Tucker Carlson waging war on Ted Cruz
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Ted Cruz deserves it.
Look. If you want to build an Empire, you gotta be competent in how you structure your imperium.
The Americans have always half-assed their empire, because Americans don't really like empires. Instead, it's always some specific cabal of this or that senator, this or that intelligence official, this or that company, that basically takes control of the foreign government and exerts ultimate authority to make a couple of extra bucks for themselves. Firestone runs Liberia. Great...
Our vassals & colonies have been Cuba, Guatemala, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Panama, Guam, American Samoa, Hawaii, Alaska, Liberia, South Vietnam, South Korea, Iraq, Japan, and West Germany. The only ones that succeeded were because we vassalized already successful people (South Korea, Japan, Germany, Philippines(?)). A few places turned out okay because we colonized them fully (Puerto Rico, Panama, American Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, Alaska), and the rest went to absolute hell (Iraq, Guatemala, Liberia, Cuba, South Vietnam).
We are not the British. We are not good at proper Empire building. There is no American equivalent of Canada, New Zealand, Australia, or Rhodesia. Even Hawaii and Alaska don't come close to the sophistication of Rhodesia.
I remember reading a USMC Iraq War debrief report, and something that stuck with me was a passage from a man who was head of a portion of the insurgency, but then was brought over under the Sunni Awakening Movement.
He said, and I'm paraphrasing, "What do you have to show for your conquest? When the British ruled us, they built train depots, factories, harbors, and infrastructure. When Saddam ruled us, he built statues and monuments to himself, and then built mansions for his friends. But you built nothing. You destroyed the country and left nothing in it's place. Where are your factories? Where are your bridges? Where are your monuments? Where are your oil fields? Why did you even come here? What was your legacy here besides violence and destruction?"
And yes, he was our ally when we left, and this was the response he gave in the interview.
We... aren't good... at this. We acted more like Attila The Hun more than George the First. The Iraqis looked at us like we were Mongolians.
It shouldn't surprise us. We're Americans, our logic is that once the government is out of your way you can do whatever you want! And if you don't have our level of entrepreneurship and innovation... then that means nothing.
But that's the good way to look at this. The other way is to recognize that the globalists who are fucking destroying our country, caused mass de-industrialization, presided over rampant crime, and are actively engaging in demographic displacement in this country, are trying to tell us that they want to engage in regime change and nation building in
IraqIran. Well, we know they fucking suck at it because they can't fucking nation build here, now can they? If you think they're supposed to care about the ethnic breakdown of Iran, why would they care about Iran's ethnic breakdown, when they can't tell you the ethnic breakdown of Maryland, or even just the city of Detroit, and do they understand how ethnic groups even work? Of course they don't. They think they physically own all Latinos. They're going to look at Iran, see that there are Kurds, and say "Hmm. Those are mine. They will obey me."If Iran is not gonna be a state in the union, and I'm not going to be able to move there without not have to learn Farsi to get a cushy IT job, then regime change really just shouldn't be on the table for us.
Because most of us never wanted to be an empire. Going out and fighting these wars and "humanitarian projects" in every fucking nation of the world is never on the ballot, and its usually not even part of the campaign for the guys on the ballot.
90% of it is done by organizations without any oversight like the CIA and unelected losers like John Bolton that hold enough dirt to never be kicked out of their positions.
So its always been these guys pushing these massively destructive moves against the wishes of nearly every fucking American across both sides, and then being forced to half ass it when magically its not popular and every politician has to run on pulling out of it.
No disagreement here.
We didn't try to make most of those places our empire.
A lot of those were us trying to clean up some other empires mess either to get their former empire away from us(Cuba,Philippines,Puerto Rico,Guam, South Korea) or as a favor(Vietnam to France)
We frickin bought Alaska.
The American equivalent of Canada, New Zealand, is almost everything west of Texas and between the Mississippi and the Appalachians. We built it up just fine.
Power vacuums and purchases are still imperial projects.
West of Texas is what we personally colonized. That's why it succeeded.
Correct. We shouldn't be playing in the sandbox.
We also shouldn't be responsible for everyone else in the world, like Ukraine.
He's literally a Senator for Israel. Baffles me that Texas keeps electing him.
When Texans realize he’s running again, the primary is already over and he’s running against some Dem goblin and would be catastrophic for the state (Beto, Alred, etc).
We wins because his opponents are so much worse. This is how the deep state operates.
Something something Massie is the only one in Congress(?*) not in AIPAC's pocket.
*: Stated in his Tucker interview, but I don't feel like rewatching the whole thing to figure out if it's just the House or all of Congress.
https://rumble.com/v507gyk-rep.-thomas-massie-israel-lobbyists-the-cowards-in-congress-and-living-off-.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
Steers and queers, bro.
I feel utterly ashamed that I used to be a normie right winger and supported globohomo warmongers like Ted Cruz.
You have no idea how enslaved normies are. I was in a house recently, the moment I walked in there was a huge portrait of George HW Bush on the wall. Then in the living room there was a 100 inch TV blasting Faux News. And on the 3 second glimpse I got of it...I saw Lindsey Graham calling for war and some woman with a huge star of David pendant.
Thats what normie Republicans are consuming on a daily basis.
Jesus... Americans are on some whole another level of brainwashing
But they have a $400,000 mcmansion financed through a VA loan and a 100 inch Samsung 4k UHDTV to watch it on. So they have ths illusion of being rich.
It makes the propaganda that much more potent.
