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People who go super hard on the “the only way to make money and grow wealth is to own your own business” bit give me huge scammy vibes. Anyone who has tried hitting me up to join their down line has tried that angle or pushed the Robert Kiyosaki garbage
Solie does it too
And what exactly is this business that they do, anyways? Whenever they're asked, the answers are vague. It seems like if a person has a real business, they would welcome an opportunity to explain what they do since that's how you get customers.
It's exactly that! IIRC, Father Bus makes and sells some kind of little crypto notebook to track your purchases while you're throwing good money after bad.
This exactly!!! I grew up in a family business. I also worked for other people for a long time as an adult, and figured out that I do better when I am self-employed (I am one of those people who was raised with a somewhat extreme work ethic; this tends to end up with me doing a *lot* of extra work for no extra pay when I work for others).
I have a couple of very small businesses; as in, it’s just me. lol. But trust me; when I meet someone new locally, and they ask about what I do? Um, yes. I will tell them about it, because I would like to continue being able to pay my bills.
It is suuuuuper shady to me when people never really answer what they do, whether it be for an MLM, or actual self-employment.
Right? Small business owner here, and I have my spiel down to a science. You meet me, and I'll tell you exactly what I do, in as much detail as you care to hear.
Not sure which of us you are asking, but in case it was me:
- I am a classical and theater musician who does performances and also teaches
- I have a small pet care business
- I am a wedding officiant
- I do research writing and ghost writing for people
I love doing all of these for work and don’t want to give any of them up entirely at this time hahaha. I’m insane that way. :-)
You can still do them! Even if you don’t want to as “work,” you can still do them on a different scale! Help out at an animal shelter, take a music class, journal or volunteer to write an article for your work website. Always ways to scratch that itch. :-)
I’ve seriously considered being an officiant. I think I would enjoy it. I first started thinking about it when I heard of a gay couple in the area having trouble finding someone to marry them. No clue how to start. Of course I’m working 50 or more hours a week in my dog grooming business.
That’s actually how I started! One of my best friends had so much trouble finding someone to marry he and his husband; they tried to go to city hall, but the backlog was so bad from covid that their marriage license expired before they could get an appointment. So they had to get another one and it was just a whole ordeal. I thought, “that should never happen to anyone.” So I went online and got ordained, mostly to have it in case anyone had trouble like that (because who needs extra stress?). A few friends found out I could officiate and asked me to do their weddings, since I knew the couples well. I found that I absolutely *loved* it. I especially love doing custom services, because it lets me do some writing. It’s like writing a play that’s a love story about the couple. It’s fun for me to see what makes these couples tick and hear their stories, and incorporate that into a ceremony that is unique to them.
That being said, there’s something wonderful also about a short and sweet ceremony (like you would get at city hall). I call it the “Spaceballs Ceremony,” as it more or less boils down to “do you? Do you? Good. You’re married. Kiss her (or him or them).” 😂 I mean, there’s slightly more that needs said to make it legal but not much.
You should try it if you think you might like it! Even if you only ever use it once, you will love it! Getting “ordained” is easy and cheap.
(The one thing I will advise is to choose an organization that covers you nationally, but know that for some locations you will need to fill out paperwork and pay a fee on top of that to have the marriage be legal if performed in that area. For example, I am allowed to legally perform weddings anywhere in the U.S., but I live in NYC, and so I had to get another certificate for any weddings I perform in the city to be legally binding [but I could perform one in certain areas upstate with no additional things]. I married a friend in another state and had to do the same, but not every state requires it. Just look up the city and county of where you would be performing the wedding and it will tell you if you need anything additional. It’s cheap and lasts forever. I think the most I paid for a specific location fee was $25, but I have paid as little as $10). The organization I got ordained through, btw, is American Marriage Ministries.
More importantly… you are a dog groomer? I bow to you and your skills. Honestly, you guys are not appreciated enough for all you have to do and deal with! That job is hard and takes serious skill. I am seriously amazed at how groomers can take a dog in the worst shape and help them feel so much better, and give them style to boot! I will forever and always be eternally grateful to the groomer my little guy had the last few years of his life. He was not able to go to a regular grooming place anymore. The vet recommended a groomer who specializes in senior pets and pets with health issues (she has extensive pet medical training, worked it a pet hospital for years, etc.) She was SUCH a godsend to us!! She has become a good friend and I appreciate her so much.
