someone who she deems smarter than her is feeding her these memes and she turns around to post them uncritically.  One thing I do know is Jill is not smart enough nor savvy enough to be creating them herself.

[laurakaye]

5 hours ago, Chicklet said:

I would pay money to watch Jill on Parler. I'll go as high as $25. Maybe she will just quit "evil" Facebook or Instagram? Nah never happen.

Based on what I've seen, one must do a swan-song leap from FB complete with a meme comparing mask-wearers to sheep or similar, which is a not-so-thinly veiled attempt to get their "friends" to exclaim things like, "No, please don't go!!"  "But I'll miss all the cute pics of your cat!"  or my fave, "Girl I'm already there, look me up!"  So if Jill bails on FB/IG, I would expect nothing less than a 15-minute rant-filled diatribe, only for her to come crawling back under a different name a couple of days later.

[doodlebug]

17 hours ago, emmawoodhouse said:

Jill's all salty now because FB and IG are flagging her conspiracy theory posts. She thinks it's an attack on her freedom of speech. It's pretty hilarious watching her melt down. 🤣🤣🤣

Interesting how many people think that their right to free speech means that public platforms are obligated to provide them with a forum for their idiocy.  Jill is perfectly free to think what she thinks, to write what she writes; but Facebook and Instagram are just as free to decline to allow her to spew her nonsense on their sites.

Some of the FB dissers seem to be moving to MeWe which is another social media site which doesn't censor political thought and also brags about how it protects user privacy, never sells ads and will always be free.  How exactly they make the money to keep the site up and running is not clear to me; though I've never been there.  Supposedly, there is a more politically diverse crowd there and not so much porn.  That probably won't last.

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Based on what I've seen, one must do a swan-song leap from FB complete with a meme comparing mask-wearers to sheep or similar, which is a not-so-thinly veiled attempt to get their "friends" to exclaim things like, "No, please don't go!!"  "But I'll miss all the cute pics of your cat!"  or my fave, "Girl I'm already there, look me up!"  So if Jill bails on FB/IG, I would expect nothing less than a 15-minute rant-filled diatribe, only for her to come crawling back under a different name a couple of days later.

Replacing one's profile picture with a photo of Mark Zuckerberg covered with a red slash seems to be popular amongst the migrants I know.  Very important to include a final rant about how you are a true patriot and advocate of free speech and refuse to let socialist Zuckerberg silence you before you sign off.  Doesn't seem like many of them just close their FB account and leave without a flourish.

Not to brag, but I know not one, but two, people who got timeouts from Facebook for repeatedly posting false stories.  One of them might even be a relative of mine.  The other got set down for 30 days after repeatedly violating the policy.

Edited December 17, 2020 by doodlebug

[doodlebug]

 

1 hour ago, Ohiopirate02 said:

She has to venture somewhere to get all of her prepackaged misinformation.  I don't think it's Parler though.  It could just be a group text where someone else is posting stolen memes.  Because she posts stuff she agrees with that is way above her paygrade.  Someone who she deems smarter than her is feeding her these memes and she turns around to post them uncritically.  One thing I do know is Jill is not smart enough nor savvy enough to be creating them herself.

I expect she is part of a group of 'good Christian' ladies who share this stuff.

Edited December 17, 2020 by doodlebug

[CouchTater]

Watching the video.  Renee keeps emphasizing how big the earrings are, as if that is a selling point.  LOL.. "And these ones....."  I hate the phrase "these ones."  Just say "these" please!

LOL, those air fresheners are huge!!!  Not "air freshener" size at all.  

Do better, ladies.

And whoever is recording the video (Jill I assume) keeps getting their bare feet in the shot.  Yuck.

Kind of sad, really.

Edited December 18, 2020 by CouchTater

[beckie]

Is there any way to post the video here? Or is it here some place and I missed it?

[65mickey]

I was at Publix today and as I was leaving I saw a white van parked at the very end of the parking lot. What caught my attention was that there were 4 kids standing out side of the van eating something that looked like hot dogs. The girls were wearing those long fundie skirts and thin hoodies. It was a cold 37 outside here in North Ga. There was a woman sitting in the van. I almost circled the lot to see if I could see who was in the van. Why was this woman sitting inside a van and the kids were outside in the slightly above freezing temp wearing what looked like to be clothing that was not winter wear? God I hope the Rodriquez family is not visiting in my area. We have enough nut cases here as it is. 

