Monday, February 10, 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.
    190 replies679 retweets4,674 likes
     
     
  •  59 minutes ago
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  •   Retweeted
     1 hour ago
    National Quinnipiac Poll: Sanders 25% Biden 17% Bloomberg 15% Warren 14% Buttigieg 10% Klobuchar 4% Everyone else 2% or less
    52 replies152 retweets513 likes
     
     
  •  1 hour ago
    When you stop wasting time consuming Beltway punditry
     
     
  •  1 hour ago
    I don't have cable TV -- but when I occasionally tune in at the airport etc, I feel like I am watching clips unearthed from a time capsule from circa 2005. The political discourse is wholly unrelated to the current moment and lived reality out here in America.
    Bernie Sanders is a frontrunner for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States & his agenda is supported by the vast majority of Democratic voters.…
     
     
  •  1 hour ago
    Bernie Sanders is a frontrunner for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States & his agenda is supported by the vast majority of Democratic voters. It would be better if there were some voices on cable TV who consistently reflected that indisputable reality.
    8 replies83 retweets324 likes
     
     
  •  2 hours ago
    Live shot of every Beltway person who has to experience seeing a mildly critical tweet
    17 replies38 retweets360 likes
     
     
  •  2 hours ago
    Waiting for and his media pals to begin their fainting spells and insist that quoting Barack Obama is "toxic trolling" and "bullying" in 3...2...1...
    When you see incoherently attack , just remember: Carville incoherently attacked in 2008, and Obama was absolutely right about Carville right here 👇…
    15 replies93 retweets422 likes
     
     
  •  2 hours ago
    When you see incoherently attack , just remember: Carville incoherently attacked in 2008, and Obama was absolutely right about Carville right here 👇
    65 replies485 retweets1,617 likes
     
     
  •  3 hours ago
    “Electability” is a bizarre term that normal, ordinary everyday people never use — it’s some Frankenstein monster of a word conjured by Beltway people
    45 replies87 retweets570 likes
     
     
  •  3 hours ago
    Media: Twitter isn’t real life Also media: mildly critical tweets threaten to destroy the republic
    28 replies300 retweets1,667 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     4 hours ago
    Say what you will about . What John Hickenlooper says is that Bernie is peddling “the discredited ideas of Joseph Stalin”! is he talking about? We don’t know because Hick refuses to debate his opponents—he’s skipped 15 forums so far.
    37 replies95 retweets471 likes
     
     
  •  4 hours ago
    Particularly devastating margins of defeat in the crucial Jennifer Rubin, Jon Chait and Steve Rattner neighborhoods that are always such reliable bellwethers of the American electorate
    With 100% of the votes at 30 Rock now tallied, we can confidently report that Bernie Sanders has suffered a landslide loss in all of the precincts in the MSNBC green room.
    16 replies65 retweets506 likes
     
     
  •  4 hours ago
    With 100% of the votes at 30 Rock now tallied, we can confidently report that Bernie Sanders has suffered a landslide loss in all of the precincts in the MSNBC green room.
    63 replies301 retweets2,519 likes
     
     
  •  5 hours ago
    In the last 24 hours, Pete Buttigieg and the Trump administration promoted the same talking points that are typically used to justify cuts to Social Security and Medicare:
    21 replies146 retweets393 likes
     
     
  •  5 hours ago
    I like the Beltway Dems who have fainting spells over mildly critical tweets and who then also wonder why Democrats haven’t seemed to be tough enough to win elections
    25 replies147 retweets725 likes
     
     
  •  5 hours ago
    Alternate take: in a political system where elections are often bought by big money, nothing is “improbable” when you are the wine cave candidate raking in the most cash from Wall St & billionaires. The “improbable” story is Bernie rejecting that cash & still being a contender.
    Pete Buttigieg's improbable rise. It's looking more real every day.
    35 replies315 retweets1,500 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     5 hours ago
    Lee Raymond ran the biggest oil company on earth, and now he leads the board of the biggest fossil fuel lender.
    7 replies154 retweets302 likes
     
     
  •  6 hours ago
    It’s kinda hilarious that James Carville is now so embittered and cynical that he’s become the Bill Hader caricature of James Carville
    22 replies139 retweets689 likes
     
     
  •  6 hours ago
    I have a really crazy idea, hear me out here: Rather than sitting in the peanut gallery during a time of crisis and telling us nothing can ever be better, maybe folks like you with vast resources and big platforms could instead actually try to help make things better.
    Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg — none of them have a plausible path to passing the agenda they’ve promised. Enter epiphany politics, and its toxic cycle of high hopes and deep…
    189 replies1,193 retweets7,447 likes
     
     
  •  6 hours ago
    26 replies185 retweets1,150 likes
     
     
  •  14 hours ago
    13 replies101 retweets459 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     23 hours ago
    brought this up before but it merits emphasis: at some point Bloomberg is mass bribing cable/local news. Usually this isn’t an issue because candidates effectively cancel each other out but when it gets to $1B, $2B we’ll have one candidate underwriting the whole TV news industry.
    Michael Bloomberg's campaign has now crossed $350 million in ad spending. We created this chart to show how much $$$ he is spending. His rise in the polls = proof of the power of TV advertising?
    49 replies865 retweets2,807 likes
     
     
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  •  15 hours ago
    This tweet deserves a billion retweets 👇🏻
    Love seeing these posts praising the movie “Parasite,” from the same people who can’t seem to comprehend Bernie Sanders’ critique of capitalism.
    10 replies250 retweets1,320 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     17 hours ago
    For those interested, one of my last experiences in DC before I left was being yelled at and threatened by Democrats & CAP for trying to help progressive Democratic lawmakers stop the GOP bankruptcy bill that was written by the credit card industry
    22 replies343 retweets999 likes
     
     









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