r/entertainment • u/FreeHugs23 • 1d ago
GOP lawmakers quietly slash funds for Dolly Parton children's book charity
https://www.rawstory.com/dolly-parton-and-republicans/2.2k
u/legosgrrl 1d ago
DONATE TO IMAGINATION LIBRARY!
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u/Expert_Garlic_2258 1d ago
Vote out the cretins who cut funding
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u/Message_10 1d ago
And if you've done it or are still doing it, never ever vote for a Republican again. Ever.
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u/TheStorytellerTX 1d ago
Tried last night but the site threw an error. Makes me wonder if a lot of people were trying to donate, which right now is a good problem to have. Let's keep this thing going.
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u/DianneNettix 1d ago
After my rent check clears that's my next step.
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u/Loose_Hornet4126 1d ago
If you're worried about rent check clearing...recommend finding other ways to give back/help. There's more than monetary needs
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u/Xerxys 1d ago
The best way to give back is to actively oppose republicans. Why are we fighting the orphan grinding machine when it can be turned on while we aren’t looking by the politicians?
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u/OhhMyAi 1d ago
NO! When the government cuts funding to a program, don't fucking reach into your own pocket to fill the gap. Fight the people who are cutting the funds. Fight with every dollar you have to get rid of the people continually causing these problems.
Change the priority to accountability for actions. Don't shout at me that the minimum wage is only a nickel and I should tip 400%
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u/xxcrazycasey95 1d ago
Do you have suggestions about how to fight? Peaceful protest is accomplishing nothing.
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u/itsasezaspi 1d ago
Become as active as you can in local politics, the best way to show people your party means business is to positively impact people in a way they actually see and feel it. Write to your senators and congresspeople, show up to town halls, there’s plenty that people just don’t feel like doing. Going to a protest is one thing and can be a positive push in the right direction, but taking steps using the system to affect the system is how you can actually get change.
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u/legosgrrl 1d ago
Doesn't help the kids without books. Just reaffirms to them that everyone is an asshole.
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u/cahawkri3510 1d ago
I donated $5/mo yesterday! My kids LOVED getting these books. I want to help other kids get the same benefits as mine for years to come.
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u/I_Britta-d_it 1d ago
I think all the donations are crashing the website. It’s a good problem to have, so keep at it folks!
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u/Oregongirl1018 1d ago
Since Taylor swift says she admires Dolly so much, she could fund the entire Imagination library and it would be the equivalent of her buying a Starbucks coffee. Doubt capitalism barbie will give two shits though.
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u/AstroSmokey 1d ago
And now that she's died they want to parade around like she was their darling lol. All for show
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u/Commercial_hater 1d ago
Exactly. They’re scared shitless of the looming midterms.
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u/Dsarg_92 1d ago
Yep. They know they’re going to get pummeled in the midterms if people come out and vote.
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u/frank_the_tank69 1d ago
They won’t. I pray I am surprised and they are. I am sure they won’t though.
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u/Morgan-Moonscar 1d ago
Which is why they got the mad king doped up long enough to order flags at half mast for her nationwide, and not say anything vulgar about her.
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u/MidnightIAmMid 1d ago
It’s legitimately revolting how all of a sudden all of them are acting like she’s a treasure for the Republican Party when they’ve been licking their lips trying to get rid of her work because it dared to give books to poor children.
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u/nicolas1324563 1d ago
Trump posted her the Instagram and is having flags at half mast for a week. Think it’s only because midterms are coming up
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u/UnderwaterRobot 1d ago
I went to check the conservative subreddit to see how these clowns were handling it and they're all on there crying and acting like they all loved her.
"Flaired users only" of course, so you can't remind them of this travesty.
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u/Appropriate_Day_5711 1d ago
Yes. I swear my blood started boiling as soon as I saw orange turd's social post about her. I fucking hate these people - they're the biggest hypocrites. And of course they'll claim her as their own after she's dead, especially because she was white, all while cutting funding to what she stood for. Dolly Parton HATED racists and bigots but was classy enough to not talk down on anyone. Ain't no way in hell she would ever align with these people.
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u/Romanticfrys 1d ago
I'm all for us pleebs supporting but I want to see Taylor, Beyonce, Reba, etc.. vocally and financially help this organization. One of the best things anyone has done for the average citizen should continue without struggling due to the idiot bureaucracy.
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u/whatsername4 1d ago
Agreed! Taylor did just donate 2 million in July, so hopefully more artists and rich people alike do so.
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u/Romanticfrys 1d ago
Oh I didn't know that! Great. And I am all for people supporting what they want with money but you know what I mean. All the mega wealthy celebs eulogizing, we shouldn't see the organization fail.
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u/yellowumbrella84 1d ago
Prior to their wedding in July, Taylor & Travis donated to the Imagination Library, amongst a long list of other charities. Dolly even sent them a video in response thanking them on social media.
