Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Some Tweets from David Sirota

David Sirota is the speech writer for candidate Bernie Sanders.


 2 minutes ago
"What did you do when the pandemic happened and the world needed everyone to do everything they could to stop the crisis?" "I complained about emojis."
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  •  4 minutes ago
    Theres a pandemic, tens of thousands of people dying because they can't afford health care, and a climate crisis threatening all life on the planet. If you saw all this & decided to sit around bewailing mean tweets, you need to look in the mirror & re-evaluate your priorities.
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  •  23 minutes ago
    There are people logged onto this website reading this tweet right now who may die because political leaders prioritized protecting their corporate donors over doing what's necessary to halt/slow the coronavirus
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  •  30 minutes ago
    Just wanna say: I have been proud to be part of this campaign. During this time of crisis, all of us in this campaign refused to stay on the sidelines, despite the steep odds & personal cost of doing this work. It's a dark time in history - I am proud of all of us for stepping up
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  •  59 minutes ago
    Update: Gov. has just issued emergency rules requiring at least some paid sick leave in some industries. This is GOOD NEWS: Now it's time for legislators in every state to pass paid sick leave laws. RIGHT NOW.
    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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  •  1 hour ago
    The Democratic Party has the absolute power right now to pass this legislation in 7 states.
    We know paid sick leave can help prevent the spread of coronavirus. Here are states with paid sick leave laws: …
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  •   Retweeted
     Mar 9
    Daily Beast review of "Dirty Money" Season 2: "man's capacity for cruelty and avarice knows no bounds..."
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  •  3 hours ago
    In another effort to protect their corporate donors, Republicans are blocking paid sick leave legislation during a pandemic
    Lamar Alexander blocked a paid sick leave bill earlier today proposed by Patty Murray. Says the federal government, not businesses, should have to pay for it.…
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  •  3 hours ago
    When someone says "Elizabeth Warren is good" -- which is literally what I wrote -- and this is the enraged response from some Warren supporters, I gotta say: that's really extremely weird
    You don’t decide who’s in the movement and who is not.
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  •  3 hours ago
    This is an oddly enraged response to a tweet literally praising Elizabeth Warren
    You don’t decide who’s in the movement and who is not.
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     3 hours ago
    “We deserve a candidate who will eradicate high-stakes testing, desegregate public schools, and help free students from the shackles of student debt. is not that candidate.”
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  •  6 hours ago
    Important video clip of Bernie's message to the corporate elite and the Washington establishment at his press conference:
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  •  6 hours ago
    I'm in
    DNC should let joe and bernie each bring one aide on stage with them to debate, bernie can bring david sirota and joe can bring anita dunn
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  •  7 hours ago
    I recently read the book "Station Eleven." It's a very good book, but now that coronavirus is here, I'm not happy that I read it.
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  •  7 hours ago
    And by "financial incentive" I really mean "absolute financial necessity"
    The World Health Organization just declared coronavirus a global pandemic. Congress and most state legislatures have not passed paid sick leave legislation, which means sick people will have a financial incentive to…
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  •  7 hours ago
    In other words: politicians' desire to protect the profits of their corporate donors by opposing paid sick leave laws has created the perfect environment for the accelerated spread of a pandemic.
    The World Health Organization just declared coronavirus a global pandemic. Congress and most state legislatures have not passed paid sick leave legislation, which means sick people will have a financial incentive to…
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  •  7 hours ago
    The World Health Organization just declared coronavirus a global pandemic. Congress and most state legislatures have not passed paid sick leave legislation, which means sick people will have a financial incentive to keep going to work, even if that means spreading the virus.
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  •  7 hours ago
    I have a crazy idea, hear me out here: If you want millions of Bernie Sanders supporters to work as hard as possible for whoever the Dem nominee is, it's not a great idea for the Democratic Party to deploy the head of the Center for American Plutocracy to shit on those voters.
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  •  7 hours ago
    Americans want centrism and love oligarchy. I have been told this by my TV news, whose guest roster seems only to be Beltway & Manhattan lanyards from groups with names like the Center for Corporate Progress and the Goldman Sachs Institute.
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  •  8 hours ago
    While you and the fossil fuel industry celebrate ’s candidacy and his “middle ground” environmental policy, this is happening
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  •   Retweeted
     21 hours ago
    Yes we are a family, united in restoring our democracy and committed to defeating Trump, but that doesn’t mean we should stop fighting for the candidate that best represents our policy priorities in this Primary. Be kind to one another and let’s have each other’s back in Nov!
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  •   Retweeted
     10 hours ago
    A. Primaries≠the General B. People don’t support a GND or M4A firstly to win elections. The goal is to save people and the planet. C. Spiking the football over low youth turnout is next-level nihilism.
    There’s a whole group of people who’ve been profoundly and utterly wrong about the Dem party and what it wants for 5 years. Despite all the evidence of 2018, they created a false narrative that very left policies would drive turnout and win the majority. None of it has been true
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     9 hours ago
    Stock market that feared Bernie Sanders' socialist agenda now hinges on hopes for corporate rescue packages.
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  •   Retweeted
     9 hours ago
    With respect, , this is not accurate nor helpful. Progressive ideas like , the need for humane policy, are winning even now with Dem voters, all pushed by the movement you are criticizing & minimizing.
    There’s a whole group of people who’ve been profoundly and utterly wrong about the Dem party and what it wants for 5 years. Despite all the evidence of 2018, they created a false narrative that very left policies would drive turnout and win the majority. None of it has been true
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  •  9 hours ago
    The Democratic Party needs credible voices of leadership that reach out to the party's progressive base -- it doesn't need "unity" lectures from a person with this record.
    Headlines: Tanden ‘Pushed’ Journalist …
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  •  9 hours ago
    Headlines: Tanden ‘Pushed’ Journalist Staff Shocked After Tanden Named Anonymous Harassment Victim "CAP laid off all 11 of its unionized staff" CAP Censored Report on Surveillance
    There’s a whole group of people who’ve been profoundly and utterly wrong about the Dem party and what it wants for 5 years. Despite all the evidence of 2018, they created a false narrative that very left policies would drive turnout and win the majority. None of it has been true
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  •  9 hours ago
    You’ve been sitting in Washington for almost 2 decades collecting a paycheck at a corporate funded think tank, and your claim to fame is your affiliation with a candidate who lost a winnable election to Donald Trump. Maybe sit this one out.
    There’s a whole group of people who’ve been profoundly and utterly wrong about the Dem party and what it wants for 5 years. Despite all the evidence of 2018, they created a false narrative that very left policies would drive turnout and win the majority. None of it has been true
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  •   Retweeted
     9 hours ago
    This here does LITERALLY NOTHING to help beat Trump. It doesn’t unify or unite. It divides. What you don’t see is that for most ppl this isn’t about proving a “narrative.” It’s about life. And improving it. Gloating like this makes life better for no one.
    There’s a whole group of people who’ve been profoundly and utterly wrong about the Dem party and what it wants for 5 years. Despite all the evidence of 2018, they created a false narrative that very left policies would drive turnout and win the majority. None of it has been true
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  •   Retweeted
     10 hours ago
    Medicare for All is now 20 for 20 in the Dem primary. That is, 20 states have now voted for president & been asked in exit polls if they prefer private health insurance or single payer. All 20 said single payer — by an average margin of over 20 pts. State by state tallies 👇
     
