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

[ginger90]

Jill putting out more money than she takes in is ridiculously amusing in a way, to me. It’s like some people who go to casinos and brag about how much they won. You’ll never be told how much they spent to get it.

[AstridM]

1 hour ago, oliviabenson said:

This kid can barely string 2 sentences together. He’s going to be someone’s headship??? 
 

Oof. 
 

 

Yes, he is particularly dim. 

[AstridM]

1 hour ago, Jeeves said:

I agree. Even if they do it online and don't charge much for it, it has to be some combination of rah-rah cheerleading encouragement and shaming them for their shortcomings. With handy ways to order more inventory on the spot to show their commitment. 

Imagine how awful it could be if you're targeted by JillR as a potential Plexus customer/downline. I'm sure she'd be texting you constantly, at a minimum. At least you can block numbers - and I'd bet a hot dinner that plenty of people have blocked JillR. 

Yes, she’s been known to send private messages to random Redditors. Ugh. 

1 hour ago, laurakaye said:

But maybe attendees receive a fancy new fanny pack to take home, so that's a plus.

And that’s what they are - Fanny packs! 🤣

[oliviabenson]

I think the gold school is free. Jill will just pay for the hotel, transportation and food.

And new outfits. And stay extra few days because why not? She and Dave do not deny themselves anything.

[BradandJanet]

Gold School teaches the importance of duplication.

But Jill has already mastered that. She's produced 13 exact copies of herself. 

[farmgal4]

2 hours ago, oliviabenson said:

This kid can barely string 2 sentences together. He’s going to be someone’s headship??? 
 

Oof. 
 

 

It was beyond painful listening to him, and what little I could understand made no sense at all, but in the background I could the others saying, “Yaaaasssss.”  So much brainwashing going on in that family that it’s scary.

[xwordfanatik]

6 hours ago, ginger90 said:

I love that we are in that part of summer where we don't have to buy vegetables when we go grocery shopping!  We just go pick our vegetables from our garden.  😁  Look as this massively L-O-N-G cucumber Tessie picked from our garden!  🥒 It was longer then Gideon!  🥰💚

Jonathan:  I wish mine was this big.

[Triple P]

1 hour ago, AstridM said:

Yes, she’s been known to send private messages to random Redditors. Ugh. 

And that’s what they are - Fanny packs! 🤣

That debunks the AMA from the person claiming to be the Rodrigues's former babysitter. She claimed Jill didn't know about Reddit.

[Salacious Kitty]

Jill's been claiming to be Senior Gold for years. Has she been lying to make herself look better? It wouldn't be the first time she lied. 

[crazy8s]

2 hours ago, BetyBee said:

I wasn't aware that the Rods even have a vegetable garden. All I've ever seen is their sad, graveyard looking "flower" garden.

Oh Jill makes a big show of the kids planting a garden. It's usually a few rows of beans, a couple scraggly tomato plants. Last year they had about 6 cornstalks which of course yielded a dozen perfectly matching ears of corn all ready on the exact same day. Once she got enough tomatoes for a small amount of what she said was homemade tomato sauce.

Here is Jill on gardening from April 2019

"Home…oh, SWEET home! After being in our RV for 2 months, our home seems HUGE! We are SO blessed! Here I come, gardening!

LOVE being home and getting my little seedlings started for my garden. I had a HUGE garden in New York and a very small one when living in Clay, WV. Now, I am back to big.

I want to teach my children to live off the land. To be productive. To be hard working. To use their minds. To be creative. NOT to just sit around watching TV and playing on phones or social media. Mamas, let’s raise up a generation of productive children."

Here is the size of her garden at the barndo and last years crop for all those rod kids learning to live off the land.🤣

 

 

[ginger90]

1 hour ago, Triple P said:

That debunks the AMA from the person claiming to be the Rodrigues's former babysitter. She claimed Jill didn't know about Reddit.

I would guess they follow her on Instagram or Facebook, and Jill contacts them that way.

Edited August 17, 2023 by ginger90

[Turquoise]

I would guess the bean plants are necessary to prevent another attack from Satan via green bean cans...