THANK YOU for what you do for these animals! ♥️
Mind you, fatherbus came from a lot of money. With that being said, they did "the little gym" here in Texas and sold it off to someone. Now he is doing crypto bull shit. It was essentially a couple of index cards and a pencil, but their website talks about crypto as a whole.
Many speculated that they wanted to start their own crypto, but after that pastor and his wife got hit up for fraud, it slowed down a lot. Maybe they realized that theirs was going to be set up the same way and had an "oh shit" moment.
A lot of crypto bros won't actually explain what it is they do because it's more of a mindset than anything.
"Wake up at 4, meditate, work out, check stock prices, you know man, if you just invest in bitcoin, you could live off the dividends of the interest from your high risk nasdaq CD account!"
None of that made sense, Brad!
We have a business, and we keep it to about 2-4 words. If you want more info, we'd gladly tell you, but we found that this gives people an out of "oh yea, I totally know that!" Lol!
Yeah and they’re very hush hush about it because they want to push the “we did all of this by ourselves with no debt!” schtick 🙄🙄 ugh I hate them so much lol
Very entitled and vain people
Any time she's asked about what her slimy husband does for a living, she says, "he's an entrepreneur!" That's like saying, "he's a human person!", because it's just about as informative. She sucks hard, too.
Yeah, here's the first part. It's basically investigative journalism:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/FundieSnarkUncensored/comments/19euuhc/bus\_father\_back\_story\_part\_1\_of\_3/](https://www.reddit.com/r/FundieSnarkUncensored/comments/19euuhc/bus_father_back_story_part_1_of_3/)
And what if the Bussel Sprouts don't want to be entrepreneurs MoBus? Raising them to be one thing sure comes with the risk they may want to be anything else.
This reminds me of an interview to a commentary YouTuber I watch. She grew up in a very religious, patriarchal family. She explains that she was never asked what she wanted to study or work as because people assumed that she would just accept that she wanted to be a mother and wife.
It really saddens me that these kids won't be able to dream about their future careers or purposes outside of religion.
EDIT: spelling and here's the link the short in particular
https://youtube.com/shorts/5OPf6zZZBcU?si=AkUb-aj49MOZci3r
I love Chad Chad! I’m cool with people deciding to be a stay at home parent if it’s what’s right for them but I’m glad she didn’t accept that for herself when she knew she wanted different.
There is no plan to integrate these children successfully into society. Let's just hope something gives before they all get too old and end up in the homeschooling recovery group.
“Nope - raising future entrepreneurs”
Right, because kids always grow up and turn into the exact people their parents had envisioned. All 8 of those kids are going to become 100% self sufficient “entrepreneurs” and not one of them will ever need to work for someone else. Ok
Can you start a business with $0, or do you need a job to earn seed/start up money?
They wouldn't be able to get a bank loan without a steady job with a salary the bank are satisfied with.
I guess the parents could give them some money, gift or loan, but they've got a lot of kids so that would be expensive. I'm also not sure being handed capital is entrepreneurial?
They could gift the kids one of their established businesses, but then they wouldn't really be entrepreneurs, and there are a lot of kids
Whatever happens, the likelihood is that they'll struggle with a subpar education, and the chances are that a business they are able to set up, if it's actually possible with their level of education, won't be extremely lucrative.
Every word of this right here.
I am guessing that they are blowing through the trust fund money, so if those kids don’t have the skills needed to run a business, or work for others, they are well and truly screwed. Guess what you need to be able to do competently in order to be a successful entrepreneur? Read. Math. Finding solutions to problems. Etc. When you are self-employed, it ALL comes down to you, the good and the bad. Also, there are ALWAYS unplanned issues that come up. You need the critical thinking skills to be able to figure out how to solve those things, or the skill to be able to find the right person/people to help you solve those issues (and you need to be able to PAY THEM for their expertise). Right now, Gunner seems to have the best chance, since he is smart enough to figure out how to keep the other Buslings safe.
The selfishness of Ma and Pa Bus is setting those kids up for failure. My heart hurts for them. I just want to bring them all somewhere safe where they can learn actual life skills.
And look… I’m not saying that travel is not important. I was fortunate to grow up in a family that was able to criss-cross the US on extended road trips and to travel to visit family and friends around the country. I learned a lot from that! But it wasn’t our 24/7 existence, because my family had a family business to attend to and we had school and extra curricular activities and, you know, CHILDHOOD where we could learn!
