Josh & Anna Smuggar: A Series of Unfortunate Events

[Churchhoney]

22 hours ago, Lemur said:

I agree with both of you.  I think a lot of his teenage behavior could have been headed off by, well, not being raised by Jim Bob and Michelle.  I think a lot more could have been headed off by early intervention.  But since neither of those were options, Josh is still an adult and accountable for himself.  It's the great paradox of the Josh situation - we've been told repeatedly that he just made mistakes and doesn't have a compulsion.  So what then?  He just chose to be a fillandering jackass?  Then why was he in rehab?  These people make no sense.

When you have no sense, you make no sense, I guess.

Edited June 9, 2016 by Churchhoney

[Marigold]

i think if josh touches an actual Bible, it will start to smoke and sizzle. 

[Chai]

Anna Duggar is pregnant with baby number 5. This was reported in Newseveryday.com

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[JoanArc]

1 minute ago, Chai said:

Anna Duggar is pregnant with baby number 5. This was reported in Newseveryday.com

They also say Jill is pregnant. Take with a 10 lb bag of salt.

[Sew Sumi]

Like the broken clock, the tabloids will eventually get the timing right. 

[Arwen Evenstar]

It's the Duggars after all, eventually there will be another blessing.

[Sew Sumi]

One wonders if she was joyfully available right from the start. I hate that she seemed to feel that she had to lose 30 lbs. to keep her husband from straying again 

[Arwen Evenstar]

11 minutes ago, Sew Sumi said:

One wonders if she was joyfully available right from the start. I hate that she seemed to feel that she had to lose 30 lbs. to keep her husband from straying again 

No doubt stress helped her lose weight and while he spent 6 months in Jeebus Jail, she didn't have to cook the crap he wanted to eat. 

[Barb23]

I know it's their beliefs, but still can't understand why Anna has to take responsibility for Joshley's wrongdoings. My son just had his wisdom teeth removed & was shocked when I told him the Duggar kids wisdom teeth removals were shown on TV.  He couldn't imagine that sort of thing was shown.  I told him they weren't shown  just walking in to the office, the cameras were all in their faces & mouths.  Remember the episode when Joshley & another boy (?JD) drank sweet tea  before removal when they weren't supposed to eat or drink anything & removals had to be rescheduled?  IIRC, Anna shared in or took the blame, that she should have read the instructions better too.  Good grief - can't believe she shared in the blame when he's a grown adult  & that they couldn't even follow the one direction the oral surgeon's office gives you - nothing to eat or drink 8 hrs. before procedure. (That was my son's instructions.)

[Arwen Evenstar]

I seriously need to get a life! I kept looking at my tablet all day and all evening yesterday. Then two things occurred to me :

-my forum friends gave better things to do

-recycled Duggar  headlines do not contain anything comment or snark worthy 

I guess I really love the sense of community.

It seems Smuggar is indeed gearing up for a redemption tour.  He's criticized for not being on social media to man up rather than hiding behind his wife and family. If he spoke out, he'd still be criticized.  Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.  If what they say about him not being allowed to have a smartphone is true, he can't participate in social media other than Boob approved/altered statements on the family's page.

[BitterApple]

20 hours ago, Arwen Evenstar said:

No doubt stress helped her lose weight and while he spent 6 months in Jeebus Jail, she didn't have to cook the crap he wanted to eat. 

This. Part of the reason I think Priscilla has stayed so slim after her pregnancies is because TFDW is into healthy living. They run road races and do a lot of outdoorsy activities. Compare that to Smuggar who downs donut cheeseburgers like they're tic tacs. I think when you're part of a couple you tend to adopt each other's habits. It's hard to maintain discipline when you're married to an indulgent sloth.

[Arwen Evenstar]

I did notice that TFDW and Prissy exercise regularly and have better habits. I think David also may have a college education, but if not, he writes rather well for someone who hasn't. Compared to TFDW, Smuggar is a lazy slug.

[louannems]

Inquisitor trash.com states Joshua is hopeful for his own reality teeeveee show!

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.inquisitr.com/3200582/josh-duggar-gets-a-new-reality-tv-show-an-insider-spills-the-dirt-behind-the-duggar-family-scandal/&ved=0ahUKEwjLs7HjvKbNAhVX1GMKHfnlDjUQqUMIITAC&usg=AFQjCNGjHVJXhkMbVrjwsHbimyfcM76WNQ&sig2=h69jY8P7ia9LfkCFqOn3TQ

[Arwen Evenstar]

Who is this insider who claims Josh is tired of being controlled by BoobChelle?

He's a 28 year old grown-ass man, but keeping him from a smart phone is basically treating him like a naughty child. Yes, he's been a very naughty boy.  No one disputes that.

If Josh finally decides to Break Duggar, hopefully he can finally have a normal life. He saw a whole wide world outside of the compound.  I'm sure just getting away from his parents would calm him down once he knows he's finally free to live his own life.

