Sunday, December 29, 2019

Some Tweets from David Sirota

David Sirota is the speechwriter for candidate Bernie Sanders.


  •  Pinned Tweet
    I have a really insane idea — hear me out here: Maybe swing voters don’t want Wall Street dereg and more tax breaks for corporations. Maybe swing voters actually want the basic necessities of life, like health care, education and housing.
  •   Retweeted
    I’m outraged by the knife attack in Monsey. We must confront this surge of anti-Semitic violence, prioritize the fight against bigotry, and bring people together – instead of dividing people up.
  •   Retweeted
    Bernie Sanders is the top Democratic presidential candidate choice among Latino Democrats, according to recent polls by the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and Latino Decisions.
  • "He has fought for people the same his entire Senate career and even before...It makes you hopeful that he won’t flip-flop while in office.”
  •   Retweeted
    Wow. I had never been to a Bernie Sanders healthcare town hall before. The stories that people shared spontaneously were so powerful. A brave 14 year old with cancer spoke up. You cant leave a meeting like that and think our health care system isnt crazy and cruel.
  • “Nothing would fundamentally change” - Joe Biden
  • This can’t be true — the resident scholars at the Petroleum Billionaires Association and the energy analysts at the Oil Profits Institute told me everything is just fine
  • “We can’t afford a Green New Deal to stop the climate crisis that threatens all life on the planet”
  • Follow — he is the Chief of Receipts
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    Today I am endorsing Bernie Sanders for president. I want to tell a story about why,
  • Gonna be particularly awesome to watch all the tweets from the distinguished resident scholars of the Corporate Progress Institute, the experts at the Toxic Polluters Association and the lobbyists at Graft Government Affairs LLC
  • Grotesque
  •   Retweeted
    Brilliant event with tonight in Concord with . Every answer, perfect - especially his committing to ’s democracy vouchers and making reform issue number 1.
  • Join thousands and thousands of others by signing up for BERN NOTICE -- the newsletter of the Bernie 2020 campaign. Subscribe here -- and retweet:
  • "It is absolutely appalling and toxic that you discussed who funds the Exxon Enterprise Center for Public Policy," said a bunch of Twitter people but literally nobody in the real world outside a 1 mile radius of Northwest Washington DC.
  • "Twitter is not real life" is often used to pretend the left is out of touch. But the "Twitter is not real life" thing is real when it describes how millions in the real world are struggling to survive & yet the outrage on this website is when you dare criticize a Koch think tank
  •   Retweeted
    Bernie has defied the establishment for decades — he will defeat them in the election and when he’s president
  • 37 days till Iowa. It’s going to get worse before it gets better because the billionaire class, the lobbying-industrial complex and the entire class of DC grifters know they lose power when we win. So they’re gonna throw everything they can at us. Keep working hard.
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    An idea: just because you see them quoted in the newspaper or they have a Twitter avatar of themselves on cable TV, you’re under no obligation to pretend that Beltway careerists at Bribery Public Affairs LLC or the Koch Industries Policy Center are credible voices about anything.
  •   Retweeted
    "Can anyone really dispute that the level of wealth held by the richest Americans today has reached absurd levels?...Jeff Bezos is worth $114 billion...If Bezos spent $100 million a year on himself, it would take him 1,140 years to spend it all."
  •   Retweeted
    The CEO of Centene, which manages health insurance plans, is a bundler for Joe Biden. Here’s audio of an event hosted by Centene filled with Democratic lobbyists laughing it up about how Medicare for All will never happen
  • Please god no
  • Every now and again, I marvel at how it’s now just considered normal that anytime America tries to have an honest debate, the media’s go-to expert is either a bank lobbyist at Grift Public Affairs or a distinguished scholar at the Exxon Enteprise Institute For Public Policy
  •   Retweeted
    An urgent plea to progressives across the country. We’re up against not only Mitch McConnell & the but also Chuck Schumer & the —which has spent 10 months trying to sabotage our grassroots campaign (). Help us fight back:
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    Sen. Sanders has the highest favorability rating in the 2020 Democratic field, according to a CNN/ SSRS poll.
  • Here’s a glimpse of the general election
  • “Nothing would fundamentally change” - Joe Biden
  • I genuinely appreciate having the guts to use his platform to force a discussion of corporate greed. His new film is excellent.
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    But how can we pay for kids to get food and medical care??
  • Let the debate begin
  •   Retweeted
    Andrew Goldman, the natural gas company co-founder that had Biden in trouble for violating his no-fossil-fuel pledge, is also a bundler, according to his campaign