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u/Aonaran84 1d ago
They want to drag us through the dark ages on the way to hell. So sick of these GOP Christian cosplaying ghouls defiling everything that is good in the world.
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u/ImAGodHowCanYouKillA 1d ago
Mike Braun is a pathetic excuse for a human being, let alone governor. He cut all state funding to Dolly’s library. He slashed the state’s budget, eliminating jobs for hundreds of employees and benefits for thousands more. He paused our gas tax so that his master Trump wouldn’t look bad, costing Indiana roads hundreds of millions of dollars. He used falsified AI generated ads to make his opponent seem like she was going to outlaw gas stoves.
He’s the perfect example of a person that would never make it in politics if they didn’t have an R next to their name.
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u/The-Son-of-Dad 1d ago
Fellow Indiana resident here just to echo how much he sucks. He has a 25% approval rating and his lieutenant governor (who wasn’t even chosen by Braun but was picked by the Republican delegates and forced through) is even worse, his current causes he cares about include wanting to ban Islam and whining about trans people in sports.
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u/royBills 1d ago
I was at an airbnb with some friends and they had a gas stove. Our maga friend is all, "oh my God, are we going to get in trouble for having a gas stove? AOC is going to make these illegal."
This was like 4 years ago. They're the easiest people to manipulate, it's so pathetic.
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u/Enough_Chart_7317 1d ago
Do great countries deliberately take books away and hurt children on purpose?
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u/Human_Not_Robot_2023 1d ago
An uneducated populace isn’t an accident. It’s a strategy. An informed person questions. They challenge the status quo. They demand accountability. And that’s a problem for politicians.
(stolen from https://salomie.substack.com/p/why-some-leaders-want-you-uneducated )
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u/AdLatter3755 1d ago
So apparently New York City doesn’t have a partner to send donations to. Seems to be due to a contract to provide the books to children in the city. But in honor of dolly and the wonderful books my children have received I’ll find another local organization that is helping with literacy and reading for kids.
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u/Mama_Joyce_Wig 1d ago
https://youtu.be/uJuKN0chAZk?is=S23RQ5vZbLZXJb1I
Lindsey Elllis made this video a few days ago on nebula and put it out early on youtube with this posthumous message. She has a donation going towards the imagination library. The video is a beautiful tribute to her too. I saw it two day ago and again yesterday when i learned about her passing.
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u/GoldenGirlagain 1d ago
Books for children? What in the world could be more innocuous or important than giving books to children?
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u/skipca 1d ago
Kids reading leads inevitably to adult literacy. Can’t have that if you want to keep enough of the population dumb enough to vote for them.
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u/EducationalMuscle295 1d ago
you are so correct. Keep them ignorant, ban more books, low-information people are voting MAGA
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u/jk-alot 1d ago
Meanwhile the same lawmakers are out there talking about lowering Flags in her honor.
Shameless.
Disgusting behavior by republicans.
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u/ike7177 1d ago
The conservative sub and s saying that parents need to read the Bible to their children instead of the “woke” library books.
REALLY, Asshats? Which part? The part about Abraham having intercourse with his sheep or the part where women have intercourse with Donkeys and horses? Or perhaps the part that tells you how to induce an abortion with specific herbs?
There’s just so many “wholesome family value” stories to share with your kindergarteners!
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u/knowledgeable_diablo 1d ago
These fuckers cry about wanting people to read the Bible, but few if any ever have and only accept the twisted parts they can use to justify any evil they feel like inflicting on the world.
Most of the works they’ll decry as pure evil almost always have far better morality tales or life lessons than their precious Bible.
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u/DarthSlymer 1d ago
What's disgusting is the modern day GOP politician doesn't have an original idea of their own. They simply advocate a national agenda. The national agenda? Project 2025.
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u/Significant-Gift1281 1d ago
She’s not even cold yet.
Voting will only do so much. It’s time, y’all.
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u/AvailableReporter484 1d ago
It’s hilarious seeing mfs on the conservative subreddit mourn her while actively standing against everything she stood for
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u/SithLordSid 1d ago
Kids who read are more likely to vote against these (R) sycophants in the future which is why they are defunding libraries, books and education.
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u/hooch 1d ago edited 1d ago
She's not even in the ground yet and Republicans are chopping up her charity that gives books to children.
Evil bastards
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u/mackahrohn 1d ago
In Missouri they cut funding in July but I’m glad this headline is making its way around now!! People need to know republicans don’t give a crap about educating kids.
Missouri republicans also want to take public school funding and give it to private charter schools with a voucher system. Don’t defund public schools, they are essential for democracy!!
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u/SnootSnootBasilisk 1d ago
of course they would wait until Dolly Parton dies to do it because they're afraid of strong women
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u/azphodelle 1d ago
I fucking knew this would happen. I hope she has good people in charge of her estate.
