Dillards 42: Tweeting to Unpopularity

[brusselsgriffon]

I feel like Dwreck reads here--maybe quite often--and our criticisms of him only add fuel to his fire (er, twitter fury). Like, he is very defensive & afraid of being wrong, so he continues to push further on the Politically Conservative Jesus side of things (dunno how else to put it) and align himself only with other uber-conservative pro-life gun lovin' bible thumpin' evangelicals. That's just one explanation for how he was once relatively normal and now he's.....like this. 

[apandaaries]

Well, Ben's dad is an utterly racist ass.  He acknowledges racism in the past, but returns continually to the true American problem and sin of abortion.  The US is over racism (which only exists in very limited forms), and socialist monsters are the true enemies.  And abortions.  Those are also really evil.  Basically #NotAllWhitePeople and #SaveTheBabies/DefundTheirLivingExpenses

He's committed to turning a willful blind eye to racism on all levels, but especially systemic and institutional racism.  He insists anyone can go to any school (guess he never heard of the mothers sent to jail for sending their kids to better schools in districts where they couldn't afford to live) and that affirmative action means that white people are the ones who truly suffer from discrimination. 

Oh! And he insists on rewriting history, differentiating between indentured servitude and chattel servitude, as though that made things equal for white people.  He also states that most white people rose up against slavery and that Michael Brown was killed rushing the officer, not with his hands up in a sign of surrender. How do we know this? The jury found the cop, Darren Wilson, not guilty.  Guess Ben's dumbass dad never heard of Emmett Till, either.  Idiot racist asshole. Glad to see that Ben has an open mind and curious spirit after being raised by that asswipe.

[brusselsgriffon]

12 hours ago, lomo6 said:

Sure Derick, 

Me every time Derick says anything

[marmalade]

7 hours ago, HereticHick said:

Twartyr, indeed.

As God is my twittness, Derick, you'll never appear on TV again.

Sadly, you'll see the Dullards next week. The previews built a giant party around their homecoming (of apparent shame). 

Let's face it: Jill had the baby in what, early July? SOS has scads of summer missioncations in August. Based on when they traveled with Izzy when he was an infant, they weren't going to be back until what, October/November? That's a nice little 5 month vacation for supposed "missionaries." Her semi-sister in law Esther Shrader is just about to spawn in Africa for the 3rd time. Suck it up Jill. If you're meant to be a missionary, you give birth where you are with the resources they have. 

That's why she came home. She actually might have had the realization that a VBAC might be risky, just based on size, although the plan was always to have the baby in the states. 

Entitled little "missionaries," aren't they? I can't wait until the TLC money and the begging pool runs out. Derelict probably hasn't updated his resume in years, and his LinkedIn is full of half-truths. Good luck finding a job in a year or two when reality sets in. 

[Toothfairy]

On 10/10/2017 at 12:01 AM, eyerollsforjesus said:

 

Omg. This is funny. Someone needs a history lesson

[patsymae]

Well, since Dwreck has a degree in accounting, perhaps he could furnish the statistics on that.

[nokidsmom]

8 hours ago, marmalade said:

I can't wait until the TLC money and the begging pool runs out. Derelict probably hasn't updated his resume in years, and his LinkedIn is full of half-truths. Good luck finding a job in a year or two when reality sets in. 

That day will certainly come, sooner or later.  Derick will have a very difficult time getting back into the workforce assuming he even decides to try.    I suspect he will wind up being a completely lazy ass, tweeting away and expecting to grift his way through life, getting angry not only at his Twitter blowback but that people are not falling all over themselves giving him and his wide eyed wife money. 

[singsingsing]

I keep seeing people saying that Derick will have a difficult, if not impossible, time getting back into the workforce, and I'm just wondering why. I can't see the gaps on his resume really tripping him up, because I'm sure he'll be able to find an employer who thinks being a 'missionary' and then 'working' in 'ministry' are perfectly valid excuses. I think if he really wanted to start working as an accountant again, he wouldn't have that much of a problem. But he doesn't want it.

[HarleyQuinn]

9 hours ago, HarryPotterFan said:

 

Oh dWRECK, just because you love being a racist/homophobe/all around asshole doesn't make it better. 

Oh and back to the great Jill/Jessa race. I agree Jessa and Ben probably didn't care that the Dullards beat them to the alter, but you know Jill did.  

[AtlanticTug]

47 minutes ago, singsingsing said:

I keep seeing people saying that Derick will have a difficult, if not impossible, time getting back into the workforce, and I'm just wondering why. I can't see the gaps on his resume really tripping him up, because I'm sure he'll be able to find an employer who thinks being a 'missionary' and then 'working' in 'ministry' are perfectly valid excuses. I think if he really wanted to start working as an accountant again, he wouldn't have that much of a problem. But he doesn't want it.

