Sunday, October 13, 2019

Some Tweets from David Sirota

David Sirota is the speechwriter for candidate Bernie Sanders.




  •   Retweeted
     46 minutes ago
    This tweet is a home run
    This campaign has played on the Field of Dreams, baseball in Bernie’s backyard, baseball with journalists, and baseball metaphors to critique media coverage. My Twitter avatar is happy
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  •  3 hours ago
    Arsonist: I’m really the most qualified to put out fires!
     
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  •  3 hours ago
    Arsonist: please elect me to run the fire department!
     
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  •  3 hours ago
    This is the candidate who campaigns against a Green New Deal and unleashed a destructive fracking & drilling boom across the state. This climate arsonist now asks everyone to believe he is a climate firefighter. Truly unbelievable.
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     6 hours ago
    An important Opinion column from the former editors of the Rocky and the Post. .... Colorado journalism needs public support via
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  •  16 hours ago
    Watching the film Short Circuit tonight with the kids. It’s a nice family movie...until you realize it’s the prequel to Westworld. Don’t @ me.
    13 replies11 retweets150 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Oct 11
    In 2018: Health care CEOs made $2.6B Pharma spent $281M lobbying to keep drug prices high 4 pharma companies made $7B off the GOP tax law Also in 2018: An American died every 20 mins due to a lack of adequate health insurance. Only will end this nightmare.
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  •  21 hours ago
    It’s weird that The Joker movie got more press than a new IMF report warning that climate change could result in “human extinction.”
    86 replies746 retweets1,587 likes
     
     
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     21 hours ago
    "The great tragedy of the climate crisis is that seven and a half billion people must pay the price – in the form of a degraded planet – so that a couple of dozen polluting interests can continue to make record profits."
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  •   Retweeted
     Oct 12
    Really cool that public employees’ retirement money gets used to finance the takeover and destruction of great media outlets
     
    2 replies44 retweets108 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Oct 11
    ‘There is no middle road on the climate crisis.’ —  took the Green New Deal abroad while urging world leaders to act on climate change
    AOC Speech at C40 Global Climate Summit
    ‘There is no middle road on the climate crisis.’ — @AOC took the Green New Deal abroad while urging world leaders to act on climate change
    715 replies4,843 retweets15,253 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Oct 11
    "in august, sanders outlined a plan to revitalize journalism and digital media that included cracking down on mergers and tech companies which have gobbled up digital ad revenue while publications are left out in the cold…”
    Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren take aim at corporate interests gutting journalism:
    1 reply48 retweets177 likes
     
     
  •  Oct 11
    It is October 2019. The country and the world are on fire. Literally. I truly cannot believe there are people out there who think a campaign of centrist corporatism is the way to defeat Donald Trump.
    70 replies725 retweets3,018 likes
     
     
  •  Oct 11
    So lets get this straight: PG&E gave $4.5 billion of dividends to shareholders, enriched its execs, gave a hedge fund billionaire a $570 million settlement, declared bankruptcy, shut down power to Northern California - and now is driving a hard bargain?
    86 replies987 retweets1,912 likes
     
     
  •  Oct 11
    This is, um, quite a turnaround from Schwarzman recently saying "maybe shouldn't exist."
    Donald Trump's billionaire adviser Steve Schwarzman just endorsed ' push for a $15 min wage, saying when it comes to economic policy, "A good place to start is to increase the minimum wage up to $15."
    17 replies192 retweets769 likes
     
     
  •  Oct 11
    Donald Trump's billionaire adviser Steve Schwarzman just endorsed ' push for a $15 min wage, saying when it comes to economic policy, "A good place to start is to increase the minimum wage up to $15."
    18 replies199 retweets689 likes
     
     
  •  Oct 11
    Actually, hiking trails and fracking rigs are the same. Also, war is peace.
    Are Colorado’s oil and gas and recreation industries all that different? Economists say no — and we need to protect them both
    5 replies93 retweets437 likes
     
     
  •  Oct 11
    Hey everyone -- I found today's most ridiculous headline 👇
    Are Colorado’s oil and gas and recreation industries all that different? Economists say no — and we need to protect them both
    7 replies48 retweets205 likes
     
     
  •  Oct 11
    This $300 million swindle happened at just one state pension fund -- and it is entirely mundane. So multiply this phenomenon over America's entire $3 trillion state & local pension system, and you now understand how Wall St enriches itself at the expense of millions of workers.
    A public pension paid Blackstone $308 million in fees & got back returns that “often trailed the stock market.” In other words: $308 million of pensioners’ savings enriched Wall St…
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     Oct 11
    The Intercept has identified even more money than previously known spent by PG&E on lobbyists and image-makers, while neglecting safety upgrades and investments in its aging infrastructure.
    5 replies139 retweets207 likes
     
     
  •  Oct 11
    This is wealth redistribution
    A public pension paid Blackstone $308 million in fees & got back returns that “often trailed the stock market.” In other words: $308 million of pensioners’ savings enriched Wall St…
    8 replies82 retweets254 likes
     
     
  •  Oct 11
    A public pension paid Blackstone $308 million in fees & got back returns that “often trailed the stock market.” In other words: $308 million of pensioners’ savings enriched Wall St execs, in exchange for returns that often didnt beat a low-fee index fund
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  •  Oct 11
    What also gets lost is how systems of equality can become connected to forces of inequality. Example: public pensions are a force for equality, because they provide middle-class retirement income. But those pension systems invest in private equity, which drives inequality.
    A lot of people write and think about the economic forces that produce stark income inequality. What seems to get lost is that inequality is a choice. We choose to not solve this problem and have a more equal society.
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  •  Oct 11
    The same billionaire-run hedge fund that turned the Puerto Rico crisis into a Wall Street profit scheme just got a huge payout from PG&E right before the company shut off power.
     
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  •  Oct 11
    Slamming PG&E as a pure example of corporate greed, cites the company’s recent actions to enrich its executives and shareholders in the lead up to it shutting off power. 👇🏻
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  •  Oct 11
    NEWS: weighs in on PG&E, saying “The people of California are suffering because of the greed & corruption of utility corporations & their executives. Let me be clear: this kind of corporate greed is absolutely unacceptable & will end when we defeat Donald Trump.”
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  •   Retweeted
     Oct 11
    We cannot allow corporate America to continue to destroy journalism. When I am president we will tell the owners of , , , , and others that they must end their greed and respect their workers or face consequences.
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