Monday, September 16, 2019

Some Tweets from David Sirota

David Sirota is candidate Bernie Sanders' speechwriter.


  •  Pinned Tweet
     Aug 14
    NEWS: We are launching Bern Notice -- the ' campaign's digital newsletter with scoops, insights and news nuggets about the election. Subscribe at this link -- and please retweet: Bern after reading...
    156 replies1,215 retweets2,324 likes
     
     
  •  7 hours ago
    Counterpoint: The easiest way for America to crowdfund healthcare for everyone is by passing Medicare for All
    16 replies151 retweets539 likes
     
     
  •  8 hours ago
    The difference between politics and a sport you watch on ESPN is that in politics, if the team you're so enthusiastically rooting for wins the election but doesn't actually put in place policies that end the health care and climate crises, then lots of people are going to die.
    7 replies105 retweets454 likes
     
     
  •  8 hours ago
    . loves socialism when it enriches him, and berates government support when it might help everyone else
    7 replies80 retweets194 likes
     
     
  •  8 hours ago
    "Among rescue programs set up by the Fed, (there were) $7 trillion in commitments...The nation’s six largest banks — JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, GOLDMAN SACHS & Morgan Stanley — borrowed almost half a trillion dollars"
    The socialism debate is not just about redistributing income and wealth; it's about how much of the economy gov't should monopolize. Gov't should incentivize and regulate but not displace the private sector. When it does, you get the VA for health care and NY's NYCHA for housing.
    1 reply39 retweets94 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     8 hours ago
    you absolutely love to see it
    60 retweets414 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     12 hours ago
    NEW REPORT: A 0.1% tax on Wall Street trades would raise $777B over a decade and cost most people little or nothing. Wall Street crashed our economy and got away with it. Wouldn’t this be a great way for the industry to begin repaying its debt to society?
    9 replies176 retweets348 likes
     
     
  •  12 hours ago
    Actually, polls suggest people don’t love their private insurance corporation - they love their health care providers. In fact, polls show majorities would be happy to switch to switch to Medicare for All as long as they get to keep their doctor.
     
    21 replies173 retweets544 likes
     
     
  •  12 hours ago
    Two headlines from the last few days
     
    3 replies209 retweets650 likes
     
     
  •  24 hours ago
    Too many billionaires, too few people with adequate health care coverage
    21 replies262 retweets1,473 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Sep 15
    NEWS: At 4 separate fundraisers, has reassured his elite donors that if he is elected, he will not challenge their power - that includes last night, when he praised the pharma industry that's backing his campaign to vilify Medicare for All.
    34 replies811 retweets1,690 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Sep 15
    For the past few decades, not much has fundamentally changed for the working class of America. Biden is just promising them more of the same. Improving the lives of the working class requires a fight against those elites who have the power right now.
    Biden tonight, per pooler : “believe we can fundamentally change our standard for middle class people in America w/o going out and making sure no one can be a billionaire.We don’t need that kind of stuff. The fact of the matter is just a rational policy”will suffice”
    24 replies315 retweets1,282 likes
     
     
  •  Sep 15
    Notice Biden going out of his way to explicitly defend billionaires. This isn’t an accident. This is ideology.
    Biden tonight, per pooler : “believe we can fundamentally change our standard for middle class people in America w/o going out and making sure no one can be a billionaire.We don’t need that kind of stuff. The fact of the matter is just a rational policy”will suffice”
    28 replies314 retweets1,165 likes
     
     
  •  Sep 15
    My weekend: two Bern Notices, two fish tank cleanings, a few walks with Monty and one telescope night
     
    5 replies16 retweets123 likes
     
     
  •  Sep 15
    The people on this website who I don’t understand are those who non-ironically scream “but Bernie isn’t a Democrat” and then say nothing about Joe Biden helping Republicans authorize the Iraq War and pass a bankruptcy bill that crushed millions of Americans.
    130 replies708 retweets3,437 likes
     
     
  •  Sep 15
    Still remains the one of the greatest days of my journalism career:
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