[OpieTaylor]

Something I’ve been wanting to comment on for awhile now is the overly long, too-many-details tributes for birthdays and other events on SM. Ever since we criticized them for impersonal birthday posts, now they write multi-paragraph rambling tributes.

That’s fine if it’s a one-time thing, but what new things are they going to say each year, year after year? Is each kid going to have all these new attributes each year to warrant a 3-paragraph tribute every birthday? 
 

[BradandJanet]

How many converts or even inquiries resulted from the tens of thousands of Jesus postcards Jill and David talked the Church of the Giant Neon Sign into paying for and mailing several months ago? If Jill hasn't bragged about it, I'm going to guess the project was a big dud. At least The Lord Daniel in the Laundromat kindly makes sure you leave with all the socks you came in with. 

[Kbo]

I’m bored so I went to check out Jill’s recent rantings on Facebook. Two things stood out:

1. In Part 2 of the women shouldn’t work outside the home series, Jill says women who work are more likely to be unfaithful 🙄. Yeah Jill, we’re all a bunch of hussies just waiting for our chance to find us a man to cheat with. It’s been slow going this year considering I’ve been working from home. Gosh, why am I still working 🙄
2. Some of her followers think the COVID vaccine is an attempt to sterilize women. I just can’t with these people. 

[emmawoodhouse]

9 minutes ago, Kbo said:

I’m bored so I went to check out Jill’s recent rantings on Facebook. Two things stood out:

1. In Part 2 of the women shouldn’t work outside the home series, Jill says women who work are more likely to be unfaithful 🙄. Yeah Jill, we’re all a bunch of hussies just waiting for our chance to find us a man to cheat with. It’s been slow going this year considering I’ve been working from home. Gosh, why am I still working 🙄
2. Some of her followers think the COVID vaccine is an attempt to sterilize women. I just can’t with these people. 

And of course, the vaccine contains the tissue of aborted fetuses. 🙄

[awaken]

15 hours ago, NotthebadVictoria said:

Ok, I just watched the video on FB where they introduce their jewelry....... wow........ those girls need help, I can’t even tell if it’s just a horrific speech impediment or if they are actually slow.  

Is it viewable on FB?  Or do you have to be friends with Jill to see it?

2 hours ago, OpieTaylor said:

Something I’ve been wanting to comment on for awhile now is the overly long, too-many-details tributes for birthdays and other events on SM. Ever since we criticized them for impersonal birthday posts, now they write multi-paragraph rambling tributes.

That’s fine if it’s a one-time thing, but what new things are they going to say each year, year after year? Is each kid going to have all these new attributes each year to warrant a 3-paragraph tribute every birthday? 
 

Ha, I always wonder the same!  If they’ve already said they have a heart for the lord and can’t wait to see what he has in store, what’s left for the many years ahead?

1 hour ago, BradandJanet said:

How many converts or even inquiries resulted from the tens of thousands of Jesus postcards Jill and David talked the Church of the Giant Neon Sign into paying for and mailing several months ago? If Jill hasn't bragged about it, I'm going to guess the project was a big dud. At least The Lord Daniel in the Laundromat kindly makes sure you leave with all the socks you came in with. 

Yes, funny we haven’t heard the results of that outreach yet!  I’m curious if even one new person attended their church. Somehow I doubt that horribly printed misspelled tract changed any minds. 

[EVS]

3 hours ago, 65mickey said:

I was at Publix today and as I was leaving I saw a white van parked at the very end of the parking lot. What caught my attention was that there were 4 kids standing out side of the van eating something that looked like hot dogs. The girls were wearing those long fundie skirts and thin hoodies. It was a cold 37 outside here in North Ga. There was a woman sitting in the van. I almost circled the lot to see if I could see who was in the van. Why was this woman sitting inside a van and the kids were outside in the slightly above freezing temp wearing what looked like to be clothing that was not winter wear? God I hope the Rodriquez family is not visiting in my area. We have enough nut cases here as it is. 

