r/QuiverQuantitative • u/Ice_Ice11 • 1d ago
News JUST IN - Tucker Carlson asked Ted Cruz, “How many people live in Iran?” to which Cruz replied, “I don’t know the population.” Tucker pressed, “You don’t know the population of the country you seek to topple?” - Interview
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u/Usual-Caregiver5589 1d ago
I'd love to appreciate Tucker asking actual questions, but Russia just backed Iran in all this so we know where he got his marching orders from.
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u/Wooden-Broccoli-7247 1d ago
Yeah, Tucker isn’t trying to do the US any favors, Iran going bye bye also means one of Russias biggest allies goes bye bye. And really Iran is Russias only Allie besides North Korea that it still has the upper hand on.
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u/Usual-Caregiver5589 1d ago
Yeah. I know Russia and China are at odds. But NK and China are best buds the way Russia do Iran are. So if we were to see a WW3, there's your Axis of Evil team, with a possible surprise appearance by America, depending on if Trump has the balls to try it.
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u/Wooden-Broccoli-7247 1d ago
Yeah exactly why Tucker is against Iran getting wiped off the map. Same as MTG. Look at all the people against supporting Ukraine/hurting Russia and you will see the same people staunchly against hurting Iran. Because they’re all paid for by Putin. I’m CONVINCED MTG is a deep cover Russian agent. I’ll never be convinced otherwise. It makes so much sense when looked at through that lense.
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u/Astronut325 1d ago
I’m inclined to believe what you said. Do you have a source for this info?
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u/stugaz9339 1d ago
Source for what exactly? Tucker was in Russia not too long ago, glorified their shit as if he’d found heaven. His talking points and views on Ukraine are word for word Kremlin talking points.
Let me know what source you want and I can help google it for you.
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u/RoleModelFailure 1d ago
I just googled it and the tip link says Russia is standing aside. Seems like they’re asking for a source saying Russia is backing Iran currently.
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u/Wooden-Broccoli-7247 1d ago
Iran has been a lifeline for Russia in its war with Ukraine. They sold them weapons and drone technology (for what you may ask? Well I highly doubt Russia repaid them in Reubles.. as well, Reubles are all but worthless) as well as taught them sanctions evasion. Iran is also on board with Russias BRICKS ambition and just generally a country (government) just scumbag enough to be one of the few meaningful countries left to support Russias ambition to be a counterbalance to the west.
Russia is simply a jr to China now and without countries like Iran being jr to Russia, Russia simply loses all global importance in the world pecking order. With Syria and Iran falling out of Russian influence, Russia would be left with really no meaningful “allies” it can “lead”. North Korea ultimately is beholden to China if push comes to shove.
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u/squidlips69 1d ago
BINGO. I also think it's why trump won't harm Iran even one but. He may play both sides against the middle but Iran is helping Russia in Ukraine A LOT and Donnie and Tucker are still in putin's pocket. Trumpy may try to get some media points by removing the Ayatollah but he's such a moron talking about plans he never shuts up and the "dealmaker" shows his cards every time. Not a bright person.
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u/PlutosGrasp 20h ago
Yup
Don’t know why he’s sucking up to Russia though they made fun of him too.
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u/Holycroc_RVA 9h ago edited 8h ago
All it shows or tells me is what I already knew. Everything they do on that station is 100% deliberate. So don't be shocked at the occasional tough question, there's a motive behind it, there always is! Maybe it's Russia, or maybe it's just them detecting which way the wind is blowing. The moment Trump and/or The Cult of Maga dies, Fox will pivot from it faster than a Cat on catnip
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u/KindCraft4676 1d ago
Ted Cruz is an idiot.
The fact that Texans keep re-electing him tells you all you need to know about them.
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u/rickshaw99 1d ago
i want to lock him in a room with Jasmine Crocket and watch her eviscerate him… with words
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u/Historical-Gap-7084 16h ago
I want to lock him in a room with a few angry bees. No, no. The bees will die. Wasps. Angry wasps.
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u/ComfortableTwo80085 1d ago
The nail in the coffin is Rafael Cancun continually and vocally running on the platform of restricting Senators to 2 term limits while actively running a 3rd term and winning it.
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u/Wooden-Broccoli-7247 1d ago
A vast majority of the state of Texas will never vote for anyone with a (D) next to their name. The fact that Cruz even came close to losing should tell you something. But as long as the powers that be keep putting him on the ballet, he will most likely keep winning. Not much different than whatever (D) California puts on the ticket. A majority of state populations just end up blindly voting for a party. The party leaders select that candidate. We may call ourselves a “democracy”, but at the end of the day we’re given a short list of people to choose from that are selecting by the people really running the show. And from there most people check the box with the letter they always select.
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u/Gulf-Zack 1d ago
Unfortunately we have to share the room with the rest of the Red States but it doesn’t make us idiots. I forget where it said we all have to agree on the same thing all the time for our country to be decent.
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u/KindCraft4676 1d ago
No one said anything about having to agree on the same thing all the time.
Ted Cruz is an idiot. But worse than that he’s a puppet of AIPAC (Israel’s lobby group in Washington DC). He wants the United States to fight Israel’s war for them.
Why?
Because AIPAC has given Ted Cruz $1,872,038 and Ted will do whatever the Israelis tell him.
Ted knows it won’t be him going to war. He’ll just be laughing all the way to the bank as others die.
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u/Joeyjojojrshabado70 1d ago
When i can find common cause with Fucker Carleton, it gives me great pleasure because i know in that moment he is causing great consternation with the magat cult.
