KatieV

I despise knotty pine and anyone without a sense of humor.

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

An apt day to remember that Dolly Parton once recorded a cover of Stairway to Heaven - and, in defiance of every moral law in the universe, she absolutely owned it.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I have lived in America long enough to learn one absolute rule: Americans will argue about everything.

They argue about barbecue sauce. They argue about the weather. They argue about which truck brand can pull a heavier oak tree. In Tennessee, I once watched two men debate mayonnaise brands with the intensity of two samurais preparing for a duel at sunrise.

So yesterday, when I entered a diner off the highway and saw complete, heavy silence, I prepared for battle.

Every truck driver had removed his baseball cap. The TV in the corner was playing a message from a nephew. Men with beards down to their chests were quietly staring at their coffee cups.

"Charlene," I whispered to the waitress, keeping my hand near my side. "Has a foreign king declared war upon the republic?"

"No, honey," Charlene said, her voice shaking slightly as she wiped the counter with unusual slowness. "Aunt Dolly passed away. She went to rest on a bed of cotton."

I did not know this Aunt Dolly. But as I listened, I learned this woman gave over two hundred million books to children with no castle of their own, wrote songs that healed entire valleys, and spent eighty years wearing fifty pounds of shiny rhinestones so that everyone else could feel joy.

When a great feudal lord passes in Japan, the province weeps for forty days. Here, Charlene just put on a record called '9 to 5,' and fifteen grown men softly sang the chorus while staring at their hash browns.

I stood up, bowed ninety degrees to the television screen, and recited my deepest respect for the Queen of Tennessee.

Charlene gave me extra bacon and told me that Dolly would have liked my armor, though she would have probably glued glitter on the helmet.

[KatieV @Kathleenv33]

😢

[Dolly Parton @DollyParton]

A message from the family of Dolly Parton.

[KatieV @Kathleenv33]

🥰

[Dan Proft @DanProft]

Life is like a guitar. @ericchurch offers a brillianct commencement address (and guitar lesson) at his alma mater, UNC, that belongs in the pantheon of addresses of this sort with those of Steve Jobs (Stanford) and David Foster Wallace (Kenyon College).

[KatieV @Kathleenv33]

@DefiantLs

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

What is Happening on the Right. And Why.

[KatieV @Kathleenv33]

Every time I see an image of President Obama's library, the first thing that pops into mind is this guy. 😁

[KatieV @Kathleenv33]

😅

[KatieV @Kathleenv33]

@mkhammer Adorable, and your letter writing skills are excellent, except for that missing y........

[KatieV @Kathleenv33]

Damn…RIP Diane

[KatieV @Kathleenv33]

@MattWalshBlog Just happened to my nephew in HS. A girl took photos of him and a buddy of his and created an AI movie that suggested they were more than friends, which of course she shared with everyone on SnapChat. Lovely young lady....

[KatieV @Kathleenv33]

@jk_rowling Bravo

[Coleman Hughes @coldxman]

R.I.P. Charlie Kirk

I didn't know Charlie personally. But he did send me a kind message last year. "I love all people" is what he said. If that is any indication of who the man was, then this country has lost someone special today.

Partisan politics did not stand in the way of him paying me a compliment, and it should not stand in the way of mourning him either.

We cannot become a society where expressing political views, even controversial ones, leads to violence. Whatever you think of his politics, Charlie was a decent man, a patriot, and a brave defender of his values. My heart goes out to his wife and his kids.

[Chloe Cole ⭐️ @ChloeCole]

I saw this video this morning on my feed and I think it so eloquently explains what Charlie Kirk was put on this earth to do.

“When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence, that is when civil war happens”

[KatieV @Kathleenv33]

@DefiantLs 7

[KatieV @Kathleenv33]

All Aboard!! Rest in peace Ozzy 😢

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Listen to this.

[KatieV @Kathleenv33]

Dear #Tesla, I think maybe on your new models you should install mini tazer drones that launches during vandalism, stuns the perp while simultaneously contacts the nearest police station. What do ya think?

[KatieV @Kathleenv33]

Woot!

[JD Vance @JDVance]

🔥🔥🔥

[KatieV @Kathleenv33]

This..

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

This 'why do you care about a tiny fraction of the population?' line is, and always was, utterly ridiculous.

Gender ideology has undermined freedom of speech, scientific truth, gay rights, and women's and girls' safety, privacy and dignity. It's also caused irreparable physical damage to vulnerable kids.

Nobody voted for it, the vast majority of people disagree with it, yet it has been imposed, top down, by politicians, healthcare bodies, academia, sections of the media, celebrities and even the police. Its activists have threatened and enacted violence on those who've dared oppose it. People have been defamed and discriminated against for questioning it. Jobs have been lost and lives have been ruined, all for the crime of knowing that sex is real and matters.

When the smoke clears, it will be only too evident that this was never about a so-called vulnerable minority, notwithstanding the fact that some very vulnerable people have been harmed. The power dynamics underpinning our society have been reinforced, not dismantled. The loudest voices throughout this entire fiasco have been people insulated from consequences by their wealth and/or status. They aren't likely to find themselves locked in a prison cell with a 6'4" rapist who's decided his name's now Dolores. They don't need state-funded rape crisis centres, nor do they ever frequent high street changing rooms. They simper from talk show sofas about those nasty far-right bigots who don't want penises swinging around the girls' showers, secure in the knowledge that their private pool remains the safe place it always was.

Those who've benefited most from gender identity ideology are men, both trans-identified and not. Some have been rewarded for having a cross-dressing kink by access to all spaces previously reserved for women. Others have parlayed their delicious new victim status into an excuse to threaten, assault and harass women. Non-trans-identified leftybros have found a magnificent platform from which to display their own impeccably progressive credentials, by jeering and sneering at the needs of women and girls, all while patting themselves on the back for giving away rights that aren't theirs.

The actual victims in this mess have been women and children, especially the most vulnerable, gay people who've resisted the movement and paid a horrible price, and regular people working in environments where one misplaced pronoun could see you vilified or constructively dismissed. Do not tell me this is about a tiny minority. This movement has impacted society in disastrous ways, and if you had any sense, you'd be quietly deleting every trace of activist mantras, ad hominem attacks, false equivalence and circular arguments from your X feeds, because the day is fast approaching when you'll want to pretend you always saw through the craziness and never believed it for a second.