Monday, January 20, 2020

Some Tweets from David Sirota

David Sirota is the speechwriter for candidate Bernie Sanders.


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    How many times does have to tell you he wants to cut Social Security for everyone to believe him? And how many video clips have to exist for people to worry that these would likely all be devastating Trump ads, if Biden is the nominee? A 3-part thread...
  • I like how you thought I wouldn’t at least make sanity time to bowl a shitty score in my southeast Denver bowling league
  • I warned you. They are going to do everything they possibly can to crush us and preserve the status quo. They are trying to demoralize and destroy this movement. Do not be deterred. Onward.
  • It was a great turnout and a great event. We are going to win Colorado on Super Tuesday -- pass it on.
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    We are going to beat the trolls one way or the other. United we stand.
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    What's more important than the New York Times endorsement? The endorsements Bernie received from: - National Nurses United - United Electrical Workers - United Teachers Los Angeles - Clark County Education Assn in NV - NH State Employees - IA/NH postal worker unions & many more
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    . & this happened almost 3 years to the day before the 2008 Bear Stearns collapse, setting in motion the worst financial crash since 1929 & worse economy since the Great Depression of the 1930s, when hardworking Americans really needed this key safety value
  • Here's a really good column on 's bankruptcy legislation, in which Krugman says: "The bankruptcy bill was written by and for credit card companies...Any senator who votes for the bill should be ashamed." Bernie voted against it.
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    Replying to   and 
    This is my job I have spent over a decade tracking politicians and Social Security. The whole point of the article you responded too is that the Politifact piece is wrong and so is the Reuter’s piece based on it. You are focusing on the wrong part,
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    Warren and Sanders have been chatting and occasionally laughing a good portion of their march arm in arm to Dome.
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    Replying to   and 
    Just like Politifact does. And Politifact does it knowingly, they are terrible on Social Security. Biden calls for “adjustments” to Social Security. Those are cuts. It is well known DC speak for cuts. Joe Biden just last year, after intense pressure switched his position
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    The Politifact “fact check” that cites says Biden was “being sarcastic” when he said cutting Social Security and Medicare are the only way to pay for a big tax cut. Who is Politifact’s source for this claim? The Joe Biden campaign. No, seriously.
     
  • The attempt to pretend a Biden video was "doctored" is bulls**t peddled by pundits trying to hide 's longtime effort to cut Social Security. Don't fall for it. A widely discredited blog post can't hide Joe's 40-year record.
  • Really think about this
     
  • Joe Biden is on the defensive and desperate to hide his 40-year record working to cut Social Security — but that record is now front and center in the election 👇🏻
  • Davos lanyards hate Bernie — pass it on
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    Yes, that's a component of vision. In this case, I'm confident that will favor policy professionals with smart, serious and egalitarian approaches to policy, as opposed to establishment policy wonks who are boxed in by conventional wisdom and worse.
  • Counterpoint: this kind of video makes a dangerously weak general election candidate against Trump, who will weaponize this and other videos in ads 👇🏻
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    It's kinda awesome that could just reprint this flyer from 25 years ago and use it as an ad today -- and it would still be just as relevant.
  • I see that is now denigrating, insulting, tearing down and undermining other Democrats — which is consistent with his record doing the same thing when he helped the GOP push the Iraq War, Social Security cuts and the bankruptcy bill.
  • THIS IS 🔥 “When Biden pushed for cuts to Social Security, was he serving donors or his constituents?”
  • NEWS: Anti-corruption expert & Bernie endorser/surrogate : “Middle Class Joe Biden perfected the art of taking big contributions, then representing his corporate donors. Its the kind of transactional politics Americans have come to loathe”
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    Even Biden's proposed plan for Social Security, with no benefit boost for everyone, is to the right of John Larson's Social Security 2100 plan, which has a 2% increase and the support of virtually every House Dem. Biden: Larson:
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    NYT poll pubbed in late November found 55% voters support Medicare for All, including 81% of Dems. The paper’s editors are ideologically very far away from average voters in both parties