For whom will the Duggars vote?

[Cleopatra7]

22 minutes ago, Gemini said:

As much as I would love that JB and Michelle snuggle up to watch the Simpsons, I was thinking more along the lines that they watch news channels (both world and entertainment) which would be how they know what's going on with Trump.

I can't see JB enjoying a mocking sketch show of himself either. However I can see him watching tlc frequently to catch the Adverts for the show to feed his little narcissistic soul. 

As for the Andy Griffin show, having never seen it I have no idea on how that reflects on things. However they were very good at giving the "look how wholesome we are" act and the "they don't pray enough" fits right in there. They are so good at lying, it's hard for them to tell what's true let alone a viewer.

now back to imagining the Dugger's watching the Simpsons......

 

I'm inclined to believe that JB and Michelle don't watch the news, because of NIKE! commercials and NIKE! female anchors. The only news they seem to care about is news about anti-abortion legislation, which doesn't come on enough to justify the Duggars watching it. I would say that JB and Michelle could go to Lifesite News for their fix of tabloidy, anti-abortion news, but that site has a very strong Catholic bent that they would find offensive.

[Gillyweed]

Do you think any of them will watch tonight's debate? I'm hoping Derick (and Jill) will. 

[seraaa]

I wouldv'e said  they'd stick wuth

8 hours ago, paganbaby said:

Michelle and Jim Bob were front and center at a conference this weekend where Ben Carson was still urging people to vote for Trump.

http://www.news-leader.com/story/news/politics/2016/10/07/ben-carson-warns-conservatives-mass-killings-once-again-without-resistance-government/91732194/

Ohh. Well, then. I wonder what the motivation here is? SCOTUS?

On 08/10/2016 at 10:35 PM, silverspoons said:

I wonder do the Duggars watch the news? or read a paper?

My very conservative LDS neighbors don't watch the news (regularly)  and today they are all still on the Trump train(I was at a sporting event this morning and got an earful of politics and other views).  What I did find VERY telling , is when my son went to register to vote in Utah, Republican is no longer the majority? There was independent and unaffiliated so I looked up the options meant, and the majority of Utah voters in 2016 are unaffiliated. I believe they still are holding our hope for a Jeb Bush or Cruz write in but will vote for Trump (as instructed).

 

I'm so interested in what appears to be happening in Utah.

https://thinkprogress.org/mormons-detest-donald-trump-heres-why-1be9024d6964#.cnvri2rrk

https://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/mormons-vs-trump?utm_term=.vcZAZLpzP#.itJ8ZL5eV

[barbecutie]

Ben's sister supports Trump, but she is not a Duggar. She is super conservative like them, but more liberal in a lot of other ways.

That being said (and assuming the entire family is voting the same), it will be for either an Evangelical third party, or a write in vote; possibly for Huckabee or "The Bible".

[QuiverDance]

Please. They're voting Trump.

[doggie]

they they were ok with their  son doing it so why not a president?

[allthegoodnamesrgone]

IIRC didn't Boob say they got their news 2nd hand from people in check out lines and reading magazine covers? 

If it wasn't the Duggar's it was some other batshit crazy family on TV. I honestly can't remember. 

[SaveJordyn]

[Alisamer]

On 10/9/2016 at 2:02 PM, Gemini said:

Personally I think they won't advertise the fact but they will vote for him.

He offers all the make America great (and white) bullshit that they lap up and they'll justify the vote with Jesus by convincing themselves that the women had it coming for leading Trump on. After all, it's always the woman's fault.... Right?

I think it is likely that they will vote for the serial adulterer with many claims of sexual assault against him rather than the devoted wife, mother and grandmother who stuck by her philandering husband despite his infidelities. Because she wears pants and works and stuff.

