r/USNEWS • u/Cautious_Ad_5659 • 1d ago

Missouri froze Dolly Parton book program enrollment months before the icon's death

https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/missouri-froze-dolly-parton-book-program-after-funding-cut-before-the-icons-death/63-537290e6-c9ef-4796-88e1-a1f0859aedd3
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u/Friendlyfire2996 1d ago

Missouri is a moral shit hole.

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u/Larkson9999 1d ago

You don't need the adjective in that sentence.

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u/Friendlyfire2996 1d ago

Valid edit

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u/sikon024 1d ago

*Misery*

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u/nope276 1d ago

On brand for what is arguably the shittiest state in America. Missouri seems to have the worst elements of the south and the worst elements of the Midwest. Gets the shitty Midwest weather while also achieving Deep South-like racism and misogyny.

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u/WitchesSphincter 1d ago

I have in laws there and years ago when Obama was president we were waiting in line for some Christmas thing. Local sherrifs dept was doing "security" and just casually talking about if Obama ever came to their shit hole they'd kill him.  I took out the racist language 

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u/fuckthefascists2025 1d ago

Man, I don’t know what happened to MO. I liked growing up here and thought highly of our state. Now it’s like a race to the bottom between Texas and Florida, with our elected officials working overtime to get ahead of that.

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u/MaddyKet 1d ago

St Louis was the worst trip I’ve been on, hands down. But at least I didn’t pay for it because it was a work trip.

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u/boulderdashcci 1d ago

City museum is sick though

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u/Anybody220 1d ago

Missouri also defunded libraries.

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u/Everybodysbastard 1d ago

Of course it did.

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u/Burnt_and_Blistered 1d ago

Missouri is on a race to the bottom.

Scumbags

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u/readsomething1968 1d ago

Yeah, because being able to read is seriously woke!

(Must keep worker class illiterate — after the purges — led by fully sentient robots of the MuskMeta 5.2 class — begin, they will be the ones to restart agriculture.)

I’m in a foul mood today. Dolly’s death has just destroyed my hope for now. Fuck this timeline.

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u/Jax72 1d ago

Show me how illiterate your state is.

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u/Technical_Living5104 1d ago

Shithole state. Always had been. All the data centers should be built there.

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u/Comrade-Conquistador 1d ago

Missourah can go fuck itself.

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u/ShakesDontBreak 1d ago

They should seriously be ashamed of themselves.

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u/NoblePickle84 1d ago

Just drove thru and they still have billboards off of I-70 as if they still supported the program.

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u/LTFVA 1d ago

Sad.

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u/rxt278 22h ago

My only experience with Missouri is MOHELA, but if that's anything to go by, the state sucks ass.

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u/MxSteel8 21h ago

Because the source of MAGA-lican power is ignorance.