[Micks Picks]

Theoretically you are right, Arwan but he got in a shitload of trouble when he lived in DC.  His parents were not then controlling his internet viewing nor his strip club patronage.

[Arwen Evenstar]

8 minutes ago, Micks Picks said:

Theoretically you are right, Arwan but he got in a shitload of trouble when he lived in DC.  His parents were not then controlling his internet viewing nor his strip club patronage.

I don't disagree.  The Duggar reach is further than the long arm of the law. When Jish was in DC, he left physically, but not emotionally. Emotionally, he was still living at home because he really couldn't function outside the Duggar bubble.

[Churchhoney]

14 hours ago, louannems said:

Inquisitor trash.com states Joshua is hopeful for his own reality teeeveee show!

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.inquisitr.com/3200582/josh-duggar-gets-a-new-reality-tv-show-an-insider-spills-the-dirt-behind-the-duggar-family-scandal/&ved=0ahUKEwjLs7HjvKbNAhVX1GMKHfnlDjUQqUMIITAC&usg=AFQjCNGjHVJXhkMbVrjwsHbimyfcM76WNQ&sig2=h69jY8P7ia9LfkCFqOn3TQ

His way of separating himself from his nutball 'rents is first to take a job with their enterprises and then to get a reality tv show? Yeah, that's real separation from JB and M, all right -- so very different from everything he's had modeled for him. Plus, so realistic and responsible. Yeesh. I wonder which insider passed along this ridiculous tale and brilliant analysis. Do Amy and drunken hubby sit around dreaming these things up or is somebody else also feeding the bottom-feeding websites? Maybe Sierra has picked up tabloid talespinning as a side hustle?

[Aja]

The worst thing about that article is that they used the car selfie where they all look like they're made out of gelatin.

[Arwen Evenstar]

34 minutes ago, Aja said:

The worst thing about that article is that they used the car selfie where they all look like they're made out of gelatin.

That's not gelatin, that's the ooky slime slug trail the follows Smuggar wherever he may go!

[GeeGolly]

18 hours ago, Arwen Evenstar said:

Who is this insider who claims Josh is tired of being controlled by BoobChelle?

 

PTV.

[JoanArc]

I'm sure Josh is narcissistic and lazy enough to believe that people will really want to see a show about him, one that airs for decades. He likely hasn't changed at all.

[Darknight]

Who wants to see Josh? He don't do shit. And people don't forgive touching your sisters. Cheating. Forgiveable. Molestation. Unforgivable 

[Joe Jitsu913]

On 6/13/2016 at 10:45 PM, louannems said:

Inquisitor trash.com states Joshua is hopeful for his own reality teeeveee show!

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.inquisitr.com/3200582/josh-duggar-gets-a-new-reality-tv-show-an-insider-spills-the-dirt-behind-the-duggar-family-scandal/&ved=0ahUKEwjLs7HjvKbNAhVX1GMKHfnlDjUQqUMIITAC&usg=AFQjCNGjHVJXhkMbVrjwsHbimyfcM76WNQ&sig2=h69jY8P7ia9LfkCFqOn3TQ

No one wants to see Doughboy's fat ass on television ever again. 

[Arwen Evenstar]

I wonder what The Josh Show: Breaking Duggar would look like

• binge eating
• binge drinking
• wanking
• watching porn
• having hookups
• sleeping until noon
• going to the beach
• wearing a speedo around the house

Somehow, it would still be boring, watching our hero passed out faced planted in a pizza surrounded by beer bottles and Chick-FIL-a wrappers.

Edited June 15, 2016 by Arwen Evenstar

[Aja]

1 hour ago, Arwen Evenstar said:

I wonder what The Josh Show: Breaking Duggar would look like

• binge eating
• binge drinking
• wanking
• watching porn
• having hookups
• sleeping until noon
• going to the beach
• wearing a speedo around the house

Somehow, it would still be boring, watching our hero passed out faced planted in a pizza surrounded by beer bottles and Chick-FIL-a wrappers.

So basically a fundy Jersey Shore. Let's watch the Duggars do absolutely nothing! Oh wait...this might have already been done.

[cmr2014]

This reality show talk, if true, once agains highlights the Duggars poor parenting.

Obviously the molestation scandal limits Josh's ability to find work, but this is a grown man who only seems to see two options in life: work for his father, or have a reality television show.

[Sew Sumi]

Well, Josh is what happens when you hamstring your children with no education with which to arm themselves in the real world, and then you blow it entirely by molesting your sisters and cheat on your wife with prostitutes. 

[Arwen Evenstar]

He really didn't stand a chance after not one but two scandals. Hamstrung and stunted, his options are:

• own his own business
• continue to work for Boob
• get employed in Fundieland 
• write a tell all book
• go on a redemption tour

The first option means he'd have to be driven and not owe any back taxes.