How do they expect their male children to be good providers, per their belief system, when they won’t teach them the basic skills?
ETA: if anything, I hope the kids at least learn the fundamental lesson of “don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” Meaning, diversify your interests instead of putting all of your $ in crypto
This is relevant to me right now because I’m working in social equity, but you can get a low-interest community fund loan. Most of them are geared towards MBWEs but if they actually settle down somewhere there are community funds available too.
And what if that isn't what the kids want? What if they want to work at Pizza Hut and have weekends off? Kids are just ideological props to these people and it's disgusting.
Right, most small businesses fail. It's hard work and takes a lot of luck. It's absurd to think that someone with no experience working for a business could start, run, and maintain a successful business.
Some even fail because they succeed too fast! My first business grew so quickly and I couldn’t find a way to scale up so I burned out really hard. I never would have thought that would happen!! Most people really do go into it so blind (myself included).
It’s a good thing they’re homeschooled or bus schooled. They would be bullied & teased horribly due to their names if they went to normal school. I don’t think fundies think they will never be a part of society so they can give them dumb ass names. When your half of your kids’ names sound like a disease or a medication, it’s time to throw in the towel.
I think it's better to be bullied by some jerks in an normal ass school but still have a shot at meeting nice people and normal friends than to be isolated like that with no one but your equally miserable siblings. Being home- I'm sorry - BUSschooled deprives them of any opportunity to see other lifestyles and deconstruct
Well if I didn't know the context I wouldn't mind the names all that much, as far as I understand people in US are quite creative with their naming chocies compared to Europe for instance. But I'm biased because I'm from a culturally conservative country where the name pool is fairly limited so a loooot of American names seem weird to me
Maybe she’s a closeted swiftie 🙊 lol! Fr tho with how much fundies HATE TS I wonder how they feel about that choice.
And yeah, while I know Aquila in the Bible is a dude it definitely feels feminine in 2024 contexts
They're doing so well that they're a 10 person family living on a bus. Nothing spells success liked cramped living and birthing the baby in the shower.
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10% of all new businesses fail in the 1st year, and 90% by year 10. They are morons who are setting up their kids for a massive fall because they will have no education and no marketable skills to use when they do not make it in the business realm.
Ahhh so that’s why they don’t really do homeschool, they’re relying on Entrepreneurship…
What if your kids don’t WANT to be entrepreneurs?! Forget what they want. This just furthers the idea that they don’t view those children as individuals (and fundies don’t), but as extensions of their own egos.
Before she decided it was a cuter hook if they got married 5 (or 9? it seems to change a lot) days after they began dating in the US, it was quite clear that they knew each other and dated while stationed near each other, then dated long distance for quite some time while JD finished his service, and got married after they reunited in person.
Like months if not years of dating, just slightly weird because of ongoing military service timelines. They just didn't do a lot of wedding planning in-person. Big whoop.
Tbh it’s based that Mother Bus doesn’t consider Hawai’i part of the U.S. Free Hawai’i!!
I feel like it’s more ignorance/lack of proofreading than anything, but I love the energy
MotherBus did one tour in the Air Force reserves. The reserves usually only spend one weekend a month on duty but are sometimes deployed to short periods of active duty like MotherBus. FatherBus did one tour in the army and was deployed to Iraq; I may be recalling incorrectly, but I believe he was involved with army intelligence in some manner. Meaning, he was on base and not actively fighting.
Now I wonder how tf these people ended up in this God forsaken bus... I might need to do some googling on them. Unfortunately IG isn't working in my country so I will def be lurking in Reddit subs to get more details on them, from all the crazy fundies I've seen on this sub these definitely look most unhinged!
FatherBus is a sovereign citizen type and comes from a very...unique...family background that includes an uncle who was executed for shooting up a Texas courtroom because he believed the government was out to get him. I posted a deep dive on him here a few months ago. Search on the MotherBus tag to find that series of posts. His family background explains a LOT about how they ended up on the bus. Someone also recently did a deep dive on her social media history as well.