"I don't want my kids watching TV or playing on social media"...from the woman who posts multiple times a day (often at odd hours) and her hunk of a man who is an expert at map watching.

[xwordfanatik]

2 hours ago, crazy8s said:

Oh Jill makes a big show of the kids planting a garden. It's usually a few rows of beans, a couple scraggly tomato plants. Last year they had about 6 cornstalks which of course yielded a dozen perfectly matching ears of corn all ready on the exact same day. Once she got enough tomatoes for a small amount of what she said was homemade tomato sauce.

Here is Jill on gardening from April 2019

"Home…oh, SWEET home! After being in our RV for 2 months, our home seems HUGE! We are SO blessed! Here I come, gardening!

LOVE being home and getting my little seedlings started for my garden. I had a HUGE garden in New York and a very small one when living in Clay, WV. Now, I am back to big.

I want to teach my children to live off the land. To be productive. To be hard working. To use their minds. To be creative. NOT to just sit around watching TV and playing on phones or social media. Mamas, let’s raise up a generation of productive children."

Here is the size of her garden at the barndo and last years crop for all those rod kids learning to live off the land.🤣

 

 

"Use their minds?"  "Be creative?"  Yeah, right.  The only thing they use their minds on are bible verses.  And Jill has stomped any creativity out of them.  

[Albanyguy]

6 hours ago, BetyBee said:

I wasn't aware that the Rods even have a vegetable garden. All I've ever seen is their sad, graveyard looking "flower" garden.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think she's lying about the vegetable garden. Someone gave her those giant cucumbers from their own garden surplus and she decided that concocting a pretty story about her whole family planting and harvesting crops together would make her look good.

Edited August 17, 2023 by Albanyguy

[Salacious Kitty]

2 minutes ago, Albanyguy said:

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think she's lying about the vegetable garden. Someone gave her those giant cucumbers from their own garden surplus and she decided that concocting a pretty story about her whole family planting and harvesting crops together would make her look good.

I do believe the small, shitty looking cukes by the toasters were Rod grown. 😂

[Snow Fairy]

I read that the blog post about Renee's courtship from May isn't on their page anymore.

[BetyBee]

9 minutes ago, Snow Fairy said:

I read that the blog post about Renee's courtship from May isn't on their page anymore.

I am certain that Jill ruined the courtship with her insistence on posting everything on SM. He saw his future and bolted. Chances are he wasn't much of a prize anyway, but Jill is incapable of learning from her mistakes, so Renee may never get the chance to squeeze out from under Jill's thumb. 😢

[crazy8s]

1 hour ago, Albanyguy said:

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think she's lying about the vegetable garden. Someone gave her those giant cucumbers from their own garden surplus and she decided that concocting a pretty story about her whole family planting and harvesting crops together would make her look good.

I am dying laughing at the thought of the Amish neighbors sneaking over and leaving the cucumbers in the rod garden.🤣

I believe the Rods grew the giant cucumbers about as much as I believed they got this corn from the few scraggly stalks shown up thread from last year's garden. Jill claimed they had all this PLUS lots more ears of corn still out there.

 

 

 

[Absolom]

No, Jill did not grow perfectly filled out corn ears in her not perfectly tended garden.  

[oliviabenson]

Who is taking care of the garden? Jill is always on vacation! She is lying as usual.

[Salacious Kitty]

4 minutes ago, oliviabenson said:

Who is taking care of the garden? Jill is always on vacation! She is lying as usual.

Phillip doesn't go on road trips. I imagine tending the garden falls on him. 

[GeeGolly]

Ohio doesn't have wild animals? That garden couldn't exist in my area without a fence of some sort.

[Triple P]

5 hours ago, ginger90 said:

I would guess they follow her on Instagram or Facebook, and Jill contacts them that way.

Oh, I read it as Jill was messaging people through Reddit but messaging via Facebook or Instagram makes more sense.

I am still skeptical of that "babysitter's" AMA though!

Edited August 17, 2023 by Triple P

[all fall down]

Jill's been a Senior Gold since 2021, and I think she reached Gold in around 2017.

You can search the Plexus website for a list of Ambassadors by rank. I know it's been checked before and verified that she was Senior Gold. 

I'm not sure if they had Gold School in 2017 when she first acheived that rank. If they did, I don't think she went. 

But the email says you can also qualify if somoene in your downline reaches Gold or Senior Gold rank. So that could be how Jill qualified this time. She did recently post that one of her downline had her best month ever. That could be it. Of course Jill makes it all about her and makes it seem like she acheived something. 

[Salacious Kitty]

11 minutes ago, all fall down said:

Jill's been a Senior Gold since 2021, and I think she reached Gold in around 2017.

You can search the Plexus website for a list of Ambassadors by rank. I know it's been checked before and verified that she was Senior Gold. 

I'm not sure if they had Gold School in 2017 when she first acheived that rank. If they did, I don't think she went. 

But the email says you can also qualify if somoene in your downline reaches Gold or Senior Gold rank. So that could be how Jill qualified this time. She did recently post that one of her downline had her best month ever. That could be it. Of course Jill makes it all about her and makes it seem like she acheived something. 

Thanks for the info. I bet that one of her downline hit it big and that they'll attend Gold School together. 

[sagittarius sue]

2 hours ago, GeeGolly said:

Ohio doesn't have wild animals? That garden couldn't exist in my area without a fence of some sort.

Even wild animals refuse to eat from Jill's garden.

[ginger90]

The large cucumbers were probably bitter. Very fitting. I wonder if her vegetable garden is near their septic system. 😳

[merylinkid]

1 hour ago, ginger90 said:

wonder if her vegetable garden is near their septic system. 😳

probably right over it under the theory it would make the plants grow better.    I wouldn't eat anything Jill made or grew anyway.  

[laurakaye]

In theory, if the Rodlets get hungry while BME and Big Papa are gallivanting around the USA for Plexus, they could help themselves to a few uncooked green beans to fill their tummies.  I sincerely hope it actually isn't that bad in the house, but I sometimes wonder.

[Albanyguy]

6 hours ago, laurakaye said:

they could help themselves to a few uncooked green beans to fill their tummies.

Maybe Jill could ask Jim Bob Duggar for his famous recipe for Cold Green Beans with Ketchup.

[Salacious Kitty]

17 minutes ago, Albanyguy said:

Maybe Jill could ask Jim Bob Duggar for his famous recipe for Cold Green Beans with Ketchup.

🤮

[LilJen]

On 8/17/2023 at 10:09 AM, jacourt said:

All I want to see is that poor little guy snuggly in his CRIB!!!

And Kaylee able to get some rest and have a quiet house free of obnoxious family members (chiefly BME).

[jacourt]

Omg. Just was on readdit and they have a pic of jill with the baby in a babyktan carrier. He is under her boob completely covered by material. I looked at the site to see proper use and holy crap she has that baby in so much danger. He is too small for weight and has respiratory issues. They say not to use for those babies. He is not in the upright position. Do they not care about this little guy?  His parents are fing  idiots to allow her to do this. 

[GeeGolly]

[oliviabenson]

I predicted that Jill would pretend it’s her baby… I’m SEVERELY shocked that AndKaykee did not gift Gideon as a present to MAHMO.

[jacourt]

This poor little guy. Two generations of idiots raising him. This is so dangerous. 

the correct way. 

[jacourt]

It’s not even like she is giving kaylee a break as she is in the pics. What a piece of shit she is. Putting a baby in danger to be the center of attention. Hoping some will ask to see HER baby. She is dangerous. Does jonathan have any balls to stand up for his own child?  

[merylinkid]

Please Dear Flying Spaghtetti Monster reach out your noodly appendage to CPS and save this child.  If a parent can get investigated for letting their child walk a few blocks to the library alone, then this can be investigated.

Someone needs to explain to Kaylee how to properly care for a child and when she says "But my mother always did it that way" come back with "Your mother is an idiot and listening to her could kill your child."

Edited August 19, 2023 by merylinkid

[Minivanessa]

I found Jill's FB post - it was a trip to the Akron Zoo. Not only did JillR wear the baby in the carrier all wrong - so did Kaylee.

