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

[doodlebug]

57 minutes ago, Genevrier said:

ETA Speaking of unfortunate imagery, I went to their facebook and came across this gem: "God has chosen to open my womb again and give us our 13th child." Now I really am in need of that brain bleach. Is this something people actually say? 

Well, they say it in 'The Handmaid's Tale'.  The handmaids greet one another with 'May the Lord open'.  It was also apparently a popular way to tell  world that the Queen was pregnant back in olden times when it was considered impolite to use the word 'pregnant'.  In the Old Testament, there are references to women's wombs being open or closed by God for various reasons, indicating ability to bear kids.

If you know about Jill R's fundie beliefs, it makes sense.  She and Chimpy need another kid like they need another hole in the head.

Edited August 17, 2017 by doodlebug

[Ocean Chick]

Poor new Rodriguii baby-to-be.  Eighteen years of starvation rations to look forward to.  Hair spray fog to live through.  Screeching "music" to assault the ears.  And then early marriage, endless pregnancies and poverty.  What a life.

[Annb67]

6 hours ago, Genevrier said:

Well, thank you very much for that mental image! (Wasn't there a bottle of brain bleach being passed around in the Josh and Anna thread a while ago? We may need it over here shortly.) 

 

ETA Speaking of unfortunate imagery, I went to their facebook and came across this gem: "God has chosen to open my womb again and give us our 13th child." Now I really am in need of that brain bleach. Is this something people actually say? 

It's a plexus miracle!

[floridamom]

I'm confused guys...why are we reading about Jill Rodriguez having a baby, but there is a photo of Sierra pregnant with her family? Are they both "expecting'?

[GeeGolly]

7 minutes ago, floridamom said:

I'm confused guys...why are we reading about Jill Rodriguez having a baby, but there is a photo of Sierra pregnant with her family? Are they both "expecting'?

Yes.

[floridamom]

Oh no, don't tell me.

[AUgirl]

9 hours ago, Annb67 said:

Ok. Well Jill's version of extremely well is probably five dollars and a box of Plexus.

She probably throws in some hair and makeup tutorials too to sweeten the deal. 

[ariel]

You really do need a scorecard to keep up with who is pregnant.  Thankfully Michelle isn't.

[GeeGolly]

42 minutes ago, ariel said:

You really do need a scorecard to keep up with who is pregnant.  Thankfully Michelle isn't.

I'm guessing Joy is likely in that race now. Alyssa Bates said she's "waiting a while" before having more. Curious if either Erin or Whitney are. I suppose fertile Jessa could be pregnant again.

[Pinke]

15 hours ago, kalamac said:

Does standing fully on the pink side of the wall mean the new baby is a girl? Like, if it was going to be a boy, would she be turned sideways, so her belly is in the blue side of the picture? Am I overthinking the way this idiot family does things.  Girl in cowboy boots whose name I can't remember, you're wearing proper shoes - make a run for it while you can.

Hah, I didn't read the hashtags, or swipe left, before I posted. Boy.

I'm not familiar with Instagram myself (much prefer Twitter)... I used to be very confused at first because I would always forget to look for arrows (I read you guys' high-quality snark on my computer) and people would mention elements that were in subsequent pictures... I know better now lol.

 

(Basically me before)

[Fuzzysox]

3 hours ago, floridamom said:

I'm confused guys...why are we reading about Jill Rodriguez having a baby, but there is a photo of Sierra pregnant with her family? Are they both "expecting'?

more like building an army for Jesus!

[Sew Sumi]

Did you know Plexus was a living, breathing being? 

 

[tabloidlover]

Is Jill fucking kidding me????  

Quote

 

Honestly, I wish you could have seen our children’s reaction to the news. <3 There was screaming for joy, jumping, laughter and smiles! When we tell our children that we are expecting another sibling, it is LITERALLY the HAPPIEST time I almost EVER witness in our home!

Why? Doesn’t it mean one less “chicken leg” for them to eat? Perhaps one less frivoulous item that we can’t afford to buy for them? A Mama who will need lots of extra help during the “sick” months of my pregnancy? Yes…all of the above. But, if that is our focus in life…..a temporal moment of satisfaction, then I have failed in raising up a generation that focuses on the eternal. Another SOUL to raise up for the GLORY of God, is SO TOTALLY eternal!