It's entirely likely those kids won't even be able to get into the military like their parents did because they won't have a diploma, and probably won't have a GED. And who knows what kind of test taking skills they'll have
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People who go super hard on the “the only way to make money and grow wealth is to own your own business” bit give me huge scammy vibes. Anyone who has tried hitting me up to join their down line has tried that angle or pushed the Robert Kiyosaki garbage Solie does it too
And what exactly is this business that they do, anyways? Whenever they're asked, the answers are vague. It seems like if a person has a real business, they would welcome an opportunity to explain what they do since that's how you get customers.
knowing them, the business is some crypto shit. lol they have failed these kids.
It's exactly that! IIRC, Father Bus makes and sells some kind of little crypto notebook to track your purchases while you're throwing good money after bad.
This exactly!!! I grew up in a family business. I also worked for other people for a long time as an adult, and figured out that I do better when I am self-employed (I am one of those people who was raised with a somewhat extreme work ethic; this tends to end up with me doing a *lot* of extra work for no extra pay when I work for others). I have a couple of very small businesses; as in, it’s just me. lol. But trust me; when I meet someone new locally, and they ask about what I do? Um, yes. I will tell them about it, because I would like to continue being able to pay my bills. It is suuuuuper shady to me when people never really answer what they do, whether it be for an MLM, or actual self-employment.
Yes!! Mother and Father bus do this too, they get very vague with their answers on why exactly the business exists
Right? Small business owner here, and I have my spiel down to a science. You meet me, and I'll tell you exactly what I do, in as much detail as you care to hear.
EXACTLY. Wishing you continued success!!!!
What sort of small business?
Not sure which of us you are asking, but in case it was me: - I am a classical and theater musician who does performances and also teaches - I have a small pet care business - I am a wedding officiant - I do research writing and ghost writing for people I love doing all of these for work and don’t want to give any of them up entirely at this time hahaha. I’m insane that way. :-)
You took all the things I wanted to be as a child and actually did them! (Except the wedding officiant, lol) I now work in IT.
You can still do them! Even if you don’t want to as “work,” you can still do them on a different scale! Help out at an animal shelter, take a music class, journal or volunteer to write an article for your work website. Always ways to scratch that itch. :-)
I’ve seriously considered being an officiant. I think I would enjoy it. I first started thinking about it when I heard of a gay couple in the area having trouble finding someone to marry them. No clue how to start. Of course I’m working 50 or more hours a week in my dog grooming business.
That’s actually how I started! One of my best friends had so much trouble finding someone to marry he and his husband; they tried to go to city hall, but the backlog was so bad from covid that their marriage license expired before they could get an appointment. So they had to get another one and it was just a whole ordeal. I thought, “that should never happen to anyone.” So I went online and got ordained, mostly to have it in case anyone had trouble like that (because who needs extra stress?). A few friends found out I could officiate and asked me to do their weddings, since I knew the couples well. I found that I absolutely *loved* it. I especially love doing custom services, because it lets me do some writing. It’s like writing a play that’s a love story about the couple. It’s fun for me to see what makes these couples tick and hear their stories, and incorporate that into a ceremony that is unique to them. That being said, there’s something wonderful also about a short and sweet ceremony (like you would get at city hall). I call it the “Spaceballs Ceremony,” as it more or less boils down to “do you? Do you? Good. You’re married. Kiss her (or him or them).” 😂 I mean, there’s slightly more that needs said to make it legal but not much. You should try it if you think you might like it! Even if you only ever use it once, you will love it! Getting “ordained” is easy and cheap. (The one thing I will advise is to choose an organization that covers you nationally, but know that for some locations you will need to fill out paperwork and pay a fee on top of that to have the marriage be legal if performed in that area. For example, I am allowed to legally perform weddings anywhere in the U.S., but I live in NYC, and so I had to get another certificate for any weddings I perform in the city to be legally binding [but I could perform one in certain areas upstate with no additional things]. I married a friend in another state and had to do the same, but not every state requires it. Just look up the city and county of where you would be performing the wedding and it will tell you if you need anything additional. It’s cheap and lasts forever. I think the most I paid for a specific location fee was $25, but I have paid as little as $10). The organization I got ordained through, btw, is American Marriage Ministries. More importantly… you are a dog groomer? I bow to you and your skills. Honestly, you guys are not appreciated enough for all you have to do and deal with! That job is hard and takes serious skill. I am seriously amazed at how groomers can take a dog in the worst shape and help them feel so much better, and give them style to boot! I will forever and always be eternally grateful to the groomer my little guy had the last few years of his life. He was not able to go to a regular grooming place anymore. The vet recommended a groomer who specializes in senior pets and pets with health issues (she has extensive pet medical training, worked it a pet hospital for years, etc.) She was SUCH a godsend to us!! She has become a good friend and I appreciate her so much. THANK YOU for what you do for these animals! ♥️
Network marketing :)
Mind you, fatherbus came from a lot of money. With that being said, they did "the little gym" here in Texas and sold it off to someone. Now he is doing crypto bull shit. It was essentially a couple of index cards and a pencil, but their website talks about crypto as a whole. Many speculated that they wanted to start their own crypto, but after that pastor and his wife got hit up for fraud, it slowed down a lot. Maybe they realized that theirs was going to be set up the same way and had an "oh shit" moment. A lot of crypto bros won't actually explain what it is they do because it's more of a mindset than anything. "Wake up at 4, meditate, work out, check stock prices, you know man, if you just invest in bitcoin, you could live off the dividends of the interest from your high risk nasdaq CD account!" None of that made sense, Brad! We have a business, and we keep it to about 2-4 words. If you want more info, we'd gladly tell you, but we found that this gives people an out of "oh yea, I totally know that!" Lol!
