Duggars by the Dozen 38: What Can They Shill Next?

[Beermeet]

How did they get there?  I was listening to the news and the only way in via air lift right now. It's slow going. They said there is no where to land. They can't be on the ground yet. Neighboring Island?

[Snarkasarus Rex]

20 minutes ago, Lizzybet said:

Are airports open to commercial flights, or do upstart humanitarian aid groups get in right away?

The main airport in under water.  Since they are general aviation traffic and not commercial, they probably flew into a smaller airport.  Which also probably means less attention on who is showing up because the gov't has bigger fish to fry at the moment.  That's probably why they went so early...a couple days later, they may have been denied entry. 

6 minutes ago, Beermeet said:

How did they get there?  I was listening to the news and the only way in via air lift right now. It's slow going. They said there is no where to land. They can't be on the ground yet. Neighboring Island?

JD and Austin flew them there.  Grand Bahama and Great Abaco were hit hard, but some of the other islands weren't.  That's probably where they are.

 

Edited September 4, 2019 by Snarkasarus Rex

[marmalade]

Lawson Bates was on NBC Nightly News earlier this evening. He appeared to be at an airport. Now, how they get to the affected areas on other islands is anyone's best guess.

[candygirl200413]

@marmalade Beat me to the punch!

Edited September 4, 2019 by candygirl200413

[Snarkasarus Rex]

I wouldn’t be surprised if they were barred from the hardest hit areas because they haven’t registered with whatever agency is coordinating relief efforts. This isn’t some third world country with a fragile gov’t.

They look like a bunch of kids showing up for the Fyre Festival. 

[marmalade]

It was posted, I think on @Mediccorps' website, that they had clearance (to do what, I don't know) from the "Bohemian" (yes, that's what they posted) to at least enter the country. 

Lawson's gig is Mediccorps, not to be confused with a real charity called Medicorps. The former is shilling for donations on the website. I hope the latter get all the leghumpers' money. ?

[Audrey2]

1 hour ago, marmalade said:

Lawson Bates was on NBC Nightly News earlier this evening. He appeared to be at an airport. Now, how they get to the affected areas on other islands is anyone's best guess.

Yikes! The only thing Lawson will do is take selfies with the residents!

[Tim-Tom Biblethumper]

1 hour ago, marmalade said:

Lawson's gig is Mediccorps, not to be confused with a real charity called Medicorps. The former is shilling for donations on the website.

That's a little too close for comfort honestly.  I wonder if they did that on purpose.

Lawson makes his appearance about 2 minutes in.

[BemusedByFundamentalism]

According to the Duggar's Insta, Jana is also part of the  "rescue" team. 

[Kelsey]

6 hours ago, Tim-Tom Biblethumper said:

That's a little too close for comfort honestly.  I wonder if they did that on purpose.

 

It's a common strategy for scam charities.

The people most likely to be of help- they left home. JB and Michelle (money) and Abbie (nurse). I guess JD is Jana's chaperone while she attends the sausage party.

I can't remove the darn video.

[FrozenSmile]

They are in Nassau. The CBS morning show guy in the Bahamas pointed them out this morning at the hotel they were doing the live feed from. He said they were a group from Arkansas & appeared to not know who they were. 

And i don’t know anyone’s motives, but if they are there to actually aid with the search & rescue & medical needs i could care less what their motives are. They are doing more than i’m doing, and if they are really only there for their own publicity then the coast guard or whoever is in charge will tell them to go home pretty quickly. With the amount of destruction, I don’t think they’ll have a lot of time for preaching.

[3SecondSideHugger]

1 hour ago, FrozenSmile said:

They are in Nassau. The CBS morning show guy in the Bahamas pointed them out this morning at the hotel they were doing the live feed from. He said they were a group from Arkansas & appeared to not know who they were. 

And i don’t know anyone’s motives, but if they are there to actually aid with the search & rescue & medical needs i could care less what their motives are. They are doing more than i’m doing, and if they are really only there for their own publicity then the coast guard or whoever is in charge will tell them to go home pretty quickly. With the amount of destruction, I don’t think they’ll have a lot of time for preaching.

But you recognize (as do I) that we have no skills or training to aid in the disaster zone and we are at home. These folks go into a devastated area and probably suck up more resources than they actually help. I agree with above poster Abbie would actually be useful as a trained nurse. ALERT camps offer no real, certified training to my knowledge. If any of them have real EMT or other medic type training they could help. We’ve all seen how these huge ass families show up with 12 people with no plan and at the last minute with probably no huge local connections to be of aid. I’d love to be proven wrong and see that their time there was really necessary, but I fear it’s not. As I mentioned it previously, I was in PR right after the hurricane and it was pretty chaotic, nobody was being told to do anything or go home but you did see a large amount of government contractors. I know the Bahamas is a different place- I hope recovery/ search and rescue is better for them. I myself moved a lot of stuff out of the roads in PR even months later and I was right in San Juan, not a remote area. 

[FrozenSmile]

47 minutes ago, 3SecondSideHugger said:

But you recognize (as do I) that we have no skills or training to aid in the disaster zone and we are at home. These folks go into a devastated area and probably suck up more resources than they actually help. I agree with above poster Abbie would actually be useful as a trained nurse. ALERT camps offer no real, certified training to my knowledge. If any of them have real EMT or other medic type training they could help. We’ve all seen how these huge ass families show up with 12 people with no plan and at the last minute with probably no huge local connections to be of aid. I’d love to be proven wrong and see that their time there was really necessary, but I fear it’s not. As I mentioned it previously, I was in PR right after the hurricane and it was pretty chaotic, nobody was being told to do anything or go home but you did see a large amount of government contractors. I know the Bahamas is a different place- I hope recovery/ search and rescue is better for them. I myself moved a lot of stuff out of the roads in PR even months later and I was right in San Juan, not a remote area. 

