Thursday, February 06, 2020

Some Tweets from David Sirota

David Sirota is the speechwriter for candidate Bernie Sanders.



  •  Pinned Tweet
    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.
  • an image that didn't age well
  •   Retweeted
    Opinion: doesn't think you should write off Joe Biden just yet
  • You don't even really need to read the books -- and hell, they probably aren't all that widely available anymore. It's just truly weird to have reported/predicted so much of this and get berated for it -- only to watch it all pour out into public view in such a blatant way.
  • During the last few weeks, it has been very surreal to see all the taboo truths many of us were excoriated for saying for so many years now just blast out into the open to the point where it's completely & utterly undeniable on every single level
  • For 20 years, so many of us were berated, belittled, insulted, ostracized and blacklisted for making this kind of argument for accountability -- so it is very enjoyable to watch it get a fleeting & momentary airing on television. Thanks to -- good work.
  • The Democratic primary contest is this: vs
  •   Retweeted
    lol destroys Jonathan Chait after he says Bernie can’t win: “John predicted the Iraq war would go well. John predicted Donald Trump would lose decisively to Hillary Clinton... I think we should be humble when we have those kinds of records.”
  •   Retweeted
    I wonder if can go on and show us a chart of how much money has stashed in tax havens.
  • Narrator: the show goes on
  • Mood
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    Replying to 
  • Bernie broke the needle
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  • Less than a year ago: "Industry titans Michael Bloomberg and Brian Duperreault highlighted Bermuda’s value to global business" Bermuda:
  • tbh, versus a wine cave, a billionaire media mogul and a reality TV star is kinda perfect
  • 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:
  • 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"
  • 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"
  • Looking forward to seeing what kind of McKinsey-speak will be used to pretend these results mean Bernie didn't win
  • I think this deserves a bit more attention
  • Bernie is still winning — pass it on
  • 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:
  •   Retweeted
    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: