I mean, this statement was made in Colorado. They love Lincoln up in Colorado, cause he built a ton of the rail network that makes Denver more than a glorified truck stop (and also helped kill all the Indians in the northern territories to enable westward expansion).
Paired with the accompanying text, the commenter implies that the people calling for the burning of Pride flags should burn their racist confederate pride flags.
It's all they have now. They're unwilling to compromise any position, even though those positions are horribly unpopular. Instead they have to make a lot of noise and insist you move further to the right to meet them in the middle, or else.
I get the blue and green ones (police and military), the red ones are for firefighters, right? To steal a phrase, nobody ever said fuck the fire department.
Plus I don't want people to think I'm straight right off the bat. Seems counterproductive. I want people to think I'm gay so they treat me the way they would treat a gay person.
"Go commit a hate crime! And one of you is definitely going to escalate beyond burning and we won't be there to support you when you commits physical violence to a member of the LGBTQ+ community!"
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?
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.