I completely disagree with lowering our flag for Dolly Parton.
Under the Flag Code (4 U.S.C. § 7(m)), the President orders half-staff primarily for principal government figures (presidents, vice presidents, Supreme Court justices, Cabinet secretaries, members of Congress, governors, etc.) and in some cases for other officials, foreign dignitaries, or national tragedies. Presidents have occasionally extended it to leading private citizens as a mark of national respect—Martin Luther King Jr. is a well-known example—but it is not the traditional or routine use for entertainers or cultural figures.
The US Flag needs to remain at full staff.
In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.
She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.
The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.
She handed out the checks herself.
In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.
When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.
You've probably heard that part.
Here's the part you haven't:
The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.
Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.
She built her county an entire hospital.
She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.
In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.
Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.
In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.
And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.
She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped anyway.
She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.
Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸
"What if a drug addict used your tax dollars to get SNAP benefits?"
The government uses my tax dollars to bomb villages, arm warlords, fund coups, and trafficks children through proxy states. If a "junkie" eats because of me, that's the most moral thing my taxes have done.
the KKK hated Johnny Cash. a lot of those old country singers had pretty progressive politics that their fan base didn’t know shit about lol. Kris Kristofferson endorsed Jesse Jackson in ‘84. Willie Nelson is a Bernie guy.
Raise your daughters liberal and they’ll win Olympic gold
Raise them MAGA and they’ll finish tied for fifth in a college swim meet and have a years long bigot tantrum about it
This isn’t 2001. I’m not a child in grade school and there isn’t enough propaganda to get me to want war with Iran or any other country. None of this is for the American people and y’all definitely not liberating anyone by bombing them. Get new talking points.
Yeah, great isn't it? There are civilians and kids under that, but what do you care thousands of miles away in Florida? So long as it's other kids and not you or yours, right? You are deeply sick, mate. Souls are sold so cheaply these days.