This interview with fellow right-winger Tucker Carlson:
TRANSCRIPT.
Carlson: How many people live in Iran, by the way?
Cruz: I don’t know the population.
Carlson: At all?
Cruz: No. I don’t know the population.
Carlson: You don’t know the population of the country you seek to topple?
Cruz: Uh… how many people are there in Iran?
Carlson: 92 million.
Cruz (gestures with an air of finality): Okay. Yeah, uh, I –
Carlson: How could you not know that?
Cruz: I, uh, I don’t sit around memorizing population tables.
Carlson: Well, it’s kind of relevant, because you’re calling for the overthrow of the government.
Cruz: Why is it relevant whether it’s… it’s 90 million or 80 million or a hundred million… why, why is that relevant?
Carlson: Because if you don’t know anything about the country–
Cruz: I didn’t say I didn’t know anything about the country.
Carlson: Okay, what’s the ethnic mix of Iran?
Cruz (pauses, thinks, gestures dramatically): They are Persians –
Carlson: What percent?
Cruz: and predominantly Shia. Okay, okay, this is cute. Okay.
Carlson: No, it’s not. You don’t know anything about Iran, so actually –
Cruz: Okay. I am not the Tucker Carlson expert on Iran who says –
Carlson: You’re a senator who’s calling for the overthrow of the government, and you don’t know anything about the country.
Cruz: No, you’re the one who doesn’t know anything about the country. You’re the one who claims they’re not trying to murder Donald Trump.
Carlson: No, I’m not saying that.
Cruz: You can’t figure out if it was a good idea to kill General Soleimani and said it was bad.
Carlson: You don’t believe they’re trying to murder Trump, because you’re not calling for military strikes against them in retaliation, and if you really believed that…
Cruz: We are carrying out military strikes TODAY.
Carlson: You said Israel was.
Cruz: Right. With our help. I said we. Israel is leading them, but we’re supporting them.
Carlson: Well, this is… you’re breaking news here, because the US government last night denied, the national security spokesman Alex Pfeiffer denied, on behalf of Trump, that we were acting on Israel’s behalf in any offensive capacity.
Cruz: No, we’re not bombing them. Israel’s bombing them.
Carlson: You just said we were.
Cruz: I…uh… we are supporting Israel as it…
Carlson: This is high stakes. You’re a senator: if you’re saying the United States government is at war with Iran right now, people are listening.
Cruz: Okay. I, uh (splutters)
Imagine being a CNN or MSNBC reporter and seeing Tucker fucking Carlson giving more pushback and having better follow ups than you when interviewing fascists.
I’d legitimately kms.
I’d off myself if I caught myself posting the Epic Comeback that Cruz did on twitter:
(Sources herein.)
Anyway, the Death Star was a giant military base, whereas the Islamic Republic of Iran has an overwhelmingly civilian population, and it has no interest in global (let alone galactic) domination. So this is an uncompelling equivalence.
Besides, Carlson was likely more concerned about the expenses. Having a general idea of something’s population size is important for understanding how difficult or expensive conquering it will be. It seems that Cruz missed the point here.
Contractor: “Excuse me, I don’t mean to interrupt, but what are you two talking about?”
Randal: “Ending of Return of the Jedi.”
Dante: “My friend here is trying to convince me that any independent contractor that was working on the death star were innocent victims when they was destroyed by the rebels.”
Contractor: “Well, I’m a contractor, roofer; home n’ ready improvements and speaking as a roofer I can tell you a roofer’s personal politics comes into play heavily when choosing jobs.”
Randal: “Like when?”
Contractor: “Three months ago I was offered a job up in the hills. A beautiful house with tons of property. It was a simple reshingling job, but I was told that if it was finished within a day, my price would be doubled. Then I realized whose house it was.”
Dante: “Whose house was it?”
Contractor: “Dominick Bambino’s.”
Randal: ““Babyface” Bambino? The gangster?”
Contractor: “The same. The money was right, but the risk was too big. I knew who he was, and based on that, I passed the job on to a friend of mine.”
Dante: “Based on personal politics.”
Contractor: “Right. And that week, the Foresci family put a hit on Babyface’s house. My friend was shot and killed. He wasn’t even finished shingling.”
Randal: “No way!”
Contractor: “I’m alive because I knew there were risks involved taking on that particular client. My friend wasn’t so lucky…You know, any contractor willing to work on that Death Star knew the risks. If they were killed, it was their own fault. A roofer listens to this… (taps his heart) not his wallet.”
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=iQdDRrcAOjA
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
This is that fantasy everyone has after getting owned and having a comeback 5 hours later all alone at home. Like there is a reason you don’t post it 5 hours later and have it remain a fantasy; because it’s loser shit and the comeback probably isn’t good to begin with. We all have it happen to us, just Cruz lacks the self awareness.