Amazing Grace

Dolly Parton is 100% class. One of the good ones.
- She'll let you know "it costs a lot to look this cheap."

TIL that Dolly Parton entered in and lost a Dolly Parton lookalike contest at some drag bar in LA in 2012
- “All of these other beautiful drag queens had worked for months and weeks getting their clothes and all that, and they were dressed like me,” Parton explained in a 2012 interview. “So, I just got in the line and I just walked across [the stage] and they just thought I was some little, short gay guy. And I got the least applause, but I was just dying laughing inside. I say it’s a good thing I was a girl or I’d be a drag queen.”
  
  I’d heard that story before, had no idea it was a drag bar

"Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." - Fred Rogers (mother)

The US doesn't deserve Dolly as a national treasure, she's a treasure of the world
In spite of the USA we have today

Let's agree that next time they wanna put up a statue of a confederate general, they put one up of Dolly instead. That way, everyone wins, except the loser general.
- Many of those loser generals were self aware enough to specifically state that no statues or memorials of them should ever be made. Then Wilson came along......

The president we should have had.
- We have the one we deserve, sadly
  
  Idk how the people that didn't vote for this regime deserve to have this happen to them.

Spend the money on more books for kids, so we have fewer regressives in the future
GNU Dolly

All the more reason to build statues of her when we sort out some more serious problems.
I love Dolly. Her kindness and grace is an example to the world. She spent her own money to help rebuild the Gatlinburg area after fires destroyed it. She has a free program called Imagination Library that sends monthly books to children. It started regionally, and now she offers it to multiples countries.
She is so much better than the government of Tennessee. There's a reason everyone wanted her to run for Governor.

...she is made of sugar, and gives off spice, as human beings go, she's better than nice...

As an artist, I find this totally relatable. "Gosh, please don't erect a statue right now. A statue sounds nice, though. I am not saying not to build me a statue. Please immortalize my likeness."

I cannot imagine how hard it is to be as kind, loving, and gracious as she is, but to be surrounded by a world with so much willful anger, hate, and misery.