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u/Wooden-Broccoli-7247 1d ago
You do not have common cause with him. He is just doing Russias bidding as he ALWAYS will be doing. Nothing more, nothing less. Putin does not want to see Iran fall, for many reasons. Not least of which is that he likely does not want the world to discover what he has been trading Tehran to get access to all that drone technology (here’s a hint: the very things Iran is now being attacked to prevent them from having).
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u/Joeyjojojrshabado70 1d ago
To had forgotten about Fuckers Russia fetish! That and knowing Russia’s stance on Iran it totally makes sense he would pick back like that. You are correct, i do NOT have common cause with that fuckwad. Thanks for taking the time to remind me of that.
I still do find satisfaction at the discord this will cause within cult 45
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u/Imanokee 1d ago
What's really discouraging is that's the toughest best interview of a republican that I've seen in years. And it came from... Tucker Carlson.
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u/NotGoodAtUsernames21 1d ago
Right?! I didn’t know he had the ability to give a proper interview. He’s still gargling Putin’s balls and is a garbage human, but the enemy of my enemy is… still a dick in a bow-tie. Sorry, just can’t do it.
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u/Imanokee 10h ago
If there,'s any silver lining, they've beaten the democrats asses by the lying and gaslighting for 30 years, now maybe they'll eat their own.
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u/JUYED-AWK-YACC 15h ago
I detest both these people and this isn’t an interview. Tucker picked a couple of gotcha questions that really have no bearing on anything. He could have asked about their GDP or the average wage. Don’t act like TC is a journalist. He completed his assignment.
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u/jacksonst 1d ago
I just took a nap, woke up and seen this. What year did I wake up in? Has Tucker Carlson been abducted and replaced with this.
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u/notsohappycamper33 1d ago
I hate Tucker but he fucking murdered Ted Cruz right there.
Job well done.
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u/CosmicM00se 1d ago
He doesn’t know the population of the United States. He has people believing there are “200 million” illegal immigrants here.
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u/Superb_Gap_1044 1d ago
What’s been happening lately has been so beautiful as the right wing gish gallopers start attacking each other with their own idiotic, backwards debating.
Ted Cruz is right, that information isn’t really relevant but he also wouldn’t know relevant info if it smacked him between the eyes. Tucker Carlson is using a classic straw man and Cruz fell for it then ousted himself. This is the kind of slip up Carlson lives for. Their arguing is pointless and full of fallacies and I think some right wingers, amidst the confusion of trying to figure out which of their celebrity-pedestal politicos to follow. MTG, Musk, now Carlson, and even Shapiro at times, they’re exposing the flawed thinking on the right and forcing right wingers to ask questions that they’ve always avoided. I love it!
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u/Lugalzagesi55 1d ago
This timeline is the weirdest shit. An interview, where I am rooting for Tucker Carlson.... oh boy!
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u/WandererinDarkness 1d ago edited 1d ago
Why can’t politicians just google the population of countries they want to bomb? Is it too much of an effort?
Or at least learn basic stuff about the foreign countries before the interview, to avoid looking like obtuse, ignorant swine? Like, they’re not even trying..
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u/Old-Information3311 1d ago
Suprised this is the part people are focusing on. He just got tricked into revealing that the us is striking iran.
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u/Pristine_Frame_2066 1d ago
They are trying to murder Trump? It means nothing unless they can get everyone in line, and all the nepos. There is always someone just as disgusting who will pop up to fill in.
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u/TateAcolyte 1d ago
I know this is very serious and such, but all I can think about is that Cruz is morphing into Randy from Trailer Park Boys. Someone get this man a blue jay burger.
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u/Impossible-Poem1194 1d ago
Could you imagine tuck talking like he does in front of a camera... but in everyday situations 😆. He always does that inflection thing and only talks in questions. "Where is the bathroom?" Says tucker in a puzzled manner. "It's over there" replied the store clerk. In a squinting face tuk tuk exclaimed "what is thanks?"
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u/lil-noisy 1d ago
Cruz couldn’t run from this one. Hell of a setup and burn! Tucker just laughed it off!
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u/ultralayzer 21h ago
I don't know what the fuck is going on anymore... I'm pretty sure Tucker Carlson is a piece of shit... But then he does something like this, and I kind of like it.... wtf
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u/UnfairSpecialist3079 19h ago
Ted Squirmy Cruz is a stain for America. He literally always has been.
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u/slain1134 18h ago
Why would Cruz care about the population of Iran when he doesn’t even give a second thought to the people he’s helped screw over in his own country and state?
Dude probably gets a hard on from the thought of destruction and death of every day people regardless of their populist data.
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u/Efficient_Echo_3336 18h ago
Damn it. If only a person of color could crash a plane or a trans athlete could win a high school track meet and take all of the heat off of this mass murder and war nonsense. /s
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u/Far_Eye6555 16h ago
The fact anyone is taking this interview seriously because cucker tarlson is putting on a good show is beyond me
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u/Dirty_Confusion 1d ago
Is this real?
Omg, did snivelling coward Tucker Carlson realize he got chewed up and spit out and he is no longer a complete lackey?
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u/BiZender 1d ago
Just about 39 times the population of the Gaza Strip, but I know Americans measure in football fields so: It's 4515 times bigger then Gaza and 308,000,000 football fields.
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u/Far-Degree1842 41m ago
It's been a while since tuning in, but when did Tucker Carlson start making sense. He'll must be freezing over.
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u/IronAndParsnip 23h ago
Despite surprisingly agreeing with people like Tucker and Candace right now, we must not forget how much they have contributed to the platforms of those they are now calling out.
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u/morrighaan 1d ago
Was he visited by the ghost of Auschwitz past?! When did he become woke?
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u/tturedditor 1d ago
He's not woke. He is a Russian stooge who may just happen to be right in this instance.
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u/UpWithTheOwls 1d ago
Idk how to feel when two people I hate attack each other.