Dolly’s absolute amazingness aside… She is who she wants to be, and shows herself as she wants to. Anyone who sees her as a joke is in fact the joke themselves and I’m quite happy to laugh at them.

The real joke is that she’s the one finding it, not the government.

She purposely does this, y’all. I have been fascinated by her for years and she has purposely crafted this and people reacting like this is her intention. She is a master. Like, how many country artists can get away with openly being a queer ally and funding AIDS research and COVID research and all this other stuff and yet still I defy you to find a person–no matter how conservative–who will say anything worse than ‘she’s trashy’ to you–but it can’t even insult her because she says she’s trashy!! She is so good at this y’all. A master at the whole concept of reclaiming and owning one’s image. All hail Dolly.

An American icon. A hero.

I also worked at Dollywood (the theme park in Tennesse that she co- owns), and there were so many happy employees because of the way that things were run. Employee meals were $2.50, you had a 32oz drink mug you could fill and refill while on the clock, everyone there was super nice, your employee ID card was basically a season pass, there is a clinic on site for the park, and a service in the nondenominational church in park held on Sundays.

We STAN

Replace all the racist confederate statues in the south with statues of Dolly. I DARE any politician to oppose that suggestion.