They’ve been here all the time, but somehow were allowed to continue to assault children. I don’t get it. This ought to be one of the greatest taboos in our society. We regard abusers of children as the lowest of the low, when they are caught, but when they’re running free our institutions seem to actively protect them.
The latest story is that another Duggar man has been caught. Joseph Duggar, one of the swarm of children exploited by The “Learning” Channel TLC in their show “19 Kids and Counting” has been arrested.
Former reality TV star Joseph Duggar is facing a child molestation charge in Florida, almost five years after his brother Josh, who also starred in the TLC show “19 Kids and Counting,” was convicted of downloading child sexual abuse images.
Joseph Duggar, 31, was arrested in Arkansas, where he lives, and was awaiting extradition to Florida on Thursday. Duggar is charged with lewd and lascivious behavior on a child under 12 years old, according to an arrest affidavit from the Bay County Sheriff’s Office in Panama City, Florida.
Police officers in Tontitown, Arkansas, on Wednesday contacted deputies in Bay County, saying they had interviewed a 14-year-old girl who told them that Duggar had molested her several times during a family trip to Panama City Beach when she was age 9, according to the affidavit.
Remember that that show was cancelled in 2015 when Joseph’s brother Josh had abused his sisters and a babysitter. He’s in prison for that right now. I guess raping children was a family tradition. He’s from a Baptist family whose only claim to fame was a self-righteous belief that they should have more children than they could care for, and were further entitled by a terrible television network that thought it was entertaining to pump up their privilege by pretending they were role models. Maybe the parents and a few network executives should also be spending some time in a jail cell.
But if you thought the Duggar family saga was appalling enough, get a load of this. The Epstein files have been redacted and censored and hidden away under the shelter of an evil witch, Pam Bondi, who really doesn’t want the truth about her boss, Donald Trump, revealed. But there’s a way around that: congress people have been able to read the uncensored version, and here Representative Dan Goldman reads aloud one of the passages that the Republicans don’t want you to hear.
Trump tried to compel a 13-15 year old girl to perform oral sex on him, she was disgusted and bit him, so he struck her and called her a “bitch”. I am further disgusted by him.
Put Deviant Donald in a prison right next to Josh and Joseph Duggar. That’s one way to prevent him from bombing other countries to distract from his molesting of children.
But somehow we’ve got to fix this problem of rapacious older men attacking children — I don’t have an answer because I can’t even comprehend wanting to do such things.
From my guess, it’s likely the taboo status that makes it attractive to rich people: They get off on exerting their power, and being able to get away with it. Still, doesn’t explain why we allow people to get that rich or why so many let them get away with it.
The foundational myth of Christianity tells how the God of the Jews impregnated an under-age mortal girl without her knowledge or consent, sent His friend to tell her about it and turned His back on His former Chosen People. And Christians worship their stolen God not in spite of this transgression, which would be bad enough; but because of it.
So I hardly find it surprising that Christian men have such a problematic attitude. The Bible says — perhaps not in so many words, but it implies very strongly — that sex without consent is not wrong, because God-the-Father did it. At worst, they treat it as only a minor property crime (because so do they regard women and children) when the victim is not the “property” of the rapist.
@2 bluerizlagirl .
What do you mean with stolen god?
@ lasius, #3: I mean the God they stole from the Jews.
@4 bluerizlagirl .
Makes no sense. It’s not like some randos decided to take the god of another religion. Christianity grew out of a jewish sect. They are basically just a pretty derived branch of judaism.
It’s like saying we stole our eyes from fish. No, we are basically just a pretty derived form of fish.
Wow. It almost seems like either 1) tendency to child sexual abuse has a genetic component (not impossible; psychopathy seems to) or 2) raising boys in the particular way mandated by the Christian Patriarchy movement produces men who…aren’t quite right in the head.
Some people Love Him unconditionally. I inhabit a house, in Pennsylvania, with such a person. Checks all the boxes:
anti-abortion, anti-vax, anti-science, Creationism, Christian Nationalist, White Supremist, pro-Israel, pro-War, pro-Hegseth, conservative, Republican, pro-Nazi-leaning fascist, pro-ICE detentions, pro-bombing Iranian schoolgirls, pro-Armageddon, anti-big pharma, pro-chiropractic, anti-fragrance, pro-fossil fuels, pro-Project 2025, anti-Obama Care, anti-Disney, anti-Democracy, pro-US Monarchism, anti-Department of Education, pro-homeschool, anti-gay marriage, pro-2d amendment, pro-death penalty, anti-welfare, anti-food stamps, anti-social justice, anti-equality, pro-Trump Can Do No Wrong, hypocrite, racist, bigot, including pro-political signage plastered 200 feet all across the front yard. It’s difficult to dig thru so much caked on to the outside of a skull.
There exist many, many millions of people so afflicted.
Bondi’s trolls didn’t do a very good job of purging The Files. The one that Goldman is reading is a case in point.
As I understand it, the importance of Goldman’s action was to read it into the Congressional Record as this evidence has been reported for a week or so. They are putting enormous pressure on GOP Reps to force Bondi to honor a subpoena to testify under oath. She’s resisting because they know and she knows that she’s lying when she says there’s no “credible” evidence against Dumpster. The emphasis on this particular bit isn’t that it’s true or not, but that it’s “credible.” The FBI interviewed this woman several times until she declined to talk to them because nothing was going to be done about it. This might be the analog to the “Eight-minute Gap” in Nixon’s tapes.
The other big news is that they have turned up evidence in The Files that the FBI was investigating Epstein and 14 others for drug trafficking as well as sex trafficking with an eye to the drugs being used on the girls…and boys. That’s where the Zorro ranch investigation might prove explosive.
I saw last night someone say that by now the Chinese government probably has the unredacted files. They could just release them and finish Dumpster and his corrupt team. Or, use them as blackmail to get Dumpster et al to go along with them. Kind of like what Israel and probably Putin are doing.
The other interesting anecdote is pole numbers. Yesterday Dumpster posted something about having 100% approval from MAGA, naturally. Meanwhile, more honest and wider scope polling puts his approval in the mid-30s. Not good. And yet another anecdote is that Nixon told him in a message…apparently they communicated some…that a president doesn’t need to resign until his approval hits the mid-20s. We’re getting there.
Bringing Nixon and Watergate into the picture is an interesting pivot because, one, we might be nearing a “Saturday Night Massacre.” One way for Dumpster and team to stall the Congressional investigation is to fire Bondi, Patel, and a bunch of others.
Trumps approval will never drop below 30. The US is that sick with bigotry, idiocy, and tribalism. Some of these supporters know he is guilty and are proud of his transgressions.
I’d say that not being able to comprehend these guys is a good thing. I was told the same thing, when I made some what the same comment on a client of mine who was charged with child sexual assault. It was good that I couldn’t figure him out.
wow. even my second attempt was not posted. it must be because of a word in the OP.
It is unfortunate that she did not bite him hard enough to do permanent damage so that his thang would be useless except for waste elimination.
@9: Sadly agree.
@11: I’d not even grant him the “except” clause.