Wednesday, February 05, 2020

Some Tweets from David Sirota

David Sirota is the speechwriter for candidate Bernie Sanders.


  •  Pinned Tweet
     Jan 31
    If at the end of my life I am remembered as one of the people who intently and obsessively worked to help focus public attention on Social Security during the 2020 election, I’m good with that.
    34 replies380 retweets2,029 likes
     
     
  •  4 minutes ago
    Non-oligarch Michael Bloomberg: ✅ "Part time resident" of offshore tax haven, hasnt released tax returns: ✅ "shifted assets into offshore accounts, many of them in reputed tax havens" ✅ Buys elections:
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  •  11 minutes ago
    Somewhere in a mahogany file cabinet in a Manhattan office, there's definitely a McKinsey guidebook that explains how candidates behind in the vote tally can try to shift attention away from actual votes and toward something called "state delegate equivalents"
    19 replies135 retweets539 likes
     
     
  •  16 minutes ago
    But you know...we're not allowed to say the word "oligarch"
    "Bloomberg's charitable foundation shifted hundreds of millions of dollars in assets into offshore accounts, many of them in reputed tax havens...The transfers began after management (was) turned over to Steve Rattner, a financier now under investigation"
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  •  16 minutes ago
    "Bloomberg's charitable foundation shifted hundreds of millions of dollars in assets into offshore accounts, many of them in reputed tax havens...The transfers began after management (was) turned over to Steve Rattner, a financier now under investigation"
    9 replies97 retweets250 likes
     
     
  •  25 minutes ago
    Looking forward to seeing what kind of McKinsey-speak will be used to pretend these results mean Bernie didn't win
    The NEW raw vote totals are: Sanders – 42,027 – 26.1% Buttigieg – 40,823 – 25.4%…
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    33 replies188 retweets1,028 likes
     
     
  •  2 hours ago
    I think this deserves a bit more attention
    To review: hasn't released his tax returns and lives part-time in an offshore tax haven. He also publicly touts that tax haven even as it has long been criticized for being a place where American corporations can use shady schemes to avoid paying U.S. taxes.
    30 replies224 retweets869 likes
     
     
  •  2 hours ago
    Protect Social Security
    12 replies163 retweets545 likes
     
     
  •  2 hours ago
    Bernie is still winning — pass it on
    The NEW raw vote totals are: Sanders – 42,027 – 26.1% Buttigieg – 40,823 – 25.4%…
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    35 replies795 retweets3,425 likes
     
     
  •  2 hours ago
    After getting crushed in Iowa on the Social Security issue, Biden is somehow still trying to erase 40 years of his own record trying to cut benefits & freeze funding for the program. His tactics won’t work, because the facts are the facts right here:
    0:44
    Biden at tonight’s CNN town hall accused Bernie supporters of “misrepresenting” his record on social security & lied by saying he’s been a “strong supporter of social security“ his whole career. No pushback from…
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    40 replies332 retweets1,034 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     3 hours ago
    I just heard someone on CNN talk about his record on Social Security. If you want to compare the records of Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders on Social Security, please watch this video:
    5:21
    For my entire career I have fought to protect and expand Social Security. After we defeat Donald Trump, together, that is exactly what we will do.
    15 replies465 retweets1,427 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     4 hours ago
    . Forecast on early and super Tuesday states ____ has the best chance of winning: Sanders: New Hampshire Nevada California Texas North Carolina Virginia Massachusetts Minnesota Colorado Tennessee Oklahoma Arkansas Utah Maine Vermont Biden: South Carolina Alabama
    706 replies4,324 retweets15,145 likes
     
     
  •  5 hours ago
    I love the folks on this website who insist it will take indomitable toughness to defeat Trump, and yet who instantly get the vapors anytime I tweet a link to a C-Span video or the Congressional Record.
    27 replies279 retweets1,743 likes
     
     
  •  5 hours ago
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  •  6 hours ago
    A perpetual grifting machine
    Gonna be super cool when a new set of DC consultants gets a lucrative contract to build a new app to replace the old app that the other consultants got a lucrative contract to build
    26 replies132 retweets743 likes
     
     
  •  6 hours ago
    Gonna be super cool when a new set of DC consultants gets a lucrative contract to build a new app to replace the old app that the other consultants got a lucrative contract to build
    97 replies674 retweets3,503 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     12 hours ago
    You know how Very Serious Pundits have been claiming the Dem Party's problem is Bernie's unkempt "bros"? It's almost as if that nonsense aims to gaslight you into ignoring the multimillion-dollar, election-destroying, anti-grassroots grift culture rotting in open sight in DC
    A parasitic consultancy class runs the democratic party & at best they should all be fired & made irrelevant; at worst they should be subservient to a new party leadership of activists, union leaders & academics who don’t view progressive politics as one big fucking gravy train. …
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    18 replies431 retweets1,645 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     12 hours ago
    Personal opinion: the whereabouts of the full Iowa results shouldn't feel like the ending scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark
    39 replies280 retweets1,409 likes
     
