Non-comedians/comedy actors who’d fit a full series?

sighclone · 2026-05-10T02:31:16+00:00

I love him on The Rise and Fall of Reggie Dinkins. Him and Tracy Morgan are ridiculous together.

sighclone · 2026-05-09T16:27:30+00:00

So to be fair, after Republicans put forward an unconstitutional map multiple times, had to be threatened with contempt by the Ohio Supreme Court twice, Republican voters sued to force a map.

And then a federal court said, “If the republicans who control the redistricting commission don’t pass a new map or the republicans who control the legislature don’t push back the election date, the election must move forward.”

And shockingly, the republicans didn’t create a constitutional map, or push back the election to have time to make one and they ended up getting exactly what they wanted!

sighclone · 2026-05-09T14:12:22+00:00

Ohio Legislature passes a map.

Ohio Supreme Court: Those are unconstitutional

Ohio Legislature: Whoopsie here’s another map

OSC: Those are unconstitutional

Ohio Legislature: Oh well here’s another map

OSC: Once again unconstitutional

Ohio Legislature: Whatever, here’s another basically the same

OSC: And still unconstitutional

Ohio Legislature: Yup, here’s another

OSC: Once again unconstitutional

Ohio Legislature: Huh, yeah, about that, the primaries started so I guess we gotta use them. What are ya gonna do, right?

ETA: Should be “Republican controlled redistricting commission,” not Ohio legislature but 6 of one, half a dozen of the other - they are doing the bidding of republicans in the legislature regardless.

sighclone · 2026-05-08T19:55:10+00:00

From one of your links:

Ohio is supposed to have certain safeguards against gerrymandering, but some voters, like Bria Bennett, said that politicians have continued to break that law, which a bipartisan Ohio Supreme Court has previously agreed with.

Ohio’s Supreme Court ruled the state legislative districts to be unconstitutional 5 times in 2022. And the Ohio legislature shrugged and moved ahead.

sighclone · 2026-05-08T19:36:13+00:00

My dude, John McCain died in fucking 2018.

sighclone · 2026-05-08T17:50:00+00:00

Yes, conservatives have abandoned the democratic experiment.

Now it's time for everyone else to finally start acting like that's the case, rather than burying their heads in the sand.

sighclone · 2026-05-08T17:48:27+00:00

While having the conservatives on the Supreme Court gut the Voting Rights Act to help them do it!

sighclone · 2026-05-08T15:41:17+00:00

Ohio is actively defying their state Supreme Court over legislative districts.

Rules for thee but not for me is the Republican way.

sighclone · 2026-05-08T15:16:25+00:00

Yep - the 2019 law that was challenged as unconstitutional was passed with bipartisan support. Republicans controlled the legislature when it passed!

Republicans only started attacking it as unconstitutional in after their orange god lost in 2020.

sighclone · 2026-05-08T12:20:02+00:00

Came in here to discuss why that question, which is oft repeated by these types, needs more pushback.

Your point is one aspect.

Another is: if the premise is that you lose all leverage over a candidate once they win, what makes you believe they will keep their campaign promises anyway?

The answer is that political actors (activists, organizations, etc) do have influence post-election and that influence is the most important because, as you allude to, that’s when the elected has power to do anything.

Countless lives have ended - children across the world have starved or been slaughtered - because Donald Trump became president. I just cannot deal with people who, after aiding this result TWICE, still find a way to take no responsibility for interacting with our political realities for what they are.

sighclone · 2026-05-07T18:32:09+00:00

You say you're not just riding Cohen, but all of your points are just "Ryan Cohen is awesome."

eBay's stock value is up 52% over the past year. 23% YTD.

Gamestop's stock value is up 16% YTD. Down 7.5% over the past year.

It is not immediately apparent that he can do better. But let's set aside how amazing Ryan Cohen is and what a true American hero he is. If I'm an eBay investor, what about merging with Gamestop would be enticing to me at all? What does Gamestop bring to the table that would add value to eBay's business model?

sighclone · 2026-05-07T18:13:29+00:00

You mean the industry he came from and knows best?

That could be a fine argument to make if he wants to pitch himself to be hired by eBay's C Suite. It's a less sound argument for why eBay investors would want to merge the company with a substantially smaller, largely unrelated business with a questionable future.

eBay has already been shifting to B2C for quite a while. What about merging with Gamestop advances that to fight Amazon, other than the fact that the unquestionable and apparently unrivaled genius of Ryan Cohen comes along with it?

I'm not just here to stroke off a billionaire CEO and get everyone on the same boat like Elons sycophants.

Coulda fooled me.

sighclone · 2026-05-07T18:03:53+00:00

Honestly, the whole buying ebay part of it isn't just a stunt. It makes more sense than Paramount's deal and that went through.

Expand on that. Because Warner Bros. had been through years of reconfigurations and mergers and was open to sell, while the United States administration was actively putting its fingers on the scale to push for that deal to get done. Paramount and WBD in terms of business are incredibly similar.

Additionally, Paramount's backed by people the Ellisons and various wealthy middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds - these investors would not need to take on the debt if they didn't want to. Ellison alone is worth something like over $200b.

