Monday, October 14, 2019

Some Tweets from David Sirota

David Sirota is the speechwriter for candidate Bernie Sanders.



  •  4 hours ago
    "Fracking is good for the country’s energy supply, our national security, our economy, and our environment." - John Hickenlooper 36 months ago
    "Colorado deserves a senator who understands that climate change is a massive threat to our economy and way of life and will treat it with the needed urgency... and I'm running to do just that." …
    18 replies107 retweets305 likes
     
     
  •  4 hours ago
    Idea: How about tax rates designed so that no single individual has more than $1 billion, until everyone has basic healthcare, a living wage & a secure retirement so that folks dont keep unnecessarily dying - and then once we do that, we can revisit the billionaire issue. Deal?
    70 replies365 retweets1,559 likes
     
     
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     5 hours ago
    cnbc anchor on not covering bernie's massive corporate accountability proposal: “you know, because it’s just not that surprising. you’re just like ‘eh! another bernie plan! what’s he coming after this time?” hilarious.
    98 replies484 retweets1,973 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     12 hours ago
    One thing this excellent tool shows is that, like Bernie says, Medicare for All will act as a tax cut for ~93 percent of people. The private, corporate health care taxes we pay in premiums are punishing, regressive taxes.
    One fun thing you can do on : Simulate how the candidates' tax plans would change tax progressivity…
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    4 replies245 retweets628 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     13 hours ago
    If Bernie's plan had been in effect last year, instead of paying nothing in federal income taxes: ✅Amazon would have paid up to $3.8B in taxes ✅Delta would have paid up to $1.8B in taxes ✅Chevron would have paid up to $1.6B in taxes ✅GM would have paid up to $1.5B in taxes
    For over 40 years, the largest and most profitable corporations in America have rigged the tax code and our economy. That ends when we're in the White House.…
    18 replies542 retweets1,635 likes
     
     
  •  7 hours ago
    Dear DC people: If you think you are telling on me or calling my manager by gotcha exposing me for supporting a Green New Deal, let me assure you -- I don't care. Not even a little bit.
    15 replies91 retweets603 likes
     
     
  •  7 hours ago
    If Dems choose to elect Hickenlooper to the Senate, and he then predictably pulls a Lieberman/Manchin by undermining the next Democratic president, voting with the GOP to destroy a Green New Deal and dooming our planet -- don't say you weren't warned. You were warned.
     
    This is ridiculous. Just utterly and completely ridiculous on every single level.
    32 replies387 retweets1,190 likes
     
     
  •  8 hours ago
    This is ridiculous. Just utterly and completely ridiculous on every single level.
     
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  •  9 hours ago
    I’m not sure how it’s democratic for the Colorado Democratic Party to ban Senate primary candidates from criticizing each other by name and banning the live streaming of Senate candidate debates.
    20 replies126 retweets497 likes
     
     
  •  10 hours ago
    CBS News: “Hickenlooper Threatens To Sue Any Town, City That Bans Fracking”
    In my op-ed this morning in the , I made clear that one of my top priorities in the U.S. Senate will be fighting climate change and growing our green economy. Give it a read: …
    14 replies82 retweets233 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     10 hours ago
    This outlet largely exists because corporate ownership decimated their local newspaper, and they still have enough reverence for power to run this absolute horseshit from the governor who bragged about drinking fracking fluid. You almost have to respect it
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  •  10 hours ago
    CBS: “Hickenlooper Threatens To Sue Any Town, City That Bans Fracking”
    I will bring an unrelenting focus on combating climate change and growing our green economy, writes in an opinion piece:
    7 replies70 retweets229 likes
     
     
  •  11 hours ago
    Arsonist: I swear I’m actually a firefighter!
     
    1 reply49 retweets246 likes
     
     
  •  12 hours ago
    Current and retired federal workers have $357 billion invested in BlackRock funds: BlackRock often uses those assets to vote down shareholder resolutions that would force corporations to stop making the climate crisis worse
    4 replies60 retweets111 likes
     
     
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  •  12 hours ago
    A new IMF report says climate change may result in "human extinction." At the same time, Wall Street giants are using millions of Americans' retirement assets to help CEOs block initiatives to prevent corporations from exacerbating the climate crisis 👇
    17 replies267 retweets478 likes
     
     
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  •  13 hours ago
    NEWS: Trump is considering helping American corporations move their headquarters to tax havens to avoid paying their fair share. just released a new plan to outlaw that entire tax dodge.
    13 replies359 retweets951 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     15 hours ago
    NEW TODAY: “[Bernie’s] plan captures the ideas and ideology at the center of Sanders’s campaign: That workers need more power and protections and that corporations need to bear more responsibility for improving the society in which they operate.”
    7 replies243 retweets774 likes
     
     
  •  Oct 13
    One thing that has changed for me this year: I log onto this website a lot less, because I decided it's not healthy to frequently look at a website where people so casually vilify me, my work, my career, my family & so many other good people in such personal terms. That is all.
    92 replies104 retweets1,457 likes
     
     
  •  Oct 13
    "The risk of catastrophic & irreversible disaster is rising, implying potentially infinite costs of unmitigated climate change, including...human extinction." Meanwhile 👇🏻
    5 replies53 retweets79 likes
     
     
  •  Oct 13
    These are the things I sometimes contemplate when staring at my fish tank on a Sunday night.
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