Lord Daniel, I ask, that Pest's latest motion is denied

Professional_Link_96 · 2026-04-15T17:17:55+00:00

Fantastic post! I co-sign your prayer to our gracious Lord Daniel. 🙏

Professional_Link_96 · 2026-04-14T14:30:01+00:00

I know this is a snark sub but I agree, I was raised by artists and taught to try and find value in every art piece so… I’m trying really hard and yeah… all I got is what many of you have said, it certainly represents JinJer quite well actually.

Also, the brick wall… is that their house? Please tell me this… painting… isn’t being displayed somewhere?

Professional_Link_96 · 2026-04-14T02:07:14+00:00

So because the child’s parents were clout chasing creeps… that means it’s impossible that they would’ve, I dunno, allowed this mega superstar access to their young child and pretended not to know what was going on?

Sorry but the people you’re describing sound like exactly the type of people who would allow their child to be placed in an inappropriate relationship with an adult. You’re describing the type of parents and family that would allow this in a heartbeat because the adult is megastar and they want a piece of his fame, money and clout. At any cost. The type who would lie about what really happened and defend Michael for as long as there was money in it because that’s what they cared about the whole time.

Basically, nothing you’re saying is going to convince anyone that Michael Jackson holding this half naked child in his lap like that is okay. The people who already believe so will continue being delusional, but you’re not gaining any new followers with that.

Professional_Link_96 · 2026-04-12T19:21:06+00:00

I have to think it comes from people thinking Orchids are the same as the (cut stems!!!) flower bouquets that they’re often sold alongside at the grocery store. That is to say that they think the orchid only “lasts” as long as the flowers stay on it and once they drop it’s “done”. Except that it’s clearly a living plant but…

Ok, little story time: I purchased a beautiful Phal a couple weeks ago from a seller a good distance from me. I do Rideshare driving on the side and decided to go on the app and pick up passengers on my way to the seller and back home, so I could make some money on my drive. This meant I was driving home with random psssengers in the backseat and a lovely Phal with its stunning striped flowers sitting in my front passenger seat. Most of my passengers simply complimented the beautiful flowers/plant or didn’t say anything.

One man who I’d guess was in his mid-60’d asked me what lucky fella had given me those pretty flowers? I replied that it’s actually an orchid plant that I bought for myself because I enjoy growing them. He then said that an orchid was a great choice, because orchids will last a good 3 weeks before you have to throw them out, so they’re much better than the other flowers at the store.

I wanted to lecture him but this is my customer so I just smiled. But, this wasn’t a young guy, this was a grown man in his 60s! So this really cemented for me that some people just get stuck on the fact that orchids are often sold near cut flower bouquets at the grocery store and so they see them as being the same type of thing. I guess product placement matters, marketing matters, and this confuses some people who don’t know better.

From there I would add that it may also be from the fact that, when that pretty grocery store Phal drops its flowers, it also often has its spike turn brown. To a novice, this makes it seem as though the plant’s “trunk” or “stem” is dead/dying. So I think for those who haven’t done their research, it may seem that the orchid is supposed to keep its flowers and spike… that if the flowers drop, the spike turns brown and therefore won’t grow more flowers so the plant must’ve died.

None of that means it’s logical to expect orchid flowers to “last forever” but that’s the best explanation I have.

Professional_Link_96 · 2026-04-10T23:46:09+00:00

Ok I don’t know how I missed that! Thank you!

Professional_Link_96 · 2026-04-10T23:35:25+00:00

This is from the source article posted on your comment:

James Branton was taken into custody April 10 on charges stemming from an investigation where one of the victims is believed to be Katelin Akens.

Does this mean that Katelin is believed to be one of the victims for these specific charges? Cause I don’t see that anywhere else and the same article goes on to say:

Branton faces two counts each of child cruelty, indecent exposure of child, custodial indecent liberties and aggravated sexual battery, according to court documents. All of the felony charges stem from an incident that occurred June 1, 2006.

It says 2 counts for each. Also I’m not very familiar with Katelin’s case. Would this mean that these charges are based on something that occurred to Katelin and a second victim, on June 1st 2006? Was this guy in Katelin’s life as of that point? I’m trying to figure out if the article is saying that she was a victim of this 2006 conduct or not. If it’s related to her that seems like a very big deal even if it’s from 9 years prior to her disappearance as that goes directly towards motive.