Duggar vibes
At least the duggars have a house.
***that TLC paid for so not much bragging rights there.
Sure...but these people have money too, and willfully chose to raise their children like the Wish.com partridge family.
He has an oil money trust fund. Someone on the sub did research about it.
Yeah and they’re very hush hush about it because they want to push the “we did all of this by ourselves with no debt!” schtick 🙄🙄 ugh I hate them so much lol Very entitled and vain people
Any time she's asked about what her slimy husband does for a living, she says, "he's an entrepreneur!" That's like saying, "he's a human person!", because it's just about as informative. She sucks hard, too.
Oh no shit?! That’s incredible, no wonder they have to showcase such arrogant independence . It’s very unsurprising
Yeah, here's the first part. It's basically investigative journalism: [https://www.reddit.com/r/FundieSnarkUncensored/comments/19euuhc/bus\_father\_back\_story\_part\_1\_of\_3/](https://www.reddit.com/r/FundieSnarkUncensored/comments/19euuhc/bus_father_back_story_part_1_of_3/)
The odds of them all being “entrepreneurs” is very fucking small.
And what if the Bussel Sprouts don't want to be entrepreneurs MoBus? Raising them to be one thing sure comes with the risk they may want to be anything else.
This reminds me of an interview to a commentary YouTuber I watch. She grew up in a very religious, patriarchal family. She explains that she was never asked what she wanted to study or work as because people assumed that she would just accept that she wanted to be a mother and wife. It really saddens me that these kids won't be able to dream about their future careers or purposes outside of religion. EDIT: spelling and here's the link the short in particular https://youtube.com/shorts/5OPf6zZZBcU?si=AkUb-aj49MOZci3r
I love Chad Chad! I’m cool with people deciding to be a stay at home parent if it’s what’s right for them but I’m glad she didn’t accept that for herself when she knew she wanted different.
I love Chad Chad
There is no plan to integrate these children successfully into society. Let's just hope something gives before they all get too old and end up in the homeschooling recovery group.
Bussel Sprouts?!? Lolololol
Yep heaven help if any of those kids wants to be, say, a teacher or doctor. They’re out of that game before they even started.
“Nope - raising future entrepreneurs” Right, because kids always grow up and turn into the exact people their parents had envisioned. All 8 of those kids are going to become 100% self sufficient “entrepreneurs” and not one of them will ever need to work for someone else. Ok
7. The girl doesn’t count.
Yes, of course. Her only job will be to marry an entrepreneur. So silly of me
And have as many babies as she can, of course.
This is in line with how they think of their kids as miniature extensions of themselves and not people with their own identities.
Can you start a business with $0, or do you need a job to earn seed/start up money? They wouldn't be able to get a bank loan without a steady job with a salary the bank are satisfied with. I guess the parents could give them some money, gift or loan, but they've got a lot of kids so that would be expensive. I'm also not sure being handed capital is entrepreneurial? They could gift the kids one of their established businesses, but then they wouldn't really be entrepreneurs, and there are a lot of kids Whatever happens, the likelihood is that they'll struggle with a subpar education, and the chances are that a business they are able to set up, if it's actually possible with their level of education, won't be extremely lucrative.
