The Duggalos: Jinger and the Holy Goalie

[Churchhoney]

14 minutes ago, cmr2014 said:

MacArthur is pretty anti-vax, isn't he? I think it would be pretty hard for Jeremy -- whose whole life (and livelihood) is about sucking up to MacArthur -- to go ahead and get vaccinated. They might have to go back to pretending they're going to have a cooking blog.

No, he's actually pro-vac. He's against masks and social distancing and anybody who tells churches what to do in the name of public health. 

But he's spoken positively of vaccination all along. 

 

[GeeGolly]

I thought Mac Daddy was okay with vaccines, just anti regulations.

[Churchhoney]

Just now, GeeGolly said:

I thought Mac Daddy was okay with vaccines, just anti regulations.

Yeah, that's right. 

[Rootbeer]

12 hours ago, cmr2014 said:

MacArthur is pretty anti-vax, isn't he? I think it would be pretty hard for Jeremy -- whose whole life (and livelihood) is about sucking up to MacArthur -- to go ahead and get vaccinated. They might have to go back to pretending they're going to have a cooking blog.

MacArthur is fine with vaccines. It is masks and social distancing and crowd limits indoors that he dislikes; most likely because they would limit the numbers at his weekly services and lead to less $$$ in the collection plate for him.

[laurakaye]

I don't know why I even do this to myself but Homie McFlyPants' latest IG story shows him in a skybox at the Dodger's wildcard win.  As a huge baseball fan, it's not small change to travel to see my team, buy two or three tickets and get some food and drinks, which is why I am happy to be able to go once or twice a year (except during pandemics).  And here's a semi? un? employed smarmy poser in a luxury sky box and not only that, he was only a few feet away from the general manager of the Cardinals so he wasn't sitting in some crappy area.  He had prime seating for what had to be a crazy expensive ticket.  That just.........isn't fair.

(also my forever baseball crush pitches for the Dodgers so it makes me extra salty with extra salt on top).

[OpieTaylor]

I figure McArthur’s church/seminary has bought the stadium box, which also bugs me - because what does that have to do with Christian ministry?

[SMama]

What a smug nobody. 

[BitterApple]

1 hour ago, laurakaye said:

I don't know why I even do this to myself but Homie McFlyPants' latest IG story shows him in a skybox at the Dodger's wildcard win.  As a huge baseball fan, it's not small change to travel to see my team, buy two or three tickets and get some food and drinks, which is why I am happy to be able to go once or twice a year (except during pandemics).  And here's a semi? un? employed smarmy poser in a luxury sky box and not only that, he was only a few feet away from the general manager of the Cardinals so he wasn't sitting in some crappy area.  He had prime seating for what had to be a crazy expensive ticket.  That just.........isn't fair.

(also my forever baseball crush pitches for the Dodgers so it makes me extra salty with extra salt on top).

I hear you. I think it makes us stabby because it's so undeserved. I know the world isn't fair, but to see a poser like Jeremy getting all these perks while giving nothing in return just grates. 

[Churchhoney]

55 minutes ago, OpieTaylor said:

I figure McArthur’s church/seminary has bought the stadium box, which also bugs me - because what does that have to do with Christian ministry?

Well, TPTB at the MacArthur institutions may have an odd view of things. In an article I posted awhile ago that commented on the climate at that church in recent years, there was a quote from some document that described the community-service/charitable actions/contributions MacArthur's church has made in the past year. 

And it was a very weird list. There wasn't much on it, in the first place. And that included some tings I've ever heard of a church doing.

One item was that they had donated orchid plants to several LA County police precincts.....A WTF moment in charitable giving if I ever heard one. 

Has anyone at a police precinct, ever, said, "Boy, you know what we really need around here? Orchids!" 

All I can figure is that at a giving-committee meeting, church members were talking about who'd they'd like to do something nice for, and a group of people favored doing something nice for the local cops.

But it turned out nobody wanted to actually spend a lot of money or effort on this.......And then a florist in the congregation mentioned that he had a bunch of orchid plants in his inventory that he couldn't move. And offered to donate them to the cause......So -- the police precincts got orchids. 

Even that story makes no sense. But it's all I can come up with. 

My guess is that the stadium box has a similar origin and history, just as emblematic of self-centeredness and overall dysfunction and poor comprehension of anything I'd call either charity or Christianity. (but in this case probably a lot to do with sucking up to wealthy donors....)

