Just a reminder Michael Bloomberg spent $800 million to try and stop Bernie Sanders from getting healthcare to everyone in this country. And then gave the DNC $15 million to try and defeat Trump.
I’ve worked on successful campaigns to elect a Dem governor, congressman and legislator. I helped run House Dems’ opposition to Bush/Cheney. I worked on 2 underdog Dem Senate races. If you’re gonna criticize my credentials, first explain how you’ve done more for the Dem Party.
Honestly can’t believe anyone is giving
any s**t. I went to j-school with him — the guy has always been a laudably dispassionate just-the-facts kind of reporter.
The people who pushed us into the Iraq War shouldn’t now be portrayed as the foreign policy experts we need.
The people who blocked Medicare for All in the lead up to a lethal pandemic shouldn’t now be portrayed as the public health experts we need.
You run a corporate-funded think tank whose legacy is undermining Medicare for All in the lead up to a pandemic & your personal claim to fame is reportedly outing a harassment victim, busting a union & being affiliated with a campaign that lost to Trump. Maybe sit out a few plays
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Neera Tanden
@neeratanden
· 4h
We have a virus to deal with & more important issues. But for a campaign that was seen as too divisive by Democratic voters, which led them to look for alternatives, that the rationale for defeat is that it wasn't negative enough.That's not serious
nytimes.com/2020/03/21/us/
I got called cancer today
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Julian Parodi
@parouliano
· 4h
Replying to @ibrahimpols
As if that was the reason. Sirota and Turner are cancer. The only reason Bernie was doing so well was thanks to Klobuchar and Buttigieg
Stimulus principles — retweet if you agree:
- Support workers, don’t enrich executives
- Equity stakes, not bailouts
- Universal immediate benefits/cash to households
- Instead of means-testing benefits (which slows/complicates things), just tax the rich
It’s Saturday. My mentions are now open for those who want to call me a piece of shit. Fire your personal insults at me as you always do — I’ve spent 20 years taking it so go right ahead. Just leave the rest of the good folks on Team Bernie alone.
On the day Goldman Sachs projected a 24% contraction for the American economy, it’s CEO was given a 19% raise.
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Liz Hoffman
@lizrhoffman
· Mar 20
Some Friday-after-the-close news: Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon gets a 19% raise.
It's the biggest payday for a Goldman exec since Lloyd Blankfein took home $41m in 2007.
My deep respect for
comes from his incredible, lifelong leadership in giving a damn about people and using every tool and resource and speech and event and platform to make people's lives better, reduce suffering and shame, and allow for dignity and love.
We need to send emergency cash payments of $2,000 to every person in America each month for the duration of this pandemic.
This has a "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US" distant echo to it
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Marc Caputo
@MarcACaputo
· Mar 16
2017: "The Trump team was told it could face specific challenges, such as shortages of ventilators, anti-viral drugs & other medical essentials, & that having a coordinated, unified national response was 'paramount' — warnings that seem eerily prescient"
politi.co/3aYwIL2
Prediction: the GOP will propose Paid Sick Debt — where you can stay home if you’re infected, but then you owe your employer money
Beltway Dem lanyards will counter with means-tested refundable tax credits that allow some folks to pay off a fraction of the interest on the debt
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