I caught some screenshots from one of JillR's videos. Kaylee was walking toward the camera in a shaded area. It's clear from the video that the baby's being carried sideways and low, and is all covered up. At least she wasn't carrying him way below her boobs like Jill did. As she walked closer, Kaylee pulled down enough of the fabric to show MAHMO the baby's face. They are all dangerous fools.

Edited August 19, 2023 by Jeeves

[oliviabenson]

It’s a miracle the baby is still alive. The whole family is not keeping him safe at all. 

[jacourt]

Stick a pacie in his mouth and cover him with fabric. What could go wrong?  

My word look how tiny he is in comparison to the hand!!!

[Teriacky]

Now they’re taking that fragile infant to the zoo?!!! 
Jill, you look ridiculous wearing that baby sling. It’s not YOUR child! Methinks your birthing days are over. 

[Salacious Kitty]

33 minutes ago, Teriacky said:

Now they’re taking that fragile infant to the zoo?!!! 
Jill, you look ridiculous wearing that baby sling. It’s not YOUR child! Methinks your birthing days are over. 

They went to the zoo during vacation week. Apparently, it started to rain around closing time, and Jill tried to get the zoo to extend their hours for them. 

[DXD526]

These people are so weird. Their cult has this total baby fetish, yet they treat a fragile newborn this way. Their attitude toward babies/kids is such an odd mixture of reverence and contempt. 

[merylinkid]

28 minutes ago, DXD526 said:

These people are so weird. Their cult has this total baby fetish, yet they treat a fragile newborn this way. Their attitude toward babies/kids is such an odd mixture of reverence and contempt. 

Its the number of kids for "god's army" not the actual raising of the children that matters.    Michelle Duggar was all about how many kids you have determines the throne you have in heaven.   Not a word said about how good a mother you actually were that determined anything in heaven.   

[Salacious Kitty]

6 minutes ago, merylinkid said:

Its the number of kids for "god's army" not the actual raising of the children that matters.    Michelle Duggar was all about how many kids you have determines the throne you have in heaven.   Not a word said about how good a mother you actually were that determined anything in heaven.   

I'll see Moochelle and Jill Rodrigues in hell. 

[Meow Mix]

I'm not even a parent or particularly a kid person and I want to snatch that baby away and find a safer place for him.  That baby wrap thing is going to suffocate him.  I do wonder if Jill is getting a little too possessive of Gideon.  Is she going to tip over into some delusion that this is really her baby and just take him away?  I get a really uncomfortable feeling about what is going on here.  Jonathan needs to step up for his family, but sadly he won't.   I don't know if he would step up even if something tragic happens.

[libgirl2]

They're going to take off that baby sling and find poor Gideon suffocated. Idiots. 

And Jill, you aren't fooling anyone, he is not your baby. You look pathetic. Give it up. 

Edited August 19, 2023 by libgirl2

[BradandJanet]

5 hours ago, GeeGolly said:

What in the world is Jill thinking? That tiny baby needs air. Every time I think she can't get dumber, she outdoes herself. 

Also, she doesn't look like a mother carrying a baby. She looks like an old woman who's in need of a very supportive bra. Look at the photo, Jill. Your vanity is taking a hit here. 

Poor Gideon trapped in that bag so close to Jill. I imagine she stinks of sweat and cheap perfume. All those layers of polyester never give up the odors they trap. 

Edited August 19, 2023 by BradandJanet

[smallfry]

So many things with this visit to the Akron Zoo - which is a really nice zoo by the way.

• They are so lucky poor little Gideon didn't suffocate.
• Jill needs to realize Gideon is not her child and not her prop for attention. I wouldn't be surprised if Kaylee, Jonathan, and Gideon have moved into the Barndo so Jill can take over.
• Jonathan and Kaylee need to step up, grow up,  and start being responsible parents and set some boundaries with Jill's craziness.
• It seems like Nuri's children have lost heir super star status with Jill.
• And where are Jonathan's parents??!! Have they even seen their grandson? You would think they would try to talk some sense into Jonathan about taking care of his son and wife or don't they talk to him?