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  •   Retweeted
     10 hours ago
    A public school teacher who'd recently traveled to Italy, & was exhibiting some possible Coronavirus symptoms, went to the ER at —they didn't test her, but they did figure out how to charge $10,000 for the visit.
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  •   Retweeted
     11 hours ago
    Outbreak or not — paid sick leave should be guaranteed in this country.
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  •  19 hours ago
    “Nothing will fundamentally change”
    There’s a ton of reasons on paper, right now, why Biden is likely to lose, but the thing that really seals it for me is that all the same morons who fucked it up last time are about to be in complete control of the party again
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  •  20 hours ago
    Sure, yell at me about #3, but I have kids. Trump says climate change is a hoax. No Dem says that. Yes Bernie is a stronger candidate against Trump & we must fight for him. But no matter who the Dem nominee is, they'd be better chance for my kids' future than Trump. The end.
    1. It's good for the Dem primaries to be a tough contrast like they were with Obama-Clinton: that battle-tests the eventual nominee 2. Bernie would be the best nominee…
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  •  20 hours ago
    1. It's good for the Dem primaries to be a tough contrast like they were with Obama-Clinton: that battle-tests the eventual nominee 2. Bernie would be the best nominee 3. No matter who it is, the Dem nominee is better than Trump 4. All these things are true at the same time
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  •  20 hours ago
    I've spent my adult life being punished & insulted for working to end the Democratic Party's loyalty to Wall Street. It started with my effort to help progressives stop 's bankruptcy bill: It is an immoral alliance. It must end.
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  •  20 hours ago
    You know exactly what I am talking about -- you were in a senior position. You dont have to lie. You can be honest. Dont lecture me about Trump. I've worked to elect Dems while you cashed in in DC. I've been on the frontlines against the GOP -- way outside your Beltway bubble.
    It’s time to unify. But what’s odd about this tweet is that I wasn’t running CAP when Sirota worked there. So I don’t even know what he’s talking about. Pretty disingenuous.…
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  •  21 hours ago
    The media elite, the corporate elite and the political elite of both parties are continuing to conduct a scorched earth campaign against healthcare-for-all during a pandemic that literally threatens millions of lives & the world economy. I mean...really, really think about that.
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  •  21 hours ago
    As a young person, I was threatened with being fired by 's Center for American Progress because I tried to halt 's work helping the GOP & Wall St pass a bankruptcy bill crushing millions of debtors. The DC elite know who they serve.
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