Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Some Tweets from David Sirota

David Sirota is candidate Bernie Sanders' speechwriter.


  •   Retweeted
     2 hours ago
    if you like your insurance, you can keep it, unless your boss doesn't like it, in which case you cannot keep it
    53 replies590 retweets3,215 likes
     
     
  •  2 hours ago
    It's clear that -- and President is going to open up a criminal investigation
    2 replies88 retweets324 likes
     
     
  •  3 hours ago
    I’m willing to fight for Washington Post reporters I don’t know.
    The Post giveth, and the Post shall taketh away: days after announcing additional paid parental leave (!), company officially moves staff toward high-deductible health insurance plans that shift significant costs and risks onto employees
    25 replies195 retweets1,143 likes
     
     
  •  4 hours ago
    This is a brazenly dishonest argument on every level. It asks you to somehow forget that Medicare for All eliminates the enormous middle-class taxes (premiums, copays etc) that Americans are currently paying to Bennet's insurance and pharma donors.
    . is right that Medicare for All would raise middle-class taxes, just as he’s been right for the last 10 years that a public option will cover everyone without costing taxpayers a cent.
    31 replies208 retweets865 likes
     
     
  •  4 hours ago
    Jeff Bezos is offering up another reminder that billionaire owners always behave like billionaires 👇
    The Post giveth, and the Post shall taketh away: days after announcing additional paid parental leave (!), company officially moves staff toward high-deductible health insurance plans that shift significant costs and risks onto employees
    13 replies184 retweets601 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     5 hours ago
    This is shameful, . Sanders and Warren have said repeatedly would lower cost for everyone. That is what matters. Iowans won’t fall for your regurgitation of health insurance industry talking points. Maybe that’s why you poll at 2%.
    0:27
    Question: "Are you saying Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are not being straight with people by how they would pay for all these programs?"…
    45 replies244 retweets1,060 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     8 hours ago
    I'm willing to fight for a Donut account that tweeted something mean at me
    I’m willing to fight for someone I don’t know!
    32 replies161 retweets1,499 likes
     
     
  •  5 hours ago
    When claimed that his opposition to Medicare for All proved "I'm with Barack," that was patently false. Here are the receipts 👇
    President Obama: Democrats "are running on good, new ideas like Medicare for all." Obama's Medicare chief: "Medicare for All wins twice: on both simplicity…
    5 replies112 retweets403 likes
     
     
  •  5 hours ago
    President Obama: Democrats "are running on good, new ideas like Medicare for all." Obama's Medicare chief: "Medicare for All wins twice: on both simplicity and savings."
    41 replies492 retweets1,375 likes
     
     
  •  6 hours ago
    For weeks, and have been parroting GOP talking points against Medicare for All, while raking in donations from health industry donors. Now, President 's Medicare chief debunks the talking points. 👇
    23 replies465 retweets1,120 likes
     
     
  •  7 hours ago
    John Cornyn seems very upset that President is going to open a criminal investigation into the fossil fuel industry, which knowingly created the climate crisis.
    Bernie Sanders will prosecute Texas oil executives if he is elected as President. Our nation will have serious problems if politicians start attacking CEO’s they disagree with politically.
    16 replies158 retweets605 likes
     
     
  •  7 hours ago
    -- and President Sanders is going to hold Exxon accountable.
    .: "We are finally going to end the fossil fuel industry’s legal immunity...When I am president, I will appoint an Attorney General who will finally hold the executives and the fossil fuel industry accountable for their criminal behavior." …
    3 replies65 retweets268 likes
     
     
  •  7 hours ago
    .: "We are finally going to end the fossil fuel industry’s legal immunity...When I am president, I will appoint an Attorney General who will finally hold the executives and the fossil fuel industry accountable for their criminal behavior."
    11 replies205 retweets637 likes
     
     
  •  8 hours ago
    If you want to see fossil fuel executives face a full-scale criminal investigation, then you should support -- the candidate who has most explicitly promised to make that happen when he is elected president.
    4 replies80 retweets255 likes
     
     
  •  8 hours ago
    Remains one of the best days of my entire career
    9 replies30 retweets230 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     8 hours ago
    Congrats to the airport workers winning union recognition with ! One step closer to a contract that respects the dignity and safety of our airport workers. Hopefully this inspires other airport workers to organize for representation, too.
    1 reply71 retweets236 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     8 hours ago
    Replying to 
    I was going to try to save the planet but I got so annoyed at this tweet one time, so I completely sacrificed all of my values
    1 reply19 retweets95 likes
     
     
  •  8 hours ago
    "I was going to support a Green New Deal to save the planet from a climate disaster, but then I insulted someone and they blocked me on Twitter and so I bailed" - the epitaph on humanity's gravestone
    15 replies127 retweets608 likes
     