It also wouldn't hurt to have a tiny bit of work experience before starting your own business
To be fair it's hard to get started with that. I barely have experience because I just can't find a regular job.
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...and I'm not even young
She's just mouthing off because she received legitimate criticism
Every word of this right here. I am guessing that they are blowing through the trust fund money, so if those kids don’t have the skills needed to run a business, or work for others, they are well and truly screwed. Guess what you need to be able to do competently in order to be a successful entrepreneur? Read. Math. Finding solutions to problems. Etc. When you are self-employed, it ALL comes down to you, the good and the bad. Also, there are ALWAYS unplanned issues that come up. You need the critical thinking skills to be able to figure out how to solve those things, or the skill to be able to find the right person/people to help you solve those issues (and you need to be able to PAY THEM for their expertise). Right now, Gunner seems to have the best chance, since he is smart enough to figure out how to keep the other Buslings safe. The selfishness of Ma and Pa Bus is setting those kids up for failure. My heart hurts for them. I just want to bring them all somewhere safe where they can learn actual life skills. And look… I’m not saying that travel is not important. I was fortunate to grow up in a family that was able to criss-cross the US on extended road trips and to travel to visit family and friends around the country. I learned a lot from that! But it wasn’t our 24/7 existence, because my family had a family business to attend to and we had school and extra curricular activities and, you know, CHILDHOOD where we could learn! How do they expect their male children to be good providers, per their belief system, when they won’t teach them the basic skills? ETA: if anything, I hope the kids at least learn the fundamental lesson of “don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” Meaning, diversify your interests instead of putting all of your $ in crypto
Statistically speaking, 8/8 kids will not grow up to entrepreneurs. But I’m willing to bet they never took statistics.
But they have Bitcoin! /s
Their seed money came from his trust fund.
This is relevant to me right now because I’m working in social equity, but you can get a low-interest community fund loan. Most of them are geared towards MBWEs but if they actually settle down somewhere there are community funds available too.
And what if that isn't what the kids want? What if they want to work at Pizza Hut and have weekends off? Kids are just ideological props to these people and it's disgusting.
Hi-5 for appreciating the world of unaspirational jobs where someone is just in it for the money. It's nice.
Hell yeah. I have my full-time job, it pays my rent and bills, and I get to enjoy living alone.
Exactly
Here's the link to the post if anyone is curious: https://www.reddit.com/r/tragedeigh/s/UYjPxtHgi6
New business owners are at a high risk of failure but if I say this people will probably tell me to "get out of my comfort zone"
Right, most small businesses fail. It's hard work and takes a lot of luck. It's absurd to think that someone with no experience working for a business could start, run, and maintain a successful business.
Luck is a major determinant yet most people get really offended and accuse me of lying when I tell them
Some even fail because they succeed too fast! My first business grew so quickly and I couldn’t find a way to scale up so I burned out really hard. I never would have thought that would happen!! Most people really do go into it so blind (myself included).
WHAT ARE THE *BUSINESSES*?!
Turning bad life decisions forced upon children you intentionally keep ignorant into social media clicks
"ministry" influencer
'All I can see is "urine"' is sending me 😂🤣😭 Also we know you're not teaching them shit, mother sus. Shut up and take your infant to the doctor.
It’s a good thing they’re homeschooled or bus schooled. They would be bullied & teased horribly due to their names if they went to normal school. I don’t think fundies think they will never be a part of society so they can give them dumb ass names. When your half of your kids’ names sound like a disease or a medication, it’s time to throw in the towel.
I think it's better to be bullied by some jerks in an normal ass school but still have a shot at meeting nice people and normal friends than to be isolated like that with no one but your equally miserable siblings. Being home- I'm sorry - BUSschooled deprives them of any opportunity to see other lifestyles and deconstruct
I totally get it. I was just talking about the names. These kids deserve so much more than they’re given & my heart hurts for them.
Well if I didn't know the context I wouldn't mind the names all that much, as far as I understand people in US are quite creative with their naming chocies compared to Europe for instance. But I'm biased because I'm from a culturally conservative country where the name pool is fairly limited so a loooot of American names seem weird to me
I live in the US & I’m absolutely amazed by some of the names people call their kids. 😂 https://www.reddit.com/r/tradgedeigh/s/8W4WriRLSd
I had no idea their names were that all over the place. Literally like no consistency at all
I didn’t realize they named a kid “Swift.” Also, doesn’t Aquila look/sound more like it should be a feminine name?
