Valuetainment - “California is Run Terribly” - Mark Cuban Flip Flops on his Position in the Same Interview

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00:00:30.000 Earlier, we talked about, you know, the polymarket story, you know, the ghost, job ghosting.

00:00:36.320 And you heard Ken Paxton talk about the fact that, hey, if you do that in the state of Texas, they're going to come after you. 0.51

00:00:41.820 You can't post things like this.

00:00:43.480 Mark Cuban is on Kara Swisher, and she's being interviewed.

00:00:47.280 And then they talk about two different things.

00:00:49.120 One, they talk about the wealth tax in the state of California.

00:00:51.620 Then they bring up Tallarico.

00:00:53.920 And then the audience is like, make up your mind, Mark.

00:00:56.960 Where are you at with this?

00:00:58.320 And Mark actually, one thing about Mark.

00:01:00.000 He responded to a lot of the criticism on X, which maybe we'll read some of them.

00:01:04.120 But here's how Mark switched within seconds from California's bad to Tallarico's great.

00:01:08.800 Go ahead.

00:01:09.320 My daughter just graduated from college and she was asking about living in L.A.

00:01:13.220 I'm like, you can't afford it.

00:01:15.240 Right.

00:01:15.620 The taxes are insane. 0.78

00:01:16.780 But going back just to the billionaire stuff, I think it's ridiculous.

00:01:19.640 I think it's going to cost them more.

00:01:21.680 And look, people say, well, you're a billionaire.

00:01:23.660 Right.

00:01:24.280 Well, look, you're already getting people moving.

00:01:26.360 You're getting companies moving. 0.94

00:01:27.680 You could be cutting off your nose to slight your face.

00:01:30.000 Everybody wants my money. 0.94

00:01:31.300 And, you know, fortunately, usually they say they'll eat me last.

00:01:34.000 James Tallarico, let's go.

00:01:36.740 Oh, OK. Tell me.

00:01:38.160 Yeah, I'm a big fan. I'm a huge fan.

00:01:39.600 Yeah, I know you are.

00:01:40.160 Oh, God. You're a big fan.

00:01:41.900 I think he's honest. He's trustworthy. He cares.

00:01:45.300 What do you say, then, to those red voters? 0.60

00:01:47.680 Do what's best for the state of Texas. 0.73

00:01:49.160 Do what's best for your wallet.

00:01:50.940 Do what's best for you.

00:01:52.620 Right? There's nobody in...

00:01:54.760 The same thing, my buddy who voted for Trump in 2016.

00:01:57.720 I say the same thing to all these voters.

00:01:59.500 You've been voting for Republicans all these years.

00:02:02.260 What have they done for you?

00:02:03.860 Tom, thoughts.

00:02:04.260 Same thing can be said for both parties.

00:02:05.560 So, yeah, I don't understand the Tallarico part.

00:02:08.880 Tallarico, there is polling that came out that showed that he was struggling with black voters.

00:02:14.700 And the DNC, Texas DNC, was saying, we think that this election is going to hinge to the over-index of the black voters.

00:02:23.560 because Hispanics are becoming increasingly conservative,

00:02:27.760 not a majority conservative, but increasingly conservative.

00:02:31.100 We've seen it in Texas.

00:02:32.740 And so Tallarico comes out a week ago, and what does Tallarico say?

00:02:35.840 Well, I think the problem with the whole Carmelo Anthony case

00:02:41.300 was that there wasn't enough black jurors.

00:02:43.400 Wait a minute.

00:02:44.240 At the same time, we find out that text messages came out

00:02:47.140 that showed that it was actually a premeditated murder.

00:02:50.680 Absolute, unequivocal text messages,

00:02:52.640 and they were worried about civil unrest.

00:02:55.680 And so they didn't go after the death penalty.

00:02:57.760 And they just denied the guy's request.

00:03:00.520 A liberal judge denied the guy's request for a new trial.

00:03:04.500 So Tallarico's out here talking about this,

00:03:06.720 trying to pander to the black vote using a horrible premise.

00:03:11.180 Mark Cuban is smart.

00:03:13.260 How can he not see that and see the pandering that's going on?

00:03:16.780 And why does he believe that what Tallarico wants to bring

00:03:19.840 is actually economically good for the state of Texas?

00:03:22.900 That confused me about Mark.

00:03:24.640 The things that he's doing on drugs and his own company, the startup company, on drug prices, which I applaud and I think are great.

00:03:31.640 And I love the fact that he wouldn't let himself be, you know, manipulated all those years as an NBA owner.

00:03:37.420 There's so many things I like about Mark.