     
  •  8 hours ago
    Look I get it. You think I'm a "bad hire" & a "liability" & you are voting against Bernie & Medicare for All & a Green New Deal because you once read a tweet of mine you didnt like. Great, congrats to you & your Extremely Online take! Now excuse me, we've got real work to do.
    114 replies304 retweets2,263 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     9 hours ago
    Wired: ExxonMobil on trial for misleading shareholders about climate risks Inspired: ExxonMobil CEOs on trial for crimes against humanity
    7 replies97 retweets372 likes
     
     
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  •  9 hours ago
    So if we're talking about "literal" stuff -- I've literally helped elect a Democratic congressman, I've literally helped elect a Democratic governor, I've literally worked for House Democrats...oh and I'm literally married to a Democratic elected official.
    Replying to @BenjaminPDixon
    Sanders hires Sirota to run his campaign who’s literal full time job is to insult democrats and their voters
    20 replies106 retweets815 likes
     
     
  •  9 hours ago
    If you like ExxonMobil this week being dragged into civil court, then you are going to LOVE President opening a criminal probe of fossil fuel executives who knowingly suppressed information about the climate disaster
    4 replies89 retweets254 likes
     
     
  •  9 hours ago
    The Exxon "trial of the century" begins today. It is a civil case. is the candidate promising a CRIMINAL probe of fossil fuel corporations AND their top executives. He pushed to make that happen in 2015 -- it WILL happen when he's president.
    5 replies155 retweets443 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     12 hours ago
    Any candidate proposing to retain employer-sponsored insurance is supporting an extremely unpopular idea
    New polling from Emerson today shows that voters strongly oppose employer-based health insurance once they understand what it means. cc
    13 replies236 retweets1,087 likes
     
     
  •  11 hours ago
    Unlike other national political figures, came to Colorado in 2018 to campaign to help down-ballot progressives win the legislature: A recent poll shows Bernie leading in Colorado: Now this good news 👇🏻
    Bernie Sanders announced several Colorado endorsements this morning. Among them: — State Rep. …
    6 replies114 retweets383 likes
     
     
  •  12 hours ago
    Hell yeah
    Sanders rolls out the endorsement of his speechwriter David Sirota's wife, state Rep. Emily Sirota
    24 replies145 retweets1,326 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     15 hours ago
    The issue here is not electability. Sanders and Warren would both be heavily favored against Trump. The issue is that the donor class—the people who socialize with NYT reporters—don’t want left policies.
    173 replies1,182 retweets5,706 likes
     
     
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  •   Retweeted
     13 hours ago
    Centrists pretending their concern with a left nominee is electability (when their real concern is paying more taxes) reminds me of centrists pretending their concern with single payer is that it's not realistic (when their real concern is having the same healthcare as poor ppl).
    26 replies683 retweets2,906 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     13 hours ago
    As the campaign heats up, defenders of the super rich are panicking
    As the campaign heats up, defenders of the super rich are panicking
    The super rich have plenty of defenders on television.
    46 replies144 retweets421 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     16 hours ago
    If I worked for a think tank that took millions of dollars from an authoritarian regime, I'd probably sit out the "Who's a foreign asset" discussion.
    28 replies638 retweets3,242 likes
     
     
  •  14 hours ago
    Two headlines on the same day
     
    1 reply81 retweets221 likes
     
     
  •  14 hours ago
    Good clip of explaining the media’s Bernie Blackout
    23 replies441 retweets1,664 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Oct 21
    Area Politician Successfully Bribed
    17 replies158 retweets577 likes
     
     
  •  15 hours ago
    🤔
     
    3 replies39 retweets154 likes
     
     
  •  Oct 21
    You wanna know why I oppose ? It’s because a guy who bills himself as “Middle Class Joe” helped his donors and his GOP allies destroy Democrats and pass a bill that deliberately sentenced millions of Americans to a lifetime of crushing college and medical debt. 👇🏻
    The bankruptcy bill was a corrupt sell out. I’ll always appreciate defending us — and I’ll never forget throwing us under the bus. This was a formative moment for me as a young person. It taught me a lot about the Dem Party divide.
    27 replies477 retweets1,812 likes
     
     
  •  Oct 21
    The bankruptcy bill was a corrupt sell out. I’ll always appreciate defending us — and I’ll never forget throwing us under the bus. This was a formative moment for me as a young person. It taught me a lot about the Dem Party divide.
    15 replies148 retweets590 likes
     
     
  •  Oct 21
    Today's news: Biden is having his surrogate say his campaign could be bankrolled by a super PAC: Buttigieg is having Mark Zuckerberg help with staffing: Bernie is fighting corporate greed:
    13 replies357 retweets1,157 likes
     
     
  •  Oct 21
    Here's today's installment of "I need a good premise for a terrifying science fiction movie"
    17 replies30 retweets157 likes
     
     

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