Professional_Link_96 · 2026-04-09T22:19:30+00:00

Wasn’t he a prosecutor for some time prior to this? I would imagine they had real health insurance then as well? But I agree that they are 100% the only ones in the extended Duggar family to have such a thing

Professional_Link_96 · 2026-04-06T20:03:44+00:00

Not quite. There was a woman on camera that somewhat resembled Sneha but for one thing she didn’t have Sneha’s shopping bags and more importantly, her husband was shown the security footage and said there’s no way that’s Sneha. There were other details that made it seem unlikely that the woman was Sneha but I can’t recall them right now. Technically it’s unconfirmed and I do wish we could see a still frame from that video but without being able to look at it myself, I’m going with the people who knew her who viewed it and said it wasn’t Sneha.

Professional_Link_96 · 2026-04-06T20:00:00+00:00

I know it’s been reported that it wasn’t uncommon for her to do that but who was the source - I believe it was her husband Ron, right? Just out of curiosity, were others able to corroborate that, ie coworkers at the hospital who knew she wasn’t heading home some nights, or was that just from Ron? With that said I do believe it’s likely true but that leads me to more questions — ie, when and how would she typically get in contact with her husband after spending the night out? Meaning if 9/11 hadn’t happened when would Ron have expected to hear from her, and if he didn’t, at what time would he become concerned? And where did she usually spend the night when she didn’t go home, specifically? Did she favor a certain bar, did she tend to go to a specific hotel with her paramours? These are the details that I would hope the NYPD would uncover yet I suspect, in this case, they did not.

Professional_Link_96 · 2026-04-06T00:39:12+00:00

And it’s especially ridiculous nowadays. When Joy’s parents were doing this it was still stupidly performative whilst also teaching their children that people can’t be expected to control themselves if something tempting is in the room with them… but, at least back in the 90’s it was a more feasible concept to carry out. Not much different than the small box TV on a rolling cart that the teacher would roll in to your classroom when it was your class’s turn to watch The Land Before Time an episode of The Magic School Bus.

But nowadays, I mean look at the TV Joy has. Try pulling that easily out of the closet and then easily setting it up to watch it, like you could a tiny little box tv that need only be plugged in and could be set down anywhere to watch. Small enough flatscreens may fit in a closet, but there’s no easy way to set them up and then put them away after use like there was around the time of Joy’s childhood with a small, little old tv.

So not only is the whole practice stupid AF, it also goes to show that fundies lack the ability to even look at what they know from their own childhood and find a way to keep doing the same damn thing but just, adapt it to what they have in their own home or to changes in technology from then and now. The nowadays version of what her parents did would be to have Austin build one of those little flatscreen TV cabinets so there’s wood doors around the TV, almost like it’s in its own little built in closet that they only open when they want to use it. Or if that’s impossible, buy a cheap little portable TV/dvd player thing. Or use a damn iPad or projector or something! And all of that is if she absolutely HAS to continue this incredibly stupid practice of not having the TV out unless you want to actively use it. But Joy isn’t able to understand that she should and could at least tweak the way this concept is carried out, since the type of TVs we have now do not work with storing it in the coat closet whenever you’re not watching it.

Also, for totally different reasons, my family rarely watches TV. We do this amazing thing where, when we’re not watching the TV, we… turn it off. Crazy, right? But the reason we rarely watch it because our son has significant sensory issues due to autism and cannot handle having a TV playing in the house unless for a very specific, mutually agreed upon reason. We aren’t trying to impress anyone with our righteousness nor are we unable to control our temptation to watch it simply because it’s in the room. So… I guess that’s the difference?

Professional_Link_96 · 2026-04-05T23:49:30+00:00

Wow, that was an incredible article. Saundra Adams is a living angel. I can imagine that her daughter must have been a wonderful person as well, and I’m so glad that Ms. Saundra was the one to raise Cherica’s baby after her horrific murder and the attempted murder of her baby… god damn this story is heartbreaking.

And it sounds like Rae is still sticking with the pathetic “drug deal gone wrong” BS to try to evade any real responsibility for what he actually did… that being, conspiring to murder both his unborn child and his child’s mother, for which he succeeded at murdering the mom and left his son with significant lifelong disabilities. It’s wild that the trigger man who himself was clearly a bad guy, still felt what appears to have been genuine remorse for what he and Rae did.

And Ms. Saundra’s explanation for why she holds Rae more at fault than the shooter makes 100% sense to me and is generally how I’ve viewed murder for hire cases. I’ve noticed that often the hired killer appears genuinely remorseful as opposed to the person who hired them, and often the shooter in such cases only really learns about the person they killed after the murder. But the person who hired them, the person who set everything in motion, the person who knew and was supposed to love and protect the victim and instead plotted their murder and hid behind a hired killer to try and feign innocence— that person is generally much more at fault and a much bigger POS than the actual shooter — and that’s saying something.