MMV, of course. 😁

The nuttiness and tone-deafness of these things does suggest to me that Jer may have found exactly the right place for himself, after all. 

Edited October 7, 2021 by Churchhoney

[sheshark]

1 hour ago, laurakaye said:

I don't know why I even do this to myself but Homie McFlyPants' latest IG story shows him in a skybox at the Dodger's wildcard win.  As a huge baseball fan, it's not small change to travel to see my team, buy two or three tickets and get some food and drinks, which is why I am happy to be able to go once or twice a year (except during pandemics).  And here's a semi? un? employed smarmy poser in a luxury sky box and not only that, he was only a few feet away from the general manager of the Cardinals so he wasn't sitting in some crappy area.  He had prime seating for what had to be a crazy expensive ticket.  That just.........isn't fair.

(also my forever baseball crush pitches for the Dodgers so it makes me extra salty with extra salt on top).

And the hashtag best dodger fans ever…RFP and Jinger Vuolo!  My family has bled Dodger Blue since Brooklyn, and Jing?  😤

[SnapHappy]

4 minutes ago, sheshark said:

And the hashtag best dodger fans ever…RFP and Jinger Vuolo!  My family has bled Dodger Blue since Brooklyn, and Jing?  😤

Well, isn't Miracle Josie's middle name Brooklyn?  Surely that counts!

[Rootbeer]

1 hour ago, laurakaye said:

I don't know why I even do this to myself but Homie McFlyPants' latest IG story shows him in a skybox at the Dodger's wildcard win.  As a huge baseball fan, it's not small change to travel to see my team, buy two or three tickets and get some food and drinks, which is why I am happy to be able to go once or twice a year (except during pandemics).  And here's a semi? un? employed smarmy poser in a luxury sky box and not only that, he was only a few feet away from the general manager of the Cardinals so he wasn't sitting in some crappy area.  He had prime seating for what had to be a crazy expensive ticket.  That just.........isn't fair.

(also my forever baseball crush pitches for the Dodgers so it makes me extra salty with extra salt on top).

As a huge baseball fan who has spent literally thousands over the past 30 years for playoff tickets, often in the nosebleeds; it really grinds my gears, too, when some nobody (or even somebody famous) just waltzes in and gets premium seats to schmooze and be seen while so many lifelong fans cannot afford even bleacher seats to the playoffs.

8 minutes ago, sheshark said:

And the hashtag best dodger fans ever…RFP and Jinger Vuolo!  My family has bled Dodger Blue since Brooklyn, and Jing?  😤

I'd love to see Doris Kearns Goodwin confront Jeremy about his ridiculous claim.

** She's a well known expert on American history who was a Dodgers fan since her childhood in Brooklyn and wrote a beautiful memoir about her love affair with baseball called 'Wait 'til Next Year.'  A terrific read and anyone who's loved a team since they listened to games on the radio with their dad can relate.  I sure did.

[OpieTaylor]

I was confused by Jerm’s IG story because he was shaking his head seemingly disappointedly as he scanned the cheering Dodger fans. He even had a scowl. Which team was he rooting for?

[SMama]

3 minutes ago, OpieTaylor said:

I was confused by Jerm’s IG story because he was shaking his head seemingly disappointedly as he scanned the cheering Dodger fans. He even had a scowl. Which team was he rooting for?

He was close to the Cardinal’s manager or owner. He wrote maybe next year Mr. X (can’t recall the name), then made that face and shook his head. He’s pretending to be a Dodgers fan.

[OpieTaylor]

1 hour ago, SMama said:

He was close to the Cardinal’s manager or owner. He wrote maybe next year Mr. X (can’t recall the name), then made that face and shook his head. He’s pretending to be a Dodgers fan.

His demeanor didn’t strike me as someone who was happy the Dodgers just won, even though I know he’s been wearing the LA hats for months. It just came across weird - to me. Ultimately I think he just wanted to show off how close he was to the cardinals’ owner/bigwig. 

[galaxygirl76]

He's a posey poser who poses to be a Dodger fan, just like he poses to be a foodie and all the other ridiculous things he does and has.

[Fosca]

15 hours ago, OpieTaylor said:

His demeanor didn’t strike me as someone who was happy the Dodgers just won, even though I know he’s been wearing the LA hats for months. It just came across weird - to me. Ultimately I think he just wanted to show off how close he was to the cardinals’ owner/bigwig. 

