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Cuban: Controlling social media algorithms controls elections in many cases
“Whoever controls the algorithm controls, you know, the election in many cases.”
Cuban: Wealth tax proposals are showmanship based on flawed single-year models
“When Elizabeth Warren first proposed the wealth tax, so I found, and she said, well, we have these models and everything. So I found the economist at UC Berkeley, And I said, would you share your model with me or at least tell me about it? He goes, I'm like, w…”
Cuban: Telehealth platforms like Ro and Hims rip off consumers
“If you go to Rose or Hems or those guys, you're getting ripped off.”
Cuban: GOP is the Trump family business and Democrats lack leadership
“The Republican Party isn't the Republican Party anymore, it's the Trump family business, and the Democratic Party doesn't even exist anymore because, you know, they don't even know what they're doing, and there's nobody in charge, right?”
Cuban: Donald Trump is not a Republican, the GOP is his family business
“Donald Trump is not a Republican. Republicans are Donald Trump. You know, the Republican Party is now the family business for, Donald Trump”
Cuban: Trump makes no effort to learn policy details or give nuanced responses
“He doesn't make any effort to learn anything, and I think that carries on to this day, because you can't look at things he says and say, that's really an in-depth response, or that's a nuanced response”
Cuban: Donald Trump's speech and actions reflect cognitive decline
“I'd be willing to bet that he's also had cognitive decline. Everything he says and does is reflective of that.”
Cuban: Breaking up Google and Meta hurts US AI competitiveness
“The most important thing from a technological perspective in this country today Is that we win AI. That is going to find everything militarily for us and economically for us, and that when you try to break up companies like Google and Facebook, you diminish ou…”
Mark Cuban calls SEC Chairman Gary Gensler a moron
“Look at the SEC with Gary Gensler. The guy's a moron.”
Cuban: Kamala Harris's shift to the political middle is genuine
“She wants to bring the country to the middle. She knows that when she was far left, that might have been great for the state of California, but it doesn't solve the problems of the United States of America today, and that's why you've seen her go to the middle…”
Mark Cuban: Mid-market tech companies should pursue $100M IPOs
“Because it's so driven by private capital, there should be a lot more companies going public, not at the SpaceX level, not open AI, not anthropic, but the hundred million dollar IPO.”
Cuban: Zohran Mamdani is a progressive version of Donald Trump
“Mondami is just Trump progressive, progressive version, right? You just say what people want to hear.”
Cuban calls Donald Trump one of the greatest salespeople and motivators ever
“He's one of the greatest salespeople ever. He's one of the greatest, you know motivators in terms of crowd motivation ever.”
Cuban: Donald Trump follows Roy Cohn's playbook exactly
“If you read books about Roy Cohn, everything Roy Cohn says to do, tracing back to the McCarthy hearings in 54, everything Roy Cohn says to do, that is exactly what Donald Trump does.”
Mark Cuban: Israel's Gaza operation was too blunt, but Hezbollah strategy was correct
“When Israel was going into Gaza, I thought it was too blunt an instrument, but when they went after Hezbollah, I thought they did it the exact right way”
Cuban: Long question wind-ups cause Harris's 'word salad' perception
“She has too long a wind-up in answering every single question, and that makes interviews difficult. She wants to inspire everybody with everything that she answers and tries to get people all excited about what she's going to do, and so she takes too long to g…”
Cuban: OpenAI restricting investor deals reflects fear rather than strength
“And to me, it tells me they're more scared than anything by trying to restrict what people are doing.”
Cuban: Donald Trump has charisma and is one of the world's best schmoozers
“He's a blast. He's fun to talk to, you know, he's got charisma, he's got personality. He's easy to like. I mean, you know, he's used to schmoozing. He's a, he's one of the world's best schmoozers.”
Cuban: Biden lacked processing speed, not pure cognitive capability
“It's not that he had cognitive decline in the pure sense. It's that his ability to respond quickly was gone, and he looked like he had cognitive decline.”
Cuban: Removing daily business uncertainty was Biden-Harris's top achievement
“There just wasn't this uncertainty like every single day that every business woke up with Trump. Just removing that. Was the biggest positive of all.”
Mark Cuban: US should provide financial aid to Ukraine rather than deploy soldiers
“Ukraine, I don't want to see American blood spilled, and as long as there's a NATO, and I agree there should be a NATO, I'd rather see us spend money than put soldiers in harm's way.”
Cuban: Kamala Harris believes implementing technology improves government efficiency
“She understands the impact, and she has a lot of people who truly are geeks around her, and she truly believes that implementing technology is a way to improve efficiency.”
Cuban: SEC Chair Gary Gensler practices regulation through litigation
“The point there is he has an approach that is regulation through litigation. He's going to sue you first, ask questions later, and hope that the result of that litigation becomes a rule that everybody else has to follow.”
Mark Cuban calls Elon Musk an intentional troll on X
“As a Twitter user, he's a troll. And I mean, he just trolls to troll to troll, and every good troll deserves a foil, right?”
Cuban: Elon Musk goes all-in without hedging more than anyone else
“The one thing I respect the most about Elon Musk, and he does more than anybody I've ever seen, and that is he goes all in. He doesn't just, you know, he takes every cent he has, and he believes in it, and he goes all mother in. He never hedges his bet at all.”