Lynne Sylvester

Grateful mother, a music education specialist and professional singer. Interested in making the world a better place, one starfish at a time.

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

Dolly Parton earned her first substantial royalty checks in the late 1960s, but she did not spend the money on cars, diamonds, or designer clothes.

Instead, after gaining national visibility on The Porter Wagoner Show and signing with RCA Victor, she put her savings toward buying a modern home for her parents in Sevierville, Tennessee. The gift answered a quiet promise Dolly made at eighteen when she boarded a bus for Nashville. Her family had spent decades inside a cramped Locust Ridge cabin that lacked electricity and indoor plumbing, relying on an outdoor privy and buckets hauled from a mountain creek.

For years, her father, Robert Lee Parton, had trekked down frozen hillsides in winter storms to carry heavy metal pails of water back to the house, his hands cracking and bleeding from the cold. The new home in town changed daily life completely, featuring indoor pipes, an electric water heater, and a porcelain bathtub.

Walking through the front door, Robert Lee stopped at the threshold of the bathroom. He hesitated to step onto the clean tile, worried his worn work boots would track dirt across his daughter's gift. Dolly took his weathered hand and showed him how to turn the brass handle. Warm water poured instantly from the tap without chopping firewood or waiting over an open flame.

The mountain farmer, known for weathering hard years without complaint, sat down and wept. Those early pay stubs, the deed to the Sevierville property, and the private conversations surrounding the purchase remain the foundation of how that family moved out of the mountain cold.

#drthehistories

[Lynne Sylvester @whiteriverbabe]

@LandLover56 A bicycle bell for the handlebars.

[Lynne Sylvester @whiteriverbabe]

@Irina_exh Remote

[Flavorful Kitchen Adventures @ann_ann886]

Toritilla Quick Bake

[Lynne Sylvester @whiteriverbabe]

@kencen Really stupid looking metals they are wearing.
No class at all.

[Jeff Tiedrich @itsJeffTiedrich]

THAT'S NOT HOW TARIFFS WORK

[Lynne Sylvester @whiteriverbabe]

@john_walters_ @NikkiHaley Extremely disappointed in you for endorsing Donald Trump. I had faith in you and your character. I rejoiced in your strength to stand up to him. But alas you too drank the poison koolaid… shame on you…

[Lynne Sylvester @whiteriverbabe]

@TheLeeGreenwood @realDonaldTrump @GBTUSAStore Mr. Greenwood. This is despicable. How can you have that man’s name, and his reputation linked to the most important work that we can own?
I feel so sad for you that you thought you had to do that…

[Lynne Sylvester @whiteriverbabe]

@OccupyDemocrats Don Jr. On the stand.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Washington Post drops Wednesday bombshell on Trump and his children, revealing that he is “livid” and “deeply worried” that New York Attorney General Letitia James is coming after his “family’s brand” and “inheritance” to his children.

But it gets WORSE for Trump…

The Washington Post says that Ivanka Trump has decided to “step away” from defending her father because she is “stung by the scrutiny” that her dad’s political career had brought upon their criminal family enterprise.

One Trump insider told the Washington Post that “everything” about New York’s massive fraud case against the Trump Organization “makes him angry — including that it’s hurting his children. The trial strikes at his identity and the family. His kids, what he’s been able to build over years and years and years.”

The Washington Post report continues, revealing that “Trump’s children have not been that involved in his current bid for the presidency” because they are desperately trying to “cool off” and distance themselves from Donald’s countless criminal trials — and because “the presidency was painful for everyone in the family on some level. You have subpoenas, legal bills, investigations, testimony, terrible news stories, the constant spotlight.”

Adding insult to injury for Donald Trump, the Washington Post report reveals that a Trump insider says that “the family has grown more conspiratorial and now is leery of enemies around every corner.”

So there you have it, folks…

Accountability is finally arriving for the Trump family — and they are freaking out and spiraling into a paranoid frenzy.

It couldn’t happen to a “nicer” family…

Please retweet and ❤️ if you’re GLAD that Trump and his corrupt family are FINALLY being held accountable — and consider joining the growing exodus to Tribel, a woke new Twitter competitor that banned Trump for life and is exploding in popularity because Elon Musk banned Tribel’s Twitter account — but he forgot to ban this link to download the new Tribel app: https://t.co/HnJzSKjCwX

[Lynne Sylvester @whiteriverbabe]

@Morning_Joe Don Jr. On the stand.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

No elected official has ever been accused of anything remotely on the scale of what Donald Trump has been charged with.

His prosecution isn’t a “witch hunt.” It’s a defense of our democracy.

Don’t believe his lies.

[Jeff Tiedrich @itsJeffTiedrich]

listen up, stupids:
Al Gore lost his election and fucked off and went home.
Bob Dole lost his election and fucked off and went home.
Mitt Romney lost his election and fucked off and went home.
Hillary Clinton lost her election and fucked off and went home.
Donald Trump lost his election and whined and plotted and begged and bullied and conspired with his flunkies and eventually sent a mob of armed morons to the Capitol to disrupt the certification so he could cling to power.
all because he's a big fucking baby.
and that's why your guy is in deep fucking shit right now.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Still true.

“There will come a day when Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain."

[Jeff Tiedrich @itsJeffTiedrich]

congratulations to Donald J. Trump, three-time graduate of the University of Fuck Around and Find Out

[Lynne Sylvester @whiteriverbabe]

@RepSwalwell Damn Yankee’s

[Lynne Sylvester @whiteriverbabe]

@RepSwalwell Field of Dreams? Too young?

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Sometimes we mock trump.
Sometimes we call out his clown show.

Other days, the harm he’s caused
The pain he’s inflicted
The women he’s mistreated…

Reminds us.

Donald Trump can never be President again.

[Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump]

Exactly.
👇

[Barbra Streisand @BarbraStreisand]

It is very sad. Congresswoman Pat Schroder was a giant in the fight for equal rights. When asked how she could be both a mother and a lawmaker she replied, “ I have a brain and uterus and I use both.”