He's a suckup to whatever powerful figure is near him to gain their favor.  He's in LA?  Go Dodgers!  He's in Philly visiting family?  Go Phillies!  He's next to the Cardinal's bigwig?  Go Cards!  I think it's so automatic he doesn't even know he's doing it.

[laurakaye]

16 hours ago, Rootbeer said:

As a huge baseball fan who has spent literally thousands over the past 30 years for playoff tickets, often in the nosebleeds; it really grinds my gears, too, when some nobody (or even somebody famous) just waltzes in and gets premium seats to schmooze and be seen while so many lifelong fans cannot afford even bleacher seats to the playoffs.

This is why I get so ragey with him.  My husband and I both work full-time jobs, have a mortgage, pay bills, we save carefully for travel - and this guy gets box seats, eats out twice a day, and seemingly has a closet crammed full of shiny new kicks.  I do not understand.  I mean I sort of understand the Bates girls and all their free stuff because they seem to be semi-legit influencers, even if I hate to admit it.  But what is Jeremy actually DOING to get all this stuff?  The best I can tell, he is not being paid to advertise the things he's eating and wearing - at the most, he seems to be angling hard for an influencer gig but hasn't actually landed any.  And to repeat what many have said, he's not exactly pastor material unless you prefer your pastors in the latest Nikes and not so much what they have to say, so why is he as seemingly successful as he appears for really dong nothing at all?

The more I am listening to The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill, the more insight I am getting into people like Jeremy, who are all flash and no substance.  I just hope he has a spectacular fall and is forced to get a job like the rest of us.  Plus he's super punchable so there's that too.    

 

15 hours ago, OpieTaylor said:

I was confused by Jerm’s IG story because he was shaking his head seemingly disappointedly as he scanned the cheering Dodger fans. He even had a scowl. Which team was he rooting for?

Oh, he was just upset that his deluxe cheeseburger and truffle fries were late being delivered to his sky box. 

[Minivanessa]

34 minutes ago, laurakaye said:

This is why I get so ragey with him.  My husband and I both work full-time jobs, have a mortgage, pay bills, we save carefully for travel - and this guy gets box seats, eats out twice a day, and seemingly has a closet crammed full of shiny new kicks.  I do not understand. 

I wouldn't be surprised if he's run up some hefty credit card bills. I agree with your assessment that he doesn't seem to be great pastor material. Not sure where his brilliant career will take him next. Maybe JB will have an opening for someone to manage a used car lot . . . 

[Churchhoney]

1 hour ago, laurakaye said:

 

The more I am listening to The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill, the more insight I am getting into people like Jeremy, who are all flash and no substance.  I just hope he has a spectacular fall and is forced to get a job like the rest of us.  Plus he's super punchable so there's that too.    

 

Amen to everything you said. ..... But I have to say that the one thing I find particularly odd about Jeremy ... is that he really doesn't even have much flash.

I mean, compared to pastors and the like who have various kinds of flash (with or without accompanying substance) -- such as Macarthur and Carl Lentz and John Piper and others of many varieties -- Jer, to me, falls way short.

He certainly tries to have the things that give other people flash  -- like eloquence, cleverness, charisma, humor, looks, charm, style, an ability to project power or warmth or dominance or class or coolness, etc -- and he may imagine that he has some of those things. But to my eye he has very little of any of them. 

So all I can figure is that he's a wannabe suckup -- who strives to be like those flashy people he sucks up to but who they know won't ever get there because he doesn't have the right stuff......

And maybe the objects of his sucking up reward him because they like to have deluded suckups around? Because they can get their narcissistic supply from them while also feeling sure that the suckups are no threats to their own position? I feel as if I've seen this in some organizations I've worked in, where flashy leaders surround themselves with delusional wannabe suckups who are mediocre while keeping anybody who might be a real threat to their power at arm's length. 

But maybe I just think this because I don't think Jer deserves it so I don't want him to get a bunch of what look to me like unmerited rewards or arrive at the top of a heap -- even a heap I don't respect, like the all-flash-no-substance heap? .....

Edited October 8, 2021 by Churchhoney

[Quilt Fairy]

On 10/8/2021 at 8:45 AM, Jeeves said:

Maybe JB will have an opening for someone to manage a used car lot . . . 