I hope they don't vote. I can't imagine anyone paying any attention at all to Trump actually voting for him (every single fact check I've ever seen done on anything he has said is like "lie, and here's our proof" followed by "lie, and here's video of Trump saying exactly what he said he didn't say" and on and on), but I think a lot of people will just vote for whoever has an "R" by their name, because... just because, I guess. I mean I'd think that Trump wouldn't have a chance with most extreme Christian conservatives - he owns casinos (dens of gambling! Sin!), his (current) wife is an immigrant, he's been married and divorced multiple times and had well-publicized affairs, he doesn't proclaim Jesus every time he opens his mouth, he lies more blatantly than any person I've ever seen, and most video of him from a few years ago shows him taking the exact opposite views of what he's espousing now. I just don't get it. But, he has a penis and hates muslims and seems not to want to "take away people's guns" so they hold their noses and vote.

[SportsgalAnnie]

23 hours ago, seraaa said:

I wouldv'e said  they'd stick wuth

Ohh. Well, then. I wonder what the motivation here is? SCOTUS?

I'm so interested in what appears to be happening in Utah.

https://thinkprogress.org/mormons-detest-donald-trump-heres-why-1be9024d6964#.cnvri2rrk

https://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/mormons-vs-trump?utm_term=.vcZAZLpzP#.itJ8ZL5eV

When I registered In TN you didn't have to specify 

[snickers34]

They are almost definitely voting for Trump, but I don't think it's about the 'white' thing. They are hardcore anti-abortion above absolutely every other issue there is, and as horrible as Trump is, he'll nominate anti-abortion justices. Nevermind all the horribleness that his candidacy would lead to actual people that are here right now. It's all about the unborn in Duggarville.

[Mela99]

I'm inclined to think they'll write in Pence. He's far more yay Jebus and boo gays. 

[IreneIssh]

2 hours ago, SaveJordyn said:

Thank you! This is all I could think about reading this thread  

[lomo6]

On 10/9/2016 at 4:33 AM, foreign fundie said:

And why has nobody taken him to court yet for sexual assault charges? Sounds like he has been abusing women for decades.

Actually he has been taken to court. And accused of a lot more.

Also I've heard the abortion argument. I get that conservatives fear Hillary's Supreme Court but do they really believe that Trump is pro-life for any other reason that political expedience?

 

[Mercer]

Yeah, I really don't think Trump cares much about abortion. He was pro-choice until he set his sights on Republican office and reversed his position. If elected president, he might end up appointing anti-choice Justices to the Supreme Court if they fit his general agenda, but I don't think it would be his priority. I think his priority would be getting pro-business and anti-immigrant Justices onto the Court, since those seem to be the issues of primary concern to him.

[snickers34]

I'm not saying Trump cares about abortion at all. I'm saying that most likely any conservative judge in the current American political landscape sense would likely happen to also be anti-abortion, and that's why a lot of nice well meaning, loving people are still voting for Trump. Also, Trump isn't entirely stupid (I mean mostly, sure). If he nominated a pro-choice SC justice, I truly think it would be political suicide beyond anything we've ever seen from (why hasn't everything he's done already been political suicide, who the f*&k knows). It would be the last straw for all these crazy evangelicals who support him (and Jeebus only knows why they support him, really).

Take Ben's sister - she's posting all hateful pro-Trump things in between all these crazy anti-abortion things. You think her kind would be fine with Trump nominating a pro-choice judge?

[Mercer]

I'm just not sure Trump cares about political suicide. He barely seems to comprehend that he's trying to win an election right now, let alone being able to plan ahead for another one four years down the road. I think he'd do whatever he wanted in the moment and worry about the fallout later.

[Bad Wolf]

Wolf 2 is on a nuclear sub. Trump scares me. He did say he would prosecute women who have abortions, so the Duggars would go for that. Yes, he sort of changed his mind, but the Duggars would still like that he said it.

[Cleopatra7]

On 10/10/2016 at 9:36 PM, snickers34 said:

They are almost definitely voting for Trump, but I don't think it's about the 'white' thing. They are hardcore anti-abortion above absolutely every other issue there is, and as horrible as Trump is, he'll nominate anti-abortion justices. Nevermind all the horribleness that his candidacy would lead to actual people that are here right now. It's all about the unborn in Duggarville.

