very normal stuff here

Tim Scott also has a video message that nobody is excited for

lol not a single person claps when Nikki Haley's video message is announced

DeSantis is doing a video message to the NRA forum instead of being there in person. Low energy.

the NRA forum is not especially pumped about Asa Hutchinson's veiled shots at Trump

Pence calls for the restoration of mental institutions

"The answer to mass shootings is not fewer guns" -- Pence

Pence calls for mass shooters to be put to death within months

Pence calls for armed guards in every school in America

nightmare rotation

"We don't need gun control" -- Pence at the NRA forum blames recent mass shooting on trans people and mental illness and tries to absolve guns

holy shit Pence is getting booed loudly at the NRA event

Wayne LaPierre says at the NRA event that "gun hating politicians should never go to bed unafraid of what this association and all of our millions of members can do to their political careers" 😳

lol Kristi Noem is signing an executive order at the NRA forum

Chris Sununu's jabs at Trump (who he does not name) at the NRA forum are being met with complete silence

please clap

and then what happened?

poor Jim can barely see over the lectern

Vivek Ramaswamy says he stands with Greg Abbott and supports a pardon for Daniel Perry

ok?

"We will shut down the FBI"

"You want China not to invade Taiwan? Here's something we can do. The NRA can open its branch next time in Taiwan" -- Vivek lol

conservative intros are so cringe lmao

Trump decries "the transgender cult" at the NRA forum

when your teleprompter text differs from what you really want to say

drink!

what could possibly go wrong?

this is apparently an applause line at the NRA forum

Trump at the NRA forum: "You know what I'm talking about. The n-word. Can't use the n-word."

"I don't know. They wanted me to put that in. I guess some people are happy with it. I don't know." -- Trump, oozing sincere conviction

Trump calls for national concealed carry reciprocity

Trump: "Let's be very clear. The issue is not too many guns. The issue is too many thugs."

Trump alludes to Pence getting booed at the NRA forum: "I hope you gave Pence a good warm approval."

Trump is now displaying tweets showing him leading other Republican presidential contenders in the polls

Trump calls lifelong Republican Bill Barr a "RINO"

"I think we have to take it over. We have to take over management of our capital" -- Trump on Washington DC

unvarnished fascism

"We have to harden our assets to protect our children against threats" -- Trump pushes "hardening" schools, which was his proposed response to school shootings when he was in office

Trump on school shootings at the NRA forum: "This is not a gun problem ... this is a spiritual problem ... I will also create a new tax credit to reimburse any teacher for the full cost of a concealed carry firearm and training ... we want to arm some of these teachers."

Trump proposes a panel to investigate whether being trans and using cannabis cause mass shootings

Trump: "We have a Marxist revolution going on, and I think you're starting to see it"

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Childhood trauma is responsible for so much of the stuff that we have to put up with 30-40 years later.

She sounds so proud of her dads child abuse. 😬

Lol, Kristi Noem is a joke.

This is not relatable to any normal family.

Waiting for headlines about fans of Kristi Noem getting their kids lost in the woods.

Even from afar that is A LOT OF

There’s nothing better than post traumatic stress disorder and nightmares to get a head start in life

That Kristi Noem child abuse story comes with serious recoil.

Daddy scared her for life, now we know why Noem is the way she is...

Kristi, that was pretty screwed up of your father. He had no right to traumatize the 10 year old you like that. Christ.

She said the quiet part out loud. They want people to live scared.

Kristi - you got no more ‘splaining to do.

Wow. Her story reminds me of my childhood friends, brothers Steve and Andy, whose horrible father taught them to "swim" by rowing them out into the big pond on their farm and throwing the boys overboard. They nearly drowned. Their mom saw it happen, freaked out, and saved them.

Child abuse lady.

He’s lucky she didn’t shoot him

Well, at least we now know where she came from

What is she, writing "Yellowstone" fan fic in her off time?

This story tells me a lot about how she became who she is. Totes normal 😳

These are sick people who belong in therapy not high office.

Then there was the time when Dad took me out for ice cream. I was 9. E we hen we stopped for gas, 5 guys pulled me out of the car and gang raped me. My father had paid these guys to do it. Ha ha, good times. Made me stronger, though!

So…..after the armed 2-year old granddaughter story, we have this (most assuredly apocryphal) “Frontiersman father” story about “toughening-up his daughter”. Anyone else really tired of this worn-out, gun-centric BS mythology they’ve created for themselves?

She's running. Oh gawd.

Ah, yes, back in the day when it was hilarious to terrify your 10 yr old kids. This story would switch tack if she'd gotten scared enough to shoot at the bear noises.

Whatever doesn't kill you but does completely traumatize you makes you stronger.

And that’s how I became a sociopathic shite!

Yeah, that didn't happen.

So THATS what happened to her 😳

That’s child abuse, not a humorous anecdote.

This story makes me sad.

You have to be 12 to get a hunting license in South Dakota, and damn near every other state, and it has been 12 for a long time.

Dropping a terrified 10 year old off in the woods telling her “to hunt your way back” and then following her making bear noises in the dark seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.