 

She literally admits there is less food for the others!  How about less food for fat ass David??

[Arwen Evenstar]

It's like she's ok with starving her kids? How much meat is on a chicken leg anyway? So, JRod, you're starving your children for Jesus? How is that pleasing to God to see your emaciated children? I have no words...well, I do, but none of them are very nice!

[LilJen]

Well, but, see, if she starves them, then the quicker they get to that eternal life, get it?

[McManda]

Wait, it's LITERALLY the HAPPIEST time she almost EVER witnesses in her home.

... what's the happiest time she witnessed in her home? That is such a weird started to make.

Also, it's sad that she admits with each new kid she has less to give them, except it's okay because God. 

Edited August 18, 2017 by McManda

[crazycatlady58]

8 minutes ago, McManda said:

Wait, it's LITERALLY the HAPPIEST time she almost EVER witnesses in her home.

... what's the happiest time she witnessed in her home? That is such a weird started to make.

Also, it's sad that she admits with each new kid she has less to give them, except it's okay because God. 

I have a feeling God has a few thoughts  on that

[doodlebug]

11 minutes ago, McManda said:

Wait, it's LITERALLY the HAPPIEST time she almost EVER witnesses in her home.

... what's the happiest time she witnessed in her home? That is such a weird started to make.

Also, it's sad that she admits with each new kid she has less to give them, except it's okay because God. 

Her poor grammar, bizarre punctuation, and repeated random capitalizations make her posts even more irksome.  And she not only admits there are fewer luxuries for each kid when another comes along (everyone who has more than one kid deals with this), but she actually has the nerve to brag about how there is less food, a necessity, for them when another one comes along!  I cannot imagine any parent being proud of the fact that her kids don't have enough to eat, all the while, she and her husband not only look well fed, but she obviously has no problem buying massive quantities of makeup and hair products for herself.  Her mascara/eyeliner budget alone would feed a third world family for a year.  We've seen her kids, not only are they extremely thin, they have the sickly look of malnourishment.  Maybe the kids are excited she's pregnant because she does claim to have severe morning sickness, so, for a couple months, anyway, Jill doesn't take the first portion for herself.  Remember the awful video she posted of Chimpy cutting up a fresh coconut and she ate it while the kids stood there looking hungry?

Edited August 18, 2017 by doodlebug

[McManda]

Maybe Jill should stop buying the Plexus and instead take up gardening or learning to cook cheaply to feed her family. Outside the products themselves being a load of herbal bullshit, they're also expensive. That red bottle of Plexus Boost she deepthroated in her Facebook video? $40 for 60 capsules (that are supposed to last a month). The Slim pink drink you've probably seen people rave about on Facebook? $87 for 30 packets (that, with optimal use would last 15 days!).

She might get product from being a salesperson, but most MLM companies make you buy your inventory, so ... unless she's selling a boatload of Plexus to her blog followers she's likely either losing money, or at the very least just breaking even.

[awaken]

Oh no. I'm sad to hear about sierra and Jill expecting. Especially Jill. 

Why is "chicken leg" in quotes??

I didn't realize sierra wore shorts, much less jean shorts!  Jessa is being left in the dust by modesty defectors. 

[Annb67]

1 hour ago, tabloidlover said:

Is Jill fucking kidding me????  

She literally admits there is less food for the others!  How about less food for fat ass David??

The fuck? What an idiot. Btw...with the crap going down in our world today I highly doubt god is walking around taking time to open and close people's wombs.?

Edited August 18, 2017 by Annb67

[Arwen Evenstar]

1 hour ago, LilJen said:

Well, but, see, if she starves them, then the quicker they get to that eternal life, get it?

How silly of me!  Thank you, sister, for making me see the error of my ways!

[Obsidian]

6 hours ago, Sew Sumi said:

Did you know Plexus was a living, breathing being? 

 

Right, I read it properly and  it's the Plexus that has a 60 day money back guarantee, not the pregnancy. It's horrifying that she is happy that there's less food for her children every time she reproduces.

