State GOP tells people to "burn all Pride flags" during June

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State GOP tells people to "burn all Pride flags" during June - LGBTQ Nation
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I really thought that the headline had to be at least just a little hyperbolic...

Nope. It's for real.

https://nitter.poast.org/cologop/status/1797738810509537482

What the actual fuck...

E: original twitter link

Jesus fucking christ america. Their bio includes "and, yes, Democrats love criminals and steal your tax dollars." Did they forget their candidate is a felon?

They don't care about reality because their voter base will believe whatever they say as long as it gets their emotions riled up.

Some years ago, before Trump even took over the party, the Texas GOP started putting shit like this directly into their official state party platform. Including a nice PDF doc on their own hosted domain where you could cite everything. It was really handy for showing Enlightened Centrists that, no, it's not just a loud minority of the right. This is what the party is like now, and has been for a while.

Some of those religious nutter comments are absolutely unhinged.

Religion is a mental illness and it's astounding that it's still acceptable.