     
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  •   Retweeted
     11 hours ago
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  •  10 hours ago
    Interestingly, the same media that spent months trying to scandalize Bernie's very simple tax returns has said absolutely nothing about this. Oh also, Mike Bloomberg owns one of the major current and future employers in the entire journalism industry, where jobs can be scarce.
    To review: hasn't released his tax returns and lives part-time in an offshore tax haven. He also publicly touts that tax haven even as it has long been criticized for being a place where American corporations can use shady schemes to avoid paying U.S. taxes.
    19 replies271 retweets757 likes
     
     
  •  10 hours ago
    Nonetheless, MSNBC has insisted to us that is not, in fact, an "oligarch"
    To review: hasn't released his tax returns and lives part-time in an offshore tax haven. He also publicly touts that tax haven even as it has long been criticized for being a place where American corporations can use shady schemes to avoid paying U.S. taxes.
    19 replies203 retweets1,250 likes
     
     
  •  10 hours ago
    To review: hasn't released his tax returns and lives part-time in an offshore tax haven. He also publicly touts that tax haven even as it has long been criticized for being a place where American corporations can use shady schemes to avoid paying U.S. taxes.
    A year ago: "Industry titans Michael Bloomberg & Brian Duperreault highlighted Bermuda’s value to global business" …
    49 replies713 retweets2,366 likes
     
     
  •  10 hours ago
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  •  11 hours ago
    A year ago: "Industry titans Michael Bloomberg & Brian Duperreault highlighted Bermuda’s value to global business" Bloomberg is called a "part-time Bermuda resident" Bermuda is a foreign tax haven where the rich & corporations go to avoid U.S. taxes
    6 replies190 retweets513 likes
     
     
  •  11 hours ago
    The press corps spent months trying to scandalize the release of Bernie's simple tax returns. This same press corps has almost nothing to say about media billionaire Mike Bloomberg living part-time in an offshore tax haven and not releasing his elaborate tax returns. Strange!
    60 replies1,211 retweets4,403 likes
     
     
  •  12 hours ago
    I'm told Mike Bloomberg isn't an "oligarch" -- he's just a billionaire who buys elections and is a "part-time resident" of a foreign tax haven
    43 replies470 retweets1,933 likes
     
     
  •  12 hours ago
    Me, asking where the hell the full Iowa results are
    26 replies129 retweets553 likes
     
     
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  •   Retweeted
     Feb 4
    bernie sanders won 43% of nonwhite voters in the iowa caucus, almost three times that of the next highest candidate, pete buttigieg
    74 replies989 retweets6,489 likes
     
     
  •  13 hours ago
    This is basically what I see in my mind when I imagine a McKinsey PowerPoint presentation trying to slickly justify something that's quite obviously absurd, contradictory and horrible 👇
    It's so cool that each state gets to do whatever the hell it wants with its primaries and then at the national level we do this whole Extremely Sensible thing all over again.
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    68 replies765 retweets3,360 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     13 hours ago
    By getting fewer votes
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  •  13 hours ago
    It's weird Bloomberg News said that to prevent a conflict of interest, it wouldn't report on the 2020 race...then Bloomberg News published a story distorting Bernie's Social Security record & not mentioning Mike Bloomberg proudly pushing to cut Social Security. Weird, I tell you
    50 replies640 retweets2,727 likes
     
     
  •  13 hours ago
    Narrator: It actually wasn't a crazy idea
    9 replies55 retweets327 likes
     
     
  •  13 hours ago
    Addendum: Michael Bloomberg also has a very long record of trying to cut Social Security.
    Some facts to consider: - Biden went into Iowa as the clear frontrunner.…
    24 replies194 retweets709 likes
     
     
  •  13 hours ago
    Some facts to consider: - Biden went into Iowa as the clear frontrunner. - As political "experts" scoffed, Bernie contrasted their Social Security records. - It appears Bernie placed 1st & Biden placed 4th. The end.
    108 replies1,388 retweets8,840 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     14 hours ago
    Bernie's campaign team is very impressive and, naturally, all the DC geniuses who ran Hillary's campaign & lost to a game show host spent months denouncing the choices: "hired Twitter trolls & amateurs,” etc. The people they like are running Biden's campaign & the Iowa caucus.
    69 replies825 retweets4,679 likes
     
     
  •  14 hours ago
    With 71% reported, Bernie so far has won the most votes. Thank you for attending my TED talk on the topic of “facts that the media refuse to say.”
    77 replies718 retweets4,683 likes
     
     
  •  14 hours ago
    Trying to dispassionately explain to my 9 yr old son what happened in Iowa, because he really wants to know the results. He doesn’t understand why they don’t release the full tally. I don’t have an answer for him. After 2 days, he’s starting to suspect that something isn’t right.
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