It probably wasn’t the Rods since the kids you saw were eating. 

Edited December 18, 2020 by EVS
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[emmawoodhouse]

@awaken, Jill's FB is public. She posts the same stuff there that is on her Instagram. But the FB Live is obviously just on FB. Last time I was on that page, a couple of days ago, the video was still there.

[Snow Fairy]

Yeah, the vaccines will sterilise women. Let's start with the older age groups, 65+

I actually assume lots of fundies had covid, but were silent about that

[GeeGolly]

Don't forget that Bill Gates added microchips to the vaccines. Not that JillR needs one, as she pretty much tells everyone what she's thinking and where she is at all times anyway.

[ginger90]

Jill’s YouTube, for samples of “wisdom “:

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCAGfG8vfJpqqN38UQZmRZNA

 

 

 

[Ohiopirate02]

9 hours ago, emmawoodhouse said:

And of course, the vaccine contains the tissue of aborted fetuses. 🙄

That is apparently sorta true.  There are vaccines that use fetal cells, but the covid 19 vaccine is not one of them.  And these fetal cells are from a couple of elective abortions that were done decades ago.  Vaccine makers are not farming fetuses on a constant basis for production.  

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/abortion-opponents-protest-covid-19-vaccines-use-fetal-cells

[BradandJanet]

The Bill Gates' microchips in vaccines is the one I hear about. Gates, an educated liberal, must be up to something nefarious. I'm sure he will be sitting in his mansion tracking every move I make when I eventually get the Covid vaccine. Personally, I think attention-whore Jill would love the idea of a wealthy man paying such close attention to her. Would her giant slug of a husband even care? 

[ginger90]

I’m not a baker, at all. I have to ask, is using pumpkins that have been picked, and laying outside as decorations the correct thing to do?

[Ohiopirate02]

6 minutes ago, ginger90 said:

I’m not a baker, at all. I have to ask, is using pumpkins that have been picked, and laying outside as decorations the correct thing to do?

I cannot think of one person who actually eats their decorative gourds.  Compost yes, but using them for food, not so much.  They have been sitting in the elements for months now.  I know gourds are hearty vegetables, but I don't think they are that hearty.  The seeds are probably still good, but the meat has got to taste like shit.

[BradandJanet]

Jill must be pretty desperate to be eating her halloween decorations. OK, she and David won't be the ones eating the moldy pumpkins. 

[ouinason]

I have heard of using the seeds of pumpkins after you carve them, but this sounds gross

[BigBingerBro]

Disgusting.  Decorative pumpkins that have been sitting around are most likely beginning to rot.  

[libgirl2]

1 minute ago, BigBingerBro said:

Disgusting.  Decorative pumpkins that have been sitting around are most likely beginning to rot.  

I know.... yuck. But if those kids are hungry, they probably eat them up. 😞

 

[crazy8s]

so many questions - why is Phillip or Sammers doing wimen's work making pies? why is there a box of aunt Jemima pancake mix on the counter by the pie crust making? is that what they are using as pie crust?

Edited December 19, 2020 by crazy8s

[farmgal4]

2 hours ago, ginger90 said:

Jill’s YouTube, for samples of “wisdom “:

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCAGfG8vfJpqqN38UQZmRZNA

 

 

 

She has videos of Gabriel and Sammer preaching.  I’ve always been taught that to be an effective preacher you must be “called to preach”, which means that you feel God leading you to preach.  I find it hard to believe that God is leading every Rod male to be a preacher.  I suspect that Jill is the reason those boys are in the pulpit.  I would love to know how the people at that church feel about Jill and her brood coming in and taking over the services, with their preaching, singing, etc.  It looks like Jill is running the show at the church that they’ve been attending for less than a year.

[sondraK]

2 hours ago, Ohiopirate02 said:

That is apparently sorta true.  There are vaccines that use fetal cells, but the covid 19 vaccine is not one of them.  And these fetal cells are from a couple of elective abortions that were done decades ago.  Vaccine makers are not farming fetuses on a constant basis for production.  

