Tuesday, February 18, 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.
    208 replies749 retweets4,947 likes
     
     
  •  2 hours ago
    I wonder what would happen if I just started retweeting all the ugly ad hominem insults and threats I get every single hour of every day on this website. Would media automatically start ascribing that to the other candidates and asking them to denounce?
    254 replies479 retweets2,828 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     9 hours ago
    "I switched from the Biden campaign to the Sanders campaign because I want to see the kind of lines around the building that we saw in 2008." –
    371 replies2,074 retweets9,390 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     4 hours ago
    this is maybe the most tendentious bull**it "fact check" I have ever read, and that is saying a lot
    19 replies102 retweets767 likes
     
     
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  •  3 hours ago
    Comments from pushing cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid are important, considering Bloomberg News' Steve Dennis reports: "McConnell has told me he hopes to work with next Dem President to trim Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid"
    18 replies123 retweets315 likes
     
     
  •  4 hours ago
    This is one of a number of statements has made pushing the idea of Social Security & Medicare cuts -- cuts that has always opposed. See here for others Bloomberg statements:
    1:20
    NEW VIDEO: said on Fox News in 2011: "We cannot continue to say we've got to cut, but we can't touch Medicare & Medicaid, Social Security, defense."…
    19 replies195 retweets567 likes
     
     
  •  4 hours ago
    NEW VIDEO: said on Fox News in 2011: "We cannot continue to say we've got to cut, but we can't touch Medicare & Medicaid, Social Security, defense." He also said he opposed efforts at the time to raise taxes on the wealthy. Transcript:
    43 replies431 retweets1,085 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     4 hours ago
    🙋🏾‍♀️ Thank you for having our backs, Senator. Cc:
    147 replies1,614 retweets8,081 likes
     
     
  •  4 hours ago
    Bernie Sanders just said on CNN that the last book he read was "The Uninhabitable Earth" by . It's a very important book -- I highly recommend it.
    34 replies379 retweets1,916 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     11 hours ago
    The amount of vitriol spewed at two journalists who now work for a presidential campaign because they dare to direct people to publicly-available information about rival candidates in a critical way is just astounding.
    Are Sirota and Joy so uniquely talented at their jobs that they’re irreplaceable? Could Sanders not find someone willing to take the job? Or does Sanders approve of the job they’re doing?
    16 replies142 retweets914 likes
     
     
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  •  6 hours ago
    "'There is one clear and inescapable set of results: Bernie Sanders is the definitive front-runner, and the current numbers do not represent his ceiling, but instead his base with room to grow,' said Democratic pollster Peter Har who conducted this survey"
    31 replies424 retweets1,622 likes
     
     
  •  6 hours ago
    This is a complete embarrassment on every level -- the folks at have turned "fact checking" into "do not believe the verifiable facts that you can literally see right before your very own eyes"
    69 replies817 retweets2,896 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     7 hours ago
    Bloomberg is on tape unambiguously calling for Social Security cuts. This rating - which arrived at by talking to an austerity think tank - is utterly wrong, and does a disservice to the institution of factchecking.
    NEW: said backed cuts while opposing tax hike on the wealthy.…
    72 replies1,377 retweets4,500 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     10 hours ago
    There’s a movement for change. And then there’s a bubble of elite.
    Bernie Sanders is divisive among Democratic Party elites. But not among ordinary Democratic voters
    11 replies228 retweets1,194 likes
     
     
  •  7 hours ago
    Must-watch CNN segment on pushing cuts to Social Security & Medicare - and pushing to make medical care more expensive for low-income families. has always opposed this agenda - he has pushed to expand Social Security & guarantee health care to all.
    82 replies1,410 retweets4,096 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     8 hours ago
    So it’s BERNIE way out ahead and a four-way traffic jam for second place.
    NBC/WSJ poll of 2020 Democrats Sanders 27% (+0 since late Jan.) Biden 15% (-11)…
    26 replies123 retweets736 likes
     
     
  •  9 hours ago
    Really think about it — 28 years after a movie literally called “The War Room” we now have Dem elites portraying honest, civil, fact-based rapid response as abhorrent toxicity that must be stopped
    12 replies65 retweets312 likes
     
