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Bryan Cranston Tells Bob Iger ‘Our Jobs Will Not Be Taken Away’ by AI in Rousing Speech: You Will Not ‘Take Away Our Dignity’
Variety ^ | Joe Otterson

Posted on 07/25/2023 11:03:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Bryan Cranston delivered a fiery speech at a SAG-AFTRA strike rally in Times Square on Tuesday, which included a message directed at Disney head Bob Iger.

“We’ve got a message for Mr. Iger,” Cranston said from the stage of the “Rock the City for a Fair Contract” rally. “I know, sir, that you look [at] things through a different lens. We don’t expect you to understand who we are. But we ask you to hear us, and beyond that to listen to us when we tell you we will not be having our jobs taken away and given to robots. We will not have you take away our right to work and earn a decent living. And lastly, and most importantly, we will not allow you to take away our dignity! We are union through and through, all the way to the end!”

Cranston began his remarks by saying that there is one thing that all the guilds and the AMPTP fundamentally agree on: “Our industry has changed exponentially.”

“We are not in the same business model we were even 10 years ago,” he said. “And yet, even though they admit that is the truth in today’s economy, they are fighting us tooth and nail to stick to the same economic system that is outmoded, outdated! They want us to step back in time. We cannot and we will not do that.”

Cranston was one of a number of stars who took the stage to address a crowd of hundreds of SAG-AFTRA members and union supporters at the rally, with others including Steve Buscemi, Wendell Pierce, Christian Slater, Christine Baranski, Stephen Lang, and Titus Burgess. They were joined onstage by fellow actors Michael Shannon, BD Wong, Brendan Fraser, Jessica Chastain, Matt Bomer, Chloë Grace Moretz, and Corey Stoll, and more.

Burgess decided to forego a speech, instead singing a section of the song “Take Me to the World” from “Sondheim On Sondheim.”

Baranski told the crowd “We will not live under corporate feudalism” while also praising the background actors on shows like “The Good Wife” and “The Good Fight,” saying that she attended the rally to speak for them and demand they get fair treatment under any new contract. Slater then spoke about how his father, a fellow SAG member, received support from the union after mental illness and later cancer left him unable to work.

Later on in the rally, “The Bear” star Liza Colón-Zayas told the audience that she has been a union member since 1994 and “struggled for 30 years to finally get here, only to find that my residuals have dwindled exponentially.” She then paraphrased Snoop Dogg by saying “We the artists, our gripe is that we deliver in high numbers, in major numbers. And yet, where the f— is my money?”


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To: fieldmarshaldj

Zero-sum assumptions are so lame.

Wrong again.

Putin invaded a sovereign nation. Russia is the aggressor and in the wrong.

I don’t want one penny of my tax dollars going to Ukraine.

God allows us to be flexible except on the Commandments. I recommend prayer.


41 posted on 07/26/2023 6:19:18 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: DoodleBob

Not nearly as lame or as wrong as globalist Zelensky fanbois.


42 posted on 07/26/2023 6:55:08 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

I’ll try one more time.

I don’t want one penny of my tax dollars going to Ukraine.

For a human to read that, but for it register as “ globalist Zelensky fanbois.” is indicative of a person who’s lost.

We need to coalesce around a shared love of liberty. As such…

Dear Lord, we beseech Thee to purge the monstrous Satanic evil that has seized control of our institutions and government, here and abroad.

Bring these evil individuals to justice.

Do not let these servants of darkness prevail over Your children.

Send forth Your angels to liberate us, oh, Lord.

Hear our cries and help us, please, dear Lord.

In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen. .


43 posted on 07/26/2023 7:14:31 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: DoodleBob
"I’ll try one more time."

Oh, please don't, Boob. You've already dug yourself a deep enough hole along with your lil friends.

=quoting my daily prayer=

That you're using my prayer to underscore your own misguided position speaks more to your disordered soul. To make it simple for you, to quote Maude, "God'll get you for that, Walter."

44 posted on 07/26/2023 7:44:04 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: nickcarraway

Unions, uh, what are they good for.


45 posted on 07/26/2023 7:46:55 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: fieldmarshaldj

You are truly entertaining.

Thanks for the trip through the DSM. Be well.


46 posted on 07/26/2023 7:50:22 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: nickcarraway

Half of America will be thrilled when the creepy progressive, commie writers and actors of Hollywood are replaced by AI.

Same with the biased hateful PR Ad Agencies who use American Industry’s money to piggy back their hate for traditional Americans on their ads.


47 posted on 07/26/2023 7:55:07 AM PDT by GOPJ (The sexual weirdo community ARE the people attacking DeSantis AND sabotaging "Sound of Freedom")
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To: DoodleBob

Always happy to point out your cognitive dissonance, and your blasphemy. :-)


48 posted on 07/26/2023 7:59:42 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: nickcarraway
So, first he says this:

"...[W]e will not be having our jobs taken away and given to robots."

And then he says this:

"...[T]hey are fighting us tooth and nail to stick to the same economic system that is outmoded, outdated! They want us to step back in time. We cannot and we will not do that.”

So, robots are a relic of the past? Is that anything like the old joke, "What did socialists use for light before candles?"

49 posted on 07/26/2023 11:33:07 AM PDT by MissNomer
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To: fieldmarshaldj

“ You parrot globalist leftist talking points”

You make things up.

Quote and link.


50 posted on 07/26/2023 11:37:02 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: nickcarraway

Learn to code Bryan


51 posted on 07/26/2023 8:16:07 PM PDT by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: nickcarraway

Bryan Cranston aging fast in that photo. Talking about dignity. I have read his comments about others he does not agree with in politics. He showed no dignity to them.

I thought liberals were all one big happy family, sharing the money with each other. The main actors making hundreds of thousands an episode talk about equality yet they do not spread the wealth to say all those that make the shows behind the scene.


52 posted on 07/26/2023 8:21:05 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: ifinnegan
"You make things up.

Quote and link."

Rule #1 for leftists: accuse your opponents of what you're guilty of.

53 posted on 07/27/2023 3:41:49 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

I see you could not back up your lie.


54 posted on 07/27/2023 9:34:52 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

There you go again.


55 posted on 07/27/2023 9:40:29 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: MrRelevant

56 posted on 07/27/2023 9:45:07 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Are you a bad AI?

You’re like a computer program.


57 posted on 07/27/2023 11:30:27 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

Are you a bad AI ?

You’re like a bad computer program.


58 posted on 07/27/2023 12:02:46 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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