Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Some Tweets from David Sirota

David Sirota is the speechwriter for candidate Bernie Sanders.



  •  Pinned Tweet
     Aug 14
    NEWS: We are launching Bern Notice -- the ' campaign's digital newsletter with scoops, insights and news nuggets about the election. Subscribe at this link -- and please retweet: Bern after reading...
    160 replies1,249 retweets2,369 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     4 hours ago
    Such congrats to so many who worked so hard. When you fight...
    . comes out against the Williams Pipeline! This is an enormous win for people power, mobilized by and our wonderful allies in the Stop the Williams Pipeline coalition.
    1 reply90 retweets439 likes
     
     
  •  4 hours ago
    . was appointed to the Senate in 2009. One of his first decisions was voting with the GOP - and against most Dems - to block a bill to prevent bailed-out banks from throwing struggling debtors out of their homes after the financial crisis.
    7 replies61 retweets170 likes
     
     
  •  4 hours ago
    Gonna just throw this out there: an increasingly large number of snarky replies to my tweets come from accounts that have less than 25 followers and that were created in the current month they are tweeting. Seems totally legit and not scammy!
    57 replies178 retweets944 likes
     
     
  •  5 hours ago
    As we hear so many horror stories of medical debt, we must never forget the roots of this crisis: split with Obama to become one of only 3 Dems to help the GOP empower Wall St to use medical debt to destroy people lives. Never forget. Never.
    8 replies143 retweets301 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     4 Jun 2014
    Are you allowed to impeach a president for gross incompetence?
    26,642 replies217,606 retweets195,956 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     9 hours ago
    Agreed! Will you join me in taking the pledge—instead of crossing your name off—and endorsing the —instead of distorting it? A generic Democrat wins the race by 10 pts. Let’s replace with a climate hawk.
    The biggest threat to the outdoor industry in Colorado isn’t the market - it’s climate change. Cory Gardner is letting us all down by failing to step up to the plate and address our changing climate.
    1 reply39 retweets131 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     8 hours ago
    shamed them into action.
    At this point, the bigger national scandal isn’t the president’s lawbreaking behavior - it is the Democratic Party’s refusal to impeach him for it.
    9 replies29 retweets182 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     20 Sep 2017
    With popular single-payer plan, Bernie Sanders enters new territory: a wealth tax
    16 replies31 retweets210 likes
     
     
  •  9 hours ago
    Let's be clear: it is truly VERY good that other Dems are supporting a wealth tax. But let's also be clear: Bernie was the first to propose it. That should be mentioned & reported, rather than ignored & downplayed by billionaire-owned media. Receipts:
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    13 replies230 retweets726 likes
     
     
  •  9 hours ago
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    39 replies472 retweets2,164 likes
     
     
  •  9 hours ago
    Opponents of Medicare for All should be required to explain why they are defending this status quo 👇🏻
    STUDY: "Americans experience more than twice the risk of long waits for breast or colon cancer care or of dying while they wait for an organ transplant...Canadians’ chances of receiving better healthcare (are) 36% greater than their American counterparts" …
    16 replies116 retweets377 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     11 hours ago
    Clever! Why stop with & when you can make me out to be ? BTW, , I didn’t hear you commit to universal background checks. And once you’re done saving us from spy toilets, could you look into the scandal? Asking for a republic.
    Sen. Gardner on : “I take (Hickenlooper) at his word, that he’s not cut out to be in the…
    5 replies31 retweets141 likes
     
     
  •  11 hours ago
    Look, there are definitely exceptions to this axiom -- there are certainly a few non-profit organizations that have taken clear steps to prevent this dynamic from taking hold. But it is undeniable that this dynamic is real.
    1 reply13 retweets64 likes
     
     
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  •  11 hours ago
    You can extend this argument beyond think tanks and make it a universal axiom: entities funded by billionaires will most often prioritize the interests of billionaires, and they will most often oppose initiatives that might reduce the power & wealth of billionaires.
    The reason is that funding the think tanks is play money for billionaires who see themselves as progressive. As long as that particular engine for policy generation has a purely plutocratic funding model, it will be politically useless.…
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  •  12 hours ago
    Sorry, -- "standing" is not fully accurate. "Incessantly kicking them in the face every single day of their lives and robbing them" is more accurate.
    The great myth of the age of capital was that the people down there were "left behind" by those above them. Those above them had floated up and up, and left those below behind.…
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    1 reply25 retweets132 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     12 hours ago
    Third Way teamed up with Biden's polling firm to accidentally prove Medicare For All's popularity. 😂😂😂 FULL:
    50 replies542 retweets1,699 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     14 hours ago
    i wonder why this guy isnt popular with people who own newspapers
    Bernie Sanders is unveiling a proposal for a new wealth tax on the richest Americans, including a steep tax on billionaires that could greatly diminish their fortunes
    11 replies738 retweets5,541 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     13 hours ago
    When Bernie proposed this in 2017, Buzzfeed reported that "among the 16 Democratic senators backing the Medicare-for-all bill, spokespeople for just 4 replied when asked if they would consider the wealth tax option." remains undeterred.
    1997 Bernie: "It is time (to) to establish a tax on wealth" 2017 Bernie: "Establish a Wealth Tax on the Top 0.1 percent" …
    3 replies80 retweets265 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     13 hours ago
    NEWS: pioneered the wealth tax idea -- and he pushed it even when no senator would support it or praise it. Now he's bringing an expanded version of his original wealth tax concept to the 2020 presidential campaign.
    8 replies176 retweets583 likes
     
     
  •  12 hours ago
    Billionaires have been gorging on tax breaks & subsidies, increasing the wealth of the top 1% by $21 trillion while the bottom 50% has seen its net worth decline by $900 billion. Bernie’s wealth tax would begin reversing this trend. Details here:
    4 replies99 retweets244 likes
     
     
  •  13 hours ago
    1997 Bernie: "It is time (to) to establish a tax on wealth" 2017 Bernie: "Establish a Wealth Tax on the Top 0.1 percent" 2020 Bernie: "We must establish an annual tax on the extreme wealth of the top 0.1%"
    8 replies281 retweets887 likes
     
     
  •  14 hours ago
    Note: 's health care plan forces America to spend $50 trillion over the next decade on a health care system that enriches Biden's insurance and pharmaceutical donors while leaving 10 million Americans uninsured.
    Note: $4.35 trillion still leaves Sen. Sanders about $30 trillion short of paying for Medicare for All.
    5 replies118 retweets357 likes
     
     
  •  15 hours ago
    In 2017, first proposed a wealth tax. Buzzfeed noted at the time that no other senator was willing to publicly support or laud the idea: Today, Bernie has made his wealth tax idea part of his 2020 campaign platform:
    30 replies494 retweets1,572 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     15 hours ago
    Under Bernie's plan this is how much more these billionaires would owe this year: The Walton family: $14.8B Jeff Bezos: $8.9B Charles Koch: $3.2B Sheldon Adelson: $2.6B Rupert Murdoch: $1.28B “I don’t think that billionaires should exist,”
    329 replies2,485 retweets10,882 likes
     
     
  •  Sep 23
    The climate, health care, democracy and inequality crises that mortally threaten our society are not natural or inevitable -- they were produced by electoral results and deliberate policy decisions. That's it. That's the tweet.
    16 replies158 retweets431 likes
     
     










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