Saturday, November 30, 2019

Some Tweets from David Sirota

David Sirota is the speech writer for candidate Bernie Sanders.



  •  4 minutes ago
    Buttigieg previously won an essay contest by touting Bernie Sanders’ “candor, conviction & ability to bring people together” Now Pete has his staff promoting a screed suggesting Bernie is a “faux progressive” because Bernie is pushing debt-free college 👇🏻
    “ has nevertheless resisted the faux-progressive lure of big, universal programs and designed one that would provide help to those who need it.”…
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     3 hours ago
    this has already been said on this site one thousand times, but two parents making $50k each are not millionaires and i genuinely believe people would be a lot less outraged about his position if the campaign would just stop lying about it
     
    Contra bad faith critics on this site, has been remarkably consistent on tuition. See: his comments from April/May/June that he believes in free college for low/middle income students, not children of…
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  •  50 minutes ago
    Pete Buttigieg’s campaign is now frantically promoting an ugly essay by Jeff Bezos’s editorial board that suggests Bernie Sanders is a “faux progressive” for pushing debt-free college. 👇🏻
    “ has nevertheless resisted the faux-progressive lure of big, universal programs and designed one that would provide help to those who need it.”…
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  •  1 hour ago
    Pete is now citing a billionaire’s editorial board to try to defend his opposition to plans that make billionaires pay higher taxes to fund debt-free college
    ICYMI: ⁦⁩ calls ⁦⁩’s college affordability plan more progressive, more affordable, better targeted. More progressive 👏…
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  •  6 hours ago
    These centrist Dems now explicitly berating progressive voters and telling them to vote for someone else is really a dark plot twist
     
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  •   Retweeted
     7 hours ago
    Democrats, If your candidate is using Republican talking points to attack policies that would provide greater access to healthcare or education, find a new candidate.
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  •  7 hours ago
    I agree with ’s argument for electing president. As Pete declared: Bernie’s “energy, candor, conviction & ability to bring people together stand against the current of opportunism, moral compromise & partisanship” in America.
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  •  8 hours ago
    “Not only can we afford Medicare for All, but a properly designed transition to Medicare for All could deliver the biggest pay raise in a generation to middle-class workers.”
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     Nov 29
    And yet, we are not addressing it as an emergency. The questions about the & are how r u going to pay for it & how r u going to pass it. It should be how quickly can we implement it. It’s survival, not partisan politics.
    Scientists say there is growing evidence to suggest that irreversible changes to the Earth's environmental systems are already taking place, and that we are now in a "state of planetary emergency."
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  •   Retweeted
     23 hours ago
    A MUST READ by ⁦⁩ on : “His energy, candor, conviction, and ability to bring people together stand against the current of opportunism, moral compromise, and partisanship which runs rampant on the American political scene.”
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  •  24 hours ago
    I agree with here. Retweet if you also agree.
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  •  Nov 29
    More on why should be president: “His stance on gun control led to NRA-organized media campaigns against him. Sanders has also shown creativity in organizing drug-shopping trips to Canada (to) call attention to inflated drug prices in the U.S.”
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  •  Nov 29
    Before raked in cash from billionaires and Wall Street moguls, Pete made one of the most powerful and compelling arguments for why should be president. Read Pete here and retweet:
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     Nov 29
    Imagine that
     
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  •  Nov 29
    Here’s a three-act tragicomedy about politics and big money
     
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  •  Nov 29
    Axiom: the more absurd a politician’s argument, the more they may be trying to hide that they are helping their donors Example: Pete absurdly insisting he opposes free college because Bezos kids may get free community college obscures how Pete’s opposition helps his donors
     
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  •   Retweeted
     Nov 29
    Today is revealing who Pete is as clearly as anything else he's done during this campaign, and it's remarkably disappointing. This disingenuous BS is turning the Democratic vision of governing on its head. And both Pete and Lis know that, which makes it all the worse.
    If you think that a worker who didn’t go to college should pay for college for a CEO’s kid, then isn’t your candidate.
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  •  Nov 29
    FDR wanted to make sure all Americans could get a decent job. Thankfully, he didn’t back off his agenda just because bad faith opponents could slam the New Deal for opening up the theoretical possibility that Rockefeller kids could work in the Civilian Conservation Corps.
    . wants to make college affordable for Americans who can’t afford it. He won’t ask Americans who don’t go to college to subsidize it for the children of millionaires and billionaires—>
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  •   Retweeted
     Nov 29
    “Bloomberg should be nervous that Bernie Sanders is going to be the President of the United States and is going to tax people like Michael Bloomberg and is going to disempower billionaires,” says Ari Rabin-Havt, deputy campaign manager for Sanders.
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    86 replies510 retweets1,745 likes
     
     
  •  Nov 29
    Wall Street is mad at Bernie Sanders’ tuition-free college plan because it is financed by a tax on Wall Street speculation. Pete Buttigieg is suddenly airing ads slamming Bernie’s plan, as Pete raises money from Wall Street. That’s it. That’s the tweet.
     
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