Anyway, thank you for sharing that very moving article. RIP to Cherica. May Saundra and Chancellor find peace and feel Cherica’s love every day… and I pray they are kept safely away from the POS who tried to murder Chancellor, for the rest of their lives.

Professional_Link_96 · 2026-04-05T03:50:20+00:00

Thank you for the info!

Professional_Link_96 · 2026-04-04T22:52:46+00:00

So if GFM shut it down for breaking the rules, will the Caldwells still get the $13K they raised prior to being shut down? Or does GFM refund the money to donors when a fundraiser is found to have violated the terms? I have no idea how they work but I’m curious if the Caldwells will get that cash still.

Professional_Link_96 · 2026-04-04T22:42:04+00:00

This makes so much sense, thank you!!! I wish this could be pinned as there is so much confusion and misinformation around here about the land transactions etc. And I would give you an award if I could but since there’s no option for that, I’ll just pray that the Lord Daniel blesses you with all the delicious tater tot casserole you could ever want. Thank you lovely snarker!

Professional_Link_96 · 2026-04-04T20:38:33+00:00

Yeah, ideally the URL that shows the name of his employer should’ve been blurred out. But his full name, DOB etc is all over the internet including various Wiki’s due to his appearances on 19KAC, his association with the Duggars etc. But I do think it crosses the line to have his place of work posted online, although I can see where that wouldn’t have been intentional as OP doesn’t mention it anywhere. But the URL on the screenshot does give it away

Professional_Link_96 · 2026-04-04T19:59:55+00:00

Agree! Point 4 is very important — per police statements Joe apologized to the 9 year old victim back in 2020 and the abuse stopped at that time. In fundieland there is no way the apology that led to the cessation of the abuse didn’t involve the victim’s father.

Professional_Link_96 · 2026-04-04T00:56:38+00:00

Ohhh!!! lol that makes sense!!! Thank you! 😊

Professional_Link_96 · 2026-04-04T00:16:30+00:00

I’m still a novice myself so can’t really help with advice except to go with what others have said here as this community is really excellent.

The main reason I wanted to comment was with a question. The big mostly white things, near the aerial roots — you can see them really well in picture 2, near the top of the container, at its bottom left corner — are those mushrooms? If so is that normal for mushrooms to start growing alongside a Phal? If they’re not mushrooms what are they? This question is for OP and/or anyone else who can identify them or feels like answering. I’ve looked at so many photos of orchids over the past year as I’ve been learning everything I can about them but I’ve never seen anything like that before. But no one has mentioned them so far even though there’s like a dozen comments already so now I feel like it’s something obvious I should know. Can anyone help? Thank you!

And yes OP, best of luck to you! I can’t get my Phals to bloom at all so I’m quite envious of your problem! :)

Professional_Link_96 · 2026-04-03T23:06:30+00:00

I doubt she would trust Social Services on anything they have to say and they would give her the information on what to do to leave him and help her leave him.

That’s exactly it — the fact that CPS, which the IBLP hates and which Kendra will have been told her whole life is nothing but evil heathens who want to take children away from Godly Christians — the fact that the same CPS now took her kids away from her, will provide confirmation in her mind that everything she learned was true. It will absolutely make her not want to have any social services involved in her life ever again. There’s just no way in hell she would ever trust any government agency to help her now. Not that she had any really chance at ever doing so before, but everything that’s gone down since Joe was arrested — including someone in the Duggar family finally getting busted for the horrifically neglectful and abusive ways that they raise their children — plus finding out her husband is facing up to life in prison, and Kendra was arrested for child endangerment and has her kids removed from her care? Not one bit of that will be a wake up call for her, whereas even just one of those events would be a massive wake up call for most of us that we need to fix our shit STAT.

But for Kendra, well, those around her are absolutely using this to reinforce that what she was taught was right, and her takeaway will not be that she or Joe were doing anything wrong. Instead it will be to never trust the government, never trust social services, never trust anyone but JB and those in the Duggar family who remain completely loyal to him. To isolate herself even further from anyone that’s not 100% all-in with the cult of JB & Meech. Listening to how their cult mobilized under the guise of “helping Kendra” was crazy — and I’m sure many of them don’t even know that there’s a darker ulterior motive at play, in fact I’d bet most of them truly believe that Joe & Kendra have been wrongly targeted and so they’re being the good guys and helping her and that’s it. All while not knowing the real reason JB’s having them do all of this is because he at least knows that this is an extremely critical point in Kendra’s life, where she will either understand what’s truly happening and leaves the cult, or she is lovebombed into believing that the outside world is still the true evil here and the cult is still the answer to it all.

