The Duggars: In the Media and TLC

[mimionthebeach]

On 1/24/2023 at 5:29 PM, BetyBee said:

I know nothing about Lori Alexander, but if she abused her child like that, I hope one day she gets thrown under the bus by the child(ren?) whose lives she tried to destroy! Whether they write a book or call the authorities on her, I don't care. I just want her to face consequences.

"God" has given Lori a brain tumer. Twice. How she doesn't see that as a "sign" is another layer of delusion. 

She is a vile human being. She can't help herself. 

[AstridM]

37 minutes ago, mimionthebeach said:

"God" has given Lori a brain tumer. Twice. How she doesn't see that as a "sign" is another layer of delusion. 

She is a vile human being. She can't help herself. 

And I’m sure she didn’t stay home and just trust her imaginary sky daddy to cure her. 

[Salacious Kitty]

35 minutes ago, AstridM said:

And I’m sure she didn’t stay home and just trust her imaginary sky daddy to cure her. 

Actually, she did. Her tumor was benign, and IIRC, she claimed her diet shrunk it. 

[andromeda331]

1 minute ago, Salacious Kitty said:

Actually, she did. Her tumor was benign, and IIRC, she claimed her diet shrunk it. 

Yeah, right Lori.

[sagittarius sue]

10 minutes ago, Salacious Kitty said:

Actually, she did. Her tumor was benign, and IIRC, she claimed her diet shrunk it. 

What, she didn't credit God with shrinking it?

[Salacious Kitty]

5 minutes ago, sagittarius sue said:

What, she didn't credit God with shrinking it?

Haha of course she did. I was just noting what she said she physically did to cure it. 😂

[AstridM]

47 minutes ago, Salacious Kitty said:

Actually, she did. Her tumor was benign, and IIRC, she claimed her diet shrunk it. 

A benign tumor isn’t cancer. 

[Salacious Kitty]

3 minutes ago, AstridM said:

A benign tumor isn’t cancer. 

She calls it her "brain tumor." I don't follow her very closely, but I don't recall her calling it cancer.

[GeeGolly]

Maybe this Lori chick drank Plexus and was cured.

[Salacious Kitty]

17 minutes ago, GeeGolly said:

Maybe this Lori chick drank Plexus and was cured.

She's more the woo, organic, and essential oils type. I'd think she'd reject Plexus as poison. 

[Bookish Jen]

4 hours ago, mimionthebeach said:

"God" has given Lori a brain tumer. Twice. How she doesn't see that as a "sign" is another layer of delusion. 

She is a vile human being. She can't help herself. 

She is also very anti-vac and got Covid and shingles at the same time.

On-topic: Did anyone see the Jinger interview on Good Morning America this morning?

[Betsyannabelle]

Northeastern Indiana here. Our public library has 5 copies ordered with 48 people waiting in total. It’ll be 20 weeks before I can read the copy I put on hold. 

[Absolom]

4 hours ago, Salacious Kitty said:

Actually, she did. Her tumor was benign, and IIRC, she claimed her diet shrunk it. 

She lied.  She went to UCI hospital for specialized tumor treatment.  She probably did her woo stuff in addition.

Edited January 30 by Absolom

[sagittarius sue]

1 hour ago, Bookish Jen said:

She is also very anti-vac and got Covid and shingles at the same time.

Ha, one could interpret that as a message from God.  "I sent you medical expertise with vaccines, and you didn't pay attention.

Yes, about Jinger's appearance on GMA, a link posted earlier on the Jinger/Jeremy topic.

[cmr2014]

On 1/24/2023 at 3:42 PM, louannems said:

I used to read some of her stuff and listen to some of her videos.  She is truly awful and very abusive.  She has frequently given detailed accounts of how she would order her two year old to “pick up your toys” and when the toddle refused, Lori would remove her pants and whip her with a leather strap.  She explained that you must hit hard enough for the kid to scream, not just whimper.

Any parent would know that you don’t give a two year old a generic order like pick up your toys without getting on the floor and helping them, maybe make a game or song of it.

I think that's kind of the point -- at least that's the Pearl method. You bait the child into doing/not doing something, and then beat him/her for doing/not doing what you encouraged.

In this case, you give a young child a task that he may not be able to fully understand or perform, and them beat him for failing to complete it. And, of course, the more vicious and psychotic the beating, the more "Biblical" it is (e.g. making a 2-year-old scream vs whimper).

[MaryAnneSpier]

Has anyone seen updates about the documentary about Gothardism that was announced awhile back? I think Amazon was supposed to be involved...? Just shortly after it was announced, the Bates' show was cancelled.

[ChiCricket]

24 minutes ago, MaryAnneSpier said:

Has anyone seen updates about the documentary about Gothardism that was announced awhile back? I think Amazon was supposed to be involved...? Just shortly after it was announced, the Bates' show was cancelled.

I only found this: (but it's from Jan. 7, 2022) 

  "  Variety recently announced that Amazon Studios is producing a docuseries on the religious organization that counts the Duggars among its members, as well as other reality-TV families, like the Plaths ("Welcome to Plathville") and Bates ("Bringing Up Bates"). The series, which will debut in late 2022 or 2023, promises to do for the Duggars' church what "LuLaRich" did for the LuLaRoe multilevel marketing company: expose the shadier side of a seemingly wholesome lifestyle."

https://www.thelist.com/719485/this-new-amazon-documentary-could-be-the-lularich-of-the-duggar-family/

 

[quarks]

This is the official press release from Amazon:

https://press.amazonstudios.com/us/en/press-release/gripping-new-docuseries-coming-to-prime-video-show

 

That press release noted that the docuseries was already in production (which means that cameras were rolling by December 2021) but did not give a release date; the "late 2022 or 2023" timeframe is an addition from Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, presumably backed up by some reporting.

 

[Zella]

IMO if The Hollywood Reporter has anything on it, they likely had some reliable information on it being in production at the time. (Of course, who knows what's happened since then. Maybe it shuttered or maybe they've just been working quietly.) But THR is considered a long-standing trade paper of the industry. Not that I actually know anything about Hollywood firsthand, but I've noticed just from following entertainment news that they do often run a lot of legitimate inside scoops and have deep-dives on industry issues. 

Also fun random fact: the guy who founded it is the same guy who Bugsy Siegel infamously stole the Flamingo Hotel from in Las Vegas! Obviously the paper worked out better. LOL 

[sagittarius sue]

10 hours ago, Zella said:

Also fun random fact: the guy who founded it is the same guy who Bugsy Siegel infamously stole the Flamingo Hotel from in Las Vegas! Obviously the paper worked out better. LOL 

It probably kept him alive, unlike Bugsy Siegel.

[Zella]

52 minutes ago, sagittarius sue said:

It probably kept him alive, unlike Bugsy Siegel.

LOL very true!