Sunday, February 09, 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.
    188 replies675 retweets4,651 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     3 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
    17 replies203 retweets633 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     53 minutes ago
    Love seeing these posts praising the movie “Parasite,” from the same people who can’t seem to comprehend Bernie Sanders’ critique of capitalism.
    19 replies282 retweets1,007 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     5 hours ago
    We may be on different sides of the primary and disagree but anyone saying is not a Democrat or wants to attack his record helping Dems and progressives needs to have several seats.
    I want to be extremely clear: I worked for House Dems, I helped elect a Dem congressman & a Dem governor. I'm literally married to a Dem state representative.…
    8 replies53 retweets464 likes
     
     
  •  34 minutes ago
    We have a media that is more outraged and scandalized by the tone of some critical tweets than by health insurance companies killing people and fossil fuel companies lighting the ecosystem on fire.
    33 replies259 retweets903 likes
     
     
  •  38 minutes ago
    I prefer “Bernard Brother” instead of “goon,” thanks
    And just like that, the Bernie Sanders campaign is attacking Palmer Report on Twitter. Guess this means Bernie isn’t going to be disavowing his goons any time…
    50 replies37 retweets466 likes
     
     
  •  42 minutes ago
    Every pundit, politician, operative and twitter account that is shocked and scandalized that many folks are mad at an economy that’s crushing millions of people — they are all telling on themselves.
    9 replies75 retweets359 likes
     
     
  •  47 minutes ago
    People are literally dying because they can’t afford healthcare, a climate crisis threatens all life on Earth, bankrolled politicians make these problems worse — and yet here on twitter dot com some folks get the vapors when they hear a few boos & see a few tweets of displeasure
    It's now been twenty-eight hours since Bernie's goons started booing the other Democratic candidates during their New Hampshire speeches, and Bernie still has yet to disavow their behavior. How much longer does he get a free pass for his divisiveness? …
    73 replies295 retweets1,263 likes
     
     
  •  2 hours ago
    Additional context:
    4 replies81 retweets323 likes
     
     
  •  3 hours ago
    Pete, 2018: “I, Pete Buttigieg, politician, do henceforth and forthwith declare, most affirmatively and indubitably, unto the ages, that I do favor Medicare for All” Pete, 2019: Gets bankrolled by pharma donors Pete, 2020: 👇🏻
    At his third stop of the day, Buttigieg continues to go after Sanders on MFA. Buttigieg: “[I’m] not crazy about a proposal that spends $50 trillion” and only explains how he will “pay for about half of that.”
    37 replies370 retweets1,278 likes
     
     
  •  3 hours ago
    If you want a good illustration of how money buys politicians, see Pete’s tweet, and then see what he’s saying today — and realize that in between, he got himself bankrolled by pharma donors
    13 replies151 retweets408 likes
     
     
  •  3 hours ago
    My work has resulted in the election of Democrats to public office. I have helped elect a Democratic congressman in a swing district, a Democratic governor in a red state & a Democratic legislator in a swing state & I’m working to elect a Democratic President. What have you done?
    Replying to @davidsirota
    A lot of your work seems to have the effect of spreading cynicism toward the Democratic Party. Is that not your goal? Is it for the paycheck?
    28 replies124 retweets774 likes
     
     
  •  6 hours ago
    When the going gets tough, the tough go sledding in southeast Denver
    5 replies6 retweets204 likes
     
     
  •  7 hours ago
    I want to be extremely clear: I worked for House Dems, I helped elect a Dem congressman & a Dem governor. I'm literally married to a Dem state representative. I have done far more for the Democratic Party than 99.9% of the people trying to read me out of the party. Full stop.
    150 replies896 retweets6,380 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     9 hours ago
    So this is the world we live in where a person is unashamed to speak like this - Said @ a Republican vacancy committee meeting Saturday: “I just know that I wish Polis would drop dead and we’d have good Republicans,” added Lucille Strohl, also of Centennial.
    A 55-member Republican vacancy committee on Saturday chose Columbine Valley Mayor Richard Champion to fill the House District 38 seat. reports g …
    4 replies20 retweets71 likes
     
     
  •  7 hours ago
    I prefer Bernard Brother, thanks
    Replying to @davidsirota @bourgeoisalien @DrewGriffinCNN
    Sirota pretty much defines Bernie Bro.
    60 replies111 retweets1,342 likes
     