I think that he could get a job, but would have a very hard time staying there for any period of time. It's clear that he doesn't have a great work ethic, and relies on grifting and short term assignment-type things. The 9-5 grind with 2-3 weeks off a year is not for him.

[Drala]

9 hours ago, amandaaries said:

Well, Ben's dad is an utterly racist ass.  He acknowledges racism in the past, but returns continually to the true American problem and sin of abortion.  The US is over racism (which only exists in very limited forms), and socialist monsters are the true enemies.  And abortions.  Those are also really evil.  Basically #NotAllWhitePeople and #SaveTheBabies/DefundTheirLivingExpenses

He's committed to turning a willful blind eye to racism on all levels, but especially systemic and institutional racism.  He insists anyone can go to any school (guess he never heard of the mothers sent to jail for sending their kids to better schools in districts where they couldn't afford to live) and that affirmative action means that white people are the ones who truly suffer from discrimination. 

Oh! And he insists on rewriting history, differentiating between indentured servitude and chattel servitude, as though that made things equal for white people.  He also states that most white people rose up against slavery and that Michael Brown was killed rushing the officer, not with his hands up in a sign of surrender. How do we know this? The jury found the cop, Darren Wilson, not guilty.  Guess Ben's dumbass dad never heard of Emmett Till, either.  Idiot racist asshole. Glad to see that Ben has an open mind and curious spirit after being raised by that asswipe.

You're a hardy soul, getting through that mess of rationalized racism to offer a coherent analysis on FG.  I read the Senior Seewald screed and thought about posting  my critique but I just couldn't see putting that much effort into slogging through the crap. 

I found myself debating Seewald's concept of sin as an individualistic failing, a personal missing the  mark...that if we just had Jesus, things wouldn't be so.  There is also a bible-based concept of sin that aligns with collective responsibility for creating/reinforcing structural injustice.   That how I was taught to interpret the "sin of my people" in the prophetic books (e.g., Jeremiah, Isaiah).    

There's an interesting Politico article about how the Christian Right actually began to coalesce around resistance to busing and integration of the schools before they took up the anti-abortion banner.  It's called the Real Origins of the Christian Right.

Well, these are my disjointed thoughts after reading Seewald's screed. You did a  much better job of staying focused!

 

[Gillyweed]

2 hours ago, singsingsing said:

I keep seeing people saying that Derick will have a difficult, if not impossible, time getting back into the workforce, and I'm just wondering why. I can't see the gaps on his resume really tripping him up, because I'm sure he'll be able to find an employer who thinks being a 'missionary' and then 'working' in 'ministry' are perfectly valid excuses. I think if he really wanted to start working as an accountant again, he wouldn't have that much of a problem. But he doesn't want it.

Don't workplaces sometimes look up potential employees on social media? If they ever saw his twitter, I doubt a major corporation would hire him. 

[VeryNikeSeamstress]

The FRC might. Then again, we all know What happened with Joshley. 

[HarleyQuinn]

He wouldn't have a hard time getting a real job. Chik-Fil-A would hire his ass in an instant. 

[samurai_sarah]

11 hours ago, amandaaries said:

(snip)

Oh! And he insists on rewriting history, differentiating between indentured servitude and chattel servitude, as though that made things equal for white people. 

(snip)

Historically seen, those two were different things, but I don't expect Derick to see the complexities. Indentured servitude was a way for Europeans of selling themselves into slavery, for free passage to the Americas. During the 1700s. The habitual time of one's "bond" was 7 years. Longer, if you were a woman who got pregnant during her "bond". Plus, after their bond was up, you were obliged to give them land after the end of their servitude.

In the early days, masters had no interest in keeping their "bondsmen" alive past 7 years. African slaves were an investment for a lifetime, bondsmen were expendable. So, you worked the bondsmen to the bone, and treated the African chattel slaves well. But they had no rights.

All of that changed after the War of Independence, and then the UK outlawing the triangle slave trade mere decades later. With no more bondsmen coming in, and the slave population becoming somewhat self-sustaining in terms of reproduction, the focus shifted. Beforehand, one "used up" someone for seven years, or got them pregnant to prolong their bond, while treating black slaves with a modicum of respect, as an investment for life.

Previously, a white bondsman dying during his or her bond, was an economic benefit. You didn't have to provide them with land, as specified by their contracts. Their sentence could be eternal. In the absence of the economic incentive to work someone else to death, people worked others to death. Slaves had no such rights, so why treat them worse?

It's disgusting, it's revolting, and Derick needs an education. This whole bit of history is effed up and it is NOT the same thing for white and people of colour. So eff you, Derick.

I do not presume to speak for POCs in the US, I am coming at this from a purely academic background. And a human one. What you are saying is just BS, Derick!

