Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Some Tweets from David Sirota

David Sirota is the speechwriter for candidate Bernie Sanders.


  • I worked on this campaign because I want a Green New Deal & Medicare for All. If we win tonite, it's good for those initiatives. If we lose, it's bad for those initiatives. I'm not in this for some future job with a cool title -- without these initiatives, there is no future.
  • I won an LA Press Club journalism award for my reporting on Beto O'Rourke's congressional voting record. I find it odd that reporting on votes recorded in the Congressional Record is now considered a "dirty tactic" here on twitter dot com.
  • Coronavirus + no paid sick leave legislation + restaurants = an efficient virus distribution system
  • The business lobby will continue using its power to block paid sick leave legislation, because it is more interested in preserving short-term corporate profits and CEO pay packages than in halting a pandemic that threatens the stability of the entire economy.
  • Hey — I’ve got a good idea for a new Black Mirror episode 👇🏻
  • A scary dystopian movie would be about a pandemic hitting a nation whose for-profit healthcare system requires people to do GoFundMe campaigns to pay medical bills, as both the ruling & opposition parties block Medicare for All in order to protect their insurance donors’ profits
  • So Joe Biden threatened a union worker and then blamed Bernie Sanders. Got it.
  • I wanna see every single statewide Democratic elected official in Colorado push for this right now. This is an emergency & we need all hands on deck. , , , — please weigh in RIGHT NOW and do whatever you can.
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    I have an idea: maybe Colorado’s Democratic legislature should immediately pass a strong paid sick leave bill that they’ve been promising for years.
  • Mad Max Fury Road was a movie, it wasn’t supposed to be a guidebook
  • No, please - please continue saying it is our campaign that is being “toxic”
  • Please go ahead and continue lecturing our campaign about "toxicity"
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  • We know paid sick leave can help prevent the spread of coronavirus. Here are states with paid sick leave laws: There are 7 states - CO, DE, HI, IL, NM, NY, VA - that are fully controlled by Dems but that haven't passed paid sick leave legislation
  • No, go ahead — please lecture our campaign about toxicity, as you literally liken me to a deadly disease
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    "I'm scared to lose my job and I'm scared to die." No one should ever have to choose between a paycheck and their health.
  • If you live in a state that’s simultaneously freaking out about coronavirus but isnt passing paid sick leave legislation, then it’s a sign your state is run by people who are more serious about keeping corporate donors happy than they are about stopping the pandemic. Full stop.
  • The business elite control Colorado. They bankrolled the campaign to defeat paid sick leave in Denver. The legislature also failed to pass paid sick leave. Those were bad calls — and now we have a coronavirus outbreak that could get worse because of those bad calls.
  • Joe Biden helped decimate Michigan’s job base by working with the GOP to pass NAFTA & China PNTR — and now he & his campaign seem bewildered about why some folks in Michigan have the nerve to be upset about what he did. Team Joe seems really ready for a general election... 🙄
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    I told that hasn’t really been vetted. The video below is perfect evidence of that fact. How many Democrats know about Joe’s passionate defense of freezing Social Security benefits? Not many. At the next debate: truth will come out, which favors
  • The power of the establishment can be seen in its successful effort to take an election during a climate crisis, healthcare crisis & global pandemic, and make the media conversation focus on mean tweets — all to boost a candidate who helped the GOP lead America into the Iraq War.
  • I'm so old, I still remember getting paid $200,000 while helping Republicans defeat a Democratic candidate in Michigan only two years ago.
  • My dude, you literally work for -- the man who "lifted up" the GOP by voting for their Iraq War bill, their bankruptcy bill and their trade bills that killed millions of jobs.
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    Joe Biden thinks we should "return to normal." Normal means 87 million uninsured or underinsured. Normal means fossil fuel companies destroying the planet. Normal means the rich getting richer while the poor get poorer. We cannot return to normal. We need real change.
  • The interesting thing about coronavirus is this: no matter how many TV ads or radio ads or promoted tweets they bankroll, the opponents of Medicare for All can no longer hide the fact that their for-profit health care system leaves us especially vulnerable to a pandemic.
  • Call me "Bernie Bro" all you want, but the facts are the facts: during a global pandemic, Joe Biden is not only actively campaigning against Medicare for All, he's proposing a health care plan that would leave 10 million people uninsured.
  • We face the following threats: - climate change - a global pandemic - a health care crisis - Trump's possible reelection In light of this, you'd think we could agree that the Democratic Party should avoid nominating a candidate promising that "nothing will fundamentally change"
  • The politicians blocking Medicare for All & paid sick leave legislation are prioritizing the profits of their corporate donors over stopping a pandemic like coronavirus. It really is that simple.
  • I don't love the "when historians look back" thing, but in this case it's true: When future historians cast this era as a second dark ages, one thing they will cite is Dems like campaigning against Medicare for All during a pandemic that threatens millions of lives.
  • Sure, you can keep pretending stuff like Medicare for All or paid sick leave legislation or investments in public health programs are "radical." But the coronavirus shows those programs -- rather than billionaire tax breaks -- is a way for our government to protect our economy.
  • For me, not going to DC was a good call. But my point is: millions are likely making such decisions based not just on the fear of the coronavirus, but on the lack of faith in a government we know has prioritized serving the rich over protecting us against a threat like a pandemic
  • Let me put it another way: in seeking to further enrich the wealthy in the name of "economic growth," our government actually jeopardized our economy by leaving our society more vulnerable than necessary to something like a pandemic.
  • Our government decided to give billionaires tax new tax breaks rather than invest in stuff like public health care infrastructure. Our government decided to help corporations slash regulations rather than mandate paid sick leave, which could help slow a pandemic.
  • Thread: I was supposed to fly to DC today for my job, but decided to cancel the trip because of coronavirus. I don't trust that our government has a handle on the situation, because I dont trust that we have the robust public health policies to have a handle on the situation yet
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    As a wildfire threatens your city, private fire departments bankroll politicians who block the creation of a public fire department for all. Now imagine it's a pandemic not a wildfire, and it's private insurers blocking Medicare for All. That's the reality we're living thru.
  • I didn't vote 3rd party last time. I love how this website just casually manufactures and promotes blatant lies.
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    NAFTA is weirdly not even a TOPIC in some elite circles. They have no idea.
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    Joe Biden is running to be the nominee of the left-of-center opposition party, and he is campaigning against Medicare for All during a pandemic. Really take a moment to think about that.