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/abortion-opponents-protest-covid-19-vaccines-use-fetal-cells

Exactly.If you had the required MMR shot in 1972 for all school age kids,which I did,or other vaccines,you've prob. already had these fetal cells used in a vaccine you've received.As has Jill.likely,presuming her parents got her the required vaccines.I think she said she did attend elementary school briefly.

I hope I can say this here,but I see it like this.Even though these 2 fetuses never took a single breath here on earth,their brief lives meant something to us all ,and their existence has saved countless lives.

I'm not saying I think abortion is right,just that there is more than one way to see this,as in something positive came out of it,in this instance.JMO

Edited December 18, 2020 by sondraK

[Vivigirl10]

I would probably drop a few bucks at Kaylee and Renee's shop just to know how happy it would probably make them on the other end.  But because we all know the money is going right into Jill's hands one way or another, I wouldn't do it.

Their attempts at this business remind me of similar schemes my friends and I would get up to around the age of 10 or so.  We came up with some doozies.....a "fair" in our backyard.....a nursery school in the basement.  The absolute excitement over thinking you were going to get rich was great!  But then the idea would fizzle or no one would be interested (surprise, surprise) and you'd move on to the next thing.  I imagine Kaylee and Renee feeling this same way and it makes me sad.  Because my friends and I were little girls with vast imaginations and these are nearly adult women being held hostage.  

[Absolom]

Using decorative pumpkins for pies is generally not a good idea.  Decorative pumpkins are not the sugar pumpkins used for pies and would require a lot more cooking and a lot more sugar to approach being edible.  Pumpkin seeds tend to be pumpkin seeds though.  

[rue721]

Cooking with rotted decorations is just so disgusting to me. What are they thinking?!

[3 is enough]

Yuck!  I always use sugar pumpkins ( the small ones) to make pumpkin bread and soup.  And although I love decorative pumpkins, especially the white and green ones, I never buy them because in the desert they begin to rot immediately.  

The thought of cooking with pumpkins that have been sitting outside for close to 2 months is nauseating.  Some molds are not easy to see, but that doesn't mean they aren't present. Not to mention insect eggs.  I hope those poor kids don't get sick.

Edited December 18, 2020 by 3 is enough

[libgirl2]

3 minutes ago, 3 is enough said:

Yuck!  I always use sugar pumpkins ( the small ones) to make pumpkin bread and soup.  And although I love decorative pumpkins, especially the white and green ones, I never buy them because in the desert they begin to rot immediately.  

The thought of cooking with pumpkins that have been sitting outside for close to 2 months to eat is nauseating.  Some molds are not easy to see, but that doesn't mean they aren't present. Not to mention insect eggs.  I hope those poor kids don't get sick.

I didn't even think of insect eggs! Yuck! 

[Normades]

1 hour ago, farmgal4 said:

She has videos of Gabriel and Sammer preaching.  I’ve always been taught that to be an effective preacher you must be “called to preach”, which means that you feel God leading you to preach.  I find it hard to believe that God is leading every Rod male to be a preacher.  I suspect that Jill is the reason those boys are in the pulpit.  I would love to know how the people at that church feel about Jill and her brood coming in and taking over the services, with their preaching, singing, etc.  It looks like Jill is running the show at the church that they’ve been attending for less than a year.

Potato/potahto, Jill/god, basically the same thing in the Rod house.

[MonicaM]

3 hours ago, BradandJanet said:

The Bill Gates' microchips in vaccines is the one I hear about. Gates, an educated liberal, must be up to something nefarious. I'm sure he will be sitting in his mansion tracking every move I make when I eventually get the Covid vaccine. Personally, I think attention-whore Jill would love the idea of a wealthy man paying such close attention to her. Would her giant slug of a husband even care? 

This is the most common theme I hear as well.  Soon, you won't be able to grocery shop or get medical attention without getting scanned for your microchip.  Ironically, the people who seem to promote this misinformation the most are those who live on social media and daily post just about every aspect of their lives.  As with Jill, we know the names and ages of their spouse and children, where they live, what they do most of the time, and we not only see their intimate sleeping arrangements, we even know what their bathrooms look like.  Hardly the type of people who should be able to talk about privacy concerns with a straight face.