It’s really bad. The Overton window shifts hard every decade.
Yeah, this is just like Covid was where I'm totally on my own among those around me. I'm not surrounded by lefties at all, so when the discussion is fags and illegals, it's pretty easy. When the discussion is not going to war over intel I'm not sure I even believe and even if it is true I'm still not sure I want to go to war over it, yeah well I get Israel is our ally they are defenseless, we're the only ones that can save them, blah, blah, blah. Same old shit as "I'll wear a mask it might help get the vaccine it protects you but they shouldn't require it, but you still should totally get it."
I even pick the Jews over the Muslims and still don't want to go clean up the shit they started. FFS, I'd rather go support Ukraine because at least they actually got invaded.
In 2024 paragon path Cruz voters turned into Trump guys, renegade path guys were the nastiest DeSantis fanatics.
It could be worse. You could have voted for Hillary.
Ted Cruz is a fucking ass hat and was made to look like a fucking twat by Tucker, and well deserved. Tucker roasted this rhino scum.
This is almost another "have you ever BEEEN?" moment. War whores are calling this a petty gotcha line of questioning. Everyone else can see that Cruz is blinded by his bia$es.
Listening to the Ted Cruz/Tucker Carlson interview the next day after the viral "What is the population of Iran?" clip.
What's interesting is that the Iran facts Qs came 90 mins into the interview (with commercials).
The clip comes after Ted Cruz accused Tucker multiple times about "being obsessed with Israel", being an antisemite, being a conspiracy theorist about the moon landing and 9/11, etc.
Over some mild sealioning questions Tucker asked about AIPAC and whether the superPAC is tied at all with the interests of the government of Israel. And Cruz was on his backfoot and crashing out.
Cruz said himself in the interview that the main reason he was elected in 2012 was that he ran on supporting Israel's interests in the US.
🤠 The delegates, Donald
Ah yes, retarded gotcha questions that have nothing to do with anything, and this is the best he has?
You can't think of a single reason why the approximate population of a country would be important if you're invading it?
Why is it important?
The key points of why Iran is getting ass blasted are they're a terrorist state who apparently almost has nukes, and has committed to trying to genocide the jews.
To nobody's shock (except you clowns), the jews decided to stop them.
Why does it matter what the population is? Who gives a fuck about the make up of the population?
It's not a relevant factor in fuck all.
Listen buddy, those people are still going to be there (most of them) when the regime falls. There are profound regional consequences for every neighboring country. Mass population displacement into Europe is likely. Civil war may or may not happen. NATO allies may or may not be sucked in. Future negotiations with Russia will be affected. Vast quantities of natural resources and weapons will be in play. Who are the likely successors of the countries forming from the chaos and what ethnic groups do they come from?
Even if you're sociopathically cold to 92M people, which is what I think you're getting at, you should do a little bit of thought as to how the US could manipulate postwar conditions to our advantage. If you're not a moron, anyway.
So why does that change why they're getting bombed to shit?
It doesn't. This is all deflection and seething, nothing more.
I'm going to try to put this in a hypothetical that you can understand.
Say some guy rapes your daughter and threatens to rape her again and the cops won't do anything. You know you have to protect your daughter and you have a gun. The guy loafs around on his porch all day and is an easy target.
The point of this scenario is that it's unimpeachably moral and you have a duty to act, just as you see us and Iran.
According to you, all that is needed is to stroll over to the guy's porch and blow him away as soon as possible. Are the cops going to arrest you? Who's going to provide for your daughter? Do you have a criminal lawyer? Is there a way you could better accomplish this? Nah, consequences don't matter. Me kill rapist.
I assume your response to this is something like, "decapitating Iran doesn't have any real consequences for the United States." Let's see if I'm right.
I struggle to articulate how retarded you are, but maybe you can understand a glimmer of it now?
I thought your analogy was going to include how many homies are hanging out with him on his porch.
Or how many other occupants there are in the home you're about to go shoot up.
Yeah, I could've mentioned the possibility of his friends and family burning down your house as well (or your friends' houses), but I think the point was made.
No, the argument being made by cucker is more "but he's 30% black, does that make you feel different about killing him while he's raping your daughter".
You're a retard, and so is anyone who thinks his point is anything that matters.
Can you respond to the point that we were discussing, not another completely different point, you idiot?
They've been two weeks away from having nukes for thirty years now. Just like Saddam's yellowcake, we're clearly getting deceived into another quagmire here.
Ignore what we're getting dragged into for the moment. The point is that muh jews did something you retards are seething about, and so is cucker.
The population of Iran is completely irrelevant to why they're getting bombed. That's the point.
Ignore that israel is dragging us into another quagmire, the point is that we're angry at them for dragging us into a quagmire? Seriously?
No, the point is we should not be involved when the various groups of heathens in the middle east bomb each other. Not our monkeys, not our circus.
Cool.
So why are you guys butthurt Israel blasted a bunch of terrorists into oblivion?
Because they are trying to drag us into it with them and you know it. Don't play dumb.
What part of "no more forever wars" do you not understand?
Glad to see Tucker diverge from the neocon agenda.
But the questions are retarded - how many significant figures of population accuracy are needed?
I think Tucker would have been satisfied with a ballpark figure like 100M or something.
https://x.com/tedcruz/status/1935380503949090933
And what point is this making?
Makes the point that even though he embarrassed himself, rather than own up to his mistake, he's going to double call down and call Tucker a doo-doo head.