00:03:39.460 But this take, this angle on the back side of Tallarico confused me, and I think it's wrongheaded.

00:03:45.200 Can you pull up the clip?

00:03:46.180 Can you pull up the tweet with him responding back?

00:03:48.480 Not this one.

00:03:49.500 This is when he says there's racism and all this stuff.

00:03:51.540 Not Tallarico.

00:03:52.040 The one I just texted you about, the tweet and him responding.

00:03:55.380 I just literally send you the tweet. 0.99

00:03:56.680 Oh, sexism in America.

00:03:57.900 Guys, I just send it to you right now.

00:03:59.560 Can you pull up this tweet?

00:04:00.580 Yeah, there you go.

00:04:01.060 Go a little bit lower.

00:04:02.300 So if you go lower, just look at the comments him responding.

00:04:04.600 Go to the comments section, please.

00:04:05.820 Okay, so he responds like, hey, Mark, hope you're doing well.

00:04:08.400 Question for you, which state laws do senators vote on?

00:04:11.460 Okay, so Geiger Capital, who does a good job with the content out there,

00:04:15.100 he says, so you know the policies are bad and admit you won't want them in Texas

00:04:18.820 just at the national level.

00:04:20.460 Go to the show replies because I think he responds back to it.

00:04:23.560 Yeah, so Mark responds back.

00:04:25.180 He says, if it was a state representative that wanted a wealth tax in Texas

00:04:29.300 and I lived in their district, I would vote against them.

00:04:32.200 That's how our system works.

00:04:33.480 Different jobs have different responsibilities and impact.

00:04:36.260 I vote accordingly.

00:04:37.500 So then another guy responds back saying the problem is Tallarico still wants to raise taxes

00:04:41.500 on billionaires through federal rules, closing loopholes and making the wealth pay more,

00:04:45.900 which would hit people like you in Texas just as hard or harder

00:04:49.480 since you can't just move states to escape national taxes.

00:04:52.440 I don't want to pay more in taxes.

00:04:53.740 Bigger concern is debt we have and how much interest we are paying now.

00:04:58.620 No one in the office is doing anything about it.

00:05:00.920 You good with all the spending?

00:05:02.400 Then he responds.

00:05:02.880 So a part of while you're watching this, he's saying, no, I'm voting selfishly

00:05:07.320 because him becoming a senator does nothing to me on a national level

00:05:10.900 in the state of Texas.

00:05:11.880 I don't care if he wins.

00:05:13.200 It's a very weird way of voting.

00:05:16.360 Like where is your conviction at?

00:05:17.720 What's your position when you see Mark Cuban doing this?

00:05:19.820 I can't believe he's flip-flopping so quickly.

00:05:21.600 Just a couple months ago, he was condemning the Democratic Party.

00:05:24.380 He seems to go where the poll numbers are.

00:05:26.580 This guy is just like a weathervane.

00:05:27.880 He's like Talleyrand.

00:05:28.660 Remember that French diplomat?

00:05:29.820 He's famous for just following the political winds.

00:05:32.420 And suddenly he's backing Talleyrand, who says there are six genders.

00:05:36.280 This is the same guy who in Texas says that God is non-binary?

00:05:40.740 Oh, yeah.

00:05:41.160 I don't think so, man.

00:05:42.580 And he's vegan, apparently, in the great state of Texas, known for beef.

00:05:46.800 This is such a, I can't, as a Christian, I'm offended.

00:05:50.920 Yeah, but Mark Cuban may say, well, that's not my position.

00:05:53.500 I'm just voting with my pocket, and I don't care what position he's got.

00:05:56.660 I don't care where he's at spiritually.

00:05:59.280 Can I, there's two conversations.

00:06:01.660 By the way, I think he's ahead right now, 52 to 48.

00:06:03.940 I don't know what the numbers are if you want to pull it up.

00:06:07.000 Greg Abbott said there's no way in the world,

00:06:09.140 if there's a choice between Tallarico and Paxton, it's easy.

00:06:11.800 Paxton's the one to go with.

00:06:12.840 But again, Tallarico went on Rogan.

00:06:15.800 Rogan likes Tallarico.

00:06:17.160 There's an audience for it that in Texas who are somewhat independent.

00:06:20.660 They're like, well, we wouldn't mind testing out somebody like this.

00:06:23.300 Adam, where are you at with this?

00:06:24.540 Look, I've actually been following this race, and to me it's pretty simple.

00:06:27.320 It's in Texas, do you want to vote for a cowboy or do you want to vote for a boy?

00:06:32.960 That's really what this comes down to.