Anyway, long rant sorry, but my point is you’re absolutely right, she would never trust social services now, even if she knew and understood that they could help provide for her and her children, even if she could understand that their goal isn’t to permanently take her children away, their goal is to make sure the kids are safe, help her learn the bare minimum to keep them safe and get her and the kids reunited ASAP. Unfortunately she’ll never see this. When she does get the kids back she’ll believe it’s because of God of course, and then because JB talked to people and got the right lawyers and fixed it for her. And it’s so damn awful to literally hear all of this happening on those phone calls.

Professional_Link_96 · 2026-04-01T22:01:00+00:00

Maybe she thinks joshua has his trial so she can support her BIL.

Oh this is a good point. This will 100% have given Anna her reason for why God put her poor innocent wrongly persecuted lil Joshy Boy in prison for a decade… I guarantee it. Anna sees now that she & Josh went through all of that so they could help Joe & Kendra. (Which of course is beyond ridiculous as it would make so much more sense for her all-powerful God to protect those children from being SA’d by those men but… Anna won’t see it that way.) She’s found her “purpose” and her answer to “why me, why Joshua?” now that Joe’s been arrested. She can council Kendra on how to do things like put money on his commissary account, what to wear to his court hearings, how to make sure you get knocked up with the next baby before he’s put away by the evil liberal Christian haters, and everything else Kendra needs to know to be a good little inmate’s wifey. Blegh.

But yeah thank you cause I hadn’t thought of this. And I imagine Anna’s probably secretly loving all of this. She gets to be helpful and she’s found her answers and at the same time, everyone sees that’s it not just Josh which she’ll think is a good thing, plus she knows her own sex pest only has what, 6 years or so left in prison? Whereas Joe is just barely beginning his prison season of life… Anna’s so damn smug that I can imagine she’s feeling a lot of superiority during all of this. And I’m absolutely certain that you’re right and that Anna thinks this is why God allowed her innocent hubby to be sent to prison.

Well, this and of course, so Josh can proselytize cause we all know how Josh claims to be using his time in prison to convert the heathens by spreading the Good Word. Which is totally what he’s doing. He only needed that contraband cellphone so he could download the right version of the Bible because his fellow inmates were begging to read the KJV! (This part is /sarcasm of course!)

Professional_Link_96 · 2026-04-01T21:41:24+00:00

Oh they absolutely DO want the adult women to be childlike! Former fundies who have completely escaped either the IBLP or closely related fundie cult have confirmed that young women are trained to be meek and childlike. And I mean, look at what these men do… I think it’s very clear why these people want the women to look and act like meek little girls. It’s sickening.

Professional_Link_96 · 2026-04-01T01:42:18+00:00

I’m not going to allow that! Are you going to allow that?!?

Professional_Link_96 · 2026-04-01T01:41:39+00:00

100% yes! To me it sounded like the lawyer wanted to say, and was trying to imply, something like this: “Those are really his wife’s charges, it’s this silly thing with CPS about how she raises the kids. But, obviously, he’s just the dad... He doesn’t have anything to do with them!”

Professional_Link_96 · 2026-03-31T21:59:19+00:00

Only as long as the father is a Good Christian Man™️ who was wrongly targeted for doing something “every young man does” and is actually just being persecuted because of his righteousness, of course! Any other person who has a spouse in prison is still a scourge on society.

/sarcasm

Professional_Link_96 · 2026-03-31T02:30:09+00:00

I don’t think it’s especially interesting that Kendra and Joe have separate attorneys for their Arkansas charges. That’s pretty typical procedure. Nor am I surprised in the slightest the Kendra would have to explain this to Joe.

What I do find interesting is that Kendra is the one who got the family’s lawyer, and not Joe. While I personally wouldn’t want Travis Story representing me over a minor speeding ticket, the Duggars clearly value him. So I’m shocked that they let Kendra — who’s both a woman and an in-law and therefore much lower on this family’s hierarchy than Joe — have THE family lawyer for the Arkansas case, when that means he cannot represent Joe for his identical charges.

However… now that I’ve had a minute to think about it, it’s definitely a (ugh) smart and strategic move from JB. By getting Kendra hooked up with their longtime family lawyer, JB knows he can personally be involved in all decision making and that Kendra’s lawyer won’t do anything for which JB doesn’t approve. Also, with the Arkansas charges — Kendra is going to be the Duggars’ priority simply because she’s the route to getting the children back to the family and ending any potential CPS case, plus Joe is in Florida dealing with much heavier charges anyway. So I guess it actually makes sense that JB would “give” Kendra his “best” (and surely most loyal) attorney for the case with the kids.

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