Cuban says he’d vote for Biden even if ‘he was being given last rites’
Cuban says he’d vote for Biden even if ‘he was being given last rites’
Mark Cuban, the former owner of the Dallas Mavericks, said he would cast his vote for President Biden over former President Trump in November, even if “he was being given last rites.” “If they were…
The billionaire also told the outlet that he plans to vote for former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley in the Texas GOP primary Tuesday as “a protest vote against Trump,” but that he would still support the current president versus the former one.
From the headline, I thought they were talking about a random Cuban-American citizen.
124Same, I though maybe a Cuban community leader from Florida or something, I was confused about the quote about Texas
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I misread the headline as "only if he was being given last rites," and was confused until I actually clicked the article. Made me think of people who supposedly only converted to believing in a god on their deathbeds, when suddenly it seemed like it mattered to them.
"Family and friends, good father, forgive me for my stubbornness, and bring me a ballot so that I may change my vote upon seeing the light." ~Markus Cubano, Nov. 2024
24I'm still not convinced that's not what the headline says.
Do deliberately vague headlines drive clicks?
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-10That's literally not what Pascal's wager is.
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I don't give a shit what a billionaire says with their mouth in public. What the fuck is their money doing?
24Ever heard of Cost Plus Drugs?
6You mean loss-leader pharmacy with a built-in profit margin that abuses the fact that the United States doesn't have universal healthcare? Oh yeah, real nice of him. I'm sure the profits from that will make him even more of a billionaire.
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To his credit, he opened an online pharmacy offering lower priced prescription drugs. Not that such a thing should be necessary but he did a good thing.
1Sitting in the stock market oppressing the working class
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I voted in the Virginia Republican primary.
I feel absolutely gross now. But like Cuban it was a protest vote. I voted against Trump. In November, I'll gladly vote for Biden. He's been the best president we've had in my voting lifetime.
17This is the best summary I could come up with:
Mark Cuban, the former owner of the Dallas Mavericks, said he would cast his vote for President Biden over former President Trump in November, even if “he was being given last rites.”
“If they were having his last wake, and it was him versus Trump, and he was being given last rites, I would still vote for Joe Biden,” Cuban told Bloomberg News in a piece released Monday, referring to a Catholic tradition of praying over someone who is close to death.
The billionaire also told the outlet that he plans to vote for former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley in the Texas GOP primary Tuesday as “a protest vote against Trump,” but that he would still support the current president versus the former one.
Cuban, an investor of the hit show “Shark Tank,” has been a vocal critic of the former president in recent years, praising his ban from Twitter, now X, and other social media in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, saying it was “the right thing to do.”
Cuban also shot down speculation that he himself would run for president back in November, stating he had “no plans” to do so in an email to NBC News, despite toying with the idea in the past.
Back in 2020, he said that while there wasn’t much of a chance for him in a race for the Oval Office, he had not “closed the door” on the idea.
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5Well, Mark Cuban is one of the few people who could honestly say Biden has all his best interests at heart.
He's a billionaire, "fiscally conservative", and supports Israel's genocide against Palestinians.
That's like the only demographic Biden is doing really well with.
It's like saying the leader of the KKK is voting trump, yeah, we didn't need an article telling us that.
2I feel you missed out a lot of things that Biden as done well and went out of your way to describe Biden as closely as possible to Trump.
Sometimes billionaires and people don't want a crazy insurrectionist in office.
62I know lots of dems are mad at Biden, but it's like they forgot what happened two elections ago. People were mad that Hilary was forced down their throats and didn't like her as a candidate. They didn't vote for her out of protest and look what happened. I've been hearing more and more the same kind of talk this election cycle. No one likes being forced to vote for a candidate, and they should certainly have a better campaign than, "Well look at the alternative," but not voting for Biden is basically voting for Trump. Primaries are absolutely the time to make a protest vote, but let's not fall for this nonsense again. Biden is not handling the Palestine/Isreal problem well but the alternative would be even worse.
43Sometimes billionaires and people don’t want a crazy insurrectionist in office.
They often dont.
But when our only two options is "batshit crazy social/conservative fiscal" and "conservative social/conservative fiscal".
It kind of gives us a problem.
No matter what party wins, the billionaires win.
We just have to decide if we want social progress to roll back, or stay the same.
Which is why 1/3 of the country doesn't vote. And why Obama flipped a bunch of red states his first term.
We can run progressives and easily win elections and get stuff done. Or we can run neoliberals and pray they beat the Republican in a coin flip election.
11I feel you projected so much stuff into the comment you're replying to that is just not there. Almost seems like you're replying to someone else's post 🤷♀️
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It's rare to see a comment so divisive and engaging at the same time.
5If it makes you feel better, wanting to hold politicians accountable regardless of party is the most popular view.
It just pisses off republicans and neoliberals equally.
Kind of a win/win situation.
It's just not always easy to tell why someone is mad. Unless they explicitly say, it's pretty hard to tell the difference between a Biden and trump supporter online.
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No disrespect meant to Mr. Cuban, but if we ended up in another 'Cuban Missile Crisis' type scenario, I'm not so sure that Biden could lead us out of that nightmare successfully.
If only Biden would take a cognizant/mental test and release the results of said test publically.
-21New birther conspiracy just dropped
3New birther conspiracy just dropped
I'm a Democrat who voted for him last time, but okay, whatever lets you sleep at night.
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