00:06:34.680 Ken Paxton is not the best candidate because actually as a candidate,

00:06:38.780 who you are actually matters.

00:06:40.580 This guy's got some corruption issues.

00:06:42.240 He's got some baggage.

00:06:43.460 So we get that. 0.97

00:06:45.060 talarico talafrico get your freak on this is like the most soft feminine man woman child i've ever

00:06:52.520 seen he makes dylan mulvaney look like a tough guy in texas like i'm actually generally asking

00:06:58.840 this question is texas getting so rich that they're just becoming soft is texas getting so rich

00:07:06.200 because all the fortune 500 companies are moving there they now have more more 500 500 companies

00:07:11.760 than I think New York.

00:07:12.860 So I'm wondering, speculating, is what's going on in Texas,

00:07:16.080 DEI, ESG, is this kind of taking over everything?

00:07:19.620 Is immigration coming in there in Texas?

00:07:21.520 I'm wondering there because the Texas that I know likes barbecue,

00:07:25.620 likes cowboys, and doesn't put up with this Alarico soft style. 1.00

00:07:28.780 Muslim feet washing? 0.95

00:07:30.120 Cuban has had a long-running feud. 0.99

00:07:31.700 Muslim feet washing? I'm sorry. 0.62

00:07:34.120 Cuban has had a long-running feud with Ted Cruz, senator.

00:07:37.160 He also did not have a feud, but Cornyn, John Cornyn, who got beat by Paxton in the primary, refused to get behind Cuban.

00:07:48.220 And so Cuban has had an absolute war.

00:07:51.300 You're saying there's some personal beef going on. 1.00

00:07:52.940 Yeah, I believe so.

00:07:54.060 Texas grade A beef.

00:07:55.360 With the Republican senators, he's been at war with one of them, frustrated with the other one.

00:08:02.940 Tom and say, I'm a fan of Tallarico?

00:08:05.360 That's not saying he's okay, I like him.

00:08:07.320 I'm a fan? What's he also saying?

00:08:09.420 That's Mark Cuban, though. Mark Cuban

00:08:10.940 is a wishy-washy, flip-flopping,

00:08:13.540 back and forth, no back home,

00:08:15.340 like where he wants to be alive.

00:08:15.760 He was just with Trump, touting his drug prices.

00:08:18.740 But then he's calling out the Democratic Party.

00:08:21.060 Unfortunately, unfortunately,

00:08:22.740 unfortunately, that strategy

00:08:25.100 does not work. You have to

00:08:27.100 take a position. It's unattractive.

00:08:29.600 It's like, make a damn position. 1.00

00:08:31.200 The middle of the road gets run over. 0.99

00:08:32.940 The middle of the road is kind of where he goes, dude, where are you at?

00:08:36.060 Take a position.

00:08:37.120 Yeah, nobody knows. 1.00

00:08:37.720 I don't think Cuban knows.

00:08:38.500 He's like a John Kerry billionaire is who he is.

00:08:41.540 Always goes one way or the other because he wants to make friends.

00:08:44.260 A lot of us respected Mark Cuban.

00:08:45.900 I still have respect for the guy.

00:08:47.920 But I don't really have to respect his opinions.

00:08:50.120 Respect for what?

00:08:50.940 Because he was a basketball guy and he made money.

00:08:52.920 It's like, by the way, I think that there needs to be a study,

00:08:55.560 and I'm not even being funny right now, with liberals, with the vaccine, 1.00

00:09:00.560 and how many boosters because it makes you stupid. 1.00

00:09:03.700 All the Scott Galloways, whatever cares, all these people, as smart as they are, 1.00

00:09:08.020 you know what we're saying, like, these are the smartest dumb people? 1.00

00:09:10.020 No, it's just dumb. 1.00

00:09:11.360 And I think something chemically with your fifth booster messes your head. 0.98

00:09:15.040 And the Bible warned us in Matthew 7, verse 15, about people like Tallarico.

00:09:19.640 That smile, the false prophets, okay?

00:09:21.860 Beware of false prophets.

00:09:23.140 They come to you in sheep's clothing pad, but inwardly they're raving wolves.

