The News Thread

[no country for old wainds]

gene okerlund and bob einstein (super dave) died today

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

RIP Mean Gene

 

[Slammed]

Ray Sawyer from Dr. Hook also died yesterday or the day before.

 

[Dak]

TB spreads my music gospel. An unwitting stooge.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

now that New Year's is over
here's a Christmas News story that i forgot to post
Radio stations are starting to ban 'Baby, It's Cold Outside.' Good - Los Angeles Times

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

gene okerlund and bob einstein (super dave) died today

RIP Mean Gene

i remember Mean Gene, but i'm more sad about Super Dave dying

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

Save for the bit about weed, this was one of his best monologues.

 

[Dak]

Tucker just needs to start calling out Finance hard.....and that will get him kicked off Fox most likely.

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

Tucker just needs to start calling out Finance hard.....and that will get him kicked off Fox most likely.

It's amazing that his commentary on Syria hasn't gotten him in some sort of trouble already. He's unquestionably the wokest on that issue.

 

[rms]

they kept that shepherd smith dude around for awhile, he wasnt really toeing the line

 

[The Ozzman]

Here's how Bernie can still win

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/us/politics/bernie-sanders-campaign-sexism.html

 

[HamburgerBoy]

In 2017, when Mr. Carmona was running for Congress, Ms. Mendieta, the woman who worked with Ms. Di Lauro, came forward with allegations that Mr. Carmona had demeaned women during the 2016 campaign. Ms. Mendieta said in a March 2017 post on Medium that Mr. Carmona treated female staffers “like his personal assistants fetching things for him and doing his errands.”

Other women backed up Ms. Mendieta’s allegations, and a letter signed by dozens of former campaign staffers and surrogates was circulated urging progressives to withdraw their endorsements of Mr. Carmona. (He lost his special election primary bid in 2017.)

In an interview, Ms. Mendieta said that she complained multiple times to Mr. Velazquez and Mr. Pelletier about Mr. Carmona and was repeatedly ignored, at one point being told by Mr. Velazquez that she should forgive Mr. Carmona’s behavior because he was “macho.”

Pretty fuckin racist for NYT editors to throw out a blatant anti-spic dogwhistle like this.

EDIT: Scrolled down a little further

“I was shaking with fear,’’ she said. “Literally, I remember thinking to myself, ‘What am I going to do?’” She said she reported the incident to Mr. Pelletier.

LITERALLY SHAKING

Some former staff members said there was little pay transparency, and employees often negotiated their own salaries — practices that tend to favor men, who often feel more comfortable requesting higher compensation packages.

Also, have the goalposts moved from "The pay gap exists because employers are sexist men" to "The pay gap exists because of gender differences in willingness to negotiate, which is sexist"? Is negotiation a bad thing now?

 

[The Ozzman]

Is negotiation a bad thing now?

Negotiation techniques imply privilege obvs

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

Here's how Bernie can still win

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/us/politics/bernie-sanders-campaign-sexism.html

despite the sexism thing
i honestly still think i'd really rather have Bernie Sanders become president than any of the other people that are going to be running

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

Jerry Seinfeld Says Kevin Hart's Oscars Withdrawal Is Academy's Loss | HuffPost

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...m-game-of-thrones_us_5c2f075ce4b05c88b707dd06

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

dammit Trump

Trump Threatens To Continue Government Shutdown For 'Months Or Even Years' | HuffPost

 

[Satanstoenail]

Ray Sawyer from Dr. Hook also died yesterday or the day before.

Not a bad innings considering how much coke those guys did.

 

[Slammed]

Not a bad innings considering how much coke those guys did.

It was the Medicine show

 

[CiG]

Also, have the goalposts moved from "The pay gap exists because employers are sexist men" to "The pay gap exists because of gender differences in willingness to negotiate, which is sexist"? Is negotiation a bad thing now?

I think they've had the "women don't get promotions because they're socialized to be non-combative" angle for some time now.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Yeah, and I don't even really disagree that socialization plays a significant role, but the article implies that it's Sanders' fault for allowing pay-negotiation to begin with. I guess I didn't state that clearly in my post though.