     
  •  9 hours ago
    1992, Dem establishment: we won because we created a rapid response war room to fight back against misinformation 2000s, Dem establishment: we need to strengthen this rapid response to combat the right 2020, Dem establishment: rapid response is toxic trolling & unacceptable
    30 replies322 retweets1,511 likes
     
     
  •  9 hours ago
    After the financial crisis, defended Wall Street execs and blamed the crisis on poor people: “It was not the banks that created the mortgage crisis.” “We always tend to blame the wrong people. We blame the banks.”
    Looks like some of ’s Wall St proposals aren’t that different from or . Will he be able to pull Bernie supporters on the fence or will they not believe him?
    16 replies241 retweets630 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     11 hours ago
    Here's billionaire saying the poor should be made to pay more for medical care: "There’s a way to have more co-pay on Medicaid which will do two things: one, the users of the service will pay a little more. But two, they’ll think twice before they use services.”
    NEW VIDEO: pushed for Social Security & Medicare cuts -- and for deliberately making the poor pay more for medical care
    70 replies706 retweets1,869 likes
     
     
  •  10 hours ago
    NEW VIDEO: pushed for Social Security & Medicare cuts -- and for deliberately making the poor pay more for medical care
    6 replies57 retweets213 likes
     
     
  •  11 hours ago
    Mike Bloomberg: some tweets are toxic and mean-spirited Also Mike Bloomberg: we must make the poor pay more for medical care so that they think twice about going to see the doctor when they are sick
    Here's billionaire saying the poor should be made to pay more for medical care: "There’s a way to have more co-pay on Medicaid which will do two…
    30 replies400 retweets1,706 likes
     
     
  •  11 hours ago
    NEW VIDEO: pushed for Social Security & Medicare cuts -- and for deliberately making the poor pay more for medical care
    77 replies1,012 retweets2,552 likes
     
     
  •  11 hours ago
    The reason pundits & oligarchs are obsessing over tweets & ignoring major issues like climate change & the healthcare crisis is because is surging in the polls with his campaign to fight climate change & pass Medicare for All. Thanks for attending my TED talk.
    40 replies423 retweets1,655 likes
     
     
  •  11 hours ago
    Thousands of people are dying because they can't afford medical care & climate change threatens all life on Earth. If nonetheless your obsession is to call my manager in hopes of getting me fired for tweeting links to the Congressional Record, you should re-assess your priorities
    Are Sirota and Joy so uniquely talented at their jobs that they’re irreplaceable? Could Sanders not find someone willing to take the job? Or does Sanders approve of the job they’re doing?
    34 replies242 retweets1,103 likes
     
     
  •  13 hours ago
    Democratic State Rep. is on message right here 👇🏻
    10 replies54 retweets235 likes
     
     
  •  13 hours ago
    Personal news: thinking of creating America’s largest public park out of the acreage of rent-free space I apparently occupy in the minds of oligarchs, oligarchs’ aides and other assorted Beltway folk
    29 replies83 retweets617 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     13 hours ago
    When Bloomberg News's reporting on China was challenged, Bloomberg tried to ruin me for speaking out by Leta Hong Fincher
    24 replies414 retweets700 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     13 hours ago
    👏🎉COLLECTIVE BARGAINING FOR STATE EMPLOYEES PASSES THE HOUSE 🎉👏
    3 replies34 retweets168 likes
     
     
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  •  13 hours ago
    Oh and it’s not like my phone is ringing off the hook with people being like “come be on our show to make your case” — I just get attacked in absentia, and apparently haunt the minds of the green room crowd. As I said...it’s a very weird experience.
    Heres a weird thing: I’m not an on-air pundit whose words are promoted to millions of people by multibillion-dollar global TV networks. And yet Im depicted by these same people as an all-powerful media force because I post some links to C-Span videos on this microblogging website
    14 replies60 retweets409 likes
     
     
  •  13 hours ago
    Heres a weird thing: I’m not an on-air pundit whose words are promoted to millions of people by multibillion-dollar global TV networks. And yet Im depicted by these same people as an all-powerful media force because I post some links to C-Span videos on this microblogging website
    39 replies285 retweets1,797 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     16 hours ago
    This morning, I went looking for 's financial disclosure -- and found that unlike all the other candidates he hadn't filed one yet What does this guy worth $60 billion own, who wants to be president? He hasn't told us yet...
    69 replies677 retweets1,418 likes
     
     










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