I know you said it in jest, but can you really see Jeremy at that little tin shack on a 2-bit car lot on a dirt driveway in NWA?

[MsJamieDornan]

1 hour ago, Quilt Fairy said:

but can you really see Jeremy at that little tin shack on a 2-bit car lot on a dirt driveway in NWA?

I would like to.

[Fosca]

6 hours ago, Quilt Fairy said:

I know you said it in jest, but can you really see Jeremy at that little tin shack on a 2-bit car lot on a dirt driveway in NWA?

I think he'd be fantastic at it.  A suckup tryhard is just who one wants selling used cars from a dirt lot in semi-rural Arkansas.  I'm sure he'd view it as below his dignity, but he'd likely be more successful at that than at preaching (or being an "influencer").

[satrunrose]

"Oh, yeah, dude. All of my homies back in LA are driving this. Did I mention there's a complimentary Hope we Hold candle, hat and fountain pen set if you buy today?"

Jeremy Vuolo, somewhere in NW Arkansas, 2023.

[farmgal4]

On 10/7/2021 at 12:57 PM, OpieTaylor said:

I figure McArthur’s church/seminary has bought the stadium box, which also bugs me - because what does that have to do with Christian ministry?

Maybe they’re handing out Smiley Face tracts while they’re there?

[Rootbeer]

8 hours ago, Quilt Fairy said:

I know you said it in jest, but can you really see Jeremy at that little tin shack on a 2-bit car lot on a dirt driveway in NWA?

I would probably pay money to see just that.  There are very few people in this world that I root for to fall flat on their face, but Jeremy is one of them.

[Zella]

2 hours ago, Fosca said:

I think he'd be fantastic at it.  A suckup tryhard is just who one wants selling used cars from a dirt lot in semi-rural Arkansas.  I'm sure he'd view it as below his dignity, but he'd likely be more successful at that than at preaching (or being an "influencer").

They're not in semi-rural Arkansas, but I don't see Jeremy going over very well if they were. Rubbing in your fancy sneakers and gourmet burgers with the local rednecks just would make him seem like the world's most frivolous carpet bagger and seems like a really great way to get the shit beat out of you. 

Edited October 10, 2021 by Zella

[Rootbeer]

8 minutes ago, Zella said:

They're not in semi-rural Arkansas, but I don't see Jeremy going over very well if they were. Rubbing in your fancy sneakers and gourmet burgers with the local rednecks just would make him seem like the world's most frivolous carpet bagger and seems like a really great way to get the shit beat out of you. 

I would also pay to see that.

[BigBingerBro]

I'd bet he'd do it if there was a show in if for him.

[Zella]

32 minutes ago, Rootbeer said:

I would also pay to see that.

It's the reality show we need but will never get. 

[Cinnabon]

9 hours ago, MsJamieDornan said:

I would like to.

And Jinger can get in on it as well. Wasn’t she once a car flipper? 🤣

Edited October 10, 2021 by Cinnabon

[iwantcookies]

[Cinnabon]

Just now, iwantcookies said:

And coffee. Drinking coffee is not a personality trait, fundies.

[crazy8s]

38 minutes ago, Cinnabon said:

And Jinger can get in on it as well. Wasn’t she once a car flipper? 🤣

you mean the TLC fakery where she went to the car auction with her brothers and they had to bid for her because she was a female???

but yes a whole new show of fakery of Jing at auctions buying used cars and Jer trying to sell them from to toll booth car lot might be entertaining.

easier would be them selling maps on a street corner in L.A. for homes of the celebs. Probably not even a thing anymore since everything is on phones. but just the idea of it made me laugh.

[JoanArc]

7 hours ago, satrunrose said:

"Oh, yeah, dude. All of my homies back in LA are driving this. Did I mention there's a complimentary Hope we Hold candle, hat and fountain pen set if you buy today?"

Jeremy Vuolo, somewhere in NW Arkansas, 2023.

-Sitting in the car lot toll booth, masturbating to pictures of....himself.

Edited October 10, 2021 by JoanArc

[emmawoodhouse]

I guess Jinge did go to the ballgame a few days ago. I thought it was a dudebro outing.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CU3iK7up2VC/?utm_medium=copy_link

[laurakaye]

12 hours ago, emmawoodhouse said:

I guess Jinge did go to the ballgame a few days ago. I thought it was a dudebro outing.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CU3iK7up2VC/?utm_medium=copy_link

Bet she can't even name a single Dodgers player, let alone understand the game.