     
  •  7 hours ago
    The WaPo today decided to leave out almost everything did to lead the fight against the Iraq War. They tried to scandalize stuff with a nonsequitur quote from war proponent Dick Gephardt. But see the thread below for all the work Bernie did to try to stop that war.
    8 replies144 retweets377 likes
     
     
  •  7 hours ago
    I am supposed to pretend that all the lies & hatred thrown at me every day for all these years doesn't get to me. For the crime of tweeting C-Span videos, I'm depicted as a monster. I get that I'm just collateral damage in the larger effort to demonize progressives. But it sucks.
    This reporter claimed that he contacted me for comment. That’s a demonstrable lie. He also wildly mischaracterized an old tweet. I then asked both him & his producer to correct their story and they then went on air and repeated what they knew to be lies. Surreal. …
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    263 replies454 retweets2,846 likes
     
     
  •  8 hours ago
    And yes, I began using Tweet Deleter to auto delete older tweets after I read this thoughtful piece by and this other WaPo piece. You can try to scandalize that, but I believe the arguments in these pieces make sense:
    13 replies78 retweets582 likes
     
     
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  •  8 hours ago
    This reporter claimed that he contacted me for comment. That’s a demonstrable lie. He also wildly mischaracterized an old tweet. I then asked both him & his producer to correct their story and they then went on air and repeated what they knew to be lies. Surreal.
    0:29
    CNN has now added to its Bernie Bros Swarm nonsense. This is so over the top silly 😂
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    149 replies1,290 retweets4,827 likes
     
     
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  •   Retweeted
     8 hours ago
    Here's the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget supporting Trump's proposed cuts to Social Security and Medicare. This is the organization Team Pete is relying on for fiscal analysis
    8 replies104 retweets155 likes
     
     
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  •  9 hours ago
    Those who tweet stuff defending Bernie are depicted as "toxic trolls." Those who shitposted WMD lies to push America into a war that killed hundreds of thousands of people & labeled war opponents unpatriotic traitors -- they were given high-paid pundit gigs.
    39 replies489 retweets2,049 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     14 hours ago
    The people who tweet positive things about Bernie are derided by media outlets as “toxic trolls.” The people who blogged America into the Iraq War are given high-paid pundit gigs at those media outlets. Kinda makes you think...
    60 replies696 retweets2,822 likes
     
     
  •  9 hours ago
    Pete, 2018: "I, Pete Buttigieg, politician, do henceforth and forthwith declare, most affirmatively and indubitably, unto the ages, that I do favor Medicare for All" Pete, 2019, while becoming a top recipient of cash from pharma donors: 👇
    70 replies760 retweets2,550 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Feb 8
    Michael Bloomberg could pay his entire 2,000 person staff $1 million each, buy $3 billion of television ads...and he’d still have about $55 billion left over.
    207 replies1,767 retweets9,198 likes
     
     
  •  11 hours ago
    If you get the vapors because you tweeted something and then people tweeted facts proving that you were factually inaccurate, you aren't a victim -- you are a person who should log off.
    44 replies293 retweets1,504 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     11 hours ago
    "While being very clear in his political values, was actually pretty successful in working with people across the aisle" - what argued before he started taking billionaire cash
    41 replies651 retweets1,962 likes
     
     
  •  11 hours ago
    If you are a pundit expressing surprise and horror that many people in ' working-class movement are angry at the crushing status quo -- then you are telling on yourself.
    21 replies313 retweets1,520 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     12 hours ago
    I was listening to 's 2017 Axelrod podcast today and he talked about his 2000 Bernie Sanders essay. Notes Sanders works with Republicans better than some Democrats and says his "conviction politics" was more convincing to the other side.
    41 replies473 retweets1,434 likes
     
     
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  •  12 hours ago
    . began the morning insisting Bernie didn't campaign hard enough against Trump in 2016, then Frum got humiliated, and so now he's ending the morning by saying his proof is that a few people momentarily booed at the convention. Hilarious.
    25 replies196 retweets731 likes
     
     
  •  13 hours ago
    You should watch and retweet this clip of explaining why we cannot allow to buy the Democratic primary
    227 replies4,402 retweets10,187 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Feb 8
    It's weird that there is more media anger and critical coverage of pro-Bernie tweeters than there was media anger and critical coverage of the neoconservatives who shitposted America into a war that killed hundreds of thousands of people.
    80 replies940 retweets3,842 likes
     
     

















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