Texas Woman Gets Death Threats For Baking Tim Walz Cookie

If there’s one truism in life, it’s that people on the internet will take any opportunity to act like assholes.

Case in point: A bakery in Flower Mound has received death threats for daring to make a cookie with vice presidential candidate Tim Walz’s face on it.

Haley Popp, who owns Hive Bakery, told The Dallas Morning News that she posted the blue sugar cookies on the store’s Instagram and they sold out quickly. (What a sweet story! Anyway that’s all—wait, just kidding.)

Of course, online assholes jumped in. The worst came via a private Facebook group called Flower Mound Cares. One commenter reportedly hoped that Popp’s bakery and “all of the gay people in it” would burn. (She contacted police but was told that unless someone messaged her directly with a threat to harm her, there’s nothing they can do.)

Popp said she’s been harassed before — essentially anytime she posts any baked goods with a political message. Apparently bakers can only be “political” if they’re refusing to make cakes for gay couples! Luckily even when she receives threats, her sales go up — not down, she told the newspaper.

And Popp, to her credit, isn’t backing down.

“This business is just an extension of who I am, and I don’t think I should have to be quiet,” she told the Morning News. “I’ve built this platform. Why shouldn’t I use it?”

On Wednesday, the bakery posted a fresh batch of cupcakes featuring both Walz and Vice President Kamala Harris on it.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DAoeuF7SvHv/?hl=en

And they’re gluten free! Grandpa is NOT gonna like that! (Unless he’s a celiac.)