Saturday, January 26, 2019

Some Tweets from David Sirota


  •  2 minutes ago
    In my dream, we have an election where anyone who wants to run can run and face legitimate scrutiny — but don’t have to face media people insisting they have no right to run.
    In my dream, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Michael Bloomberg, & Howard Schulz agree not to run for president. Instead, they form a superpac -- Old White Men of Immense Self-Regard (OWMISR) -- using their enormous resources to support the young, diverse next generation of Dems.
     
     
  •  12 minutes ago
    If a progressive Dem candidate aired this kind of ad against today another Dem primary candidate, they’d be instantly accused of being an agent of Vlad Putin — because the new McCarthyist tactic is to portray any normal intraparty debate as a foreign plot.
     
     
  •  19 minutes ago
    People who still believe Hillary Clinton shouldn’t have faced any primary at all in 2016 believe she deserved something ahistorical: a completely uncontested primary for an open-seat presidential election. That’s literally never happened — because America is (still) a democracy.
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  •  26 minutes ago
    “Democrats shoulda made sure to have less democracy and democratic debate in their primaries in order to eventually win a democratic election” is one of the most insane notions that’s somehow now considered logical and normal.
    Replying to @davidsirota
    "This process made the eventual Dem nominee stronger." Well, with one glaring exception. The 2016 primary, with all its lies and bitterness, weakened the candidate and may lead ultimately to the destruction of our climate, among other things.
    6 replies15 retweets55 likes
     
     
  •  31 minutes ago
    Every Dem president of the modern era faced tough — and at times vicious — criticism during primaries (see Clinton’s ad attacking Obama). This process made the eventual Dem nominee stronger. So stop trying to suppress the criticism with demands for “unity”
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  •  31 minutes ago
    Efforts to try to shame Dems out of “attacking” each other are efforts to suppress the democratic process. That process involves candidates making arguments that contrast with other candidates. Demands for “unity” & no debate are demands to shut down the democratic process (1/2)
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  •  3 hours ago
    This editor at Wired magazine is accusing 13 million Sanders voters of being agents of Vlad Putin
    A thread about the possibility of Bernie Sanders as a very 2016 Kremlin-Trump operation.
    107 replies242 retweets911 likes
     
     
  •  15 hours ago
    Living here in Denver, I’ve never understood why most “national” news outlets are in DC & NY and require most of their reporters to only live there.
    WHY can't more staff journalism jobs be REMOTE so that people can 1. afford to live on a journalist salary 2. cover the whole goddamn country? This is what the internet is FOR, people.
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  •  16 hours ago
    The fact that this isn’t parody makes it even more hilarious
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  •  16 hours ago
    Journalism has become like so many other careers — totally unstable. Having been thru layoffs before, I know how awful the job loss process is. Hang in there everyone — this kind of thing is yet another occupational hazard in an already tough line of work.
    11 replies27 retweets91 likes
     
     
  •  16 hours ago
    Really awesome to see Warren using her platform to shift the debate on taxes. So necessary.
    1:34
    The ultra-rich have rigged our economy & rigged our tax rules. We need structural change. That’s why I’m proposing something brand-new: An annual wealth tax on the tippy-top 0.1%. We’d get $3 trillion in new revenue to invest…
    28 replies89 retweets490 likes
     
     
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     16 hours ago
    “You know that Senator Sanders who takes zero dirty money and has fought his whole career for a living wage, healthcare & education for all and the environment? He’s running for President and I’m pissed” “Are you a hardcore Republican” “No, I’m a Democrat” ??????????!
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  •  16 hours ago
    cc:
     
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  •  16 hours ago
    He literally lost in 2018.
    72 replies305 retweets2,108 likes
     
     
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  •   Retweeted
     22 hours ago
    Joe Biden was just endorsed by the former spokesperson for the American Legislative Exchange Council — the group that pushes right-wing legislation in state capitals across the country
     
    61 replies522 retweets1,065 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     21 hours ago
    Read 's interview with writer Anand Giridharadas () who says we should be taking names: "When people talk about how they feel America’s rigged, that’s passive voice. Someone rigged it."
    2 replies34 retweets106 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Jan 25
    . on the Dem Party’s establishment elites: “These are Democrats who are willing to fight for equality and justice in ways that protect their ability to continue to exploit a system that deprives most Americans of the American Dream.”
    5 replies76 retweets164 likes
     
     
  •  21 hours ago
    When you’re such a fringe far-right-wing extremist you start literally labeling the K-12 public education system “the left” 👇🏻
    The left is fighting the left in Denver - and it’s getting nasty.
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  •  22 hours ago
    Political elites somehow trying to scandalize this quote are basically telling on themselves — they’re quite literally positioning themselves against the idea of “creating an economy & a government that work for all people.” This used to be non-controversial Dem Party orthodoxy.
    9 replies50 retweets139 likes
     
     
  •  22 hours ago
    Bernie: I’m trying to help build and support a multiracial, multiethnic coalition to fight for social and economic justice during a vicious economic war on workers that’s being waged by the corporate class. Founder of multimillion-dollar media corporation:
    Way to cement his inability to reach beyond his core base. To Bernie, communities of color only exist to rally around HIS core focus. He literally attacks the idea of diversity—regardless of his effort to walk back that quote
    33 replies311 retweets1,090 likes
     
     
  •  22 hours ago
    Here’s the founder of a multimillion-dollar media corporation offering up a ludicrously dishonest take
    Way to cement his inability to reach beyond his core base. To Bernie, communities of color only exist to rally around HIS core focus. He literally attacks the idea of diversity—regardless of his effort to walk back that quote
    22 replies93 retweets381 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     23 hours ago
    How is bringing together a diverse coalition to oppose ruling class oppression “literally attack[ing] the idea of diversity”? It’s literally embodying the idea.
    Way to cement his inability to reach beyond his core base. To Bernie, communities of color only exist to rally around HIS core focus. He literally attacks the idea of diversity—regardless of his effort to walk back that quote
    67 replies217 retweets1,470 likes
     
     
  •  Jan 25
    Stopped in to visit with my state representative today — nice view from her office!
     
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