Monday, March 02, 2020

Some Tweets from David Sirota

David Sirota is the speechwriter for candidate Bernie Sanders.



  •   Retweeted
     Feb 27
    Take 45 seconds & watch this video -- and retweet it. You'll see lead the fight to stop the GOP effort to freeze funding for Social Security. Then you'll see that 5 days later was bragging about his effort to help the GOP freeze Social Security funding.
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  •  2 hours ago
    Biden voted to let states overturn Roe v Wade: Near the end of the Clinton admin, Biden then touted his opposition to abortion rights in a press release lauding himself for being "one of the Senate's most conservative Democrats"
    26 replies527 retweets1,010 likes
     
     
  •  2 hours ago
    Reminder: cast one of the key votes to help Republicans narrowly defeat legislation by and Paul Wellstone designed to stop pharmaceutical price gouging. Pass it on.
    When I worked for 20 yrs ago, he & Wellstone pushed a bill to make sure drug companies couldnt profiteer off something like a coronavirus vaccine…
    70 replies2,555 retweets6,038 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     4 hours ago
    I do not believe we will defeat Donald Trump with a candidate like Joe Biden who supported the Iraq War.
    3,688 replies11,169 retweets45,661 likes
     
     
  •  4 hours ago
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  •   Retweeted
     4 hours ago
    Bernie Sanders in 2000, arguing on behalf of his successful House amendment to require drugs funded by public dollars to be sold to the public at a reasonable price. It was stripped out in conference.
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  •  4 hours ago
    Bernie: "Which side are you on? Are you on the side of working people, and are you willing to stand up against the greed and corruption of the corporate elite? Or are you on the side of the billionaires & corporations that are trying to buy the election?"
    28 replies401 retweets1,454 likes
     
     
  •  5 hours ago
    It is organized money versus organized people — as it always ends up being in every consequential battle in history
    46 replies852 retweets3,335 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     5 hours ago
    We have an announcement!
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  •  5 hours ago
    It is hard to overstate how important this vote was. Because of this vote, there is no rule guaranteeing that a coronavirus vaccine developed at taxpayer expense must be offered to Americans (or insurers or Medicare) at a reasonable and affordable price.
    When I worked for 20 yrs ago, he & Wellstone pushed a bill to make sure drug companies couldnt profiteer off something like a coronavirus vaccine…
    14 replies294 retweets841 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     6 hours ago
    When I worked for 20 yrs ago, he & Wellstone pushed a bill to make sure drug companies couldnt profiteer off something like a coronavirus vaccine The bill passed the House. helped the GOP & pharma lobbyists kill it in the Senate
    148 replies4,691 retweets9,787 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     6 hours ago
    TIL was instrumental in halting a effort to stop Big Pharma from price-gouging with publicly-funded research
    Wellstone's amendment comes to the Senate floor, where there's a motion to table it, which means kill it. Joe Biden votes to table it. It's defeated. /5
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  •  6 hours ago
    Hard to overstate how significant this vote was -- it means pharmaceutical companies can charge the American public exorbitant prices for drugs that the American public itself paid to research and develop.
    When I worked for 20 yrs ago, he & Wellstone pushed a bill to make sure drug companies couldnt profiteer off something like a coronavirus vaccine…
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  •  6 hours ago
    The Sanders/Wellstone bill woulda reinstated a federal rule saying drugs developed at taxpayer expense must be offered to the public at a reasonable price. Most Dems voted for it. provided a crucial vote to help the GOP kill it on a close vote:
    When I worked for 20 yrs ago, he & Wellstone pushed a bill to make sure drug companies couldnt profiteer off something like a coronavirus vaccine…
    15 replies282 retweets612 likes
     
     
  •  6 hours ago
    Here's ' drug pricing amendment passing the House: Here's 17 days later being one of a handful of Democrats supporting the GOP's move to kill Wellstone's companion measure in the Senate:
    When I worked for 20 yrs ago, he & Wellstone pushed a bill to make sure drug companies couldnt profiteer off something like a coronavirus vaccine…
    22 replies638 retweets1,690 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     7 hours ago
    How the Senate, by snuffing out an amendment pushed through the House by Bernie Sanders, paved the way for coronavirus profiteering by ,
    10 replies182 retweets369 likes
     
     
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     Mar 1
     
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  •  Mar 1
    I think it’s weird that the same people who publicly called for the incineration of Iraq and labeled war critics as traitors also insist they are offended by uncivil and toxic rhetoric.
    70 replies684 retweets3,122 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Mar 1
    A majority of South Carolina voters rejected Biden in favor of non-Biden alternatives, sending a clear signal that they wanted someone else besides Biden as President. That's how punditry works, right?
    171 replies1,222 retweets7,757 likes
     
     
  •  Mar 1
    When we talk about records of getting things done in Washington, we have to admit that it is is true: did not help pass the Iraq War resolution, the bankruptcy bill or Donald Trump's defense budgets. But he did do this:
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