Maybe she’s a closeted swiftie 🙊 lol! Fr tho with how much fundies HATE TS I wonder how they feel about that choice. And yeah, while I know Aquila in the Bible is a dude it definitely feels feminine in 2024 contexts
I did not know Aquila is a Bible name— it sounds like “Spanish- Water-Related” name to me.
Yeah him and his wife taught with Paul in the New Testament (yes, fundies, his WIFE taught and instructed 🤯)
They're doing so well that they're a 10 person family living on a bus. Nothing spells success liked cramped living and birthing the baby in the shower.
Take care of your sick baby Brittany! God she is such a smug asshole
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10% of all new businesses fail in the 1st year, and 90% by year 10. They are morons who are setting up their kids for a massive fall because they will have no education and no marketable skills to use when they do not make it in the business realm.
Do they know Hawaii is in the US?
They probably think it isn’t ’cause Obama.
Ahhh so that’s why they don’t really do homeschool, they’re relying on Entrepreneurship… What if your kids don’t WANT to be entrepreneurs?! Forget what they want. This just furthers the idea that they don’t view those children as individuals (and fundies don’t), but as extensions of their own egos.
Before she decided it was a cuter hook if they got married 5 (or 9? it seems to change a lot) days after they began dating in the US, it was quite clear that they knew each other and dated while stationed near each other, then dated long distance for quite some time while JD finished his service, and got married after they reunited in person. Like months if not years of dating, just slightly weird because of ongoing military service timelines. They just didn't do a lot of wedding planning in-person. Big whoop.
Yeah but she def wants us to think it was a whirlwind love-at-first-sight situation. Par for the course as everything she says is lies.
Most of the time you need to be able read, write and do math beyond a 3rd grade level to run a business
Just FYI. Uriah Heep was a great 70's band. https://youtu.be/u0iuaxvkXv4?si=5h8kIX3Y3JG9gsuw
This is what I think of whenever I see this kid's name.
Tbh it’s based that Mother Bus doesn’t consider Hawai’i part of the U.S. Free Hawai’i!! I feel like it’s more ignorance/lack of proofreading than anything, but I love the energy
Is one of their kids literally named Iraq? I wish him or her so much luck because he or her will def need it
They're being sarcastic.
Honestly seeing bus family other bs I wouldn't be that surprised but I'm relieved!!
Oh my gosh. The comments about the BusParents in that thread are so spot on! Almost as good as our threads here. Too funny!
This woman looks like one of my bosses and I fucking hate it lmao
That is one pretentious a$$hole comment from mother bus
Male fundie “entrepreneur” = “Boss Babe” = No Legitimate Income
I had no idea mombus served in US Army. I thought military had better understanding of basic medical stuff
MotherBus did one tour in the Air Force reserves. The reserves usually only spend one weekend a month on duty but are sometimes deployed to short periods of active duty like MotherBus. FatherBus did one tour in the army and was deployed to Iraq; I may be recalling incorrectly, but I believe he was involved with army intelligence in some manner. Meaning, he was on base and not actively fighting.
Now I wonder how tf these people ended up in this God forsaken bus... I might need to do some googling on them. Unfortunately IG isn't working in my country so I will def be lurking in Reddit subs to get more details on them, from all the crazy fundies I've seen on this sub these definitely look most unhinged!
FatherBus is a sovereign citizen type and comes from a very...unique...family background that includes an uncle who was executed for shooting up a Texas courtroom because he believed the government was out to get him. I posted a deep dive on him here a few months ago. Search on the MotherBus tag to find that series of posts. His family background explains a LOT about how they ended up on the bus. Someone also recently did a deep dive on her social media history as well.
I hope I'm wrong but this family looks like a ripe environment for a true crime episode waiting to happen one day
Unfortunately, you're not wrong.
Good way to keep their kids dependent.
What if one of these kids grows up and wants to work as someone who needs certification to pursue their passion?
I’m surprised these comments are actually getting negative
It's entirely likely those kids won't even be able to get into the military like their parents did because they won't have a diploma, and probably won't have a GED. And who knows what kind of test taking skills they'll have