[Oldernowiser]

26 minutes ago, MonicaM said:

Hardly the type of people who should be able to talk about privacy concerns with a straight face.

Well said.

I find the whole thing absurd. First of all, Amazon, Safari, and the credit card companies already know everything about me. Second, I am just not terribly interesting. Third, I have nothing to hide. Which begs the question as to what these anti-chippers are so paranoid about.

[Rabbittron]

4 hours ago, Ohiopirate02 said:

I cannot think of one person who actually eats their decorative gourds.  Compost yes, but using them for food, not so much.  They have been sitting in the elements for months now.  I know gourds are hearty vegetables, but I don't think they are that hearty.  The seeds are probably still good, but the meat has got to taste like shit.

My goats eat my leftover pumpkins. 

[Ohiopirate02]

4 hours ago, BradandJanet said:

The Bill Gates' microchips in vaccines is the one I hear about. Gates, an educated liberal, must be up to something nefarious. I'm sure he will be sitting in his mansion tracking every move I make when I eventually get the Covid vaccine. Personally, I think attention-whore Jill would love the idea of a wealthy man paying such close attention to her. Would her giant slug of a husband even care? 

 

35 minutes ago, MonicaM said:

This is the most common theme I hear as well.  Soon, you won't be able to grocery shop or get medical attention without getting scanned for your microchip.  Ironically, the people who seem to promote this misinformation the most are those who live on social media and daily post just about every aspect of their lives.  As with Jill, we know the names and ages of their spouse and children, where they live, what they do most of the time, and we not only see their intimate sleeping arrangements, we even know what their bathrooms look like.  Hardly the type of people who should be able to talk about privacy concerns with a straight face.

The microchips in vaccines conspiracy never ceases to crack me up.  First of all, most vaccines are in a multidose vial for reasons.  Single use vaccine vials are inefficient and expensive.  Second, people who administer vaccines have way too much to do and would never have the time to get all of the administrative work done for the microchip to be of any use. Anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together would be able to figure this out.  Most vaccine providers only have the time and energy to record who got a flu shot and write down the lot number of the multidose vial used before moving on to the next task.  

And again, why would Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos or Tim Cook or who ever runs Google even need stealth to gather this information.  They don't need to microchip us when we freely give up our privacy to get the latest tech device.  From cell phones, to smart watches, to speakers scattered throughout a home, big tech has all of our data.  Couple that with people freely signing their lives away to Mark Zuckerberg and everything about us is known.  

[libgirl2]

42 minutes ago, Rabbittron said:

My goats eat my leftover pumpkins. 

because it is a goat! 

[laurakaye]

Here in the upper Midwest, squirrels start gleefully gnawing on any pumpkins sitting outside from October onwards.  But I'm sure Jill cut off the parts of the pumpkins that had potentially disease-ridden teeth marks on them before serving them to her..........hmmm, no, never mind.

[Rabbittron]

41 minutes ago, libgirl2 said:

because it is a goat! 

Sometimes I think that they are aliens in goats clothing because they talk to each other and sometimes I swear they are talking human because I can understand what they are saying. 

[Ljohnson1987]

I can see cooking with pumpkin seeds... But they should be bought from the store. Not scooped out of something that's been sitting outside for who knows how long, and eaten by who knows what. Jill is just a massive eye roll with most of what she does. 

[Turquoise]

1 hour ago, Oldernowiser said:

Well said.

I find the whole thing absurd. First of all, Amazon, Safari, and the credit card companies already know everything about me. Second, I am just not terribly interesting. Third, I have nothing to hide. Which begs the question as to what these anti-chippers are so paranoid about.

I think a lot of the people who are losing their mind over it have decided this alleged microchip is the "mark of the Beast" referred to in the book of Revelations. One huge problem: the verse they are using states said mark will be on the forehead or the right hand. I am not aware of any vaccines given in those two areas, nor of any microchip that can magically migrate to those areas after being injected in the upper arm.
AKA Self-righteous, holier-than-thou people misusing the Bible...yet again

Edited December 18, 2020 by Turquoise

[Ljohnson1987]

I expect Jill to have common sense... And she doesn't.