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Radio Show Date: November 10th, 2014
US Uncut’s Carl Gibson speaks
This is the first show since Democrats were resoundingly beaten after a pathetic campaign. Republicans were like rabid dogs on a hunt for their prey, President Obama via Democratic candidates. Most Democratic voters were clueless to what they were being asked to vote for. After-all, Democrats running were running away from a President that gave the country somewhat affordable healthcare for the first time in history, saved the country from a depression, increased the minimum wage for federal contractors, and much more. Where was the full throated support for a progressive agenda. Even in Red States while Democrats were being kicked out left and right, progressive ballot initiatives were passed by overwhelming margins.
Todays special guest will be Carl Gibson. Sunday as I perused DailyKOS I came across Leslie Salzillo‘s piece ‘26-Year Old Founder of U.S. UnCut Sends Open Letter To Democrats On Young Voter Disillusion‘. It was a reprint of Carl Gibson’s essay admonishing the Democratic Party. The last paragraph of his essay was probative.
President Obama hit the nail on the head – we won’t show up and vote for you if you aren’t offering us anything real. If Democrats want to stay relevant, they’ll have to learn to stop taking us for granted and actually make an effort to get our votes. Simply banking on being the lesser evil and having that be enough won’t cut it any longer.
So, who is Carl Gibson? This young man is a part of the future of the new Progressive movement in this country. Carl Gibson, 26, is co-founder of US Uncut, a nationwide creative direct-action movement that mobilized tens of thousands of activists against corporate tax avoidance and budget cuts in the months leading up to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Carl and other US Uncut activists are featured in the documentary “We’re Not Broke,” which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. He currently lives in Madison, Wisconsin. You can contact him at carl@rsnorg.org, and follow him on twitter at @uncutCG.
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- Economist Larry Summers: Big Beautiful Bill will kill over 100,000 people.
- Kentucky Gov. explains Big Beautiful Bill’s exploitation & slams Republican governor’s dereliction.
- Texas politicians’ incompetence & Trump’s policies exposed by Texas flood mass deaths.
- CNN Host allowed a Trump official to lie by omission and misinformation about Big Beautiful Bill.
- Big Beautiful Bill uses tax credits for rich people to fund religious schools and vouchers.
- Sen. Elizabeth Warren calls out Republicans as spineless followers of Trump.
- I called my GOP Congressman, Dan Crenshaw. The staff’s answers imply they’re instructed to lie us.
- AOC did not mince her words as she explained why the Big Beautiful Bill is a deal with the devil.
- Are you depressed and ready to check out of our politics? Please hear this!
- Watch Sen. Chris Murphy urge Democrats to wise up and get behind Zohran Mamdani.
- GOP Sen. Thom Tillis slammed GOP & Trump for lying about cutting Medicaid in a rabid floor speech.
- Democrats have the winning hand yet their spokespersons botch it ceding the narrative to the GOP.
- NO Trump! You lied! The Iranian nuclear program was not obliterated.
- Trump’s Latino supporters exposed a cultural disease metastasized from the white supremacy cancer.
- McConnell is correct that MAGA “will get over” the big beautiful bill, because you don’t know this!
- Anand Giridharadas pushes back on the Morning Joe panel about the meaning of Zohran Mamdani’s win.
- What does Mamdani’s win mean for progressives all over the country?
- Elizabeth Warren: Republican ‘party line is to lie’ about Medicaid cuts in the Big Beautiful Bill.
- Don’t believe Trump’s bombing lies about the U.S.-Iran War
- Failing Upward: Another Musk SpaceX rocket blow up as his ineptitude continues to manifest itself.
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