Posers.  Both of them.  Can't wait to see Jeremy in a skybox for the World Series, because he'll just become a diehard fan of whoever gives him a free ticket and a food voucher.

[SnapHappy]

2 hours ago, laurakaye said:

because he'll just become a diehard fan of whoever gives him a free ticket and a food voucher.

You've actually just described a million people not named Vuolo!  hee!

[Marshmallow Mollie]

I wonder what Jinger thinks of their financial situation. Does she have any knowledge of it whatsoever or does Jeremy have complete control? In her heart of hearts is she worried he is blowing all their money? Is she excited about the leases Lexus and feel smug at how successful they are, or is she embarrassed and wish he had chosen something cheaper?

[Suzn]

6 minutes ago, Marshmallow Mollie said:

I wonder what Jinger thinks of their financial situation. Does she have any knowledge of it whatsoever or does Jeremy have complete control? In her heart of hearts is she worried he is blowing all their money? Is she excited about the leases Lexus and feel smug at how successful they are, or is she embarrassed and wish he had chosen something cheaper?

I would be very surprised if she knows or understands any of it.  Her life has been disconnected from any normal financial arrangements.  JB controlled the money while she was growing up and that money came from the magical source of being on television.  She's never seen anyone with a normal job, receiving pay and budgeting.

[BitterApple]

1 hour ago, Marshmallow Mollie said:

I wonder what Jinger thinks of their financial situation. Does she have any knowledge of it whatsoever or does Jeremy have complete control? In her heart of hearts is she worried he is blowing all their money? Is she excited about the leases Lexus and feel smug at how successful they are, or is she embarrassed and wish he had chosen something cheaper?

I think she's both clueless and smug. She probably assumes RFP has everything under control, and she can flex her Jordan's and Lexus with a clear conscience. 

[laurakaye]

54 minutes ago, BitterApple said:

I think she's both clueless and smug. She probably assumes RFP has everything under control, and she can flex her Jordan's and Lexus with a clear conscience. 

Interesting, though - she grew up wearing clothes from a communal closet and eating tater tot casserole.  Is it possible that she understands that getting to wear a new pair of shoes every week, endless shopping and eating out, and sitting in a sky box are not what most people do? 

I wonder how she just blindly follows his lead on everything.  I get that she's used to it and knows no different but she's like the Fresh Fundie of Beverly Hills, going from an overflowing house to living the posh life on someone else's dime.  If she were living in a mold house and popping out babies like a Pez dispenser I could see her being clueless, but Jeremy has her living a completely different life than the one she grew up in.  Does she even have the mental capacity to question it?

[MargeGunderson]

Thinking about money is left up to the man as the headship. Little ladies don’t need to worry their silly heads about it. But if they want to shill crap on social media for a tiny bit of money, that would be okay, as long as they remember who is boss.

Edited October 11, 2021 by MargeGunderson

[Quilt Fairy]

17 minutes ago, laurakaye said:

she's like the Fresh Fundie of Beverly Hills,

New. Thread. Title.

Edited October 11, 2021 by Quilt Fairy

[sheshark]

Jeez, Tom Cruise and Danny Glover are sitting in the regular seats at the Dodger game, while RFP is in a skybox next to an owner!.

[emmawoodhouse]

Oh so sneaky. 🙄

https://www.instagram.com/p/CU6DzLtPTQx/?utm_medium=copy_link

[Westiepeach]

2 minutes ago, emmawoodhouse said:

Oh so sneaky. 🙄

https://www.instagram.com/p/CU6DzLtPTQx/?utm_medium=copy_link

Oh, FFS… 🙄

[emmawoodhouse]

Anything for a sale. 🙄

[Churchhoney]

1 hour ago, emmawoodhouse said:

Oh so sneaky. 🙄

https://www.instagram.com/p/CU6DzLtPTQx/?utm_medium=copy_link

And he's not just in a class. He's in a freaking seminary class, studying to be a pastor. Yet he doesn't even pretend that he's not the most superficial, materialistic, thoughtless, unstudious, unserious ass on the planet.  

He has zero concept of what that career he's supposedly studying for should mean. 

Nauseating. Not to mention idiotic. 

Edited October 12, 2021 by Churchhoney

[BigBingerBro]

He's like a middle schooler showing off his new cool trinket.  Grow up JERM