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"I'm going to name names, now."

Patrick Gaspard and @timmiller.bsky.social talk about how Israel became a political litmus test and how one answer became an excuse for Democrats to attack Zohran Mamdani instead of grappling with U.S. foreign policy.
December 19, 2025 at 2:15 AM
"I actually think that we have to recognize that this is not just a left versus right moment," Patrick Gaspard says. "This is not a Democrats versus Republican moment. If we really do believe that there's an existential threat to our democracy, we gotta look for defectors."
December 19, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Ben Shapiro: "If many speakers, including Tucker Carlson and others, get on stage here at TPUSA and claim, without proper evidence, that Jeffrey Epstein was running a Mossad rape ring being covered up by the Trump administration…they're implicating in their speculation actual human beings."
December 19, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Ben Shapiro: "When Steve Bannon, for example, accuses his foreign policy opponents of loyalty to a foreign country…he's simply maligning people he disagrees with. Which is indeed par for the course for a man who was once a PR flack for Jeffrey Epstein. Check the record."
December 19, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Ben Shapiro on Tucker Carlson: "If you host a Hitler-apologist, Nazi-loving, anti-American piece of refuse like Nick Fuentes…and you proceed to glaze him, you ought to own it."
December 19, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Ben Shapiro: "No, Tucker Carlson, it is not an excuse to go silent on Candace's targeting of TPUSA or to mirror her bullshit…The same holds true of Megyn Kelly…That is a moral and logical absurdity."
December 19, 2025 at 1:18 AM
"AOC understands how wrestling works, and she understands that wrestling is popular media now and popular media is politics now."

Patrick Gaspard and @timmiller.bsky.social on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's response to whether she could beat JD Vance in 2028.
December 19, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Ben Shapiro: "If Candace Owens decides to spend everyday since the murder of Charlie Kirk casting aspersions at TPUSA…and to imply or outright claim complicity in a cover up over Charlie's murder…we have a moral obligation to call that out."
December 19, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Ben Shapiro: "Today I want to talk about something even more important — how to discern those attempting to speak truth from frauds and grifters…The conservative movement is in danger from charlatans who claim to speak in the name of principle but actually traffic in conspiracy and dishonesty."
December 19, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"He's saying a quiet thing out loud."

Patrick Gaspard and @timmiller.bsky.social discuss Trump's order of a total blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers going in and out of Venezuela.
December 19, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Patrick Gaspard: "Donald Trump last night looked at the American people and said, pay no attention to what you're feeling at the gas pump...to what you're paying at the diner and the supermarket...Pay no attention to any of that, because MBS says we're doing really fine."
December 19, 2025 at 12:15 AM
"This morning, I told everybody I'm gonna be out with Elf on the Shelf and they all got it."

@patrickgaspard.bsky.social reveals the nickname his family uses for @timmiller.bsky.social.
December 18, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Fox News' host presses Howard Lutnick over Trump's claim that he is cutting pharmaceutical prices by more than 100%:

“If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to zero. If you cut it by 400% or 500%…the drug companies are actually paying you to take their products.”
December 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Q: "Will you be seeking any authorization from Congress for any land attacks on cartels in Venezuela?"

Trump: "I wouldn't mind telling them but it's not a big deal. I don't have to tell them…I just hope they wouldn't leak it."
December 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Trump on the vote to rename the Kennedy Center to the Trump-Kennedy Center: “The board is a very distinguished board, most distinguished people in the country. And I was surprised by it, and I was honored by it.”

Trump appointed the board.
December 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
"There's no human right to be able to sit at a wine bar and eat crudité and stinky cheeses without people telling you that you suck."

@timmiller.bsky.social on Scott Bessent:
December 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Trump on cannabis: "You'll be able to see if it is as good as people say it is. I mean, people say it is beyond good. And you'll be able to find that out now."
December 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Q: “Do you want Congress to extend these ACA subsidies?”

Trump: “Well, I'd like not to be able to do it…I don't know why we have to extend.”
December 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Q: “These Obamacare subsidies are expiring now in a matter of just a few days. More than 20 million Americans are now bracing for their premiums to skyrocket. Are you going to let this happen, or will you intervene?”

Trump: “They will skyrocket because it was never any good.”
December 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM