From the headline, I thought they were talking about a random Cuban-American citizen.
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Same, I though maybe a Cuban community leader from Florida or something, I was confused about the quote about Texas
I don't give a shit what a billionaire says with their mouth in public. What the fuck is their money doing?
Ever heard of Cost Plus Drugs?
You 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.
Sitting in the stock market oppressing the working class
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
I'm still not convinced that's not what the headline says.
Do deliberately vague headlines drive clicks?
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.
This 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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