Mark Cuban: Kamala Harris Is a Centrist
Thanks for this, Mark, but I’m afraid I have bad news: if Trump says Kamala Harris is a Marxist, the former president’s base is going to believe him without question.
Thanks for this, Mark, but I’m afraid I have bad news: if Trump says Kamala Harris is a Marxist, the former president’s base is going to believe him without question.
There are many nonsensical aspects of Trump’s candidacy, with his healthcare plan close to the top of the list. Since 2016, Trump and his party have had eight years to figure out how to “eliminate Obamacare and replace it with something better, ” a promise they made before and during the former president’s term in office.
If the Republican voters are happy that the United States is the only developed country on Earth without universal healthcare, that, while being cruel and idiotic, is something we’ll have to live with.
But how do you go onstage and tell the American people that now, as we move into 2025, that, although you don’t have a plan per se, you have a “concept for a plan?”
Are illegal aliens from Haiti eating our pets? Are our schools performing sex-change operations on our kids (with or without our consent)?
Approximately half of U.S. voters simply don’t care that their preferred presidential candidate has no concern about lying in front of millions of debate viewers.
Until very recently in U.S. history, it would have been lethal to a presidential re-election campaign to have 91% of the candidate’s former cabinet refuse to support him. But now the thinking of Trump’s support base is: “What a bunch of woke pansies. Who cares what these girly admirals and four-star generals say about the man God sent to Make America Great Again?”
The meme here was an accepted fact of life until Donald Trump came along.
Lying may be the only thing he’s good at, but give him credit, he’s intensely good at it.
A reader asks: Re: the phrase “where we’re at”. Is it grammatically incorrect and should be “where we are”? And did I get the period and question mark right?
The phrases “where we’re at, where it’s at,” etc. are all incorrect in formal English. But personally, I think people make a bigger deal out of this than they should, especially given that this whole construction arose in the 1960, especially in song lyrics, some of which remain immensely popular today, e.g., Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone, an excerpt from which is:
You used to ride on a chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat Ain’t it hard when you discovered that He really wasn’t where it’s at After he took from you everything he could stealI can imagine sitting with a cold martini watching a fantastic sunset and telling my friends, “Ya know? This is really where it’s at” — knowing that they all would understand that I would not write like that in a business proposal.
To answer your other question, most pieces of punctuation, i,e., commas, question marks, and periods, come before quotation marks, where colons and semicolons come after. Thus, the following are correct:
“Vote your conscience,” I told him.
“Do you really mean it?”
“Absolutely.”
Here’s a “rule of thumb”: don’t eat before bed.
He told me not to call him “Shirley”; he said he’d punch me if I did.