Reproductive politics are always about whether the "right kind of women" are having babies versus "the wrong kind of women." The so-called "doctor's campaign against abortion in early nineteenth century American was not about "saving pre-born life," especially since scientists were still unsure about the female role in reproduction and what actually happened to the fetus during pregnancy. What the campaign was about was ensuring that middle and upper class WASP women had more babies by denying them access to abortion so there would be more WASPS and less of the "wrong kind of people" (i.e., Jews, Catholics, poor white Protestant women, blacks). A lot of modern quiverfull rhetoric is still based on this view, especially the notion that conservative white Christians can win back the government by outbreeding everyone else. I think the Duggars have neo-confederate sympathies, but keep them hidden from the media. If the Duggars weren't going to be on TV, I think they would have gone ahead with naming Jackson "Judah Benjamin," although that name could be a nod to Stonewall Jackson. 

[barbecutie]

On 10/10/2016 at 4:38 AM, barbecutie said:

Ben's sister supports Trump, but she is not a Duggar. She is super conservative like them, but more liberal in a lot of other ways.

That being said (and assuming the entire family is voting the same), it will be for either an Evangelical third party, or a write in vote; possibly for Huckabee or "The Bible".

Never mind, according to http://www.sos.arkansas.gov/elections/Documents/2016_Running_for_Public_Office.pdf (which I assume is legitimate), "Write-in candidates are not allowed in presidential, municipal, or primary elections". You have to be a registered third party.  

I still say majority of the voting Duggars will junk their vote by write-in anyway, an obscure third party, or simply not voting at all. I do not buy them collectively supporting Trump (except maybe Josh). They love bible study and the bible has a few things to say about false prophets.

[snickers34]

Derrick admitted on twitter he's voting Trump/Pence. As for the other Duggars, whether Trump really cares about babies or not isn't the point. I really think they see Trump as their absolute only hope to save the unborn babies from evil HRC.

[Mercer]

17 minutes ago, snickers34 said:

Derrick admitted on twitter he's voting Trump/Pence. As for the other Duggars, whether Trump really cares about babies or not isn't the point. I really think they see Trump as their absolute only hope to save the unborn babies from evil HRC.

I'm in total shock here.

I figured that at least some Duggar family members would quietly vote for Trump in the privacy of their polling place, but I didn't think any of them would admit to it in public. I thought they would at least pretend to care about the values they claim to represent.

I have never directly addressed a Duggar or Duggar-in-law on social media prior to today, and maybe never will again, but I just couldn't let that one pass without comment, so I responded, though I may regret it.

[snickers34]

16 minutes ago, Mercer said:

I'm in total shock here.

I figured that at least some Duggar family members would quietly vote for Trump in the privacy of their polling place, but I didn't think any of them would admit to it in public. I thought they would at least pretend to care about the values they claim to represent.

I have never directly addressed a Duggar or Duggar-in-law on social media prior to today, and maybe never will again, but I just couldn't let that one pass without comment, so I responded, though I may regret it.

I think it's become so fundamentally difficult to understand the other side of the issue in our crazy polarized society. I also cannot comprehend how any Christian could possibly vote for Trump, but there's a heck of a lot of them out there. It's not about facts anymore, it's all just spin and garbage and they eat it up. 

[Mercer]

Derick isn't just any Christian, though, even... he's a person who quite literally makes his living on supposedly being holier than the rest of us. The fact he goes out of his way to proclaim publicly how good he is on a regular basis just makes it seem like all the more of a contrast that he's endorsing this type of behavior in a politician.

[Cleopatra7]

1 hour ago, snickers34 said:

Derrick admitted on twitter he's voting Trump/Pence. As for the other Duggars, whether Trump really cares about babies or not isn't the point. I really think they see Trump as their absolute only hope to save the unborn babies from evil HRC.

Trump said he'd punish women who have abortions. Even though he walked back a bit from that, it was exactly what the Duggars wanted to hear.