They are lowering US flags to half-mast for a week, but if the government really wants to pay tribute to Dolly, they should fund education, the arts, and medical research instead of trying to eradicate them.
If the Secret Service considers a man wearing a ‘kill your local pedophile’ shirt a threat to the President’s life, your President just might be a pedophile.
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 us 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 🇺🇸
If Amazon is charging me to rent a 20-year-old movie while I’m already paying for Prime, we should just reopen Blockbuster. I’d rather hand my money to an employee who can judge my life choices to my face.
Schools need parental permission to give your kid a fucking Tylenol, but MAGA thinks they’re secretly transitioning children behind their parents’ backs?
For fuck’s sake. Use your brain.
Just a reminder as Trump tries to cancel the midterms, we had elections during the Great Depression, World War I, World War II, and the Civil War. War is not an excuse to cancel an election.
My grocery bill last week was 438 dollars but thankfully I was able to just take a deep breath and remind myself to be grateful that there’s a new ballroom being built at the White House and also how it’s just a small sacrifice considering how awesome the war in Iran is going 🙏