Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Some Tweets from David Sirota

David Sirota is the speechwriter for candidate Bernie Sanders.


  •  Pinned Tweet
     Jan 21
    I told the NY Times that “my principles don’t change with the job I’m in” and I think that’s proven to be true over the last 20 yrs. It hasn’t been a perfect career — but I’ve tried hard to live my values. Thanks to everyone for the support. Onward.
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  •   Retweeted
     24 minutes ago
    National GE Poll Among Independents: Sanders 42% (+10) Trump 32% Bloomberg 38% (+6) Trump 32% Biden 39% (+5) Trump 34% Warren 38% (+5) Trump 33% Buttigieg 35% (+1) Trump 34%
    15 replies124 retweets332 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     4 hours ago
    NEW:Some Sanders advisers have been urging him for months to go after Biden more directly. It's finally happening. "When people want to attack we will counterpunch, and we will counterpunch very aggressively,” said Faiz Shakir, his campaign manager.
    131 replies119 retweets506 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     2 hours ago
    S. Carolina elected official now backing Sanders over Biden
    149 replies1,106 retweets5,599 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     6 hours ago
    That's funny. Jamie Dimon seemed fine with corporate socialism when his bank got a $416 billion bailout from American taxpayers.
    JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon takes on socialism, says it will lead to an 'eroding society'
    2,709 replies22,268 retweets104,373 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     2 hours ago
    Damn: “I looked at that, and I thought, ‘He’s right,’” said Myers, a black woman first elected to the Richland County Council in 2016. “He’s unafraid and he’s unapologetic.”
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  •   Retweeted
     2 hours ago
    Bloomberg just added this which undercuts their entire story. "Sanders record shows he supported⬆️funding for Social Security & opposed benefit cuts throughout his political career. He sponsored legislation throughout the 1990s to protect & increase Social Security checks"
    NEW: Bernie Sanders spoke in 1996 about the future need for “adjustments” to Social Security, a term that Sanders campaign/allied Social Security group had called a “euphemism” for cuts when it was used by Biden.
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  •   Retweeted
     7 hours ago
    Here’s Bernie Sanders in 1997 saying no cuts to social security
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  •   Retweeted
     6 hours ago
    On 1/26/95, Bernie Sanders gave this floor speech opposing the balanced budget because it would mean “the destruction of the Social Security system” Five days later, Biden gave this speech touting his effort to cut Social Security. Pretty big difference.
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    JOE BIDEN: “When I argued that we should freeze federal spending, I meant Social Security as well. I meant Medicare & Medicaid. I meant veterans’ benefits....And I not only tried it once, I tried it twice, I tried it a 3rd time & I…
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  •   Retweeted
     6 hours ago
    Thinking back to the two different multiday meltdowns Serious Journalists had when Sirota suggested billionaire owners may influence coverage
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  •   Retweeted
     6 hours ago
    Bernie has led the effort against Social Security cuts, raising the retirement age & cutting COLAs for seniors & disabled vets. He wrote the damn bill to expand Social Security - in '15. Joe Biden has a 40-year history in support of Social Security cuts. Pretty big difference.
    Social Secretary has “been adjusted before & adjustments will have to be made again,” Sanders said in 1996, using term his allies say meant cuts. And/but argues it’s clear from Sanders’ history that he never wanted to cut the program.
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    31 replies397 retweets1,183 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     7 hours ago
    Haha - now here's something that deserves context! You want to know the kind of "adjustment" Bernie supported to Social Security? Check the record! While Biden was supporting cuts, Bernie was introducing legislation to increase benefits for seniors!
    NEW: Bernie Sanders spoke in 1996 about the future need for “adjustments” to Social Security, a term that Sanders campaign/allied Social Security group had called a “euphemism” for cuts when it was used by Biden.
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  •  6 hours ago
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  •   Retweeted
     16 hours ago
    Support for Biden in polling: Oct: 34% Nov: 28% Dec: 26% Now: 24% Support for Sanders in polling: Oct: 16% Nov: 17% Dec: 20% Jan: 27%
    390 replies2,474 retweets12,393 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     9 hours ago
    'Accepting the 2015 Izzy Award for special achievement in independent media (it is named for the radical muckraker I.F. Stone), Mr. Sirota spoke of doing hard-hitting investigations “at an outlet that allows you to do it, which tend not to be legacy media outlets.”’
    I told the NY Times that “my principles don’t change with the job I’m in” and I think that’s proven to be true over the last 20 yrs. It hasn’t been a perfect career — but I’ve tried hard to live my values. Thanks to everyone for the support. Onward.
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  •   Retweeted
     11 hours ago
    Representative meeting with CCWU home care workers about what we can do in Colorado to make sure all home care workers are able to support their families, while taking care of others, regardless of geography, gender or race.
     
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  •  9 hours ago
    Over and over, Donald Trump promised Americans that he would not cut Social Security and Medicare. He lied.…
    9 replies92 retweets350 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     13 hours ago
    Bernie is surging -- pass it on
    38 replies543 retweets2,342 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     12 hours ago
    The President of Social Security Works: "When politicians want to expand Social Security, which is extremely popular, they say so. They don't use euphemisms like 'adjustments.'"
    At various times, Joe Biden has expressed openness to raising the Social Security retirement age, reducing cost-of-living adjustments, and means testing:
    9 replies162 retweets409 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     12 hours ago
    The most electable person in this race is . Period.
    190 replies2,642 retweets14,820 likes
     
     
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  •   Retweeted
     Jan 21
    tfw your strategy is definitely well-thought out.
    Biden official: "In what world is a social media video with no money behind it, released to defend the Vice President's record from a slew of attacks, an attack ad?"
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    10 replies125 retweets1,087 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Jan 19
    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.
    68 replies1,662 retweets6,298 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     17 hours ago
    The free press is never more important than when it exposes wrongdoing by the powerful. That is why President Bolsonaro is threatening Glenn Greenwald for the "crime" of doing journalism. I call on Brazil to end its authoritarian attack on press freedom and the rule of law.
    “We are appalled that Brazil’s Public Ministry has decided to file such a blatantly politically motivated charge against Greenwald, in apparent retaliation for The Intercept’s critical reporting.”
    1,293 replies7,684 retweets32,199 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     13 hours ago
    “Not Me. Us.” is now the first-person voice of that worker or senior or immigrant who previously had been suffering in silence and solitude, blaming themselves, and who now sees that they have more company than they ever dared to imagine.” -
    7 replies356 retweets1,187 likes
     
     
  •  12 hours ago
    In the NY Times' profile of me today, they show these two pictures that are only 12 years apart. The photos offer a glimpse of the accelerated aging process that can happen if you work in investigative journalism and politics. Beware!
     
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