Oh, absolutely - i’m nowhere close to being qualified to be doing any kind of work in the Bahamas. But they actually do have training (well, Jana & JD do, since they did EMT training years ago. Of course, who knows if they’ve kept them up), so i think it’s a good thing that they are trying to help. I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt here.

[OyToTheVey]

Just from man power point of view 10 able bodied young men can actually get a lot done. They can lift heavy things and open passage ways and such. I hope that those trained are using their skills but a lot of stuff needs doing that’s low skills. Like handing out cases of water. You need physical strength for that. They’re young and healthy, they have stamina for search and rescue. 

 

Yes I defended them. I’ll go sit in the prayer closet. 

[3SecondSideHugger]

26 minutes ago, OyToTheVey said:

Just from man power point of view 10 able bodied young men can actually get a lot done. They can lift heavy things and open passage ways and such. I hope that those trained are using their skills but a lot of stuff needs doing that’s low skills. Like handing out cases of water. You need physical strength for that. They’re young and healthy, they have stamina for search and rescue. 

 

Yes I defended them. I’ll go sit in the prayer closet. 

I 100% would have agreed with you before my experience in Puerto Rico. There were so many locals looking for something to do and offering manual labor because there’s nothing else to do at the time when everything is destroyed. There was really a lot of manpower on the island already. The downed power lines/ flooding were the biggest issues I saw- and that requires highly skilled people to not become a dangerous situation. Also, have you ever heard the Duggar’s and Bates to be known for their work ethic?? The Bates at least had the tree removal service so maybe they do have some skills for that debris removal and opening roadways and such. I’m just so skeptical as I’ve seen this disaster aid play out before and wish they would just donate money or supplies to an organization that knows procedures, understands what the island really needs and has a plan....

 

edited to add: The manpower would be a lot more useful in future months when things have settled and the island begins to rebuild. These men could be really helpful in rebuilding and contributing supplies to places like schools. Just immediately after disaster, I think random people can do more harm than good. 

Edited September 4, 2019 by 3SecondSideHugger

[Snarkasarus Rex]

18 minutes ago, OyToTheVey said:

Just from man power point of view 10 able bodied young men can actually get a lot done. They can lift heavy things and open passage ways and such. I hope that those trained are using their skills but a lot of stuff needs doing that’s low skills. Like handing out cases of water. You need physical strength for that. They’re young and healthy, they have stamina for search and rescue. 

 

Yes I defended them. I’ll go sit in the prayer closet. 

I agree with you, however, do you actually see them offering themselves up as manual labor?  They’ve paraded down there with multiple aircraft, touting their skills, and asking for donations to cover the $15-$20k they say it will cost to carry out their ‘mission’...I find it doubtful they will submit to someone else’s authority and do what the Bahamas needs them to do. They can’t evangelize that way, and Lawson can’t look pretty for his IG closeup.

[HarleyQuinn]

If they were true volunteers, they should pay for their own fuel. Based on Their grifting history I bet the Bahamas barely see any of that money. They might lift a few things, but they'll spend most of their time posing for their socials and probably handing out tracts. 

 

[fluffernutter]

I just picture them trying to hand out boxes and boxes of bibles. I hope I'm wrong, and I hope they actually do something helpful.

[Don'tlikekoolaid]

Took a screenshot of this, it’s public.  I really despise these con artists.

[Palimpsest]

1 hour ago, Snarkasarus Rex said:

I agree with you, however, do you actually see them offering themselves up as manual labor?  They’ve paraded down there with multiple aircraft, touting their skills, and asking for donations to cover the $15-$20k they say it will cost to carry out their ‘mission’...I find it doubtful they will submit to someone else’s authority and do what the Bahamas needs them to do. They can’t evangelize that way, and Lawson can’t look pretty for his IG closeup.

And there is a little joke on the brand new and sketchy as hell Medic Corp website too.

Quote

MEDIC has applied for tax exempt status and all donations are tax deductible unless in the unlikely event MEDIC is denied tax exemption.

The $15-$20k it will cost to fly these fame-seeking evangelizing idiots and their supply of Bibles over there would better be donated directly to a legitimate Bahamian (not Bohemian) relief organisation.  

All these twits will do is clog up the runways, eat food and use supplies meant for the real victims of the hurricane, and get in the way of genuine rescue workers as they prance around taking photos of their "mission."  They are not going to be helping people with immediate needs that have nothing to do with tracts and Bibles.

[QuiverFullofBooks]

They also said “stainable” instead of “sustainable.” I’m sure their “cross-trained specialists” are getting in the way more than they’re helping.

[SassyPants]

These kidults learned from among the best financial con artists, their fathers! The name copy from a legit business is disgusting-

[Snarkasarus Rex]

9 minutes ago, QuiverFullofBooks said:

They also said “stainable” instead of “sustainable.” I’m sure their “cross-trained specialists” are getting in the way more than they’re helping.

But hey, they fixed 'Humanatarian'!

[Cheetah]

FYI there's an AmA going on right now in r/DuggarsSnark on reddit with a friend of the Duggars (mods say they've verified).  

[WarriorJane]

1 hour ago, QuiverFullofBooks said:

They also said “stainable” instead of “sustainable.” I’m sure their “cross-trained specialists” are getting in the way more than they’re helping.

"Let's make Bohemia 'stainable again."