Stella Parton Takes Aim At Wealthy Politicians For Not Helping During COVID-19 Crisis

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December 22, 2020, 7:13 am

The pandemic has exasperated the class divide within the United States in a way most of us haven’t experienced in our lifetimes. The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, and the middle class is losing the safety nets they built up in case of an emergency. 

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Other countries are taking care of their citizens, while Congress is just now getting to the point of sending out a second round of $600 checks, bringing the grand total for many people to $1800 over the course of 10+ months. 

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Tensions are high, and lawmakers are getting slammed by people of all walks of life for not doing more to ensure the well-being of everyone in this country.

Dolly Parton’s younger sister, Stella, joined in the pile-in last Friday, specifically wanting to know why ultra-rich politicians haven’t done anything to help out financially during this crisis.

“If a little Hillbilly singer like my big sister Dolly can invest in the vaccine then why the hell can’t some of you old moldy politicians pitch in a few million yourselves?” she asked. “I noticed you started getting vaccinated right away while people are starving and dying you Aholes.”

If a little Hillbilly singer like my big sister Dolly can invest in the vaccine then why the hell can’t some of you old moldy politicians pitch in a few million yourselves? I noticed you started getting vaccinated right away while people are starving and dying you Aholes.

— Stella Parton (@StellaParton) December 19, 2020

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Dolly donated an entire million dollars to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, which helped come up with the Moderna vaccine. Moderna, along with Pfizer, is one of the two COVID-19 vaccines that have been approved for use in the United States so far.

Of course, the wealth of U.S. politicians varies immensely, but no small number of them come from money, married into money, or built up some sort of self-made wealth prior to turning to politics. The richest politician in Congress is Kelly Loeffler, the up-for-reelection Georgia Senator who sold off $20 million in stocks after a closed-door coronavirus briefing early on in the year. She’s worth around $500 million, compared to Dolly’s supposed net worth of around $600 million.

But Stella’s ire wasn’t just for politicians. She also took aim at ultra-wealthy religious leaders, who get to skip over taxation, theoretically in part so that they can help their communities.

“It would be better to have a millstone put around your neck and to be cast into the sea than to offend one of these little ones.”Luke 17:2 These so called church leaders are in dire trouble for the way they behave. Just sayin’ y’all!

— Stella Parton (@StellaParton) December 20, 2020

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All of you generous and Frightened church folk who give to these ministries until it hurts what have they ever done for you? What about all of you political junkies donating millions, you don’t have to the Defeated President to keep him in the WH? What is wrong with you?

— Stella Parton (@StellaParton) December 22, 2020

People on Twitter were picking up what Stella was putting down, and let her know just how fervently they agreed with her frustrations.

My husband, a doctor who just finished a week rotation in the hospital in floriDUH, He has no vaccine, but Marco Rubio has the balls to sit and get one!!! Rubio is what? A front line Ahole?

— EllieRNJustSayin’ (@elliefontz) December 19, 2020

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Dolly Parton’s sister aims the flamethrower at the hypocrites – the GOP, televangelists and the rest the scum. https://t.co/1HyCblwvtV

— Kurt “Masks Save Lives” Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) December 20, 2020

they are too busy fleecing the flock to buy their airplanes and their mansions. false prophets all of them, Charlatans.

— Stella Parton (@StellaParton) December 19, 2020

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Yes! The @GOP bozos have been saying for almost a year that it’s a hoax, but by golly don’t get in their way for the vaccine!

— Blue in Red (@idahogal1006) December 19, 2020

I love the way you put this! Same goes here for our political ‘leaders; in the UK. And we, sadly, haven’t got your fabulous Dolly!

— S. A. Greene (@SAGreene1) December 20, 2020

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If only ultra-rich people were taxed fairly and that money actually used to benefit the whole of society, maybe we wouldn’t have to keep having conversations about how they should willingly fork over money to help in a crisis.

Nah, too radical.

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*First Published: December 22, 2020, 7:13 am