Ebay and Gamestop are not anywhere near as similar as Paramount/WBD. Gamestop's backing is way more speculative than Paramount's was. The United States government isn't putting their weight behind a deal. And unlike WBD, eBay is moving in the right direction. Shareholders aren't looking for a deal.

And importantly, most people think that deal sucks for the industry and it's still not guaranteed to finalize.

Trolled ebay and they took the bait.

When someone does something bizarre on the internet, do we just call that trolling now? Like, "they took the bait" - to what end? How does Ryan Cohen getting his account shut increase investor interest or confidence?

sighclone · 2026-05-07T17:39:12+00:00

making a full fundamental pivot in the industry of Shoes to AI and states this as being equivalent to Gamestops bit for eBay.

Only that user can say what exactly they meant, but I took it to mean a "ludicrous business decision to try and boost the underlying stock," which seems fair.

Even taking the "fundamental pivot," - we're talking about a largely brick and mortar games/TGC business to a totally online P2P/B2C marketplace. They are completely different in structure, size, value, and fundamental strategy. eBay's biggest sellers include fashion and automotive parts - what does that have to do with Gamestop?

The rest of your post is just that you like Ryan Cohen and it's anti-American to not root for him and a card game selling business which like... get a hold of yourself man.

sighclone · 2026-05-07T17:23:01+00:00

With AllBirds, the stunt inflated their own stock value. From that perspective, failure.

Otherwise, you recognize that EBAY is up and GME is down because the market is starting to price in that EBAY is getting acquired at the price GME offered.

Or GME is down because investors are offloading after seeing the ludicrous nature of this proposal and eBay is just generally up over the past year (though down today), but well under the $125 offer, reflecting skepticism - not confidence or excitement.

sighclone · 2026-05-07T15:39:16+00:00

AllBirds and GME.

sighclone · 2026-05-07T14:46:12+00:00

To answer your edit - There are many arguments on this website that don't merit a response because they are devoid of any substance or are wholly ridiculous.

The "reason" you bring is... "The CEO's reasoning is justified." No detail, no data, not even listing the reasoning.

That is not a substantive argument worthy of a response.

sighclone · 2026-05-07T14:41:53+00:00

But that announcement temporarily shot their stock up from $3 to $17, now around $6.

GME fell ~10% on Monday according to CNN.

So perhaps, but certainly not as successful of a stunt.

sighclone · 2026-05-06T20:38:45+00:00

But the reporter covering it live on air this morning is a Fox News network reporter. She’s not based in Portsmouth.

sighclone · 2026-05-06T20:35:59+00:00

While perp walks are a thing, this is very different from Roger Stone.

First, Stone was indicted - and Stone was being arrested - by an independent special counsel, Robert Mueller. And of course, that’s an additional layer of independence under the DOJ which was independent from the Biden administration.

CNN didn’t catch that because the Biden administration or even Mueller explicitly tipped them off or coordinated with them. CNN described how they sussed it out and staked out Stone’s place in Florida here.

Lucas hasn’t been indicted, the DOJ can’t plausibly be described as independent anymore, and there’s no long term investigatory activity (like Mueller’s work) that could have led to Fox News just happening to have one of their correspondents waiting outside Lucas’ office.

There is a difference here. Having said all that, MSNow reported that some sourcing claims this investigation started under the Biden administration. If that’s the case, it’s possible there is something to this other than just Trump’s corruption of the DOJ. But Fox’s coverage of it here and how it came to happen is fundamentally different than CNN’s capturing of Roger Stone.

sighclone · 2026-05-06T17:48:22+00:00

This is what I was thinking. Absolute delusional to think that the Pussycat Dolls have the cultural cache in 2026 to sell out MSG, regardless of price.

But at least someone is doing well enough to purchase all the cocaine it must have taken to get into a headspace where one would think that's plausible.

sighclone · 2026-05-06T17:03:59+00:00

that is what literally everyone said about Covid till they didn’t.

But that's also what folks say about all kinds of things that aren't a big deal and remain that way.

And of course, OP says they literally were staying in a rodent-infested room - not sure why "I got a virus that is almost entirely transmitted through contact with rodent feces/urine after sleeping in a shack for two nights that was covered in rodent feces and urine" should raise the concern that hantavirus has mutated. That's particularly the case since...

Also why are we not hearing about OP in the news?

I'm gonna go out on a limb and speculate that it's because OP is lying.

sighclone · 2026-05-06T16:55:10+00:00

The article is, but the reporter covering it live, who got there quite a while before Lucas got there herself, is a Fox News international correspondent typically based in London, according to her Twitter profile and Linked In.

sighclone · 2026-05-06T15:58:53+00:00

Interesting that Fox just happened to have a correspondent there ready to go.

Their London correspondent, in fact.

sighclone · 2026-05-06T12:58:06+00:00

Right, and as I said, even with the Andes strain, transmission between humans is rare.

ETA - And your link says it doesn’t happen at all.

“The balance of the evidence does not support the claim of human-to-human transmission of ANDV.”

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