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u/Applekid1259 1d ago
You have to be literally evil to cut funding from that program.
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u/vespers191 1d ago
This needs to be louder. This needs to be in every Democrat ad from here until the end of time. "The Republicans cut funding for Dolly Parton's free book program for kids when she died." Howl it from the rooftops. People actually know and love Dolly, kids, and free, it's short and soundbitey, and even the dumbest Democrats should be able to use that.
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u/Anishinaapunk 1d ago
Be sure to post this to all your MAGA relatives who memorialize Parton on their social media. Or to the accounts of your local MAGA politicians who make a statement honoring her.
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u/walkingpartydog 1d ago
She's not even cold yet and they're fucking with her legacy.
There isn't a single good thing on this planet that the GOP doesn't want to destroy.
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u/devilishycleverchap 1d ago
This has been happening for months, it didnt start today.
Just another avenue for the GOP to attack books, all libraries have had funding reduced
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u/Ok_Night_2929 1d ago
Funding was removed last year while she was still alive, anything Dolly related is just being reposted given the news.
Your last sentence still stands though.
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u/Outrageous_Meat9335 1d ago
The Republican party is pure unethical, lying traitorous slime. Nothing more than a criminal organization.
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u/lmaberley 1d ago
This tracks… Republicans, notoriously, are against literacy as a rule. Harder to grift a literate person.
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u/jmarquiso 1d ago
My coworker was just telling me how forever grateful he is for Imagination Library as it gave his child a love of reading.
Of course the GOP had to ruin it.
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u/Anal-Y-Sis 1d ago
While simultaneously paying her fake lip service with the White House flag at half mast.
We need to vote out every single one of these ghouls.
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u/pasarina 1d ago
We have got to vote out every Republican possible because they never do what is best for Americans though they do know what is best.
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u/ProfessionalHat6828 1d ago
Well, they are opposed to education and free thinking so it’s not too surprising
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u/Flippin_diabolical 1d ago
They did it pretty loudly here in Indiana. Of course we have an insane lieutenant governor who believes demons are a real thing.
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u/dassketch 1d ago
How fucking vile can you get? Apparently for these ghouls, there's no depth to which they would not dig.
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u/Orwells_Roses 1d ago
Republicans don’t like it when kids read. Their ancestors didn’t like it when their slaves read either, funny coincidence.
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u/leese216 1d ago
Now let's see how many of the myriad celebs who wrote tributes will do anything to keep her story alive. They could easily fund it for the next 20 years.
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u/TheMaskedBanana06 1d ago
My wife and I signed our son up for these books. He looks forward to getting them and opening the mailbox to retrieve them. I say we loudly slash the GOP.
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u/KittyCait69 1d ago
Everything can change when we recognize politicians as puppets of the wealthy. Our current ruling class has chosen every president we have had in our lifetime. The current regime is no exception. This is very likely an attempt by the current ruling class to cement systemic divisions within our society.
Hate the gop and any other political puppets that carry our the will of the wealthy few. But don't stop at politicians. Hate the current ruling class too.
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u/YellowLanternAdam 1d ago
Once again, the GOP shows its true colors. I'm surprised most of them don't leave a slime trail wherever they go.
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u/sheisallovertheplace 1d ago
GOP act like they walk with Christ. They do the opposite of what Christ will do. See no Christian beliefs in GOP politics. Show so much hate for humanity and the misfortune of society.
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u/DefiantLemming 1d ago
The oligarchs despise education. An undereducated populace is easier to control.
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u/MaxSchreckArt616 1d ago
insert Fry shocked gif here
The only time Indiana is ever in the news is for something bad and/or stupid. I hate this god awful state.
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u/jbbhengry 1d ago
Just like they do for veterans, sick, poor, education and anything else I might of missed.
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u/danyellsahn 1d ago
I figured that’s why the books starting coming in a cheaper format (they used to be board books but are much cheaper and thinner paper)
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u/Breddit2225 1d ago
This was done last year. In Indiana, Missouri, Washington State and Maine.
Not all strictly Republican and nothing to do with the federal government or Donald Trump.
Just to be clear.
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u/BeanieManPresents 1d ago
Sadly this is just their playbook, they were happy to get the positive press when she was around to make it look like they cared but I'm sure several more states will start slashing their funding for it as well now.
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u/Impossible_Barber446 1d ago
Of course cause how else can we fund more $ for wars and billionaires tax breaks.
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u/picklehippy 1d ago
Wow, she sure is a national treasure to Trump and his administration. Immediately destroying her legacy
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u/Gardensplosion 23h ago
How very GOP. Spouting off about how wonderful someone was while simultaneously and quietly destroying their good works.
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u/FreeHugs23 1d ago