How Did Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar Raise a Son Who Can't Accept a Single Consequence?

**Tony Brueski** (0:00)
This is Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski. Here now, Tony Brueski.

**Tony Brueski** (0:08)
A federal judge just called Josh Duggar a liar. Well, not in those exact words. Judges don't do that all the time. But Judge Timothy Brooks, writing in his June 1st order, denying Josh's motion to vacate his conviction, said Josh was asking the court to believe something akin to a magic bullet theory, a sequential chain of events that defies common sense.
And you know, if you grow up in the IBLP and as a Duggar, well, that's pretty much your line of thinking, defying common sense. Magical thinking does magical things, right? He called Josh's testimony about when and how he mailed his legal paperwork not credible. He said the story strains common sense for several reasons. He said there were inconsistencies in Josh's account and that his statements were not consistent on the stand.
That's the same judge who presided over Josh's trial, the same judge who during a pretrial evidentiary hearing found Jim Bob Duggar's testimony not credible in writing. This family has now been told twice by the same Federal judge that he does not believe what they are telling him under oath. And the Duggar's keep showing up and doing it anyway.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:26)
Believe us, believe us, oh dear judge, or you too shall face the eternal wrath of hell.

**Tony Brueski** (1:36)
Okay, maybe they're not quite saying that, but you know, doesn't work out so well for the Duggar's all these days, all that much these days in court.
Because in the world, they come from the rules never applied to them, not really, not in any way that actually sticks. And they still kind of operate in that sort of ecosystem, at least the ones that still hold true to this madness. This was Josh's fourth attempt to escape his conviction. The trial court told him no. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals told him no. The United States Supreme Court declined to hear his case, and now the same district court has shot him down a fourth time. On a Section 2255 motion to vacate the last procedural avenue available to him.
For courts, for refusals, Josh Duggar still cannot hear the word no. The question people keep asking is why? Why does he keep filing? Why does he keep losing? Why can't he just accept that he is in prison because a federal jury convicted him of receiving and possessing CSAM and federal designation for illegal material involving minors and to serve his time?
The answer isn't all that complicated really. It just requires you to look past the courtroom and into the house where Josh Duggar grew up because the man sitting in a federal facility right now racking up conduct violations and using appeals is not malfunctioning. He is performing exactly as designed. He is the product of a parenting system that taught him from the time he was old enough to crawl on a blanket that consequences are temporary, that authority figures exist to absorb the impact of your failures and that if you say the right words and wait long enough, someone will always make it go away. Well, nobody is making it go away. And at 38 years old, Josh Duggar still doesn't understand why.
So we continue in this. Your thoughts in the comment section on Substack and YouTube. I'd love for you to weigh in and give me your opinion. And this is an opinion piece. I should definitely say that this is in my opinion, allegedly blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay, on May 29th, Federal Prison Records confirmed that Josh had been transferred to FCI Seagenville, a minimum security facility near Dallas, where he'd been housed since June of 2022 to the Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas. Well, transfer going on. FMC Fort Worth is classified as an administrative security federal medical center with a detention facility. It's 46 miles from where he started. The Bureau of Prisons declined to say why he was moved, citing security concerns. The transfer does not confirm a medical need, but it confirms that the federal system decided Josh Duggar no longer belonged to the lowest restriction environment they had to offer. And his conduct record tells you everything you need to know about why. Josh arrived at Seagenville in June of 22 Within months, he was caught with a contraband cell phone.
You're a convicted felon serving a 12 and a half year federal sentence. You are in a facility with rules, clear rules, posted rules, rules that every inmate understands from day one. And one of the first things you do is smuggle in a phone. Not because you're planning to escape, not because you're coordinating some elaborate scheme, because you want what you want. And you've never lived in a world where wanting something and getting it were two different experiences. Now, was it Josh or Joseph or any of you fuckers? That's what the IBLP teaches. Not in so many words. Bill Gothard didn't hand out cell phones, but the system Josh grew up in was built on a single access, obedience to authority. Children obey parents, wives obey husbands. Everyone obeys the man at the top. And if you're the golden child, the firstborn son, the political face of the family, the one your father parades in front of cameras and Republican donors, that access tilts in your favor. The rules exist, but they exist for other people. No, for you, they are suggestions. And when you break them, someone smooths it over. You know, your dad, the Huckabees, whoever. Josh got caught with the phone. He was sent to solitary confinement. His release date was pushed from August 2032 to October of 2032 Two extra months.