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Republican Senator Ted Cruz is completely stumped after Tucker Carlson asks him what the population of Iran is.
X ^ | June 17, 2025 | Collin Rugg

Posted on 06/18/2025 5:40:03 AM PDT by Racketeer

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To: Racketeer

Not brutal, doesn’t change the facts that Tucker is wrong on his stance. Can Tucker explain why the Iranians kept building dams, even if they weren’t needed?


121 posted on 06/18/2025 9:03:58 AM PDT by 1ScrappyArmyMom
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To: Racketeer

Most people don’t have population statistics at their fingertips for every country in the news. I would have asked Tucker what the population of Pakistan is. He likely has no clue.


122 posted on 06/18/2025 9:19:44 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: caww

UGH.


123 posted on 06/18/2025 9:31:41 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience..H)
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To: Racketeer
Simple answer:

♫ There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago ♫

124 posted on 06/18/2025 9:32:08 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (First, I was a clinger, then deplorable, now I'm garbage. Feel the love? )
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To: T.B. Yoits

“”””Then again, Cruz is still a Kanadian a heart, the country of his birth, and doesn’t really care about U.S. politics.””””

I knew that you made goofy posts sometimes but I did not know that you were an out and out liar.


125 posted on 06/18/2025 9:37:12 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12
I knew that you made goofy posts sometimes but I did not know that you were an out and out liar.

Goofy posts?

Let's not pretend Rafael Edward (Ted) Cruz, born in Kanada to an American mother and a Cuban father cared enough about the United States to not run in a U.S. Presidential election.

126 posted on 06/18/2025 9:56:54 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: dforest

Yeah, it’s like The Underpants Gnomes on South Park:

1. Bomb Bomb Iran

2. ?

3. Happy days with our puppet Shah installed

“Regime change” seldom works out as promised. Look at Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria ...

And how about the Biden crew’s prediction their sanctions would bring Russia to its knees and cause the Russian people to rise up and topple Putin?

Yes, the mullahs are truly awful, and I wish it would be so quick and easy to rid the Iranian people and the world of them, but such things are almost never quick and easy, let alone cost free.


127 posted on 06/18/2025 10:11:36 AM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "all's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: Racketeer

So what, I keep up to date on most history and geography things, and I cannot tell you the population of every country.


128 posted on 06/18/2025 10:30:44 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: T.B. Yoits

Huh?

Did you like Cruz’s pro-2nd amendment fights before the Supreme court, or his calls to build a wall in 2012, perhaps his brilliant organizing of conservative congressmen to kill amnesty and fight Obamacare during the nightmarish Obama years?

The born American and raised in Texas and now senator cares vey much about America whether you like him or not.


129 posted on 06/18/2025 10:41:15 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Racketeer
Republican Senator Ted Cruz is completely stumped after Tucker Carlson asks him what the population of Iran is.

Why should anyone care what Iran's population is? It matters just as much as how many pistachios they grow.

Their leadership wants an atomic bomb, and I don't care how many people they have, they are *NOT* getting an atomic bomb.

Stay focused on the essentials Tucker. Stop discussing irrelevant stuff.

130 posted on 06/18/2025 11:27:37 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Racketeer
Cruz: How many people live in Iran?

Tucker: 92 million. How could you not know that?

And that's another thing. Playing internet "gotcha" tricks is just stupid. Tucker didn't know the answer till he looked it up, probably just to screw with Cruz.

Cruz should have just asked him to name the populations of Turkey, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria, and so forth, since he wants to act like a little @$$hole with his looked up "gotcha" question.

Tucker couldn't answer any of them without looking it up.

Again, I don't care how many people are in Iran, they are *NOT* getting an atomic bomb.

131 posted on 06/18/2025 11:30:41 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Racketeer

To paraphrase Albert Einstein, “Why clutter your mind with things you can look up.”


132 posted on 06/18/2025 11:33:20 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: KobraKai

1.772453850905516, etc..
anyone knows that


133 posted on 06/18/2025 11:58:06 AM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: Racketeer

Was it nominee George W that an interviewer asked him to name/pronounce the leaders of some countries with difficult to remember and pronounce names?


134 posted on 06/18/2025 11:59:03 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12
Did you like Cruz’s pro-2nd amendment fights before the Supreme court, or his calls to build a wall in 2012, perhaps his brilliant organizing of conservative congressmen to kill amnesty and fight Obamacare during the nightmarish Obama years?

Did you like him when he ran for President against Donald Trump in 2016 despite being born to one non-U.S. citizen parent and having citizenship in Kanada?

Do you like him now that he's keeping his options open for running again in 2028 despite not being a natural born citizen?

135 posted on 06/18/2025 12:04:11 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits

“”””Then again, Cruz is still a Kanadian a heart, the country of his birth, and doesn’t really care about U.S. politics.””””

What a really stupid lie to post, and what a strange vendetta for you to be on.


136 posted on 06/18/2025 12:11:59 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Williams

Never argue with a fool.

Proved again.


137 posted on 06/18/2025 12:16:22 PM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: Racketeer
Man, that was brutal.

Cruz could have maybe glanced at Wikipedia or something to prepare.

He also went full on dispensationalist which is just going to just sound kooky to a lot of folks

138 posted on 06/18/2025 12:26:40 PM PDT by hcmama
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To: plain talk

Yeah...sorry, not one of those questions were unfair or irrelevant.


139 posted on 06/18/2025 12:28:08 PM PDT by hcmama
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To: Phil

The cope on this thread is strong


140 posted on 06/18/2025 12:29:23 PM PDT by hcmama
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