 

I'm curious - how is anything in Jill's life anything but a whole lot of temporal moments of satisfaction? Make up, hair spray, having more children than someone else...

[queenanne]

25 minutes ago, Obsidian said:

Right, I read it properly and  it's the Plexus that has a 60 day money back guarantee, not the pregnancy. It's horrifying that she is happy that there's less food for her children every time she reproduces.

 

I'm curious - how is anything in Jill's life anything but a whole lot of temporal moments of satisfaction? Make up, hair spray, having more children than someone else...

I liked "together in Plexus", like she thinks it's "together in the Holy Ghost".  Vaguely blasphemous, which is a surprise from Jill.  

Technically I feel she isn't happy each kid gets less food; she's congratulating herself on/telling herself her unselfish (skeletal) kids would rather have a new sibling than food, so isn't she a wonderful mother for turning out such paragons.

Edited August 18, 2017 by queenanne

[Genevrier]

10 hours ago, awaken said:

Why is "chicken leg" in quotes??

Maybe "chicken leg" is code for something, and we are simply not holy enough to grasp the metaphor?

[doodlebug]

5 hours ago, queenanne said:

I liked "together in Plexus", like she thinks it's "together in the Holy Ghost".  Vaguely blasphemous, which is a surprise from Jill.  

Technically I feel she isn't happy each kid gets less food; she's congratulating herself on/telling herself her unselfish (skeletal) kids would rather have a new sibling than food, so isn't she a wonderful mother for turning out such paragons.

When, in fact, she should be wondering why it is her kids think its ok to starve themselves.  Maybe the fact that they're apparently willing to die of starvation rather than eat healthily should give her a clue that they are not happy and she is doing a terrible job of parenting.

[Jynnan tonnix]

3 hours ago, Genevrier said:

Maybe "chicken leg" is code for something, and we are simply not holy enough to grasp the metaphor?

Or a chicken nugget.

[Arwen Evenstar]

During the 80s, there was a punk band called Skeletal Family, and their music at least won't make your ears bleed to the extent the Rodriguii traveling minstrel show might. Just to prove I'm not making this up...and the guitar work is kickass!  

One skeletal family way cooler than the Rodriguii.

Edited August 18, 2017 by Arwen Evenstar

[Fuzzysox]

23 hours ago, tabloidlover said:

Is Jill fucking kidding me????  

She literally admits there is less food for the others!  How about less food for fat ass David??

If you think about it, they grift for food off of churches they sing at. I believe it's the only meals these kids get. I can't see Jill buying groceries and cooking much of anything. They are always on the road. On her blog she bragged about how she got caught up with laundry at the Duggars. I don't doubt that they somehow grifted some food from the Duggars because they are so rich in comparison.

[Arwen Evenstar]

2 hours ago, Fuzzysox said:

If you think about it, they grift for food off of churches they sing at. I believe it's the only meals these kids get. I can't see Jill buying groceries and cooking much of anything. They are always on the road. On her blog she bragged about how she got caught up with laundry at the Duggars. I don't doubt that they somehow grifted some food from the Duggars because they are so rich in comparison.

What do they eat while they're on the road? Reheated leftovers from the last church supper? I imagine it's difficult to cook for so many in the RV. Turning on the stove with all those hairspray fumes is really not a good idea.

[Obsidian]

19 hours ago, queenanne said:

I liked "together in Plexus", like she thinks it's "together in the Holy Ghost".  Vaguely blasphemous, which is a surprise from Jill.  

Technically I feel she isn't happy each kid gets less food; she's congratulating herself on/telling herself her unselfish (skeletal) kids would rather have a new sibling than food, so isn't she a wonderful mother for turning out such paragons.

Yes, I meant happy as in accepting of the fact, not that she thinks it's better that they get less.

[Temperance]

Have  any of the the Bates said anything in response to Charlottesville? 

[Enya Face]

13 hours ago, Arwen Evenstar said:

During the 80s, there was a punk band called Skeletal Family, and their music at least won't make your ears bleed to the extent the Rodriguii traveling minstrel show might. Just to prove I'm not making this up...and the guitar work is kickass!  

One skeletal family way cooler than the Rodriguii.

 

Old skool deathtocker at heart, here, so I had to thumbs up your mention of Skeletal Family 

[Arwen Evenstar]

16 hours ago, Fuzzysox said:

I don't doubt that they somehow grifted some food from the Duggars because they are so rich in comparison.

Who would want to grift the crappy food the Duggars eat?  You'd have to be pretty desperate to do that!

[dargosmydaddy]

I think the Rodriguii are the very definition of "pretty desperate"...

[ariel]

3 hours ago, Arwen Evenstar said:

Who would want to grift the crappy food the Duggars eat?  You'd have to be pretty desperate to do that!

I think those starving Rodriguii children will eat about anything offered to them.

[Arwen Evenstar]

15 hours ago, Enya Face said:

Old skool deathtocker at heart, here, so I had to thumbs up your mention of Skeletal Family 

I'm also a fan of Enya.

[Ocean Chick]

Maybe if Jill gave up HER "chicken leg" to the children, she wouldn't have to take Plexus in the first place in order to lose weight.  She should make Chimpy also give up his chicken legs as well, otherwise I don't see him living long enough to see this 13th child to adulthood.  He'll die of heart attack or stroke.

[Fuzzysox]

21 hours ago, Arwen Evenstar said:

What do they eat while they're on the road? Reheated leftovers from the last church supper? I imagine it's difficult to cook for so many in the RV. Turning on the stove with all those hairspray fumes is really not a good idea.

I think I read on her blog that they love Dollar Tree and make frequent stops there while on the road. The bigger DTs around have a large assortment of food. I know they even have fresh eggs in the fridge. I can see that she might feed them a lot of ramen noodles and eggs while on the road.

[Arwen Evenstar]

1 hour ago, Fuzzysox said:

I think I read on her blog that they love Dollar Tree and make frequent stops there while on the road. The bigger DTs around have a large assortment of food. I know they even have fresh eggs in the fridge. I can see that she might feed them a lot of ramen noodles and eggs while on the road.

Hence, the reason it's called a stink bus. All those eggy farts!

[Lunera]

That girl looks unfortunate. She looks like a 40 year old woman next to cute, tiny Jana. Isn't she Kendra's age?

[Arwen Evenstar]

Yes. She's just barely turned 18 or will soon.  Nurie actually dresses better than the frumpers.  She's a pretty girl, but she just needs a little more meat on her bones. Sofia (aka "Baby in a Cage) looks horribly scrawny for a baby who's supposedly been breastfed. 

Now there's even less food to go around now that Mama got herself knocked up again. I guess that's what happened when Chimpy saw her deepthroating that bottle of Plexus. 

[Temperance]

Nurie looked good in a photo I saw on Jill's blog. It was a couple weeks ago, and she was wearing black with a pink sweater. 

[ginger90]

I think it's her hair that makes her look off in pictures. It's bigger than she is.

[AUgirl]

On 8/18/2017 at 7:56 AM, Genevrier said:

Maybe "chicken leg" is code for something, and we are simply not holy enough to grasp the metaphor?

Hope it doesn't really stand for stray cat one of the starving kids caught by a dumpster. ?

[GeeGolly]

Is that Nuri's sister in the second picture?

[Sew Sumi]

Yes, that's Kaylee.

[GeeGolly]

Do you think the Duggars have any insight when they see the Rodrigues family? Like that would be them without TLC. No money, no iPhones, no exposure to the real world. Izzy and Spurgeon have been on more flights than Jana has been on. They live in a house with multiple bathrooms and have a pantry full of food. I hope they're aware enough to think, there but the grace of God ...

[louannems]

JillRod even dresses her little girl's hair  like a 1960's teenager.

[ariel]

4 hours ago, Lunera said:

That girl looks unfortunate. She looks like a 40 year old woman next to cute, tiny Jana. Isn't she Kendra's age?

I thought Nurie was Mama R in that picture.  I think living the R "lifestyle" can certainly age someone.  I guess Mama's magic potions aren't helping her.