 

P.S.: @amandaaries: This is not against you, I got irritated with Derick not knowing anything he's talking about.

[apandaaries]

@samurai_sarah Absolutely there was a difference, but the way Ben's dad phrased it was as if he were trying to gloss over lifetime servitude (which also enslaved one's offspring) by saying white people had also been slaves (of a different variety), so...samesies! Stop bitching, Black folks, because white people have also endured some hardship.  His tone implied that because white people had a history, long, long ago, of indentured servitude here, there's just no room to complain.

My overview last night was extremely abbreviated for a number of reasons, including rage, so apologies if that wasn't clearly conveyed. That man has such a slanted and fucked up view of history.  He obviously has no idea about the level of rage protesters for equal rights faced, or the millions of painful murders perpetrated to ensure that a racist society remains racist. 

Utter, absolute, abominable bullshit.

ETA: It was Ben's dad who wrote that racist revisionist blog, not Derick.  I think I followed the link from this thread last night and then wrote that overview here, but wanted to clarify.  Derick probably believes all that and it's not too far from his stupid Twitter thoughts, but Ben's dad Michael had to commit to much more than 140 characters for that bullshit.

[samurai_sarah]

1 minute ago, amandaaries said:

@samurai_sarah Absolutely there was a difference, but the way Ben's dad phrased it was as if he were trying to gloss over lifetime servitude (which also enslaved one's offspring) by saying white people had also been slaves (of a different variety), so...samesies! Stop bitching, Black folks, because white people have also endured some hardship.  His tone implied that because white people had a history, long, long ago, of indentured servitude here, there's just no room to complain.

(snip)

I get what you're saying, and agree with you. My historical rant wasn't directed against you.

Thank you for clarifying, @amandaaries!

[Cleopatra7]

1 hour ago, HarleyQuinn said:

He wouldn't have a hard time getting a real job. Chik-Fil-A would hire his ass in an instant. 

Do you mean a desk job at corporate HQ or a food service position? Either way, Dwreck wouldn’t be able to keep it, since he’s not a job-type person and Jill is unable to be by herself for more than two hours.

[SassyPants]

@Singsong- Frankly, I think his chances for future employment depend on many things. I think he could have a harder time finding employment in accounting, in NWA, than he might find outside of that area. In that area, he will not escape the Duggar history/name and from what I understand, in NWA, Duggar is more infamous than famous. Maybe in a larger company, in a larger city he could find a place. Perhaps in a Christian oriented business, like a Hobby Lobby, he could find a place. It also depends on if DD was let go from WM and what businesses in Arkansas can say about former employees. At this point in time, he doesn't really have a great work history-

[HarleyQuinn]

1 hour ago, Cleopatra7 said:

Do you mean a desk job at corporate HQ or a food service position? Either way, Dwreck wouldn’t be able to keep it, since he’s not a job-type person and Jill is unable to be by herself for more than two hours.

I was referring to a food service position. But good point about JillyMuffin.

[HereticHick]

2 minutes ago, HarleyQuinn said:

I was referring to a food service position. But good point about JillyMuffin.

I like the HobbyLobby idea--their front office is in Oklahoma City-- not tooo far for JillyMuffin to see the fam

 

https://careers.hobbylobby.com/current-openings/corporate/

[JesSky03]

I'm sure he could find entry level work in a factory just about anywhere. I doubt they give a shit who he is when he's tucked away in some giant building assembling this or that or whatever the work may be. Whether or not he has the work ethic to actually obtain and keep such a job is a different story...

[HarleyQuinn]

I see some Boys Scouts programs are allowing girls in now. I'm preparing for dWRECK to be super triggered about this on Twitter.  

[JesusCampSongs]

On 10/3/2017 at 3:09 PM, Queen said:

Italics mine. I really don't advocate spreading hate and intolerance, but churches pretending to be tolerant when in reality they are not seems pretty dishonest, like they are trying to trick you to join.

The illusion of tolerance is really the worst.

It's pretty upsetting when churches use the same manipulative tactics to get people through the doors that batterers and abusers use to lure people into relationships with them. First the love bombs, then the shame, guilt, and demands to change. It's disgusting.

As for Dewreck's employability, I think it's kind of a moot point since he clearly views anything other than being a (grifting) holy man as beneath him. Pretty ironic, since Jesus spent most of his life working as a carpenter and Dewreck hasn't turned in an honest day's work in years. 

Is hypocrisy a spiritual gift? It certainly seems to be strong in him...

[CreationMuseumSeasonPass]

So my friend just sent me a message that she heard gossip about Derick cheating on Jill. I asked her to elaborate, but she hasn't responded. I'm sure this is a rumor that has just grown out of proportion, but does anyone else know where this gossip might have come from? Didn't Derick recently tweet about adultery? Could that have been where this originated from?