00:09:26.080 Okay, this guy, like you said, he talks about if you don't let a kid transition,

00:09:30.960 a child at him he said that's child abuse he said trans children are made in god's image god oh

00:09:36.840 really god's creation is male and female you want that to happen he's against voter id he's in there 0.99

00:09:42.140 pandering to the freaking black vote and it's like at this point in society can you not see it 0.95

00:09:47.940 like i i really hope maybe texas is going no no i just know well well texas you were talking about 0.99

00:09:53.180 the mosque situation did you ever think texas would be the biggest mosque building place where

00:09:58.400 they have cities with mosques and the muslim population in texas you didn't believe that 0.94

00:10:02.860 calo rico is looking for votes guys it's simple that's it he wants power and he will be a pawn

00:10:08.700 of the left to get there he is not showing any authentic viewpoints at all he says god is 0.93

00:10:13.920 non-binary he wants the trans vote he said there weren't blacks on the jury he wants the black

00:10:18.840 vote he is trying to gobble up this is democrat politics at its worst simply trying to get 0.93

00:10:24.840 groups of victims all under the tent to have enough to win and then he will be a pawn of power

00:10:30.780 it's very predictable to me it's and that's why i recognize it and it doesn't surprise me does it

00:10:36.680 infuriate me and i get emotional like you you right now my passion i'd be crazy not emotional

00:10:40.960 i do but guess what he's being the hyena that a dem hyena is and guys this is also a money play

00:10:49.680 because there aren't that many democrats big money don't democrats in the state of texas

00:10:53.980 he has to cater to the national donor base and that he is currently saying what they want him

00:10:59.320 to say basically that mutilation is actually a good thing guess what and that you know muslim 0.96

00:11:05.200 feet washing stations in texas are god's gift to earth that um yeah we should definitely the men 0.93

00:11:11.720 can be women and you know and hijack women's sports and hijack our futures this is exactly

00:11:17.640 what the coastal progressivism dictates and that is why the dnc is dying i don't know if you guys 0.89

00:11:23.960 realize this but the democratic party is dying this is i declare that 2026 or 2028 is going to

00:11:31.560 be the last time that they have a modicum of control over their own presidential election

00:11:35.840 after this year it's going to be the dsa all the way especially if aoc takes over can i hone in on

00:11:41.660 one thing you just said you said that there's no donor democratic donor base in texas so they got

00:11:46.820 to go to a national east coast west coast california is known as a wallet of the democratic

00:11:50.880 party the hollywood base and also new york and martha's vineyard and the upper west side i mean

00:11:55.380 i've hosted i've hosted governor shapiro at my own home twice i've had tammy duckworth at my home

00:12:00.880 twice people come to philadelphia they saw me as their philadelphia wallet and uh yeah so they go

00:12:06.360 to the the two coasts they skip over flyover they consider it flyover to lindy's point pat here's a

00:12:12.400 quick chart look at this chart on the left hand side that's the national money look at the republican

00:12:19.140 can lead over the Dems. Then in the middle is the Senate money. And then on the left is the House

00:12:23.680 money. The money comes to the conservatives. So he can't find the Senate money in Texas. Where will

00:12:31.700 a liberal Democrat find big donor money in Texas? George Soros doesn't live there. He's got to go

00:12:37.720 outside and get it. And how does he do it? He picks the position to reflect, to get the money

00:12:42.720 to him. You've got my vote. Once we get to Senate, you've got my vote on these things. But I got to

00:12:47.760 get to the senate to do it you gotta help me but even if they have money how is this flying in

00:12:51.900 texas how is it even close how bad of a candidate is this uh um tallarico not tallarico paxton how

00:12:59.500 bad of a this is just begging the question how bad of a candidate is paxton if he isn't running

00:13:04.660 away with this tallarico guy in texas well paxton is not the uh he's not a guy that's going to get

00:13:11.760 on a podcast or an interview and light it up tallarico is more charismatic than paxton is paxton's

00:13:18.540 a fighter oh yeah he's a lawyer he's a dog he's a fighter but he's got some controversy in the past

00:13:23.500 that he's maneuvering through but you know it is texas it is texas and ken paxton is one of those

00:13:28.480 guys that you want on your side as a lawyer he's a tough guy you've had him on the show yeah yeah

00:13:32.660 he's a tough guy he's a tough and what was your biggest takeaway with him he's a tough guy and to

00:13:36.180 me the way he spoke off camera was better than the way he spoke on camera i'm like dude talk like

00:13:40.320 this. Come on, Ken. Instead of doing your answer

00:13:42.120 with the camera being on, talk the way you did off camera.

00:13:44.460 And it was like more trying to

00:13:46.240 be proper on camera. I think he needs to kind of

00:13:48.320 be a cowboy. He has

00:13:50.260 it in him to be it, but he's got to, he's got to.

00:13:52.180 Now again, his advisors are going to say different things,

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Valuetainment - August 26, 2026

“California is Run Terribly” - Mark Cuban Flip Flops on his Position in the Same Interview

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