Writing a tell all book is difficult without a computer and the risk of being ratted out by a Howler or JSlave is too likely.

[Lemur]

Heh.  I'd forgotten about the back taxes issue.

[Arwen Evenstar]

They owed back property taxes at one time. Wonder if they have income tax issues, but that is pure speculation on my part due to their failure to pay tbeir local tax. 

[SometimesBites]

Just stumbled on this InTouch info on a sixth victim of Creeper. Didn't we sort of hear about this already? I barely pay attention anymore...

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/a-new-victim-claims-child-sex-abuse-by-josh-duggar-which-caused-her-to-rebel-and-leave-home/

[sometimesy]

21 minutes ago, SometimesBites said:

Just stumbled on this InTouch info on a sixth victim of Creeper. Didn't we sort of hear about this already? I barely pay attention anymore...

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/a-new-victim-claims-child-sex-abuse-by-josh-duggar-which-caused-her-to-rebel-and-leave-home/

The girls parents are complete idiots as well. 

[JoanArc]

That's a rehashed story.

[Natalie68]

On 6/15/2016 at 9:38 AM, Arwen Evenstar said:

I wonder what The Josh Show: Breaking Duggar would look like

• binge eating
• binge drinking
• wanking
• watching porn
• having hookups
• sleeping until noon
• going to the beach
• wearing a speedo around the house

Somehow, it would still be boring, watching our hero passed out faced planted in a pizza surrounded by beer bottles and Chick-FIL-a wrappers.

 

I really should not be drinking when reading this site.  Coke out the nose!  Picture it.  Wearing a speedo doing stretches.  Too much?

[DangerousMinds]

That article just showed up on my FB page as new. Can't hurt to remind people!

[SometimesBites]

2 hours ago, JoanArc said:

That's a rehashed story.

That's what I suspected, although it was dated today.

[kokapetl]

Their unpaid state income taxes became liens. I assume they paid at that stage, wouldn't their house have been at risk of seizure otherwise?

[Arwen Evenstar]

3 hours ago, Natalie68 said:

I really should not be drinking when reading this site.  Coke out the nose!  Picture it.  Wearing a speedo doing stretches.  Too much?

I apologize if you now have visualized something too disturbing to unsee.

[Natalie68]

4 minutes ago, Arwen Evenstar said:

I apologize if you now have visualized something too disturbing to unsee.

If I wake up screaming in the night I will tell my husband its Arwen who caused it!  <trying to think about puppies or donuts so I get back to a happy place>

[Tabbygirl521]

4 hours ago, Natalie68 said:

I really should not be drinking when reading this site.  Coke out the nose!  Picture it.  Wearing a speedo doing stretches.  Too much?

I would absolutely watch. I love laughing so hard I can't breathe. 

[CarolMK]

Where are Josh and Anna living? Not in the big house with the family, are they? Jill's old house? Also , I read a rumor speculating that Anna is pregnant again. I really hope it's not true.

[kokapetl]

What are the odds for a third (and real) Josh scandal?

[sometimesy]

23 minutes ago, Kokapetl said:

What are the odds for a third (and real) Josh scandal?

Josh has done his part to keep his family in the news. His next 'scandal' would be better as revelation that he needs to leave the damaging cult. He is becoming irrelevant very quickly. 

Just wonder if they are going to have a soulful looking Anna talking about the difficulties her sweet family is going through. What a drag if they do. 

[Sew Sumi]

41 minutes ago, CarolMK said:

Where are Josh and Anna living? Not in the big house with the family, are they? Jill's old house? Also , I read a rumor speculating that Anna is pregnant again. I really hope it's not true.

I'm pretty sure they are in the Pool House. The M kids are still a fixture at the TTH, so no way they are living in the house Smuggar bought when they were still in DC. Plus, Smuggar's "car lot" is the front yard of said house.

[Ljohnson1987]

Anna. Your birthday present to yourself should be escaping the Duggar cult.

[Porterest]

Which property are we referring to as the pool house? I keep seeing it but I can't remember where it is. 

[Marigold]

Poor Anna. 28 today and Josh is your sorry excuse for a husband. 

Her children are a adorable so she has that going for her.  But she has had the year from hell and I think the rest of life will be pretty hellish too.  

[Ljohnson1987]

Isn't the Pool House, the house that DerJill lived in?

[allonsyalice]

20 minutes ago, Ljohnson1987 said:

Isn't the Pool House, the house that DerJill lived in?

Nope!

DerJill got the McMansion, a huge starter home which i guess Jim Boob had to rent? (but they had to clean it a lot so no one was renting)

The pool house is a new place, which they probably got for filming J&JCO. (like talking heads and stuff.)

[Absolom]

The pool house is the brick house with the pool where we've seen the Duggars swimming and where episodes with the putative midwife mentor to Jill were filmed.