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Finding your identity is tough for any teen. It’s harder in a sprawling reality TV family.
Together on her Call Your Sister podcast with sister Joy-Anna, Jinger explains how she alternated between extremes as she tried to find herself.
At times, that meant being extremely outgoing.
Other times, Jinger felt a desire to be very serious and prioritize performative godliness.
‘I was an over-the-top extrovert’ until …
A clip circulating on TikTok shows a clip from Jinger and Joy’s Call Your Sister podcast.
In the video, Jinger discusses that she — like so many teens — was still finding herself during adolescence.
This is why she oscillated between different gimmicks and traits, including her once-infamous thumbs up.
(She unfortunately phrased this as having “multiple personality disorder,” which is a joke in poor taste; she does not have Dissociative Identity Disorder.)
In reality, she knew that she was one of many, many Duggar daughters. Beyond that, figuring out who she was turned out to be a struggle.
“I remember there was a season where I was really, really funny and I was, like, joking, extremely outgoing,” Jinger recalled during the clip.
As we have previously explained, evangelical circles use “season” as in-group vocabulary to refer to specific times in their lives.
“Everybody who stepped foot into our house, I was like the first one to welcome them,” Jinger described.
“And I was an over-the-top extrovert,” she continued.
Jinger noted: “That was a side of me and I was really goofy and silly.”
‘I had my thumbs up thing that I would do’
“Prior to my teenage years, I remember even looking back at some of those old shows,” Jinger shared with Joy on the podcast episode.
“That’s how I remember because I’ve seen a few where I’m like, wow, me, like in those stages, I had my thumbs up thing that I would do,” she acknowledged.
Many fans remember her goofy antics fondly. Others saw them as a cry for help, or an acknowledgment of how phony the Duggar brand was.
In the same episode, Jinger admitted that she reached a point where she felt that she had to be ultra-mature in order to be a truly devout christian.
That meant forcing herself to not laugh at jokes. Jinger admitted that some of her bible studying and godliness became performative.
This clip, which has been making the rounds on TikTok, happens to be from the second official Call Your Sister episode.
Jinger and Joy touch upon a series of topics each episode, as any podcast of substantial length might.
Some fans and viewers suggest that the sisters are more entertaining as a series of curated clips than as full episodes. Others disagree.
There are plenty of people who don’t mind keeping up with Duggar sisters provided that they aren’t supporting Jim Bob (or Josh or Joseph) in the process.
Even in the confines of an extreme cult environment, Jinger was a teenager trying to figure herself out. She managed it with fewer options or resources than most adolescents have. Good for her.
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An aerial view, taken by drone, shows the King Cove area where the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities is seeking to start construction on a road to Cold Bay. (Photo by Gabe Strong/Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities)
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola reiterated her support for construction of the proposed Izembek road between Cold Bay and King Cove during a visit to King Cove this month.
Peltola’s position is identical to the one held by incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, whom Peltola is challenging in the November general election.
In the weeks before the election, Peltola has limited her debate appearances against Sullivan and is campaigning in rural Alaska. On Tuesday, when President Donald Trump is scheduled to rally in Wasilla with Sullivan, Peltola is expected to be in Kotzebue.
Petersburg’s Dan J. Sullivan and Republican candidate Gerald Heikes are also on the November U.S. Senate ballot.
In a prepared statement released Oct. 2, Peltola said that if elected, she will “ensure completion of the Izembek road.” The road is also commonly referred to as the King Cove road.
King Cove’s runway is frequently limited by weather, and Cold Bay, 19 miles away, has a long paved runway occasionally used as an emergency landing point for trans-Pacific flights.
But between the two is the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge and several miles of federally designated wilderness.
Environmental groups have opposed the construction of a road between the two communities, frequently fighting it in court. In August, U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason overturned a land trade that would have permitted road construction to take place.
Two days before Peltola’s visit, the federal government, state of Alaska and the local Alaska Native Corporation, King Cove Corp., appealed Gleason’s decision to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is expected to rule by spring.
“A road would provide safe, reliable, and affordable access to the Cold Bay airport, which would give King Cove residents access to quotidian necessities, like fresh groceries, which most of us take for granted,” the appellants stated in their filing. “But most relevant for this motion, the road would facilitate medical evacuations.”
They said construction on the road could begin by April and be completed next summer if the 9th Circuit overturns Gleason’s ruling.
In an August forum hosted by the Alaska Oil and Gas Association, Peltola said she isn’t happy with the way the federal government has blocked development in Alaska wetlands.
For example, she said, she opposes the EPA’s pre-emptive veto of Pebble Mine even though she disagrees with the project.
That veto, and federal obstacles to the Izembek road, she said, are indicators that “DC’s one-size-fits-all policy just doesn’t fit the needs of Alaskans.”
“We’re talking about an 11-mile gravel road, and this is a life-and-death issue for the people of Cold Bay, and it is being completely precluded because of the wetlands,” she said.
At the AOGA event, Sullivan said, “I just want to mention I do agree with my opponent on King Cove.”
He has visited the community several times while in office, including earlier this year.
He went on to add that if Peltola is elected, it increases the chances that Democrats will take control of the U.S. Senate, and Democratic administrations have opposed the Izembek road.
“The senators who she would empower … if she got elected, they’re all the ones against the King Cove Road. So you can’t have it both ways. You can’t empower the people who want to shut us down and then say, ‘I don’t want to shut you down,’” Sullivan said.
In a statement Monday, a spokesperson for Peltola’s campaign said, “The people of King Cove can’t afford to wait any longer to access the healthcare and services they need, and Mary will stand up to anyone to help get this project across the finish line. Mary stood up to her own party to support this life-saving road on behalf of the Alaskans in King Cove, and in the Senate she’ll keep fighting to advance projects that are important to Alaskans.”
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