Sunday, October 20, 2019

Some Tweets from David Sirota

David Sirota is the speech writer for candidate Bernie Sanders.


  •  3 hours ago
    On top of this being factually inaccurate, invoking Paul Wellstone to attack Bernie Sanders is one of the most despicable things I've seen. When I worked for Bernie 20 years ago, Paul was one of our best and most steadfast allies. Using his memory to attack Bernie is grotesque.
    13 replies104 retweets477 likes
     
     
  •  3 hours ago
    I was there. This is true. Receipts:
    The tweet below is 1 of the most absurd takes of the campaign. The 1st grassroots campaign I worked on for was back in 1999: To restore $320 million in pension benefits that IBM had stolen…
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    2 replies26 retweets124 likes
     
     
  •  3 hours ago
    Dear Donut Twitter: it's good notes that has fought the good fight for decades. Thats called positive campaigning. It isnt an attack on other candidates. If you think it is, you're admitting you worry that other candidates dont have as good a record.
    16 replies324 retweets1,489 likes
     
     
  •  3 hours ago
    This seems like important news.
    I’m sure there’s context and would love to see a transcript from this not-allowed-to-be-livestreamed event—but it appears that Hick’s position on the biggest political question facing the country right now is essentially no different from Gardner’s nationally-ridiculed non-answer
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    1 reply6 retweets31 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     4 hours ago
    At a forum today, six candidates were asked, by a show of hands, whether Donald Trump had committed an impeachable offense. Five of us said yes (he’s admitted as much). John tried yes and no—and then said, “We don’t know.” Maybe we should ask .
    12 replies49 retweets156 likes
     
     
  •  4 hours ago
    Bernie Sanders holds the largest rally of the 2020 race & gets huge endorsements - and yet less than 24 hours later, NBC nonetheless publishes this pre-cooked story, stubbornly refusing to allow the day's huge events to get in the way of manufacturing its preferred narrative
    127 replies1,063 retweets4,226 likes
     
     
  •  6 hours ago
    For the first time, my kids think I’m cool
    I've just been informed that I am now a part of the Marvel universe
    9 replies28 retweets265 likes
     
     
  •  7 hours ago
    FWIW I'm happy to personally accept all of Twitter's "I hate Bernie's meanie staff" insults in exchange for passing Medicare for All, eliminating student debt and saving humanity from climate change.
    Replying to @InternetR0bot @_jack_fox_ @daveweigel
    FWIW I like Bernie and used to listen to him regularly on Air America. He's in my top tier. I still could be persuaded over to him. It's the negative campaigning and undisciplined staff (Sirota, Turner) that gives me pause as to how he'd be as an executive.
    42 replies223 retweets1,553 likes
     
     
  •  7 hours ago
    Health care premiums are taxes collected by private insurance corporations. Here's news that those insurance corporations are expected to raise millions of Americans' taxes next year:
    8 replies160 retweets325 likes
     
     
  •  8 hours ago
    I've just been informed that I am now a part of the Marvel universe
    2:19
    Haha sort of honored to be included in this video tbh 😂😂
    17 replies73 retweets799 likes
     
     
  •  8 hours ago
    Counterpoint: is very popular among Democratic voters who will decide the nomination. Data:
    “The Squad” isn’t popular with swing voters.
    21 replies155 retweets1,032 likes
     
     
  •  9 hours ago
    There’s the old labor song “Which side are you on?” Corporatists want us to believe we never have to choose a side — but in this epic battle against oligarchy, we do have to make a choice. Which side are you on? & have a clear answer.
    33 replies383 retweets1,516 likes
     
     
  •  9 hours ago
    🤔
    13 replies72 retweets196 likes
     
     
  •  9 hours ago
    The next time some free-market fundamentalist slams ' Green New Deal plan to reduce the power of corporate-run utilities, please just show them this 👇
    43 replies562 retweets1,394 likes
     
     
  •  9 hours ago
    This episode of the new Paul Rudd Netflix show is gonna rule
    The reaction had when greeted by himself was perfrct and everything 😂 You’re a beautiful pack of humans, New York! …
    3 replies34 retweets246 likes
     
     
  •  11 hours ago
    Things musta taken a dark turn for Harry Potter
    11 replies12 retweets115 likes
     
     
  •  11 hours ago
    Here's an image that terrifies billionaires
    28 replies422 retweets2,393 likes
     
     
  •  14 hours ago
    👇🏻
    Replying to @tamaradraut @Kathy__Gee
    Bernie is right now leading a multi-racial working class movement that has by far more donors (especially working class donors) than any other candidate and is supported by 1 in 6 Democrats. To not support him is to oppose this project of a multi-racial working class movement.
    2 replies65 retweets414 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     15 hours ago
    My favorite example of this is how in Congress the word “purist” is an insult, and never used for free market fetishists or industry lifers. Only the left. If you compromise, you get promoted, maybe make it to leadership. If you refuse to compromise, you’re a purist asshole.
    0:45
    Best moment of rally: explains how her nine months in congress has shown her how the system pressures elected officials to "abandon the working class" — and that this experience has deepened her appreciation of…
    19 replies385 retweets2,561 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Oct 19
    Yes. Thanks for asking
    82 replies523 retweets3,584 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Oct 19
    This is as powerful an endorsement video as I have seen
    3:05
    Here's 's endorsement video for Bernie Sanders.
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    124 replies498 retweets3,614 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Oct 19
    Thank you, and for helping to keep this movement going.
     
     
     
    "Sanders leads a unique movement" has been scoffed at by some pundits as a marginal "Jacobin line," so it's been edifying to see his big Squad endorsements lead with this, too.
    6 replies156 retweets1,587 likes
     
     
  •  Oct 19
    The best app on my phone 👇🏻
    5 replies26 retweets185 likes
     
     
  •  Oct 19
    Tonight I am grateful — grateful to the staff and volunteers who organized today’s rally, grateful to for her leadership, grateful to everyone who came out to the rally, and grateful to for continuing to battle for a better future for all of us. Onward.
    48 replies519 retweets3,881 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Oct 19
    My most striking takeaway from working in the DC policy world was much the same: there’s tremendous pressure to sell out & write it off as the necessary cost of doing business. Bernie is one of the few veterans of that place who has refused to do so. It’s why we must elect him.
    0:45
    Best moment of rally: explains how her nine months in congress has shown her how the system pressures elected officials to "abandon the working class" — and that this experience has deepened her appreciation of…
    25 replies755 retweets3,453 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Oct 19
    Replying to   and 
    Thanks brother! Here's the OG Bernie Sanders crew back in the day that you sent me a while ago. It's time to party like it's 1999!
    4 replies55 retweets270 likes
     
     












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