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Thursday, March 8, 2018
Derick Dillard Just... Asked Jazz Jennings and Emma Gonzalez to Coffee?!?
Derick Dillard must have just been hacked.
That’s the only explanation we can come up with for what the former TLC reality star wrote this week on Twitter.
As anyone who follows Dillard on social media knows well by now, the guy is not a fan of transgender individuals – or, apparently, high school students who manage NOT to get shot to death by crazed gunmen.
No, really:
Earlier this month, Dillard labeled survivors of February’s horrific Parkland, Florida shooting as “ridiculous.”
He wrote that networks are using these teenagers to push for a “liberal agenda” because the kids have been outspoken about their desire for nationwide gun reform.
Along with this criticism, Dillard has taken every available opportunity to slam Jazz Jennings, a transgender reality star who anchors her own series on TLC.
Just this week, Dillard referred to Jennings as a male, pissing off many Internet users, which was merely the latest time Derick went off on the Jazz for no real reason at all.
Except for his intolerance of the LGBT community, that is.
Jazz Jennings is a role model for other transgender teenagers. For Derick Dillard? Not so much.
It all started last August when Dillard bashed the entire concept of a transgender person as a myth.
“What an oxymoron… a ‘reality’ show which follows a non-reality. ‘Transgender’ is a myth. Gender is not fluid; it’s ordained by God,” he Tweeted at the time.
Then there was this comment left by Dillard in November:
“I pity Jazz, 4 those who take advantage of him in order 2 promote their agenda, including the parents who allow these kinds of decisions 2 be made by a child.”
TLC eventually fired Dillard for these insensitive and inappropriate remarks, much to the delight of people who don’t have hate in their heart and do have open minds.
So that’s how we arrived at this point.
That’s all the preamble to a Tweet from Dillard that we never expected to read.
Emma Gonzalez cried tears of anger and pain over her fellow students getting killed. Derick Dillard wasn’t very moved, however.
On February 24, Jennings re-Tweeted a video of Gonzalez speaking out at an anti-gun rally.
It was the speech that made Gonzalez into a true American hero, in the minds of many, at least.
“This is so powerful. I’m so proud of my community,” wrote Jennings in response to the footage, which evidently prompted Dillard to… agree?
At least kind of? To some extent?
Tagging both Jazz and Emma in a March 6 Tweet (below), the controversial star wrote:
“Thinking about and praying for all those across the country, and especially in your community, who this horrific tragedy has affected.
“Let me know if you’re ever in Northwest Arkansas and I’d love to grab coffee and visit. #MSDStrong #neveragain.”
Wait… what?!?!?!?
In the slightest defense of Dillard, he never did slam Gonzalez or her fellow students directly.
Instead, he’s been saying that the mainstream media has been exploiting them to push for an anti-second amendment agenda.
You can agree with this belief or disagree with it, but we suppose it can still be possible that Derick can state it while still having sympathy for Emma and her classmates.
Then again, Dillard has since deleted the message above, perhaps because he had regrets about posting it… or perhaps because he really was hacked!
We may never know.
But it’s probably safe to go back to hating Dillard and his hate-filled view of a world he doesn’t ever try to fully understand.
That’s what we’re gonna do.
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Abby Lee Miller: I"m Still Locked Up! What Happened to Early Release?
Dance Moms fans know that Abby Lee Miller was supposed to be getting out of prison last month. And yet … the disgraced reality star is still behind bars.
Why? The answer is simple, but to Abby, it’s infuriating.
And apparently she’s not taking this delay of her early release well. In fact, she reportedly freaked out.
It had been reported that
Jennifer Myers, the same prison consultant and coach who worked with the Dance Moms star before she went to prison, explains why Abby Lee is still locked up while speaking to Entertainment Tonight.
“Basically, the prisons pay for the inmates to go to halfway houses.”
That’s an interesting system. But of course, any ethical warden wants those who are ready to readjust to living in the outside world to go ahead and do so as soon as possible.
“In the past, let’s say each warden had a budget for eight halfway house beds per month, they were often releasing 20 women to beds instead, because they wanted to help get them out.”
That’s very nice of them.
But apparently, Abby Lee’s delayed release — which was planned and all set up — is due to a shift in prison policy.
“But the director of Federal Bureau of Prisons, Mark Inch, started a crackdown on the budgets, and is making sure they don’t go over budget anymore.”
So, Abby’s early release was set up, but apparently it lacked the final stamp of approval.
“A warden has to approve a halfway house release.”
And Abby was all psyched up to go.
“Abby got her official out date, it was Feb. 20. She received that piece of paper that told her that and that she would be going to the halfway house in Van Nuys.”
But then it all went wrong.
“You have to make those plans in advance. But clearly, the prison went over budget so she could no longer be released.”
So … how did Abby get the bad news?
According to Jennifer Myers, this is how it went down:
“Abby just didn’t get out, that’s how she found out about it.”
Oh. That can’t have been good.
“It was a pretty upsetting thing for her over the weekend to not be able to talk to anybody and find out what was happening.”
That sounds maddening.
“It didn’t make any sense. She had her halfway house plan and they just weren’t communicating with her that it wasn’t happening anymore.”
Prisoners don’t have the freedom to go ask questions to the right people like everyone else can.
“She will get that new piece of paper and they will get her a bed and let’s see if it sticks.”
So at least they’re going to try again.
“It’s a waiting game right now for Abby. At this point they are trying to figure it out.”
It sounds like she’s not getting any special treatment for being a celebrity. Just a regular amount of help.
“They are submitting to get her a new out date and get her another bed, but it has to go through many different places in the Bureau of Prisons to even get that new out date.”
Star Magazine reports that Abby Lee Miller flipped out over her not-so-early release.
First, they gave a very short explanation for why she’s still in jail.
“They are actually holding Abby Lee later because there is no room at the halfway house she was set to go to.”
That’s a very terse way of skipping around the new policy issues.
“But it’s nothing against Abby personally. It is something that is happening everywhere.”
Then they get into the way that Abby has responded.
“Abby is furious! She feels like she is being targeted.”
Sometimes, stars get special treatment. Sometimes, however, they get turned into an example. Remember what happened to Martha Stewart.
“Abby had a nuclear meltdown over this. She had her bags packed, so to speak. She was ready to go.”
That must have been incredibly disappointing for her.
Still, Abby Lee Miller will be out of prison and reducing girls to tears again before you know it.
Well … she’ll be out of prison soon, anyway. Her sentence is only for 366 days, and since they were preparing for her to leave prison before that was even half over, it seems likely that she’ll be free soon.
She’ll look pretty different when she comes out, as she’s reportedly lost 100 pounds following gastric surgery last spring that reduced her stomach size significantly.
But … will she be a different person when she’s free, or will she have learned nothing from this?
Only time will tell.
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