Posted on 06/18/2025 5:40:03 AM PDT by Racketeer
Tucker: How many people live in Iran?
Cruz: I don't know the population.
Tucker: You don't know the population of the country you seek to topple?
Cruz: How many people live in Iran?
Tucker: 92 million. How could you not know that?
Brutal.
This short segment gets heated though they remain respectful.
Big Deal
The point? Most people don’t know the capitol of Tuvalu, either. How does that deflect from the main point of the argument? Mountain...molehill...
Hardly brutal.
Tucker was asking the question, so he already looked up the answer before asking. What are the odds Tucker didn’t know that factoid a week ago?
“How much are they paying you to ask that?”
weak is more like it
Agreed. I had to think, and thought it was about 70 million without looking.
Silly thing to make a big deal about.
I don’t have a dog in this fight, but what the hell difference does it make what the population is. That Cruz did not know is no big deal IMHO. The leadership are brutal MFers and need to be contained or destroyed.
How many Americans actually know the answer to that question?
It’s a stupid question to ask.
Very childish...
So what?
It’s not the people that are the problem.
It’s the leadership.
Not everyone’s head is filled with obscure facts. Some people actually have something useful in them and bigger things to worry about.
I’m positive Ted Cruz could ask Tucker questions he knows nothing about on the spot. This is dumb.
Tucker is an idiot.
He thinks he’s superior that he stumped Ted with a gotcha question.
Tucker is pseudo here and I am sympathetic to the notion that our problems are here at home. We have too many traitors is government and too many citizens that think they want communism. Iran’s government is scum.
Exactly.
My guess is that the vast majority of them would be happy with a new Shah, or some other more free government.
But the vast majority do not support the regime at all, from what I have heard over the decades.
“Tucker: How many people live in Iran?
Cruz: I don’t know the population.
Tucker: You don’t know the population of the country you seek to topple?
Cruz: How many people live in Iran?
Tucker: 92 million. How could you not know that?”
Cruz is a pretty smart guy and has forgotten more than Tucker will ever know. I like the way he handled this ridiculous question by calmly asking the question of Tucker.
It would have been cool if Cruz had responded with “92 million and down a bunch of generals and mullahs and counting.”
Tucker looked like a fool.
I’m with ya there. I’m with Tucker on keeping the US out of more wars in the ME, but that’s a gotcha.
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